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"Whats the matter with you? Hes a runner! Hes blinking! We must help anyone who asks. We must! Or were the same as they are, deciding who lives and who dies!"
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Logan's Run (film)
Logan's Run is a 1976 American science fiction action film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, and Peter Ustinov. The screenplay by David Zelag Goodman is based on the 1967 novel Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. It depicts a future society, on the surface a utopia, but soon revealed as
"Whats the matter with you? Hes a runner! Hes blinking! We must help anyone who asks. We must! Or were the same as they are, deciding who lives and who dies!"
"Ive never killed in my life. Sandmen terminate runners."
"You thought I wouldnt find you, didnt you? You thought Id quit, huh? What did you do to him? You know what he was? He was a Sandman. He was happy. You ruined him. You killed him."
"You know, theyve each got three names. Yes. The naming of cats is a difficult matter, Its just not one of your holiday games; You may think at first that I am mad as a hatter, When I tell you that each cats got three different names. See, they got their ordinary name and then they got their fancy name. And that makes two names, doesnt it? And now its got a third name. Can either of you two guess what that third name is? (beat) Come on! (beat) Above and beyond, theres one name thats left over, and this is the name you never will guess. The name that no human research can discover, but the cat itself knows, and never will confess."
"That sweet madman. How could he come to exist?"
"You know, Logan, you wonder a lot. Too much for a Sandman."
"You know, when you question, it slows you down."
"Just so many people want it to exist, so many people who dont want to die... They want it so much that a place called Sanctuary becomes real. But it doesnt exist. It never existed. Just... just the hope."
"Its crazy. He could have renewed on Carousel. Now hes finished forever. Why do they run?"
"Logan! Listen to me! Im your friend. I understand. We all go crazy once in a while. Nobody knows except me. I wont tell. I could have turned you in. I didnt. But shes a runner. But its over. Terminate her! Now! Youre a Sandman! Now, Logan! Now!"
"I hate outside! I hate it! I hate it!"
"Those cracks in your face, do they hurt?"