When you agree to wear nothing but a red cloth diaper, hip-high hero boots and an ammo bandolier for money, you are demonstrating commitment to your profession. RIP Connery
Sean Connery quickly would change the subject during interviews if the subject of "ZarDoz" came up. Just like Michael Landon and "I Was A Teenage WereWolf".
I heart Zardoz. Any movie that starts with a floating head saying "The gun is good...the penis is evil...go forth and kill" is a classic. I watched it for the first time this weekend - it was pretty ahead of its time.
. .. and then VOMITING GUNS! "ahead of its time"? .. . I duno. I mean it came out during the EARLY 70s when A LOT of weird trippy far-out psychedelic flicks were getting made.
And did you even understood what the point of the movie was? Because there was a point to it. But many just saw a flying head vomiting guns and that was it for them.
This is the movie that inducted me into a lifelong fan of Beethoven’s 7th symphony. The ending made such an impact to me when I saw it as a child. The music left a deep impression on me.
Me as well, Beethoven’s seventh Symphony was engrained on my mind. This movie had a strong impression on my youth. Who wants and needs to live forever?!
This film is silly in some ways, but it dared to be different. In some respects it was a precursor to many later films with a "things are not as they seem" twist. And of course it was a deeply philosophical film asking an important question: what would you do for an eternity? Would you really want to live forever? Watching this film, one thing was certain: I was never bored.
People kind of forget how many future dystopia/future imperfect movies there were at this time. The Planet of the Apes series was probably the most famous and this was sort of what scifi was focusing on heavily up until Star Wars which realigned it rather heavily.
It is a movie to some but a religion to others. Know that most of us refuse to acknowledge that "the book which Zed found and whichs name shall not be spoken out loud" has unvailed the mystery and diminished the glory of the master. It hasnt, and he is eternal! Hail Zardoz!
I'd like to here more about this perspective of belief, Oksana Koprakova. It matters not if you spoke in jest or with sincerity, your words have taken me on a journey. Thank you. You see, each of us ascertain what truth means to us actively through the progression of our lives, right, n I spend many a moment speculating on, well.. what would you even call it... let's see.. the study of truth..?. reality.. maybe not study.... the observation.... the active choice to observe our own subconscious curiosities.......... what it means to be a human.... to exist.. what is purpose... or lack thereof.. ? do we need purpose.......... where did you learn about purpose...... why should 'different' cause a desire to create hierarchies...?... does my happiness look the same as your happiness...?.. .... what's believe... ?.. in what do we... should we believe..... ...... what is..... what isn't.. the absolute hilarity of the fact that absolutes cannot, comprehensibly exist.................... each of us have different beliefs and perceptions of reality, whether it be philosophical, religious etc. n I just fuckin love that, I get such a beautiful rush when I think about it. Isn't life a gnarly thought. Anyhow, the fact that truth is subjective means everything has the possibility of being real in its own right. My perspective fundamentally relies on everything and nothing being one and the same. So having said that, please do elaborate ★★ ★ ★ ★★★ :)
I have a feeling that moment of pointing a gun at the cameraman, and probably the director standing next to him, was a moment of serious Connery wish fulfillment
Get this: The director had a small role in the film where Connery shoots him. The director had something lodged into his head that had to be removed a week later.
Interesting way to put it: Logan's Run, everyone in the Dome dies at 30 and people can't get out. Zardoz, everyone in the Dome (kinda) lives forever and people can't get in. Good observation.
They've been using them for like 600 years now I don't think the idea is getting stale. Like, fire and throwing things are two of the troika of factors that raise us above beasts (the third is exchange of information, perhaps the most fundamentally human activity). All animals fear fire but man, a bare handful can be considered to throw anything in the sense of using a manipulatory organ to cast a foreign projectile and for the vast majority that do, it's usually their own shit. We throw to kill, and some of our earliest tools are things to shoot with, so "Use fire to shoot rock!" appeals to the inner cave-man. The Gun, in fact, Is Good.
@@1neAdam12 Nope, i'm passing a comment on the opening scenes. The power of the mind came much later. How he turned a bird that was hell bent of having him killed as an 'it' for example.
If you explain the plot of the film to someone, they're interested....until they watch it. I actually do like this crazy film but it's an acquired taste for most folks.
