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* {{Novelization}}: By writer/director JohnBoorman with Bill Stair. Clears up quite a lot of the incoherent story and adds some backstory, including Zed's childhood.
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* FloatingMasks
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: The Vortex.
-->'''Zed:''' This place is built on lies and suffering!
-->'''Zed:''' This place is built on lies and suffering!
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* ScrewYouElves: Zed is extremely angry at how the Eternals live in relative comfort while everyone else suffers.
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* XtremeKoolLetterz: Some of the text displayed by the Tabernacle, such as "Karatz" (carrots), "Solt" (salt) and "Lethur" (leather).
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* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Friend]] is clearly intended to be bisexual at the very least. He's also the one who gets made an example of.
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Fun fact: Writer-Director John Boorman wanted to adapt ''TheLordOfTheRings'', 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 CultClassic, and frequently considered [[TheSeventies more 70's]] than ''Series/That70sShow''.
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* MrExposition: The floating head of Arthur Frayn at the beginning.
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* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade B Male Example.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: [[InvokedTrope It]] [[SubvertedTrope WAS]].
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Arthur Frayn's opening prologue.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Even though the movie's set in a PostApocalyptic future, its 70s influence shows.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Even though the movie's set in a PostApocalyptic future, its 70s influence shows.shows ''everywhere''.
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* RealMenEatMeat: According to Zed, the brutals hated having to start cultivating wheat for the Eternals.
-->'''Zed:''' Zardoz betrayed us! We were hunters, not farmers!
-->'''Zed:''' Zardoz betrayed us! We were hunters, not farmers!
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* AndIMustScream: The Apathetics are a subset of the Eternals who have become so tired of immortality that they literally cannot do ''anything'' anymore.
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* FanDisservice: SeanConnery spends much of his time wearing a red speedo with matching crisscrossing bandoliers and black thigh-high boots. And then there's a scene where he disguises himself by wearing a wedding dress...
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* AfterTheEnd: Apparently this takes place after a NuclearWar.[[NukeEm nuclear war]].
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The movie studio forced Boorman to add a prologue to help the movie make more sense. It doesn't work.
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Fun fact: Boorman wanted to adapt ''TheLordOfTheRings'', 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 CultClassic, and frequently considered [[TheSeventies more 70's]] than ''That 70's Show''.''Series/That70sShow''.
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* [[WidgetSeries Widget]]
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* {{Stripperiffic}}: What else would you call Connery in this movie?
** Striphorrific?
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**movie? Striphorrific?
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'''''Zardoz''''' is neither a mindless sci-fi action movie nor a serious SF-as-ideas film ''a la'' [[Creator/AndreiTarkovsky Tarkovsky]] or [[Creator/StanleyKubrick 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.
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'''''Zardoz''''' is neither a mindless sci-fi action movie nor a serious SF-as-ideas film ''a la'' [[Creator/AndreiTarkovsky Tarkovsky]] or [[Creator/StanleyKubrick Kubrick]]. It's... hard to describe, on account of the fact that it [[MindScrew really doesn't make a lot of sense.sense]]. Still, some sort of plot description might help.
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'''''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.
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'''''Zardoz''''' is neither a mindless sci-fi action movie nor a serious SF-as-ideas film ''a la'' Tarkovsky [[Creator/AndreiTarkovsky Tarkovsky]] or Kubrick.[[Creator/StanleyKubrick 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.
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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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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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* ActorAllusion: In his first appearance onscreen, Sean Connery [[Film/JamesBond aims his gun at the camera]] [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou and shoots it]].
* AgeCut: [[spoiler: 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.]]
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* AfterTheEnd: Apparently this takes place after a NuclearWarNuclearWar.
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* {{Crossdresser}}: The Renagades 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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* {{Crossdresser}}: The Renagades 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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* GambitRoulette: Arthur Frayn's plan as Summed up by [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]]
->''"so his plan was... herd a bunch of working class brits into, breeding someone genetically able to think on the Eternals level; lead him to a library. Hope, that he taught himself how to read properly. Hope, that he came across the one specific book that inspired the whole Zardoz shtick. Hope, that he would stow-away on the Zardoz head and shoot him. Then hope, that the head would crash back inside the vortex. Hope, that the other Eternals didn't kill him immediately, and teach them all that they know; in the hopes that he would figure out how to destroy the tabernacle an therefore all the Eternals. In other words, the exact kind of plan you expect for a man who draws on his goatee."''
