+weirdshibainu Yup. Sol even breaks down when he first sees that rather small cut of meat that Thorn brings him. He probably hasn't seen that much real unprocessed meat in 10 years.
If you think about it....in this clip, we are getting in terms of acting and filmmaking what they were having in terms of food. Under pretty much the same circumstances.
I always enjoyed that scene but wished that they had plums , peaches or cherries for dessert instead of apples because it just would have been more interesting to see them eating it especially if the juice is running .
This is actually one of the more touching yet surreal scenes of the movie. Sol and Frank have a kind of a father/son relationship. Sol lived during the days of fresh veggies, meat, and dairy, while Frank was born right when synthetic food was becoming more accessible and affordable. Soylent Green is a great film.
Soylent Green is an okay film, its very much nonsensical and all over the place as is very typical of experimental films of this time. There is very little coherency in the plot and there is also too many plotlines and too much unexplained, audience get its about recycling of dead humans into Soylent Green but there are so many ridicules moments before leading up to that part it makes no sense. The movie should just have been about soylent green, and for extra shock factor they should shown the production scenes as they would have happened in real life, massive meat grinders with corpses being thrown into them by workers, for effect they should have made the main character get a job in the factory were he partakes in the horrific ordeal only to look down into rusted blood and meat filled grinder as he throw bodies down, among the corpses just before they get grinded, a head turns of a young sick lady and she looks at the main character. Thats, when true terror shall be revealed and the movie should just end with that.
And then Heston proceeds to eat the entire apple, core and all - showing his unfamiliarity with something we consider as everyday as eating an apple but it is completely alien to him. Really wonderful touches like that make this scene.
Giving Thorne the good silverware while using the plastic for himself is such an act of love. And the scene, set to, what else? Why, Mozart's "Kegelstatt", of course.
Some people might think what's so special about two guys eating in this scene here? This scene depicts of what we take for granted of simple things today, like eating lettuce, a pot of stew, or an apple... Real food that could no longer exist if we are to go totally making processed food and lack agriculture, along with livestock. The metal utensils Sol brought out is for special occasions, but to say we are civilized beings, not always have to eat with our bare hands, as how the Soylent green chips are consumed by the general public in the movie. Edward G. Robertson as the old generation showing Heston as the younger generation, of how it was like back then, and we should never derive away from it. We should cherish our Elders, for they are the ones who keep us Humane and wise, not ungrateful and careless about our future.
How out of touch do you have to be to think that foods THAT YOU CAN GROW YOURSELF are just going to cease to exist? Buy some fucking seeds and grow some, its as easy as giving it water every other day and putting it in a window if you dont have a yard to plant it in.
@@someweirdo9129 You assumed that: _1)_ everyone will be able to get potting soil. (containers aren't that hard to find) _2)_ everyone lives where there is a decent growing season or enough sunlight every year, which isn't true. _2a)_ atmospheric pollution won't interfere with sunlight absorption by plants, which is a problem in large congested cities. _3)_ it will still be legal to grow one's own food. Depending on how the government is in the future, will that be the case?
This movie takes place 4 years from now. I'm poor, and I've always eaten better than that. We have an obesity epidemic.This is just the early days of "climate change" propaganda. Can you say "obesity epidemic"?
@@Astralek You've done all the math to prove them wrong, i assume? Looking forward to the research papers that irrefutably proves the majority of educated people in the planet wrong
Personally, I think this scene is even more classic and profound than the "Soylent Green is People" scene at the closing. This cut just so marvelously brings out the authentic yet pathetic joy of two insignificant individuals in a time when all the usual amenities have become distant memory, with barely any conversation uttered.
Really goes to show how to appreciate the simple things in life, like having a fine dinner with a friend. Whenever I enjoy a good dinner, I always play this scene in my mind. Now, I am mostly an atheist, but if there is a heaven up there, that's how I'd imagine those two having dinner every time together there.
People... they were predicting, in 1973, that THIS would be the world of TODAY. It didn't happen. It was nothing but anti-human propaganda. Anyone who refuses to understand that they were lying and wrong, _wants_ us to be evil, and destructive of the planet. They want to hate mankind. Sorry, your fantasies aren't coming true.... Mankind has a bright future ahead.
One of the best scenes in cinema history. Almost no words, just a pure human interaction everyone, worldwide, can understand. Also delivering a strong warning to protect our planet.
This scene is unbelievably tender and fun. This reminds me of a time when a friend and I backpacked from Colombia to Venezuela. As soon as we crossed the border, we realized we had about $15 USD in Colombian pesos and could not change US dollars legally. We took a bus to the town of San Cristobal and booked a $4 hotel room, and used the remaining $3 to get groceries. A bread bun with some marmalade, a can of pickled food, and some overly salty tuna. Great meal after all that we went through!
Charlton Heston is a great actor, but Edward G. Robinson is a class act among Hollywood's greatest and iconic actors... This scene amplifies it. Rest in peace, Mr. Heston and Mr. Robinson... There will no others like you two.
Man what a great scene. So much genuine brotherhood between these two characters in this scene, and such a wholesome celebration of the simple things they've lost. I really like this film.
I love this scene so much. Thorn doesn't know what salad, or apples really are. he has to watch Sol eat them first because hes spent all his life eating Soylent. A perfect way to show this is when he's eating the apple. Sol rubs the apple on his shirt to clean it off, while Thorn believes that's just how you eat an apple.
dunno how much sense it makes. because if Thorn was 50 in 2022, that means he was born in 1972. never is clarified how much we diverged from the timeline in order for him not to have eaten an apple throughout his childhood
This is the most emotional scene from the whole movie. Even more emotional as the scene in the Suicide-Centre. Watching the happieness in their glowing eyes, when they are eating this lousy meat and this poor apple, makes me unspeakably sad.