Also: a vastly powerful nulti-user computer network (the Tabernacle); all individuals being computer chipped; constant monitoring of people's thoughts and activities; computer storage of people's memories; cloning; exploitation of the poverty-stricken masses by the privileged few. And yes, the thoroughly dated hippyish bits and the impenetrably wtf?! bits do compromise the film somewhat. You have to either ignore those bits, or accept them without question. The book clarifies much of it, too.
Impenetrable WTF enhances this film, the plot of which is not necessarily as detailed as you lay out although that's fine too. I prefer to just experience it without too much interpretation.
@@Retro-Future-Land The year after the film, 1974, the film's director, John Boorman (Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Excalibur, etc) published a novel of the film in order to clarify what the hell it was all about.
You could NEVER confuse this film with any other, could you? "Zardoz" is one of THE great "Gotta Watch This Again" films... I'm currently writing the official "Making of
From what I read, John Boorman made this as a response to his frustrations with adapting Lord of the Rings into a film. Imagine if he made that instead of Peter Jackson. 😖
The movie doesn't really make sense but the book version fixes this. In the movie for-instance there's a flippant mention that they went to space and it was a dead-end, but of course they weren't all that old so that made absolutely no sense they couldn't have gone far done much of anything, in the book they are the "control group" on earth, all the technology is for those other groups who are out there on their way to places in space (no faster then light, that's what the immortality was for, the force-fields, the gravity control for the ships)
if u had looked closely u would have noticed a bunch of little red things falling out next to the guns. presumably cartridges. i guess a closer look might reveal other kinds of ammo. tho imo the problem there is that since he gave them a shitload of different kinds of guns itd be a hassle to sort thru all the ammo to match up the kinds. itd be much more practical to just give them all the same model of rifle or pistol so they dont need to worry about that
Vartox was modeled after Connery in this movie. There were attempts to try redesigning the character, but ultimately the *Zardoz* tribute design kept coming back.
Banks and investment advisors talked very strongly up about Disney in 1986. I shook my head to say no. Very powerful people asked why to bankers and advisors Their reasons were all the same...money magazines and press said it was a buy. I make up my mind. At that time, I had 25 years into finance. It is always nice when listened to for my unsolicited opinions.
Indeed, by the end of the film some of them get a bit rapey and I think Sean Connery's character showed him ravishing some woman after chasing her on horseback, although even that may have been a ploy to pass himself off as a simple Brutal so as not to provoke a response from the Eternals?
This movie has some really good ideas. Search engines, getting bored with eternal life, people seperating themselves from rougher people in the future, to name a few. It is though very dated and has a lot of stupid bits that ruin it.
You talk like this movie took itself seriously. There's no way to present all these ideas without a bit of "Silliness". The budget wouldn't allow for that. If it was more serious, THEN it would be dated beyond redemption like so many 70's sci-fi movies.
![Dune - Space Folding [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gVEQRj_WJG4/mqdefault.jpg)
When you agree to wear nothing but a red cloth diaper, hip-high hero boots and an ammo bandolier for money, you are demonstrating commitment to your profession. RIP Connery
It's supposed to be a cod-piece and not a diaper but funny words bro. :)
Great eulogy. Connery is grinning. Don't bring up the wedding dress though.
Sean lost the 007 gig and was in a wealthy career break partying mood late 60s early 70s , a good time for that vacation
Sean Connery quickly would change the subject during interviews if the subject of "ZarDoz" came up. Just like Michael Landon and "I Was A Teenage WereWolf".
@@danceswithdogs2041 wouldn't you?
I heart Zardoz. Any movie that starts with a floating head saying "The gun is good...the penis is evil...go forth and kill" is a classic. I watched it for the first time this weekend - it was pretty ahead of its time.
. .. and then VOMITING GUNS! "ahead of its time"? .. . I duno. I mean it came out during the EARLY 70s when A LOT of weird trippy far-out psychedelic flicks were getting made.
And did you even understood what the point of the movie was? Because there was a point to it. But many just saw a flying head vomiting guns and that was it for them.
it’s great but the pacing is terrible by the third act
If its so evil, then why does Zardoz have it's exterminators wear THOSE outfits?
Did he really say the penis is evil? Wtf? What’s the context and meaning behind this. Some say it’s pretentious.
Director/writer/producer John Boorman in the DVD commentary admits that he was stoned during most of the filming. And it shows.
Thank you Zardoz for giving us all meaning and purpose in this life! lol
This is the movie that inducted me into a lifelong fan of Beethoven’s 7th symphony. The ending made such an impact to me when I saw it as a child. The music left a deep impression on me.
