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Zardoz
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- 90 feature instances
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Zardoz, released in 1974, is neither a mindless sci-fi action movie nor a serious Science Fiction film à la Tarkovsky or Kubrick. It's... hard to describe, except to say its mind-melting imagery practically defines the concept of the Mind Screw. How Mind-screwy, you ask? What if we told you that it REALLY WAS made on drugs? Still, a plot summary may help.It is 2293 AD. A post-apocalyptic Earth is inhabited mostly by the "Brutals", simple soil-tilling serf types, who are in turn overseen by Exterminators. These Exterminators worship the god Zardoz, a huge, flying, hollow stone head that dispenses weaponry and ammunition by the truckload. One day, an Exterminator named Zed (Sean Connery) gets swept up into the hollow stone head and finds himself in the presence of the Eternals, an elite class who, way back in the 20th century, discovered the secret to immortality and removed themselves from all that penis-having to the rarefied heights.Life has become so meaningless for Eternals that Zed is hailed as manna from heaven. Some, however, see him as a dangerous threat to their status as higher beings. As it turns out, a lot of the Eternal scientists are female, with Consuella (Charlotte Rampling) leading the anti-Zed coalition, while May (Sara Kestelman) feels that studying an odd creature like Zed will answer numerous questions about how the Eternals evolved to their exalted status. They argue all this for a while. However, other Eternals, like Friend (John Alderton), have had quite enough of being immortal and start clamouring for Zed to kill them and end their awful tedium.Fun fact: Writer-Director John Boorman wanted to adapt The Lord of the Rings, but that fell through. It's that project which inspired Zardoz (and his later Excalibur). It's a trippy dystopian fantasy full of psychotropics, philosophical something-or-another, and copious shots of topless women, made by a writer/director who, as previously mentioned, was on massive amounts of drugs during filming, to the point where even he doesn't know what half of the weirdness means.Fun Fact: The DC Comics superhero Vartox's design is an homage to Zed. | |
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Dropped link to Fanservice: Not a Feature - IGNORE | |
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Kill the God | |
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Kill the God: Zed was programmed to shoot Frayn. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Boorman appears as a Brutal who gets shot in the head. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Zed has a flashback about "taking" a Brutal woman, in Zardoz's name. | |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
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Rage Against the Reflection: Zed shooting his former Exterminator self inside the Tabernacle. | |
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All Are Equal in Death | |
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All Are Equal in Death: The final scene has everyone dying, whether shot or just dying of old age. | |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing | |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing: Several of the Eternals (chiefly Consuella) view Zed as subhuman and refer to him as "it" or "the monster". | |
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The Trickster | |
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The Trickster: Arthur Frayn, though he functions as a Trickster Mentor to Zed. | |
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Twist Ending | |
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Twist Ending: Zardoz is... The WiZard of Oz. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers feature the titular entity saying "The gun is good...". Audiences who saw the film were understandably weirded out by the omitted second part, "The penis is evil". | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Arthur Frayn's opening prologue. | |
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| Zardoz / int_1eb49c19 | type |
Stripperiffic | |
| Zardoz / int_1eb49c19 | comment |
Stripperiffic: What else would you call Connery in this movie? Striphorrific? The Eternal women wear midriff-baring two piece outfits with low necklines that look like some sort of I Dream of Jeannie-themed summer collection at JC Penney. | |
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Domed Hometown | |
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Domed Hometown: Where the Eternals live. | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: The scenes after the prologue. It cuts to Zed after he's gained knowledge and shed his Exterminator identity. | |
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Watch It Stoned | |
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Watch It Stoned: Possibly the only way to understand this movie, except Boorman admits he used drugs during filming and even he finds it confusing. | |
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Ring of Power | |
| Zardoz / int_2b726e19 | comment |
Ring of Power: All the Eternals have them. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
| Zardoz / int_2c1f1138 | comment |
He Who Fights Monsters: Zed quotes the Trope Maker, Friedrich Nietzsche. | |
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Thoughtcrime | |
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Thoughtcrime: Eternals that project "negative auras" in second level meditation are punished by aging. | |
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Low Culture, High Tech | |
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Low Culture, High Tech: The barbarian class. | |
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After the End | |
| Zardoz / int_334e48a1 | comment |
After the End: The story takes place centuries after what was probably a nuclear war, and civilization as it was known in the 20th century isn't even a memory to anyone but the Eternals. | |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle! | |
| Zardoz / int_33fa230b | comment |
Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: The scene where Zed reveals how he learned Zardoz was actually The WiZard of Oz makes you think the movie's wrapping up when, in fact, there's still almost an hour to go. | |
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| Zardoz / int_38d02d44 | type |
Batman Gambit | |
| Zardoz / int_38d02d44 | comment |
Batman Gambit: Arthur Frayn's plan to breed a line of smart Exterminators and lure them into a library in the hopes that they would find a way to break into the Vortex and figure out how to destroy it. Once he leads Zed into the library, Arthur is relying on Zed to act as he expects. | |
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| Zardoz / int_38f1a7ed | type |
Defector from Decadence | |
| Zardoz / int_38f1a7ed | comment |
Defector from Decadence: Friend, who winds up with the Exiles before helping to destroy the Eternals. | |
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| Zardoz / int_392372f9 | type |
Actor Allusion | |
| Zardoz / int_392372f9 | comment |
Actor Allusion: In his first scene, Sean Connery aims his gun at the camera and shoots it. | |
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| Zardoz / int_3b39c254 | type |
Dystopia | |
| Zardoz / int_3b39c254 | comment |
Dystopia: The Eternals can live forever, but have become so bored that the Vortex is now their hell. | |
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Crapsaccharine World | |
| Zardoz / int_3b79029a | comment |
Crapsaccharine World: The Vortex. It certainly looks cleaner than the irradiated wasteland of the Brutals, but Zed inevitably learns that looks aren't everything. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
| Zardoz / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: The Eternals' immortality. At first that seemed like a good idea until boredom set in and with no way to end it. | |
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Deadly Distant Finale | |
| Zardoz / int_3e99481a | comment |
Deadly Distant Finale: After Consuella pairing up with Zed, a montage of pictures of them is shown with Ludwig van Beethoven's 7th Symphony as background music. They start a family, their child grows up, while they age, he eventually leaves the family, the die, they grow old and die and only their skeletons remains at the end. | |
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Immortality Hurts | |
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Immortality Hurts: Because no Eternal can die, the only available punishment is aging the offender into senility. | |
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Two-Faced | |
| Zardoz / int_461defa0 | comment |
Two-Faced: Friend is either half-geriatric or slowly succumbing to being aged. Half of his face is old while the other is unchanged. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
| Zardoz / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: The rolling Irish hills sure are gorgeous. | |
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Body Horror | |
| Zardoz / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: The immortals punish the criminal by speed-aging the offender. The more you resist, the closer you get to endless senility... | |
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Crossdresser | |
| Zardoz / int_5e4fa749 | comment |
Crossdresser: The Renegades need to get Zed away from rioting Eternals that want to kill him... so they dress him up in a wedding dress. | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack: They get a lot of mileage out of Beethoven's Symphony #7. | |
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Only One Name | |
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Only One Name: The titular god. | |
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Gun Porn | |
| Zardoz / int_67e53056 | comment |
Gun Porn: Much more literal than most examples. Note the scene where a fountain of guns spills out of the giant floating head. | |
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Birth-Death Juxtaposition | |
| Zardoz / int_6b7e3069 | comment |
Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Again, the final scene has people being gunned down while Consuella gives birth. | |
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| Zardoz / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Zardoz / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Zed - whose name is identical to the final letter of the alphabet is the one who brings the finality of death back to the Eternals. Friend, who becomes Zed's friend. | |
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Parody Retcon | |
| Zardoz / int_75062689 | comment |
