Soylent Green alternative opening

For this exercise we were asked to make an alternative opening for a movie. I chose Soylent Green ("galletitas verdes"!:), then regretted it a little, but I think in the end I got something decent.

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[MrSunlander]

So many foods exposed and approved in the past few years that could be added to this..... I like the approach. One small peeve is the repetitive use of images when so many are available on the Internet. May I use this? I want to have my high school multi-media kids try this with I-Movie for social studies.

[puersilens]

@MrSunlander Hey, sorry for the late reply. Yes, of course you may use it. About the images, to be honest, I didn't start working when I should have and the deadline caught me. You're right, I could have done better in that respect. Thanks for the comment!

[blindandwatching]

I've have watched this a few times and it doesn't get old. I hope you got an A on this.

[puersilens]

@blindandwatching Thanks! I appreciate your comment. I myself hadn't watched it in a while, haha. It did take me quite some time and effort to do it, so it's good to know it was worth it at least a bit.

[DFDalton1962]

Interesting and well done.

The opening of a film should set its main theme or mood, but yours seems to be comic commentary on the film's surprise ending. It works only through the filter of having already seen the film and having little regard for it.

In other words, this would be a perfect beginning for a satirical remake of the movie, but I don't think that was your orginal aim. This movie was intended as serious environmental cautionary tale at the time, despite Heston's campy line.

[puersilens]

Thanks.

I agree, the mood of my video may have a lot more to do with the music than with the film itself... maybe the typographic work isn't optimal either. But I don't think you need to have seen the film or have little regard for it to understand my (much less than perfect) attempt of an opening. The movie starts by telling you food is an issue, and the whole environmental warning revolves around food, so I thought I'd use food to portray the decay that led to the situation in the movie.

[p70581]

This is just plain well done! Well done!

[Guille1065]

I really like it. . .Could you please tell me the name of the song you have used here? Thank you!!

[DrGull1888]

Pretty awesome.

[walter0bz]

@VictorLepanto

>>"Iraq has much oil, Japan has none."

Japan was built up in west's image to stop them going on another imperialistic rampage?

Iraq's story .. the middle east is a complex place as we all know.

>> "Iraq/Japan/Russia"

in globablized world consider human species as whole for big picture, not differences between countries.

the things I enjoy come from resources mined all over the world, inventions from UK, developped comercialized in USA manufactured in asia, etc etc..

[walter0bz]

@VictorLepanto

>>"The mental crutch "

HAHAH you do the same with demographic winter!

"people who live in glass houses shouldn't thow stones"

and it takes obsessives to proseletyze issues or persue details sometimes - maybe evolution invented us for a reason.

[walter0bz]

@VictorLepanto

>>"You can only think about oil."

visualize: in any modern human activity, what % of the outcome is down to our brain/brawn/dexterity.. vs the fossil-fueled machines.

e.g.

videogames/entertainment industry: abundant energy allows 100's of man years to be delivered to millions of people per hour. Compare to the entertainment created by individual actors (1 audience at a time), live musicians, etc.

Farming: pesticides, fertilizer = 5X yields. 1man+tractor; FLIGHT:...

etc etc

[walter0bz]

@VictorLepanto

>>"You can only think about oil."

Correct, since everthing I enjoy in this world is high tech delivered by oil (i.e. information age) the prospect of a low tech future is truly terrifying.

What area of land will you need to grow enough bio-derived chemicals to manufacture chips? will it still be economical peeps want increasingly scarce land for food..

And thats without even considering whether or not i'll get caught up in the mass starvation & wars.

[walter0bz]

@VictorLepanto -

So: communism held russians back from burning all their oil too quickly. They will be better off in the longrun for this whilst the rest of us regress back into the stone age.

Capitalism created an emergent fossil-fueled superorganism that burned through the reserves as fast as possible delivering what Humans wanted: maximum population (temporary!) whereas communism stagnated and collapsed.

Yes I am aware nazi war aim was capture of oil fields.