This is a shot from the 1974 John Boorman directed film Zardoz, which is apparently an achievement in the annals of bad cinema surpassed only by such dys-masterpieces as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and the Ed Wood ouvre.
I have to admit, dressing the Connery in an orange nappy and fake ponytail seems likely to doom the film irredeemably - what were they thinking?
Rather like the boots though.
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Wow. Just wow. He was really trying to get away from Bond, wasn't he?
And Charlotte Rampling, too? That's just sad.
I've gotta stand up for my boy Ed: He would NEVER have put Connery in an orange pull-up with bandoliers. A tasteful, tangerine marabou bed jacket, sure, but never the orange pull-up.
You're so right, Matilda. Keep the boots, add the marabou bed jacket and finish it off with a thigh high matching kilt. Anyone would go and see that movie!
Don't forget the flying head they lived in.
I do not lie.
I know you don't, my bashful friend.
And what Connery is wearing is apparently the official uniform of the elite warrior-assassins? Riiiiiiiight.
I really have to find this and see it.
I always remember from my kindergarten/Year 1 days, the Aborigines were portrayed in red loincloths, such as the above.
I've seen Zardoz, good film, if you're into weird 1970s sci-fi. John Boorman's Excalibur is my favourite-est movie, which is the reason why I snapped up the Zardoz DVD. It's plot is a little similar to Aeon Flux, being about a savage who breaks into a secluded paradise of 'immortals'. Connery is the savage; the red loincloth kind of identifies him in this way. It gets all weird and psychedelic at the end, but it goes some interesting places before that.
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