Any JameSeims Bond fan will know that Playing 007 was a two -edged sword for John Connery. The working class Scottish took the long road to acting By a short -term career of the Royal Navy. His life changed when he was caught as England's biggest spy, turning Connery into a global megastric. But it also came with his part of the flaws, and the actor was never shy to advertise that fact, even going so far as to glorify. Hollywood reporter That he "always hated that damn Jamesesheims Bond" and that he would like to kill him. "

While Connery will become much more grateful and positive about his time in tuxedo in the years after retiring from the role, until the early 70's, he was tired of the franchise connection, and decided to prove his value as a performer playing against the type in several films-which some were great, and some, some of which, some, from some, and some, some, some of which were, and some, some, some of which were not, some of which.

It was originally set up on Starwarring Bart Reynolds, the film, by director Johnon Borman, saw Connery playing a constantly semi-naked perpetrator for the eternal race that rules the enslaved people in the post-apocalyptic future. As the actor saw, this will prove to be exactly what he needed to separate from Bond. Or, as Baorman recalls in A. A little white lies Interview, "Connery has just stopped making Bond's films and he didn't get any jobs, so he came together and he did." The actor himself was a little less shine. Speaking of the magazine and filming in 1974, Connery said Zardoz was "one of the best ideas (he) has come across for centuries" and claims to have been "busy" by a lack of "spaceships and rockets" in a scientific film. "What I am interested in is the possible development of society in the centuries that have come," he continued. "The way different levels and types develop into the script is intriguing and refreshing and can be true."

After all, most viewers and critics have not found such a depth in "Zardoz", although the film has developed cult the following in the years of its release.

The 1970s proved to be a particularly crucial decade for John Connery, who became loved for his showing Bond was more eager than ever to escape any kind of writing. Despite more than proving his talents in the films of the 1960s, such as "Marnie" by Alfred Hitchcock (1964) and "Hill" by Sidney Lumer (1965), Connery seemed to be determined to move as far away from Bond as possible. But he had to begin with that character. The actor has taken a deal to see him returning as 007 in 1971 "Diamonds are forever", but only in exchange for the production company "United Artists" allow him to make two films of his choice (and a huge salary he donated to his own charity).

Only one of those films will actually come true after Connery's Grand Vision for the film "Macbeth" that was set on directing was canceled. The film that emerged from the contract with UA, however, was almost an anti-co-co-counition. Sidney Lumme's "offense" debuted in 1973 and presented Connery as a sergeant to the British Detective Sergeant Nsonson, who kills a suspect during the hearing and must oppose his personal degradation during his interrogation. Then not the unpleasant and distressed martini.

The "offense" was well accepted and remains Connery's favorite film by Christopher Nolan to this day. But two years later, the Scottish Starwar will destroy part of his post-linker prestige with another film that was not well accepted. "Zardoz" was directed by Johnon Borman, who two years before he oversaw the seminal "deliverance". But his scientific adventure in 1974 would be nothing like it. In it he starred Connery as a Zed, a member of a race of enslaved mortals known as brutal uprising against elite winds, in a plot that sounds eerie similar to that of that of "Battleon Travolta" "Battle Field", which remains one of the worst films to date. "Zardoz" wasn't that bad, but it wasn't far away.

The story of "Zardoz" is set in a dystopian future and follows the Zed John Connery, who spends much of the time dressed in what was basically red bikini while playing impressive mustache and combo combo. After the Zed gives up his role as a brutal exterminator, he tries to free his people from their worship of the wind and their giant stone Idol, Zardoz. He took the way for Zardoz before being captured by eternal named Consuela (Charlotte Ramling). While in captivity, he learns how the winds work and manages to crash them, falling for a consultation in the process that gives birth to his son. If that sounds confusing, it's a simple version. If you really want to get into the weeds of this wrong scientific effort, you will have to watch it, but warn, this is a movie that Roger Ebert could only describe as something that "will surely get you age in two hours."

Not only does Connery look like distracting funny during the film in what several places have described as a red "diaper", "Dialogue in" Zardoz "leaves much to be desired. One of her most notorious quotes "The gun is good, the penis is evil!" is a good indicator of the type of thing to expect here. However, as Johnon Borman recalls in A. Vulture The interview, while the 20th century Fox "did nothing" to promote the film, having "lost heart very well", "Zardoz" managed to attract "many students". That said, the director had to admit that the film was "never successful anywhere". He also remembered like Zardoz's special effects finale sent Connery into anger. The actor almost attacked a camera operator after the poor block showed the film on the whole stage involving wide makeup, forcing Connery to perform for the third time. "John (...) went after this camera loader and almost killed him," Baorman said. "Three works are needed to limit it." Since this film was obviously degrading, I am sure that Connery had more in mind at that moment in the ruined scene. However, it certainly wasn't Jameseims Bond, and in that sense it was kind of what the actor was looking for.