History Film / LogansRun

* CompositeCharacter : Inverted, Francis 7 from the novel has part of his characterization and storyline split off to form the character of the Old Man, making Francis more overtly the antognist than the somewhat ambiguous status of the original character.

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Subverted. It's certainly got the aestetic on first glance, but the city's literally crumbling apart at the edges due to no one living long enough to maintain it.

* GhostCity: Washington, D.C.. The only living residents are an old man and a bunch of housecats.

* HumansAreWhite: Except for one or two black extras in the final scene, all the citizens of the city are conspicuously white.

* KnightTemplar: Francis 7's mad pursuit of Logan and Jessica, far in excess of his duties as a Sandman, was fuelled by his unwavering belief in Renewal. He goes crazy when he sees that [[spoiler:his lifeclock has presumably turned clear white outside the City]], which contradicts everything he believes in.

* LawOfConservationOfDetail: The film avoids elaborating on who built the city and main computer or how exactly the City came to be--the intro only mentions briefly that the world went through war, overpopulation and pollution, and the film otherwise uses [[ShowDontTell visual storytelling]] to show that ''something'' went wrong with the world outside that prompted the Citys creation and all that entails.

%% * MonochromeCasting: Almost an entirely white cast.

* NoBloodTies: The characters don't know their parents and most don't care.

* ThePromisedLand: Runners believe Sanctuary to be this. In an interesting variation, from the point of view of the audience, it's a Cynical Flavour B; but the characters still see it as an Idealistic version when they finally reach it. Which tells you just how much of a CrapsaccharineWorld they live in.

* RuleOfSymbolism: In one perspective, Logan resisting the City's computer symbolizes an atheist resisting religious conversion to start accepting that an Afterlife does exist.

* DefectorFromParadise: The film has a domed city that acts as a playpen for teenagers. However, its age cap is set at 30 years, while the winnowing process is called Carrousel, and is touted as a "renewal" program. Logan 5 and Jennifer 6 attempt to escape, and discover how badly their idyllic city has GoneHorriblyWrong.

* MistakenForGay: When Jess is summoned to Logan's apartment, but then changes her mind about wanting sex, Logan's reaction is to apologize and say "Oh! You prefer women."

* ReclaimedByNature: Outside the domed city, Logan 5 and Jennifer 7 wander into a landscape shaped like Washington, D.C., but heavily overgrown with ferns, ivy and kudzu. Only the Capitol dome pokes above the greenery. There, Logan and Jenny encounter a dotty old man living in the Senate chamber, which is rife with moss and lichens.

%% * CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Subverted.
%% * DeathsHourglass: The life crystals.

Logan 5 (Michael York) 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 Carrousel. 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.

** Let's start with the fact that the only solution to the disappearance of Runners[[spoilers: (the discussion of which inadvertently revealing to Logan 5 that Renewal and Carrousel are lies)]] is for Logan, who has 4 more years left alive, to pose as a Runner in the system by removing those 4 years from the record, and not even guaranteeing that Logan will get BACK those 4 years.

* BrainlessBeauty: Holly 13 (Farrah Fawcett) can't remember events that happened ''just minutes ago'' even if said events were something as traumatic as seeing your doctor get sliced up by surgical lasers.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Among other changes, the age of death was raised from 21 to 30 both to simplify casting and, more importantly, so the free-love future wouldn't get the entire production shut down. Also, the producers realized that it didn't make sense for Richard Jordan (Francis) to somehow transform into Peter Ustinov (The Old Man/Ballard in the novels) so the character of Ballard (originally a disguised Francis) was changed to the separate character of Ustinov's Old Man.

* {{Aesoptinium}}: The city and Carrousel.

* AncientKeeper: Box

* CityInABottle: The domed city itself.

* ComputerVoice: The MasterComputer

* CrazyCatLady: Actually, it's a Crazy Cat Old Man.
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Subverted.
* DeathsHourglass: The life crystals.

* TheDitz: Holly 13 (Farrah Fawcett's character)

* ElaborateUndergroundBase

** The notion of Renewal may have sprung from Creator/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.

* FirstTimeInTheSun: Logan and Jessica when they escape.

* FrickinLaserBeams: A unexpected point of realism here.