Parody Retcon: Actually invoked by Arthur Frayn in his opening monologue, calling the story "Rich in irony, and most satirical." | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
| Zardoz / int_75d6bf40 | comment |
Belligerent Sexual Tension: An interesting little subplot that gets lost amid all the craziness is that Zed arouses Consuella's long-dormant lust, but she doesn't seem to know how to react, which is a big reason why she's so adamant about killing him. | |
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Straw Feminist | |
| Zardoz / int_76d233f9 | comment |
Straw Feminist: The future women (and possibly men) who speak constantly about how horrible and violent sex was, but at the same time, obviously want to get into Connery's pants. | |
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Hall of Mirrors | |
| Zardoz / int_7c5960bf | comment |
Hall of Mirrors: The Tabernacle is represented in this way. | |
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Dating Catwoman | |
| Zardoz / int_7d163c9c | comment |
Dating Catwoman: Zed and Consuela. She sees him as a threat to the Eternals but also clearly wants to have sex with him. | |
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Carpet of Virility | |
| Zardoz / int_7d7a5f3 | comment |
Carpet of Virility: Zed in his Stripperiffic outfits. | |
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Sex Is Evil | |
| Zardoz / int_7dad519f | comment |
Sex Is Evil: In the opening scene Zardoz vomits up a huge pile of firearms and calls on the Exterminators to murder the Brutals to keep their numbers down (if Zardoz had given them a huge pile of condoms instead, he could have avoided all this trouble). | |
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Large Ham | |
| Zardoz / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: It's set in a World of Ham, but Arthur Frayn's over-the-top personality stands out. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
| Zardoz / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: After most of the Eternals are killed, Consuella abruptly pairs up with Zed and gives birth to their son. He is shown growing up as they age, then leaves as they fade into nothing, leaving only skeletons beside Zed's rusted revolver, with handprints on the wall. All of this is accompanied by Beethoven's Seventh Symphony without dialogue, bits of which had been heard throughout the film prior to this. One could see it as a contrast with the Eternals' immortality and a cycle of life image, but... what? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Zardoz / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: The majority of the film takes place at Vortex 4 and there are at least 9 Vortexes in total. We don't know what happens to the other Vortexes once the Tabernacle is destroyed. | |
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| Zardoz / int_86bb7d97 | type |
Cultured Badass | |
| Zardoz / int_86bb7d97 | comment |
Cultured Badass: Zed is quoting T.S. Eliot by the end of the film. | |
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1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_86bb7d97 | |
| Zardoz / int_874176be | type |
Psychic Powers | |
| Zardoz / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers: The Eternals have them, mostly in the form of being able to exert their will on Brutals. | |
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1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_874176be | |
| Zardoz / int_87ede6fc | type |
That Man Is Dead | |
| Zardoz / int_87ede6fc | comment |
That Man Is Dead: Inside the Tabernacle, Zed shoots an enforcer that turns out to be the manifestation of his old, pre-enlightened self. Afterwards, when the Eternals are mortal again, Avalow asks Zed to shoot her, but Zed lowers his gun, saying "All that I was is gone.". | |
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1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_87ede6fc | |
| Zardoz / int_89631688 | type |
The Chosen One | |
| Zardoz / int_89631688 | comment |
The Chosen One: Zed, chosen by Frayn to end the Eternals' misery. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_89631688 | |
| Zardoz / int_8a4988bb | type |
Mind Rape | |
| Zardoz / int_8a4988bb | comment |
Mind Rape: This happens to Zed. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_8a4988bb | |
| Zardoz / int_8cb844c6 | type |
Mr. Exposition | |
| Zardoz / int_8cb844c6 | comment |
Mr. Exposition: The floating head of Arthur Frayn at the beginning (the studios insisted on this). The scene where Zed pulls Friend in a cart around the Vortex is there mainly so Friend can give us a rundown on the life of the Eternals and the different subgroups among them. | |
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1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_8cb844c6 | |
| Zardoz / int_8e5c28c | type |
Crystal Spires and Togas | |
| Zardoz / int_8e5c28c | comment |
Crystal Spires and Togas: Subverted, in that the film presents this as a Dystopia. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_8e5c28c | |
| Zardoz / int_8f746311 | type |
Cargo Cult | |
| Zardoz / int_8f746311 | comment |
Cargo Cult: The Exterminators worship Zardoz because he keeps them well-supplied with guns and ammo. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_934eb07f | type |
Resurrective Immortality | |
| Zardoz / int_934eb07f | comment |
Resurrective Immortality: One aspect of the Eternals' immortality. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_953a8ee8 | type |
Age Cut | |
| Zardoz / int_953a8ee8 | comment |
Age Cut: The final scene takes it further than most, aging two characters and their newborn son repeatedly until the adult son walks off and the parents remain until they're nothing but skeletons. | |
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| Zardoz / int_978b5f6d | type |
Screw You, Elves! | |
| Zardoz / int_978b5f6d | comment |
Screw You, Elves!: Zed is extremely angry at how the Eternals live in relative comfort while everyone else suffers. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_978b5f6d | |
| Zardoz / int_a0412c52 | type |
Gun Nut | |
| Zardoz / int_a0412c52 | comment |
Gun Nut: Zardoz is very big on firearms, to the extent that his version of "showering blessings" involves automatic rifles. | |
| Zardoz / int_a0412c52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Zardoz / int_a0412c52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_a0412c52 | |
| Zardoz / int_a0a838fe | type |
Bait-and-Switch Gunshot | |
| Zardoz / int_a0a838fe | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: With the Tabernacle destroyed, the Eternals are happy to be mortal again, and when Avalow asks Zed to kill her, he raises his gun, only to lower it, saying "All that I was is gone.". Then, suddenly, somebody does shoot her, and we see that it was one of the Exterminators that Zed was working with. Since the Tabernacle had been destroyed, the invisible shield separating the Vortex was gone, too, allowing them to enter and start killing the Eternals. | |
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| Zardoz / int_a0bfddf0 | type |
Real Men Eat Meat | |
| Zardoz / int_a0bfddf0 | comment |
Real Men Eat Meat: According to Zed, the Exterminators hated having to make the Brutals start cultivating wheat for the Eternals. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_a2ff4e6f | type |
Single Tear | |
| Zardoz / int_a2ff4e6f | comment |
Single Tear: Shed by May as she watches the destruction of the abode of the Eternals when she leaves the Vortex for the last time. | |
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1.0 | |
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And I Must Scream | |
| Zardoz / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: The Apathetics are a subset of the Eternals who have become so tired of immortality that they literally are almost catatonic. | |
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Age Without Youth | |
| Zardoz / int_a9317105 | comment |
Age Without Youth: The exiles, aged as punishment and left in an old folks home. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_afd181c7 | type |
Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
| Zardoz / int_afd181c7 | comment |
Xtreme Kool Letterz: Some of the text displayed by the Tabernacle, such as "Karatz" (carrots), "Solt" (salt) and "Lethur" (leather). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_afd181c7 | |
| Zardoz / int_b7e0c5ff | type |
Love Triangle | |
| Zardoz / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
Love Triangle: Consuella explicitly identifies herself as May's lover, but from the start May is attracted to Zed, and Consuella's jealousy fuels her hatred of him. But as the film goes on Consuella becomes interested in him as well (though, since it's been centuries since the Eternals have actually experienced love, a lot of this plays out in subtext). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_bb040b01 | type |
Cool Guns | |
| Zardoz / int_bb040b01 | comment |
Cool Guns: The revolver that Connery-as-Zed uses onscreen is a rare Webley-Fosbery "automatic revolver", and the operation of its unusual mechanism is displayed in a scene.note This unique pistol has gained cinema fame due to being in this film and also The Maltese Falcon. | |
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Zardoz / int_bb040b01 | |
| Zardoz / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
| Zardoz / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: The whole movie, from beginning to end. What's more, this seems to have been Boorman's intention. In interviews at the time he said that the film was supposed to depict the "Twilight level of the dream and the unconscious." | |
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| Zardoz / int_c0974135 | type |
Science Fiction | |
| Zardoz / int_c0974135 | comment |
Science Fiction: An odd mix of old school H. G. Wells-type speculative fiction (The Time Machine's influence is obvious), colorful Edgar Rice Burroughs-ish adventure, and a more modern mode of Worldbuilding as a way of exploring philosophical, moral and political issues, in the vein of Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein. | |
| Zardoz / int_c0974135 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_c23525d4 | type |
Character Title | |
| Zardoz / int_c23525d4 | comment |
Character Title: One-Word Title due to the titular god having Only One Name. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_c54d550d | type |
Novelization | |
| Zardoz / int_c54d550d | comment |
Novelization: By writer/director John Boorman with Bill Stair. Clears up quite a lot of the incoherent story and adds some backstory, including Zed's childhood. | |
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| Zardoz / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Zardoz / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: A salute to The Wizard of Oz becomes a pretty major plot point. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_c75df49a | |
