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Subject: SF movies (ZARDOZ)
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    Date: Wednesday, 13 February 1985  16:08-EST
    From: callaghan%pseudo.DEC at decwrl.ARPA (Gaylene Callaghan,      DTN:523-4523)
    To:   SF-LOVERS at MIT-MC
    Re:   SF movies

    In all this reminiscing, does anyone remember ZARDOZ or WIZARDS?
    (two of my all time favorites) Does anyone know where or if I can
    get them on tape? Also, I don't quite remember who wrote either one.
    Didn't Sean Connery star in ZARDOZ? (I could of sworn it was his
    gorgeous body I saw)

    Gaylene

Yes, that was Connery, playing Zed.  Charlotte Rampling also starred
in it.  I don't know if it's available on tape; it does occasionally
come on TV in these parts (Boston/Cambridge)---mangled brutally.
Since the ending involves some nudity and a (brief) childbirth scene,
the entire ending is CUT, making the TV version trail off
unintelligibly.  ZARDOZ was directed, if I remember correctly, by John
Boorman.  There is a novelization (also credited to Boorman, I
believe), which I have seen but not read.

Many critics panned ZARDOZ unmercifully when it came out.  One
reviewer suggested that they had taken it too seriously and that it
should be approached with tongue firmly in cheek.  And I think this is
true.  Even though the film deals with a serious subject---will
immortality and a danger-free environment prove self-defeating---it's
a bit difficult to take a movie completely seriously when its central
conceit is

***SPOILER-WARNING***

borrowed from the ``ignore the man behind the curtain'' line from the
Wizard of Oz (i.e. wiZARD of OZ).

-30-
Bob

``Meditate upon this at second level.''