One of the BEST student films!!

ooook, and what does this have to do with the subject??

Let's see, I would choice to be alive in this moment in time. I think MOST would. Even know what movie this is FROM? It's in context to the theme and setting to it.


"The dead only know one thing. It is better to be alive." FMJ

I don't really like 4EB. I look at it and think of some kind of overly-artistic abortion on film. The editing is choppy, the shots are junk, the sound is annoying, and the pacing is horrid. Nothing against George as I'm actually a pretty big fan of his work, but had I been his professor in film school, he would have gotten some strange looks. I haven't seen the actual r-make as I just got the DVD today, but I assume it is much better.

I've watched the student film a few times, and I also own THX 1138 on DVD, and have watched that a few times over the last couple years...

One thing I'd say is that Lucas seemed to be, in a sense, showing a world where words were basically useless...all that matters are the images and the action. I think that was the original idea, which is why people have a hard time understanding what it's about...

This is especially the case in the studio-produced THX film (starring Robert Duvall)...
Most of the "lines" of the film spoken by the authority figures of the future society are (and I think this was done on purpose by Lucas) a bunch of "important sounding" gibberish...a lot of big words and official sounding rhetoric, but no one really seems to actually complete an actual sentence in any sort of way that we might recognize as "a conversation"- especially the courtroom scene with THX, all the characters seemed to be talking over each other and not really saying anything...

Also the Donald Pleasance character...that scene in the all white "prison/void", his speech makes no frickin sense at all...

In general, that seems to be one of the themes of both of the THX films Lucas made, both the student and the studio film...but that isnt very clear up front in either movie

Anyways...as I said to other people, as far as impressive visuals, you gotta also see "Xenogenesis", made by the college student James Cameron in '78...That is pretty frickin impressive as well for a college student as director...

However, "Electronic Labyrinth" is pretty darn cool for a student film and has influenced a lot of others (including myself, yet another student filmmaker)