Me as well, Beethoven’s seventh Symphony was engrained on my mind. This movie had a strong impression on my youth. Who wants and needs to live forever?!
Yeah! Lugding van’s 7th !
Absolutely, did the exact same to me, strange.
Same here!
"Free samples! Grenades! Rifles! Everything must go!"
Grenades, hurray! Bullets, yay! Grenades, hurray!
The Zardoz Bank Holiday sale, pop down to your local vortex showroom.
This film is silly in some ways, but it dared to be different. In some respects it was a precursor to many later films with a "things are not as they seem" twist. And of course it was a deeply philosophical film asking an important question: what would you do for an eternity? Would you really want to live forever?
Watching this film, one thing was certain: I was never bored.
People kind of forget how many future dystopia/future imperfect movies there were at this time. The Planet of the Apes series was probably the most famous and this was sort of what scifi was focusing on heavily up until Star Wars which realigned it rather heavily.
This film is silly in every way. I have never laughed so hard in my life.
It is a movie to some but a religion to others. Know that most of us refuse to acknowledge that "the book which Zed found and whichs name shall not be spoken out loud" has unvailed the mystery and diminished the glory of the master. It hasnt, and he is eternal! Hail Zardoz!
I'd like to here more about this perspective of belief, Oksana Koprakova.
It matters not if you spoke in jest or with sincerity, your words have taken me on a journey. Thank you.
You see, each of us ascertain what truth means to us actively through the progression of our lives, right, n I spend many a moment speculating on, well.. what would you even call it... let's see.. the study of truth..?. reality.. maybe not study.... the observation.... the active choice to observe our own subconscious curiosities.......... what it means to be a human.... to exist.. what is purpose... or lack thereof.. ? do we need purpose.......... where did you learn about purpose...... why should 'different' cause a desire to create hierarchies...?... does my happiness look the same as your happiness...?.. .... what's believe... ?.. in what do we... should we believe..... ...... what is..... what isn't.. the absolute hilarity of the fact that absolutes cannot, comprehensibly exist.................... each of us have different beliefs and perceptions of reality, whether it be philosophical, religious etc. n I just fuckin love that, I get such a beautiful rush when I think about it.
Isn't life a gnarly thought.
Anyhow, the fact that truth is subjective means everything has the possibility of being real in its own right.
My perspective fundamentally relies on everything and nothing being one and the same.
So having said that, please do elaborate ★★ ★ ★ ★★★ :)
I have a feeling that moment of pointing a gun at the cameraman, and probably the director standing next to him, was a moment of serious Connery wish fulfillment
Get this: The director had a small role in the film where Connery shoots him. The director had something lodged into his head that had to be removed a week later.
Hope he verified it wasn't loaded first. He wouldn't want to be in Alec Baldwin's shoes.
ZARDOZ: Logan's Run in reverse and on steroids...
Or, is Logan's Run Zardoz being played at fast forward?
Interesting way to put it: Logan's Run, everyone in the Dome dies at 30 and people can't get out. Zardoz, everyone in the Dome (kinda) lives forever and people can't get in. Good observation.
The Cock Carousel is Evil.
don't try to make sense of it. Just obey the floating talking head because it looks and sounds threatening.
Amazing movie. One of my favorites.
Almost 300 years into the future and they still use combustion powered projectiles. Fascinating.
probably what they said in the 1600s about us.
They've been using them for like 600 years now I don't think the idea is getting stale. Like, fire and throwing things are two of the troika of factors that raise us above beasts (the third is exchange of information, perhaps the most fundamentally human activity). All animals fear fire but man, a bare handful can be considered to throw anything in the sense of using a manipulatory organ to cast a foreign projectile and for the vast majority that do, it's usually their own shit. We throw to kill, and some of our earliest tools are things to shoot with, so "Use fire to shoot rock!" appeals to the inner cave-man. The Gun, in fact, Is Good.
fascinating angelbearoh? A very Vulcan response.
But you're missing the most powerful of all weapons, the mind.
@@1neAdam12 Nope, i'm passing a comment on the opening scenes. The power of the mind came much later. How he turned a bird that was hell bent of having him killed as an 'it' for example.
It’s like those stone faces that come flying at you in _Space Harrier_
RIP Sean Connery
One of my favorite all-time movies.
A fabulous movie
These NRA commercials are getting weird.
Fuck NRA
I'm very pro guns but absolutrly fuck the NRA.