You are sad because you are a wuss. 😉 Be grateful for what you eat and you will always be a dog. Be appreciative of what you eat and you will be a king.
When I was in college in 1992, I took a class in acting. One of the things we had to do was pair-up with one other class member and do an improvised 3 minute scene based on this scene from Soylent Green.
Many years ago, I believe in the late 1980s, I had a friend, who was taking a film course in college. He told me that his class had an assignment to pick a scene from a movie where there was little or no dialogue but was a poignant or serious scene that did not require dialogue. I suggested this scene from Soylent Green. He showed it to his class, on good old videotape, and received a very good grade on the assignment.
Remember, those who push massive overpopulation demanded that we 'eat lower on the food chain." IOW, instead of meat, we'd eat sea food, right down to the plankton. That's what the other Soylent products were supposed to be made of. Only, they ran out, b/c the ocean was poisoned by overpopulation. You cant' dump shit in the ocean and expect it to give you food back.
I saw this movie in the theater when it first came out. I didn't think back then that it would turn out to be a clear message for today and what "some" people want for the rest of us.
The fact you're thinking like that may actually mean you need to see a shrink because you're reading meaning into things that don't contain them. I only know this because I had a bipolar friend who did the same, off her medication.
The music in this scene plays in my head when I'm eating a really good meal, like a feast. Of course, in the world of Soylent Green, what Sol and Thorn are eating is a feast.
So many of the most famous classic Hollywood stars appeared in horrible movies before they died. This is such a lovely farewell for the incredible Edward G. Robinson. Many people don't know that he was an art history expert. The lovely way he savors a single piece of lettuce, nature's garbage vegetable, is so sweet and like the way someone is truly moved by art. His stunning farewell later in the film with the Beethoven and the Grieg is even more stunning.
Thought goes to the most popular examples: Joan Crawford's last bow in 1970's *Trog* as well as Peter Sellers final role in 1980's *The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu* (neither of which I've seen as yet). 😎
Lettuce? A garbage vegetable? Let me tell you that you are one lucky bastard for believing that lettuce is the worst vegetable of them all, I ate meat that tasted much worse than lettuce no less vegetables
It is April of 23. In the past couple of years shopping the produce section of the grocery store, I am increasingly reminded of Soylent Green. Edward g Robinson's last movie.
Woke culture, identity politics, blaming conservatives, political correctness, gender ideology, et al, would ruin a remake. For starters, the studio would insist on hiring a black woman to play Detective Thorne. Thorne's roommate, the old man researcher, would be played by some weird, crazy, old gay guy. The studio would ensure all the bad guys introduce themselves as Republicans in the movie.
At the time of the shooting of this movie, Edward G. Robinson was virtually totally deaf. He could still hear, but only if somebody spoke directly into his ear. This made the production of this movie very difficult. On the same night that he filmed his last scene, which is famed euthanasia scene, he died. The next morning, before the shooting resumed, Charlton Heston, who was real life good friend with Robinson, gathered everybody around and informed that that Robinson died the previous night. He did finish all of his scenes and the movie was dedicated to his memory.
@@SilverAlpha Yeah, he definitely made it through the shoot. Though it was pretty much known that he was dying. I think it makes his euthanasia scene in the film all the more poignant.....and Charlton Heston's reaction to it...which seemed, and likely was, very real.
What?! No, food is more plentiful than ever, even with Covid, but we also have more obese and sedentary people than ever. Their prediction was way off, though. Charlton Heaton’s character is in his 40’s and “never ate like this”. Which means according to this movie, people have subsisted on Soylent rations since the 1970’s.
That ribeye I had for dinner last night says different. A Soylent (soy and lentils) steak in the book ran $200. That steak was…$8. Annoying that the price has gone up, but hardly the end of the world.
This scene reminds me of when I lived in West Africa. In fact, Lagos felt like the city from SG! I'd go a year without seeing things basic like real cheese or an apple. I'd splurge a silly amount of money and buy a tiny block of cheese from the expat shop and pay a ridiculous price for a single apple and savour every bite and remember this scene!
@@NormAppleton my old man was Nigerian so we used to Lagos for holidays in the 80s and 90s. It used to be such a cool city. So many happy memories of hanging out as a kid at Jazz 38! But when I moved there to learn my heritage between 2006-2008 it has gotten really really bad. But in a sort of 'cant get any worse' way and sort of embraced its rugged/lawless side and lots of cool places and ideas were cropping up!
Lettuce is delicious. You need to learn to appreciate the simpler pleasures. A plain cheeseburger is fine. A cheeseburger with lettuce on it is wonderful.
@@kevinrowe3936 I’ll never forget the time when the owner at the local diner (which closed down several years ago, alas) overheard me saying that I couldn’t decide between a BLT and a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich for my order, as both were equally delicious. She combined the two and I got a bacon, egg, and cheese with lettuce, tomato, and mayo. As I mentioned, both styles of sandwich separately made at this place were equally delicious. Putting them together catapulted the sandwich into the stratosphere of taste and made it absolute heaven, and I’ll remember that meal till the day I die!