* GrowingUpSucks: Considering that growing up ends at 30...

** The only reason Logan and Jessica survive is, since he is the first Sandman to run, he is the first to come through with a gun.

* LivingRelic: The Old Man.

* LogicBomb: [[spoiler:"There... is... no... Sanctuary!"]]

* MindScrew: The LogicBomb scene above.
* MonochromeCasting: Almost an entirely white cast.
* NewEden: What the city seems to be.

* ReleasedToElsewhere: Carrousel.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Box.

* TatteredFlag: Seen where the Old Man lives in what used to be the U.S. Senate chamber.

* TerminallyDependentSociety: An enforced age limit.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Holly 13]]
* {{Utopia}}: ...Technically.

* WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture: Again, Carrousel.

While the movie was successful for its time, and is often mentioned in the same breath as other classic, dystopian, late-60's to pre-''Star Wars'' sci-fi films like ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'', ''Film/SoylentGreen'', and ''Film/SilentRunning'', it bears very little resemblance to its source material. A short-lived [[Series/LogansRun TV adaptation]] followed a year later.

Multiple attempts to remake the film (and to adapt it more closely to the novel) from notable directors like Bryan Singer (''Film/XMenFilmSeries'') and Nicolas Winding Refn (''Film/{{Drive}}''), have all been unsuccessful. Recently, Warner Bros. hired ''VideoGame/BioShock'' lead designer [[http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/bioshock-creator-ken-levine-takes-on-logans-run-script-for-warner-bros/ Ken Levine]] to write the script for yet another try at a remake.

Multiple attempts to remake the film (and to adapt it more closely to the novel) from notable directors like Bryan Singer (''Film/XMen'') and Nicolas Winding Refn (''Film/{{Drive}}''), have all been unsuccessful. Recently, Warner Bros. hired ''VideoGame/BioShock'' lead designer [[http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/bioshock-creator-ken-levine-takes-on-logans-run-script-for-warner-bros/ Ken Levine]] to write the script for yet another try at a remake.

* LawOfConservationOfDetail: The film avoids elaborating on who built the city and main computer or how exactly the City came to be, only using [[ShowDontTell visual storytelling]] to show that ''something'' went wrong with the world outside that prompted its creation and all that entails.

* ChristmasCake: Largely a non-issue, since no one lives past thirty. Marriage is unheard of, as well, [[spoiler:until Logan and Jessica make it outside of the city and see gravestones referring to husbands and wives. After learning from the Old Man what the words mean, they bestow the titles on each other.]]

* DefectorFromParadise: The film has a domed city that acts as a playpen for teenagers. However, its age cap is set at 30 years, while the winnowing process is called "Carousel," and is touted as a "renewal" program. Logan 5 and Jennifer 6 attempt to escape, and discover how badly their idyllic city has GoneHorriblyWrong.

* {{Fanservice}}: "Let's take our clothes off quick before they freeze on us". What.

* FreeLoveFuture: Logan and Jessica meet when he picks her off 'the Circuit' a sort of electronic hook-up system. As it turns out Jessica isn't really in the mood, she's upset over losing a friend to Carrousel. She and Logan spend the night talking and bonding instead of having sex.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: What happened Logan 5's infant son, little Logan 6?

* CityInABottle

* DomedHometown

* FirstTimeInTheSun

* GrowingUpSucks

* LivingRelic

* MonochromeCasting
* NewEden

* TerminallyDependentSociety

* 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.

A 1976 science fiction film, directed by Michael Anderson and based on the [[Literature/LogansRun 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.

* ShoutOut: The Old Man frequently quotes passages from TSEliot's ''Literature/OldPossumsBookOfPracticalCats''.

* ShoutOut: The Old Man frequently quotes passages from TSEliot's ''OldPossumsBookOfPracticalCats''.

While the movie was successful for its time, and is often mentioned in the same breath as other classic, dystopian, late-60's to pre-''Star Wars'' sci-fi films like ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'', ''Film/SoylentGreen'', and ''Film/SilentRunning'', it bears very little resemblance to its source material.

A 1976 science fiction film, film based on the [[Literature/LogansRun 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.

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 Carrousel. 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.

->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.

A 1976 science fiction film, film 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.