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We will not work in time. You will take our knowledge by osmosis--out of time. We will touch-teach you, and you will give us your seed.
shareWe will not work in time. You will take our knowledge by osmosis--out of time. We will touch-teach you, and you will give us your seed.
shareSo this is your scientific investigation. There's another word for it---bestiality. For this you'll be aged 50 years--no less! No man, woman, nor beast will ever desire you again!!
shareI will not go to second level with you!
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The vortex is an obscenity!
I... No.
I hate all women.
Birth, fertility, superstition.
Friend is beyond redemption.
- Renegade.
- Renegade.
Friend is renegade.
He must be cast out.
I read everything. I learnt
all that had been hidden from me.
I learnt what the world had been
before the darkness fell.
Then, one day, I found the book.
The book called... called...
What was the book?
What was the name of the book?
- I don't remember!
- Tell me. Show me.
- You must tell me.
- No! No!
Zardoz!
Tell me. Show me. You must tell me.
- I can't.
- Tell me how you came in the stone.
- I don't know.
- Of course you know.
- You knew Arthur was Zardoz, didn't you?
- No.
- You killed Arthur, didn't you?
- No!
Show me the whole image!
What are you doing?
You murdered your own god, by accident.
Or was it an accident?
Now show me that book.
What did you find in that book?
Show it to me.
It's a trick! A trick!
What was a trick? Tell me.
Zardoz said "stop".
He said "no more".
- No more what?
- No more killing.
- He told you to take prisoners?
- Yes.
- To make slaves?
- Yes.
- To cultivate instead of kill?
- Yes.
- To grow wheat?
- Yes!
- Did you need wheat?
- No. We ate meat.
Zardoz betrayed us.
We were hunters, not farmers.
Show how you came into the stone.
Show.
It was easy.
Each season Zardoz came down
to take our harvest.
Zardoz! Zardoz!
- Your friends were mutants, too?
- Yes.
- You had a plot?
- Yes.
- Revenge?
- The truth.
We wanted the truth.
- I told them about the book.
- Show it. What is the book?
No. No.
No! Zardoz!
Zardoz is pleased.
- So that was it.
- "The Wizard of Oz".
Zardoz.
"The Wizard of Oz" was a fairy story
about an old man who frightened people
with a loud voice and a big mask.
Here is the script! ;-)
https://www.scripts.com/script.php?id=zardoz_23956&p=11