This scene is one of my most memorable in SOYLENT GREEN. It affected me for the rest of my life. Sol and Thorne have sat down to a dinner of what looks to be Dinty Moore Canned Stew. Detective Thorne has never eaten lettuce and finds it bland. Thorne nonetheless relishes the mystery stew which also resembles a little like chili con carne. Finally for dessert Thorne chews down an entire apple, leaving only the tiny stem. Meanwhile Sol is reminiscing how he once ate like that as a young man. To us in 2024, these two gents are eating like two homeless dudes heating a can of stew over a camp fire. It's hard to contemplate these two men enjoying their meal as if they were at a 5-star Michelin-rated fine restaurant. They would have reacted the same way at a Mom n' Pop diner or even a fast food restaurant. This is the mean future of overpopulated, diminished Earth. Soylent Green is the most popular of synthesized food squares, ostensibly manufactured out of 'plentiful' ocean plankton. But no one stops to consider why Soylent Green doesn't taste like grass and why it tastes like delicious pork instead. The overpopulated masses are just too hungry to ask questions and are happy enough to fill their stomachs with Soylent Green, Red, Yellow, and Orange synthesized food wafers. Few are aware the oceans are polluted and there is no plentiful plankton. The mean future of civilization is its regression to the lowest denominator of human existence: cannibalism.
@@NormAppleton You're right. Soylent Green drew audiences to the theater but it wasn't a blockbuster hit. It did become a cult hit years down the road. Fans love to shout out, "Soylent Green is made of people!"
I was in elementary that time and hates/never eat vegetable. When I saw the movie and this scene, I can imagine how delicious veggies could be, and I started eating them.
It looks like they're eating the shit you find in the back of the fridge when you have a roommate who habitually cooks something, stores the leftovers and then forgets about them for months.
Two of the greatest speaking voices in Hollywood during those times. The movie and book were ahead of their time. Frightening then, frightening now. I doubt the Hollywood elite would even make a movie like that now. Mirror image.
You have to watch this movie to understand this scene... God bless every cooking grandmother and mother today. You are appreciated..it's a blessing to come home to home cooked meals that set you straight after a long day or if you're just popping up over Grandma or Auntie's house and the food is covered on the stove still hot with flavor😌 This scene reminds me of my grandma's hot water cornbread and neckbone potato soup she made in a big jail pot 🤣 me, and my brother went to work on that pot too.. God bless Georgia🍑 RIP Grandma🕊
Predictive programming for today's move towards 🐛 worm and bug burgers, lab grown meat with GMO soybeans and wheat. This movie was brought to us by the WEF and Klaus Schwab.
You just haven't seen 1960's - 70's movies is all. Charlton Heston was the 1970's version of Arnold, when there was less 'splosions and more story. I'd check out Soylent Green, Omega Man, and The Planet of The Apes (original).
This somewhat reminds me of my life. Sure my family isn't rich, most days we have modest to cheep food, but every so often we manage to scrape enough money together to afford a really nice meal.
As much as I love a nice steak. The food I love is the home cooking that can be made cheaply. Give me cabbage rolls, stews made out of cheap cuts, carrots and spuds. Give me pea soup. Give me fried rice. That's the food I love.
Every so often, I make a small pot of simple, but delicious beef stew and eat it while drinking some good straight bourbon and watch this scene. Then I go home...
Depending on the condition of his stomach from years of eating Soylent products, he is about to have either the best or worst bowel movement later that night.
Curien247 Considering the natural fiber in the lettuce, onion, and apple that he’s never experienced after those years of Soylent rations, his colon is probably going to think it’s a stick-up!
I seen this as a child, born in 68, never thought I'd see the day when all signs appear to this being our fate and coming into FRUITion. Just some Food for thought.
@@dv7222 I fear the Twitter mobs will want this future, I chatted with a man who wanted elon musk to be turned into soylent green because of his capitalism and interests in space colonization
@@dv7222 rights being taken away? Such as? It's June 2021 and we still have the same "rights" (which aren't real, btw... Rights are a man-made arbitrary thing) that we've had for years. Continue with your fear mongering though
the scene right before this is where Edward G is crying over the little wilted celery & tomato. I've always said this movie was the best forecasting of our future, not Star Wars. So far 95 food processing plants in the US have been destroyed, damaged or impacted by “accidental fires”. Edward G wonders how things got so bad, I think we are finding out right now. If anyone sees this post in 2022 you know what I mean.
that scene was the most delightful display of enjoying a simple meal, and in this climate of unrest and uncertainty, i think it is also a sobering thoughrt for all thinking of families that have no money to buy the very basic of a meal a day
You know what would have added more nuance to this scene = At 0:27, Sol (the old man in the black beret played by Edward G. Robinson) gives Robert (Charlton Heston's character's name) the fine metallic utensils to be used for the special occasion instead of the regular plastic sporks that the both are familiar with regarding regular eating. But it would have been interesting to see Sol take out the silverware from a larger box that is ornately carved and made of well-varnished dark lumber. Within the wooden vessel, it would contain the following objects
I love this part, but my favourite is when the old man cries, mourning the loss of the better times, and how human ignorance, arrogance, and human "progress" (development) utterly destroyed it all. I hope I can find it somewhere here, that scene made me shed many manly tears
Thorn not being impressed by the lettuce always makes me laugh. Sol didn’t take anything for granted even a piece of lettuce. It probably had been half a century since he last had eaten it
When I was a child my parents took me to restaurants for steak and movies for popcorn. Today I - a college graduate, computer-trained and fluent in Spansh - go to food pantries to get packaged soup and canned vegetables. How could I have come to this?! EVERYTHING'S LOUSY!!
So many reasons to like this scene; Watched the flick in 1975 with my grandmother when it appeared on the CBS Sunday Night movie. Ma put me to bed however, before that killer line!
Edward G. Robinson was quite ill while this movie was being filmed, and told Charleton Heston about his impending death just before this scene was filmed.
This movie takes place in 2022 and depicted homemade beef stew as something you can't eat all the time. It is now 2022 and due to price inflation people can't eat homemade beef stew all the time. I really wonder if people just somehow know what is going to happen in the future and write about it whether or not they know it will actually happen.
