Believe it or not, Conan the Barbarian is older than Lord of the Rings, in origination, in book publishing and in movies. Conan first appeared in 'Weird Tales' magazine in 1932. The series was so popular that they were published as books starting in 1950 (before Fellowship of the Ring was written). And the movie, of course, came out in 1982, twenty years before the Lord of the Rings movies. There was, however, an animated version of Lord of the Rings in 1978.
sadly, the animated one, was never finished and did not get continued.... opposing those over-hyped hollywood blockbusters the animated one stayed true to the books...
@@Metzwerg74 Yeah, I LOVED the animated movie as a kid. It was such a rare treat to see it since you had to wait for it to be scheduled on regular TV programming. Which was almost never. As I understand it, the rotoscoping animation method was just too expensive at the time to make such a necessarily long movie. Did you ever see Fire & Ice? That was short enough in length that they managed to pull that one off.
That is not really true. Fantasy has been in the movies since the 50s. What you see as what you think fantasy should be is based only on what you are familiar with. Conan is early 80s and would have gotten much of its inspiration from the 1950s book series and what they could do with early 80s filming. Star Wars is more fantasy but we don't think of it that way. Fantasy is speculative fiction involving magical elements. In literature this is old, hundreds of years but in movies we have seen them mostly since the 50s. LOTR had the benefit of being at a time that technology and filming techniques make fantasy movies for realistic looking. Before the late 90s there were many fantasy movies on the screen and made for TV. The Conan world honestly has never been done right to the books but the books are very hard to do in movie form. Like LOTR was hard Conan would be a crazy production. Many musicals from the 50s to the 70s were fantasy productions. Excalibur in 81 is probably my favorite fantasy film from this time. Conan had potential but needed a bigger production which probably would not have been possible at the time. LOTR had some attempts in animation but the estate really resisted allowing it to be turned into a motion picture.
@@rnkelly36 he said the key words "few" as in not the first or only, "films" as in not literature, and "respectfully" as in it took it seriously and didn't make it overly campy, childish, and the visuals were all done with care to make it look good. in other words, it was not the first movie to take adult or serious themes and well crafted visuals and writing in the fantasy genre, nor was it alone in doing so, but it is a rare gem for its time for doing so.
@@1Sky1 What we may consider as camp today was serious fantasy at the time. I can go with the world "few" but I would honestly say that few is small. Labyrinth, Willow, Dark Crystal, Dragonslayer, Krull, Highlander, Dune, Legend, Star Wars. Then you have things like The Thing, Abyss, Leviathan, Mad Max, Red Sonja, Inner Space, Clash of the Titans, Planet of the Apes and on and on. I would not consider them camp at the time but maybe today I would look back and think they were more campy. If you are under 40 you would be hard pressed to know 20% of the Fantasy genre. Many of the movies don't get played anymore. We moved on. As a matter of movie and entertainment history. the late 90s where Lord of the Rings and Star Wars Ep 1,2,3 sit was a time of major filming changes and the birth of VFX. With VFX and Digital Effects we have been able to really bring worlds alive that we just couldn't before so earlier films to us today seem not serious or campy. They were very serious and done with the best they had at the time. LOTR was just such a major jump in production costs and effects that it is a notable change in the game of movie making. At this time you had not only LOTR but Matrix and Star Wars Ep 123, Blade, Spiderman, Xmen and many others. What came before them built what they stand on. So "few" is questionable but a viewer of today would not know much of pre 1995 Fantasy/Sci Fi in the movies or even on TV. 1970s Spiderman movies were the greatest thing on TV at the time. Today I see them a little more camp. But they were serious attempts at comic book fantasy.
@@rnkelly36 i'm in some groups specifically for old sci fi, sword and sorcery, and fantasy movies. i gotta say man, for every excalibur or highlander you have a dozen barbarians barbarellas and flash gordons. they love the camp and there's a reason these movies were loved by them when they were little kids but the adults around them didn't gravitate towards these movies like they did conan or highlander
@@1Sky1 When I think of camp I think of Batman and Robin 1960s movie. Barbarella was camp and Flash Gordon really wasn't camp. There was not much comedy in Flash Gordon. Camp is really a difficult definition for movies to fall into because it really needs that comedy element and view that the movie is not taking itself seriously. The 1970s Spiderman seems camp but it really isn't. There are so many movies though between the late 40s to the 90s in the Fantasy/Fiction genre that are not camp. Like I said though younger viewers that are not familiar with older fantasy my see them as camp but honestly they were serious fantasy attempts made for the time. This made me look up the 1960s and Fantastic Voyage, The Time Machine, Magic Sword, Godzilla, Camelot, Bedazzled and so many more. Yeah today's fantasy seems serious in comparison but honestly there is so much out there we took as serious that look campy today.
In ancient times, a "standard" was another of the many terms referring to the many kinds of symbols, logos, and coats of arms used by all sorts of warriors and knights throughout history. So for example, lions made up the "Standard" or coat-of-arms of King Edward Longshanks who was the enemy of Scotland in the 1300's; In the movie Braveheart, there's even a scene where William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson) is informed that a royal procession from England was on its way to meet him, and that the English procession bore the "standard" of King Longshanks. This meant the flags and banners displayed by the approaching English diplomatic procession showed King Longshanks' royal coat-of-arms, his personal family logo. So in this film "Conan the Barbarian," Conan was saying to the woman that he was looking for anything or anyone who bore or otherwise displayed what amounted to the royal coat-of-arms that symbolized the movie's villain, who was known as 'Thulsa Doom.' Conan realized that if he could find and follow the spread of that symbol across the land, he would eventually find the men who wiped out his people, his village, and his parents. He was ultimately seeking his revenge by first tracking those men down by following their displayed symbology.
44:00 ok, for the First time I abbandoned a Trixie BLUE vídeo. I am in tears watching the best character coming from the Dead as a Valkyrie to save her Man, and ...
The horses going into the foam spikes created an uproar with animal rights activists, who apparently though they were actually killing horses. Director John Milius made a statement somewhat to the effect of, "Did you see those stuntmen also going into the spikes? Do you think they're dead?" and made them all look like blithering idiots.
The creation of Conan the Barbarian is surrounded by a multitude of rumors and theories, some of which are as legendary as the stories themselves. Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, was known to be a complex individual who died young under tragic circumstances. There are intriguing statements and anecdotes about the creation of Conan's tales that suggest Howard was engaging in something akin to remote viewing of the past. Consider this theory: many legendary stories that captivate us might have origins rooted in forgotten or misunderstood histories. Take Conan as an example. One commentator on a post about the Conan movies insisted that the story is completely fictional. But what if there's more to it? They speculated that the Sons of Aryas-often equated with Aryans-originated from India, later migrating to Europe, bringing the horse with them, and eventually evolving into the Vikings. There might even have been an ancient civilization like Atlantis. These Sons of Aryans, or pro-Aryans, could be a real people, providing a grain of truth behind the fiction. This idea isn't to say that Conan was real, but rather to highlight a well-known storytelling technique: embedding truths within fiction. Aliens serve as a great example of this method. For decades, movies have portrayed aliens as real entities. Recent Senate hearings have claimed that the U.S. government possesses twelve UFOs, allegedly recovered from ancient tombs and crash sites. Intelligence agencies have hinted at the existence of Atlantis and the Sons of Aryas. Now, factor in the story of how Conan was written. Robert E. Howard claimed he would have vivid visions of Conan, who would appear to him at night, demanding that he write the story of his life. Howard even suggested that Conan would terrorize him if he didn't write about the time before recorded history. There are numerous fantasy stories about barbarians, yet somehow, Howard's works have transcended them all. The Conan saga has inspired more movies, comics, books, and video games than any other fantasy series, with only J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings coming close to its scope. The enigma of Conan the Barbarian lies not just in the character himself but in the mysterious and almost mystical way his stories came to be. Whether through remote viewing of a forgotten past, an extraordinary imagination, or perhaps something else entirely, Robert E. Howard's Conan has become a legend that blurs the line between history and myth.
@@JohnSmith-wl8ts I assure you, none of it involved snake-men or flying apes. Robert E. Howard was an expert in history and geography, which is why his world seems so real, but it is fiction.
In fact she's one of the most mythologically-accurate Valkyries in pop culture. Valkyries weren't badass warrior chicks. They didn't fight in the battles themselves when they came to bring someone to Valhalla. Rather, the Norse saw them as all the little changes in fortune that were the difference between life and death on the battlefield. Like if your sword broke, or your opponent's bootlace came undone, making him stumble. That's EXACTLY what Valeria does when she intervenes in the fight against Rexor: She makes his stroke go wide, and then blinds him. It's physically dramaticized for the audience's benefit, but she's not ACTUALLY fighting him. That's why Conan himself isn't sure if he actually saw her or not. Instead, she gives Conan the opportunity he needs to finish the job himself.
@@Ambaryerno Well it isn't really "EXACTLY" what Valeria did - That is your theory. It is a fantasy movie . There is no reason to think that Valeria was shown just for the audience. - A guy turned into a snake in this film. The reason Conan wasn't sure if he had seen her or not is because 1) She's supposed to be dead - and 2) She disappeared immediately after she spoke to him. If she was never really there, - Or was just a twist of fate - That would mean Conan would not have seen her at all, or even heard what she said to him. There is no way Rexor could swing wide. Conan was on the ground, and Rexor was bringing the sword down on him. - We saw what happened. - Even Rexor looked at Valeria in disbelief. It doesn't need to be 'Rationalized' - using Norse mythology Conan is a mish-mash of various mythologies - It doesn't try to depict any of them with any type of accuracy. It just blends them all together, and creates its own.
