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  Can Soylent Green save the world... and our climate? Welcome to the new biodiesel
Soylent green was the foodstuff of choice, and it was made of plankton.
Soylent Green fun fact: It was the last feature film with exteriors shot using the old MGM back lot.
Soylent Green not so fun fact(s): When Sol, played by Edward G. Robinson, is about to be euthanized, the background score is Beethoven's Symphony #6 -- which the Nazis used in a propaganda film entitled "The Führer grants the Jews a city," an attempt to put an upbeat spin on the Jewish ghettos.
blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com /environment/archives/108927.asp   (1309 words)

  
  Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Soylent Green
Soylents red and yellow have been joined by a new flavor, soylent green, which is "made from the finest undersea growth.
Soylent Green is one of those terrific films in which one relatively clueless but decent person becomes embroiled in a plot much larger than he is. Ill-equipped to deal with such a conspiracy, Thorn must survive on instinct and guts in best film-noir fashion.
Soylent Green walks a fine line between melodramatic Seventies science fiction and a thoughtful examination of problems that began to surface in a decade of oil shortages, endangered species, and Sha Na Na.
www.stomptokyo.com /movies/soylent-green.html   (897 words)

  
 Soylent Green - Uncyclopedia
Soylent Green is manufactured from the people by the people and for the people.
Soylent Green is made from really old folks at the retirement home who don't get visitors, people who wear fanny packs and/or visors, the guy who lives at the YMCA, a few kids from Africa (for coloring) and anyone unlucky enough to be standing outside the factory when they run low on bodies.
Soylent green provides a huge amount of fatty acids, carbohydrates, and essential vitamins, because it is made from people.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Soylent_Green   (397 words)

  
 Soylent Green
Second, when he follows the disposal of Sol's corpse he discovers that Soylent Green includes the recycled bodies of people who have used government-sponsored euthanasia centers, as well as those killed by the government in an attempt to keep knowledge of this form of cannibalism from the populace.
It mentions soylent steaks, but makes no reference to "soylent green" or to the ideas of euthanasia and cannibalism which form the basic theme of the movie.
The "horrifying secret of Soylent Green", in itself, has become a popular example of a twist ending that is already known by the public at large, even those who have not seen the film (see also Planet of the Apes and The Empire Strikes Back).
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Soylent_Green.php   (973 words)

  
 Soylent Green (1973)
Green’s conception of a flawed future lacked the flair and style of something like Blade Runner, but it gave us an unusually crude and rough presentation.
Soylent Green featured some intriguing elements and well executed segments, but overall it remained fairly average as a film.
Soylent Green appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
www.dvdmg.com /soylentgreen.shtml   (1939 words)

  
 Soylent Green
Soylent Green is a science fiction movie directed by Richard Fleischer.
Police Detective Thorn investigates a strange murdering case of a official from the Soylent corporation, which feeds the masses with a palette of their creations: Soylent red, yellow, or, even more nutritious, green.
He soon stumbles across the real source of Soylent Green, which is not soy beans or plankton any more.
project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/soylent_green.html   (138 words)

  
 Soylent Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soylent Green is a 1973 science fiction movie starring Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joseph Cotten and Chuck Connors.
Due to the cult popularity of the film, the term 'soylent green' and the movie's famous last line have become something of a catch phrase.
Some "blame" has been pointed to the film's trailer, which indirectly revealed Soylent Green's main ingredient by using quick cuts of body bags being carried across a conveyor belt over spoken narration: "What is the secret of Soylent Green?" The resulting spoiled surprise may have contributed to popular culture's tendency to refer to this movie.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soylent_Green   (1281 words)

  
 Soylent Green   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Unfortunately for us, 1973 was also the year Soylent Green was made, and before I get to the finer points of this most terrible movie, let me first ruin it for you: Soylent Green is people.
Sol, as he is called, figures out actually long before Thorn that Soylent Green is people, but doesn't have the guts to tell anybody, and instead, decides to commit state-sponsored suicide, even though he knows he'll be turned into a palette of Soylent Green.
So anyway, Thorn follows Sol's body via a dumptruck to the Soylent factory, and witnesses people becoming Soylent Green, after which he hops the first dump truck back to the city, does some boring stuff, dumps his furniture, shoots some people, and screams Soylent Green is people.
www.owczarek.com /badsciencefiction/soylentgreen.html   (1474 words)

