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The Omega Man | Post-apocalyptic Future
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Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture | 1971 | Rosalind
Box Office Collection 8,720,000 USD
The writers came up with the idea to make Neville's love interest an African-American woman. Even though an interracial relationship was still considered controversial in the seventies, the writers figured that in a world where humanity had almost become extinct, the few survivors would no longer care about such issues.
The production company wanted a locale that looked like an abandoned metropolitan area, but it was too costly to build. The producer drove through downtown Los Angeles one weekend and discovered there were no shoppers, so the majority of the film's exteriors were shot there on weekends.
The façade/set used for Neville's fortress/home still stands relatively unchanged on Warner Brothers Ranch Park Boulevard (formerly Columbia Ranch) in Burbank. It can be easily seen using Google-Maps 3D. The façade faces east-southeast.
Rosalind Cash was uneasy before her love scene with Charlton Heston, saying "It feels strange to screw Moses." Whoopi Goldberg has remarked that the kiss between the characters played by Charlton Heston and Rosalind Cash was one of the first interracial kisses to appear in a movie.
Charlton Heston had read the original novel on an airplane coming back to Los Angeles, and was very interested in a modern adaptation of the book. He was totally unaware of the fact it had already been made into a film years before as The Last Man on Earth (1964), starring Vincent Price.
"[first lines] [the last man on Earth wrecks his car] Neville: There's never a cop around when you need one."
"[after the Family has taken Neville into the "little room" for questioning] Neville: Tell me something, would you? Are you fellas really with the Internal Revenue Service?"
