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Soylent Green (1973)
In Richard Fleischer's dystopic sci-fi detective thriller
set in the year 2022:
- elderly Sol Roth's (Edward G. Robinson, who was
dying during filming) poignant, painless and suicidal death in
an euthanasia clinic amidst musical and visual montages of a peaceful
green world with a waterfall, with his friend Detective Thorn (Charlton
Heston, who shed real tears due to the real-life poignancy of the
dying Robinson) in a nearby control room
- Thorn's horrified discovery of the true composition
of the Soylent Corporation's new artificial food product Soylent
Green, and his desperate pleas to police chief Hatcher (Brock Peters)
as he was dragged away: "It's people. Soylent Green is made
out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing
they'll be breeding us like cattle for food... Soylent Green is people!
We've gotta stop them somehow!"
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