Heston eats because he's hungry.... Sol eats to remember how things once was
+weirdshibainu Yup. Sol even breaks down when he first sees that rather small cut of meat that Thorn brings him.
He probably hasn't seen that much real unprocessed meat in 10 years.
+Catzilla Not even processed.
+Catzilla or even longer than that.
weirdshibainu *were
Were
Barely a single word spoken. A Master Class in acting.
It is a frightening scene once you know what Solent green is.....
+Alex Sanchez herpa derpa sherpa.
...and master editing.
If you think about it....in this clip, we are getting in terms of acting and filmmaking what they were having in terms of food. Under pretty much the same circumstances.
I always enjoyed that scene but wished that they had plums , peaches or cherries for dessert instead of apples because it just would have been more interesting to see them eating it especially if the juice is running .
This is actually one of the more touching yet surreal scenes of the movie. Sol and Frank have a kind of a father/son relationship. Sol lived during the days of fresh veggies, meat, and dairy, while Frank was born right when synthetic food was becoming more accessible and affordable. Soylent Green is a great film.
@One of eight billion Why?
Soylent Green is an okay film, its very much nonsensical and all over the place as is very typical of experimental films of this time.
There is very little coherency in the plot and there is also too many plotlines and too much unexplained, audience get its about recycling of dead humans into Soylent Green but there are so many ridicules moments before leading up to that part it makes no sense.
The movie should just have been about soylent green, and for extra shock factor they should shown the production scenes as they would have happened in real life, massive meat grinders with corpses being thrown into them by workers, for effect they should have made the main character get a job in the factory were he partakes in the horrific ordeal only to look down into rusted blood and meat filled grinder as he throw bodies down, among the corpses just before they get grinded, a head turns of a young sick lady and she looks at the main character.
Thats, when true terror shall be revealed and the movie should just end with that.
Well. Synthetic food are here
I'll be Sol in 30 years, talking to a guy in his 30s about growing up eating real food. Damn.
I feel like Sol already where literacy and cultural memory are concerned.
Love the part where Sol wipes the apple in his shirt and Heston follows suit as if thinking "oh, so that's how you properly eat an apple!"
John Doe and then watching Sol try to bite the apple, but to no avail, so he slices it open. A wonderful and classic scene!
Yeah so cute xD
And then Heston proceeds to eat the entire apple, core and all - showing his unfamiliarity with something we consider as everyday as eating an apple but it is completely alien to him. Really wonderful touches like that make this scene.
Wait. Is that not how everyone does it?
great scene
Giving Thorne the good silverware while using the plastic for himself is such an act of love. And the scene, set to, what else? Why, Mozart's "Kegelstatt", of course.
Much of great kultur originated in Germanic states.
Back when movies were art..
@@carbonarapadrino Also the Catherine wheel and flaying.
Some people might think what's so special about two guys eating in this scene here? This scene depicts of what we take for granted of simple things today, like eating lettuce, a pot of stew, or an apple... Real food that could no longer exist if we are to go totally making processed food and lack agriculture, along with livestock. The metal utensils Sol brought out is for special occasions, but to say we are civilized beings, not always have to eat with our bare hands, as how the Soylent green chips are consumed by the general public in the movie. Edward G. Robertson as the old generation showing Heston as the younger generation, of how it was like back then, and we should never derive away from it. We should cherish our Elders, for they are the ones who keep us Humane and wise, not ungrateful and careless about our future.
How out of touch do you have to be to think that foods THAT YOU CAN GROW YOURSELF are just going to cease to exist? Buy some fucking seeds and grow some, its as easy as giving it water every other day and putting it in a window if you dont have a yard to plant it in.
I love it, movies then were outstanding
Have an impossible burger. But honestly run to the hills
@@someweirdo9129 You assumed that:
_1)_ everyone will be able to get potting soil. (containers aren't that hard to find)
_2)_ everyone lives where there is a decent growing season or enough sunlight every year, which isn't true.
_2a)_ atmospheric pollution won't interfere with sunlight absorption by plants, which is a problem in large congested cities.
_3)_ it will still be legal to grow one's own food. Depending on how the government is in the future, will that be the case?
odiemodie1 okay, boomer.
Beef stew and wax apples must taste sooo good after half a lifetime of Soylent Green.
This movie takes place 4 years from now. I'm poor, and I've always eaten better than that. We have an obesity epidemic.This is just the early days of "climate change" propaganda.
Can you say "obesity epidemic"?
Jon Snow what term?
Jon Snow you like being overly hostile?
"climate change propaganda" what a fucking idiot. You sound like pitchfork holding dark age peasant
@@Astralek You've done all the math to prove them wrong, i assume? Looking forward to the research papers that irrefutably proves the majority of educated people in the planet wrong
Personally, I think this scene is even more classic and profound than the "Soylent Green is People" scene at the closing. This cut just so marvelously brings out the authentic yet pathetic joy of two insignificant individuals in a time when all the usual amenities have become distant memory, with barely any conversation uttered.
Zhicao Fang just the occasional chuckling and after meal burping... Lol.
Really goes to show how to appreciate the simple things in life, like having a fine dinner with a friend. Whenever I enjoy a good dinner, I always play this scene in my mind. Now, I am mostly an atheist, but if there is a heaven up there, that's how I'd imagine those two having dinner every time together there.
People... they were predicting, in 1973, that THIS would be the world of TODAY. It didn't happen. It was nothing but anti-human propaganda.
Anyone who refuses to understand that they were lying and wrong, _wants_ us to be evil, and destructive of the planet. They want to hate mankind. Sorry, your fantasies aren't coming true.... Mankind has a bright future ahead.
@@Hiraghm It was a prediction, they didn't garuntee it would happen, and besides, it's just a damn movie.
