tonoise

Thank you mysycamore and erri_wan for your remarks.
(and to Moth3r for cleaning up the post)

I will check the blueray these days.

But in the end I will have to leave it unclear where these subtitles come from, I guess. The only thing I was able to find out quite reliably is that the sounds used in that scene weren't supposed to be "dialogue" when the movie was completed in 1971, so the "idea" to subtitle it with "i can feel it" must have come up some time afterwards.

best,

tonoise

Hi everybody,

wow! this is a great project you're working on here!

I just came across this thread researching for a little essay I am writing on the Sound Design in THX 1138. (The fact that it is so hard to get a hold of the theatrical and original version and information about what the differences are, makes trying to write a historical account of the movie really a kind of science fiction itself...) Anyhow, watching the director's cut on dvd I stumbled on a scene where the subtitles suggest a little detail that would be a really nice gimmick to my argument. But I am not sure where these subtitles came from. So I thought I could bring that up here. Maybe this is even of interest for you. And maybe you have some thoughts on that or any information related to it. I would be really grateful for any hint, what to think of it. If this is too off-topic, then I am sorry, please just ignore it.

Around 20 Minutes into the film, there is this kind of auditorium with spectators "following" a sound bouncing back and forth from left to right.

(I uploaded an image but i didn't manage to insert it into my post, its here:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/803/thxicanfeelit01rs.jpg/ )

Now, the english subtitles say that the sound heard is actually a sentence, that LUH had said to THX in a scene before this, when she talks about that they are being watched: "I can feel it" But this sound really doesn't sound like language one could understand and as far as I know this hasn't been in the script. However, the idea that the surveillance system in the society of THX uses its recorded sounds to play it back in a kind of spectacle somehow seems to makes sense to me. So I am really wondering if I can use that to support my thesis on what is going on there or if this was just some subtitle guy going wild...

cheers,

tonoise