->''"so his plan was... herd a bunch of working class brits into, breeding someone genetically able to think on the Eternals level; lead him to a library. Hope, that he taught himself how to read properly. Hope, that he came across the one specific book that inspired the whole Zardoz shtick. Hope, that he would stow-away on the Zardoz head and shoot him. Then hope, that the head would crash back inside the vortex. Hope, that the other Eternals didn't kill him immediately, and teach them all that they know; in the hopes that he would figure out how to destroy the tabernacle an therefore all the Eternals. In other words, the exact kind of plan you expect for a man who draws on his goatee."''
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* GambitRoulette: Arthur Frayn's plan as Summed up by [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]]
->''"soOancitizen]]:
-->''"So his plan was... herd a bunch of working classbrits Brits into, breeding someone genetically able to think on the Eternals level; lead him to a library. Hope, that he taught himself how to read properly. Hope, that he came across the one specific book that inspired the whole Zardoz shtick. Hope, that he would stow-away on the Zardoz head and shoot him. Then hope, that the head would crash back inside the vortex. Hope, that the other Eternals didn't kill him immediately, and teach them all that they know; in the hopes that he would figure out how to destroy the tabernacle an therefore all the Eternals. In other words, the exact kind of plan you expect for a man who draws on his goatee."''
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* MindRape: This happens to Zed.
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The scene where Zed reveals how he learned Zardoz was actually [[spoiler: ''The Wi'''Zard''' 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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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The scene where Zed reveals how he learned Zardoz was actually [[spoiler: ''The [[spoiler:''The Wi'''Zard''' 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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* KillTheGod: Zed was programmed to shoot Frahn, who somehow faked his death.
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* KillTheGod: Zed was programmed to shoot Frahn, who somehow faked his death.Frayn.
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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 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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* GambitRoulette: Arthur Frayn's plan as Summed up by [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]]
->''"so his plan was... herd a bunch of working class brits into, breeding someone genetically able to think on the Eternals level; lead him to a library. Hope, that he taught himself how to read properly. Hope, that he came across the one specific book that inspired the whole Zardoz shtick. Hope, that he would stow-away on the Zardoz head and shoot him. Then hope, that the head would crash back inside the vortex. Hope, that the other Eternals didn't kill him immediately, and teach them all that they know; in the hopes that he would figure out how to destroy the tabernacle an therefore all the Eternals. In other words, the exact kind of plan you expect for a man who draws on his goatee."''
->''"so his plan was... herd a bunch of working class brits into, breeding someone genetically able to think on the Eternals level; lead him to a library. Hope, that he taught himself how to read properly. Hope, that he came across the one specific book that inspired the whole Zardoz shtick. Hope, that he would stow-away on the Zardoz head and shoot him. Then hope, that the head would crash back inside the vortex. Hope, that the other Eternals didn't kill him immediately, and teach them all that they know; in the hopes that he would figure out how to destroy the tabernacle an therefore all the Eternals. In other words, the exact kind of plan you expect for a man who draws on his goatee."''
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[[caption-width-right:240:SeanConnery, as you really, ''really'' [[FanDisservice don't want to see him!]]]]
->"''The gun is good. The penis is evil.''"
-->-- '''Zardoz'''
'''''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.
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. 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.
Fun fact: Boorman wanted to adapt ''TheLordOfTheRings'', 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 CultClassic, and frequently considered [[TheSeventies more 70's]] than ''That 70's Show''.
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!!''Zardoz'' has examples of:
* ActorAllusion: In his first appearance onscreen, Sean Connery [[Film/JamesBond aims his gun at the camera]] [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou and shoots it]].
* AgeCut: [[spoiler: 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.]]
* AgeWithoutYouth: The exiles.
* AfterTheEnd: Apparently this takes place after a NuclearWar
* BlessedWithSuck: The Eternals' immortality. At first that seemed like a good idea until boredom set in and with no way to end it.
* BodyHorror: The immortals punish the criminal by speed-aging the offender. The more you resist, the closer you get to endless senility...
* CargoCult
* TheChessmaster: Arthur Frayn, if we are to believe the opening prologue.
* TheChosenOne: Zed.
* CreatorCameo: Boorman appears as one of the Brutals that gets shot in the head.
* {{Crossdresser}}: The Renagades need to get Zed away from rioting Eternals that want to kill him....so they dress him up in a wedding dress.
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Subverted, in that the film presents this as a {{Dystopia}}, too.
* CulturedBadass: Zed is quoting T.S. Eliot by the end of the film.
* DatingCatwoman: Zed and Consuela.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Friend.
* DomedHometown
* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude, She's Like, Apathetic!]]
* {{Dystopia}}
* ExecutiveMeddling: The movie studio forced Boorman to add a prologue to help the movie make more sense. It doesn't work.
* FanService: In that very special 70's but-nudity-is-just-''natural'' sort of way.
* GoOutWithASmile: Friend. "It's all a joke."
* GunPorn
* HallOfMirrors: The Tabernacle.
* ImmortalityHurts: Because no Eternal can die, the only available punishment is aging the offender into senility.
* InMediasRes: The scenes after the prologue. It cuts to Zed after he's gained knowledge and shed his Exterminator identity.
* {{Jerkass}}: Friend...before turning into a JerkassWoobie.
* KillEmAll: No sooner do the immortals get their immortality mechanism destroyed than they mostly get slaughtered by a bunch of Exterminators. They couldn't be happier.
* KillTheGod: Zed was programmed to shoot Frahn, who somehow faked his death.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: The gun is '''good'''.
* LowCultureHighTech: The barbarian class.
* MindRape: This happens to Zed.
* MindScrew: The whole movie, from beginning to end.
* MishmashMuseum: The Tabernacle.
* NietzscheWannabe
* PlanetOfHats
* PlayingAgainstType: Connery did the film purely to get people to stop thinking of him as just James Bond. And boy, did it work.
* PropheticName: Friend.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: Zed shooting his former Exterminator self inside the Tabernacle.
* RageHelm: The Exterminators wear grimacing Zardoz masks.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: As noted, Zardoz is very big on this, to the extent that his version of 'showering blessings' involves automatic rifles.
* RingOfPower: All the Eternals have them.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou
* SceneryPorn: The rolling Irish hills sure are gorgeous.
* ScienceFiction: A ''very'' broad use of it anyway.
* TheSeventies. Very much so.
* SexIsEvil:
-->'''Zardoz''': The penis is evil! The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was.
* ShoutOut: A salute to [[spoiler:Film/{{The WiZARD of OZ}}]] becomes a pretty major plot point.
* SlapSlapKiss: More or less the film's entire attitude to romance.
* StrawFeminist: 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.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: What else would you call him?
** Striphorrific?
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The immortals are said to have been in this state for 300 years, and the year is 2293, which means they started in 1993...
* {{Trickster}}: Arthur Frayn.
* TrrrillingRrrs: Arthur Frayn.
* TwoFaced: Friend is either half-geriatric or slowly succumbing to being aged. Half of his face is old while the other is unchanged.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters
* TwistEnding: Zardoz is... [[spoiler:The Wi'''Zard''' of '''Oz''']].
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Even though the movie's set in a PostApocalyptic future, its 70s influence shows.
* WatchItStoned: Boorman admits he used drugs during filming.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The Eternals long ago succumbed to ennui.
* [[WidgetSeries Widget]]
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The scene where Zed reveals how he learned Zardoz was actually [[spoiler: ''The Wi'''Zard''' of '''Oz''''']] makes you think the movie's wrapping up when, in fact, there's still almost an hour to go.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade B Male Example.
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->"''The gun is good. The penis is evil.''"
-->-- '''Zardoz'''
'''''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.
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. 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.
Fun fact: Boorman wanted to adapt ''TheLordOfTheRings'', 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 CultClassic, and frequently considered [[TheSeventies more 70's]] than ''That 70's Show''.
