carbonRX8
12-02-2005, 11:19 PM
Isn't anyone else even remotely concerned? :eek:
I am not sure I even want to ask about Soylent Yellow.
And why dont the PEEEEPOLEE just jump out of the Scoops? They are just slow old front loaders. And where do the PEEEEPOLEE go after they get scooped? Do they "go home"?
Was Heston even paying attention to the environmentalist message in this movie when he made it?
RX-Aight
12-02-2005, 11:32 PM
the one to watch out for the soylent green! beware!
rabinabo
12-02-2005, 11:52 PM
Ok, for the record I was just curious about what imdb.com had for trivia about Soylent Green. I didn't actually remember this off the top of my head. The dialogue in the movie says Soylent Yellow and Red are "high energy vegetable concentrates," whatever that means. Also, Soylent was meant to imply soy + lentils.
carbonRX8
12-03-2005, 09:02 PM
Yeah, why was that megaconglomerate named Soylent if it means beans? I actually put off seeing this classic until last night. Perfect movie for what it is. Interestingly, the book on which the movie was based "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison only made passing reference to "Soylent Steaks" or something like that. I am just curious why they had more than one color and if the were made from different things.
And how did the prevent transmission of vCJD? or kuru?
MazdaManiac
12-04-2005, 02:49 AM
Soylent Green is people!
Maybe soylent red is red people?
snizzle
12-04-2005, 04:36 PM
Soylent Green is people!
Maybe soylent red is red people?
Indians? like the Redskins.... sorry, the game is on :rollingla
NoTears316
12-04-2005, 04:45 PM
Hmmm... according to this site, Soylent Red is BUGS.
http://www.red40.org/pages/editor/
snizzle
12-04-2005, 08:00 PM
http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/soylentgreen.htm
Soylent Yellow, the oldest of the company’s three flagship foodstuffs, is an unpalatable paste made from soybean concentrate; it’s high in protein and a diet based on it will keep you alive and more or less healthy, but it isn’t something you’d eat if you had much choice in the matter. Soylent Red is rather less nasty. Another soy product, it is versatile enough that it can be made into passable approximations of most grain-based foods, and unlike Soylent Yellow, it can be described with a straight face as having a flavor. But the masses’ current favorite is the new Soylent Green. With Green, the Soylent Corporation has branched out a bit, turning, according to its advertising literature, to the vastness of the oceans for its raw materials— whereas Soylents Yellow and Red are soybean derivatives, Soylent Green is made from oceanic plankton, the closest thing to an infinite nutritional resource that the hard-pressed Earth still has to offer. Unfortunately, the very newness of Soylent Green means that it is in chronically short supply, despite the nearly limitless quantities in which it should theoretically be available; Soylent’s factories simply aren’t yet able to match the supply of Soylent Green to the public’s insatiable demand.