Recycling humans

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Originally posted by binTravkin


I've not. Is it good?

It was relatively cheaply made, but as a vision of an overpopulated urban dystopia it's not bad.

Edward G. Robinson is the best part of the film- Charlton Heston does his usual 'Statue of Moses' thang.

'Rollerball', the original, has the edge, for sheer paranoia, but the claustrophobic feel of 'Soylent Green' and the polluted air and people sleeping on stairwells and down stairways is not bad.

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Two more films about recycling humans (from the same story by Richard Matheson) are ' The Last Man On Earth' starring Vincent Price, and the better known 'Omega Man' starring wood(en) Chuck Heston (again).

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.

How long can one man survive in a world full of vampires?

I Am Legend has been filmed as The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price (1964) and The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston (1971). This volume contains the complete novel plus several more unforgettable tales by Richard Matheson.

http://www.tor.com/sites/cgi-bin/bookpage3.cgi?ISBN=031286504X

A review of the rarely seen 'Last Man':

This movie far exceeded my admittedly low expectations. You know this isn't your ordinary mid-sixties black and white horror film -- a clear inspiration for Night of the Living Dead and 28 Days Later -- or your typical over-the-top Vincent Price performance. It opens with a bleak cityscape, a post-apocalyptic vision of burned out cars and corpses. Something awful has happened, and we soon learn that Vincent Price's character is the last survivor of a plague that has turned humanity into a race of vampires ... prowling at night in search of blood and repelled by garlic (an allergic reaction) and mirrors. The story is based upon Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (which is fast, interesting read), and he co-wrote the screenplay.

Is it perfect? No. Price's performance is a bit too effeminate to be totally effective as a "one man against the world" story. And some of the trappings -- the garlic, the mirrors, the crosses -- take away from the the effort to paint this as a "realistic" plague story. Still, it is modern, literate and engaging.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002HODU4/002-1960642-4613638?v=glance

[binTravkin]

Heah, the same old resident evil theme..

[PJayTycy]

It made me think more about Fight Club soap than those horror movies.

[girlfight_club]

No one talks about Girlfight Club soap.

GFC

[BlackCat]

Wel, girl figth gets me thinking in quite different ways

[Kataphraktoi]

yeah a whole club devoted to it

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by girlfight_club
No one talks about Girlfight Club soap.

GFC

What the heck? This post rules.

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Originally posted by binTravkin
Heah, the same old resident evil theme..

Cart before horse- but then you could also say it's simply an extrapolation of the Bram Stoker novel, or the Murnau film, 'Nosferatu'...

One of my favourite films:

Max Schreck

Max Schreck as Count Graf Orlock in Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens (The Undead: A Symphony of Horror). This German film from 1922 was basically Bram Stoker's Dracula with the names changed. Stoker's widow filed a copyright infringement suit and in 1925 the court ordered the film company to turn over all it's money to her and to destroy all copies of the film. Fortunately, at least one copy survived.

[Sikander]

Nosferatu rocks. Has anyone seen "Shadow of a Vampire"? It's a recent movie supposedly about the making of the original Nosferatu.

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Originally posted by Sikander
Nosferatu rocks. Has anyone seen "Shadow of a Vampire"? It's a recent movie supposedly about the making of the original Nosferatu.

Yes- I thought it was very enjoyable.

[binTravkin]

Cart before horse- but then you could also say it's simply an extrapolation of the Bram Stoker novel, or the Murnau film, 'Nosferatu'...

I know resident evil is one of the latest versions, just named it in the most recognisable version.

BTW - has Nosferatu got this 'wampiric/zombie plague' theme?

[Illuminatus]

I think this thread is going dangerously off-topic...

[Kataphraktoi]

illum this is a discussion about important cultural events in our society,pivotal towards understanding the background to smac and why people did what they did

[Mart]

Yes, this discussion is about Recycling Tanks, and its function as stated by Chairman Yang, that every citizen must go to the tanks. We attampt here to understand the cultural background that lead Chairman to accept use of Recycling Tanks in this way