Wasn't Valeria just one of the women in the group Iron Maidens in the comics? His romance was with the leader of that group wasn't it? Or am I just getting confused it's been decade's since I've read
@@Oz349 Valeria may have appeared in some of the Marvel comics, but she first appeared in the last Conan story Howard wrote before his suicide. I don't think she was part of a group, though.
The effects in this movie are fine. Better than those crappy computer simulations in those more recent movies of yours. "It's not even an orgy! They're just moaning and rolling around!" - Well then, try another flick called Caligula (1979) THAT won't let you down, I assure you.
Instead of saying "Oh look another bag of fake blood" Why don't we just say "Oh look another CGI Shot of fake blood" What's with the "Ha Ha Ha fake blood!" Aren't most movies fake blood? At least it's actual liquid, instead of fake looking digital.
but it's a comedy too. Do you think him punching the camel or falling with his head in the bowl... isn't comedy? The film is full of deliberately comical moments.
Although the word "barbarian" in English today carries pejorative connotations of being uncivilized, the word was originally a neutral word for anyone who did not speak Greek (later, the Romans adopted this to mean anyone who didn't speak Greak or Latin - one of the two is fine). The word itself was onomatopoeia representing unintelligible speech. For Robert E. Howard, the word did carry the usual connotation of being uncivilized, but since he did not think much of civilization, the word carried no pejorative meaning to him. Howard believed that the uncivilized man was more honest, more free, and more polite (an armed society is a polite society) whereas civilization brought with it duplicity, corruption and decadence.
"Barbarian" meant litellary "uncivilized". For the greeks whoever didn't talk greek meant that it wasn't born in a greek city, which was the pinnacle of civilization for them. Robert Howard took this topic and reflected it in his Conan and Kull stories. Both barbarians who hated most of the aspects of civilization, they were barbarians, uncivilized, but for that same reason, more honest and true people, etc.
It must be difficult for someone accustomed to digital fakery to appreciate live stunts, practical effects and choreography. Hope you still got some enjoyment out of this fantastic movie.
I'll tell you a secret: blood doesn't spray like in modern films. Even if you hurt someone, the blood starts to flow out slowly. However this film is epic, in music and visuals. Otherwise, it's obviously intended to be entertaining.
Ever seen a flick called Shogun Assassin? THAT's about the age of THIS flick and it's jam crammed with spraying blood, in fact I believe it might even be the flick that ORIGINATED it.
It can depend. You won't get the firehose-like spray you see in many movies, but melee combat with these types of weapons was NOT clean or pretty, especially if you cut a major vein or artery (IE the carotid, jugular, and femoral, all of which are major targets in many schools of swordsmanship).
5:30 - "I love how back in the day they didn't have the special effects to show how people are being sliced and slain and stuff". 7:35 - you were saying hon? Lol! Eat your words!
You obviously didn't understand what she was saying, because @ 7:35 you STILL don't SEE anyone being sliced. You see Darth Vader swing and a prop drops in front of the kid. What Trixy was saying was that you don't see the blades actually cut flesh. So I believe YOUR words need to be eaten. lol.
@@viceversar-do1cn Too late. I'm not even going to bother verifying that because that's what you did right?? You saw that you were wrong entirely and LOOKED for something to help you out?? Sorry too late.
@@patrickcromwell7554 "And looked for something to help you out....." Yeah - it's called PROOF. Trixy said 'Sliced and slain" Don't try to mis-quote her. As soon as someone proves you wrong you start freaking out, going into denial and acting neurotic. You sound like a 12 year old nerd with a personality disorder.
Conan was sniffed out because he kept showing people that Jade crest. It was a special item that adorned the sacred temple he raided. Doom knew that he was the one who perpetrated his temple
Also because he said he saw "infinity". Soon after that Doom asks, "which of you won't embrace oblivion?" or something like that. Conan improvised when asked what he saw in the water and guessed poorly.
@@BenWillyums But that lady didnt have time to run up all those stairs, run backstage, and tell Thulsa what Conan said. Thulsa could just sense that there was a traitor in the crowd.
@@TalaCruz After Conan hands over that jade crest (that he stole from the temple), you see them hand it off to a guard, who then moves quickly to inform others.
@@ElectricKnight. Yes I know. 🙂I was disagreeing with that guy who said that Conan got busted for what he said to the woman by the pool. But Conan didnt hand over the crest to someone, who then handed it to a guard.He was stopped by one guard, who took the crest from him - Then that same guard walked straight down the steps.He only showed it to Rexor and Thorgrim, who were waaay down the bottom platform.Then the 3 of them walked quietly up on Conan. At the same time as Thulsa came out, and immediately called out Conan.There is no way that any of them had time to tell Thulsa what was going on. ...Thulsa looked like he was ready to call him out, before he even stepped onto the balcony. So either he could sense a traitor with his powers - Or maybe someone found the dead priest earlier.
It’s a great mix of over the top adventure and myth, violence and fun. It’s a gigantic comic book, decades before over the top comic book movies became mega blockbusters - all held together by John Milius mad brilliance.
There's a lot of Germanic themes. Valeria became like a Valkyrie. Remember her line, if I were dead and you were fighting for life, I'd come back from the pit of hell to fight at your side
Rob was writing these stories in the world of HP Lovecraft back in the Hyborian age when the Gods were more active ....The Conan stories are part of the Chuthulian Mythos
Not 100%, while Subatai calls him Cimmerian the ,Sumarian Empire was the earliest known civilization in human history! Zamora the city where they stole the Jewel from is real, it dates back to the Bronze age! There are many truths mixed with fantasy, its not entirely fictional!
Probablemente le explotaría el "cerebro" Marvel y las películas de super héroes han hecho mucho daño... No quiero saber qué diría al ver tiempos modernos de Charles Chaplin o nosferatu...
Yeah, THIS was still pretty early in Arnold's acting career and before he became a total Hollywood megastar and a lot of the stuff that 's now popularly characteristic of his LATER movies hadn't been established yet, like the elaborate stunts, action scenes, big effects, big explosions, and the heavy dialogue with cheesy catch-lines. It’s a little more artistic (though it's still essentially an action adventure popcorn flick), is darker toned, and has a more Euro quality (being it was an international production).
@@nimz8521 I'd say post-Terminator was when he turned into a mega-star, yeah. He was, though not exactly an unknown, certainly not THAT BIG when he did THIS movie.
Well, Conan (Arnold) might not have blabbed and blabbed throughout the entire movie, but when he DID speak he DID utter some pretty GOOD, indeed even CLASSIC, lines (however few and infrequent).
I'll tell you something else about "back in the day" sweetheart - audiences did NOT remark "This is so slowwwwwwww!!!" at a SEX SCENE in a movie. No, on the contrary, THEY would go "Yeahhhh!!!!!! Alright!!!!!! Here we go!!!!!!!! Awesome!!!!!!! Get it on!!!!!!". How things have changed indeed! Go figure.
People are usually a bit more restrained about those things when they're filming a reaction. They don't feel comfortable going into violent spasms of ecstasy, almost falling off their chairs, while they're on camera - Weird huh?
When Conan answers the question of "what is best in life": To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. It's actually a quote of Ghengis Khan from the "Secret History of the Mongols". The oldest surviving literary work in Mongolian language. Written for the Mongol royal family as a kind a family history.
Everybody should have AND be a friend like Subotai: a friend who fights your battles along side you, who rescue you from danger and who cries your sorrows.
the film was shot in Spain and the beautiful actress is a Spanish actress named Nadiuska and the Conan boy is a Spanish actor named Jorge Sanz greetings!!
The fire Conan throws was supposed to hit the ledger above, but they couldn't re-shoot because the set actually caught fire and burned down as planned. Not the first time James Earl Jones tells the main character that he is his father... This was a pretty good movie back then. Still kind of holds up. If you want to see the more campy version, that would be the sequel Conan the Destroyer (1984)
You need to see "Excalibur" and "Dragonslayer." Don't get me wrong, there were a lot of really good Sword and Sorcery films from the 80's, but Conan the Barbarian along with these two are the pinnacle of the genre.
Ugh she's gonna hate Excalibur and giggle all the time. Still, it's interesting, and she's sincere with smart quips. Too bad she won't ever reply to reply to comments, nor even like them.
@Gildizor Yeahh, now THAT movie, along with Beastmaster and Ator, was where it started getting SLEAZIER and more exploitative. Don't get me wrong though, I enjoy THOSE flicks too.
Something I do not think you realized... The sword that Conan broke with his sword... It was his father's sword that had been taken when he was a child... That is why he took in and used his father's broken sword to kill Thulsa Doom.
It's one of the great ironies of life: If you want to be happy, seek suffering. If you want to suffer, seek happiness. Rockstars are probably the most selfish and indulgent people in our society and they all end up miserable or dead. The people who live their life 'shoulder to the wheel', leaning into hardship and not away from it. They build something that matters to them and die fulfilled surrounded by loved ones.
