Zardoz
- 1974
- Tous publics
- 1h 45min
Dans un avenir lointain, un sauvage élevé dans la barbarie réussi à pénétrer dans une communauté d'immortels vivant sous haute protection. Ces êtres, qui à eux seuls préservent les acquis de... Tout lireDans un avenir lointain, un sauvage élevé dans la barbarie réussi à pénétrer dans une communauté d'immortels vivant sous haute protection. Ces êtres, qui à eux seuls préservent les acquis de l'humanité, se lassent de leur longévité.Dans un avenir lointain, un sauvage élevé dans la barbarie réussi à pénétrer dans une communauté d'immortels vivant sous haute protection. Ces êtres, qui à eux seuls préservent les acquis de l'humanité, se lassent de leur longévité.
- Nomination aux 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 nominations au total
- Death
- (voix)
- Young Eternal (Flashback Scene)
- (non crédité)
- Farming Brutal Shot by Zed
- (non crédité)
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- Young Eternal (Flashback Scene)
- (non crédité)
- Young Eternal (Flashback Scene)
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- Tabernacle
- (voix)
- (non crédité)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe opening sequence is an introduction added by Sir John Boorman, at the request of Twentieth Century Fox executives, to help the audience understand this movie.
- GaffesEarly in the film, when the weapons are spewed out of the floating head's mouth, several crew-members' arms and a face, can be seen throwing them.
- Citations
[the gigantic Stone Head hovers before the worshipful horde of Exterminators]
Zardoz: Zardoz speaks to you, His chosen ones.
Exterminators: We are the chosen ones!
Zardoz: You have been raised up from Brutality, to kill the Brutals who multiply, and are legion. To this end, Zardoz your God gave you the gift of the Gun. The Gun is good!
Exterminators: The Gun is good!
Zardoz: The Penis is evil! The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the Gun shoots Death and purifies the Earth of the filth of Brutals. Go forth, and kill! Zardoz has spoken.
- Versions alternativesThe pre-credits sequence featuring Arthur Frayn's disembodied head was added by director John Boorman after the movie was released, as an attempt to explain the plot to audiences that found it hard to understand. Boorman would later declare that the scene didn't work as he wanted it to.
- The Spanish (Spain) released version cut part of the "boner" scene (the breasts-rugging and mud wrestlers on-screen). Later prints and current DVD and video releases are uncut.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Hollywood Aliens & Monsters (1997)
- Bandes originalesSymphony No. 7 Op. 92 II. Allegretto
Written by Ludwig van Beethoven (as Beethoven)
Played by the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest (as Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)
Conducted by Eugen Jochum
There are so many concepts to digest: Civilization's end, immortality, genetic manipulation, artificial intelligence, time control, psychic power, space travel, and on and on and on. If you're the least bit interested in science-fiction, there's more for you in this one movie than you'll find in a year's worth of Star Trek conventions!
Then why do I say it's awful? Well, within this movie's running time are some of the most cheesy moments ever captured on celluloid!
From the opening shots of the hairy-backed, leather-thonged, gun-toting Sean Connery (who at least manages to wear more than most of the rest of the cast), to the catch-cry of the Giant Hovering Stone Head ("The gun is good! The penis is bad!"), as it spews out a torrent of weapons and ammo from its mouth. What about the Eternal's predilection for studying erectile tissue function, by flashing up images of naked mud-wrestling? Or that crazy "wobbling-hands" thing that they do when in some sort of telepathic communion? Completely laughable!
Despite these moments of "cheesy-ness", Zardoz tells an utterly engaging and compelling story. The moment of revelation of the meaning of "Zardoz" took me completely by surprise, even though all the clues had been under my nose right from the beginning! (The Magritte painting "La chateau des Pyrenees", hanging in Frank's house, reminiscent of the hovering stone head, for example.)
If you like hard-core science fiction, and can put up with a few minor flaws, then I think you'll really enjoy Zardoz! It's weird, it's brilliant, it's unique! (Just make sure you watch it while you're wide awake, though, or you may drift off from time to time!)
9 out of 10!
jon :-)
- Jonathan-May
- 26 sept. 2004
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Détails
Box-office
- Budget
- 1 570 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut mondial
- 6 523 $US
- Durée1 heure 45 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 2.39 : 1