Not originally. In the story "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison, it simply meant a food made from soy beans and lentils. The "people" bit was added to the movie as a bit of pure Hollywood.jsluder wrote:Soylent Green is people.
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I really couldn't express it any better than that.scottielvr wrote:I’m thankful for Hip, Hip! and post count obsessions, for poetry and puns, for moderators and peacemakers, for glimpses into daily life and a wide world’s worth of different viewpoints to explore, for funny pictures and lovely photos, for welcoming hellos and heartfelt goodbyes, thoughtful counsel and flippant digression, for postructuralism and deconstruction, oracles and oration, for memorials and memories, avatars and arguments, for point and counterpoint, news of firsts and festivals and feasts, for venting of frustration and soothing of pain, for seasons and songs, weather and websites, for wit and woe and wisdom and weirdness and whimsy, for apologies and accolades, history lessons and hilarious spoofs, harangues and homilies, for bombast and brilliance, charity and caring, cheers and charm ... and for much more. I’m thankful for the roots and rhythms of this place: the love of music that sings and flows through every page, harmonizing, blending into the unique polyphony that is the Chiffboard. It’s all here: It’s all of you.
But Charleton Heston said it was people! Are you saying Chuck lied? Besides, what would that alliteratively named hack Harry Harrison know about it? I suspect he just mispelled "Soyentl" (a food made from soy beans and everyone involved in the filming of Barbra Streisand's Yentl).djm wrote:Not originally. In the story "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison, it simply meant a food made from soy beans and lentils. The "people" bit was added to the movie as a bit of pure Hollywood.jsluder wrote:Soylent Green is people.
djm is people....jsluder wrote:dubhlinn wrote:But again, above all else, it is the people.Sorry djm. Soylent Green is people.djm wrote:I'm afraid I have to disagree.
Are you a people or are you not? Are you Soylentable?djm wrote:Um ... not sure if I've just been insulted or not ...TylerM wrote:djm is people....
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