Talk:Make Room! Make Room!

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Contents 1 Novel vs. Movie 2 Infobox 3 Too much detail 4 Population counts

[edit] Novel vs. Movie

"The novella focusses on social commentary, pushing the importance of birth control and sustainable development to avoid social disorganisation, but in the movie a hero cop uncovers a fascistic use of a euthanasia program to provide cheap protein."

Not totally clear, but isn't this a bit POV? I get the impression that the novel is considered better, or at least more intelligent, than the movie. Could be the hero cop line, but I'll leave it for others to change if it seems necessary.

I think POV is difficult to avoid when contrasting between the book and the movie in a meaningful way, but I would disagree with the author's POV that the cannibalism conspiracy in Soylent Green make it "less intellectual" than the book. I'm not sure what "less intellectual" means when comparing a film and a book, and furthermore the charge that overpopulation is merely a backdrop in the movie seems strange since the cannibalism conspiracy in Soylent Green requires food shortages and overpopulation as a precursor.

[edit] Infobox

I added an Infobox, hope I did that right. Also just want to mention that the copy of this book currently in my possession was a later (1973) reprint, basically shilling for Soylent Green, and it doesn't have that sweet, sweet cover art. The pagecount is based on this copy, if anyone has the first edition pagecount handy it'd probably be better to use that one. Antepenultimate 04:54, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Too much detail

I updated the plot description of the book but fear I may have overdone it. Everything is correct but I'm not sure what level of detail is expected/desired. Checking other book entries seems to show a wide range of levels of detail. So from one of you pedians, how much is too much? Ozlucien 10:26, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Population counts

Is it worth mentioning the actual 2000 World and U.S. population figures in comparison with the novel's projections? The novel states a world population of 7 billion and a U.S. population of 344 million, compared to the real figures of just under 6 billion and 281 million, respectively. (In contrast, the movie depicts the population of New York City in 2022 to be 40 million.) — Loadmaster (talk) 16:01, 14 February 2008 (UTC)