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* HeroOfAnotherStory: In the novel, the heroes listen to a radio broadcast by a group of people who overthrew the government to stop its NukeEm plans to solve the food shortage and end the quarantines, cancel the bombing plans, and try to gather and ration food for everyone in the "Dunkirk spirit," although the characters are pessimistic about the new government's competence and chances of success.
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* RayOfHopeEnding: Cornel Wilde originally had this in mind for the film's ending according to the book ''[[https://archive.org/details/omnisscreenfligh00pear/page/134/ Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies]]'':
--> "I had wanted to film an additional scene, taking place one year later. A girl discovers a new blade of grass growing in a barren field, signifying there was hope for recovery. Unfortunately, I hadn't the budget to do it."
--> "I had wanted to film an additional scene, taking place one year later. A girl discovers a new blade of grass growing in a barren field, signifying there was hope for recovery. Unfortunately, I hadn't the budget to do it."
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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: As they're facing the collapse of civilisation, Mary asks her boyfriend to "[[MustNotDieAVirgin make her a woman]]". He refuses saying she's only sixteen and her father will shoot him. Mary says that he won't... but her mother probably will. The joke becomes less funny when she and her mother are raped later on and her father does kill those responsible.
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* OverprotectiveDad: As they're facing the collapse of civilisation, Mary asks her boyfriend to "[[MustNotDieAVirgin make her a woman]]". He refuses saying she's only sixteen and her father will shoot him. Mary says that he won't... but her mother probably will. The joke becomes less funny when she and her mother are raped later on and her father does kill those responsible.
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* ProperlyParanoid: As the crop-killing virus finishes ravishing Asia and people worry that it will reach Europe, David Custance kills all of the grass-eating animals on his farm and converts his land to potato farming (as potatoes are immune to the virus). In the book, he also builds a guardhouse at the entrance to his valley around that time and says that he'd rather have his neighbors call it "Custance's Folly" if he's wrong than be defenseless if he's right. David's precautions are warranted when the virus reaches England.
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* DownerBeginning: It is a dystopian film, after all.
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* DownerBeginning: It is a dystopian film, after all.all, with famine hitting Britain in the first scenes.
* TheElitesJumpShip: As most of the world descends into starvation and anarchy after the death of most plants, a radio report mentions that various European monarchs and government officials have fled to North America and received asylum.
* TheElitesJumpShip: As most of the world descends into starvation and anarchy after the death of most plants, a radio report mentions that various European monarchs and government officials have fled to North America and received asylum.
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* LastFertileRegion: The valley where David farms potatoes may not be the only place in England not being hit by the plant-killing virus, but it is the only one the protagonists know about.
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* SafeZoneHopeSpot: Zigzagged. Throughout the famine and accompanying ApocalypseAnarchy, the main characters determinedly trek toward a valley that has a crop of potatoes for food and can be defended against intruders. Once they get there, there are already a lot of refugees there and John's brother and his men turn the group away at gunpoint. They are prepared to let John, his family, and Roger in if they'll abandon the others, but John elects to launch an attack on the barricade and force the people already settled in the valley to let his entire group in. [[spoiler:His brother dies in the fight, to John's distress.]]
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* GreenAesop: Made particularly apparent in the opening montage depicting the environmental destruction of Earth and the implication that the virus was nature's way of exacting revenge on humanity for said environmental destruction.
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* GreenAesop: Made particularly apparent in the opening montage depicting the environmental destruction of Earth and the implication that the virus was [[GaiasVengeance nature's way of exacting revenge on humanity humanity]] for said environmental destruction.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's unknown when exactly the story is supposed to take place, but the general aesthetic seems to place it some time in the 1970s. A foreign title gives the date as 2000.
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* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: In a desperate attempt to contain the virus, the Chinese government uses nerve gas on its people, killing upwards of 300 million people.
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* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: In a desperate attempt to contain the virus, the Chinese government uses nerve gas on its people, killing upwards of 300 million people.million.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: By the end of the film, the protagonists have committed murder and robbery repeatedly to survive. One of John's last lines is praying that God will forgive them for it.
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* RapeAsDrama: John's wife Ann and daughter Mary are viciously gang-raped by three members of the biker gang. John and the others eventually find them and shoot two of the men, but one gets away.
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* RapeAsDrama: RapeAndRevenge: John's wife Ann and daughter Mary are viciously gang-raped by three members of the biker gang. John and the others eventually find them and shoot two of the men, but one gets away. He's later killed in a shootout with them after he attacks with his gang.
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* StockFootage: Used in the opening montage to portray the environmental destruction of the planet Earth and the devastation wrought on humanity by the plague. Most, but not all of the footage used in the montage originates from a documentary called ''The Shadow of Progress''.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's unknown when exactly the story is supposed to take place, but the general aesthetic seems to place it some time in the 1970s. A foreign title gives the date as 2000.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's unknown when exactly the story is supposed to take place, but the general aesthetic seems to place it some time in the 1970s. A foreign title gives the date as 2000.
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* StockFootage: Used in the opening montage to portray the environmental destruction of the planet Earth and the devastation wrought on humanity by the plague. Most, but not all all, of the footage used in the montage originates from a documentary called ''The Shadow of Progress''.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's unknown when exactly the story is supposed to take place, but the general aesthetic seems to place it some time in the 1970s. A foreign title gives the date as 2000.Progress''.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's unknown when exactly the story is supposed to take place, but the general aesthetic seems to place it some time in the 1970s. A foreign title gives the date as 2000.
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