Relative to sword fighting with blood and "realistic" aggression, Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies Jojimbo and Sanjuro were the first movies to reflect that, most likely, Hollywood movies tended to be "softer" for moral and puritan purposes. Although some of those movies started to be more explicit in the 60s, like El Cid or The Vikings, both with excellent and violent sword fighting scenes
Sandall Bergman as Valeria: "If I were dead, and you were still fighting for life, I'd come back from the darkness, back from the Pit of Hell to fight at your side!" Trixy Blue: "That's so sweet! This is the best love story of all time!" ❤🩹 And she did it too, when he was knocked down and defenseless, she came back, but not from Hell, for she is one of Crom's chosen Vallkyries. Watch it again, you'll catch more on subsequent viewings! Glad you enjoyed it. It's one of my favorites.
The movie takes place during Hyborean Age, which is completely fictional. Also not Stonehenge. "She came back." You haven't seen anything yet. When Valeria returned to protect Conan, she was not Thor, she was one of the Valkerie. "Conan" was written by Oliver Stone and John Milius and directed by John, so there was a lot of "show the audience" rather than "tell the audience". Milius was also noted for having very masculine male leads, although he does strong females too (Valeria was a good example, bad ass warrior and still lovely and loving). Check out another John Milius movie, "The Wind And The Lion". It's based loosely on the USA's interactons with the Barbary pirates.
Stone only had the writing credit because of a legal thing buying the rights. Stone was going to do some post-apocalyptic version of Conan. So more like a Thundarr the barbarian movie.
The stories are fictional. The idea of the age before the flood is semi-real. Archaeology is starting to catch up but it’s hard to find ultra ancient stuff. Especially underwater. But google the meltwater pulses from the end of the last ice age. Science knows that the sea level rise around 400ft. Around the just before the known ‘dawn of civilization’ some 10,000 years ago. This is why Beringia was a place and the Native American proto Siberian people walked over. This is how the British isles were mostly occupied by people walking the sunken area called Doggerland. Indonesia to a large extent as well. Probpossibly Japan. This is why there is a standing stone structure under Lake Michigan. The reason there are formerly occupied caves under the Mediterranean in Levantine and along coastal France and places. We know civilizations often prefer to spring up along coasts and waterway points of interest. We know that anatomically homosapien us people evolved some 300,000 years ago and we are essentially the same brains with more knowledge access. It is unusual to the exactly known story that some of the oldest things like Gobekli Tepe and others are moderately well advanced and sometimes seem out of place. The reason why flood myth stories exist around the world independently from each other is real flooding sinking significant areas of landmass. Some of the best real estate on those landmasses , as modern historic shore is 400 ft uphill potentially hundred miles away. The first places humans significantly occupied are literally now underwater. Some form of civilizations are lost and there was a form of societal fleeing and reset in some regions. Those ancient stories are quite likely over embellished truths passed down from real environmental changes , some likely disastrous and cataclysmic to the first societies And Conan fits in there in this legitimate time period we don’t understand well enough too. If you forgive similar magical and divine embellishments. 😂 Probably metallurgic advancements and animal husbandry and megalithic structure, to column and arch levels , but we literally don’t know how far our blind spot is here, just presume.
Valeria is also one of the most mythologically-accurate depictions of the Valkyries in film. They weren't warriors. The Norse and Germanic people saw them as the little misfortunes that could kill you in combat (your sword breaking, the sun getting in your eyes at the wrong moment, etc.). And that's EXACTLY what she does to Rexor: First she makes his strike to kill Conan go wide, and then she blinds him. It's dramaticized for the audience by having her block his sword and then slash him with her own, but that's ultimately all she actually does: throwing Rexor off balance so Conan can regain his feet and finish the fight himself.
@@mokane86 You probably know this but just in case you didn't. There are some very old ruins off the coast of India and the Sahara Desert has some long climate cycle due to ocean currents that makes it super moist and 7,000 years ago it had lakes bigger than Lake Superior and an extensive river system.
The hyborian aged is basically earth in 10,000 to 15,000 BC and if you read the book or comics and you would have known that the world is a pre historic earth and Egypt was called Stygia. There is even a scene in the comic that a wizard sees the future and sees the spinxe of egypt
Well, this period is fictional but it's supposed to be happening after the sinking of Atlantis. If I remember well, Conan's sword was a relic from Atlantis itself. The best part is the prayer to Crom, taught me not to pray to a god who doesn't answer you. I was like 11 years old, now I'm ancient 😸
Arnold's first role, and it launched his Hollywood career. He didn't have much extended dialogue as his English was not good and his accent still so gutteral. Subatai (sp?) the Archer was played by Gerry Lopez, in that era a world class surfer in Hawaii and undisputed King of the famous surf break, The Pipeline. How he was cast in this I don't know; but he did well, and all us young surfers were all 'Woohoo Gerry!' about it, lol!
Arnold was almost 35 when he did Conan (in 1982); but he was 22 when he did Hercules in New York (back in 1969). So no not his first role NOR his first Feature.
23:11 You should never neglect yourself and your needs, obviously, but being selfish does not make you happy. If you are in a relationship you have to care about your partner, and if you have children, a family, you work hard and even sacrifice for them, that's not selfish.
A review at the time of release described it as "if Star Wars was made by a psychopath.". The era in which it takes place is known as the "Hyperborean Age" a fictional setting, created by pulp author Robert E. Howard. The events of the story happen "between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Arias". Given the historical sources Howard was working with, the events take place between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago.
Also, it helps to show that both Conan's father AND Doom were wrong about the Riddle of Steel: Conan's father was wrong because the events of the film proved that you CAN'T put all your trust in steel; not only was his father's sword stolen by Rexor, but it ultimately broke in their final battle. Nor do you need worry about men not being trustworthy. Conan couldn't have survived the film without the loyalty of Subotai and Valeria. And Doom was wrong, because there's something even STRONGER than flesh, and that's will. It was Conan's will that ultimately allowed him to defeat Doom; It helped keep him alive, it gave him his purpose, and it allowed Conan to shrug off Doom's final attempt to manipulate and control him.
@@Ambaryerno But Doom said He gave Conan the will to live. And he was right. He gave Conan the need for revenge, which drove Conan all through his life.
I have always, since the year of this movie's release (I'm old), taken this movie to have both deliberately shocking and deliberately quirky-funny moments. Like many old movies, it doesn't take itself too seriously all of the time. The director or Arnold himself thought it'd be hilarious to have Conan pass out with his face in his soup, so that's what they did, and it was funny (and made the intended point about excess). There might be some unintentionally funny moments for today's audiences, but not that many. Generally many people today watch these movies and think they're much better than today's movies, and having lived in both eras, I couldn't agree more.
This movie was filmed in several places in Spain, so... for that, Conan as a kid is played by a spanish actor, Jorge Sanz. And Conan's mother is Nadiuska, a german actress who lives in Spain since 1971.
I don't know if it's my single favorite movie, but I think it's still, to this day, the best fantasy movie. To me, this completely blows The Lord of the Rings out of the water.
15:00 The author (Robert E. Howard) only stated that it happened before recorded history. Later authors wrote additional stories, and placed these events around 10,000 BCE.
Before I even heard of Arnie, I read the Conan comic books. Collected a ton of them. Learned about the books written by Conan’s creator Robert E. Howard. Read 10 novels that Howard wrote and finished by others after he died, from unfinished chapters. For me, it was an incredible series of books where Conan’s story had an actual ending with the 10th book. I held my breath when I saw the movie in theaters. Who is this Arnie person? Is he going to do the character justice? Ralf Moeller was good as Conan in the TV series. Moeller was the big German in Gladiator. Jason Momoa played a ‘sleeker’ Conan in the later remake. Arnie is my favorite Conan. Arnie’s best friend Sven-Ole Thorsen is the big guy with the hammer. He has appeared in all of Arnie’s film. The music by Basil Poledouris is considered a classic and is performed by symphony orchestras around the world.
Fun Fact: Lord of the Rings and Conan were originally written around the same time. Additionally, although the stories never cross over, it's officially acknowledged that Conan and Cthulhu exist in the same universe.
there were some pseudo-crossovers like the Tower of the Elephant (the elephant was pretty much spot on for a Mi-Go from Whisperer in the Dark), the Vale of the Lost Women, the Slithering Shadow, the Phoenix on the Sword, etc. While never specifically named Shoggoth, Mi-Go, etc., the descriptions are pretty much the same, which makes sense as Lovecraft and Howard were friends who corresponded and traded notes and story ideas back and forth quite a bit.
My father always called this movie ‘The MANLIEST Opera Ever,’ because it’s about 20 minutes of dialogue and 2 hours of some of the best music ever written! Also, if you like this, DEFINITELY check out _The Northman._ Robert Eggers, the director of that film, was directly influenced by this one.
Looks like the little princess wants her own revenge against Thulsa Doom. Sneaking in the back way, with her guidance, made everything so much easier this time!
9:48 - Originally the term 'Barbarian' was introduced in ancient Greece to indicate any non-Greek person (I'm not sure if it had a negative connotation). Later, the Romans also adopted the term to indicate whoever who wasn't either Roman or Greek (again, I don't know if they used it derogatively as we do today).
