The riot scoops are just to get the rioters out of the way. Once the "Riot Control" front end loaders arrive, they lift groups of people so slowly that you wonder why everyone isn't jumping right off.
Covers Always Lie: Though more misleading in this case. Which is a little odd considering, as Hatcher notes, Thorn has never seen a grapefruit. Shirl), Thorn's only response is to grin, gesture vaguely at his own torso and say "Like grapefruit!". When asked if he has anything to report on Simonson's "furniture" (i.e. Bloodstained Glass Windows: The final showdown with Fielding is in a church. 
The Big Rotten Apple: The worst aspects of 1970s New York City multiplied by 100 (at least). Thorn: How could I know? How could I ever imagine? Simonson himself is very understanding about his own demise. The assassin himself has no idea what the message means and is just doing what he's been told. Apologetic Attacker: The assassin sent to kill William Simonson relays an apologetic message from the men who hired him (implied to be fellow board members of the Soylent Corporation). Still, he is committed to doing his job and is nice to his friends. Also, he Would Hit a Girl and, while he later comes to genuinely care about her, his first scene alone with Shirl apparently involves him bluntly ordering her to sleep with him. Anti-Hero: Thorn has no qualms about Robbing the Dead or just in general helping himself to other people's stuff. Santini orders the investigation closed, since further study would reveal the secret of Soylent Green. 
Antagonistic Governor: Governor Santini is revealed to be in cahoots with the murder victim of the story, as they were once law partners.
Alter Kocker: Sol Roth, a grumpy but charming N.Y.C.
#Soylent green movie#
Adaptation Title Change: The movie was based on Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room!. Adaptation Name Change: Thorn was known as "Andy Rusch" in Harrison's novel. Robinson, who died of cancer 12 days after production wrapped.įor the trope previously known as the titular food, see Powered by a Forsaken Child, Human Resources. Robinson), a book collector who remembers happier times, and they have a memorable scene cooking up the food that Thorn also stole from the late Mr. He gives Simonson's oceanographic survey (which he himself stole) to his elderly roommate Sol Roth ( Edward G. Based on the fact that there was valuable food and books left for him to steal, and that his bodyguard Fielding ( Chuck Connors) and 'furniture' Shirl ( Leigh Taylor-Young) were conveniently away at the time, Thorn believes it to be an assassination. 40,000,000 (its current population is about 8 million, not much higher than in 1970), police detective Frank Thorn (Heston) is investigating the burglary-turned-murder of wealthy businessman William Simonson ( Joseph Cotten), a board member of the food rations manufacturer Soylent Corporation. Overpopulation has brought environmental and economic collapse. This has led to some interesting speculation that this symbolizes Thorn's own death in the center, after possibly dying from his injuries.Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian Science Fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston, loosely based on Harry Harrison's 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! Thorn is carried out shouting, "Soylent green is people!" Immediately thereafter, as the credits roll, the same beautiful nature footage shown during Sol's death at the euthanasia center is shown as a background to the credits. As Hatcher prepares to have Thorn taken to a hospital, Thorn tells him what he's seen and warns that they have to stop them. Fielding dies, and Hatcher runs into the room. Just as Fielding is about to kill Thorn, Thorn picks up a knife and stabs him in the abdomen. The people start to wake up from the sound of the gunshots and fighting. Bleeding from bullet wounds, Thorn attempts to find shelter in a church filled with several hundred sleeping people, but Fielding follows the blood trail. Hatcher ( Brock Peters) to ask for his help but is fired upon by government agent Tab Fielding ( Chuck Connors). After escaping from the factory, he places a call to Lt. He follows their disposal from the intake and discovers that the bodies are being processed into green soylent crackers. Thorn ( Charlton Heston) sneaks into the Soylent factory by hitching a ride on top of a garbage truck transporting human bodies.
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