#soylent green

[forthegothicheroine]

It's a real shame about cigarettes, they give actors in old movies such interesting (and sometimes sexy) things to do with their hands. I guess we need to start making neo-noirs where people seductively play with fidget spinners.

[greenwichtraders]

[tilbageidanmark]

Dystopian Spectrum Venn Diagram: Not exact but it's the thought that counts.

[70sscifiart]

It’s the end of the year 2022. Last time I’ll post this John Solie art, folks! 

[veronicaleighauthor]

Where's The Hunger Games?

[humanoidhistory]

Soylent Green (1973)

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

Ed and Stede are renowned for growing the best roses on the coastline. Everyone wants to know their method. What is the secret?

Ed doesn’t know actually because Stede grows them for him; arranges the blooms in vases around the inn; sprinkles rose-petals on the bed before passionate, filthy love-making; pops a bud behind Ed’s ear as he kisses away tears.

What Ed also knows is that whenever a guest shows one ounce of racism, Stede deals with it. Ed doesn’t know what action Stede takes, he just knows it’s taken care of.

And here is where we get the convergence of the twain…

Because what Stede does to these racist cretins is turn them into fertiliser in his special Grinding-to-Bonemeal-People-Who-Have-Hurt-Ed shed.

And that, dear reader, is the wonderful secret ingredient behind Stede’s price-winning roses.

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[fictionalfoodpolls]

soylent green

*deep, world weary sigh*

i thought we couldn't do worse than the peeps & m&m's chili

[facts-i-just-made-up]

why does my cat bites me

Because you taste like cat food. But you are a person. Which means... Cat food... IS PEOPLE!!! CAT FOOD IS PEOPLE!!!

[all-action-all-picture]

Soylent Green (1973). Poster art by John Solie.

[forthegothicheroine]

As a child in the 90s, we read a kids magazine in school with a bunch of predictions for what might happen in the next century. A description of overcrowding, with people stuffed end to end on the street with no room in sight, terrified me. My father laughed when I told him this, and informed me that they'd said the exact same things when he was a child.

2022 has come and gone, and overcrowding never got to be the problem the film Soylent Green predicted- not literally, at least. In a world where homelessness is rampant, the job market is dead, rent is unaffordable and political disaster looms around every corner, we may certainly feel we were born into a world with no room for us.

Everybody knows the big reveal (and even if you don't know, the poster all but gives it away) but there's more to Soylent Green than one unhappy ending. I was fixated on Edward G Robinson as Sol Roth, whom my father had said was the best Jewish character in science fiction, and his story broke my heart. The scene of his assisted suicide in particular got real tears out of me. (Although at least a future where research is done exclusively by old Jews may have a place for me.)

A lot of the film is dated (if made today, there'd be some male Furniture) and concerns about overpopulation often lean conservative, but it's still a solid downbeat scifi mystery with memorably harrowing scenes. Let's hope we keep growing our soy and algae crops so that our future involves 100% genuine plant-based protein products.

[aunti-christ-ine]

[cocksley-and-catapult]

hmmm. if they went to dinner together what would they order

[thealmightyemprex]

Joseph Cotten ,faded star ?

So.....Why dont we talk about Joseph Cotten anymore

Now I am gonna wager a guess,a lot of you just went "Who ?" and that is fair ,I had no clue who this guy was for a long time,and I am a big "Classic Hollywood "nut ,its only upon learning from my Grandmother he was my Great Grandmothers favorite actor that I gained an interest in him ....Mainly cause hes kind of forgotten now ,not entirely ,but he is one of those movie stars who has faded a bit ,which is weird cause he is in some of the biggest movies

He is in Citizen Kane

He is in Gaslight

Hes in the Third Man

He gives a REALLY creepy performance in Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt

.....He also did a few genre films late in his career from the more prestegious like Soylent Green

To the horror comedy the Abomnible Dr Phibes (Fun fact,my first exposure to him as an actor )

And ,probally his oddest film,or at least one of the strangest Ive seen ,the Japanese sci fi film Lattitude Zero

So why isnt he talked about ?

Well for my money ,he was a very solid good actor ,very competent ,could play any role making you belive his character even if the premise is odd, you never feel like Joseph Cotten phones it in.Hes a very good actor,especially at playing everymen though he proved he could do other roles like a villain if called on to do that ............Heres the thing though ,Other then Shadow of a Doubt......I seldom watch a Joseph Cotten FOR Joseph Cotten .I wanna stress he is a GOOD actor ,really good....But he lacks pizaz ,and is often overshadowed by bigger personalities

The Powereful Orson Welles

The Heartbreaking Ingrid Bergman

The Wickedly Eccentric Vincent Price

Hes a good foil for these performers but hes overshaodwed by them .They have stayed with us while Cotten has fallen by the wayside

I dunno,I like Cotten ,but he does like that pizaz the more memorable stars of his era have

I REALLY wanna hear peoples thoughts on Joseph Cotten .What do you think of him?Do you not know him ? Do you have a favorite film of his ? What other stars from yester year do YOU feel are forgotten? Please discuss,I am very interested in peoples thoughts

Bonus:A screen shot from Lattitude Zero

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Thrift store pickups.