Conan is a character created by Robert E. Howard in a bunch of short stories back in 1930s. It wasn't written or published chronologically, so in the very first story featuring Conan we see him as an old and experienced king leaning over maps. The story of King Conan was never told in movies. There's a sequel Conan the Destroyer. There's a reboot in 2011 with Jason Momoa, but it was bad so it never got a sequel or anything and most people forgot about it. King Conan or Conan the King movie was teased and whatnot a bunch of times, but it never happened. Arnold Schwarzenegger is still right age and form to play an older Conan.
I saw the 2011 Conan once on TV, several years ago now, all I remember it was quite violent and it was a fun watch. I never thought of it as a bad movie. I don't know how well it did in the box office, but I am guessing not that good since we never got another one.
the irony is, as bad as the Momoa remake was Conan's origins in that movie were far, far closer to the novels than the Arnie one. Despite that, the Arnie Conan is the only one for me movie-wise :)
11:41 this is where he finds "The God Killer" sword... the "Atlantean Sword", forged out of metal from a meteorite... even the ancient king, thatwielded this sword before conan, bows his head to the new wielder of this sword....
@@TalaCruz what do you mean, "god killer" was just areference to the comment, of Trixi, "atlantean sword" is directly from the movie... the track that plays when conan finds the sword, is named "The Atlantean Sword" in the soundtrack by Basil Poledoris. the thing with the meteorite metal, is mentioned in the books, comics and was even a main theme in the tv cartoon series.... just don´t ask which book it was, i would have to read them all again to find that....
That was Conan's father's sword that he broke. I told you the blade would be sharp as hell but brittle due to its the quenching in snow. Conan's Atlantean sword was no doubt made of superior steel.
This is set in the time between the fall of Atlantis and the rise of the civilizations of Egypt and Summer in the middle east. While most only remembered in myth, discoveries now prove pre ice age civilizations existed. Gobekli Tepe and related sites in Turkey push known civilization back at least 6000 more years.
There is only one Conan movie, true to the fantasy of Robert E. Howard - and it's this one.. This is the origin of Sword and Sorcery. It has little to none to do with Tolkien and High Fantasy. I guess she will find out.
How are people fit back then? Were there gyms? Wow. Arnold Schwarzenegger wouldn't be 7 time Mr. OLYMPIA in bodybuilding if there were no gyms for him to train. C'mon, Trixie! -OG
You would want to breed lets say your dog, like they can hurt each other and when they are not wild they sort of don't learn everything they should. Most of written human history we have had slaves so breeding slaves have been a thing and you are missing the whole point of the scene by thinking they are perverts when the point is that a slave was nothing else than a possession.
You don't know anything do you? Maybe some Cinema history might help... Slow paced? Yeah sorry it's not a 15 second video, I can see how taxing it must be for you. 😂
This movie was the first in the "sword and sorcery" genre. There is a lot to take away, it was precursor in many ways. For example, partners are all true to each other, there is no betrayal. Even the vilains: Doom does not sanction his henchmen when they fail, as we see it in James Bond movies for example. To the contrary, he helps and supports them. Also, did you notice that races and genders are treated equally? When Conan first meets the blonde Valeria, he takes her as a serious threat, there is no reaction such as "oh it's a girl".
I'm not sure these aspects are precursors to the genre which followed though. Doom is a cult leader. It is part of his character to refer to those around him as 'My Child" and treat them as the 'loving father figure' - This is not a dynamic which exists between all villains in the genre....Also, the women Conan is given to breed with, are referred to as 'The finest stock'. ..I think as long as a woman has a sword, She might get some respect.
@@Wezwolf Maax of Beastmaster was absolutely a cult leader, as were many other villains in the genre. Also, Howard's views of women were...complicated. Belit, for instance, was introduced as virtually Conan's equal in combat and a badass pirate queen who EARNED command of her crew. And yet after she hooked up with Conan she suddenly becomes a damsel who completely submits herself to his will.
The original & BEST Conan movie. To this day I always wonder about the scene in the underground tomb. Was that the tomb of King Kull (AKA Kull the Conqueror)? At the time Marvel had the rights to both Conan & Kull; & in the comics & Savage Sword of Conan (SSoC) it was heavily implied back then that Conan was Kulls descendant. It would've been poetic, Conan doing what his ancestor was incapable of (Thulsa Doom is actually a Kull villain in the lore). Near the end, Conan was wise to pray indirectly to Crom. In the lore Crom takes a dim view of those who pray directly to him. This thinking is thus, "I gave you what you needed to survive & thrive when you were born." Praying for more after, even if temporary, is greedy in Croms eyes. Annoy Crom enough, he might actually curse you instead of hearing your plea. As far as know, in the novels, Crom has never once answered Conan; some of the other gods have though. I always thought that one of the reasons 2016 Conan movie failed was that it simply wasn't as raw as this one was. A Conan that isn't practically swimming in blood isn't Conan to me. As far as THIS Conan move goes, it was originally supposed to be a trilogy, but things happened. We would've seen Conan become king in the 3rd. In the novels he did become king by his own hand, by strangling to death the previous king of Aquilonia (pure revenge). Both Conans father & Thulsa were wrong about the answer to the riddle of Steel though, unsure if Conan knew.
Thanks for the info on Kull. It definitely adds to the story. I have only recently started reading the Conan stories. (Even though I saw the original version of this movie in theaters several times). I was unaware of the connection between Conan and Kull, except for the author.
I've read all the original Conan Books. I like characters in fiction like Conan, the anti-hero. Conan may be a mercenary, a thief, an adventurer and looter of tombs. He doesn't always operate within the confines of the law, but that's not to say he doesn't have his own code of ethics. Conan has a clean moral code that he lives by. It may be harsh, in some ways, but he leaves peaceable people alone and won't harm women/children. It's like Clint Eastwood's characters in the Sergio Leone movies, they aren't the purely good white cowboy hat characters of the old Westerns. These characters are a bit tougher and more jaded, but they are still basically good guys. I think our modern age loves the anti-hero, for the hero.
When this movie first came out in theatres it wouldn't have even been consired a Disney movie !!!!😂😂😂😂. Disney just wants to own everything these days. If I recall , this was Rated R.
@@RedEdgedSavage I may be mistaken , but PG17 didn't come out until later. And even if it was PG17....Disney? 😖 they ruined the " Star Wars " franchise . What more do they want ?
"Barbarian" comes from the Latin "bar-bar", that is, the way Romans mocked Germanic, Nordic and Eslavic languages, as these sounded to their Latin ears like "barking dogs". Romans then called all foreigners from these lands "Barbarians". By the way this is the same origin they used for a few northern African languages from nomad tribes, but now there these people are called "Berebere".
Standards are the symbols they carry into battle. The word had a different meaning back then. All those flags and symbols they would carry at the front of an army were standards.
Believe it or not, Conan the Barbarian is older than Lord of the Rings, in origination, in book publishing and in movies. Conan first appeared in 'Weird Tales' magazine in 1932. The series was so popular that they were published as books starting in 1950 (before Fellowship of the Ring was written). And the movie, of course, came out in 1982, twenty years before the Lord of the Rings movies. There was, however, an animated version of Lord of the Rings in 1978.
sadly, the animated one, was never finished and did not get continued....
opposing those over-hyped hollywood blockbusters the animated one stayed true to the books...
don't forget the Marvel Comics of the 1970s -- Conan the Barbarian and The Savage Sword of Conan. those were cool.
@@Metzwerg74 Yeah, I LOVED the animated movie as a kid. It was such a rare treat to see it since you had to wait for it to be scheduled on regular TV programming. Which was almost never. As I understand it, the rotoscoping animation method was just too expensive at the time to make such a necessarily long movie. Did you ever see Fire & Ice? That was short enough in length that they managed to pull that one off.
Bed and breakfast in Isengart! 😊
Lord of the rings was started in WW1 or just after.
Ahh Conan...when Darth Vader faced off with the Terminator
More like the Terminator heads off Darth Vader.
@@jefferywarburton2116 🤣🤣
Ming the Merciless too 21:32
Poor James Earl Jones. Nobody wants to be his son.
First Luke denies him, and two years later Conan.
@@donkfail1 Simba fell for it but, perhaps that's drawing conclusions.
Before the Lord of the Rings movies this is one of the few films that actually presented the fantasy genre in film respectfully
That is not really true. Fantasy has been in the movies since the 50s. What you see as what you think fantasy should be is based only on what you are familiar with. Conan is early 80s and would have gotten much of its inspiration from the 1950s book series and what they could do with early 80s filming. Star Wars is more fantasy but we don't think of it that way. Fantasy is speculative fiction involving magical elements. In literature this is old, hundreds of years but in movies we have seen them mostly since the 50s. LOTR had the benefit of being at a time that technology and filming techniques make fantasy movies for realistic looking. Before the late 90s there were many fantasy movies on the screen and made for TV. The Conan world honestly has never been done right to the books but the books are very hard to do in movie form. Like LOTR was hard Conan would be a crazy production. Many musicals from the 50s to the 70s were fantasy productions. Excalibur in 81 is probably my favorite fantasy film from this time. Conan had potential but needed a bigger production which probably would not have been possible at the time. LOTR had some attempts in animation but the estate really resisted allowing it to be turned into a motion picture.
