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Sean Connery and His Red Diaper! ZARDOZ Midnights This Weekend at The Tivoli
“You have penetrated me. There is no escape. You are within me. Come into my center. Come into the center of the crystal!”
ZARDOZ (1974) screens midnights this weekend (August 7th and 8th) at The Tivoli Theater as part of their ‘Reel Late at The Tivoli’ Midnight Series.
In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity’s achievements. Sean Connery took the role of Zed in ZARDOZ (1974) as a way to break out of his his James Bond image, and boy, what a crazy movie he chose! ZARDOZ is without a doubt one of the best bad movies that you’ll ever see – a masterpiece as far as cheesiness goes. All throughout the movie, Connery’s wearing nothing more than a red thong so basically, you’ll be seeing him as you really never wanted to see him, but he’s great as Zed. Something that I noticed is that the other entire cast seemed to know that this movie was going to be bad and deliberately acted over the top. But not Connery, who seems to have taken this movie seriously. ZARDOZ has many famous scenes, such as one scene including a giant stone head, as well as a scene where Connery and some of his other killers wearing thongs are riding on horseback shooting people who are wearing outfits like tuxedos and the like. And of course, I don’t think anybody could ever forget the immortal line: “The gun is good, the penis is evil.” Yes, this movie has plenty of laughable things about it, but I guess that’s what makes it enjoyable and a candidate, 41 years later, as a midnight cult classic, and something that will be showing midnights this weekend (August 7th and 8th) at The Tivoli Theater. I’ll be there with custom ZARDOZ trivia with prizes.
Admission is $8. Hope to see everyone this weekend at The Tivoli!
Here’s the rest of the Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight schedule for the next few weeks:
Aug. 14-15 THE WIZARD OF OZ
Aug. 21-22 SPACE JAM
Aug. 28-29 INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
Sept. 4-5 SPIRITED AWAY
Sept. 11-12 HAROLD AND MAUDE
The Facebook invite for this weekend can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1468864610102143/
The Midnight at the Tivoli Fans Facebook page can be found HERE
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