Remember the movie, "Soylent Green" ?

Question

Charlten Heston was the star. Remember what happened to the star's old friend, played by Ed G. Robinson? Remember what 'soylent green' was used for and how it was made?

Yes, older people were persuaded to turn themselves in for an easy, painless death at a central euthenasia point. While they were being quietly put to death, they were shown beautiful scenes of how grand the earth once looked.

Answer 1

A great movie.....

Edward G Robinson's last...He was diagnosed before the film was complete and during the filming of his "death" the tears that you see on Charlton Heston's face were real.....He and Robinson were close friends and the scene was almost more than Heston could take.....


By the way Soylent green (That they actually used in the movie.) was tofu...Yeeeech!!!


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In Robinson's final film, Soylent Green, he plays a depressed and disillusioned man who commits suicide to escape from the apocalyptic future world he lives in; his death scene features him speaking with co-star Charlton Heston whose character weeps silently as he sees Robinson's photos of a pre-destroyed Earth. The tears were real; Charlton was at that time the only one who knew of Robinson's terminal cancer. Indeed, Robinson died less than a month later.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_G._Robinson

Answer 2

Today we are fast coming up on 50 years from the movie release. The Affordable Care Act is the launch of the rocket putting Soylent Green into play. But, we all must passed the Bill, before we read the Bill, signed into law, by just one portion of our democracy, or in plain English, had this jammed down our throats, like a cookie.

Answer 3

I remember the movie, and Charleton Heston was the star, and what soylent green was made of. I don't remember what happened to E. G. Robinson, but I assume he eventually became soylent green, which was food made out of dead people.

Answer 4

I think that anyone who watched that movie, remembers it too
well, for its' concept of feeding the living with the bodies of
the elderly. I thought back then, I hope this movie doesn't give
our government any ideas. The way Congress will vote on
issues we later have no say in. Like the law we hear about,
that the government can take your property anytime it wants.
And they pay you a slight token of what it's actually worth.
We know that life isn't fair, but that is pure communism, with
a capital 'C'.

Answer 5

Ed G. died because he had outlived his usefullness, went out with a virtual world being fed into him by computers, was turned into food (soylent green) for the rest of the colony in a polluted world. This movie was a very strong statement about pollution and its eventual results. We need another movie along the same lines for Global Warming (caused, in large extent to pollution).

Answer 6

LOL, how could I forget that movie. It's people, people I tell you. I guess his friend at least got a peaceful death before he was made into biscuits. I wonder if this will be the next remake, since it has become popular to remake older movies.

Answer 7

Yes, I remember that movie. We've watched it a couple times. I don't like to think about it, it was too thought provoking. I tend to love less stress movies like Driving Miss Daisy lol.

Answer 8

Yes I remember it. It was very strange but not unthinkable in this day and time. I hope we never become that cold and desperate. If so I hope I'm long gone.

Answer 9

Yeah, I also remember that E.G. Robinson played his father; not his "old friend".

It kind of puts on a new spin of the phrase "EAT ME!!!"

Answer 10

Yes, I was shocked. They used dead people to feed the ones who were alive.
Weird movie.