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  • Is that Dick van Patten?

  • One of my own personal favorite scenes from Soylent Green and it's way the hell out of sync! HELP!!!

  • I wanna see cops beatin' up hippies

  • This scene always made be cry. Edward G. Robinson had told Charlton Heston that he was terminally ill before shooting this scene, thus, Heston's tears are real.

  • Ron Paul's alternative to social security.

  • With the way thing are now, prices,fuel,housing and especially population growth

    this doesn't seen too far from our future .....The movie is based during the mid-20's....

  • idem !!! ma scène préféré, j'étais boulversée quand j'ai vu ce film en 1986.

  • It'd be a shame if one of the workers played a practical joke in the projection booth and showed a Weird Al video instead

  • @Deepdesert 'Dare to be Stupid'!

  • One of the best scenes I have ever seen. I was about to post it myself when I saw someone already had. Many of you share my view that our grandchildren may have to see movies to see beautiful nature. Whoever designed this scene was brilliant. The best movie scene ever. And the music, a perfect choice. Again, brilliant.

  • Hell . . I wouldn't mind dying either if I had a nice "home" to go to like "Sol" did with nice sound and visuals . .

  • The audio is totally out of sync.

  • @Toestubber No sh*t, Sherlock.

  • when I read WilsonNorthEast up there, I'm inspired by the Python (Monty) skit... Eric Idle: ... Well done, Karl! One final question, and that beautiful non-materialistic lounge suite will be yours! Ready, Karl? You're a brave man. Your final question: Who won the English Football Cup in 1949? Karl Marx: Uhuh, the workers' control of means of production? The-the struggle of the urban proletariat? Eric Idle: Uh, no, it was Wolverhampton Wanderers who beat Lester 3-1.

  • Wow, this is how I want to go!

  • Thank you expos73. This section of Beethoven´s 6th symphony is beatiful. I don´t know about this theme

  • The music is a section of Beethoven's 6th symphony "Pastoral Symphony" titled "Joyful feelings upon arrival in the country"

  • The real actor Edward G. Robinson died just a few days after this scene, in fact. This scene sort of was about his real death.

  • How did he die? I mean, is there poison gas, or what is it? There appeared to be no actual act that leads to his death..

  • @kmg4 He goes to the facility ( called Home) to commit suicide. There, he fills out some forms choosing the music he wishes to hear & his favourite colour ( orange) for the lighting. He's given poison to drink & after making sure he will get a full 20 minutes ( it's guaranteed), lies down & drinks it.

  • @kmg4 He goes to the facility ( called Home) to commit suicide. There, he fills out some forms choosing the music he wishes to hear & his favourite colour ( orange) for the lighting. He's given poison to drink & after making sure he will get a full 20 minutes ( it's guaranteed), lies down & drinks it.

  • @susancdwpg I didn't see the poison drink.

    And it is up to him to drink it? What if he changes his mind at the end?

  • @kmg4 The drink is handed to him by the attendant, he raises it to his lips & drinks it, it isn't forced on him. The centre is considered a euthanasia facility, where people that are ready to die can go to end their lives peacefully.

  • need a plumber to fix the sync

  • @Googlystube

    arf arf

  • I wouldn't want to eat you

  • It's a shame we have no control over how we leave the world. It'd be great to be surrounded by favorite music, images, colors, food, etc. To exit the world with beauty and dignity, rather than pain and sickness.

    I wouldn't even care if they used me to make Soylent Green.

    I'd be dead afterward, what would I care??

  • Its sorta sad that Most of the Actors in this movie are dead

  • @terminx12 Well, 38 years is a long time.

    The two main actors here were also in the Ten Commandments, from which most people are dead (being 55 years ago and all).

  • the saddest thing about this clip is that it's out of sync

  • @edgentful dick

  • At any rate, I want go with this music in circa 8 years when I kick the footstool away

  • Urgh... audio/video sync is off  >_<

  • If I get Alzheimer's Disease or some other horrible degenerative disease that comes with old age, I'd love to have a room like this one to drink poison and die. But please, please don't let Dick Van Patten preside over my death . . . that would be terrible.

  • Look it's the Dad from 8 is Enough.

