History Film / THX1138

* BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage: Implied with the arrangement of "roommates."

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: Released in the wake of the original StarWars trilogy being remastered with added CGI. Some of the alterations are understandable, like making some rooms bigger, or adding more people, or generally giving the story a larger sense of scale. Others scenes are augmented with far less defensible uses of CGI, such as the car chase which now looks like it came from an actual animated movie, or most of the strange men on the outskirts of civilisation being changed to primates

** The repeated use a christ-like face as the icon of their "perfect" society. Particularly obvious when THX is in one the confession boxes. The confession box tells him "buy and be happy".
* WhiteVoidRoom: The place where "defectives" are taken for "treatment".

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For George Lucas movies; contrasted to Star Wars, THX is a very bleak, down to earth, slow paced film.

* ConspicuousCG: The GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion was released in the wake of the original StarWars trilogy being remastered with added CGI. Some of the alterations are understandable, like making some rooms bigger, or adding more people, or generally giving the story a larger sense of scale. Others scenes are augmented with far less defensible uses of CGI, such as the car chase which now looks like it came from an actual animated movie, or most of the strange men on the outskirts of civilisation being changed to primates

* ConspicuousCG: The Director's Cut was released in the wake of the original StarWars trilogy being remastered with added CGI. Some of the alterations are understandable, like making some rooms bigger, or adding more people, or generally giving the story a larger sense of scale. Others scenes are augmented with far less defensible uses of CGI, such as the car chase which now looks like it came from an actual animated movie, or most of the strange men on the outskirts of civilisation being changed to primates

* ConspicuousCG: The Director's Cut was released in the wake of the original StarWars trilogy being remastered with added CGI. Some of the alterations are understandable, like making some rooms bigger, or adding more people, or generally giving the story a larger sense of scale. Others scenes are augmented with far less defensible uses of CGI, such as the car chase which now looks like it came from an actual animated movie, or the strange men on the outskirts of civilisation being changed to primates

* [[spoiler: FirstTimeInTheSun]]: A somewhat dark version in the ending.

[[YouAreNumberSix THX 1138]] would be a happy worker drone, if the pills he takes let him feel anything. He 'lives' in a windowless industrial/commercial/dormitory along with other shaved-head people in a chemically induced haze. Until the day his roommate, LUH, sabotages his daily dose of pills in order to make him feel. They both fall madly in love, but their bliss is short lived since the pills gave THX a vaunted steady hand in his industrial job, and without it they may be discovered.

* BittersweetEnding: THX [[spoiler:makes it out of the confines, only to find a desert world and with no idea where to go next. Also, LUH 3417 was apparently terminated according to information presented on one of the terminals.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic:
** LUH gives THX the gift of [[strike:knowledge]] emotion by [[strike: [[TheBible giving him an apple]]]] switching his meds.

* YouAreNumberSix: Everyone has a license plate name.
* PinballGag: "TILT//" is seen right after the wipe-out of a mounted police officer that was pursuing THX.

* ConspicuousCG: The Director's Cut was released in the wake of the original StarWars trilogy being [[YourMileageMayVary remastered]] with added CGI. Some of the alterations are understandable, like making some rooms bigger, or adding more people, or generally giving the story a larger sense of scale. Others scenes are augmented with far less defensible uses of CGI, such as the car chase which now looks like it came from an actual animated movie, or the strange men on the outskirts of civilisation being changed to primates

* BittersweetEnding: THX [[spoiler:makes it out of the confines, only to find a desert world and with no idea where to go next.]]

* ConspicuousCG: The Director's Cut was released in the wake of the original StarWars trilogy being [[YourMileageMayVary remastered]] with added CGI. Some of the alterations are understnadable, like making some rooms bigger, or adding more people, or generally giving the story a larger sense of scale. Others scenes are augmented with far less defensible uses of CGI, such as the car chase which now looks like it came from an actual animated movie, or the strange men on the outskirts of civilisation being changed to primates

* {{Hologram}}: SRT, [[OrIsIt maybe]]. Considering he was in the WhiteVoidRoom, he may just ''think'' he is.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: LUH gives THX the gift of [[strike:knowledge]] emotion by [[strike: [[TheBible giving him an apple]]]] switching his meds.

* ConspicuousCG: The Director's Cut was released in the wake of the original StarWars trilogy being [[YourMileageMayVary remastered]] with added CGI. The additions to the car chase scene and the scorpion that replaces the lone rat at the film's climax really stand out.

* MeaningfulNames

This is one of GeorgeLucas' earliest works, which started his rapid ascent in Hollywood. You may be more familiar with this film from the sound system company Lucas named in its honor, or from the fact that the number 1138 shows up ''everywhere'' in ''StarWars'' and [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse related products]].

This is one of GeorgeLucas' earliest works, which started his rapid ascent in Hollywood. You may be more familiar with this film from the sound system company Lucas named in its honor, or from the fact that the number 1138 shows up ''everywhere'' in StarWars and [[ExpandedUniverse related products]].

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy

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This is one of GeorgeLucas' earliest works, which started his rapid ascent in Hollywood. You may be more familiar with this film from the sound system company Lucas named in its honor.