George Lucas' "THX 1138" featured by Klamath Film this Saturday
/“THX 1138” featuring Klamath Falls actor in the first full length film from Director George Lucas, showing November 2nd.
George Lucas’ 1971 dystopian sci-fi thriller "‘THX1138” will be screened by Klamath Film at the Pelican Cinemas on November 2 at 5:00 PM. (Image: LucasFilm.com)
Before “Star Wars”, “American Graffiti” or “Indiana Jones”, Director George Lucas debuted his first feature film with the 1971 dystopian sci-fi thriller “THX 1138”. The film was produced along with Francis Ford Coppola (“The Godfather”, “Apocalypse Now”) as part of a radical new production company created by Lucas, Coppola and other contemporaries to break from the “old” Hollywood studio system.
Klamath Falls actor Don Pedro Colley (~50 screen credits including “The Dukes of Hazzard”, “Beneath the Planet of the Apes”) who passed in late 2017, shares significant screen time opposite Robert Duvall in this cautionary future of compliance, collectivism, and a need to correct “wrongs” into “rights” eerily parallel to our own currently evolving present.
In “THX 1138” individuals have been reduced to workers in a collective society known only by their letter/number designation. Medicated in order to maintain a level, emotionless life for optimum efficiency and with only the face of an otherwise faceless and apathetic “God” of industrialization in rows of confessional booths to monitor compliance while encouraging all to “Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy.”
The title character played by Duvall (“The Natural”, “Open Range”, “Apocalypse Now”) begins to have unknown feelings and question the world around him. Since non-conformity to the collective is inefficient and must be corrected, the “system” tasks it's mechanical police force with tracking down THX 1138 for reconditioning.
General admission is $10. 18 and under will be free at the door with ID thanks to support from the Oregon Cultural Trust. For a more detailed synopsis, film trailer and tickets see www.klamathfilm.org/thx1138.
Press release provided from Klamath Film.
LucasFilm.com
IF YOU GO
WHAT: THX 1138
WHEN: 5:00 PM, Saturday, November 2
WHERE: Pelican Cinema
Rated R for some sexuality & nudity