@@Hiraghm What say you now?
One of the best scenes in cinema history. Almost no words, just a pure human interaction everyone, worldwide, can understand. Also delivering a strong warning to protect our planet.
This scene is unbelievably tender and fun. This reminds me of a time when a friend and I backpacked from Colombia to Venezuela. As soon as we crossed the border, we realized we had about $15 USD in Colombian pesos and could not change US dollars legally. We took a bus to the town of San Cristobal and booked a $4 hotel room, and used the remaining $3 to get groceries. A bread bun with some marmalade, a can of pickled food, and some overly salty tuna. Great meal after all that we went through!
ThisEuropeanLife MARMALADE IS PEOPLE! YOU GOTTA TELL THEM! ITS MADE OUT OF PEOPLE!
No I think “Pickled Food” is more like “Peopled Food”.
Q
Soylent Green is people.
@@admiralspire8867, LMAO!
This makes me want to eat lettuce, beef stew and an apple whilst listening to Debussy
'tis not Debussy, but rather Mozart (Kegelstatt Trio)
This is the furthest music from Debussy
Its Mozart i think, if i may express my opinion.
How did you get this wrong? It’s very clear it’s Mozart. He has that famous three trill he loves to lather the ending of his pieces with. 😂
@@suicideboysHitDiffrnt yes...
soylent green is people !
Charlton Heston is a great actor, but Edward G. Robinson is a class act among Hollywood's greatest and iconic actors... This scene amplifies it. Rest in peace, Mr. Heston and Mr. Robinson... There will no others like you two.
Man what a great scene. So much genuine brotherhood between these two characters in this scene, and such a wholesome celebration of the simple things they've lost. I really like this film.
This is a beautiful movie. Edward G was great in this. What made Heston turn into such a creep?
Such an underrated film. It *REALLY* makes you appreciate the little things
Yes, meaning food, in quantity and quality.
"Look on the bright side of life" -- Monty Python
I love this scene so much. Thorn doesn't know what salad, or apples really are. he has to watch Sol eat them first because hes spent all his life eating Soylent. A perfect way to show this is when he's eating the apple. Sol rubs the apple on his shirt to clean it off, while Thorn believes that's just how you eat an apple.
dunno how much sense it makes. because if Thorn was 50 in 2022, that means he was born in 1972. never is clarified how much we diverged from the timeline in order for him not to have eaten an apple throughout his childhood
@@severonickel Yeah, It was definitely the message. Gonna get weird about Star Wars now?
@@NormAppleton I'm not "getting weird" norman, i'm trying to respect the internal logic of a world.
This is the most emotional scene from the whole movie. Even more emotional as the scene in the Suicide-Centre. Watching the happieness in their glowing eyes, when they are eating this lousy meat and this poor apple, makes me unspeakably sad.
This was Robinson's last movie!
You are sad because you are a wuss. 😉 Be grateful for what you eat and you will always be a dog. Be appreciative of what you eat and you will be a king.
The death scene still brings tears to my eyes.
@@zarachastellaris9016 He knew he was dying from cancer when he made it.
celery looked pretty sad too, but Robinson was just delighted to see it given how long it'd been since he encountered real food
another great moment.
Charlton Heston: "I know I know. When you were young people were better".
E. G. Robinson: "Oh, nuts. People were always rotten".
When I was in college in 1992, I took a class in acting. One of the things we had to do was pair-up with one other class member and do an improvised 3 minute scene based on this scene from Soylent Green.
jack johnson Hope you got an A+.
Sounds like a waste of money. No offense.
Nice.
Did you eat any people?
@@peterpiper47 life is an experience not an expense. When your on a dead bed you’ll regret lots of things
Many years ago, I believe in the late 1980s, I had a friend, who was taking a film course in college. He told me that his class had an assignment to pick a scene from a movie where there was little or no dialogue but was a poignant or serious scene that did not require dialogue. I suggested this scene from Soylent Green. He showed it to his class, on good old videotape, and received a very good grade on the assignment.
Edward G Robinson's emotional reaction when he sees the beef says it all..
Remember, those who push massive overpopulation demanded that we 'eat lower on the food chain." IOW, instead of meat, we'd eat sea food, right down to the plankton. That's what the other Soylent products were supposed to be made of. Only, they ran out, b/c the ocean was poisoned by overpopulation. You cant' dump shit in the ocean and expect it to give you food back.
@@russg1801 that part's coming true, especially with trendy sushi fish.
@@russg1801 but if America dumps shit and pays a fee.. shouldn't we get food back that way..
This film breaks my heart because it was Robinson's last film before he died of cancer. Great actor!
It was his 100th movie as well. There's extra footage on the movie dvd of a pre release party with Heston congratulating him on his long career.
A scene that consists almost solely of the solid acting abilities of its two great actors. With scarcely a word spoken.
Well without context it also expressed almost nothing, but they sure do seem to be enjoying that food for 2 minutes lol
How is this excellence in acting lmaooo watt
I saw this movie in the theater when it first came out. I didn't think back then that it would turn out to be a clear message for today and what "some" people want for the rest of us.
@One of eight billion No I haven't seen it, but am going to check it out now! Thanks!
You vill live in ze pods, und you vill eat ze Soylent!
The fact you're thinking like that may actually mean you need to see a shrink because you're reading meaning into things that don't contain them. I only know this because I had a bipolar friend who did the same, off her medication.
@@PhoenixProdLLCit's called predictive programming, bud.
The best gag in the whole movie is when Heston polishes off the apple core!
I eat apples just the same way in order not to have to carry the core around before I can get to a garbage can.
