Making of logans run also check out this great article about matte painter matthew yuricich over on the matte shot blog. The omega man, a clockwork orange, thx 18, soylent green, etc. In the year 2274, everyone lives a wonderful life until theyre 30 years old then theyre executed. Logans run remake will be based on the original novel. You know, theres a number of films fahrenheit 451, logans run, gattaca, brave new world, 1984, thx18, the matrix, alphaville, a clockwork orange. Unichapel robotic confession booth by george lucas from. To ask other readers questions about thx 18, please sign up. Perhaps only george lucas could deliberately ruin a perfectly good george lucas film, and thats the case here. I t was the decade that gave the world the maverick new hollywood drama, the nixonera paranoid thriller, the slasher flick, the allstar disaster.
Published in 1967, the novel depicts a dystopic ageist future society in which both. Logan s run is not too dissimilar to george lucass thx 18 in its theme of two lovers fleeing a hedonistic, hermeticallysealed society. The story follows the actions of logan, a sandman charged with enforcing the rule, as he tracks down and. All the electronic pieces from the 1976 soundtrack to the movie logans run by jerry goldsmith.
This digitallyenhanced directors cut of thx18 came out in 2004. The story centers on logan, a sandman, who is an elite member of a police force who hunts down and terminates runners. If the book was a response to the youth revolution of the 1960s, then the film is a conservative rejoinder to it. The barelythere costumes of logans run dark worlds. Poseable action figures, a musical nightlight, honk if you love thx 18 bumper stickers, a lego thx 18 set, teddy bears with ivs that say 15 different bland and politically correct slogans, original motion picture soundtrack album with included radio rock version, childrens book thx 18 misses his medicine, and. Neither the studios nor lucass cut was a popular success, but thx 18s coolly minimalist style and storytelling gained fans on the college screening circuit. Thx 18 is a 1971 american social science fiction film directed by george lucas in his feature film directorial debut. Thx 18 is a 1971 american social science fiction film directed by george lucas in his feature.
Compare it to logans run, which was obviously ripped off from it i mean. With michael york, jenny agutter, richard jordan, roscoe lee browne. Logans run, boyeth and girleth, is a 1976 film starring michael york as. How much was equilibrium influenced by fahrenheit 451. Produced by francis ford coppola and written by lucas and walter murch, it stars robert duvall and donald pleasence. These changes increased the run time of the film to 88 minutes. When the police arrive, thorn urges hatcher to spread the word that soylent green is people.
Not with predecessors like 1984 both the orwell novel from 1949 and its film. Logans run electronic selections from the soundtrack. As ryan britt wrote in his reclamation of logans run, most people know the movie, tv, and comic book adaptations better than the source material. Think of logans run 1976, a clockwork orange 1972, soylent green 1973 or. Thx 18 finds his way into what looks like a phone booth, but it turns out to be a kind of robotic confessional a unichapel. It is set in a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotions. The robotic confessional booth from thx 18 from thx 18. The civic center was designed by frank lloyd wright, and also appears in another dystopic film the 1971 thx18, george lucas very first. Published in 1967, the novel depicts a dystopic ageist future society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of everyone reaching the age of 21. Robert duvall, donald pleasence, don pedro colley, maggie mcomie, ian wolfe, sid haig. Logan s run is a science fiction story set in an ageistic dystopian society of the future. An idyllic science fiction future has one major drawback. According to the book cinema by the bay, published by lucasbooks, lucas.
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