@@rnkelly36 he said the key words "few" as in not the first or only, "films" as in not literature, and "respectfully" as in it took it seriously and didn't make it overly campy, childish, and the visuals were all done with care to make it look good.
in other words, it was not the first movie to take adult or serious themes and well crafted visuals and writing in the fantasy genre, nor was it alone in doing so, but it is a rare gem for its time for doing so.
@@1Sky1 What we may consider as camp today was serious fantasy at the time. I can go with the world "few" but I would honestly say that few is small. Labyrinth, Willow, Dark Crystal, Dragonslayer, Krull, Highlander, Dune, Legend, Star Wars. Then you have things like The Thing, Abyss, Leviathan, Mad Max, Red Sonja, Inner Space, Clash of the Titans, Planet of the Apes and on and on. I would not consider them camp at the time but maybe today I would look back and think they were more campy. If you are under 40 you would be hard pressed to know 20% of the Fantasy genre. Many of the movies don't get played anymore. We moved on. As a matter of movie and entertainment history. the late 90s where Lord of the Rings and Star Wars Ep 1,2,3 sit was a time of major filming changes and the birth of VFX. With VFX and Digital Effects we have been able to really bring worlds alive that we just couldn't before so earlier films to us today seem not serious or campy. They were very serious and done with the best they had at the time. LOTR was just such a major jump in production costs and effects that it is a notable change in the game of movie making. At this time you had not only LOTR but Matrix and Star Wars Ep 123, Blade, Spiderman, Xmen and many others. What came before them built what they stand on. So "few" is questionable but a viewer of today would not know much of pre 1995 Fantasy/Sci Fi in the movies or even on TV. 1970s Spiderman movies were the greatest thing on TV at the time. Today I see them a little more camp. But they were serious attempts at comic book fantasy.
@@rnkelly36 i'm in some groups specifically for old sci fi, sword and sorcery, and fantasy movies. i gotta say man, for every excalibur or highlander you have a dozen barbarians barbarellas and flash gordons. they love the camp and there's a reason these movies were loved by them when they were little kids but the adults around them didn't gravitate towards these movies like they did conan or highlander
@@1Sky1 When I think of camp I think of Batman and Robin 1960s movie. Barbarella was camp and Flash Gordon really wasn't camp. There was not much comedy in Flash Gordon. Camp is really a difficult definition for movies to fall into because it really needs that comedy element and view that the movie is not taking itself seriously. The 1970s Spiderman seems camp but it really isn't. There are so many movies though between the late 40s to the 90s in the Fantasy/Fiction genre that are not camp. Like I said though younger viewers that are not familiar with older fantasy my see them as camp but honestly they were serious fantasy attempts made for the time. This made me look up the 1960s and Fantastic Voyage, The Time Machine, Magic Sword, Godzilla, Camelot, Bedazzled and so many more. Yeah today's fantasy seems serious in comparison but honestly there is so much out there we took as serious that look campy today.
In ancient times, a "standard" was another of the many terms referring to the many kinds of symbols, logos, and coats of arms used by all sorts of warriors and knights throughout history.
So for example, lions made up the "Standard" or coat-of-arms of King Edward Longshanks who was the enemy of Scotland in the 1300's;
In the movie Braveheart, there's even a scene where William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson) is informed that a royal procession from England was on its way to meet him, and that the English procession bore the "standard" of King Longshanks.
This meant the flags and banners displayed by the approaching English diplomatic procession showed King Longshanks' royal coat-of-arms, his personal family logo.
So in this film "Conan the Barbarian," Conan was saying to the woman that he was looking for anything or anyone who bore or otherwise displayed what amounted to the royal coat-of-arms that symbolized the movie's villain, who was known as 'Thulsa Doom.'
Conan realized that if he could find and follow the spread of that symbol across the land, he would eventually find the men who wiped out his people, his village, and his parents. He was ultimately seeking his revenge by first tracking those men down by following their displayed symbology.
Trixy: "I love vultures! They're so goth!"
Audience:
Also there are smaller vultures too.
I wasn't aware that goths eat carrion. Learn something new every day.
Oh. I was wondering why it had black nail polish on it's beak.
Exactly. Never seem Trixy so disconnected from a character literaly crucified. Suffering... And she commenting about random things.
44:00 ok, for the First time I abbandoned a Trixie BLUE vídeo.
I am in tears watching the best character coming from the Dead as a Valkyrie to save her Man, and ...
One of the best movie soundtracks ever
Basil Poulidoris the GOAT
@@benschultz1784 A hairy, muscled, war GOAT!
Ever. Takes this movie from a 3 to a 7 singlehandedly.
I find the entire movie quite well-made. Now the sequels (The Destroyer, Red Sonja) are another story.
@@Dunlop-hg2ql still better than jacksons tolkien desecrations
The horses going into the foam spikes created an uproar with animal rights activists, who apparently though they were actually killing horses. Director John Milius made a statement somewhat to the effect of, "Did you see those stuntmen also going into the spikes? Do you think they're dead?" and made them all look like blithering idiots.
The movie takes place in the Hyborean Age. It's a fictional period in pre-history.
The creation of Conan the Barbarian is surrounded by a multitude of rumors and theories, some of which are as legendary as the stories themselves. Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, was known to be a complex individual who died young under tragic circumstances. There are intriguing statements and anecdotes about the creation of Conan's tales that suggest Howard was engaging in something akin to remote viewing of the past.
Consider this theory: many legendary stories that captivate us might have origins rooted in forgotten or misunderstood histories. Take Conan as an example. One commentator on a post about the Conan movies insisted that the story is completely fictional. But what if there's more to it? They speculated that the Sons of Aryas-often equated with Aryans-originated from India, later migrating to Europe, bringing the horse with them, and eventually evolving into the Vikings. There might even have been an ancient civilization like Atlantis. These Sons of Aryans, or pro-Aryans, could be a real people, providing a grain of truth behind the fiction.
This idea isn't to say that Conan was real, but rather to highlight a well-known storytelling technique: embedding truths within fiction. Aliens serve as a great example of this method. For decades, movies have portrayed aliens as real entities. Recent Senate hearings have claimed that the U.S. government possesses twelve UFOs, allegedly recovered from ancient tombs and crash sites. Intelligence agencies have hinted at the existence of Atlantis and the Sons of Aryas.
Now, factor in the story of how Conan was written. Robert E. Howard claimed he would have vivid visions of Conan, who would appear to him at night, demanding that he write the story of his life. Howard even suggested that Conan would terrorize him if he didn't write about the time before recorded history. There are numerous fantasy stories about barbarians, yet somehow, Howard's works have transcended them all. The Conan saga has inspired more movies, comics, books, and video games than any other fantasy series, with only J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings coming close to its scope.
The enigma of Conan the Barbarian lies not just in the character himself but in the mysterious and almost mystical way his stories came to be. Whether through remote viewing of a forgotten past, an extraordinary imagination, or perhaps something else entirely, Robert E. Howard's Conan has become a legend that blurs the line between history and myth.
it might not be as fictional as we thought, a lot of weird shit was going on in the younger dryas period that we are only just now learning about
@@JohnSmith-wl8ts I assure you, none of it involved snake-men or flying apes. Robert E. Howard was an expert in history and geography, which is why his world seems so real, but it is fiction.
@@DarkVeghetta you were there?, damn you're old as shit
Yeah, like "Middle Earth" in the LOTR stuff. Same thing - fictional.
She became a Valkyrie. In the books Conan had one romantic interest in the early days but married once he became king of Aquilonia.
I just thought THAT was supposed to be an angel of some kind.
In fact she's one of the most mythologically-accurate Valkyries in pop culture.
Valkyries weren't badass warrior chicks. They didn't fight in the battles themselves when they came to bring someone to Valhalla. Rather, the Norse saw them as all the little changes in fortune that were the difference between life and death on the battlefield. Like if your sword broke, or your opponent's bootlace came undone, making him stumble.
That's EXACTLY what Valeria does when she intervenes in the fight against Rexor: She makes his stroke go wide, and then blinds him. It's physically dramaticized for the audience's benefit, but she's not ACTUALLY fighting him. That's why Conan himself isn't sure if he actually saw her or not. Instead, she gives Conan the opportunity he needs to finish the job himself.
@@Ambaryerno Well it isn't really "EXACTLY" what Valeria did - That is your theory.
It is a fantasy movie . There is no reason to think that Valeria was shown just for the audience. - A guy turned into a snake in this film.
The reason Conan wasn't sure if he had seen her or not is because 1) She's supposed to be dead - and 2) She disappeared immediately after she spoke to him.
If she was never really there, - Or was just a twist of fate - That would mean Conan would not have seen her at all, or even heard what she said to him.
There is no way Rexor could swing wide. Conan was on the ground, and Rexor was bringing the sword down on him. - We saw what happened. - Even Rexor looked at Valeria in disbelief.
It doesn't need to be 'Rationalized' - using Norse mythology
Conan is a mish-mash of various mythologies - It doesn't try to depict any of them with any type of accuracy. It just blends them all together, and creates its own.
Wasn't Valeria just one of the women in the group Iron Maidens in the comics? His romance was with the leader of that group wasn't it? Or am I just getting confused it's been decade's since I've read
@@Oz349 Valeria may have appeared in some of the Marvel comics, but she first appeared in the last Conan story Howard wrote before his suicide. I don't think she was part of a group, though.
