not wrong, i recall seeing in about 75 as a child and it made me so sad, seeing the little robots etc etc. Have found plans for building one on the net ... it will sit next to our R2D2 in the sitting room...
@@ickleshouse there's plans for the robots, ? (I like bot's in this film, the at the time seem like the could be real robots one days? , the way the moved, the little vents, showed emotion mouth movements, the where mostly silent, (not 100% but in beginning of the film, they where more utility items, like automatic machine tools, but as the film moved on the became more, and more, got names, Huey, Louie and Dewey, by the end you where weeping tears, when anything bad happened the then 😞 but main actor did a great job could not on be easy in essence acting to your self for almost the hole film, long before wish-bag f/x was thing, if it wasn't in front of a camera its not going to be in the film?
This wonderful sequence never fails to bring a lump to my throat. The project is so daring, so noble and yet ultimately so doomed. How could Earth have abandoned it? And how can we, today, have a future if we ignore this lesson?
The reality of it is so much closer now, getting the message to the young could only help. They probably haven't done a remake because it was done so well the first time. A live special effects masterpiece, indeed. CG is just now getting to this point for recreating technical scene. But computers still have issues with the organic elements of the film. Likely another reason they are waiting for a remake. Woody Harrelson might still be young enough to play the lead?
God bless Peter Schickele! We all know and love him for PDQ Bach, helping to make classical music accessible to millions around the world. But if he never composed anything else in his life, his compositions for Silent Running would make him a legend in my opinion. I don't understand why "Rejoice In The Sun" isn't the anthem of the Environmental Movement. Can we make this happen?
The movie "Silent running" IS kind of a strong mental symbol for many in the environmental movement ! The Marlon Brando/Tarita version of the "Mutiny on the Bounty" movie in my view is a symbol for the "romantic environmental scene" perhaps as strong as "Silent running", even more if one takes into consideration the "soundtrack", that is, Bronislaw Kaper's FANTASTIC "Follow me ! - Mutiny on the Bounty Love Song" - especially the following version: "ruclips.net/video/DjgKs5_wITQ/видео.html" (always drives MANY tears into my eyes, bringing back the memories of Tahiti paradise and very beautiful but in the end very sad Tarita ... 😭😭 !!!! )
The problem with the environmental movement now, unlike back in 1971-72. Is nothing but a graft, corruption and greed movement that could careless about the environment. How, can I say this? Why do they buy multi-million dollar homes right on the beach, when sea-level will raise 40-70 feet in five to ten years? And homeowners policy will not cover that loss.? Hmmm, maybe I missing something 🤔!
Hearing this fanfare again after many years, I now wonder if it inspired the theme for the original Battlestar Galactica series. Very similar vibe and arrangement.
Fantastic movie. Heart wrenching! Bruce Dern is perfect as the crazy-eyed last tree hugger. And are the robots people in costume walking on their...hands? Sure looks that way to me.
@@KittyKatt_Luna80s they looked it was a lot more than just leg, imagen the trauma the most of had, on there life's, and to end up playing part of three of the most (trio of robots) in a signal one film, hope still around, to bask to glory of the part in it? (there was behind the sines making of film somewhere (youtube probley with act semi out of costume playing robots, it as said it was filmed mainly on an decommissioned aircraft carrier called in real life "Valley Forge, used as the interior of the spaceship Valley Forge the one in the film?
After all these years, I still don’t get the reason for destroying the forests and fauna. Gawd, that last remaining robot made me cry. So lonely. I would figure each living pod to be equipt with supplies to continue the life for each pod a couple hundred years. The main part of the ships can rendezvous with Earth after the post apocalyptic events on Earth. Am I missing something?
I think it's just to emphasize how heartless and "pragmatic" the people back on earth have become. It kind of reflects the general sentiment of the time: if something isn't useful, you just "throw it away", like an empty soda can. The famous "Crying Indian" PSA illustrates how careless average people were with disposing of garbage in the early '70s, as well as a growing concern for how disposable everything had become (from a consumer standpoint at least). It wasn't too much of a stretch to imagine a society eventually considering the Earth's ecosystem to be similarly disposable if something "better" (presumably of a high tech nature) came along to replace it. As Lowell laments: "Everywhere you go on Earth the temperature is exactly 75 degrees..." The nuclear destruct is probably just a comment on how eager some people were at the time to use that option whenever possible. Compare with Universal's other big sci-fi movie of the time, "The Andromeda Strain" (which was actually shown in a double bull with this one), which had *two* nuclear destruct options, one to blow up the infected town and one to cauterize the Wildfire lab in case of an outbreak. It's worth noting that there was a government program at the time researching the use of nuclear weapons for peaceful purposes (eg large scale construction projects). I don't know about you, but this seems absolutely mad by today's standards and I think average people even back then must have sensed something really messed up with that concept. I agree, why not just jettison the domes and go on your merry way? To destroy them as well seems a pointless slap in the face to any remaining tree-huggers in this future world, which considering the obvious ideological position of the writers is certainly what they were thinking. The nukes represent the trigger-happy older generation in power, the forest represents the environmentally aware younger generation. The audience in 1972 would have gotten the message loud and clear.
