Soylent Green 1973 movie Charlton Heston

There should be suicide centers like this in real life.

It had a nice twist but that's it. Sort of an expansion of the short story "To Serve Man." when people realize it's actually a cookbook.

Did you people just attain human consciousness today?

Yes, after I fell off the back of a turnip truck. It's been a busy day.

R2, it’s a...cookbook!

Soylent Fried Chicken is black people!

I saw it when I was seven so it was scary at the time, but when I hear about Soylent powder it reminds me of the ground up people.

We could use some of those people scoopers for Nazi rallies.

Soylent drink is the name.

R8 that would be great!

I remember watching it on tv during the 70s, and part of the premise is that regular food is so expensive that they have to find an alternative. They mention that a jar of strawberry jam is over $150.00 and it’s the year 2022. I wrote that down because I wanted to check to see if it would come true in 2022. Atlas, I lost that piece of paper years ago, but this website confirmed all I remembered, including a shot of the strawberry spoon.

Did the Soylent green is people reveal at the end shock movie audiences like the Statue of Liberty shock ending of Planet of the Apes?

How was it revealed?

IIRC, The Charlton Heston character followed the trucks to the Soylent factory, snooped around and saw that dead bodies were being turned into the Soylent Green wafers. I think there were also Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow, made from something else. Charlton Heston then went screaming through the streets, "Soylent Green is people! It's people!!!!!!"

Thank you.

Didn't parts of NY look actually like this in the 1970s?

Check out the 1981 horror movie Wolfen. Genuine urban blight was used during filming to great effect.