THX 1138 {1971}BRRip-720p-x264-{Simba}

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FILE SIZE: 828 MiB
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FRAME RATE:23.976 fps
VIDEO BITRATE: 950 Kbps
AUDIO CHANNEL(s): Front: L R
LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: No

Robert Duvall as THX 1138
Donald Pleasence as SEN 5241
Don Pedro Colley as SRT, Hologram
Maggie McOmie as LUH 3417
Ian Wolfe as PTO, Old prisoner
Marshall Efron as TWA, Prisoner
Sid Haig as NCH, Prisoner
James Wheaton - OMM 0910 (voice).

Plot summary
The film is set in an underground city of the future, where sexual intercourse is outlawed and use of mind-altering drugs is mandatory. Narcotics are critical both in maintaining compliance among the city's residents and also for ensuring their ability to conduct dangerous and demanding tasks for long periods of time. The inhabitants worship a godlike being known as "OMM 0910", with whom they commune in telephone booth-like areas known as "Unichapels". We see SEN 5241 (Donald Pleasence) and LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) at their jobs, which involve keeping surveillance on the city's many residents and fielding questions from them (most questions deal with drug intake).
THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) works in a factory producing androids that function as police officers. The work is hazardous as it requires handling explosive and radioactive material. LUH, THX's female roommate, becomes disillusioned and makes a conscious decision to break the law and stop taking her drugs, and subsequently secretly substitutes inactive pills for THX's medications. As the drug's effects wear off, THX finds himself experiencing authentic emotions and sexual desire for the first time. At first conflicted and nauseated, he eventually connects with LUH. Knowing that their relationship is illegal, THX must decide whether to return to using the prescribed drugs, or escape with LUH. He knows that he will not be able to function without his drugs while at his demanding job, but he does not want to lose what he has created with LUH. They consider an escape to the "superstructure", where they hope to be able to live in freedom. Before they can attempt this escape THX is confronted by SEN. Using his position as LUH's superior, he changes her shift. Confronted by THX, SEN admits that he wants THX as his new roommate. Returning to work, but still not taking drugs, THX files a complaint against SEN for the illegal shift change. Without drugs in his system, THX falters during critical and hazardous phases of his job. The city's authorities discover THX's and LUH's crimes of sexual intercourse and drug evasion (Because of a bureaucratic snafu, THX is briefly "mind-locked" while at a critical juncture of android construction - this almost leads to disaster.) THX and LUH are arrested for their crimes.
THX is imprisoned in a white limbo world. At first he is alone, but he enjoys a brief reunion with LUH - one disrupted by the enforcer robots. The two are separated and THX is consigned to another region of limbo, this one populated by a collection of other prisoners, including SEN. Knowing that THX filed the complaint against him, SEN nevertheless still rallies him to join his undescribed cause (Some of SEN's dialogue is taken from speeches by Richard Nixon.[2]) Most of the prisoners seem uninterested in escape, but eventually THX and SEN decide to find an exit. They encounter SRT (Don Pedro Colley), who starred in the holograms broadcast citywide. SRT has become disenchanted with his role in the society and is making an attempt to escape.
Exiting their prison, THX and SRT are separated from SEN. Controllers in the city learn of the escape and allot a strict budget (14,000 credits) for their recapture. Chased by the robots, THX and SRT find a computer center, from which THX learns that LUH's identification number has been reassigned to a fetus in a growth chamber. This suggests that she has been declared "incurable" and killed. Alone and hunted, SEN makes a tentative exploration of the limits of the city's underground network. Cowed by what he sees, he finds his way to an area reserved for the monks of OMM. Alone, SEN prays directly to OMM before being confronted by a lone monk who notices that SEN has no identification badge. SEN attacks the monk before the monk can report him. Returning to the city, and still overwhelmed by his experiences, SEN strikes up a conversation with several children before police androids arrive and apprehend him.
THX and SRT steal two cars, but SRT has difficulty operating the vehicle and crashes into a concrete pillar, disabling it (It is uncertain whether SRT survives the impact, although the film's script indicates he does not.) With the cost of his capture having reached 10,000 credits, and pursued by two police androids on motorcycles, THX flees to the limits of the city's underground road network. THX manages to elude the robots, by which time the budget has reached its primary limit. Eventually THX locates a mode of escape that leads to the superstructure. The police pursue THX up an escape ladder, but are ordered by central command to cease pursuit at mere steps away from capturing him, as the expense of his capture exceeds their pre-determined budget. THX climbs out of the ground and stands before a large setting sun in a red sky, while birds intermittently fly overhead, indicating that life is possible on the surface..
Production
In order to emphasize the dehumanizing nature of the world of THX 1138, Lucas insisted that most of the actors and actresses in the film shave their heads, with some characters going completely bald, while others were allowed to maintain a buzz cut. As a publicity stunt, Lucas arranged for several actors to get their first haircuts/shaves at unusual venues, and have this filmed for later use in a tongue-in-cheek promotional featurette entitled Bald. Robert Duvall had his head shaved while watching a baseball game, while his co-star, Maggie McOmie, had hers done at the scenic Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Another actor, Marshall Efron, who would later play an insane man in the film, was allowed to cut off his own hair and was filmed doing so in a bathtub. The Bald featurette was included in the 2004 DVD release. Many of the extras seen in the film were recruited from the controversial addiction recovery program Synanon, most of whose members had shaved heads.[4]
Filming began on September 22, 1969 with the car chase sequence in the then unfinished tunnels of the BART Subway System in San Francisco. Other locations in the San Francisco area included the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley; the San Francisco International Airport; and at a remote manipulator for a hot cell, among other various locations which Lucas and Coppola considered futuristic. Scenes are cleverly edited to produce a sterile and claustrophobic environment without clearly revealing that the entire 'city' is underground. Production wrapped in mid-November 1969 and the film was edited by Lucas. Walter Murch compiled and synched the sound montage, which includes all the "overhead" voices heard throughout the film (radio chatter, announcements, etc.). The bulk of the editing was finished by mid-1970.
The chase scene featured Lola T70 Mk.IIIs with dummy turbine engines racing against Yamaha TA125/250cc 2-stroke race replica motorcycles through two San Francisco Bay Area automotive tunnels: the Caldecott Tunnel between Oakland and Orinda, and the underwater Posey Tube between Oakland and Alameda. The final climb out to the daylight was actually filmed (with the camera rotated 90 degrees) in the incomplete (and decidedly horizontal) BART Transbay Tube before installation of the track supports, with the actors using exposed reinforcing bars as a ladder. In the end scene, writer Matthew Robbins plays THX as he climbs from the shaft and stands before the sunset.[5]
This film is very notable for one of the most spectacular motorcycle stunts ever filmed. Stuntman Duffy Hambleton, billed as Duffy Hamilton in the credits, somehow gathered up the fortitude to ride his police bike full speed into a fallen paint stand, flew over the handlebars, was hit by the airborne bike, impacted the street on his back, and slammed into the crashed car that Duvall's character had escaped in. It is a full-on shot---evidently the subject of a comment by Lucas detailing a "motorcycle disaster" during the filming.

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