The music in this scene plays in my head when I'm eating a really good meal, like a feast. Of course, in the world of Soylent Green, what Sol and Thorn are eating is a feast.
Mozart K.498 Andante
@@jomo5351 Thanks
So many of the most famous classic Hollywood stars appeared in horrible movies before they died. This is such a lovely farewell for the incredible Edward G. Robinson. Many people don't know that he was an art history expert. The lovely way he savors a single piece of lettuce, nature's garbage vegetable, is so sweet and like the way someone is truly moved by art. His stunning farewell later in the film with the Beethoven and the Grieg is even more stunning.
Thought goes to the most popular examples: Joan Crawford's last bow in 1970's *Trog* as well as Peter Sellers final role in 1980's *The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu* (neither of which I've seen as yet). 😎
Lettuce? A garbage vegetable? Let me tell you that you are one lucky bastard for believing that lettuce is the worst vegetable of them all, I ate meat that tasted much worse than lettuce no less vegetables
Lee Marvin's last movie was Delta Force, ick. I like to believe the last real movie he cared about was the Big Red One.
I can’t get over how beautiful these performances are. Something so simple, yet so effective in delivery.
It is April of 23. In the past couple of years shopping the produce section of the grocery store, I am increasingly reminded of Soylent Green.
Edward g Robinson's last movie.
Yes... I remember my single mother raising my brother and I in the 1970's
This scene lives rent-free in my head.
Love this movie. Truly one of the top ten best science fiction films of the 20th century.
Not much science fiction. Better described as dystopian futurism.
I dont understand it, why i feel so boundlessly happy and thankful after I watch this. Like seriously.
It's friends enjoying a meal when food is scarce.
Brilliant acting by the immortal Edward G. Robinson!!!
And Charlton Heston
Not a single spoken word needed. Just the sounds of nourishment and enjoyment.
Belching and farting in this scene is perfect
Incorrect, L'Chaim is said.
@@andrewsmall6834 Oh.
Dammit.
And Mozart in the background
When the WEF has us eating bugs, this terrific scene will be appreciated even more.
And all the elites will engorge themselves with steak and continue polluting the air with their private jets.
You won't eat any bugs, calm your tits.
Hope they never screw up the movie by doing a remake....Heston and Robinson...pure classic Hollywood! 👌
I feel the same thing about They Live.
Woke culture, identity politics, blaming conservatives, political correctness, gender ideology, et al, would ruin a remake. For starters, the studio would insist on hiring a black woman to play Detective Thorne. Thorne's roommate, the old man researcher, would be played by some weird, crazy, old gay guy. The studio would ensure all the bad guys introduce themselves as Republicans in the movie.
At the time of the shooting of this movie, Edward G. Robinson was virtually totally deaf. He could still hear, but only if somebody spoke directly into his ear. This made the production of this movie very difficult. On the same night that he filmed his last scene, which is famed euthanasia scene, he died. The next morning, before the shooting resumed, Charlton Heston, who was real life good friend with Robinson, gathered everybody around and informed that that Robinson died the previous night. He did finish all of his scenes and the movie was dedicated to his memory.
How incredibly poignant. I love Chuck!
He died 12 days after the shooting ended, not the night of his movie death scene.
@@SilverAlpha Yeah, he definitely made it through the shoot. Though it was pretty much known that he was dying. I think it makes his euthanasia scene in the film all the more poignant.....and Charlton Heston's reaction to it...which seemed, and likely was, very real.
Charlton Heston showed and paid respect.
And here we are, in 2022. 'Soylent Green' has become a documentary.
What?! No, food is more plentiful than ever, even with Covid, but we also have more obese and sedentary people than ever.
Their prediction was way off, though. Charlton Heaton’s character is in his 40’s and “never ate like this”. Which means according to this movie, people have subsisted on Soylent rations since the 1970’s.
That ribeye I had for dinner last night says different. A Soylent (soy and lentils) steak in the book ran $200. That steak was…$8. Annoying that the price has gone up, but hardly the end of the world.
huh??? lmao
@@Dynaman21 you must live in america. In europe that can run up to 20
yeah, Bill Gates wants us all to eat bugs while he will always have steak
This scene reminds me of when I lived in West Africa. In fact, Lagos felt like the city from SG! I'd go a year without seeing things basic like real cheese or an apple. I'd splurge a silly amount of money and buy a tiny block of cheese from the expat shop and pay a ridiculous price for a single apple and savour every bite and remember this scene!
Can I ask, when was this? Lagos grew so big so fast that back in the 80's/90's it was probably bad. Nowadays it seems more stable.
@@NormAppleton my old man was Nigerian so we used to Lagos for holidays in the 80s and 90s. It used to be such a cool city. So many happy memories of hanging out as a kid at Jazz 38! But when I moved there to learn my heritage between 2006-2008 it has gotten really really bad. But in a sort of 'cant get any worse' way and sort of embraced its rugged/lawless side and lots of cool places and ideas were cropping up!
The music, their smiles, everything about this just makes me feel like a child eating home made food again.
At first you may feel some light hearteness in this scene,but after learning about the story, it gets a whole lot darker.
I like how Thorn is like ‘meh’ when he tastes the lettuce. Even in a future where real food is nearly non-existent, lettuce is still a big nothing.
Lettuce is delicious. You need to learn to appreciate the simpler pleasures. A plain cheeseburger is fine. A cheeseburger with lettuce on it is wonderful.
@@kevinrowe3936 I’ll never forget the time when the owner at the local diner (which closed down several years ago, alas) overheard me saying that I couldn’t decide between a BLT and a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich for my order, as both were equally delicious. She combined the two and I got a bacon, egg, and cheese with lettuce, tomato, and mayo.
