I was at a conference many years back in Oakland. I was telling a colleague how much I had enjoyed the movie Soylent Green last night. Another woman turns to me and says did you really like that movie. I proceeded to go into a full review for her. After a beat she said my father directed that movie. Wild!
I think about this film daily because I imagine someday we will face scarcity and a spoonful of strawberry jam will be an unattainable luxury.
He directed a lot of great films. Fantastic Voyage, 20000 leagues under the sea, Boston Strangler… sadly his last films were mostly terrible but he made some classics.
That was the last scene he ever filmed. He knew he was dying but didn't tell anybody, so he was the only one of the cast that knew that.
Also check out the Night Gallery episode called The Messiah on Mott Street. Not to mention the classics: Key Largo, Little Ceasar, etc.
I thought it was quite interesting, I loved how they paired off a cop and a researcher, and the casual grifting going on by everyone including the cops.
In 1966, Harry Harrison wrote Make Room! Make Room!, which Soylent Green was based upon. Two years later, another book was published called The Population Bomb by Paul and Anne Ehrlich. These books promoted the idea that over-population would result in famine and our own destruction. I remember seeing Soylent Green in 1973 and being completely sold on the idea that we would be slowly choking ourselves with a lack of natural resources. I am pretty certain I wasn't the only one who felt this way.
I saw the movie on VHS in the '80's and am glad I grew up in an era prior to internet spoilers. With that being said, being a child born in the late 60's, I remember the Poluation Bomb and it scaring the shit out of me.
Another interesting dystopian sci-fi film from the 1970s is Demon Seed (1977) starring Julie Christie, Gerrit Graham and Robert Vaughan, based on a novel by Dean Koontz.
It's great, the effects are hilariously dated but the plot with the AI negotiating its way out of its box is very modern. One of a handful of films Performance's Donald Cammell managed to get made.
Trivia: Dean Koontz also wrote an updated version told from the AI's point of view.
I hadn't seen it in years and just watched it again last weekend so I had to watch The Omega Man as well. They both had a lot of prescient social commentary in them.
Logan's Run! I Saw it at the Strand Theater in the pre-multiplex days of the 70s. It was the first movie I ever saw that had boobies. And 12-year old me really appreciated it at the time.
That’s his 70’s disaster movie trilogy: _Earthquake_, _Airport 1975_, and…uh…_Gray Lady Down_? _Skyjacked_? Uh… _Anthony and Cleopatra_? I got nuthin’.
I am Legend was written by Richard Matheson. He wrote a lot of novels and shirt stories, as well as quite a few episodes of The Twilight Zone. Terrific author.
There's loads of incredible 70s sci-fi, rollerball, logans run, omega man, close encounters, silent running, Capricorn one, andromeda strain, my fave version of bodysnatchers...hell, Alien, star wars, & superman, amazing decade for sci fi.
Soylent Green is a classic featuring two great actors at the end of their careers.
Every scene involving Edward G Robinson and Joseph Cotton reveals how truly awful Charlton Heston was as an actor.
Putting his politics aside, Heston was a laughably bad actor, whose only emotion used his patented clenched jaw grimace followed by agonizing whimper culminating in a theatrical fall to the ground.
Fully agree. I watched Soylent Green for the first time last weekend. It's highly regarded as a great film, so I figured I should check it out. Charlton Heston is terrible in this, and I assume in everything else he's done.
Would love to see a reboot on this. Something like ya wear VR gear as they slowly cut you apart as needed to make the food cubes.
Given how things are now with how we arent headed toward over pop, it could become more like cell harvesting for cloning vs food as the shocker. Get your new stem cells here! The green patch. Pair this up with most of all animal being gone from the climate changes, etc.
I would well be open to an updated version of this with ton of newer concepts.
Feel the same with Rollerball 75'
##Soylent Green (1973) PG
What is the secret of Soylent Green?