Bhahahahah
@@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517 I sense that you are contradicting yourself. What has the NRA done to you?
@@tucolucious7128 Control YOUR children, not MY guns.
3:33
*James Bond theme plays as the screen turns red*
If you explain the plot of the film to someone, they're interested....until they watch it. I actually do like this crazy film but it's an acquired taste for most folks.
What you get when 50% of your films budget is pissed away on cocaine.
It is best to catch this somewhere after it has already started and not knowing a thing about it. You will become addicted.
i found a new deity to worship!
At last - a clear depiction of the post Twitter / FB paradise to come.
Why haven't any of the Boutique labels picked this up for 4K distribution? This movie is gold.
"The gun is good... The penis is evil" I think Zardoz is on a U.S. tour right now with stops in all the red states.
Are they touring in a giant stone head?
@@securityrobot Nah, they just put the drummer in there.
All those guns and no ammo.
Sean Connery shoots at the viewer in a lot of his movies.
At least seven of them.
ZARDOZ IS OUR TRUE LORD AND MESSIAH.
Tbh I would've probably worshipped a giant floating head too if it gave me free guns and stuff
Note: tired af when I wrote this
Honestly those masks look pretty sick too. Just be sure to wear something besides the apparent uniform of the Exterminators
Welcome to my Christmas card list.
Also: a vastly powerful nulti-user computer network (the Tabernacle); all individuals being computer chipped; constant monitoring of people's thoughts and activities; computer storage of people's memories; cloning; exploitation of the poverty-stricken masses by the privileged few. And yes, the thoroughly dated hippyish bits and the impenetrably wtf?! bits do compromise the film somewhat. You have to either ignore those bits, or accept them without question. The book clarifies much of it, too.
Book?
Impenetrable WTF enhances this film, the plot of which is not necessarily as detailed as you lay out although that's fine too. I prefer to just experience it without too much interpretation.
Financed and Directed by L'chaim Shekelbergblattgoldstein & Söhnes Production Co.
Book? Zardoz was off screen-play only wasn't it?
@@Retro-Future-Land The year after the film, 1974, the film's director, John Boorman (Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Excalibur, etc) published a novel of the film in order to clarify what the hell it was all about.
The original, in real time that it made it to a special movie channel for a free week, was spectacular!
Still remains a fav.!
This film is torture. The costumes, the plot, the acting, the dialogue...everything about this film...is torture!
"Go forth and kill", clearly the opposite of what (presumably) Jesus said to his followers: "Go forth, and multiply".
You could NEVER confuse this film with any other, could you? "Zardoz" is one of THE great "Gotta Watch This Again" films... I'm currently writing the official "Making of
Did you spot the car windscreen (probably belonging to a crew member) in shot when the stone head is floating in the mist / fog?
Today I heard of the passing of Sir Sean Connery. This is my fondest memory of him.
A reverse gun buy back.
This should be shown as educational material at a feminist convention.
This is what happens when feminism wins.
I'm desperate about to see this scene on IMAX some day!! :)
happening now..gated communities for the rich and artsy fartsy
man the movie industry was more creative when they used to do a lot of drugs
Hello. Crazy. Madness...but one hell of a party at the end. Thank you very much.
How can something sooo bad,be sooooo good.😊
ZARDOZ AND WIZARDS WERE BOTH REACTIONS BY DIRECTOR WHO COULD NOT MAKE LOTR. SO, THE CAME UP WITH SOMETHING ORIGIONAL.
Wizards is so F'n Good!
NECRON99!
From what I read, John Boorman made this as a response to his frustrations with adapting Lord of the Rings into a film. Imagine if he made that instead of Peter Jackson. 😖
The movie doesn't really make sense but the book version fixes this. In the movie for-instance there's a flippant mention that they went to space and it was a dead-end, but of course they weren't all that old so that made absolutely no sense they couldn't have gone far done much of anything, in the book they are the "control group" on earth, all the technology is for those other groups who are out there on their way to places in space (no faster then light, that's what the immortality was for, the force-fields, the gravity control for the ships)
ZARDOZ, in the image of Darwin, the trickster made him. In the image of a man, a God named Darwin, ZARDOZ is.
The Connery was good
Praise be to ZardoZ! The gun is good! Not sure about the other stuff.
Connery’s best role
😆
The sky may be send me here
Did he just slide rack a revolver?
