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#656 - From Zardoz with Love (Patreon)

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2025-09-20 20:53:35
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foreversincebreakfast

Your mention of “the outlands” in Zardoz makes me think about the 1981 space western Outland, also starring Sean Connery. That would be a wonderful pick, if you’ve not done it already.

piranhaplant

Incoming Goonies superdelegate pick

Prodigal Simone

I loved the Goonies as a child and so did every other kid I knew, but it is almost impossible to re-watch due to the nonstop excessive high-pitched screaming. My adult ears cannot tolerate it now. But, it's still about kids fighting big real estate so I can't totally hate it.

romancekiller

I urge the superdelegates among us to put Return to Oz in the mix (the legendary Walter Murch!). You'll have *a lot* to talk about.

Laura Frey

Sometimes I forget that you guys are a good teen years younger than me. The Goonies slander was a stark reminder!

Graeme Pente

The original OZ novel was from the turn of the century and there was an influential interpretation (from the 1960s) of it as an allegory for US Populism. Here's a rundown: https://www.usagold.com/wizard-of-oz/

Chris Burke

Using Will’s mention of Wilhelm Reich to begin my grassroots campaign for an episode on WR: Mysteries of the Organism.

Maxwell Harkness

genuinely did not hear the Kimmel clip before... THAT was the one that got him silenced??? lmao

Johnny 5
>>188160721

Lol yeah I’m also ten years older than them and I felt the same!

Paul Brewer

Isn't it just a Jocks versus Nerds film (including punning allusion in Connery's heritage)? I saw it on television in the 1980s and that was my view. One aspect of it that I would offer for further consideration is the fact that it comes not long after the Club of Rome report 'The Limits to Growth'. This was hugely influential at the moment of its release, coming not long after the famines in Biafra and Bangladesh during wars there created indelible images in the minds of anyone around middle-school age at that time. It was preceded by the book 'The Population Bomb' about five years earlier. Films like Z.P.G., Soylent Green and Logan's Run all emerge out of this Malthusian mood, and I can't help but see Zardoz as a variant on this theme.

Paul Brewer

Something I forgot to mention yesterday, about Luke's commentary at one moment. There was part where the Wilson government was mentioned, but at the time I thought, it's just as applicable to the time after the 1959 'You've never had it so good' election and the Macmillan government. (That Conservative government would seem hopelessly socialist to many in today's PLP.)