The effects in this movie are fine. Better than those crappy computer simulations in those more recent movies of yours. "It's not even an orgy! They're just moaning and rolling around!" - Well then, try another flick called Caligula (1979) THAT won't let you down, I assure you.
A hardcore pron flick with Shakespearean actors
They were tuckered out and needed a rest between all the humping
Instead of saying "Oh look another bag of fake blood" Why don't we just say "Oh look another CGI Shot of fake blood" What's with the "Ha Ha Ha fake blood!" Aren't most movies fake blood?
At least it's actual liquid, instead of fake looking digital.
can you imagine the nightmare to edit THAT reaction?!
Do you think she'd be able to stand the sight of the dwarf? 😂
I have never seen anyone think this movie is a comedy.
but it's a comedy too. Do you think him punching the camel or falling with his head in the bowl... isn't comedy? The film is full of deliberately comical moments.
@@erosgritti5171 Just because a movie has some humorous scenes doesn't mean it's a COMEDY overall.
@@viceversar-do1cn - Yeah... I didn't last long watching this.
Her: "I just can't with this movie..."
Me: "I just can't with this reaction... byeee".
Read some Conan stories. They're kinda funny too. This movie does lose a step.
@@viceversar-do1cn Doesn't have to be 'overall.' Films are multiple genres.
Although the word "barbarian" in English today carries pejorative connotations of being uncivilized, the word was originally a neutral word for anyone who did not speak Greek (later, the Romans adopted this to mean anyone who didn't speak Greak or Latin - one of the two is fine). The word itself was onomatopoeia representing unintelligible speech.
For Robert E. Howard, the word did carry the usual connotation of being uncivilized, but since he did not think much of civilization, the word carried no pejorative meaning to him. Howard believed that the uncivilized man was more honest, more free, and more polite (an armed society is a polite society) whereas civilization brought with it duplicity, corruption and decadence.
All of his hero's were Barbarians, Kull, Conan.
@@VadulTharys Not so sure about Breckenridge Elkins.
@@VadulTharysSolomon Kane wasn't a barbarian.
@@SantanicoDiabolical in a way he was, not bound by society, or politics or civilization.
"Barbarian" meant litellary "uncivilized". For the greeks whoever didn't talk greek meant that it wasn't born in a greek city, which was the pinnacle of civilization for them.
Robert Howard took this topic and reflected it in his Conan and Kull stories. Both barbarians who hated most of the aspects of civilization, they were barbarians, uncivilized, but for that same reason, more honest and true people, etc.
It must be difficult for someone accustomed to digital fakery to appreciate live stunts, practical effects and choreography. Hope you still got some enjoyment out of this fantastic movie.
I'll tell you a secret: blood doesn't spray like in modern films. Even if you hurt someone, the blood starts to flow out slowly. However this film is epic, in music and visuals. Otherwise, it's obviously intended to be entertaining.
Ever seen a flick called Shogun Assassin? THAT's about the age of THIS flick and it's jam crammed with spraying blood, in fact I believe it might even be the flick that ORIGINATED it.
It can depend. You won't get the firehose-like spray you see in many movies, but melee combat with these types of weapons was NOT clean or pretty, especially if you cut a major vein or artery (IE the carotid, jugular, and femoral, all of which are major targets in many schools of swordsmanship).
@@IanFindly-iv1nl Or possibly, that ending scene in Sanjuro (1962). At least, that's one of the oldest films I remember seeing it in.
Actually, there is such a thing as arterial spray. Hit a femoral or a carotid and you will DEFINITELY see it!
Apparently you have never heard of or seen an artery wound. The result can make a wall near the victim look like a Jackson Pollock painting.
5:30 - "I love how back in the day they didn't have the special effects to show how people are being sliced and slain and stuff". 7:35 - you were saying hon? Lol! Eat your words!
She's a child, so cut her some slack.
You obviously didn't understand what she was saying, because @ 7:35 you STILL don't SEE anyone being sliced. You see Darth Vader swing and a prop drops in front of the kid. What Trixy was saying was that you don't see the blades actually cut flesh. So I believe YOUR words need to be eaten. lol.
@@patrickcromwell7554 37:08 and 48:01 then?
@@viceversar-do1cn Too late. I'm not even going to bother verifying that because that's what you did right?? You saw that you were wrong entirely and LOOKED for something to help you out?? Sorry too late.
@@patrickcromwell7554 "And looked for something to help you out....." Yeah - it's called PROOF.
Trixy said 'Sliced and slain" Don't try to mis-quote her. As soon as someone proves you wrong you start freaking out, going into denial and acting neurotic.
You sound like a 12 year old nerd with a personality disorder.
Fun fact: the voice narrating in the movie is the same voice actor Mako for Uncle Iroh in Avatar the Last Airbender
Aku in Samurai Jack as well
RIP Mako.
And master Splinter in the animated TMHT movie
Conan was sniffed out because he kept showing people that Jade crest. It was a special item that adorned the sacred temple he raided. Doom knew that he was the one who perpetrated his temple
Also because he said he saw "infinity". Soon after that Doom asks, "which of you won't embrace oblivion?" or something like that. Conan improvised when asked what he saw in the water and guessed poorly.
@@BenWillyums But that lady didnt have time to run up all those stairs, run backstage, and tell Thulsa what Conan said.
Thulsa could just sense that there was a traitor in the crowd.
@@TalaCruz After Conan hands over that jade crest (that he stole from the temple), you see them hand it off to a guard, who then moves quickly to inform others.
@@ElectricKnight. Yes I know. 🙂I was disagreeing with that guy who said that Conan got busted for what he said to the woman by the pool.
But Conan didnt hand over the crest to someone, who then handed it to a guard.He was stopped by one guard, who took the crest from him - Then that same guard walked straight down the steps.He only showed it to Rexor and Thorgrim, who were waaay down the bottom platform.Then the 3 of them walked quietly up on Conan. At the same time as Thulsa came out, and immediately called out Conan.There is no way that any of them had time to tell Thulsa what was going on. ...Thulsa looked like he was ready to call him out, before he even stepped onto the balcony. So either he could sense a traitor with his powers - Or maybe someone found the dead priest earlier.
@@BenWillyums Yeah it wasn't infinity. I think the correct answer the cult was to embrace is nothingness.
This movie lives by its incredible soundtrack and the dark and intense atmosphere. A classic!
Blue was dead-on when she said it was immersive. The music is a big part of that.
It’s a great mix of over the top adventure and myth, violence and fun. It’s a gigantic comic book, decades before over the top comic book movies became mega blockbusters - all held together by John Milius mad brilliance.
There's a lot of Germanic themes. Valeria became like a Valkyrie. Remember her line, if I were dead and you were fighting for life, I'd come back from the pit of hell to fight at your side
Conan was a popular fantasy series created in the 1930s by Robert E Howard. The world he lives in is entirely fictional.
Rob was writing these stories in the world of HP Lovecraft back in the Hyborian age when the Gods were more active ....The Conan stories are part of the Chuthulian Mythos
Not 100%, while Subatai calls him Cimmerian the ,Sumarian Empire was the earliest known civilization in human history! Zamora the city where they stole the Jewel from is real, it dates back to the Bronze age!
There are many truths mixed with fantasy, its not entirely fictional!
@@maverick2242 You forgot to mention that there are horses in it - Horses are real. 🙄
@@TalaCruz , true🤣
Was hoping someone would mention the Lovecraft connection
She thinks a movie from 1982 is so "old"? Wonder what she'd say if she ever saw The Great Train robbery or some Charlie Chaplain flick?
THOSE would probably make HER $h!t blood!
Probablemente le explotaría el "cerebro" Marvel y las películas de super héroes han hecho mucho daño... No quiero saber qué diría al ver tiempos modernos de Charles Chaplin o nosferatu...
She should watch Metropolis.
Children these days
Too used to cgi
Trixy: Humpty-dum, no killing FX, movie old.
The movie: Literal bloodbath.
Yeah, THIS was still pretty early in Arnold's acting career and before he became a total Hollywood megastar and a lot of the stuff that 's now popularly characteristic of his LATER movies hadn't been established yet, like the elaborate stunts, action scenes, big effects, big explosions, and the heavy dialogue with cheesy catch-lines. It’s a little more artistic (though it's still essentially an action adventure popcorn flick), is darker toned, and has a more Euro quality (being it was an international production).
I find it a little sad. He's trying so hard in this movie and then Hollywood went... so... robot?
@@nimz8521 I'd say post-Terminator was when he turned into a mega-star, yeah. He was, though not exactly an unknown, certainly not THAT BIG when he did THIS movie.
It did introduce the "AGHAGHAGHAGHAGHHAGGGH" of the Three Arnold-isms, though.
Well, Conan (Arnold) might not have blabbed and blabbed throughout the entire movie, but when he DID speak he DID utter some pretty GOOD, indeed even CLASSIC, lines (however few and infrequent).
I'll tell you something else about "back in the day" sweetheart - audiences did NOT remark "This is so slowwwwwwww!!!" at a SEX SCENE in a movie. No, on the contrary, THEY would go "Yeahhhh!!!!!! Alright!!!!!! Here we go!!!!!!!! Awesome!!!!!!! Get it on!!!!!!". How things have changed indeed! Go figure.
No that was just you rubbing them out in your bedroom with the VHS hooked up to the 12" TV.
@@ronweber1402 Burned
People are usually a bit more restrained about those things when they're filming a reaction.
They don't feel comfortable going into violent spasms of ecstasy, almost falling off their chairs, while they're on camera - Weird huh?
This is so slow, she is letting you know prefers fast and hard
@@davidward9737 HA!!
When Conan answers the question of "what is best in life": To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
It's actually a quote of Ghengis Khan from the "Secret History of the Mongols".
The oldest surviving literary work in Mongolian language. Written for the Mongol royal family as a kind a family history.
Everybody should have AND be a friend like Subotai: a friend who fights your battles along side you, who rescue you from danger and who cries your sorrows.
"Family-friendly" 😂
the film was shot in Spain and the beautiful actress is a Spanish actress named Nadiuska and the Conan boy is a Spanish actor named Jorge Sanz
greetings!!
The fire Conan throws was supposed to hit the ledger above, but they couldn't re-shoot because the set actually caught fire and burned down as planned.
Not the first time James Earl Jones tells the main character that he is his father...
This was a pretty good movie back then. Still kind of holds up. If you want to see the more campy version, that would be the sequel Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Little trivia, all the actors did their own stunts and physically paid for it.
It is NOT almost 50 years old! It’s slightly over 40. And yes, I was born in 82 😂
We are old bud . So fucking old :(
@@mariovaudry6272 Only compared to a cheese, not to a tree.
Old enough to play Conan Monolith edition board game. Oldies play board games like me.
You need to see "Excalibur" and "Dragonslayer." Don't get me wrong, there were a lot of really good Sword and Sorcery films from the 80's, but Conan the Barbarian along with these two are the pinnacle of the genre.
Ugh she's gonna hate Excalibur and giggle all the time. Still, it's interesting, and she's sincere with smart quips. Too bad she won't ever reply to reply to comments, nor even like them.
@Gildizor Yeahh, now THAT movie, along with Beastmaster and Ator, was where it started getting SLEAZIER and more exploitative. Don't get me wrong though, I enjoy THOSE flicks too.
@Gildizor Even Lucio Fulci, the Italian zombie movie king, did one of these called Conquest.
Something I do not think you realized... The sword that Conan broke with his sword... It was his father's sword that had been taken when he was a child... That is why he took in and used his father's broken sword to kill Thulsa Doom.
It's one of the great ironies of life: If you want to be happy, seek suffering. If you want to suffer, seek happiness. Rockstars are probably the most selfish and indulgent people in our society and they all end up miserable or dead. The people who live their life 'shoulder to the wheel', leaning into hardship and not away from it. They build something that matters to them and die fulfilled surrounded by loved ones.
She just mocks the whole movie. Surprised people still watch her channel.
Her reactions didn't make a lot of sense.. I'll give you that.
Relative to sword fighting with blood and "realistic" aggression, Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies Jojimbo and Sanjuro were the first movies to reflect that, most likely, Hollywood movies tended to be "softer" for moral and puritan purposes.
Although some of those movies started to be more explicit in the 60s, like El Cid or The Vikings, both with excellent and violent sword fighting scenes
I'd hardly call THIS movie "puritanical". It's not purely Hollywood either (being it was an international co-production).
@@thewidget-nu9ou I didn't say any of that, I talked about classic Hollywood, during the 40s and 50s and the Hays Code
80's family friendly: teaching your son the riddle of steel
Sandall Bergman as Valeria: "If I were dead, and you were still fighting for life, I'd come back from the darkness, back from the Pit of Hell to fight at your side!" Trixy Blue: "That's so sweet! This is the best love story of all time!" ❤🩹 And she did it too, when he was knocked down and defenseless, she came back, but not from Hell, for she is one of Crom's chosen Vallkyries. Watch it again, you'll catch more on subsequent viewings! Glad you enjoyed it. It's one of my favorites.
"Where does this take place?" Well, considering there is an actual witch and magic, I would say this takes place in the land of imagination lol
Trixy sees boobs, forgets what she was saying... glad to know it isn't just me lol
ok that's funny. Land of imagination. Good one.
The movie takes place during Hyborean Age, which is completely fictional. Also not Stonehenge.
"She came back." You haven't seen anything yet. When Valeria returned to protect Conan, she was not Thor, she was one of the Valkerie.
"Conan" was written by Oliver Stone and John Milius and directed by John, so there was a lot of "show the audience" rather than "tell the audience". Milius was also noted for having very masculine male leads, although he does strong females too (Valeria was a good example, bad ass warrior and still lovely and loving).
Check out another John Milius movie, "The Wind And The Lion". It's based loosely on the USA's interactons with the Barbary pirates.
Stone only had the writing credit because of a legal thing buying the rights. Stone was going to do some post-apocalyptic version of Conan. So more like a Thundarr the barbarian movie.
The stories are fictional. The idea of the age before the flood is semi-real.
Archaeology is starting to catch up but it’s hard to find ultra ancient stuff. Especially underwater.
But google the meltwater pulses from the end of the last ice age. Science knows that the sea level rise around 400ft. Around the just before the known ‘dawn of civilization’ some 10,000 years ago.
This is why Beringia was a place and the Native American proto Siberian people walked over.
This is how the British isles were mostly occupied by people walking the sunken area called Doggerland.
Indonesia to a large extent as well. Probpossibly Japan.
This is why there is a standing stone structure under Lake Michigan. The reason there are formerly occupied caves under the Mediterranean in Levantine and along coastal France and places.
We know civilizations often prefer to spring up along coasts and waterway points of interest.
We know that anatomically homosapien us people evolved some 300,000 years ago and we are essentially the same brains with more knowledge access.
It is unusual to the exactly known story that some of the oldest things like Gobekli Tepe and others are moderately well advanced and sometimes seem out of place.
The reason why flood myth stories exist around the world independently from each other is real flooding sinking significant areas of landmass. Some of the best real estate on those landmasses , as modern historic shore is 400 ft uphill potentially hundred miles away.
The first places humans significantly occupied are literally now underwater.
Some form of civilizations are lost and there was a form of societal fleeing and reset in some regions.
Those ancient stories are quite likely over embellished truths passed down from real environmental changes , some likely disastrous and cataclysmic to the first societies
And Conan fits in there in this legitimate time period we don’t understand well enough too.
If you forgive similar magical and divine embellishments. 😂
Probably metallurgic advancements and animal husbandry and megalithic structure, to column and arch levels , but we literally don’t know how far our blind spot is here, just presume.
Valeria is also one of the most mythologically-accurate depictions of the Valkyries in film.
They weren't warriors. The Norse and Germanic people saw them as the little misfortunes that could kill you in combat (your sword breaking, the sun getting in your eyes at the wrong moment, etc.). And that's EXACTLY what she does to Rexor: First she makes his strike to kill Conan go wide, and then she blinds him. It's dramaticized for the audience by having her block his sword and then slash him with her own, but that's ultimately all she actually does: throwing Rexor off balance so Conan can regain his feet and finish the fight himself.
@@mokane86 You probably know this but just in case you didn't. There are some very old ruins off the coast of India and the Sahara Desert has some long climate cycle due to ocean currents that makes it super moist and 7,000 years ago it had lakes bigger than Lake Superior and an extensive river system.
The hyborian aged is basically earth in 10,000 to 15,000 BC and if you read the book or comics and you would have known that the world is a pre historic earth and Egypt was called Stygia. There is even a scene in the comic that a wizard sees the future and sees the spinxe of egypt
Well, this period is fictional but it's supposed to be happening after the sinking of Atlantis. If I remember well, Conan's sword was a relic from Atlantis itself. The best part is the prayer to Crom, taught me not to pray to a god who doesn't answer you. I was like 11 years old, now I'm ancient 😸
Arnold's first role, and it launched his Hollywood career. He didn't have much extended dialogue as his English was not good and his accent still so gutteral. Subatai (sp?) the Archer was played by Gerry Lopez, in that era a world class surfer in Hawaii and undisputed King of the famous surf break, The Pipeline. How he was cast in this I don't know; but he did well, and all us young surfers were all 'Woohoo Gerry!' about it, lol!
First featured role. He was in a few movies before this one.
Right; first big role (tho highly featured in the Bodybuilding documentary, 'Pumping Iron').
He was cast in it because he was good friends with John Milius, the director.
Pumping Iron and The Villain are two other earlier films that I know of.
Arnold was almost 35 when he did Conan (in 1982); but he was 22 when he did Hercules in New York (back in 1969). So no not his first role NOR his first Feature.
23:11 You should never neglect yourself and your needs, obviously, but being selfish does not make you happy. If you are in a relationship you have to care about your partner, and if you have children, a family, you work hard and even sacrifice for them, that's not selfish.
When Conan is showing that Jade snake medallion to the guards and they take it, that's how they figured out he didn't belong there
I watched several reactions, for some reason none of them appears to get that part. Kind of funny.
A review at the time of release described it as "if Star Wars was made by a psychopath.". The era in which it takes place is known as the "Hyperborean Age" a fictional setting, created by pulp author Robert E. Howard. The events of the story happen "between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Arias". Given the historical sources Howard was working with, the events take place between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago.
