I love this movie and I prefer the original, not the "Directors cut". Fantastic ending, and I always wanted more of this story....What did THX find? Did he survive? What kind of world exists on the surface?.....Has anyone read the novelization of this? Does it have any information on what Thx finds on the surface?
Everybody thinks this is a bold, visionary, and revolutionary film. It came out on the heels of 2001, released in 1968. George started out in the Kubrickian universe, then made the jump to hyperspace by plagiarizing Frank Herbert. Btw, I've heard that Christopher Walken was first considered as Han Solo. Can you imagine Han with a New York accent? "Chewie, prepare to make the jump to hypaspace!"
some of the dialougue is a little cheeky but overall ....a masterpiece .... especially given the time period .... when I saw it as a kid I was blown away ....
It’s never occurred to me before but what is keeping it upright? Why haven’t they pushed it over or moved it to a pressurised area? Was the thing just floating there relative to the moon? It is actually a solid object?
3:45 How the hell did it become sunrise to noon in almost four minutes? (A week on the Moon) ….and at the beginning of the scene, the Earth is almost full and at the end, only a thin crescent. (two weeks here)
The crews were probably under very strict instructions to not touch the monolith. This may have been the first time that humans had been that close to it, which triggered the alarm.
The scene of Floyd and his mates walking down the ramp was filmed by Kubrick himself using a very heavy Panaflex 70 that he put on his shoulder as he walked down with them. It was both the first day of filming and the last day of 1965 -- December 31. Benson notes (in the "Making of" book) that most sources say December 30th but Kubrick was still working out the kinks and nothing was filmed till the 31st. In Hollywood, they got the go-ahead to film PLANET OF THE APES the same week, and that was how 2001 and POA were released so close together two years later in 1968.
It's interesting how in the world of THX 1138, the government will stop chasing you if it costs them too much money. Oppression meets fiscal accountability.
💫😇 3:33 Why did Stanley Kubrick use music as a code in this film? Has anyone measured the parameters of the sound wave, since it is a carrier wave, and therefore an information carrier. ... Trek: Ab minor Temp: 83. 8 level ... The code has already been partially cracked, but there is not enough information on the wave - frequency, etc. Here you need a sound specialist and an original sound track. What they found was an additional message from Kubrick: 83 - code, in Hebrew: פג. Translation from Hebrew: "UNDEVELOPED RACE" ... a group of bipeds was scanned by a wave for stress resistance. Medicine: Heart rate: 83 beats in 60 seconds. When N≥84 there is increased mortality in humans. Results. The monolith scanned the people and came to the conclusion that the human race is almost ready for first contact with them.
*Okay, I get that he 'escaped the mindless, drugged repetition of society', but now he's out, there's nothing but a barren wasteland of an eternal void. Not a bad outcome, really*
“Fortunately, I’ve never made a film I don’t like to watch. I enjoy this film; I had a great time making it; it was my sensibility at the time; it’s still a lot of my sensibility. I’ve just gone off on this strange path that is not at all what I thought I was gonna be. This is really the kind of filmmaking I started doing, and it’s probably the filmmaking I’m gonna go back to someday. It’s a much more interesting style of filmmaking than I currently find myself in. I mean, I enjoy doing the more traditional Hollywood-style movies, but I started doing them just to see if I could do it. But these more sort of slightly offbeat movies are truly where my cinematic heart is.” -George Lucas, 2004
Quite a few of the older science fiction movies have intentional lapses in the quality of videography. I guess brainwashing does not work unless the format permits it. A movie icon.
Trying to find out what kind of music people listen to in the star trek universe. I have only seen a few episodes here and there, my brother started playing the game and we was talking. starwars had the cantina little else to show but star trek was about civilizations no, so why no music. Anyway this is all searching on RU-vid offered.