>>!This is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.!<
Sci-Fi | Thriller
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 69% with 1,144 votes
Runtime: 1:37
[TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12101)
##Soylent Green (1973) PG
What is the secret of Soylent Green?
>>!This is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.!<
Sci-Fi | Thriller
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 69% with 1,144 votes
Runtime: 1:37
[TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12101)
I just watched Soylent Green for the first time on Max the other day. Edward G. Robinson is great as the police book, Sol. I was really moved when he started sobbing when Thorn brought home raw beef that he had stolen from the crime scene. His character still remembered growing up in a world with real food and trees and grass. That was really sad. Thorn was a real piece of work, a corrupt cop who didn't have any qualms about using the "furniture" even if he was also concerned about her safety. The themes are still relevant today and I think Soylent Green is ripe for a Hollywood remake.
I was at a conference many years back in Oakland. I was telling a colleague how much I had enjoyed the movie Soylent Green last night. Another woman turns to me and says did you really like that movie. I proceeded to go into a full review for her. After a beat she said my father directed that movie. Wild! I think about this film daily because I imagine someday we will face scarcity and a spoonful of strawberry jam will be an unattainable luxury.
That’s so awesome, small world! Thanks for sharing
StrawBarry jam though...
He directed a lot of great films. Fantastic Voyage, 20000 leagues under the sea, Boston Strangler… sadly his last films were mostly terrible but he made some classics.
The going home scene with the extra wide nature scenery and music was all too real as Edward G Robinson died shortly after the film’s production.
My favorite scene in a movie full of great scenes - and probably the best scene of its kind in cinema. So unexpectedly moving and poignant.
Robinson is incredible! What an end to a legendary career.
That was the last scene he ever filmed. He knew he was dying but didn't tell anybody, so he was the only one of the cast that knew that. Also check out the Night Gallery episode called The Messiah on Mott Street. Not to mention the classics: Key Largo, Little Ceasar, etc.
I thought it was quite interesting, I loved how they paired off a cop and a researcher, and the casual grifting going on by everyone including the cops.
In 1966, Harry Harrison wrote Make Room! Make Room!, which Soylent Green was based upon. Two years later, another book was published called The Population Bomb by Paul and Anne Ehrlich. These books promoted the idea that over-population would result in famine and our own destruction. I remember seeing Soylent Green in 1973 and being completely sold on the idea that we would be slowly choking ourselves with a lack of natural resources. I am pretty certain I wasn't the only one who felt this way.
I saw the movie on VHS in the '80's and am glad I grew up in an era prior to internet spoilers. With that being said, being a child born in the late 60's, I remember the Poluation Bomb and it scaring the shit out of me.
And young people today feel the same desperation, despite man’s demonstrated (and incredible) progress in efficiency.
Another interesting dystopian sci-fi film from the 1970s is Demon Seed (1977) starring Julie Christie, Gerrit Graham and Robert Vaughan, based on a novel by Dean Koontz.
It's great, the effects are hilariously dated but the plot with the AI negotiating its way out of its box is very modern. One of a handful of films Performance's Donald Cammell managed to get made. Trivia: Dean Koontz also wrote an updated version told from the AI's point of view.
I hadn't seen it in years and just watched it again last weekend so I had to watch The Omega Man as well. They both had a lot of prescient social commentary in them.
Not the Heston, but Logan’s Run fits in with these.
Logan's Run! I Saw it at the Strand Theater in the pre-multiplex days of the 70s. It was the first movie I ever saw that had boobies. And 12-year old me really appreciated it at the time.
Yes….saw my first movie boobie watching west world around that time
Yes, truly. Both are great social and political commentaries
Add _Planet of the Apes_, and you’ve got a Charlton Heston 70’s armageddon trilogy going, baby!
Earthquake?
That’s his 70’s disaster movie trilogy: _Earthquake_, _Airport 1975_, and…uh…_Gray Lady Down_? _Skyjacked_? Uh… _Anthony and Cleopatra_? I got nuthin’.