| Zardoz / int_c84e56a2 | type |
Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You | |
| Zardoz / int_c84e56a2 | comment |
Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Well, of course he is. The second scene ends this way (fittingly, as this is an advertising trope after all, the trailer also includes this shot). | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_ccab244d | type |
Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better | |
| Zardoz / int_ccab244d | comment |
Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: The gun is good. | |
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1.0 | |
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One-Word Title | |
| Zardoz / int_d0f0a80d | comment |
One-Word Title: Character Title of a god, who has Only One Name. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_d1cedb73 | type |
Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
| Zardoz / int_d1cedb73 | comment |
Slap-Slap-Kiss: More or less the film's entire attitude to romance. | |
| Zardoz / int_d1cedb73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_d355ba37 | type |
Turned Against Their Masters | |
| Zardoz / int_d355ba37 | comment |
Turned Against Their Masters: The Exterminators eventually slaughter all the Eternals, except for Consuella and a few others who escape to make new lives outside. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_d525f857 | type |
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
| Zardoz / int_d525f857 | comment |
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The reason the Tabernacle was created was because scientists explored the universe and discovered that nothing existed outside of Earth. The problem is the universe is both massive and constantly expanding, so it's almost impossible that they were able to explore the entire universe, let alone prove that mankind was alone in the universe. The Eternals are a society of immortals who are bored with life and just want to die after a mere 300 years. While this is about 4 normal human lifespans, it still seems like a ridiculously short time to get bored with everything. To name just one thing: the number of Chess games is estimated to be about 10^120 (1 followed by 120 zeros). If you could play a million games a year, it would still take 10^114 years to play every possible gamenote Though, admittedly, most of those games would be really bad and both players would have to be losing on purpose. And there are obviously a lot more activities in life than chess. | |
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| Zardoz / int_d62dd556 | type |
The Chessmaster | |
| Zardoz / int_d62dd556 | comment |
The Chessmaster: Arthur Frayn, who created Zed and brought him to the vortex to destroy the Eternals. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_de953d10 | type |
Rage Helm | |
| Zardoz / int_de953d10 | comment |
Rage Helm: The Exterminators wear grimacing Zardoz masks. | |
| Zardoz / int_de953d10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_dfe57573 | type |
Historical In-Joke | |
| Zardoz / int_dfe57573 | comment |
Historical In-Joke: The handprints at the very very end of the film are a reference to the hand prints found in Pech Merle. | |
| Zardoz / int_dfe57573 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_dfe57573 | |
| Zardoz / int_e43130c1 | type |
Interrupted Intimacy | |
| Zardoz / int_e43130c1 | comment |
Interrupted Intimacy: It was ostensibly to help Zed recover his memories, but May's interrogation of him, underneath a sheet, was very sexually-charged. Consuella walks in on them, and reacts to May in utter disgust. | |
| Zardoz / int_e43130c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Zardoz / int_e43130c1 | |
| Zardoz / int_ea39d156 | type |
Who Wants to Live Forever? | |
| Zardoz / int_ea39d156 | comment |
Who Wants to Live Forever?: The Eternals long ago succumbed to ennui. Most simply want to die, but can't. | |
| Zardoz / int_ea39d156 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_eb86cdd1 | type |
Quirky Work | |
| Zardoz / int_eb86cdd1 | comment |
Quirky Work: The original name of this trope was "What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?" Well, this is a film that was literally made on drugs. | |
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| Zardoz / int_eb8ec7c8 | type |
Jerkass | |
| Zardoz / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Friend, before turning into a Jerkass Woobie. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_f0f03464 | type |
TheSeventies | |
| Zardoz / int_f0f03464 | comment |
The '70s. Very much so. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Zardoz / int_f604f64b | type |
Dude, She's Like in a Coma | |
| Zardoz / int_f604f64b | comment |
Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Zed grabs one particularly good-looking Apathetic, throws her down on the hay, and starts pawing at her. Friend urges him to take her, but he stops. | |
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| Zardoz / int_fb17af62 | type |
Rhymes on a Dime | |
| Zardoz / int_fb17af62 | comment |
Rhymes on a Dime: This exchange late in the film. | |
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| Zardoz / int_fd4a9c9d | type |
Trrrilling Rrrs | |
| Zardoz / int_fd4a9c9d | comment |
Trrrilling Rrrs: Arthur Frayn, as part of his Large Ham stage magician-like persona. | |
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