Logan (2017)

Film

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Characters

Form & technique

The film's use of Western iconography and narrative structure. → Generic Revisionism
The film's sound design, focusing on the amplified sounds of bodily harm.

Tropes

Logan's scarred, aging, and chronically pained body. → The Fragile Alpha
The genetically engineered mutant children, particularly Laura. → The Reduced Human
The mutants' flight to the Canadian border for a sanctuary named "Eden." → Necropolitics
The explicit screening and quotation of the 1953 film Shane. → The Cinematic Echo Chamber