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Silent Running Movie Review

Starring: Bruce Dern
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All the trees are gone from the earth. Scientist-astronaut Freeman Lovell (Dern) is a crewmember on a spaceship carrying miniature ecological niches in giant greenhouses -- perhaps someday to seed other planets. Orders come from earth to give up the mission and destroy the ecocultures, but Dern mutinies with the help of some miniature robots nicknamed Huey, Louis and Dewey. For once the scraggly, crotchety persona that has made Dern a heavy in so many other movies makes him an ecological hero in this 1971 film, whose pedigree is pretty interesting: first-time director Douglas Trumbull had done special effects work on 2001 and The Andromeda Strain; co-writers were Michael Cimino and Deric Washburn (both later to work on The Deer Hunter), and Steven Bochco (LA Law, NYPD Blue). The film was scored by Peter Schickele!
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Plot
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact Yes
Robots & Computers & VR Yes
Plotlet: - helpful robots doing good
Environmental disaster? - surviving a post environmental/nuclear disaster - preventing ecological disaster

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - scientist
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric
Events of movie makes character more... - aggressive - sad - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Robot
How much in movie? - 40%

Main Adversary
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average Intelligence
Physical condition - average physique
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged

Setting
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human freighter/transport - really, really giant spaceship/station
Takes place in spaceship? Yes
Water? Yes
Forests? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Tone of movie - spiritual
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing
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