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Post #548442

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thxita
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THX 1138 "preservations" + the 'THX 1138 Italian Cut' project (Released)
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Date created
26-Oct-2011, 11:06 AM

SEN footage in English, re-release trailer and radio spots are a must. I don't care about the stuff I already have in the DVD to be honest.

 

I'm currently reading Ben Bova novelization and it's almost like a different story. I don't know if Bova based it on an early script or if Lucas changed the story a lot in the shooting/editing but the dynamics are often much different (and some stuff makes much more sense).

Oh and we get to know what happened to LUH while THX was in the limbo... although I wish we didn't. She ends up on the TV broadcast where the police robots beat up people (until then she believed those shows only featured holograms) and right after the beating (if you want spoilers keep reading...) she gets raped by three custody guards while an operator watches it on screen (apparently custody guards were considered worse than the prisoners but a "necessary evil"). It was very depressing I have to say. Probably it was best to be left untold.

The rest of the book is quite entertaining for a fan like me. In the book it's actually THX's fault if they get caught because after the first sexual interactions he goes to a psychiatrist to talk about it, telling him that it's something that happened to a friend but the doctor understands the situation and alerts the authorities. Monitoring was infact random and they only had a very small chance of getting caught... if it wasn't for THX.

Msycamore are you curious to know where is the trial placed in the novelization? The book was written in '71 so it should reflect the first cut of the movie don't you think?