History Film / LogansRun

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Sandmen all wear black and blue uniforms. Also the life crystals change colour. Within the City, those who aren't Sandmen wear clothes the same colour as their lifeclocks. The babies in Nursery are wrapped in white, the Cubs in Cathedral are sporting tattered yellow garments, older teen-agers are wearing green, and twenty-somethings all wear red. Presumably, the 30-year-olds' outfits at the "Renewal" are red below and white above, because it's assumed they'll be reborn as infants and wear white again.

* BillingDisplacement: '''STARRING FARRAH FAWCETT''' -- TV Guide ad. Except Jenny Agutter was the female lead, and Farrah's role was a minor part as an assistant in a face-lift shop.

* DawsonCasting: Michael York was already in his late thirties. Jenny Agutter was 24, playing a 17-year-old. The main reason the death-age was raised, from 21 in the novel to 30 in the movie, was because the actors chosen to play the roles could ''never'' pass as teen-agers. Richard Jordan (Francis 7) was 38 years old during filming. This also bypasses issues with the limited hours younger actors can work-- not to mention the uncomfortable implications for some of sexually-active 14- and 15-year-old "adults".

* DevelopmentHell: A remake has been in the works for some time now. How long? Let's put it this way. [[http://www.rogermwilcox.com/LogansRun.html#remake This old website]] says that one plan was to cast LeonardoDiCaprio "of ''Romeo & Juliet'' fame". In other words, plans have been in the works since before ''{{Titanic}}''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The powers that be insisted that many important scenes be cut so the result would be rated PG. We still get a quick glimpse of some bare ta-tas, though. Think of it as Movie Ratings March On. PG used to be much more permissive before the creation of the PG-13 rating.

-->Sometime in the 23rd century...the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in an ecologically balanced world, mankind lives only for pleasure, freed by the servo-mechanisms which provide everything. There's just one catch: Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of Carrousel.

''Logan's Run'' is a movie based on [[Literature/LogansRun a novel of the same name]] by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, depicting a future where everyone is young and healthy, no one needs to work, and people look forward to the chance for "renewal" (presumably some sort of rebirth or reincarnation) in the "Carrousel" at the age of 30, a privilege given to those who have obeyed the rules faithfully. However, there is a darker side to this apparent utopia: no one has ever survived Carrousel. Resource management and population control are simply maintained by mandating the death of everyone who reaches the age of 30.

An [[{{Irony}} ironic]] note: this movie was released in the year (1976) that the oldest Baby Boomers, who had coined the phrase "Don't trust anyone over 30," [[{{Irony}} turned 30 themselves]].

!!''Logan's Run'' contains examples of:

** Moreso in the book. The Guns there were 6-chambered revolvers, where each chamber carried a different specialized round. The arsenal of a Sandman resembled the GreenArrow, with rounds named Tangler, Ripper, Nitro, Vapor, Needler, and the dreaded Homer.

* AfterTheEnd: The world outside the domed City is all ruins, including an overgrown Washington, D.C..
** [[spoiler:But inhabitable, and unpolluted... showing that whatever disaster occurred that the dome city and population controls were designed to protect people against is now moot.]]
* AncientKeeper: Box.

* BillingDisplacement: '''STARRING FARRAH FAWCETT''' - TV Guide ad. Except Jenny Agutter was the female lead, and Farrah's role was a minor part as an assistant in a face-lift shop.

* ChristmasCake: Largely a non-issue, since no one lives past thirty.
** No one gets married, either. [[spoiler:Until Logan and Jessica make it ouside of the city and see gravestones talking about husbands and wives.]]

* CollapsingLair: Logan shoots a support beam in the ceiling of Box's cave, and the whole cavern comes crashing down.
** At the end, the ''entire domed city complex'' collapses because Logan, uh, shot the computer in the eye, therefore making the entire building explode, therefore making the entire [[MadeOfExplodium city explode]].
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Sandmen all wear black and blue uniforms. Also the life crystals change colour.
** Within the City, those who aren't Sandmen wear clothes the same colour as their lifeclocks. The babies in Nursery are wrapped in white, the Cubs in Cathedral are sporting tattered yellow garments, older teen-agers are wearing green, and twenty-somethings all wear red.
** Presumably, the 30-year-olds' outfits at the "Renewal" are red below and white above, because it's assumed they'll be reborn as infants and wear white again.