Webley-Fosbery
That "the penis is evil" part though 🤣
Old but Gold
wiZARD of OZ
ZEALOTS MANIPULATED BY AN ELITE
Pretty much how our history has been, there is always an elite controlling the ill minded and the poor pays it.
2:20 And a meme was born!
Wow! Did Connery have a Webley-Fosbury there??
He carried it throughout the movie as his primary firearm.
looks awesome i want to see it now!
This is the funniest movie ever made. The only thing it lacked was Marty Feldman.
Agreed. Having direct experience of your deity would help a great deal.
3:33 Sean Connery shot the director for making this torturous film!!
Brian Johnson's "dont die" movment in the future.
Get Schwiffty...
I half expected the floating head to say, 'Show me what you've got!",you kno the ol Rick an Morty show lol
Basically the creed of the environmental antinatalists.
why isnt that head a meme yet
Ever watch Rick and morty?
Do a Google image search for "Rick and morty zardoz"
Oh my god, so this is what the Gazorpazorp episode of Rick and Morty was referencing. Nice.
Lol, indeed.
Dated ...... Dated .... Dated ...... or is it?
A head scene , gun shoots everywhere.
Not only does Zardoz look like Ted Cruz, but if Ted Cruz had a cult, this would be it.
Jeez you’re a moron
Whaddaya mean "if?"
"И летает голова то вверх, то вниз..."
© Пикник
id rather watch this movie that has a point then movies like i am legend or cloverfield that are just to stimulate your eyes not your mind
This movie has a point?
@@dkupke Yeah if you had brain which you obviously dont
RIP
Dropping Looooads.....
Has anyone else heard this in a Doom WAD?
Australia needs Zardoz
Who read this thing and said "yes, this is what our movie studio will spend money on!"
Fallout 5 lookin' kinda funky
Interesting observation!
So does the head provide ammo too?
if u had looked closely u would have noticed a bunch of little red things falling out next to the guns. presumably cartridges. i guess a closer look might reveal other kinds of ammo. tho imo the problem there is that since he gave them a shitload of different kinds of guns itd be a hassle to sort thru all the ammo to match up the kinds. itd be much more practical to just give them all the same model of rifle or pistol so they dont need to worry about that
Ammo was in the red bandoleers, though does need to drop off more
Yep, you can see it spilling out just prior to the guns shooting out.
I’ve always wanted a Webley Fosbury revolver … but do I have to wear a red diaper if I get one?
All I can think about is Vartox from the Superman comic.
Vartox was modeled after Connery in this movie. There were attempts to try redesigning the character, but ultimately the *Zardoz* tribute design kept coming back.
So basically it's just a lot of guns and the state of Texas.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" Albert Einstein
Where are the Gwendolyn dolls?
2:16
Thanks Fino
Two questions. Is this Afghanistan? Should it be?
2:56 Congress giving Ukraine guns
😂
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!
James Bond wearing Vampirella's costume:))))
Banks and investment advisors talked very strongly up about Disney in 1986.
I shook my head to say no.
Very powerful people asked why to bankers and advisors
Their reasons were all the same...money magazines and press said it was a buy.
I make up my mind. At that time, I had 25 years into finance.
It is always nice when listened to for my unsolicited opinions.
stone head = karl marx
The silence when he said the penis is evil, it's like they didn't agree
Indeed, by the end of the film some of them get a bit rapey and I think Sean Connery's character showed him ravishing some woman after chasing her on horseback, although even that may have been a ploy to pass himself off as a simple Brutal so as not to provoke a response from the Eternals?
Only the Exterminators are allowed to freely breed without interference. The penis is only evil if it’s unchecked Brutal breeding
This movie has some really good ideas.
Search engines, getting bored with eternal life, people seperating themselves from rougher people in the future, to name a few.
It is though very dated and has a lot of stupid bits that ruin it.
You talk like this movie took itself seriously. There's no way to present all these ideas without a bit of "Silliness". The budget wouldn't allow for that. If it was more serious, THEN it would be dated beyond redemption like so many 70's sci-fi movies.
I like what you got! good job!!!
basicamente esse é o resumo do capitulo 3 do livro da lei ..
I watch these 70s dystopian movies to get ready for the future. The way shits been going, we could be dressing like that next week.
Well, it looks like the cameraman is dead! Lol!
Nah, he was fine. The revolver wasn't loaded.
@@AteshSeruhn Its not the set of Rust
These NRA conventions are crazy