5/28/2023 0 Comments Thx1138 scene mind lock hot![]() LUH-3417, as a natural-born, a product of a sex-act, is an atavism, a dangerous anomaly, a living time bomb ticking away in our society. They are planning to catch her having sex in order to arrest her. What is she doing to me, I think I am dying” (BB, 27-28).Īt the same time the omniscient supervisors are talking about LUH-3417 who had long been acting suspicious from their point of view. At first, THX-1138 feels pain after the drug withdrawal and confesses regularly to a Jesus-like picture of called OMM, which is in fact only a transmitted picture of a tape recording: “I share rooms with her. In fact, they life live together but rather live side by side, hardly taking notice of one another before they fall in love, have sex and this way become outlaws.īefore they become intimate, LUH-3417 had secretly substituted THX-1138’s daily dose of drugs for dysfunctional pills. THX-1138 lives together with LUH-3417 in small sterile looking apartment without windows, very limited furniture, and hardly any personal belongings. In the dystopian society in BB the worst crime is the act of physical love-making, which in most cases leads to capital punishment of the offender. ‘THX-1138’ is in fact just a code number that has been assigned to the main character after he had been produced in test-tube. How the underground society and the cites evolved in such a way and humans came to live like ants in cities under the surface of the earth is left open for the viewer’s speculation and is not revealed throughout the movie. Chrome police robots execute any given order by authority and tread the inhabitants like cattle using long electro shock sticks. The inhabitants of this world have no private sphere and are constantly being monitored by other inhabitants who are functioning as parts of the ‘big bother’ network. ![]() The question of ‘who will die first’, raised by several times by main character Jack Gladney in the beginning of WN (15, 30), is irrelevant for main character THX-1138 in BB, as the human beings in the THX 1138 screenplay can be considered as ‘living dead’, who are buried alive beneath the surface of the earth for their entire lifetime and have never seen daylight. The plots of both texts are completely different however, I believe that the thoughts, beliefs and fears of ‘cold-war-America’ expressed in both works - death, technology, capitalism opposing to communism, and the impact of media on society and the individual - will show great similarities. In order to work out similarities in the lines of thought I performed a close reading on both texts. ![]() To enhance readability in this short essay I will use the following two abbreviations for quotations from the two primary works cited: BB for the novelisation of the THX 1138 screenplay by Ben Bova and WN for Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise. A comparison of George Lucas’s screenplay THX1138 And Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise
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