As I mentioned, both styles of sandwich separately made at this place were equally delicious. Putting them together catapulted the sandwich into the stratosphere of taste and made it absolute heaven, and I’ll remember that meal till the day I die!
Sol have served it condimented with extra virgin olive oil, wine vinegar and salt though. The only way to eat lettuce.
Lettuce on a sandwich definitely gives it an amazing texture.
@@Romans8-9 That's the thing though, because lettuce basically tastes like water to a certain extent, you really have only the texture to go off of.
"I haven't eaten like that in years..."
"I've never eaten like that..."
This is what a quarantine era dinner is like
cadavers to biofuel, biofuel to food and consumer products. Proteins.
Update: this is what 2022 dinners will be like with the incoming food shortages (3/22)
Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea!
This scene is one of my most memorable in SOYLENT GREEN. It affected me for the rest of my life. Sol and Thorne have sat down to a dinner of what looks to be Dinty Moore Canned Stew. Detective Thorne has never eaten lettuce and finds it bland. Thorne nonetheless relishes the mystery stew which also resembles a little like chili con carne. Finally for dessert Thorne chews down an entire apple, leaving only the tiny stem.
Meanwhile Sol is reminiscing how he once ate like that as a young man. To us in 2024, these two gents are eating like two homeless dudes heating a can of stew over a camp fire. It's hard to contemplate these two men enjoying their meal as if they were at a 5-star Michelin-rated fine restaurant. They would have reacted the same way at a Mom n' Pop diner or even a fast food restaurant.
This is the mean future of overpopulated, diminished Earth.
Soylent Green is the most popular of synthesized food squares, ostensibly manufactured out of 'plentiful' ocean plankton. But no one stops to consider why Soylent Green doesn't taste like grass and why it tastes like delicious pork instead. The overpopulated masses are just too hungry to ask questions and are happy enough to fill their stomachs with Soylent Green, Red, Yellow, and Orange synthesized food wafers. Few are aware the oceans are polluted and there is no plentiful plankton.
The mean future of civilization is its regression to the lowest denominator of human existence: cannibalism.
The movie was a warning.
Can I say something. This movie was not a hit when it came out. How are so many people commenting on it. Did it have a cult renaissance I missed?
@@NormAppleton Because of current Global Warming, people are looking to the past if we were forewarned.
@@NormAppleton You're right. Soylent Green drew audiences to the theater but it wasn't a blockbuster hit. It did become a cult hit years down the road. Fans love to shout out, "Soylent Green is made of people!"
I was in elementary that time and hates/never eat vegetable. When I saw the movie and this scene, I can imagine how delicious veggies could be, and I started eating them.
Eating leftovers high like
It looks like they're eating the shit you find in the back of the fridge when you have a roommate who habitually cooks something, stores the leftovers and then forgets about them for months.
Owen Conenna looks like dog food with a side of lettuce lol
@@GrlLeastLikelyTo I doubt your priveleged ass has ever been hungry.
Two of the greatest speaking voices in Hollywood during those times.
The movie and book were ahead of their time. Frightening then, frightening now.
I doubt the Hollywood elite would even make a movie like that now. Mirror image.
Funny to think such a wholesome scene could come out of a movie that makes The Day After look cheery.
This scene inspired me to become a chef and a gardener.
i love how in the 1976 people thought 2022 was gonna be a bad year but then its not that bad
Like 1984 in 1948.
Uhhh...wait a bit
Charlton Heston and Edward G Robinson , does it get any better than this ! Two of my favourite actors !
Whenever I have a good dinner or feast, I can't help thinking of this scene and the music in it. "L'chaim!"
Fun fact: this scene was not in the script. Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson improvised it at the director's request.
"SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!"
yes.
But it looks like lettuce
Soylent Green Is Number 15 Burger King Foot Lettuce
sory i had to
@@burntferidgerator6848 That WAS lettuce.
@@Zizzyyzz wait but I thought lettuce was people
I remember seeing this movie when it first came out. Back then it had a 'WTF' factor of 10+ and to me still remains an absolute classic.
A moment of the purest happiness, enough to make you feel sad.
You have to watch this movie to understand this scene... God bless every cooking grandmother and mother today. You are appreciated..it's a blessing to come home to home cooked meals that set you straight after a long day or if you're just popping up over Grandma or Auntie's house and the food is covered on the stove still hot with flavor😌
This scene reminds me of my grandma's hot water cornbread and neckbone potato soup she made in a big jail pot 🤣 me, and my brother went to work on that pot too.. God bless Georgia🍑
RIP Grandma🕊
Predictive programming for today's move towards 🐛 worm and bug burgers, lab grown meat with GMO soybeans and wheat. This movie was brought to us by the WEF and Klaus Schwab.
2022, Thorn is in his 40’s and says “I never ate like this”. So it’s reasonable to assume this world had been like this since the 1970’s.
You just haven't seen 1960's - 70's movies is all. Charlton Heston was the 1970's version of Arnold, when there was less 'splosions and more story. I'd check out Soylent Green, Omega Man, and The Planet of The Apes (original).
The Omega Man is pure schlock.
ralphyetmore There were plenty of explosions.
"Where's your Moses now, see?"
This somewhat reminds me of my life.
Sure my family isn't rich, most days we have modest to cheep food, but every so often we manage to scrape enough money together to afford a really nice meal.
As much as I love a nice steak. The food I love is the home cooking that can be made cheaply. Give me cabbage rolls, stews made out of cheap cuts, carrots and spuds. Give me pea soup. Give me fried rice.
That's the food I love.
Every so often, I make a small pot of simple, but delicious beef stew and eat it while drinking some good straight bourbon and watch this scene. Then I go home...
