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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

THX 1138 (1971)

Starting out as a student project, this film was George Lucas's first. Apparently Warner Brothers thought it was good enough and decided to back it. Francis Ford Coppola who was already seeing a lot of success by that time also joined the project to help produce.

The film didn’t get many rave reviews when it was first released, but when Lucas went on to make Star Wars just six years later, THX 1138 enjoyed a significant bump in its esteem.

One of the features of the dystopian world depicted in this film is a drug to suppress everyone’s emotions. This is an idea loosely borrowed from A Brave New World, except in Huxley’s story the controlling drug is a happy pill not an emotion-suppression pill. This same idea of a society with suppressed emotions has been used from time to time in science fiction, more recently by the film Equals (2015).

It’s been released in several different cuts (some parts of the original release were censored by Warner Bros). Generally, I’d say the longer cuts are probably closer Lucas’ vision.

There was a director's cut released in 2004 by Lucas himself which is a true director's cut, however if you watch that one you'll be looking at his vision in 2004, and may not be what he would have done 1971 as director’s cut.

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#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #bald #dystopia #the70s #youth #emotion #drugs #equals #BraveNewWorld

Sniff 'n' The tears:

https://open.spotify.com/track/0NI9wGowTO80hVs3l6wa0i?si=5ef5f44959a84bc7

https://open.spotify.com/track/0KmfhnWGHhkxLYAB329eEh?si=5f8d802cb01342c0

Another group from the 70's I really like.
I rally am born at the wrong time, all the good music is from the 70's.

#Music #The70s #Spotify #Rock

@Harpiste
Wow, so much has not changed.

#The70s
#retrotv

Okay for Throwback Thursday: Okay we set the wayback machine to 1976 and The Stari Most (literally "Old Bridge), Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina with myself in front. I my time frame it was one large country: Yugoslavia. #throwbackthursday #Yugoslavia #the70s #Bosnia #mostar #bridge #travel

Of course because it’s my vacation I’ve ended up getting sick. Never fails! I’m in bed watching California Suite as my time off dwindles 😢 #movies #MaggieSmith #The70s #NeilSimon

Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe

Happy Seventies Sunday, folks!

Here's one with a killer hook from the wayback machine. Enjoy Nick's wedding to Carlene Carter. Filmed at the Tropicana Motel, West Hollywood, and featuring Dave Edmunds as the limo driver.

#seventies #music #the70s
#pop #NickLowe #DaveEdmunds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0l3QWUXVho

Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe

Happy Seventies Sunday, folks!

Here's one with a killer hook from the wayback machine. Enjoy Nick's wedding to Carlene Carter. Filmed at the Tropicana Motel, West Hollywood, and featuring Dave Edmunds as the limo driver.

#seventies #music #the70s
#pop #NickLowe #DaveEdmunds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0l3QWUXVho

The Knights of Columbus would raise money for you, but they're not gonna sugar coat it. #the70s #flashback
Imagine how busy they'd be today...

Cheryl Ladd was chased around a desk by a male exec in Hollywood #farrahfawcett #jaclynsmith #nostalgia #the70s https://parliamodi.news/article/aHR0cHM6Ly9wYWdlc2l4LmNvbS8yMDIyLzA1LzAzL2NoZXJ5bC1sYWRkLXdhcy1jaGFzZWQtYXJvdW5kLWEtZGVzay1ieS1hLW1hbGUtZXhlYy1pbi1ob2xseXdvb2Qv

#the70s