What is the secret of Soylent Green?

skfortysays...

"Some "blame" has been pointed to the film's trailer, which indirectly revealed Soylent Green's main ingredient by using quick cuts of body bags being carried across a conveyor belt over spoken narration: "What is the secret of Soylent Green?" The resulting spoiled surprise may have contributed to popular culture's tendency to refer to the movie."

swampgirlsays...

awww, ant did I spoil the ending for you? ;-)

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skforty, luckily for me I saw the film as a teen without knowing anything about it. "Soylent" makes one think of soybeans I thought.

daphnesays...

Wow, sk...that now makes perfect sense why it became such a cult adage. It's fun to find out origins of things we take use in our comedy routines. ;-)

It makes you think how many things we take for granted and repeat as "funny" without knowing why.

Goofball_Jonessays...

This came out with all the "population bomb" nonsense which predicted that by the turn of the century (2000), we would be totally overpopulated and people would be running out of food in the world.

Actually, in many western countries that is, obesity from too much food is more the problem.

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