I found a site that has a revised LR script:

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/loganmovie/cut.html

It has some pix of cut scenes and lots of revised script references. One was Logan asking Francis is anyone had ever broken into Nursery. After seeing the movie I assumed that the babies were cared for by computers, but I never imagined they had no human contact at all; and that it seems it was forbidden. Does anyone have more information about that?

I noticed they had the babies together two at a time to sleep, and maybe that was done b/c the kids would come out really screwed up without human nurturing.

I wonder what the nursery was like? On the DVD it says you're there until you are 8. I guess after that they let you loose on the city.

I know this is the movie thread but also, what was nursery like in the book? Did they talk about it? (I know the books are very different). I am just very curious as to what it would be like to be a child in their world.

Hi RunnerBlue,

In the novel, Nursery is mostly explained after Logan and Jessica's Pleasure Gypsies escape.


Maybe some SPOILERS below ---


In the book, several youngsters take a hurt and bruised Jessica (after she crash lands in Nursery) to the Cribroom there. The crib she's placed in 'nurses' her back to health. The children there act surprised in seeing such an 'older' person there before their eyes and watch her in Awe!

Nursery is protected by an Autogoverness - a robot who acts as both CAREGIVER for the children, as well as their SECURITY detail. Also on 'patrol' are the older children described as being 'conditioned and hypnotised' against any people discovered in Nursery who shouldn't be there.

Nursery is also described mostly as an impenetrable fortress, where it is difficult to break in and even harder to get out - it's cut off from the rest of the world (as you remember the entire planet is under the Death at 21 decree). I remember reading it and thinking of it as a large jail/concentration camp for the kids. One can surmise that this is where all of the BRAINWASHING takes place.

Nursery also house many Classrooms and Playrooms. It is also where the Hourglass machine implants all the new-borns with their Lifeclock crystals in their right hands. There are also Loverooms in Nursery - where the Autogoverness soothes, relaxes and dishes out their motherly love for the babies.

Basically - Nursery is the heart of the world that houses all of a young person's needs in one central location - impervious to invaders and other threats to their 'well-being'.

When a child turns 7, their clock changes color to Yellow and they must leave Nursery. They then are on their own to live out the rest of their 14 years.

Yeah, Logan5 pretty much nailed it. Nursery is like a kindergarten / prison where the kids get a basic education - talkpuppets, subliminal recordings played while they sleep etc. Logan didn't want to leave Nursery and his little talkpuppet friend Alfred.

IIRC Logan remembers starting work as a Sandman when he's 14 - up until then everything had been just there for the taking, from the time he left nursery.

So it's nursery from birth to 7, then a fancy free life as a yellow doing what you will and scampering around Arcade :clap: , then work 7 years later from 14 onwards. Jessica worked in a clothing factory IIRC, for several hours a week.

Wow, thanx both for those fun facts! It seems crazy to just loose children on the regular world after having been cared for so completely. One would think they would not know what to do in Arcade on their own at first.

Their having to work makes more sense than how it was in the movie, where it was never explained why people worked in the Love Shop, or as doctors, like Doc. I wondered how things got done. That seems more explained in the book - somebody has to be the police, somebody has to make the clothes, the food, etc.

Thanx again! :clap: