Original sentence: Roger Ebert called it a "genuinely quirky movie, a trip into a future that seems ruled by perpetually stoned set decorators....The movie is an exercise in self-indulgence (if often an interesting one) by Boorman, who more or less had carte blanche to do a personal project after his immensely successful Deliverance''.The backstory develops to reveal that Zed had found an old book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (the origin of the name Zardoz (Wizard of Oz)), was aware of the fake nature of Zardoz and entered the head aiming at the truth.The film was shot by cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth on a budget of US$1 million
Edited sentence: Filmed on a budget of US$1 million, Zardozs mixture of cerebral, philosophical sci-fi was in complete contrast to Boorman's previous film, Deliverance.Roger Ebert called it a "genuinely quirky movie, a trip into a future that seems ruled by perpetually stoned set decorators....The movie is an exercise in self-indulgence (if often an interesting one) by Boorman, who more or less had carte blanche to do a personal project after his immensely successful Deliverance.The backstory develops to reveal that Zed had found an old book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (the origin of the name Zardoz (Wizard of Oz')), was aware of the fake nature of Zardoz and entered the head aiming at the truth.The film contains a mix of mythology, satire and allegory in a bizarre, sprawling plot filled with twists and incongruities.The film was shot by cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth