THX 1138 - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "THX 1138"

THX 1138 (1971)

Timing: 1:26 (86 min)

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Actors and characters

THX 1138 (1971) Official Trailer - George Lucas, Robert Duvall Movie

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What's left behind the scenes

In the film, the image of Christ blessing from Hans Memling's painting "Christ Blessing" (1478) is used as an image of divinity in special confession booths.
George Lucas subsequently made several references to his first film in his later works. For example, the car number "THX 138" appears in "American Graffiti" (1973).
The heads of "Warner Brothers" studio disliked the finished version of the film, and a decision was made to reduce the film's runtime and decrease the marketing budget.
The film was shot in San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Rafael – cities in the state of California.
This film is an expanded version of the director's 15-minute student graduation work, “THX 1138 4EB,” which received high praise and the opportunity to make a full-length version at Francis Ford Coppola's “American Zoetrope” studio, for which this film was the first.
In 2004, an updated director's cut of the film was released on DVD with additional scenes and digital special effects, with a runtime of 88 minutes.
Fragments of the film's soundtrack (an episode of a man being beaten by prison guards) were used by musician Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) in the album The Downward Spiral, the track “Mr Self Destruct.”
The final scene of the film uses music from the first part of Johann Sebastian Bach's “St Matthew Passion.”
Shaved-headed commoners in the film were played by patients from the Synanon drug rehabilitation center in California.
According to George Lucas's vision, the characters embody the concepts of sex and love, which is reflected in the names of the main characters – THX and LUH, which respectively sound similar to the words 'sex' and 'love'.
The scene of the android police officers chasing the fugitives was filmed in the machine room of a large telephone exchange, meaning the endless rows of electronic equipment were telephone systems.

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