Anyone remember Zardoz?

[KT2000]

That was John Boorman's sci-fi movie from the 70's. In the movie, the elites lived behind a secure shield and developed a religion for those outside of it - savages and Brutals. Periodically their god Zardoz would deliver weapons to the Brutals to use for control of the population. It was a crazy movie but prescient.

Our 1% has not taken a stand for control of weapons of war on our streets. They could exert their power for a more sane society but where are they? Making money off of these weapons. The republicans are not just appeasing the gunner votes, they are serving the financial interests of their holy 1%. Our Congress makes sure the financial security of the weapons sector is protected and I might add that the gunners parsing the labels of guns - assault weapon or not, etc. - are using the talking points that have been fed to them from this financial sector.

We are all being played for fools as were the Brutals in Zardoz.

[villager]

1. "Potatoes... yes or no?"

And then there was Connery's outfit.

But yes, as with a lot of films that decade -- inadvertently supported by studios, since they were stand-alone corporations back then, and not "entertainment divisions" -- it was prescient in its way.

Even more so was the original "Rollerball," which postulated corporate ownership of the planet, with each of the five remaining corporations divvying up control of different cities....

[UTUSN]

2. R#1 & K for Zardoz (the movie)!1 n/t

[onehandle]

3. I just remember Sean Connery's outfit. nt

[wcmagumba]

4. Here ya go...

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[KT2000]

5. Hey - thanks for this!

One thing I remember too is the strength of 3-ply plastic!!

[wcmagumba]

6. You are welcome...

I remember seeing this at my small town drive-in movie and thought it was sooo....bad even then as an 18 year old...fun to look back. It really does have a lot in common with today's right winger/gun humpers and the way they are so brainwashed (IMHO) and controlled by the upper class and media.

[hunter]

7. It's a brilliant movie.

The second amendment has always been about keeping hordes of ignorant yahoos on-call, ready to do the elite's bidding.

Slaves rebelling, workers striking, Indians won't leave? Call the militia!

The occasional unsanctioned massacres are an acceptable loss.

[felix_numinous]

8. I remember this trippy movie

I think I had to watch it more than once to get the whole nuance. I remember this coming up in the Foundation Series by Asimov, that a primitive culture could be controlled by an advanced group disguised as local religious icons.

So the more cultish and gullible people are, the more vulnerable to hi tech manipulation, they would totally believe a voice was their god talking to them. using AI to control a populace, people can then be easliy conditioned to obey a machine hologram. We might have arrived at this threshold, if not soon.

[KT2000]

9. Ha! Ha! I have the VHS!

An old boyfriend was crazy about that movie and on first watching I did not get some of it. Years later I got the VHS to finally figure it out.
My favorite part of the film though was their use of Beethoven's 7th.

Yes - I think Trump demonstrates that we have "arrived." Yay!!!

[cyberswede]

10. Was anybody good in it?

...like Sean Connery?

[wcmagumba]

11. Zed or 007?

Or maybe even Vartox?