Zardoz (1973)

[steve12553]

Re: Zardoz

I saw the movie on one of the movie channels in the early eighties and just have vague impressions of it. After seeing the trailer off the Youtube link, I apparently need to see it again. I suprised noone had mentioned what the name is a bastardization of. _ _ Z A R D _ _ OZ.

 

[littlemissattitude]

Re: Zardoz

Okay. I went and read the Wikipedia article you linked, j.d., and I'll concede that perhaps I need to see this one again. I still feel a little squicky about it, but the explanation there did pique my interest.

One of the things that bothered me about the whole experience of seeing the film when it first came out was that I totally didn't get the Oz connection. Also, obviously, there were some things that went over my 17-year-old head when I saw it the first time.

So, if I run across it, I might give it another try.

 

[j d worthington]

Re: Zardoz

Yes, that was one of the more strange touches (yet very much a traditional sort of reference in sf, even before the Golden Age): the use of that gigantic head and "Oz the Great and Terrible"... something Stephen King used in a somewhat different (but equally quirky) way in Pet Sematary....

 

[littlemissattitude]

Re: Zardoz

Yes, that was one of the more strange touches (yet very much a traditional sort of reference in sf, even before the Golden Age): the use of that gigantic head and "Oz the Great and Terrible"... something Stephen King used in a somewhat different (but equally quirky) way in Pet Sematary....

Now I"m going to have to go back and read Pet Semetary again, because I really don't remember that. Then again, I spent a lot of time while I was reading that book being really ticked off at King because I felt like he was playing with my emotions unfairly. In fact, I nearly didn't finish it at the time, I was so upset with it and with him.

 

[CBellenis]

Re: Zardoz

Like a few others I loved it when it came out (And it established Beethoven's 7th as one of my 'desert island discs).

Saw it on TV again more recently...and wondered if I might have been a bit on the pretentious side to have enjoyed it so much back then (but aren't many teenagers?). My advice to anyone not gripped in the 70s is not to try again - it really is of it's time