THX is still my favorite Lucas film, but that doesn't come close to saying how much Walter Murch shaped it! Francis Ford Coppola's movie, The Conversation, confirms what a genius Murch was as a sound designer, editor, and just plain artistic creator, that was part of their American Zoetrope era! That being said, the "Director's cut" of THX is full of the post-tinkering Lucas revisions / CGI inserts, so I personally prefer the 1971 release, if you can find it.
This video blew me away. It was so good and I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. I didn't want it to end. So damn interesting. Hollywood needs to let you make a feature film. p,s I want to know why this the only video on the channel
the 1977 directors cut of THX 1138 and the 1978 directors cut of American Graffiti along with their gritty techniscope look both should be on blu-ray and 4k. No cgi, no remix audio. They ruined Graffiti on 4K i'm sure Thx isn't far behind.
I don’t know, Man; I love American Graffiti, as well as the first version of THX1138, but when I saw the director’s cut, the only thing that stood out was he had added CGI lizards and shit. I really loathe this habit of goes back and adding and moving things around, like Han Solo’s head. Coppola seems to have kept his “director’s compass”, but Lucas seems to be adrift. Another director that seems to have a very vision of his films and finds ways to tell those stories would be David Lynch.
It’s too bad that you clips of THX are the special edition littered with new CGI and not the actual film. It inadvertently makes your narrative misleading. I’m sure the cost of the digital enhancements made in the early 2000’s far eclipse the film’s original budget.
what´s amazing is that even with the cuts this is the most important movie in the history of cinema. Just imagine how good this movie was as the true director´s cut.
THX 1138 WAS my favorite movie of all time. It was the first movie I PURCHASED on VHS tape. It was one of the first movies I PURCHASED on LaserDisc. When the DVD was released it was NOT the theatrical cut but was labeled as a "directors" cut. It was not a "directors" cut. It was a directors "redo cut." If the DVD release had scenes that were excluded from the theatrical cut I might have been satisfied, but it had NEW scenes that were never made during the original production. Many of the NEWLY REDONE scenes ruined some parts of the visual story. I would like to PURCHASE a HD (1080 or UHD) copy of the theatrical cut. I would not mind a "directors" cut that reintegrated what the studio foolishly deleted. Give ME the choice as to which version I want to see. Of course no one, especially George Lucas, will give a damn what I want. When I saw the "Final Cut" of Blade Runner I was satisfied because most of the changes were simply improvements to the visual story.
My metal construction was that THX was made as a student project It's his 1st film I thought he worked out before But apparently we're going to get the truth
The Director's Cut is much worse than the original. There may be a bit added here and there in the editing that improves it, but the added special effects detract from the original. The ape-like creatures so close to human workers make no sense (why aren't the robo-cops eliminating them?) and, worst of all, the signs of a bustling underground civilization with vehicles moving around in an open (although subterranean) environment detracts from the extreme isolation and limited scope of the world being depicted. In the original, it's fascinating to find a car at all (some suspension of belief is required to buy into Duvall's character being able to drive, when his co-escapee clearly could not...and in the DC he suddenly drives like a stunt-driver!) and it's journey through miles of tunnels makes the audience wonder, like the driver, where it could possibly lead (which is spoiled in the DC...it's just a tunnel leaving a subterranean bustling economy!). Like Lucas' other Director's Cuts, it's a shame his co-creators that made his original movies so good were not around to tell him "no".
It's crazy you only maybe one video then left. The quality of this video is right on par with any of the other Cinema channels, Idk why you wouldn't continue. :(
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And HE ruined his own film with that horrible 2004 "Director's Cut". Just like adding CGI to A New HOpe -- it just...ruined it. Just leave it alone. Or put the original cut footage in but DON'T add NEW footage and CGI -- it just takes you out of the film.
Hearing all this only to remember the crime against cinema Disney did to Star Wars is honestly heart breaking 💔 they basically made him relive his most tragic moment in directing, by scrapping what he wrote and doing something terrible and cheap most people hate, all over again. At least we got the OT and PT, now we all stand by George and see how studio interference results in nothing but misery...
The Director's Cut of THX is Lucas making revisions (a la Special Edition Star Wars) that will end up looking dated and unnecessary. He should've just added in the 5 minutes and left it alone but these Godless goofs can't help themselves.
He did the 1977 directors cut of THX 1138, that is the version he originally intended. Just like he had the 1978 theatrical cut of American Graffiti remixed in Dolby Stereo his cut of the film. There was no need to recut either again or add cgi.
CeLLuLoid CineMa: What does, at 13:45 , Production ControL DIR 11 mean or signify other than the tag which is from the film THX-1138? Or is it just random babble text on the tag?
This kinda explains why Lucas' next feature-length film was "American Graffiti"... an homage to his final youthful days of innocence in Modesto in '62. While THX 1138 didn't really break any ground as a feature film from a big production company--due to it's somewhat confusing, non-self-explanatory complexity--American Graffiti started an enduring style of entertainment that still lives to this day in the form of movies & television which many can appreciate... and will continue to endure for many generations to come: Nostalgia.
Further note: Having dug deeper into American Graffiti, I found d George's reasons for doing it were partially because of the failure of THX-1138. Even hs own wife asked why he didn't do something more whimsical, and his reasons were that it went against his fill school sensibilities, responding "You want to a whimsical film? Fine... I'll show how easy it is to make something that appeals to people's sense of whimsy!"...and did it, out of spite. Needless to say, he learned his lesson about appealing to the public with his work, as seen by his next few major movie studio pictures: Jaws and Star Wars.
I will always support a filmmaker, or an artist of any kind, to go back and change their own work. I don't have to agree with it, I don't have to like it, but I feel it is an artist's right to do as they wish with their work. That said, I do think the changes Lucas made to both THX 1138, and Star Wars, were overall improvements to the films.
THX1138 really is under-rated. Sure, it's difficult to name a stranger movie but just the last few decades have seen extremely influential "weird" movies like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "The Truman Show", "Fight Club", "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once". Whatever I think of Lucas today, he really deserves to be proud of this movie.
@@George-rb6bvI pretend the world of THX 1138 takes place after Modern Civilization collapsed after Humanity finally destroyed itself through Warfare BTW right in 2024 I think THX 1138 should get a sequel
It's strange how you kind of gloss over how his director's cut is heavily altered with CGI which sticks out like a sore thumb it has not aged well much like his alterations in Star wars movies. It would be nice to see his original film. But it's now forever destroyed because he couldn't leave the original visuals alone
