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15. That's the shocking line everyone remembers (rather like "God damn you all to Hell!")

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It’s (rather loosely) based on the 1966 Sci-Fi novel, Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison. The movie is better Science-Fiction than Planet of the Apes, especially if you like so-called “Hard Science Fiction,” (which I do.) I’d say the book is better.

Isaac Asimov believed Science Fiction could be written in any genre. To prove it, he wrote a “Detective Novel,” The Caves of Steel, which features a robot detective, R. Daneel Olivaw.

Make Room! Make Room! is also a Science Fiction/Detective Novel. The world is heating up, due to the “Greenhouse Effect.” Between that and pollution there is serious soil degradation; farmers are having difficulty keeping the growing population fed. "Real food,” is hard to come by, especially meat. The Soylent corporation looks to feed people more efficiently; they offer meat alternatives made from soybeans and lentils (get it?) The whole cannibalism angle was a gratuitous bit added by the movie, but, even then, people forget that "Soylent Green" was just one product line, the most popular, because its secret ingredient made it taste more like real meat.