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 antagonist than the somewhat ambiguous status of the original character.

* WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture: Carrousel, where any resident who reaches the age of thirty must participate in the hope of Renewal, or otherwise die via KillItWithFire. [[spoiler:The problem is, Renewal is a lie, so everyone who enters Carrousel dies.]]

* LighterAndSofter[=/=]TamerAndChaster: While the film is not without its darker content, it's ''massively'' toned-down compared to the original novel, which featured all sorts of depravity that would never be permitted to be filmed either now or in the 1970s.

--> [[spoiler:"There ... is ... no ... Sanctuary!"]]

* HumansAreWhite: All of the citizens of the city are conspicuously white. That could be the result of the city's DesignerBabies. Then again, the KillerRobot they fight was originally supposed to evoke a "tribal" African and was portrayed by a black actor. You'll just have to draw your own conclusions from that.
** Note that a single female Green with dark skin and an Afro ''does'' walk by in the background, mere seconds before "The End" crops up on screen. Then again, given the availability of easy facial and body reconstruction, there's no way to know if she's genuinely black, yet another white girl who had her melanin cranked up for style's sake, or if "Caucasian" is just the "in" look for ''everybody else'' that particular season.

* KickTheDog: When Logan and Francis are going after a runner early in the film, they have several chances where they easily could have killed him right away, but they sadistically treat killing him like a game of hunting an animal, deliberately missing him so they can have fun at the Runners expense.

%% * FrickinLaserBeams: A unexpected point of realism here.

Multiple attempts to remake the film (and to adapt it more closely to the novel) from notable directors like Creator/BryanSinger and Creator/NicolasWindingRefn, 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.

* ColorCodedCharacters: 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, a few children can be glimpsed wearing yellow (the Cubs in Cathedral also sport tattered yellow garments), older teen-agers are wearing green, and twenty-somethings all wear red. The 30-year-olds' outfits at the "Renewal" are red below and white above, presumably because it's assumed they'll be reborn as infants and wear white again.

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. The cast includes Creator/MichaelYork, Creator/JennyAgutter, Richard Jordan, Creator/FarrahFawcett, and Creator/PeterUstinov.

* TerminallyDependentSociety: An enforced age limit of 30, supposedly to prevent overpopulation.

[[caption-width-right:310:Run, Runner!]]

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 PopulationControl are simply maintained by mandating the death of everyone who reaches the age of 30.

Logan 5 (Creator/MichaelYork) 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.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Run, Runner!]]

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

-->"Fish, plankton, sea greens ... '''protein from the sea!'''"

--> Fish! And plankton! And sea-greens! And PROTEIN FROM THE SEA!

%% * MindScrew: The LogicBomb scene above.

%% * RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Box.

%% * WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture: Again, Carrousel.

%% * CrazyCatLady: Actually, it's a Crazy Cat Old Man.

* DomedHometown: The city has its secrets [[spoiler:Also, Washington D.C. was doomed at some point but it got better.]]

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

* GhostCity: Washington, D.C.. The only living residents are an old man and a bunch of house cats.
%% * GrowingUpSucks: Considering that growing up ends at 30...

* HumanResources: 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 ''Film/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.

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

* LargeHam: Logan's speech to the populace on returning to the city certainly qualifies. As he flails around, screaming "You can live! LIVE!" Michael York appears to be on the verge of breaking into song.

* LensFlare: An INTENSE one appears when Logan and Jessica are forced to walk through a narrow corridor into a spotlight.

%% * LivingRelic: The Old Man.
* TheLoad: Jessica 6 is very good at cringing and squealing and bitching and moaning. She has very little value otherwise in a survival situation.

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

%% * NewEden: What the city seems to be.

* OnlyFatalToAdults: ...At least, those over 30.

%% * ReleasedToElsewhere: Carrousel.

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

%% * TerminallyDependentSociety: An enforced age limit.

%% * {{Utopia}}: ...Technically.

** Let's start with the fact that the only solution to the disappearance of Runners [[spoiler: (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.
** Furthermore, the computer doesn't even bother to inform ANYONE ELSE about this plan, so if Logan gets killed, then erasing those 4 years was for nothing, not to mention having one of your best Sandmen on the force murdered in cold blood BY HIS OWN PARTNERS.
** And finally, when Logan is brought back before the computer, it refuses to accept the possibility that Sanctuary might not be real, despite Logan's surrogates providing OVERWHELMING evidence to the contrary, and the resulting "[[LogicBomb Logic Bomb]]", if you would even call it that, makes the ENTIRE COMPUTER EXPLODE.
%% * AncientKeeper: Box

%% * CityInABottle: The domed city itself.
* CollapsingLair: Logan shoots a support beam in the ceiling of Box's cave, and the whole cavern comes crashing down. At the end, Logan drops a LogicBomb on the [[AIIsACrapshoot central computer]], which somehow causes the ''entire domed city complex'' to [[MadeOfExplodium explode and collapse]].

* 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 antagonist than the somewhat ambiguous status of the original character.
%% * ComputerVoice: The MasterComputer

** Note that a single female Green with dark skin and an Afro ''does'' walk by in the background, mere seconds before "The End" crops up on screen. Then again, given the availability of easy facial and body reconstruction, there's no way to know if she's genuinely black, yet another white girl who had her melanin cranked up for style's sake, or if "Caucasian" is just the "in" look that particular season.

%% * FirstTimeInTheSun: Logan and Jessica when they escape.

* DeathsHourglass: The life crystals. When your time it up, they start blinking, and when they're fully out, then you either turn yourself in for death or let the Sandmen hunt you down.

* BrainlessBeauty: Holly 13 (Creator/FarrahFawcett) 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.

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

!!This film provides examples of:

* ChildrenAreAWaste: This seems to be the prevailing mindset. Most people live carefree lives and don't bother with child rearing. Their "Utopia" has no family units, children are put in state homes by their "seed mother" and raised en masse. Francis notes most men don't bother to hang out at the nursery to meet their children, and Logan (who is doing just that) makes the point that he's not so deviant he's interested in meeting the mother.