Logan's Run Page #5

FRANCIS (hustling

Logan)

Come on. I don't want to miss the

filing-in. There'll be some I know

tonight, I think...

DANIEL (glances at his

own red crystal, nods)

Yes. Me, too. You know we're

both on Monitor tonight.

FRANCIS:

Damn! That's right. Just when I

feel like an ALL OUT BLAST in

Arcade .

LOGAN:

Want me to take your shift? I'm

feeling restless anyway

Francis glances at him, exchanges a look with Daniel. They vanish

into the throng passing under the great crystal, turn the corner and

we see

33FULL SHOT - CAROUSEL

framed in a huge corridor we see a steep-sided arena dropping down

to a shadowy center, which even now pulsates and flickers in

changing dimensions, but always maintaining the jewel- flower

shape. There is one entrance into the center -- a kind of ramp from

below the seats, leading directly into the mysterious bowl --

Just now the seat's are filling, and the sense of expectation builds

People sit and immediately crane their necks, waiting...

34.ANOTHER ANGLE

Featuring Logan and Francis as they find places in the arena. Like

the others, they crane upward. As they do, Logan gestures at a

number of pretty girls who are just being seated.

LOGAN:

Now there's a few who could have been

his seed-mother.

FRANCIS:

Only a few? You're just not trying.

35-36 OUT

37PANNING THE CROWD

As the seats fill, the excitement builds. Suddenly the lights begin

to dim and dim...

SOUND:
A kind of collective sigh, breathing in unison...

38 OUT

38X1ANGLE THE TIER BELOW THE SEATS

Suddenly visible, the LASTDAY GROUP. Their arms are upraised and in

each palm the crystal blinks red-black, red-black.

39THE CROWD

Transfixed, gripped with a religious fervor.

40LASTDAY GROUP

Hands still raised, filing slowly into the mysterious well of

Carousel.

41CROWD

Tense, beginning nervous APPLAUSE here and there.

42CAROUSEL

As the last one enters, beginning to glow and, as it does, the bowl

slowly puts out leaves like some great plant, enfolding and hiding

the people within a series of translucent petals. As the Last one

enfolds them the Light intensifies, the exterior surfaces seeming to

shift as if a kind of motion was beginning inside it...

43CROWD

Visible in the growing Light from Carousel -gripped with passion and

excitement, APPLAUDING, gesturing as they see

44CAROUSEL

Moving, bands of light seeming to spiral upward Like a contained

aurora as the Carousel picks up speed.

45LOGAN

Caught up in it Like the rest.

46CAROUSEL

Beginning to blur with its own speed. Through the shifting,

spiraling curtain of light we see bodies moving in a kind of

weightlessness, always struggling to move higher.

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