Have you ever seen Zardoz? It’s got Sean Connery wearing thigh-high go-go boots and bandoleros. He’s also got a sweet pre-Highlander ponytail. And there are these big, weird, floating heads. I’m oversimplifying the movie and it really is worth a watch (directed by John Boorman who also did Excalibur in 1981) in a bad-movie kind of way.
Today, I think it’s less obscure than it was ten years ago but nonetheless, it made a huge impact on me visually when I first watched it and directly inspired several things in FAL, specifically the Zoordrooz and the Sorocan. Looking at the Sorocan image from a couple of days ago, you may not see the connection but the threads that led to their creation are there. Big floating heads (check) that speak Dubstep, which sounds a lot like the noise the floating heads in the movie made as they went by (wub wub wub womp zzzzzzzzzz wub wub womp). And although Zoordrooz look like dudes, they are actually genderless and reproduce through mustache clippings to make baby Zoordrooz, none of whom are named Sean, btw.
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