Soylent Green (1973)
Charlton Heston: Detective Thorn
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Quotes
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Sol : [Thorn is seeing the beautiful images shown in Sol's euthanasia chamber] Can you see it?
Det. Thorn : [choked up] Yes...
Sol : Isn't it beautiful?
Det. Thorn : Oh, yes...
Sol : I told you.
Det. Thorn : [humbly] How could I know? How could I... how could I ever imagine?
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[last lines]
Det. Thorn : Ocean's dying, plankton's dying... it's people. *Soylent Green is made out of people.* They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
Hatcher : I promise, Tiger. I promise. I'll tell the Exchange.
Det. Thorn : You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We've gotta stop them somehow!
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Det. Thorn : I know, Sol, you've told me a hundred times before. People were better, the world was better...
Sol : Ah, people were always lousy... But there was a world, once.
[Thorn chuckles]
Sol : I was there, I can prove it! When I was a kid, you could buy meat anywhere! Eggs they had, real butter! Not this... crap!
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Hatcher : And what about the furniture?
Det. Thorn : [motions to chest] Like grapefruit.
Hatcher : [chuckles] You never saw a grapefruit.
Det. Thorn : You never saw her.
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Sol : There was a world, once, you punk.
Det. Thorn : Yes, so you keep telling me.
Sol : I was there. I can prove it.
Det. Thorn : I know, I know. When you were young, people were better.
Sol : Aw, nuts. People were always rotten. But the world 'was' beautiful.
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Hatcher : What's the story with the Simonson homicide?
Det. Thorn : It was carefully set up to make it look like he was killed after he caught some punk burglarizing his apartment.
Hatcher : What do you think it was?
Det. Thorn : It was an assassination. A well-planned assassination.
Hatcher : You know this for a fact?
Det. Thorn : Four reasons. One: the alarm system in the building was out of order for the first time in two years. Two: the bodyguard who was supposed to be protecting him was conveniently out shopping. Three: the punk that broke into the apartment didn't take anything. And four: the punk who killed Simonson was no punk because he used a meat hook instead of a gun to make it look like a punk.
Hatcher : Well, if the punk didn't take anything from the apartment, what did you take?
Det. Thorn : Everything I could lay my hands on.
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Det. Thorn : Would you believe bodyguards are buying strawberries for 150 D's a jar?
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Martha Phillips : I should've offered you something, Mr. Thorn.
Det. Thorn : If I'd had the time, I would've asked for it.
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[Shirl tells Thorn that she's getting a new tenant]
Det. Thorn : He'll like you. You're a helluva piece of furniture.
Shirl : Don't talk to me like that. Please.
Det. Thorn : OK.
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Det. Thorn : [Det. Thorn takes a cigarette from one of the furniture girls at the party and smokes it] You know if I had the money, I'd smoke two or three of these every day.
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Sol : [through the audio system] I've lived too long.
Det. Thorn : No.
Sol : I love you, Thorn.
Det. Thorn : [tearfully] I love you, Sol.
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Det. Thorn : Turn the air conditioning way up!
Shirl : Way up! We'll make it as cold as winter used to be!
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Det. Thorn : [inquiring about her incinerator] Used it lately?
Martha Phillips : It doesn't work.
Det. Thorn : What does?
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Det. Thorn : There's nothing I can do for you furniture - I got nothing to give.
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Sol : I don't know why I bother!
Det. Thorn : Because it's your job. Besides, you love me.
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Hatcher : So, you finally made it. Do you know what time it is?
Det. Thorn : You tell me. You're the only one here who has a wristwatch.
Hatcher : I can't. The damn thing won't run.
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Det. Thorn : Who bought you?
Hatcher : You're bought as soon as they pay you a salary.
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Sol : Why, in my day, you could buy meat anywhere! Eggs they had, real butter! Fresh lettuce in the stores.
Det. Thorn : I know, Sol, you told me before.
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Det. Thorn : You know, there are 20 million guys out of work in Manhattan alone just waiting for my job.
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Det. Thorn : I'm getting pretty sick of you.
Sol : Yes, but you love me.
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Det. Thorn : You know what, Lieutenant.
Hatcher : What?
Det. Thorn : [tossing back Hatcher's wristwatch] I think it really is broken this time.
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Kulozik : They're running out of the damn Green again!
Det. Thorn : Geez, those idiots!
Kulozik : Somebody fouled up on the transport again.
Det. Thorn : This crowd will blow.
Kulozik : I know. I've got the scoops standing by two blocks away but... I don't know if they can even handle this crowd.
Det. Thorn : When are you going to make the announcement?
Kulozik : As soon as I get the nerve. About five minutes. Pass it on.
Det. Thorn : I will.
