Zabriskie Point final sequence

[comandantescomedy]

Sheer brilliance. The powerful climax of an underrated film. People calling it boring are wrong. When I first watched it I didn't get it, too. After two more viewings it has become one of my favorites.

[Zouszz]

The utter and complete anihilation of the spoils of the western civilisation to the sounds mightiest re-edition of "Careful with that axe, Eugene" ever. Signiore Antonioni was not my favorite film director, but he sure was a visual genius. 

[mewses]

Frustrating to see how many replays there were on the explosion.

[TheLighterrrr]

thumbs up if "Today" of the smashing pumpkins bought you here.

[Poloniothx]

Greatness!! is Antonioni

[cjpmugsr999]

Be Careful With that Axe Eugene!!!

[emilianog73]

Una civiltà dominata dal consumismo è destinata a disintegrarsi.

[gahrzahk]

Cool scene! Where was this filmed?

[poughkeepsiejohn1]

It blowed up GOOD! Blowed up REAL GOOD!

[akirahokyo]

good.

[utahjazz8914]

I was always a little sad Antonioni decided to pass on rick wright's violence squence for this movie, but at least it produced Us & Them

[swans1997]

Nice soundtrack but it the film was basically pissed off Euro snob, commenting on Evil U.S. capitalism and junk culture. Blah.Hippies love this dreck. Screw em'.

[ignoblius]

Star Wars should have ended with the Death Star blowing up 26 times, followed by instant replay.

[megapaul8689]

@ignoblius I do like your idea. When do we meet for discuss about this ending remaking?

[JotesCreations]

imagine this in freekin 3d

[RosaBarroca]

vi esse filme há 30 anos atrás pela primeira vez, essas cenas me emocionaram, porque expressam meu ser... e isso continua válido 30 anos depois. Obrigada por postar. I'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE FOR THE FIRST TIME 30 YEARS AGO, TESE SCENES COMOVES ME, CAUSE THEY EXPRESS MY SOUL... AND IT KEEPS VALID TILL TODAY. THANKS FOR POSTING!

[SometimesIncoherent]

Quite simply, Antonioni was a Genius.

[nitli111]

favourite movie!

[jennifersman]

Very strange film, very much of its time, but worth seeing once on a good big screen in the dark, the desert sequences are beautiful

[pannaapres]

@jennifersman I agree. It's strange When I first saw it I was so amazed.

[JubalCalif]

That's one way to end a story with a bang. From what I've read the movie flopped at the box office & is hardly remembered by most people today. But THANKS for the clip! Fascinating look at what was considered "relevant" or "heavy" at the time (the late 60's/early 70's).

[Felderoth]

That was a perfectly good house, someone could live there and be quite happy, and all to entertain you scum. You make me sick.... The pink floyd is the only thing keeping the bile down. You pricks.....

[ZardozSpeaks]

@Felderoth If I recall correctly it was a mock-up of the house that was blown up. I believe the real house is still there.

Oh - and you're a cock.

[beunderstated]

@ZardozSpeaks I've heard that it was an actual house, but still. I think it was built specifically to blow up for this scene, which is pretty hardcore IMHO.

[GPC1963]

@ZardozSpeaks Correct you can find it easy with google earth right next to Carefree Hwy.

[thesackingcommenter2]

@Felderoth Dude, they rebuilt the house afterwards...

[guzi89]

the olny interesting, succinct scene with good metaphorical content and great music it this boring film, worth to lost 1,5 hour of life watching all movie to see it!

[acirjan]

................Floyd !

[ljubohendrix]

Masterpeace

[leamanc]

To clarify a lot of the comments here, yes this is Pink Floyd, but it's not Careful With That Axe, Eugene. It is a similarly-constructed song (in a different key) called Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up. The Floyd recorded tons of music for ZP, but as Roger Waters said, "All he really wanted was a slightly different version of Careful With That Axe, Eugene!"

A song they developed for ZP called "The Sad Sequence" was later used as the basis for "Us & Them" on Dark Side of the Moon.

[leamanc]

@leamanc Sorry, I meant "The Violent Sequence," not "sad." The music was rejected by Antonioni because he thought it too sad, and it reminded him of church.

[malondo7]

before CG,I when real blood sweat and tears went into a scene!...die a little for your art!

[mruberdave]

Awesome

[Vitaoo90]

O Diretor Do Filme diz: Já q temo muito bomba vamo bota fogo nessa poha

[cri64italia]

Pezzo mitico.....

Sbarazziamoci del superfluo.

[sylvapolitana]

@cri64italia E che superfluo! SI'!

[cri64italia]

QUESTI SEI MINUTI SONO INEGUAGLIABILI

Quello che farei di questo mondo

[RideMyBMW]

Had to be an Italian director...fu%$in masterful filmmaking. Scene feels like "divorce"...

[susiepussycat]

@RideMyBMW even more, Annihilation!

[apostroophe]

sempre da brividi... Eugene..

[claudio9522]

mi piace il video e la musica grandi effetti speciali

[zoezurlini]

Meraviglioso!!!

[MaximusFood]

One of the greatest sequences in cinema history, yet perhaps only the second greatest sequence in the film.

[dragmio]

Well said. This is great, but the scene with the airplane and the car is better.

[BentivoglioIII]

MAGISTRALE we say in italian

[moonlightnoir]

Wonderful... My fav all time!

[leamanc]

So beautiful. It's too bad that MGM didn't let Antonioni realize his full vision for Zabriskie Point, and then didn't know how the hell to market it. This sequence makes it all worthwhile, though.

[sunvana]

@leamanc it may have been toughtt o sell

however the trailer that resulted is a work of art in itself

[leamanc]

@sunvana Yep, ZP would have been a tough sell, then or now. But MGM really did sabotage the production by forcing Antonioni to trim out the truly rebellious/revolutionary aspects of the film, forcing it to be a watered-down version of revolution that was laughed at by much of its target audience. They also sat on it so that it didn't come out in 1969 as planned, but in '70, after a lot of the revolution died.

Still, with all that, this is one of the most beautiful sequences ever, in my book.

[sksdav]

I just analyzed this scene in a graduate Italian film class...awesome!!!

[BuzbyWuzby]

Still spectacular - blowing things up in front of a high speed colour camera accompanied by a psychedelic soundtrack is an art form!

[luluintheskies]

fantastic music to make love to.

[totipark54]

it is beautiful. still.....

[FLIPSlinkyGRAF]

i erm.... just shit myself! wasnt expecting tht!

[catormis]

I would like to know what was this building ? Was a mock-up (model) ? or a real club, hotel, etc ?

That's a pity that Mark Frechette died few years later the movie.

[emy2908]

The building is a house of Frank Lloyd Wright's apprentice Paolo Soleri in Arizona.

[cutis1000]

@emy2908 Was the building actually blown up?? How was this done? It looks very realistic!

[Kylev2]

@cutis1000 I don't think they had CG in 1970...

[iown813]

@cutis1000 a real home was constructed and Antonioni had numerous cameras set up in various spots to film it

[cutis1000]

@iown813  Now I see why this film went over budget! Thanks for pointing this out.

[85ORESTIS]

geniale!

[bachian]

Epic!

[klemuch]

wow, sounds like good'ol'Hendrix for a while. Great stuff.

[CalvinTheHorse]

It's Pink Floyd - Careful with that Axe Eugene

[klemuch]

Yeah, U can say that. Too bad it ends so sudennly..:C

[89vyn]

DAMN

AMAZZING

[banks49]

Lol Family guy spoofed this.

[ninawillams]

seen this film,i felt it sort of flat on story line but beautiful to watc anyway

[txrealest07]

jay-z's doa video huh

[xlovenuggetx]

haven't seen this movie, but DAMN.

[Emyrsaurus]

ME FRANCA ME MERDE LOLOL

[Oasis984]

Un autentico capolavoro del cinema di Antonioni. Che non è stato ancora pienamente rivalutato come dovrebbe....basti pensare che in Italia non esiste ancora una versione dvd. Vergognoso. Questo film è un capolavoro

[asmodeo1984]

quoto e aggiungo....

...alla sua morte neanche una parola....

con Pavarotti e la sua eredità ci hanno sfasciato il cazzo... e per il maestro....

IL NULLA!

[Oasis984]

Già, una vera vergogna. Ricordo che su Raidue per la morte passarono proprio Zabriskie Point...ma ovviamente in seconda o terza serata e senza quasi neppure accennarlo al pubblico. E d'altronde, non essendoci scandali e pettegolezzi come per Pavarotti o altri, i vari Vespa, Mentana e Riotta non si sono degnati minimamente di parlarne nei loro programmi. Ma forse è meglio così. Antonioni non deve avere niente a che fare con un certo modello di televisione contemporaneo.

[asmodeo1984]

amen fratello/sorella!!!

onore al maestro!

[Walruson]

explote la sociedad de consumo!

[ErichoTTA]

Stuff blowing up is awesome!!

[preg74]

magari finissero così i riccastri che se ne fregano di chi è meno fortunato di loro..personalmente ogni volta che rivedo questa esplosione mi piacerebbe che fosse in una certa villa di Arcore...

[effemme38]

@preg74

per favore! non solo nella villa di Arcore ma in quell'albergo ci metterei TUTTI i nostri cosidetti ONOREVOLI puttanieri disonesti menefreghisti avidi corrotti, un BOOM , piazza pulita e ricominciare da capo per tentare di salvare questa nostra povera Italia, ciao

[MrMichelangelomerisi]

@preg74 fenomeno se io ed altri siamo ricchi è perchè si lavora di più e meglio di te..e se sei un operaio ringrazia il riccastro che ti fa lavorare perchè se fosse per me staresti a chiedere l'elemosina comunista del cazzo

[MrVicfontaine]

@MrMichelangelomerisi

se tu e altri siete ricchi è perchè intestate yacht e ville a soc off-shore amministrate da pensionati con la social card, caro il mio evasore del ca**o

[Straxx269]

love this film.......

[Monikargentina]

Merci. Le futur prochain.

[rumpelfutz]

angels are singing

[Ic1cle]

Are you sure this is "Zabriskie Point" and not "Blow Up" ?

[asmodeo1984]

:(  mmmmmmmmmmmm

[Ic1cle]

I hope they got that on the first take !

[juandiosdado]

loving things that blow up in slow motion

[BrokenChair88]

Pink Floyd wrote "Dogs".

[AlcatrazPsycho08]

I can see how this movie was a failure compared to Michelangelo Antonioni's other movies... they cut Pink Floyd off 2/3 into the song... And at my favorite of Roger's screams too :(

[AlcatrazPsycho08]

the part where the tv set blows up gives me goosebumps... especially how it's in sync with the song

[apostroophe]

eugene......

[bramboracka]

Absolutly perfect. Amazing! This scene and Pink Floyd... I'm crying:-))))

[HELLADJ]

Careful with that axe Eugene...

[axzck]

Come in umber 51, your time is up.

[scatteredjewel]

Beautiful widescreen presentation. Good to see the insurance company admen are making notes....