History Film / ZabriskiePoint

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/BlowUp''. The film was part of the same picture deal with MGM and Carlo Ponti, for Antonioni to make three English language features, and where the former film explores the counter-culture of England, this film explores the counter-culture of America.

The film was inspired by a true-life incident of a young man stealing an aircraft for a joyride and was inspired by other aspects of the sixties' counterculture. It is notable for its extensive location shooting in the Downtown Los Angeles area, prominently featuring the Richfield Tower art-deco building before its destruction, in Death Valley (albeit not the titular Zabriskie Point) and in Carefree Arizona. Its cast of non-actors includes actual hippies and activists including Kathleen Cleaver of the Black Panthers. In addition to the score by Pink Floyd, the film's soundtrack features a number of songs from Music/TheGratefulDead, The Youngbloods, Kaleidoscope, Music/TheRollingStones and John Fahey, while Music/RoyOrbison sang the end-credits song "So Young".

* RapunzelHair: Daria Halprin sported an impressive mane.

''Zabriskie Point'' is a drama film directed by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni. The screenplay was written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe and playwright and actor, Creator/SamShepard, with a soundtrack by Music/PinkFloyd. It was released on February 5, 1970.

''Zabriskie Point'' is a 1970 drama film directed by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni. The screenplay was written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe and playwright and actor, Creator/SamShepard, with a soundtrack by Music/PinkFloyd.

* AntiHero: The protagonist Mark is a Type IV or VillainProtagonist depending on your political sympathies. He's a misguided protestor at best and a terrorist at worst.

!! Tropes

''Zabriskie Point'' is a 1970 drama film directed by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni. The screenplay was written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe and playwright and actor, Creator/SamShepard. The film's soundtrack was by Music/PinkFloyd.

''Zabriskie Point'' is a 1970 drama film directed by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni. The screenplay was written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe and playwright and actor, Creator/SamShephard. The film's soundtrack was by Music/PinkFloyd.

The film is set primarily in Southern California, dealing with two parallel plots that eventually intersects in the course of the story. In UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, Mark (Mark Frechette) is a student and budding campus radical bored with endless student discussions about activism and revolutionary agitation and seeks to commit some form of action or another. The end result leads to a confrontation with the police where Mark might or might not have killed a cop, but as a result of this action, he becomes a fugitive and goes on the lam, choosing to abscond on a small aeroplane. The second plot deals with Daria (Daria Halprin) a young woman who works for a real estate firm and is driving through the desert towards Phoenix, much to the perplexity of her boss Lee Allen (Rod Taylor) who is also her lover. Allen is currently pitching a vast real estate expansion across California and is anxious for Daria's company. Eventually Mark and Daria come across each other in their travel across the desert, starting a journey of mutual self-discovery or self-delusion, depending on the pot they are smoking.

''Zabriskie Point'' is a 1970 drama film directed by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni. The screenplay was written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe and playwright and Creator/SamShephard. The film's soundtrack was by Music/PinkFloyd.

''Zabriskie Point'' is a 1970 drama film directed by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni. The screenplay was written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe and playwright and Sam Shephard. The film's soundtrack was by Music/PinkFloyd.

* BourgeoisBohemian: Mark is implied to be fairly rich. He runs into his sister driving a fancy car in one brief scene, and he likewise is a very good pilot, skills that are not easy to come by. His crazy and desperate actions comes from him trying to prove his street cred. He also invokes the bourgeois part of the trope for his advantage [[spoiler:notably he uses his white male privilege to buy guns without any security checks simply by noting the threat of "Mexicans" which the owner readily accepts when selling said weapons to him]].
* ConspicuousConsumption: Much of the film's cinematography deals with the omnipresence of this in America, from the giant billboards, advertising, the display in the malls [[spoiler:and the tacky and insipid proposed commercials for the real estate project that Allen's company wants to install. The finale likewise focuses on the destruction of all the household objects in the house, which is played as a kind of liberation]].

** [[spoiler:The famous orgy in the Death Valley where Mark and Daria arrive at the valley and start having sex in the mud, followed by a bunch of other young boys and girls frolicking in the valley. We don't see those other kids before or after]].
** [[spoiler:After leaving the desert compound in disgust, Daria gives a look back that gradually gives over to an extended fantasy of seeing the entire compound along with every single object in the house destroy itself in detail]].
* LongLastLook: Used for dramatic and climactic effect. Daria walks out of the compound and gives a DeathGlare to the entire compound and the film then visualizes her fantasy [[spoiler:of the entire estate exploding in excruciating, infinitesimal, detail, and at the end of it, she smiles contentedly and gets into her car and drives away]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:Poster by Milton Glaser]]

''Zabriskie Point'' is a 1970 film, directed by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni and produced by Creator/{{MGM}} Studios. The screenplay was written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe and playwright and Sam Shephard. The film's soundtrack was by Music/PinkFloyd

The film was inspired by a true-life incident of a young man stealing an aircraft for a joyride and was inspired by other aspects of the sixties' counterculture. It is notable for its extensive location shooting in the Downtown Los Angeles area, prominently featuring the Richfield Tower art-deco building before its destruction, in Death Valley (albeit not the titular Zabriskie Point) and in Carefree Arizona. It's cast of non-actors includes actual hippies and activists including Kathleen Cleaver of the Black Panthers. In addition to the score by Pink Floyd, the film's soundtrack features a number of songs from Music/TheGratefulDead, The Youngbloods, Kaleidoscope, Music/TheRollingStones and John Fahey, while Music/RoyOrbison sang the end-credits song "So Young".

''Zabriskie Point'' is a 1970 film, directed by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni and produced by Creator/{{MGM}} Studios. The screenplay was written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe and playwright and Sam Shephard. The film's was by Music/PinkFloyd

* BourgeoisBohemian: Mark is implied to be fairly rich. He runs into his sister driving a fancy car in one brief scene, and he likewise is a very good pilot, skills that are not easy to come by. His crazy and desperate actions comes from him trying to prove his street cred.

* TheMistress: Daria is one for her boss, Lewis Allen, albeit she's not happy about the relationship and how the latter treats her as a trophy. [[spoiler:This leads to her connection with Mark despite being a runaway and

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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: