Perguntas frequentes

A man named Gilbert sneaks into Simonson's apartment and kills Simonson with a meat hook, making it look like an burglary gone wrong. Simonson was a board member of the Soylent company and was troubled in recent days regarding the secret of the popular food item called Soylent Green. Gilbert was sent to Simonson's apartment and ordered to kill him to prevent him from exposing the truth about Soylent Green.

The spoon with strawberry jam was evidence the bodyguard was receiving kickbacks to be able to afford such an extravagant delicacy. Thorn finding the spoon would raise suspicion.

Soylent Green is very loosely based upon the 1966 novel "Make Room! Make Room!" by American science fiction author Harry Harrison. It was adapted for the screen by screenwriter Stanley R. Greenberg.

Charles Braverman was the editor of this sequence, and he manages to convey in two minutes a splendid, devastating commentary on the Consummation of Progress. Starting with leisurely pans over the images from the slow-paced Good Old Days (when "progress" was still a magical world that promised a return to a Golden Age of Plenty for humanity) to the sweeping pans over the fruits of mass-production and into a hard-and-fast barrage of Machinery, Electricity and Urbanity that builds and builds in speed and intensity like a machine gun spitting image after ugly image-until the crescendo is broken and we are left to once again view leisurely pans, over a ravaged, savaged world where the shining dream of Progress has been perverted into a never-ending nightmare of smog, concrete, greenhouse heat, dead car graveyards, a few glass towers amidst a sea of crumbling buildings-and people, people, everywhere people. Yes, brilliant!

Shirl is "furniture"-slang for a live-in prostitute in the story, and subject to whatever man happens to walk in. Therefore, Thorn's having sex with Shirl is akin to him sitting on the couch of the apartment or reading a coffee table book.

The book varies widely from the finished film, sharing only a few elements (such as the characters of Sol, Shirl and Simonson, among others, and the setting of New York City). The "Soylent" of the book shares none of the "ingredients" of the film's version of the staple food.