Overview
Release Date:
6 February 1974 (USA)
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Tagline:
Beyond 1984, Beyond 2001, Beyond Love, Beyond Death
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Plot:
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 1 nomination
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User Comments:
Nothing like it ever made!
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Additional Details
Runtime:
105 min
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Fun Stuff
Trivia:
John Boorman made this film on the rebound, after his project to film The Lord of the Rings was canceled.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When the exterminators on horseback are killing the brutals, tire tracks can be seen on the wet beach sand.
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Quotes:
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first lines]
Arthur Frayn:
I am Arthur Frayn, and I am Zardoz. I have lived three hundred years, and I long to die. But death is no longer possible. I am immortal. I present now my story, full of mystery and intrigue - rich in irony, and most satirical. It is set deep in a possible future...
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Soundtrack:
Symphony No. 7 in A, op. 92, 2nd movement
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I've seen some weird movies in my time! 'The Holy Mountain', 'Human Highway', 'Men behind The Sun', 'Nude For Satan', 'Pink Flamingos', 'Dune', but NOTHING as weird as 'Zardoz'! Nothing!
'Zardoz' has the feel of a Alan Smithee movie. It's like you're watching a movie made by committee or recut behind the director's back. But you see that it is written, produced and directed by John Boorman, the man who made the still dazzling revenge thriller 'Point Blank', and the first rate hillbilly suspense classic 'Deliverance', and you realize that this movie is EXACTLY what Boorman intended it to be. And your mind boggles!
'Zardoz' is neither a mindless sci fi action movie not a serious SF-as-ideas film ala Tarkovsky or Kubrick. It's... well, I don't know WHAT it is! A trippy Dystopian fantasy that cribs a few ideas from other sources (Huxley's Savage, Wells' Eloi and Morlocks, Moorcock's Jherek Carnelian), adds plenty of philosophical gobbledygook, some semi-naked babes, an embarrassed looking pony-tailed Sean Connery, and by the look of it, mixes in a bucket full of psychotropics, and hey presto! you end up with a movie like no other before or since!
'Zardoz' MUST be seen! By you. Right now. Unforgettable.