Zardoz!! Trippy 1974 cult classic - have you seen this fab film?
Apr 4 2007 03:19
Hello peeps
I am all about this film!
It has been referenced - bizarrely! - in the thread in News on heart stem cells and there has been a few posts on there so i thought i would start a thread here to prevent continued derailment!! There are a couple of cool clip links there also..
So who has seen this?
For those who haven't it was made in 1974 and stars Sean Connery and is set in the future. There are these rich indolent peeps who just loll around eating grapes and having sex and stuff and are terminally bored because they are immortal. They shield themselves from the outside world where these nasty primmos known as the Brutals live. Then there is this bizarre giant stone head that floats around giving weird orders and edicts such as "Guns are good! The penis is evil"! And issuing guns and stuff. Funnily enough macho lothario Sean's character is not all about this philosophy(the anti-sex bit!! ) 
and resolves to uncover the secret of the Zardoz head! Weird trippy film with some great outfits.. well worth seeing!!
Love
LW X
Apr 4 2007 03:38
#2
x357997 wrote:
ZARDOZ is the spectacle.....gasp!
Apr 4 2007 03:57
#3
Connery learns about lorrys, mice and the Bourgeois spectacle that is ZARDOZ:
Apr 4 2007 07:18
#4
Why are 70s sci-fi films so pessimistic - Zardoz, omega man, planet of the apes, silent running - every one of them is bleak. Then Star Wars came along and good won over evil and everyone lived happily ever after.
Apr 4 2007 09:48
#5
mitr wrote:
Why are 70s sci-fi films so pessimistic - Zardoz, omega man, planet of the apes, silent running - every one of them is bleak. Then Star Wars came along and good won over evil and everyone lived happily ever after.
Which proves once and for all that optimism is for fat, obsessive losers who wear stupid t-shirts 
Apr 4 2007 10:43
#6
some sci-fa for you sci-fiers: http://libcom.org/history/1973-skylab-4-mutiny
Apr 4 2007 10:55
#7
Joseph K. wrote:
some sci-fa for you sci-fiers: http://libcom.org/history/1973-skylab-4-mutiny
Apr 4 2007 11:11
#8
CLASS WAR... IN... SPACE...
(This has to become some sort of Classwar spoof. JK, I'm counting on you!)
Apr 4 2007 11:15
#9
photoshop's at home, so any class war visual jokes are 6 hours away at least 
though if someone wants to write some fan fiction? "14 months into the mars mission, class war's crew were beginning to regret barbecuing the ship's pilot as a "middle class bastard." Why hadn't they stuck to burning dodgy racially caricatured effigies? ..."
Apr 4 2007 11:16
#10
Joseph K. wrote:
photoshop's at home, so any class war visual jokes are 6 hours away at leastthough if someone wants to write some fan fiction? "14 months into the mars mission, class war's crew were beginning to regret barbecuing the ship's pilot as a "middle class bastard" ..."
Sounds like Red Dwarf.
ZARDOZ is the spectacle.....gasp!