This may come to pass if we continue to abuse and ignore what is happening to our planet Earth 🌎... the technology is coming around, but will the compassion be as well...
Except we'll never spend the money to send them out in the first place. Instead you'll hear something like, "The forests are fine. It's all a communist lie spread by Soros-backed scientists and the Deep State. Those photos showing them dying was after they fired Space Lasers at them."
I know it is just a movie, but how was the trees, soil and whatever else inside being able to stay put inside the dome pods that were hanging upside down and sideways.
In the movie, Valley Forge was the name of one of the spaceships that carried the last of Earth's ecosystems in domes into orbit around Saturn. The purpose was preservation until one day when they would be returned to Earth and help restore the natural world. At the time of the movie, the entire Earth was at a temperature of 72ºF. In American history, Valley Forge is where General Washington's troops encamped for the winter of 1777-78. 1,700 to 2,000 soldiers died during that winter. General Washington later became the first President of the United States.
A great film. And yet, another meaningless prayer. Lowell (Bruce Dern) never looked to any “help from above.” He simply took matters into his own hands and did what needed to be done.
Anybody have any insights as to why the illusion totally doesn’t work on these miniature models? Unlike most sci-fi of the era, these just look like toys. Is it the lighting? Lack of fine detail? I can’t put my finger on it other than it clearly looks cheap and fake compared to 2001 space odyssey, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.
Hard to say. There's a LOT of fine detail, but very little weathering. Maybe the way they were filmed? Tilt-shift photography can make something look tiny, so maybe there's an opposite technique to make small things not look small. The footage is also a little jerky, like they're missing half or more of the frames. The parallax in the shots with two ships may be a bit off for the scale they're supposed to have.
@@starmnsixty1209 Practicals tend to hold value. I can go back and watch older movies and enjoy. I actually find the motion blur and overstimulation on modern CG-heavy movies distracting and annoying :/
Here you go - "On this first day of a new century, we humbly beg forgiveness, and dedicate these last forests of our once-beautiful nation, in the hope that they will one day return and grace our fouled Earth. Until that day, may God bless these gardens, and the great men who care for them."
Prayer is from 0:06-0:45 , then it's the opening theme. On this first day, of a new century We humbly beg forgiveness, and dedicate these last forests, of our once beautiful nation In the hope that they will one day return, and grace our fallow Earth Until that day, may God bless these Forests, and the brave men who care for them.
@@goudagirl6095 "Global warming" has been a hot topic since the 1800's - they had the formulas figured out in the late part of the century to tell that CO2 is not a good thing to be spewing uncontrolled. Climate change and global warming are bad titles for what is happening. How about terraforming? Because that's what we are really doing. We are artificially changing our climate to something we might not really like.
God bless Douglas Trumbull for giving us the largest studio model spaceship ever made and the most complex for a long time. RiP at 79
This is a great movie for whenever you really just need to cry for a few weeks. Oh my is it emotional!
not wrong, i recall seeing in about 75 as a child and it made me so sad, seeing the little robots etc etc. Have found plans for building one on the net ... it will sit next to our R2D2 in the sitting room...
@@ickleshouse there's plans for the robots, ? (I like bot's in this film, the at the time seem like the could be real robots one days? , the way the moved, the little vents, showed emotion mouth movements, the where mostly silent, (not 100% but in beginning of the film, they where more utility items, like automatic machine tools, but as the film moved on the became more, and more, got names, Huey, Louie and Dewey, by the end you where weeping tears, when anything bad happened the then 😞
but main actor did a great job could not on be easy in essence acting to your self for almost the hole film, long before wish-bag f/x was thing, if it wasn't in front of a camera its not going to be in the film?
Thank you Peter Schickele, for this grand opening prayer in music.
Just love that opening scene and music 👍
Fifty years on and it's still good.