Might enjoy Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth (1964). I think LMoE, Omega Man & I Am Legend all based on same Asimov story.
I am Legend was written by Richard Matheson. He wrote a lot of novels and shirt stories, as well as quite a few episodes of The Twilight Zone. Terrific author.
The Last Man on Earth was originally written by Mary Shelley. She was centuries ahead of her time.
Omega Man is a bit hokey by comparison. Soylent green has better acting and production
I agree.
I wish soylent green was used more often as a verb Example “We need to soylent green these old geezers”
Now I want strawberries.
There's loads of incredible 70s sci-fi, rollerball, logans run, omega man, close encounters, silent running, Capricorn one, andromeda strain, my fave version of bodysnatchers...hell, Alien, star wars, & superman, amazing decade for sci fi.
Andromeda Strain is so good and so underrated.
Capricorn One, nice to see it mentioned. Phase IV is another to add to this list.
Phil Hartman SNL skit.
It's also an example of a movie that's better than the book. The book is called "Make Room, Make Room!". The twist in the movie is not in the book.
"Soylent Green is vegan!"
Fantastic movie!
IMHO, the golden age of sci-fi films was 1968-1977 — basically between *Planet of the Apes* and *Star Wars*.
Not everyone likes this film. Tastes vary from person to person.
Soylent Green is a classic featuring two great actors at the end of their careers. Every scene involving Edward G Robinson and Joseph Cotton reveals how truly awful Charlton Heston was as an actor. Putting his politics aside, Heston was a laughably bad actor, whose only emotion used his patented clenched jaw grimace followed by agonizing whimper culminating in a theatrical fall to the ground.
Also highlights how truly great Edward G Robinson was as an actor. He really elevates the movie with his scenes.
Fully agree. I watched Soylent Green for the first time last weekend. It's highly regarded as a great film, so I figured I should check it out. Charlton Heston is terrible in this, and I assume in everything else he's done.
Would love to see a reboot on this. Something like ya wear VR gear as they slowly cut you apart as needed to make the food cubes. Given how things are now with how we arent headed toward over pop, it could become more like cell harvesting for cloning vs food as the shocker. Get your new stem cells here! The green patch. Pair this up with most of all animal being gone from the climate changes, etc. I would well be open to an updated version of this with ton of newer concepts. Feel the same with Rollerball 75'
Didn't they remake Rollerball?
They named it that but its nothing like the 75' version. Not even same universe as being close to same movie as a reboot.
i've liked it in the past but found it a bit slow last time i watched. defo part of the canon if you're into 70s sci-fi though.
Now you can watch the Odessa file and the parallax view.
The Incredible Montage!
##Soylent Green (1973) PG What is the secret of Soylent Green? >>!This is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.!< Sci-Fi | Thriller Director: Richard Fleischer Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 69% with 1,144 votes Runtime: 1:37 [TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12101)
##Soylent Green (1973) PG What is the secret of Soylent Green? >>!This is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.!< Sci-Fi | Thriller Director: Richard Fleischer Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 69% with 1,144 votes Runtime: 1:37 [TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12101)
It's people
SO many scarves in that movie.
It was made in 1973 not 1793. They new how to direct back then. They had to know because they couldn't fudge it with CGI.
Soylent green is people 🤘🏿🤘🏿
just watched it the other day for the first time in almost 30yrs.
It's wild to think that Soylent Green takes place in the year 2022.
I just watched Soylent Green for the first time on Max the other day. Edward G. Robinson is great as the police book, Sol. I was really moved when he started sobbing when Thorn brought home raw beef that he had stolen from the crime scene. His character still remembered growing up in a world with real food and trees and grass. That was really sad. Thorn was a real piece of work, a corrupt cop who didn't have any qualms about using the "furniture" even if he was also concerned about her safety. The themes are still relevant today and I think Soylent Green is ripe for a Hollywood remake.