  
 Soylent Green   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Though I already knew the secret of Soylent Green, this was the first time I had ever watched the movie.
It would be interesting to have had the perception of the time period when Soylent Green was released, along with not knowing the twist at the end.
Soylent Green is a what if tale for the future.
www.cinemalowdown.com /soylent.htm   (350 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Soylent Green
Yes, Soylent Green is a bit hokey at times, and while some of the special effects are interesting, many of the sets look…well, for the future they look very 1970s-ish.
Soylent Green is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen.
I found Soylent Green to be one of the better sci-fi flicks to come out of the 1970s.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/soylentgreen.php   (1326 words)

  
 Soylent Green (1973)
People are forced to live amongst the rotting corpses of starvation victims as they wait for the Soylent company to distribute their weekly supply of Soylent Green, a manufactured food product developed to feed the starving masses.
Soylent Green is a classic Sci-fi film that should be seen by all aficionados of the genre.
    Soylent Green is a stark portrayal of a Dystopian future where mankind is on the brink of self destruction.
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=3939   (1087 words)

  
 Palabok » Tuesday is Soylent Green Day!
As luck would have it, the Soylent Green DVD was available free for loan at the City Library.
It kept asking, “what is the secret of Soylent Green?” but it ended up answering the same question in the trailer itself.
I watched Soylent Green when I was a kid, and I was totally disturbed.
palabok.com /2006/05/tuesday-is-soylent-green-day   (715 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Soylent Green: DVD: Richard Fleischer,John Barclay,Whit Bissell,Jan Bradley,Chuck Connors,Joseph ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The answer is Soylent Green -- an artificial nourishment whose actual ingredients are not known by the public.
One of the scenes of the "beautiful earth" shown to Sol as he is dying is an opening shot from Far from the Madding Crowd (a flock of sheep on a green hillside).
When Thorn is in the Soylent Green factory, he knocks two factory employees off the catwalk.
www.amazon.ca /Soylent-Green-Richard-Fleischer/dp/B00009NHBM   (1814 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Soylent Green: DVD: Charlton Heston,Leigh Taylor-Young,Chuck Connors,Joseph Cotten,Brock Peters,Paula ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The world is overpopulated, people are scattered in the streets and many survive off (soylent red green and yellow) which the government is supplying at low costs for nutrition.
Soylent Green is one of those films that makes me yearn to shout its punch line.
Soylent Green is a film based on the science fiction novel of the same name by Harry Harrison.
www.amazon.com /Soylent-Green-Richard-Fleischer/dp/B00009NHBM   (2682 words)

  
 Soylent Green News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Soylent Green News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
I was watching Soylent Green recently, a classic film about overpopulation.
Oops, sorry to spoil the end of Soylent Green (1973) for ya, but even with that knowledge, you'll still be able to enjoy Charlton Heston in this sci-fi film,...
www.topix.net /movies/soylent-green   (577 words)

  
 Soylent Green Movie, Review, Cast for Soylent Green | TVGuide.com
A sluggishly directed look at life and death in the 21st century, SOYLENT GREEN is set in a Big Apple that is rotten to the core.
Smog is everywhere, humidity is constantly oppressive, space is at a premium, and the population explosion has crammed more than 40 million people in greater New York, many of whom live on the streets, in subways, in abandoned vehicles, or in burnt-out buildings.
There are no group posts for Soylent Green.
online.tvguide.com /detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=118609   (141 words)

  
 Soylent Green
Perhaps one of the most famous is Soylent Green, released in 1973.
Most coveted amount the different types of soylent is soylent green.
Thorn is assigned the investigation of William Simonson, a high ranking executive in the Soylent Corporation, the government protected company that controls the world’s meager supply of food.
www.hometheaterinfo.com /soylent_green.htm   (1020 words)

  
 Soylent Green
This deck was inspired when Eric Tilton suggested I create a deck around the theme of "Soylent Green." At first, I was tempted to pun on the name and create a Green deck that took over groups with voracious speed.
Good second leads would be Al Gore, to try to rip away his Green Groups; the Rosicrucians, to get your Crop Circles and then get Canada into your hand (though this would take a minimum of two turns, so it may not be worthwhile); or the Science Alarmists, to slow his growth in Green Groups.
If there is another Green deck in the game, you should use the Science Alarmists to slow him down, and use your agents cards and high-bonus groups to take his groups away from him, and Lama Ramadingdong to defend against his counterattacks.
www.cs.cmu.edu /~ralph/inwo/DotW/soylent-green.html   (1903 words)

  
 Slant Magazine - DVD Review: Soylent Green
Following closely on the heels of Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man, Heston cemented his reputation as a science fiction titan with Soylent Green, turning in a performance that blends weary existential detachment with a deep-rooted mistrust of authority.
Thorn is sent to investigate the death of a Soylent executive (an underutilized Joseph Cotton), but finds the man's opulent apartment—replete with rare liquor, giant hand soaps, and fresh meat—more interesting than the corpse in the living room.
Fleischer uses Holocaust-era allegorical allusions to fortify his story's repeated warnings about the consequences of over-consumption and environmental carelessness, but the film is too mindless and shrill to properly incorporate such historical symbolism into its unfocused narrative.
www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=197   (645 words)