Saw this film when it was released while stationed in Kitzingen, Germany. Still holds up well. Good films always do.👍👍
😥always. Saw movie in 76. Tearful going to school the monday after. Aged 11🇦🇺
This wonderful sequence never fails to bring a lump to my throat. The project is so daring, so noble and yet ultimately so doomed. How could Earth have abandoned it? And how can we, today, have a future if we ignore this lesson?
wow... 50 years ! this movie is so underrated....glad they have not done a remake ! though.
It didn't make enough money for a remake--thank goodness!
Imagine a remake with Chris Pratt and a "joke" every other sentence. Ugh
The reality of it is so much closer now, getting the message to the young could only help. They probably haven't done a remake because it was done so well the first time. A live special effects masterpiece, indeed. CG is just now getting to this point for recreating technical scene. But computers still have issues with the organic elements of the film. Likely another reason they are waiting for a remake. Woody Harrelson might still be young enough to play the lead?
Silent Running...Thank you for Inspiring Untold Generations of Indoor Cannabis Cultivators...
For sure🙄
Great movie. I always loved the Valley Forge and have scratch built a few. I think it's time to add another.
Beautiful march. I wish it was performed more.
God bless Peter Schickele! We all know and love him for PDQ Bach, helping to make classical music accessible to millions around the world. But if he never composed anything else in his life, his compositions for Silent Running would make him a legend in my opinion. I don't understand why "Rejoice In The Sun" isn't the anthem of the Environmental Movement. Can we make this happen?
The movie "Silent running" IS kind of a strong mental symbol for many in the environmental movement ! The Marlon Brando/Tarita version of the "Mutiny on the Bounty" movie in my view is a symbol for the "romantic environmental scene" perhaps as strong as "Silent running", even more if one takes into consideration the "soundtrack", that is, Bronislaw Kaper's FANTASTIC "Follow me ! - Mutiny on the Bounty Love Song" - especially the following version: "ruclips.net/video/DjgKs5_wITQ/видео.html" (always drives MANY tears into my eyes, bringing back the memories of Tahiti paradise and very beautiful but in the end very sad Tarita ... 😭😭 !!!! )
The problem with the environmental movement now, unlike back in 1971-72. Is nothing but a graft, corruption and greed movement that could careless about the environment. How, can I say this? Why do they buy multi-million dollar homes right on the beach, when sea-level will raise 40-70 feet in five to ten years? And homeowners policy will not cover that loss.? Hmmm, maybe I missing something 🤔!
Hearing this fanfare again after many years, I now wonder if it inspired the theme for the original Battlestar Galactica series. Very similar vibe and arrangement.
RIP Peter Schickele
Fantastic movie. Heart wrenching! Bruce Dern is perfect as the crazy-eyed last tree hugger. And are the robots people in costume walking on their...hands? Sure looks that way to me.
Yes they are. They are played by four actors that lost their legs. They walk on their hands in the film. :-)
@@KittyKatt_Luna80s imagine that classified in daily variety
@@KittyKatt_Luna80s they looked it was a lot more than just leg, imagen the trauma the most of had, on there life's, and to end up playing part of three of the most (trio of robots) in a signal one film, hope still around, to bask to glory of the part in it? (there was behind the sines making of film somewhere (youtube probley with act semi out of costume playing robots, it as said it was filmed mainly on an decommissioned aircraft carrier called in real life "Valley Forge, used as the interior of the spaceship Valley Forge the one in the film?
Perhaps somewhat ironically, my Dad took me to see it at the Cinerama Dome.
Boy, Fred Willard's voice changed a lot between 1971 and Wall-E!
But seriously, great movie, and RIP Peter Schickele.
Better than star wars. Yeah I said it whatcha gonna do about it?
saw this when it was new as well as Star Wars. Have to say it affected me more deeply.
Two different genres. Star Wars is science fantasy. Silent Running is science fiction (fact?).
Agree with you, and whaddaya gonna do about THAT?
Well we are well on our way to this path.
After all these years, I still don’t get the reason for destroying the forests and fauna. Gawd, that last remaining robot made me cry. So lonely. I would figure each living pod to be equipt with supplies to continue the life for each pod a couple hundred years. The main part of the ships can rendezvous with Earth after the post apocalyptic events on Earth. Am I missing something?
I think it's just to emphasize how heartless and "pragmatic" the people back on earth have become. It kind of reflects the general sentiment of the time: if something isn't useful, you just "throw it away", like an empty soda can. The famous "Crying Indian" PSA illustrates how careless average people were with disposing of garbage in the early '70s, as well as a growing concern for how disposable everything had become (from a consumer standpoint at least). It wasn't too much of a stretch to imagine a society eventually considering the Earth's ecosystem to be similarly disposable if something "better" (presumably of a high tech nature) came along to replace it. As Lowell laments: "Everywhere you go on Earth the temperature is exactly 75 degrees..."
