Some things are easy to identify as coincidences. Some aren't.
In watching Richard Fleischer's 1973 eco-policier Soylent Green today, I got the chance to reacquaint myself with Edward G. Robinson's lovely performance as the wistful but pessimistic Sol, who both rooms with and helps Charlton Heston's heat-weary detective, Thorn.
My grandfather had actually met Robinson many years ago, and their amiable exchange has become part of family lore.
My grandfather's name: Sol.
I thought about this today while watching Soylent Green and wondering whether the similarity was a coincidence. Possibly. I'd like to think it wasn't.
But I can appreciate the film--and Edward G.--all the same.
February 12, 2012
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