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Post #924113

Author
silverwheel
Parent topic
THX on 35mm Tech IB preservation - HELP NEEDED (work in progress)
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Date created
4-Apr-2016, 1:50 PM

thxita said:

“So the scene of THX being messed with by the doctors and convulsing is not in the 35mm but is in the home releases?”

I’m sure it’s in the second part where he gets “jailed” for good. Check my TV broadcast version, they are probably in the same order. I remember subtitling that scene.

As for Lucas, all his THX story comes from the 2004 DVD. Enough said.

He does complain about it in the Maker of Films interview from shortly after the film’s release. There he’s largely bitching about how they disrupted the feel of the movie, how he was editing by feel and how their re-ordering ruined that. I think he was just being hypersensitive about it, though understandably pissed that the studio felt compelled to pointlessly fuck around with it. Even then, however, he makes it seem like it was brutalized beyond recognition, when the changes were (most likely) very minor and didn’t change the tone nearly to the degree that he suggests.