History Trivia / SoylentGreen

* ReferencedBy:
** ''VideoGame/{{XenoGears}}'': At Solaris, there's a 'Soylent System' that disposes of dead organisms by compressing their bodies into organic food for production.
** ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale'': One of the three things Lee can shout in Episode 2 when he comes into the room to warn everyone, you can have him shout "IT'S PEOPLE!", referring to the food. Brenda responds by simply saying that, [[CaptainObvious yes, this is a room full of people]].
** ''VideoGame/Portal2'': Cave Johnson has Soylent Green served in his Aperture's cafeteria, but the player hears him opting to stop after receiving a memo from the president... that it's doubling in price.
--->'''Cave Johnson:''' Now, listen up: I don't care how good [[ImAHumanitarian people tastes]]. This stuff is costing me more than lobster, so we're going back to fish-sticks.
** ''Literature/SexRobotsAndVeganMeat:'' Philip Nitschke, founder of the pro-euthanasia group Exit, says that he was inspired by Sol's death scene in ''Soylent Green''. The author isn't familiar with the film, so she buys the DVD, and gets a very different impression:
---> I blink as the credits roll. Out of all the euthanizing scenarios dreamed up in the canon of science fiction, from ''Star Trek'' to ''Futurama'', this is what has inspired Philip? The calm, controlled death ''Soylent Green'' depicts is the compliance of an old, depressed and desperate person relieving the burden on an overpopulated planet; death engineered so that humans ''can eat other humans''. It is total madness. Can Philip really have seen this cautionary tale and concluded that the death scene is ‘doing the right thing by the planet’? Yes, Sol felt no pain, chose when to die, and had his favourite colour shone into his face. But his death was hellish.

** Creator/EdwardGRobinson was really dying from cancer during filming. Thorn's tears are Creator/CharltonHeston's real tears during the assisted suicide scene.

* ThrowItIn: The dinner scene was not originally in the script, but was ad-libbed by Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson at the director's request.

* LifeImitatesArt: There is a real-life meal replacement drink called "Soylent". Canada banned the beverage in September 2017 due to its extreme fat content; cue Twitter erupting with allegations that it's because soylent is made of people.

* LifeImitatesArt: There is a meal replacement drink called "Soylent". Canada banned the beverage in September 2017 due to its extreme fat content; cue Twitter erupting with allegations that it's because soylent is made of people.

* LifeImitatesArt:
** There is a meal replacement drink called "Soylent."
** Canada banned the beverage in September 2017 due to extreme fat content; cue Twitter erupting with allegations that it's because soylent is made of people.

* AndStarring: Edward G. Robinson. The "Furniture Girls" that briefly appear in the party Shirl throws also get this treatment in the Addtional Cast section of the credits.

** The film is set in 2022, and yet Thorn is forced to rely on police call boxes, as opposed to a radio or a cell. Hell nowadays, Thorn's boss would likely have some kind of computer on his desk.

** Shirl is shown playing an early-70's arcade machine – ''VideoGame/ComputerSpace'', a video game with clearly very old vector-style graphics, and the first commercially sold all-electronic arcade game ''ever'', as opposed to the high-resolution and/or photorealistic games that have existed since the mid-2000s. Apparently, the filmmakers never thought video games would advance any more than that.

-->'''Cave Johnson:''' Now, listen up: I don't care how good [[ImAHumanitarian people tastes]]. This stuff is costing me more than lobster, so we're going back to fish-sticks.

--> I blink as the credits roll. Out of all the euthanizing scenarios dreamed up in the canon of science fiction, from ''Star Trek'' to ''Futurama'', this is what has inspired Philip? The calm, controlled death ''Soylent Green'' depicts is the compliance of an old, depressed and desperate person relieving the burden on an overpopulated planet; death engineered so that humans ''can eat other humans''. It is total madness. Can Philip really have seen this cautionary tale and concluded that the death scene is ‘doing the right thing by the planet’? Yes, Sol felt no pain, chose when to die, and had his favourite colour shone into his face. But his death was hellish.

* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/HarryHarrison, who authored the novel (''Literature/MakeRoomMakeRoom'') that the film was based on, had nothing to do with the adaptation and later declared himself "50 percent" pleased with how it turned out.

* ReferencedBy: ''Literature/SexRobotsAndVeganMeat:'' Philip Nitschke, founder of the pro-euthanasia group Exit, says that he was inspired by Sol's death scene in ''Soylent Green''. The author isn't familiar with the film, so she buys the DVD, and gets a very different impression:

** Shirl is shown playing an early-70's arcade machine – ''VideoGame/ComputerSpace'', the first commercially sold all-electronic arcade game ''ever''.
** The film is set in 2022, and yet Thorn is forced to rely on police call boxes, opposed to a radio or a cell. Another note is someone playing a video game with clearly very old vector-style graphics, as opposed to the high-resolution and/or photorealistic games that have existed since the mid-2000s.

** Norway: ''Soylent Green - USA år 2022'' ("Soylent Green - USA in 2022")

** Sweden: ''Soylent green - Amerika år 2022'' ("Soylent green - America in 2022")

** Germany: ''...Jahr 2022... die überleben wollen...'' ("... year 2022... who want to survive..."

* LifeImitatesArt: There is a meal replacement drink called "Soylent."

* AFIS100Years100MovieQuotes:
** #77, "Soylent Green is people!"

* TheCameo: Dick Van Patten, later best known as Tom Bradford in ''Series/EightIsEnough'', as the usher in the euthanasia clinic. Also, soul legend Sly Stone's would-be wife, Kathy Silva, as one of the furniture girls partying with Shirl.

* TheCameo: Dick Van Patten, later best known as Tom Bradford in Series/EightIsEnough, as the usher in the euthanasia clinic. Also, soul legend Sly Stone's would-be wife, Kathy Silva, as one of the furniture girls partying with Shirl.