Zardoz (1974) - Quotes

Taglines: Into a world of eternal life, he brought the gift of death.

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Quotes about Zardoz: * Boorman was lamenting the decline of photographic film stock and the substitution of digital technology

Quotes about Zardoz: [[w:John Boorman|John Boorman; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/16/todays-films-are-nothing-of-the-sort-so-stop-calling-them-that "Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that"] * ] The Guardian (6 March 2023)

Quotes about Zardoz: For the finale of my 1974 film Zardoz, I wanted to shoot a scene of Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling in which they age and die. This involved shooting with a fixed camera, so that we could take them out, age their clothes and faces, put them back in, shoot them a bit more, then take them out and age them further, until eventually they were skeletons that, in turn, crumbled away.This process took an entire day. Then, the camera assistant unloaded the camera and accidentally exposed the film to the light. This meant we had to spend another whole day shooting it. I also had to restrain Connery from killing the assistant – who soon afterwards changed his name and moved to Los Angeles. I spied him in a cafe in LA one day. “Is Sean in town?” he asked, with a quivering voice.

Quotes about Zardoz: [[w:John Boorman|John Boorman] * ]{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

Quotes about Zardoz: Um, it was the 70’s, and I was doing a lot of drugs. Frankly, even I’m not entirely sure what parts of the movie are about.

Quotes about Zardoz: [[w:Roger Ebert|Roger Ebert; https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/zardoz-1974 "Zardoz"] *] Chicago Sun-Times (1 January 1974)

Quotes about Zardoz: [A; [Deliverance] genuinely quirky movie, a trip into a future that seems ruled by perpetually stoned set decorators ... The movie is an exercise in self-indulgence (if often an interesting one) by Boorman, who more or less had carte blanche to do a personal project after his immensely successful ].

Old Scientist: [[learning; [destroy; [knowledge; [perfection] We seal ourselves herewith into this place of ]. Death is banished for ever. I direct that the Tabernacle erase from us all memories of its construction, so we can never ] it if we should ever crave for death. Here, man and the sum of his ] will never die, but go forward to ].

Friend: [[Ships|ship; [space; [technology; [travel; [star] It's an ark. A ]. A ]ship. All this ] was for ] to the distant ]s.

The Tabernacle: [after Zed shoots the crystal; [crystal] You have destroyed us. You found the flaw in the ]. We are gone. You... are alone.

The Tabernacle: You have penetrated me. There is no escape. You are within me. Come into my centre... Come into the centre of the crystal.

The Tabernacle: Refraction of light. Infinite.

The Tabernacle: [[Sleep; [necessary; [Human|man] ] was ] for ] when his waking and unconscious lives were separated. As eternals achieved total consciousness, sleep became obsolete, and second level meditation took its place.

Arthur Frayn: [[death; [story; [mystery; [irony; [satirical; [future; [end; [magician; [Merlin; [hero; chuckles; [God] I am Arthur Frayn, and I am Zardoz. I have lived three hundred years, and I long to die. But ] is no longer possible. I am immortal. I present now my ], full of ] and intrigue — rich in ], and most ]. It is set deep in a possible ], so none of these events have yet occurred, but they may. Be warned, lest you ] as I. In this tale, I am a fake god by occupation and a ] by inclination. ] is my ]. I am the puppet master. I manipulate many of the characters and events that you see. But I am invented, too, for your entertainment and amusement. And you, poor creatures, who conjured you out of the clay? Is ] in show business, too?