* ComputerVoice: The MasterComputer.

* DawsonCasting: Michael York was already in his late thirties. Jenny Agutter was 24, playing a 17-year-old.
** The main reason the death-age was raised from 21 in the novel, to 30 in the movie, was because the actors chosen to play the roles could ''never'' pass as teen-agers. Richard Jordan (Francis 7) was 38 years old during filming.
*** This also bypasses issues with the limited hours younger actors can work-- not to mention the uncomfortable implications for some of sexually-active 14- and 15-year-old "adults".

* DevelopmentHell: A remake has been in the works for some time now.
** How long? Let's put it this way. [[http://www.rogermwilcox.com/LogansRun.html#remake This old website]] says that one plan was to cast LeonardoDiCaprio "of ''Romeo & Juliet'' fame". In other words, plans have been in the works since before ''{{Titanic}}''.

** The notion of Renewal may have sprung from ArthurCClarke's ''The City and the Stars.'' In that novel, people in the utopian city of Diaspar live for a thousand years, then turn themselves in to the "furnace of creation" which destroys their bodies but retains all their memories. They are reborn a random number of thousands of years later, so that they can meet all new people and not get bored by an eternity of immortality.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The powers that be insisted that many important scenes be cut so the result would be rated PG.
** We still get a quick glimpse of some bare ta-tas, though.
*** Think of it as Movie Ratings March On. PG used to be much more permissive before the creation of the PG-13 rating.
* [[spoiler: FirstTimeInTheSun]]
* FollowTheLeader: Try to explain the plot of this movie to somebody who hasn't seen it. "Um, in a dystopian future, there are cops who hunt people down for trying to exceed their government-mandated lifespans ..." [[Film/BladeRunner Similarity to any later film]] is a coincidence.
** It kinda is just coincidence considering that DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep, the novel Film/BladeRunner is based on came out in 1968 only one year after the release of the novel of Logans Run
*** Might be more. DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep is about people hunting down robots passing for humans. Film/BladeRunner added the whole government-mandate lifespan thing.
** InTime seems a better comparison, to the point one might wonder if it is an offshoot or [[DuelingMovies dueling movie]] to the [[DevelopmentHell hellbound]] remake.

** "Fish, plankton, sea greens...'''PROTEIN FROM THE SEA!''' "

* LoadBearingBoss: The City's central computer. When it goes, the whole city goes with it.
** Admittedly, Logan ''did'' shoot out a support beam from the ceiling, but at worst that should have caused the building to collapse, not caused the collapse of the entire dome network.
* LogicBomb: [[spoiler: "There... is... no... Sanctuary!"]]
* MembershipToken: The ankh necklaces are used by [[spoiler: The Runners]] to identify each other.

* NoBloodTies The characters don't know their parents and most don't care.
* OnlyFatalToAdults: ... at least, those over 30.

* ReactionaryFantasy: The book indicated that those damn hippies would create a world where an eleven-year-old girl announces that she's sexually "skilled beyond all others", where fourteen is adulthood and everyone dies at twenty-one.
* RecycledTheSeries Not long after the movie, there was a [[Series/LogansRun television adaptation]] that lasted about one season.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Carrousel.

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Holly 13.]]
* {{Utopia}}: ... technically.
* VaporWear: Several people, especially Jessica 6.
** The female costumes were utterly impractical as clothing. Actresses had to have their costumes ''sewn shut'' around their bodies so that they wouldn't have any visible zippers or buttons.

** AncientKeeper Box seemed to make it clear that a) the "fish, plankton, and protein from the sea" that he was supposed to store for the cities had stopped and b) Runners had started showing up in time to be frozen. We ''may'' have a SoylentGreen moment here.
** In the [[http://www.rogermwilcox.com/LoganScript.txt shooting script]] for the movie, there were 1056 people frozen in the chambers that Box tended. This is exactly the same as the number of unaccounted runners shown by the computer earlier.

