nelson@avsdS.UUCP (01/17/84)
I just watched "Zardoz" for the second time in 6 years last night. Sean Connery in the future as Zed the Exterminator. He, the savage, gets loose inside the Vortex (seen this Lauren?), a paradise and trap where science and psychic studies flourish during the dark ages. Zed is their savior and destroyer. This movie has great tackiness and camp potential, but really comes off as a good, though obvious, film. The science fiction in it is good, the plot good and sometimes puzzling, the acting not bad (considering). It is full of messages and allegories, some that hit you over the head and some that require a bit (a few bits?) of thought. I first saw this 6 years ago with "Solaris", a long, tedious, yet fascinating film (which I've come to expect from Russia). What a combo! Glenn at Ampex
mam@charm.UUCP (01/23/84)
acting out a superstition in programmers...
The scene I most remember from Zardoz is the one in which Connery
is being mind-scanned (I forget what they actually called it). Above his head
was a screen on which was supposed to be displayed the contents of his mind.
What was actually displayed was recognisable as a polarized-light micrograph of
a thin section of rock. In other words, Connery had rocks in his head!
Not sorry in the least,
{BTL}!charm!mamgam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (01/26/84)
I must comment on this: this is one of my favorite films! (OK, now you know my bias ...) The attractive features for me are (not in order): the use of the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony; the idea that a civilization can be so advanced as to be sick of itself; the idea that immortal people become so tired and despairing of living that they would leap at the chance to die. There are interesting observations about God, genetic engineering, and immortality (obviously). See this film! Especially in a theatre! -- Gordon A. Moffett (I'm just that kind of guy) decvax!decwrl!amd70!proper!gam hplabs!intelca!proper!gam