It's the year 2022. People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need Soylent Green.
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
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Grave, classical in form, bleak and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Crazypigladyon TMDB · Dec 20224/10
This story takes place in the bleak future of 2022 but it feels very much like 1973. There are some moments of inspiration but a number of tricks have been missed in imagining a dystopian future, notably race, gender and technology. I know that dystopia is supposed to be worse but it looks rather like 1973 instead of an degraded 2022. The story is good but almost everything else is dated. As such, it seems it may benefit from a remake but I think the reason it hasn't been remade is probably because it has actually be rebooted a number of times in other films and its actually a fairly simple plot.
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Cast
- Charlton HestonDetective Robert Thorn
- Leigh Taylor-YoungShirl
- Chuck ConnorsTab Fielding
- Joseph CottenWilliam R. Simonson
- Brock PetersChief Hatcher
- Paula KellyMartha Phillips
- Edward G. RobinsonSol Roth
- Stephen YoungGilbert
- Mike HenryKulozik
- Lincoln KilpatrickThe Priest
Crew
- Richard FleischerDirector
- Stanley R. GreenbergScreenplay
- Harry HarrisonNovel
- Richard H. KlineDirector of Photography
- Fred MyrowOriginal Music Composer
- Samuel E. BeetleyEditor
- Walter SeltzerProducer
- Russell ThacherProducer
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