* YouAreNumberSix: Characters are named 'Name X,' As in Logan 5, Jessica 6.

Of humorous note is that this movie was released in the year (1976) that the oldest Baby Boomers, who had coined the phrase "Don't trust anyone over 30," [[{{Irony}} turned 30 themselves]].

!! This movie contains examples of:

** FridgeBrilliance - was ''anyone'' maintaining that city past appearances?

''Logan's Run'' is a movie based on [[Literature/LogansRun a novel of the same name]] by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, depicting a future where everyone is young and healthy, no one needs to work, and people look forward to the chance for "renewal" (presumably some sort of rebirth or reincarnation) in the Carousel at the age of 30, a privilege given to those who have obeyed the rules faithfully. However, there is a darker side to this apparent utopia: Nobody has ever survived Carousel. Resource management and population control are simply maintained by mandating the death of everyone who reaches the age of 30.

Logan 5 is a 26-year-old Sandman whose job it is to hunt down and kill "Runners" -- those who reach 30 but don't report for Carousel. When he learns that the Runners are trying to reach a place called Sanctuary outside the domed city, he is assigned to find this place and destroy it. In order to do this, he will masquerade as a Runner. His life-clock is adjusted accordingly -- with no assurance that he'll get his 4 lost years back -- and he finds himself pursued by his fellow Sandmen as he searches for the truth behind Sanctuary.

* WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture

* RecycledTheSeries Not long after the movie, there was a television adaptation that lasted about one season.

* {{Aesoptinium}}

* ComicBookAdaptation: Three times; first with MarvelComics, not long after the film, second was Malibu Comics back in [[{{TheNineties}} 1990]], and in 2010 with Bluewater Productions' ''Logan's Run: Last Day'', which takes aspects from the original Marvel run.

* FollowTheLeader: Try to explain the plot of this movie to somebody who hasn't seen it. "Um, in a dystopian future, there are cops who hunt people down for trying to exceed their government-mandated lifespans ..." [[BladeRunner Similarity to any later film]] is a coincidence.
** It kinda is just coincidence considering that {{Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep}}, the novel {{Blade Runner}} is based on came out in 1968 only one year after the release of the novel of Logans Run
*** Might be more. {{Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep}} is about people hunting down robots passing for humans. {{Blade Runner}} added the whole government-mandate lifespan thing.
** InTime seems a better comparison, to the point one might wonder if it is an offshoot or [[DuelingMovies dueling movie]] to the [[DevelopmentHell hellbound]] remake.

* LivingRelic

* JerryGoldsmith

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* GhostCity

''Logan's Run'' is a movie based on a novel of the same name by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, depicting a future where everyone is young and healthy, no one needs to work, and people look forward to the chance for "renewal" (presumably some sort of rebirth or reincarnation) in the Carousel at the age of 30, a privilege given to those who have obeyed the rules faithfully. However, there is a darker side to this apparent utopia: Nobody has ever survived Carousel. Resource management and population control are simply maintained by mandating the death of everyone who reaches the age of 30.

** It was actually surprisingly good. Kind of like a dystopian StarTrek, with a dash of Series/DoctorWho.
*** YourMileageMayVary on this count, though. While one episode was written by JMichaelStraczynski and was of commensurate quality, another had the team's token android become infatuated with a FemBot -- as evidenced by sparks shooting out from his shoulders.

** Admittedly, Logan ''did'' shoot out a support beam from the ceiling, but at worst that should have cause the building to collapse, not caused the collapse of the entire dome network.

** How long? Let's put it this way. [[http://www.rogermwilcox.name/LogansRun.html#remake This old website]] says that one plan was to cast LeonardoDiCaprio "of ''Romeo & Juliet'' fame". In other words, plans have been in the works since before ''{{Titanic}}''.

* {{Narm}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YsTKL7L6-o This]] "NOOOOO! Don't go in there! You don't have to die, well no one has to die at 30! You can live, LIIIIIIVE!"