tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093241236139423281.post2875238339293945282..comments2024-02-18T03:30:35.288-08:00Comments on Dusty Video Box: Brutal eternity... Zardoz (1974)Paul Stocktonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10771850213840406163noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093241236139423281.post-77680830727889101182019-03-30T13:05:53.148-07:002019-03-30T13:05:53.148-07:00The novelization also shows why the Vortex ultimat...The novelization also shows why the Vortex ultimately failed: Bad design. You may be familiar with Sir Arthur Clarke’s science fiction; his first novel concerned a Vortex (ramped up considerably) and showed what should have been done here: They had far too few people, and the population was unchanging. Six, eight, ten times that number should have been “on file,” waiting their turn, and the death of an Eternal would NOT be immediately “restored,” but go to the back of the line… Thus the population would change, and no one would go “stale.” This artist returns! That one disappears. And so on.Baron_Wastehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196038182565745864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093241236139423281.post-58812624533547529712019-03-30T12:43:52.316-07:002019-03-30T12:43:52.316-07:00The novelization helps explain this: The price of...The novelization helps explain this: The price of immortality is sterility - you are your own bloodline. This became impotence - emasculation - leaving the women running the shop by default. Consuela is fine with this, May knows it’s wrong but they’re trapped in it, and Arthur, the Wizard of Oz - Zardoz - has been slowly making a key to that sterile prison… A key with its own ideas of which way to turn. [Meanwhile the HAL 9000 ‘Tabernacle’ is amused by it all; it bears Zed no ill will. Que sera sera.]Baron_Wastehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196038182565745864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093241236139423281.post-86127514671345142092019-03-30T12:30:56.737-07:002019-03-30T12:30:56.737-07:00Yours is the kindest review of this film I think I...Yours is the kindest review of this film I think I’ve ever read. What I liked about it is how Boorman depicts immortality - physical youth but glacial calm. Everything is understated, gestured, eyebrowed. As we mature in our emotions, so they’ve become super-mature.<br /><br />Let it be our creed<br />Never to exceed<br />Regulated speed<br />No matter what the need…<br />- “1776”Baron_Wastehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196038182565745864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093241236139423281.post-84203548501774953072015-12-06T03:57:38.220-08:002015-12-06T03:57:38.220-08:00It's a bit broader than that isn't it - ye...It's a bit broader than that isn't it - yes it is a community with powerful women but also with men pulling the strings? It's society gone wrong not gender-specific leadership. Thanks for reading. PaulPaul Stocktonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10771850213840406163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093241236139423281.post-79909719301496217202015-07-15T04:53:23.670-07:002015-07-15T04:53:23.670-07:00isn't' this movie about a collectivist mat...isn't' this movie about a collectivist matriarchy? ZTMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15570314713627696748noreply@blogger.com