  • Good thing think geek is now selling soylent green

  • Strange how perfectly Beethoven's music coincides with natures beauty.

  • @rengiil777 It's no accident, the piece is called "Pastoral" based on Beethoven's travels in the countryside. Nature literally was his inspiration for this piece.

  • @redeemer61190 Never knew that, Beethoven is awesome.

  • Sob.

  • Dick Van Patten is the angel of death!

  • this movie was inspirated by a FAO report of the sixties, regarding the resources/population/pollution­ evolution in the next future......

  • Seldom Beethovens 6th synphonie did fit so well to a movie scene than here.

  • This is assisted suicide done right. Hopefully one day people at the end of their life will have an option like this. If only we as a people can move beyond the dark ages and religious dogma.

  • Minor criticism: The audio dub is slightly off in this clip.

  • Verde la Soylent esta HENTE!!!!

    D:

  • Why does he die???

  • he was shown palate cleansers

  • EDWARD G. ROBINSON DIED SHORTLY AFTER FILM..............

  • @MrFluorescentfrank 12 days after shooting was done, to be precise

  • for some reason this reminds me of avatar...making up a scenario to show us how beautiful our world really is

  • Best scene in the movie, and a really good scene period. Another great scene is when Sol and Thorn sit down for a nice supper.

    Other than that, this film needs a good remake.

  • @DefiniteMC

    That, and the dinner table scene were the best parts of the movie. I recall flipping through Heston's autobiography and the affection between them was real. It's especially poignant because Edward G. Robinson was dying for real and everyone knew this was his last hurrah. According to legend, Robinson died the day after filming this scene.

  • Human is an animal anti-nature.

    And this film show ,finally, human is an animal anti-human too.

  • Fray Bentos ?

  • A good way to die bring on EUTHANASIA

  • Hey! Keep the hands above those covers, Eddie!

  • Its People!!!! (in German: Menschenfleisch!!!!)

  • Beethoven and Grieg what a beautiful kind of art to combined with this pictures...

  • I love you Thorn see?  I've live too long see? Can you see it see?

  • Soylent Green!!!! Is seven of Dick Van Pattens fifteen kids!!!

  • I think Van Patten originally had thirteen kids.

  • I guess Van Patten didn't get the message and he starred in a show where he had eight kids. I bet he fed them Soylent Green.

  • Is the current banter of everything being "Green" an ominous future message regarding what is waiting for us?

  • You are seeing what choice you'll get from the Obama Healthcare Death Panels. One difference, you won't get to see a cute little bambi prancing around bubbling brooks, but instead you have to endure Obama campaign speeches on an I-Pod.

  • Obama and cock sucking Justin Bieber want the USA to turn into this future!

  • Yes. Welcome to what those lovely people have waiting for us! See how they can get us on both ends of life. When you are too much to afford. You get this. ( I hope I get some great meds!) They will get the ones who are non perfect in their eyes before they even get to see a deer or a fish. Welcome to Obama care! Lets get out the Zyclon B! Yay! Real steaks for all the worthy ones! Are those real skin lamp shades? They are just adorable!

  • homecare robots will reduce the worlds population, because goverments in the past e.g. today base everything on the ageing population because you needed people in the past to care for them. before homecare robots come out.

  • Hey! It's ObamaCare at it's finest!

  • yeah i remember this movie when i was a little kid. i'm still waiting for the ice age and mass starvation the environmentalist's warned us about that was supposed to happen in the 1980's. advanced wealthy societies are cleaner than primitive,poor ones. geta grip people.

  • @madmike19682003 "advanced wealthy societies are cleaner than primitive,poor ones." - this statement is so false it's not even funny. Only someone who has no idea of the impact that mining, fishing, deforestation and agriculture have on the planet could make such a statement. It's sad that you don't realize what kind of processes produced the bounty you enjoy - sad because your ignorance is so incredibly destructive.

  • @astazangasta go to a poor third world country then a industrialized one and say that. your ignorance shows you must not travel much. you must also not know much about world history as lifespans have been steadily increasing as quality of life gets better. read more books. you might learn something.

  • We need suicide clinics like this. Seriously!

  • This is one of the most beautiful sequences and most poignant commentaries on how we are fucking up the planet. When Charlton Heston breathes "How could I know? How could I ever imagine?" we should all hang our heads in shame — his is the voice of unborn generations who will never know the true splendor of the once beautiful Planet Earth.

  • It's ... NOW TV ... !

  • Over population is caused by cars. A man who has need for 20.000kg O2 replaces fotoynthesis by consuming O2. Building streets and houses worldwide nobody is promised to have 19% Oygen to breathe till he dies.

    Car sounds similar to Ka, Auto, the latin word, targets to the same meaning.

    You must decide wether to live in an environment or in the world. The decision is:

    "Love it or leave it!"

  • @The1976spirit

    "Over population is caused by cars. "

    No that is wrong. It is caused by the industrial revolution which increase the population tremendously ever since.

  • @SgtThom Increasing population is a decision. There a plans to fill up our planet with 1.000.000.000.000 inhabitants. A desaster like Coruscant, by "Saturn" advertisement shown in german TV. In the 1970ties I got to know the imagination of an all-town planet, suggestet by "Sparkasse"-posters. To consider this redicolous is a big mistake, this plans aren´t payed just for fun. Avoiding this szenario, you´ll be considered an enemy of mankind by this guys. How many people do you accept per Km²?

  • @SgtThom If you want to argue it, humanity was screwed once we started agriculture. xD

  • @bldude2 Yes, this is the whole truth. Agriculture is nothing else than militarised gardening. Imperium Romanae was ruined by Latifundiae. This succes made them selfconscious enaugh to ruin the whole planet.

  • It is really difficult to remember how the world was suckered in by this over population twaddle. This is why I find so impossible to listen to the chicken littles about imaginary global warming today. This is especially true as I sit here shivering in 20 degree temps.

  • Edward G. Robinson died in reality a few weeks after this scene.....

  • I will die this way.

  • The really sick thing is that we can do this TODAY! We can show our own children pictures of vanished landscapes and vanished species that they will never get to see except in videos! 

  • @calamagrostis88 shut the hell up and enjoy the heston

  • THAT IS Dick Van Patten, the Dad from Eight is Enough. What the Fuck? Eight is Enough? After Soylent Green? Do we need any other evidence of how the human race is not getting the message? And how after the 70s the issue of overpopulation was ostracized? EIGHT IS WAY WAY TOO MUCH! Stop having so many damn children. Our planet is dying. Get a clue.

  • @calamagrostis88

    You said, THAT IS Dick Van Patten, the Dad from Eight is Enough. What the Fuck? Eight is Enough?  After Soylent Green? Do we need any other evidence of how the human race is not getting the message? And how after the 70s the issue of overpopulation was ostracized? EIGHT IS WAY WAY TOO MUCH! Stop having so many damn children. Our planet is dying. Get a clue.

    My response: Perhaps your message should be broadcasted to illegal "anchor baby dropping" aliens who invade the US

  • @copperstatekid ,,I'm sorry but white families need to start making at least 8 kids per household or the outsiders will outpopulate us.

  • this is the best part of all the movie!

  • But what have we learnt ?

    classic piece of cinematography...

    "Its Beautiful"

    How Could I Know ?

  • Can you imagine being Charlton Heston's character and having seen these deer for the first time? Sadly it is likely the only way our great grand children will. If I could "GO" that way, I'd be happy to. :-)

  • Can you imagine being Charlton Heston's character and having seen these deer for the first time? Sadly it is likely the only way our great grand children will.

  • This is one of the most moving scenes I have ever scene. As moving now as it was almost forty years ago. "Isn't beautiful?"

  • is it me or is da vid outta sync?

  • For an April Fool's episode of Dirty Jobs they should work at a Soylent Green factory.

  • @waterskippers At least it would be relatively quiet

  • when i watched this movie 30+ ish years ago, it was an unreal si-fi future perspective.

    now it's a too real near future perspective ....

    this movie is getting more realistic by the year ....

    horror.

  • @muylae

    more realistic??

    

  • I could see Morgan Freeman play Sol in a remake.

  • this is actually a sort of mash up of Beethoven's 6th symphony and Edvard Grieg's "morning". The part where the view backs up to a bird's eye view of a flock of sheep is where the change is. It works together wonderfully

  • Would Niki Minaj's butt-hash be considered soylent green?