  
 MMI Movie Review: Soylent Green
I was pretty jaded by the time I got to "Soylent Green." I remembered the 1973 flick as having one of the most hysterical premises in the genre, and that it starred one of the most hysterically earnest actors in history in Charlton Heston.
It takes place in that once very far away year of 2023; the Earth is in the throes of the greenhouse effect, Manhattan is sweltering and wildly overpopulated, and cops are both corrupt and unappreciated.
But my revelation was that "Soylent Green" is not only better than I remembered, it's actually a good movie.
www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/soylent-green.html   (503 words)

  
 SOYLENT GREEN PG.1-Pictures, info & Videos found HERE!
Said to have all the vitamins and nutrients needed to maintain life, this pseudo-food is manufactured by a huge conglomerate known as the Soylent Company.
Starving people line up for their quota of 'Soylent Green' wafers, but when there appears to be a lack of the foodstuff, riots breakout.
Uncovering the truth about the Soylent Company, Robinson is able to understand why Cotten became so desperate and that he more-or-less condoned his own death.
www.geocities.com /charltonhestonworld2   (1087 words)

  
 Soylent Green
One of those rules, which I think I have beaten to death, was Horror is whatever we say it is. And if somebody else told me something was Horror that I disagreed with, I was right and they were wrong (and some films have not made the site due to that judgment).
While I still feel that way, along comes Soylent Green, a film which, while disturbing, is hardly a horror film.
Even though the Skulls were invented for slasher flicks, Soylent got a few Skulls, and that's good enough for me. This was a very good movie with an awesome story.
www.xmission.com /~tyranist/horror/reviews/s/SoylentGreen.html   (569 words)

  
 Soylent Green - Movie Review
The overpopulated streets of New York City, all 40 million residents in Soylent Green, are shot through a hazy green filter, which makes everything look as though it were taking a bath in smog.
Yes, Soylent Green is the wafer-thin food of choice among the masses.
Charlton Heston swaggers onto the scene as Detective Thorn, who is casually investigating the murder of a prominent businessman in the Soylent company (played by Joseph Cotton, milking his five minutes of screen time for all they're worth).
www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/soylentgreen   (635 words)

  
 Classic Sci-Fi Reviews: Soylent Green
Riot police are always dispatched when Soylent is distributed, because violence kicks in when the food runs out.
When Thorn is called in to investigate the death of a Soylent Corporation executive, his take is a treasure trove: a towel, a bar of soap, paper, and some real food--celery, a couple of apples, and half a pound of beef.
In his world, the average person only sees blue skies and green forests via canned video during their last 20 minutes of life in a government euthanasia center.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue55/classic.html   (569 words)

  
 Dan Schneider at Unlikely 2.0
In Soylent Green, men were still firmly in command, but Thomas Malthus had been proved right, and as the population soared out of control, and the environment collapsed, the rest of the species had unwittingly been turned into cannibals by a soulless hegemony called the Soylent corporation.
And, in Soylent Green the nascent environmental movement got a great slogan, 'Soylent Green is people!' But, the film also touched on other points that would prove prescient, such as global warming.
A few jarred strawberries cost $150, and Soylent rations its assorted colored foods- Soylent Yellow, Soylent Red, and the new Soylent Green, reputedly made from 'the finest undersea growth,' in a manner not unlike the gas rationing of the time.
unlikelystories.org /schneider0107.shtml   (1536 words)

  
 SOYLENT GREEN   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The government's main source of control comes from the distribution of synthetic food, produced by the all-powerful Soylent Corporation.
The director, well into his 80s now, tends to focus more on his working relationship with the leading actors; Taylor-Young shares anecdotes about playing opposite Heston and her thoughts on the devaluation of women in society as presented by the script.
A 10-minute promotional featurette called A Look at the World of SOYLENT GREEN, made during filming, showcases behind-the-scenes footage, especially the big food riot sequence.
www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/soylent_green.htm   (1038 words)

  
 As if the rest wasn't eclectic enough, Soylent Green Presents:. . .
The Soylent Green Biscuit Company is proud to be a member of the Republican National Business Advisory Committee.
About "Soylent Green", the 1973 MGM movie, Starring Charleton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G. Robinson.
It was a rough begining point for the screenplay for "Soylent Green".
www.soylent-green.com /links.html   (586 words)

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