The nuclear destruct is probably just a comment on how eager some people were at the time to use that option whenever possible. Compare with Universal's other big sci-fi movie of the time, "The Andromeda Strain" (which was actually shown in a double bull with this one), which had *two* nuclear destruct options, one to blow up the infected town and one to cauterize the Wildfire lab in case of an outbreak. It's worth noting that there was a government program at the time researching the use of nuclear weapons for peaceful purposes (eg large scale construction projects). I don't know about you, but this seems absolutely mad by today's standards and I think average people even back then must have sensed something really messed up with that concept.
I agree, why not just jettison the domes and go on your merry way? To destroy them as well seems a pointless slap in the face to any remaining tree-huggers in this future world, which considering the obvious ideological position of the writers is certainly what they were thinking. The nukes represent the trigger-happy older generation in power, the forest represents the environmentally aware younger generation. The audience in 1972 would have gotten the message loud and clear.
I still wish that they would do a remake of this. Or better yet, turn it into a franchise. Disney seems to be out of ideas.
oof.. I remember this one.
This may come to pass if we continue to abuse and ignore what is happening to our planet Earth 🌎... the technology is coming around, but will the compassion be as well...
Except we'll never spend the money to send them out in the first place. Instead you'll hear something like, "The forests are fine. It's all a communist lie spread by Soros-backed scientists and the Deep State. Those photos showing them dying was after they fired Space Lasers at them."
I know it is just a movie, but how was the trees, soil and whatever else inside being able to stay put inside the dome pods that were hanging upside down and sideways.
Artificial gravity.
I am from Europe. What is Valley Forge?
In the movie, Valley Forge was the name of one of the spaceships that carried the last of Earth's ecosystems in domes into orbit around Saturn. The purpose was preservation until one day when they would be returned to Earth and help restore the natural world. At the time of the movie, the entire Earth was at a temperature of 72ºF.
In American history, Valley Forge is where General Washington's troops encamped for the winter of 1777-78. 1,700 to 2,000 soldiers died during that winter. General Washington later became the first President of the United States.
A great film. And yet, another meaningless prayer. Lowell (Bruce Dern) never looked to any “help from above.” He simply took matters into his own hands and did what needed to be done.
Anybody have any insights as to why the illusion totally doesn’t work on these miniature models? Unlike most sci-fi of the era, these just look like toys. Is it the lighting? Lack of fine detail? I can’t put my finger on it other than it clearly looks cheap and fake compared to 2001 space odyssey, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.
Hard to say. There's a LOT of fine detail, but very little weathering. Maybe the way they were filmed? Tilt-shift photography can make something look tiny, so maybe there's an opposite technique to make small things not look small. The footage is also a little jerky, like they're missing half or more of the frames. The parallax in the shots with two ships may be a bit off for the scale they're supposed to have.
Disagree.
@@googiegress Or possibly you have simply been jaded by too much CGI effects?
@@starmnsixty1209 Practicals tend to hold value. I can go back and watch older movies and enjoy. I actually find the motion blur and overstimulation on modern CG-heavy movies distracting and annoying :/
Are you BLIND? 😎
"NOPE"
what did it say???????????????????????????????????????????////
Here you go -
"On this first day of a new century,
we humbly beg forgiveness,
and dedicate these last forests of our once-beautiful nation,
in the hope that they will one day return and grace our fouled Earth.
Until that day, may God bless these gardens,
and the great men who care for them."
i am a deaf person, i'd be grateful if every video was closed captioned.this is NOT so thumbs down
Prayer is from 0:06-0:45
, then it's the opening theme.
On this first day, of a new century
We humbly beg forgiveness, and dedicate these last forests, of our once beautiful nation
In the hope that they will one day return, and grace our fallow Earth
Until that day, may God bless these Forests, and the brave men who care for them.
Good movie, global warming nuts must love it
Hot enough for you?
This came out around the first big "pollution bad" push in the 70s...guided by the Club of Rome, who more or less "invented" global warming.
@@goudagirl6095 "Global warming" has been a hot topic since the 1800's - they had the formulas figured out in the late part of the century to tell that CO2 is not a good thing to be spewing uncontrolled. Climate change and global warming are bad titles for what is happening. How about terraforming? Because that's what we are really doing. We are artificially changing our climate to something we might not really like.