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Soylent Green [DVD] [1973]

DVD ~ Charlton Heston
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  • Actors: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten
  • Directors: Richard Fleischer
  • Writers: Harry Harrison, Stanley R. Greenberg
  • Producers: Russell Thacher, Walter Seltzer
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Sep 2003
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AISK8
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,891 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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While Soylent Green may be one of the many dystopian visions of the future, the film stands out because it's one of the few titles that addresses current environmental issues head on. Adapted from Harry Harrison's novel Make Room, Make Room, it gives us a nightmarish vision of an over-populated, polluted future on the brink of collapse--a vision that gets uncomfortably closer every year. Charlton Heston as police officer Thorn investigates a murder in between suppressing food riots and uncovers the nightmarish truth about Soylent Green, the new foodstuff being sold to the poor.

The film neatly combines police procedural with conspiracy thriller. Heston's scenes are counterpointed by more elegiac ones in which the centenarian Edward G Robinson as his friend Sol broods on the world he has outlived--his death in a euthanasia chamber is a gloriously lachrymose moment, which he plays to the hilt. Heston, too, is good as Thorn, a morally equivocal cop who loots the apartments of the victims whose deaths he investigates--he's a man just getting by in an impossible world.

On the DVD: Soylent Green on disc comes with a commentary from director Richard Fleischer, the highpoint of which is a memorable description of what it was like to work with the brilliant ailing, entirely deaf Robinson. He is joined by Leigh Taylor-Young whose work on the film as heroine led to years of serious environmentalist commitment. It has a useful contemporary making-of documentary and touching shots of Robinson's 100th birthday party with telegrams from Sinatra and others. The feature itself is presented in anamorphic widescreen with its original mono sound. --Roz Kaveney

Special Features
Commentary by director Richard Fleischer and Leigh Taylor-Young ('Shirl')
A Look at the World of Soylent Green (10 mins)
MGM's tribute to Edward G. Robinson's 101st film
Charlton Heston: Science Fiction Legend
Theatrical trailer(s)
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 (16x9 Letterbox)
Sound Mono

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Aw, nuts. People were always rotten. But the world 'was' beautiful., 16 Dec 2006
By Gisli Jokull Gislason "Jokull" (Iceland) - See all my reviews
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A bit dated but a very good movie. The basic story is a murder who dunnit set in the not so far future. But this isn't its strong side. It is a movie about a world that has squandered its resources and is crowded with overpopulation. Fresh food is only for the rich and employment for the lucky. Beautiful girls make their living as "furniture" in the houses of the rich while the common unemployed masses sleep anywhere they can. The futuristic view is very dim in a different way from Blade Runner, the world is a bright hot desert and people are obliged to live in overcrowded cities. Life is worth very little. The dialogue is very well written as well and the movie has plenty of memorable quotes. The best ones are between Det. Thorn (Charlton Heston) and Sol (Edward G. Robinson) an old man that remembers the world before the apocalypse. On a side note the main actress Leigh Taylor-Young became an active enviromentalist after playing in the movie and you will think about it too after watching it. Because even if it is a bit dated the message is still clear. Makes you think if you and I shouldn't be doing a bit more to preserve the world for future generations.

All in all a good sci-fi movie, with a well written dialogue and a horrible vison of the future. I give it 4 stars for these are all superior to the story itself, which is mostly dated. A worthy film for many reasons and worth the buy.

Would you believe bodyguards are buying strawberries for 150 D's a jar?
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43 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Recycling, when it's too late, 18 Dec 2005
By Sally-Anne "mynameissally" (Leicestershire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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In a grim and ugly future, the year 2022, a venal cop (though no worse than the rest and better than most) investigates a murder. It looks like an assassination. Nothing was stolen even though the corpse was rich and his apartment opulent beyond the wildest dreams of the masses of people living in poverty on the streets below. Did some sinister power need to keep this man quiet? What didn't they want him to say? Detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) has the help of his 'book', Sol (Edward G Robinson) who, lacking any high-tech resources such as computers, consults books and his old friends at a sort of information exchange facility. Everything is in short supply except humanity. Food and water is short, accommodation, power, clothing, paper - everything - and every space is filled with the swarming, desperate masses. Thorn finds a couple of weighty tomes in the dead man's apartment and passes them to Sol who almost swoons with delight at the sight and feel of real, solid, beautifully bound books. He takes them to the exchange and he and his friends mine their resources for information. What they find is unbelievable, horrible, repellent. Sol is moved to do something extreme, both to relieve his shattered mind of the intolerable shock and to lead his friend Thorn to irrefutable proof of the terrible truth.

The film was made in 1973 and it must be one of the earliest environmentalist stories to have a go at man-made global warming. Pollution is killing the oceans. The climate has heated the land, making farming unproductive. Winter has been obliterated by the 'greenhouse effect'. The only food most people can get hold of is a kind of biscuit called 'soylent'. It comes in three tasteless varieties: soylent red (ingredients unknown), soylent yellow (soya) and soylent green (plankton). However, as the oceans have been poisoned, the plankton is dying - so what are they really putting in the soylent green?

It's grisly. It's gripping. It's a good film and I recommend it.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The shape of things to come?, 31 Aug 2006
What a fantastic film. No special effects, no gore, no gratuitous sex, just a superb plot brought to life by superb acting and great filming.

The writer's vision of the future for the earth is chilling and he is perhaps closer to an accurate prediction than he could ever have dreamed of. The revelation at the end of the film is a real shocker!
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5.0 out of 5 stars SUPERB
Although a little dated now, it does not rely on special effects, it relies on great acting and a great story. Very believable, especially in this day an age. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Helpless

2.0 out of 5 stars soylent green
Heston's ambiguous character and deeds are one of the saving graces of this film. I love dystopian themes and this film deals with them in an emotionless way, reflecting the main... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. J. DuBock

4.0 out of 5 stars Just around the corner...
Chilling as the denouement is, what's even scarier is the inequality, the overpopulation and the attitudes of humanity that created the situation depicted in the film... Read more
Published 3 months ago by N. Smith

4.0 out of 5 stars The soya beans are sour
This science fiction is typical of a whole period, the very period after 1968. It was the time when the hippies died at the end of Hair, when the flower boys and girls departed at... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jacques COULARDEAU

5.0 out of 5 stars We are not far from this give it 100 years from now.

What a film!. Everyone should watch & understand what we on earth might end up like.

This Film offers good acting with limited effects, offering none stop... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Frankie

5.0 out of 5 stars A warning from our past to what is in our future.
Thought provoking and way ahead of its time. I remember my sister as a teenager seeing this film when it was first released, and then excitedly telling the family about the film's... Read more
Published 21 months ago by radiostar35

4.0 out of 5 stars Good film
I really enjoyed this film, although it is feeling a little bit dated, it stood up to the test of time reasonably well. Paints a grim future for us.
Published 22 months ago by Mr Reviewer

3.0 out of 5 stars Dated whydunnit?
This very 70s B pic about an irreversibly polluted and overpopulated world in terminal decline was taken from a story by Harry Harrison, normally a pretty cheery SF writer. Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2006 by Philip Wagstaff

5.0 out of 5 stars The price of strawberries in the year 2022
is one of those bleak future movies where there is a finite amount of resources and an unbalanced distribution of them. Read more
Published on 18 Jul 2004 by bernie

5.0 out of 5 stars Soylent Green - Clothes dated, but still very relevant
This film does not use expensive effects to make it's point.
This film does not predict a utopian future, or even a happy ending. Read more
Published on 22 May 2004 by jamesrburns

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