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It is the year 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.
'''''Zardoz''''' is neither a mindless sci-fi action movie nor a serious SF-as-ideas film ''a la'' Tarkovsky or Kubrick. It's... hard to describe, on account of the fact that it really doesn't make a lot of sense. Still, some sort of plot description might help. One day, an Exterminator named Zed gets swept up into the hollow stone head and finds himself under possession of the Eternals, an elite class who long ago discovered the secret to immortality and removed themselves from all that penis-having to the rarified heights.
Life has become so meaningless 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. They argue all this for awhile. Then others start clamouring for Zed to kill them and end this awful tedium.
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In the end he finally does off them, much to their joy. The film closes with Zed and Consuella having a child, growing old, and dying.
Fun fact: Boorman wanted to adapt ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', but that fell through. It's that project which inspired ''Zardoz''. It's a trippy dystopian fantasy full of psychotropics, philosophical something-or-another, and lots of gratuitous female nudity. It's definitely a [[Cult Classic]], and frequently considered [[The Seventies|more 70's]] than ''[[That
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: In his first appearance onscreen, Sean Connery [[James Bond (film)|aims his gun at the camera]] and [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|
* [[Age Cut]]: The final shot 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.
* [[After the End]]: Apparently this takes place after a [[Nuclear War]]
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