  • Yeah !, I'm with you on that, and very eloquently put!

  • This scene gives me so many chills. It's so beautiful in countless ways. I don't even know where to begin.

  • ITS PEOPLE

  • Orange is the color of safety in most cultures life vests the lower chakra of generosity ..Sunsets......Home

  • oh wow, Dick Van Patten was in this! In addition to the dad on 8 is Enough, he had a small part in a lot of Mel Brooks movies and Weird Al Yankovic videos.

  • Are there any scenes how poeple get makeing into soylient Green?

  • Definitely the best scene in the movie, but I don't think I would have picked orange as my death color, maybe a soothing blue or green....

  • Does anyone know the title of this melody?

  • @AltHeeper

    I think it should be "Die Moldau" (Moldova?) composed by Smetana,

    it's a composition to a river with this name

  • @Gwydion06 hmmmm, nee es ist leider nicht "die Moldau";

  • @AltHeeper It's Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" (his 6th).

  • @JPnintendofan Thanks for telling, This song got stuck in my head for quite a time now. It would be a shame not to know it by name.

  • I still think it would be more practical to turn people into a good fuel source.

  • FFS is it TOO much to ask that the fucking sound and visuals are in sync? In this day and age too much to ask? Really? WTF!

  • @lcpdesign You think if people post videos, they would care enough to sync them up.

  • @lcpdesign Hysterical !!!

  • @lcpdesign they have to be out of sync to prevent the copyright holder from finding/removing the video. If it's that important to you, might I suggest you PAY to buy/rent a legitimate copy? Is that too much to ask? Really?

    Sincerely,

    someone who makes his living in commercial film production - or used to.

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  • @orchidtender I have my DVD thank you very much. They sound/video out of sync due to incompetence no more nor less. If you are concerned for the 'copyright holder'', people are far more likely to buy this film after seen a snippet such as this, with accompanying comments. There are only so many people I can personally recommend this film to and I don't see many adverts for it...

  • @lcpdesign you will find that people intentionally unsync the video and sound on my youtube clips (as well as flipping them, etc) because it makes it more difficult for the copyright holder's snoops to find it, and because by altering the original soundtrack it can be argued (in legal terms) that it is an original work - a constitutionally-protected "fair use" re-working of the original work. Would it stand up in court? I don't know, but that's what many people who upload to YouTube believe.

  • @orchidtender "many", not "my".

    Thank you for supporting the film industry by buying legitimate copies of great works such as this.

  • The one thing this film suggests is that the entire infrastructure of the world has collapsed, there is nothing functioning except humans, in the 60's they made predictions of over population in the future but this film suggests we have literaly reverted back to literal caveman times, no power, no transportation, no farmlands, etc .Death is a view, music and glass of hemlock .

    Besides in any film ever made in the 20th century can you honestly say you have seen garbage trucks that clean.....HuH?

  • The UN estimates by 2050 the world population will be between 9-10 billion! How are we going to employ, house and feed all these people? I believe this scene will come true someday, probably India and China being the first to institute these suicide centers to relieve social burdens.

  • this scene is incredible

  • Is this where he gets ground up into soylent green?

  • I can't watch this scene without weeping , the acting is SO emotive and powerful...Heston in one of his final interveiws found it difficult to talk about Eddie Robinson's performance without the tears welling up....

  • @omegaman59 I was about to write a lengthy comment. But I get too carried away every time I watch this scene. It's so, so achingly beautiful and touching and it speaks to me so much.

  • @BrendaQG nice. Your educated and I dig your comment omg!!!

  • This scene wouldn't have been half as sad without that music. Whoever decided on that particular song knew damn well what they were doing.

  • The way things are growing we'll end up washing down our Soylent green with Brawndo the thirst mutilator.

  • @BrendaQG its got electrolytes

  • @BrendaQG is Brawndo from the movie idiocracy??

  • @BrendaQG

    well brando is what plants crave.....its got electrolytes....lol

  • I'm not a picky person, just don't feel like eating a hamburger or anything that are mass produced because that might have been someone's love ones, or could have been your parents, masseur, fiancée, an idiot, an old couple, your grandma or simply anything that walks with two nice pair of legs...that just doesn't sit well with me. It's happening now...and in future.