Heston was the go to sci fi actor of the 60s n 70s
Depending on the condition of his stomach from years of eating Soylent products, he is about to have either the best or worst bowel movement later that night.
Curien247 Considering the natural fiber in the lettuce, onion, and apple that he’s never experienced after those years of Soylent rations, his colon is probably going to think it’s a stick-up!
@@dragondancer1814 I remember that episode of MASH ;)
thedungeondelver I wondered if somebody was going to recognize that quote!
Lolol
I seen this as a child, born in 68, never thought I'd see the day when all signs appear to this being our fate and coming into FRUITion. Just some Food for thought.
Now two years later, Pandemic 2020 with the food shortages, people going bankrupt, and our rights being taken away, Soylent Green may really be here!
@@dv7222 I fear the Twitter mobs will want this future, I chatted with a man who wanted elon musk to be turned into soylent green because of his capitalism and interests in space colonization
@@dv7222 rights being taken away? Such as? It's June 2021 and we still have the same "rights" (which aren't real, btw... Rights are a man-made arbitrary thing) that we've had for years. Continue with your fear mongering though
A lot of 70s and 80s dystopian Science Fiction is becoming reality these days… And i was born in Orwell's year of 1984. :(
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Me too
Great scene - completely improvised (so I read) by Heston and Robinson. Director Richard Fleischer requested this as it would be more realistic.
Brilliant Director. He also did 20,000 leagues, 10 Rillington Place and Charles Bronson, taking no prisoners in Mr Majestyk.
the scene right before this is where Edward G is crying over the little wilted celery & tomato. I've always said this movie was the best forecasting of our future, not Star Wars. So far 95 food processing plants in the US have been destroyed, damaged or impacted by “accidental fires”. Edward G wonders how things got so bad, I think we are finding out right now.
If anyone sees this post in 2022 you know what I mean.
That previous scene you mention is one of the more powerful bits of the film, for me.
that scene was the most delightful display of enjoying a simple meal, and in this climate of unrest and uncertainty, i think it is also a sobering thoughrt for all thinking of families that have no money to buy the very basic of a meal a day
This scene is soooo satisfying.
I forgot about the delightful music in the movie.
You don't know what you got till it's gone.
Indeed.
You know what would have added more nuance to this scene =
At 0:27, Sol (the old man in the black beret played by Edward G. Robinson) gives Robert (Charlton Heston's character's name) the fine metallic utensils to be used for the special occasion instead of the regular plastic sporks that the both are familiar with regarding regular eating.
But it would have been interesting to see Sol take out the silverware from a larger box that is ornately carved and made of well-varnished dark lumber.
Within the wooden vessel, it would contain the following objects
It's truly a dystopia when Moses and Dathan are pals. >.>
what is this music named?
Such a heartbreaking scene.
How?
@@tyquianyohannes7696If you watch the movie you’ll get it.
Basically imagine that stew was the best meal you’ve ever had or ever will have again.
I love this part, but my favourite is when the old man cries, mourning the loss of the better times, and how human ignorance, arrogance, and human "progress" (development) utterly destroyed it all. I hope I can find it somewhere here, that scene made me shed many manly tears
For the director to avoid even a single word of dialogue is movie making at its best
Thorn not being impressed by the lettuce always makes me laugh. Sol didn’t take anything for granted even a piece of lettuce. It probably had been half a century since he last had eaten it
This scene is my favorite, since it depicts such pleasure and enjoyment in a harsh dystopian world, that it is so ironic to even conceive.
My favorite scene from Soylent Green
What word did the old man said at the beginning with cheers?
Wombat 101 Le chaim. It's hebrew for "cheers."
NOBODY Beats The 9/11 Perps It means, "To Life.", I believe. But it is used the way English would say cheers.
l'chaim!
the (good/high) life!
indeed
How actual is this in 2022 ?
To my surprise yes. It was made in the 70s but it was their version of 2022.
TWIGHLIGHT EPISODE: IT'S A COOKBOOK IT'S A COOKBOOK
“To serve man, a pig.” La H(y)am!
Absolutely scary how relevant this has become. Totalitarianism never changes.
My favorite scene,great actors......
+Beks Man Favorite scene as well. Glad I'm not the only one.
Edward G Robinson was great in this.
When I was a child my parents took me to restaurants for steak and movies for popcorn. Today I - a college graduate, computer-trained and fluent in Spansh - go to food pantries to get packaged soup and canned vegetables. How could I have come to this?! EVERYTHING'S LOUSY!!
Little known fact. McDonalds is people
Tastes like it, and sugar
Why is this classic film never shown?
Cough-cough...
So many reasons to like this scene; Watched the flick in 1975 with my grandmother when it appeared on the CBS Sunday Night movie. Ma put me to bed however, before that killer line!
Edward G. Robinson was quite ill while this movie was being filmed, and told Charleton Heston about his impending death just before this scene was filmed.
Soylent Green is people.
This movie takes place in 2022 and depicted homemade beef stew as something you can't eat all the time.
It is now 2022 and due to price inflation people can't eat homemade beef stew all the time.
I really wonder if people just somehow know what is going to happen in the future and write about it whether or not they know it will actually happen.
artists are prognosticators.
This is my favorite scene!
They were telling us,even back then,what future we had,a head of us.over my dead body
It's going to be 2022 tomorrow, just like this movie was set in.
They're eating lettuce...
+Stuart Halliday Its supposed to be human skin though
+Doctor Lance What makes you think that?
+Stuart Halliday ummSOYLENT GREEN IS MADE OF PEOPLEEE
+DiamondLife522 Brian But they're eating lettuce. Soylent Green is small squares.
ohh...true
This scene reminds me how hopeless it is to save humanity where most people are so fking stupid letting their favorite people run the world.