Silent Running is 54 years old today.

[retroist@mastodon.social]

Silent Running is 54 years old today. A thoughtful, melancholy science fiction classic that still feels distinct all these years later. Bruce Dern carries so much of that lonely haunted mood, and its stayed with me ever since I saw it for the first time.

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[rhosyn@masto.hackers.town]

@retroist I don't think I've watched it more than twice, even though I own it. It's seared indelibly into my memory, and is as painful as it is beautiful.

[disputatore@masto.pt]

@retroist I think I was a kid when I saw this movie. I cried my fucking eyes out.

[maker_of_things@cupoftea.social]

@retroist
Also, the background behind the maintenance drones, and the actors inside them.

1971 - "Silent Running" Drones - Doug Trumbull, Don Trumbull, Paul Kraus & James Dow (American) - cyberneticzoo.com

Silent Running depicts a future in which all plant life on Earth is extinct. The resident botanist enlists the spaceship's 3 service robots, called drones.

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