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!!''Zardoz'' has examples of:
* ActorAllusion: In his first appearance onscreen, Sean Connery [[Film/JamesBond aims his gun at the camera]] [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou and shoots it]].
* AgeCut: [[spoiler: 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.]]
* AgeWithoutYouth: The exiles.
* AfterTheEnd: Apparently this takes place after a NuclearWar
* BlessedWithSuck: The Eternals' immortality. At first that seemed like a good idea until boredom set in and with no way to end it.
* BodyHorror: The immortals punish the criminal by speed-aging the offender. The more you resist, the closer you get to endless senility...
* CargoCult
* TheChessmaster: Arthur Frayn, if we are to believe the opening prologue.
* TheChosenOne: Zed.
* CreatorCameo: Boorman appears as one of the Brutals that gets shot in the head.
* {{Crossdresser}}: The Renagades need to get Zed away from rioting Eternals that want to kill him....so they dress him up in a wedding dress.
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Subverted, in that the film presents this as a {{Dystopia}}, too.
* CulturedBadass: Zed is quoting T.S. Eliot by the end of the film.
* DatingCatwoman: Zed and Consuela.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Friend.
* DomedHometown
* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude, She's Like, Apathetic!]]
* {{Dystopia}}
* ExecutiveMeddling: The movie studio forced Boorman to add a prologue to help the movie make more sense. It doesn't work.
* FanService: In that very special 70's but-nudity-is-just-''natural'' sort of way.
* GoOutWithASmile: Friend. "It's all a joke."
* GunPorn
* HallOfMirrors: The Tabernacle.
* ImmortalityHurts: Because no Eternal can die, the only available punishment is aging the offender into senility.
* InMediasRes: The scenes after the prologue. It cuts to Zed after he's gained knowledge and shed his Exterminator identity.
* {{Jerkass}}: Friend...before turning into a JerkassWoobie.
* KillEmAll: No sooner do the immortals get their immortality mechanism destroyed than they mostly get slaughtered by a bunch of Exterminators. They couldn't be happier.
* KillTheGod: Zed was programmed to shoot Frahn, who somehow faked his death.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: The gun is '''good'''.
* LowCultureHighTech: The barbarian class.
* MindRape: This happens to Zed.
* MindScrew: The whole movie, from beginning to end.
* MishmashMuseum: The Tabernacle.
* NietzscheWannabe
* PlanetOfHats
* PlayingAgainstType: Connery did the film purely to get people to stop thinking of him as just James Bond. And boy, did it work.
* PropheticName: Friend.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: Zed shooting his former Exterminator self inside the Tabernacle.
* RageHelm: The Exterminators wear grimacing Zardoz masks.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: As noted, Zardoz is very big on this, to the extent that his version of 'showering blessings' involves automatic rifles.
* RingOfPower: All the Eternals have them.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou
* SceneryPorn: The rolling Irish hills sure are gorgeous.
* ScienceFiction: A ''very'' broad use of it anyway.
* TheSeventies. Very much so.
* SexIsEvil:
-->'''Zardoz''': The penis is evil! The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was.
* ShoutOut: A salute to [[spoiler:Film/{{The WiZARD of OZ}}]] becomes a pretty major plot point.
* SlapSlapKiss: More or less the film's entire attitude to romance.
* StrawFeminist: 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.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: What else would you call him?
** Striphorrific?
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The immortals are said to have been in this state for 300 years, and the year is 2293, which means they started in 1993...
* {{Trickster}}: Arthur Frayn.
* TrrrillingRrrs: Arthur Frayn.
* TwoFaced: Friend is either half-geriatric or slowly succumbing to being aged. Half of his face is old while the other is unchanged.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters
* TwistEnding: Zardoz is... [[spoiler:The Wi'''Zard''' of '''Oz''']].
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Even though the movie's set in a PostApocalyptic future, its 70s influence shows.
* WatchItStoned: Boorman admits he used drugs during filming.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The Eternals long ago succumbed to ennui.
* [[WidgetSeries Widget]]
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The scene where Zed reveals how he learned Zardoz was actually [[spoiler: ''The Wi'''Zard''' of '''Oz''''']] makes you think the movie's wrapping up when, in fact, there's still almost an hour to go.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade B Male Example.
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