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OKIsItJustMe

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2. Soylent Green (loosely based on the Sci-Fi novel Make Room! Make Room!) dramatized the science of its day

Reply to yaesu (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 10:48 AM

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The things the movie got wrong tend to be deviations from the novel. e.g. The title, and most famous plot point, most dramatic line, referring to industrialized cannibalism are not in the novel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Room!_Make_Room!

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Another thing Soylent Green warned us about over 50 years ago. That movie was like a crystal ball. nt yaesu Yesterday #1

Soylent Green (loosely based on the Sci-Fi novel Make Room! Make Room!) dramatized the science of its day OKIsItJustMe Yesterday #2