  • Oh, I finally understand what this movie was about. It was about what would happen if Obama gets elected president. Oh no. We are in deep trouble.

  • @GuRiRu you're right this is Obamacare in action! this is exactly what will happen to people who aren't healthy

  • vVvaldi was here for the US prison population as of 2010 reform them as you are obligated to or realize if you do not humanlely treat your incarcerated broters and sisters YOU ARE JUST AS GUILTY PARTNER~+~+8

  • @HaliacetusLeuco YES YOU ARE ALRIGH+~* VIVALDI~*

  • ~+~+~*

  • Beethoven's Symphony No.6 matches this scene.

  • whats up with old 70's movies having crazy ass scenes? (like in 2001: A Space Odyssey)

  • @ForgottenRebel77 "2001: A Space Odyssey" was 1968.

  • @BrokenChair88 meh close enough

  • if I was dying this would be how I would choose to go, seeing and hearing things that bring me peace.

  • Wow that's badass,like a mini IMAX theatre and then the sweet dose of murder!

  • This is Obamacare...except without The Film

  • Thank you for uploading this!

    This scene is so beautiful. Especially considering Edward G. Robinson was dying while they were filming.

  • You know what would be metal as shit is if after the guy dies, the bed tips up dumping him into a giant garbage desposal unit in the floor, then the slaw gets put into cans that say spegettio's.

  • your comment made my day. XD

  • LOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!

  • that is metal! yaaaaaa!

  • suicide organized

  • I loved Miss Collins! She died never knowing I had nothing to do with that bucket... damn Chris Hargenson, damn her to hell!

  • Mother always taught me to share... and then look what happened....

  • I can't wait 12 years for those huge HD flatscreens!

  • when i go i want to like sol

  • The future is not hurtling towards anything. It is whatever we make of it. People on here have this huge fatalist, conspiracy-theory laden mindset that leads to this type of thinking. We are in control of our own destinies. To say anything else is to deny responsibility for the continuity and well-being of the our species and planet.

  • We're an intelligent species, but we're also greedy, ignorant and irritable. Because of that, there's always going to be people stepping out of line in society, including those in power, and there may never be true peace.

    I used to share your hopefullness for humanity. I also wish that our salvation was simply a matter of love and self control. But due to the human condition, it seems that we're never all going to be happy, and faith in society to make life less cruel seems futile.

  • I've been waiting to hear someone say something like this. Bravo. And how cool reading this on the heals of hearing Chris Ecclesten in The Second Coming in the scene "You Lot" - the Orbital remix and the orginal video segment on YouTube. As he says and you offer, "responsibility" is key. Thank you.

  • whats this musix

    i want to go out to this

  • that's the music i want played at my funeral

  • I saw this when it first came out. This scene was AWESOME beyond words on the big screen.

  • Grandma may be a bit tough so under the new health care , all children that took the Swine Flue Vaccine will be done about the same time as Grandma 2012 , wow a Christmas Feast !

    Hell Pa is getting up there ~ gonna be 60 whats the cut of age under the New Health Care Reform ? I have 1850 pages to go .

    Like the" War on Terror" , is now "Overseas contingency" there going to have to change the name , we are hip to Soylent Green.

    Contest for the best name !

  • As far as I learned so far, Soylent Green is people. that's how they produce them for food. they produce cows for Hamburgers and Steak, why not produce people and call it "Soylent Green"? sooner in 2022, we're going to bne out of food and have to eat people.

  • It's... it's PEOPLE. Soylent Green is made out of PEOPLE.

  • R.I.P. Charlton Heston. Yes, he did turn into a right-wing nut at the end, but let's not forget all the great performances he gave us over the years.

  • @danning1 Looks like we have a disarm Americans, commie nut, but lets not forget that shabby condolence he gave Heston.

  • Charlton Heston's sadness in this scene was genuine - he was the only person on the film set who knew that Edward G. Robinson had terminal cancer. He died less than two weeks after they finished filming.

  • @Sangrenegra9 I thought I was one of the few people who knew that fact!

  • This movie is the future we are hurtling towards....know that.

  • Yeah....See?...Yeah.....

  • Only soylent green is made out of bodies