Corrected entry: The original title was "Make Room, Make Room".
Piemanmoo
21st Oct 2003
Soylent Green (1973)
Correction: The title of the book the movie is based on is "Make Room, Make Room." The director always intended to change the name of the movie, as he was afraid it would be confused with the popular TV show at the time, "Make Room for Daddy."
14th Sep 2003
Soylent Green (1973)
Corrected entry: If the people drink poison to commit suicide, and they are made into soylent green, then wouldn't that make soylent green poisonous to the people who eat it?
Correction: Presumably, the poison was filtered out of the bodies during the manufacturing process.
21st Oct 2003
Soylent Green (1973)
Corrected entry: For a city with 40 million people, the streets look pretty deserted at night.
Correction: The reason for the streets being deserted at night was referred to in the film. There is a curfew in effect.
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Correction: While the movie is loosely based on the book, director Richard Fleischer had no control over the change of the title. It came from MGM higher ups. Nor was the show popular at the time (it had been off the air for 9 years), they just didn't want to be confused with "a long dead TV series."
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