Interesting CNN Article...

[OMM0000]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/13/film.thx1138.ap/index.html

Some interesting tidbits, including a mention on how the number '1138' came to be....

[DM Corleone]

The title alone packs some whimsy. THX's roomie calls him "Thex," a rhyme with sex, one of the liberating forces he discovers after his medications wear off. The "1138" was chosen graphically to support that, Lucas said, the "11" representing masculine straightness, the "38" symbolizing feminine roundedness.

So, the "story" that THX1138 was a mnemonic of Lucas' telephone number in college is urban legend?

Just wondering.

-Don

[Julien Dupire]

LUH = You, SEN = Them ? :idea:

[DM Corleone]

The more I think about it, the more the CNN article makes no sense about the name THX1138.

The name was in play in GL's student film.  There were no sexual overtones in that one at all.

Even if CNN is quoting Lucas, it is another example of a re-write of history.

-Don

[THX-1138]

The more I think about it, the more the CNN article makes no sense about the name THX1138.

The name was in play in GL's student film.  There were no sexual overtones in that one at all.

Even if CNN is quoting Lucas, it is another example of a re-write of history.

-Don

The audio commentary mentions that LUH = Love.

[SMH1982]

Here is something I found interesting:

http://www.lisaswanstrom.net/numbers.html

[SG]

That was interesting- however, I can't see how anyone can connect the atrocious jokes of later SW movies with the original plot enfused characters R2 and 3PO were first envisioned as.
I'm just being anal.  But I love "episode 4".   I see the original SW on one hand and the sequels, even Empire, far away from that hand.

[DM Corleone]

Here is something I found interesting:

http://www.lisaswanstrom.net/numbers.html

Interesting article.  The point about the THX sound system is wrong.  The name THX that you see in the beginning of many movies stands for Tom Holman Crossover, as stated on the Short 10: Chaos DVD by Lucas himself, not for THX1138.

-Don