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Logan Not-So-Secretly Copied A Classic Gene Hackman Film
By JEREMY SMITH
Most studios would never allow one its most bankable characters to be killed off, but 20th Century Fox let James Mangold make “Logan” with R-rated violence and one very final death.
It didn't look or sound like a superhero movie, and the score by Marco Beltrami is somber, soulful and wholly without precedent in the superhero genre.
According to Mangold, Francis Ford Coppola's movie "The Conversation" was the inspiration. David Shire's nerve-jangling, piano-heavy score sets the viewer on edge.
The instrumentation of “Logan”— piano, guitar, drums, and harmonica — is a melancholy mix, and foregrounding the piano on a superhero score is incredibly rare.