History Trivia / SoylentGreen

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

** Thorn uses a police call box from time to time, since this movie predates the rise of mobile communications.

* BeamMeUpScotty: An unusual instance. While Creator/CharltonHeston does actually yell "Soylent Green is people!" during the film's climax, most people get the context wrong and believe that he screams it while running down the street and fleeing from the police. In actual fact he says it ''to'' the police, in the middle of a cathedral that has been converted into a homeless shelter, while being carried away on a stretcher. The "running down the street" scenario was actually from a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' parody of the film. They may also be getting it confused with the ending of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''.

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* BeamMeUpScotty: An unusual instance. While Heston does actually yell "Soylent Green is people!" during the film's climax, most people get the context wrong and believe that he screams it while running down the street and fleeing from the police. In actual fact he says it ''to'' the police, in the middle of a cathedral that has been converted into a homeless shelter, while being carried away on a stretcher. The "running down the street" scenario was actually from a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' parody of the film. They may also be getting it confused with the ending of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Heston during Sol's "going home". Robinson had privately told Heston that he was actually dying of cancer. This was Edward G. Robinson's last film; he died twelve days after it was made.
* RealitySubtext: Edward G. Robinson was really dying from cancer during filming. Thorn's tears are Charlton Heston's real tears during the assisted suicide scene.

* [[CaliforniaDoubling New York Doubling]]: Set in New York City, filmed in California.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Celia Lovsky (aka T'Pau from StarTrekTheOriginalSeries) is one of Sol's fellow "books".
** [[Series/EightIsEnough Dick Van Patten]] is the technician who oversees Sol's "going home".

* HeyItsThatGuy: Celia Lovsky (aka T'Pol from StarTrekTheOriginalSeries) is one of Sol's fellow "books".

* EnforcedMethodActing: Heston during Sol's "going home".
** Robinson had privately told Heston that he was actually dying of cancer. This was Edward G. Robinson's last film; he died twelve days after it was made.

* HeyItsThatGuy
** [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries T'Pau]] as the Exchange Leader
** Dick Van Patten of ''Series/EightIsEnough'' as an [[spoiler:assisted suicide attendant]]
** You could say [[Film/TheTenCommandments Moses and Dathan]] are together again.
** [[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Admiral]] [[Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Cartwright]] is a police captain. Or is it [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Joe Sisko?]]

* {{Defictionalization}}: You can actually find Soylent Green crackers out there, though it's not really made of people. (Or so we hope...)

** Shirl is shown playing an early-70's arcade machine. It is ''Computer Space'', one of the first computer arcade games ''ever''.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Heston during Sol's "going home". (Robinson had privately told Heston that he was actually dying of cancer. This was Edward G. Robinson's last film; he died (of cancer, of course) soon after it was made.)

** Dick Van Patten of ''EightIsEnough'' as an [[spoiler:assisted suicide attendant]]

** You could say [[TheTenCommandments Moses and Dathan]] are together again.

* {{Defictionalization}}: You can actually find Soylent Green crackers out there.

** [[StarTrekIV Admiral]] [[StarTrekVI Cartwright]] is a police captain. Or is it [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Joe Sisko?]]

** [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries T'Pau]] as the Exchange Leader

** You could say [[TheTendCommandments Moses and Dathan]] are together again.

** Dick Van Patten of ''Eight Is Enough'' as an [[spoiler:assisted suicide attendant]]