Silly girl, Conan adventures happend during the Hyborian age, the arguing between Conan and Subotai about their god is a thing of legend!
I don't know if you picked up on it, but the broken sword he kills Doom with is his father's sword. Symbolic vengeance
Also, it helps to show that both Conan's father AND Doom were wrong about the Riddle of Steel:
Conan's father was wrong because the events of the film proved that you CAN'T put all your trust in steel; not only was his father's sword stolen by Rexor, but it ultimately broke in their final battle. Nor do you need worry about men not being trustworthy. Conan couldn't have survived the film without the loyalty of Subotai and Valeria.
And Doom was wrong, because there's something even STRONGER than flesh, and that's will. It was Conan's will that ultimately allowed him to defeat Doom; It helped keep him alive, it gave him his purpose, and it allowed Conan to shrug off Doom's final attempt to manipulate and control him.
@@Ambaryerno But Doom said He gave Conan the will to live. And he was right. He gave Conan the need for revenge, which drove Conan all through his life.
Sorry, butI don't think she picked up on much of anything in this movie.
The more we advance , the dumber we become 😂😂😂😂😂
I have always, since the year of this movie's release (I'm old), taken this movie to have both deliberately shocking and deliberately quirky-funny moments. Like many old movies, it doesn't take itself too seriously all of the time. The director or Arnold himself thought it'd be hilarious to have Conan pass out with his face in his soup, so that's what they did, and it was funny (and made the intended point about excess). There might be some unintentionally funny moments for today's audiences, but not that many. Generally many people today watch these movies and think they're much better than today's movies, and having lived in both eras, I couldn't agree more.
Remember... pillage, THEN burn. pillaging a burning village never works out.
They came for steel and slaves. They got both.
@@awesomereviews1561 Exactly. And burning the homes draws them out of hiding.
it works if you are after metal goods or pottery.
This movie was filmed in several places in Spain, so... for that, Conan as a kid is played by a spanish actor, Jorge Sanz. And Conan's mother is Nadiuska, a german actress who lives in Spain since 1971.
Another fun fact. Although Conan and Valeria have a romance, in reality their characters barely speak to each other throughout the film.
This movie had an epic score.
The musical score of this movie is so classic. In fact, it is sometimes played by symphony orchestras in concert.
Conan is the GOAT. Arguably my favorite movie of all time!
I don't know if it's my single favorite movie, but I think it's still, to this day, the best fantasy movie. To me, this completely blows The Lord of the Rings out of the water.
This was Arnold's breakout role.
15:00 The author (Robert E. Howard) only stated that it happened before recorded history. Later authors wrote additional stories, and placed these events around 10,000 BCE.
"He won't cry, so I cry for him." Now I'm crying! 😭 What a friend!
"I dont want to sound stupid!"
No Offense Ma'am, but too late.
It's a good thing there is only one 'N' in your name - Otherwise you would be Unforgiven.
@@TalaCruz Too True. I would never do that, its as close I can go as a Homage.
as she announced on the beginning of the video, she has onlyfans, so she delivers all the goods she has there. this is just the display for it.
Looking at woman and asking if they had gyms back then. Watching Arnold being the size of a battleship and says nothing. LOL!
Before I even heard of Arnie, I read the Conan comic books. Collected a ton of them. Learned about the books written by Conan’s creator Robert E. Howard. Read 10 novels that Howard wrote and finished by others after he died, from unfinished chapters. For me, it was an incredible series of books where Conan’s story had an actual ending with the 10th book. I held my breath when I saw the movie in theaters. Who is this Arnie person? Is he going to do the character justice? Ralf Moeller was good as Conan in the TV series. Moeller was the big German in Gladiator. Jason Momoa played a ‘sleeker’ Conan in the later remake. Arnie is my favorite Conan. Arnie’s best friend Sven-Ole Thorsen is the big guy with the hammer. He has appeared in all of Arnie’s film. The music by Basil Poledouris is considered a classic and is performed by symphony orchestras around the world.
Fun Fact: Lord of the Rings and Conan were originally written around the same time. Additionally, although the stories never cross over, it's officially acknowledged that Conan and Cthulhu exist in the same universe.
there were some pseudo-crossovers like the Tower of the Elephant (the elephant was pretty much spot on for a Mi-Go from Whisperer in the Dark), the Vale of the Lost Women, the Slithering Shadow, the Phoenix on the Sword, etc. While never specifically named Shoggoth, Mi-Go, etc., the descriptions are pretty much the same, which makes sense as Lovecraft and Howard were friends who corresponded and traded notes and story ideas back and forth quite a bit.
My father always called this movie ‘The MANLIEST Opera Ever,’ because it’s about 20 minutes of dialogue and 2 hours of some of the best music ever written!
Also, if you like this, DEFINITELY check out _The Northman._ Robert Eggers, the director of that film, was directly influenced by this one.
You do not know what the Opera is.
Thulsa Doom is the voice of Darth Vader in the original SW trilogy.
best soundtrack ever
Looks like the little princess wants her own revenge against Thulsa Doom. Sneaking in the back way, with her guidance, made everything so much easier this time!
"Trixy! What is best in life?"
I think she said "Being selfish. and cults that do orgies"
To watch old movies, see me react to it and hear the lamentations of the patreons!
36:31 The disappointment in your voice is so telling of your character. I LOVE IT.. ha ha ha ha
Conan the Barbarian is a metaphor for life. (John Milius is a genius ❤)
Conan killed Doom with his father's now-broken sword. I guess he felt it was poet justice, and I happen to agree.
I'm still waiting for someone to create a prequel: "Conan - the Librarian"
"Dewey decimnal, I have never prayed to you before....."
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Wasn't that in VHS?
It's one of the movie spoofs in Weird Al's movie "UHF".
9:48 - Originally the term 'Barbarian' was introduced in ancient Greece to indicate any non-Greek person (I'm not sure if it had a negative connotation). Later, the Romans also adopted the term to indicate whoever who wasn't either Roman or Greek (again, I don't know if they used it derogatively as we do today).
Conan is a character created by Robert E. Howard in a bunch of short stories back in 1930s. It wasn't written or published chronologically, so in the very first story featuring Conan we see him as an old and experienced king leaning over maps.
The story of King Conan was never told in movies. There's a sequel Conan the Destroyer. There's a reboot in 2011 with Jason Momoa, but it was bad so it never got a sequel or anything and most people forgot about it. King Conan or Conan the King movie was teased and whatnot a bunch of times, but it never happened. Arnold Schwarzenegger is still right age and form to play an older Conan.
I saw the 2011 Conan once on TV, several years ago now, all I remember it was quite violent and it was a fun watch. I never thought of it as a bad movie. I don't know how well it did in the box office, but I am guessing not that good since we never got another one.
the irony is, as bad as the Momoa remake was Conan's origins in that movie were far, far closer to the novels than the Arnie one. Despite that, the Arnie Conan is the only one for me movie-wise :)
Don't give up hope, The Legend of Conan is in development and Arnold is slated for the role.
RIP Thulsa Doom
It's the forgotten super food of the past that keeps you young forever - hand and spinach soup. Sound delicious!
Yum yum
Well, there was a transition shot of Thulsa Doom's face significantly elongating, which was obviously a special effect.
11:41 this is where he finds "The God Killer" sword...
the "Atlantean Sword", forged out of metal from a meteorite...
even the ancient king, thatwielded this sword before conan, bows his head to the new wielder of this sword....
I'm not trying to be mean ...but where did you hear that?
@@TalaCruz what do you mean, "god killer" was just areference to the comment, of Trixi, "atlantean sword" is directly from the movie... the track that plays when conan finds the sword, is named "The Atlantean Sword" in the soundtrack by Basil Poledoris.
the thing with the meteorite metal, is mentioned in the books, comics and was even a main theme in the tv cartoon series....
just don´t ask which book it was, i would have to read them all again to find that....
@@Metzwerg74 Well then that's what I mean ... None of that information is in the movie.- So I was wondering where you heard it.
@@TalaCruz and with the old owner bowing his head, i referenced the head of the mummy that held the sword, falling of...
@@Metzwerg74 Yes, I know. That's an interesting interpretation.
That was Conan's father's sword that he broke. I told you the blade would be sharp as hell but brittle due to its the quenching in snow. Conan's Atlantean sword was no doubt made of superior steel.
This is set in the time between the fall of Atlantis and the rise of the civilizations of Egypt and Summer in the middle east. While most only remembered in myth, discoveries now prove pre ice age civilizations existed. Gobekli Tepe and related sites in Turkey push known civilization back at least 6000 more years.
There is only one Conan movie, true to the fantasy of Robert E. Howard - and it's this one..
This is the origin of Sword and Sorcery. It has little to none to do with Tolkien and High Fantasy. I guess she will find out.
Sometimes, Millennials just should NOT watch anything filmed before 2000. You know??
I'm a Millennial, born in the year this movie was made, and it's one of my all-time favorite movies, like within my top 3.
Basil Paledouris soundtrack touches the soul
How are people fit back then? Were there gyms? Wow. Arnold Schwarzenegger wouldn't be 7 time Mr. OLYMPIA in bodybuilding if there were no gyms for him to train. C'mon, Trixie! -OG
I wonder if this girl has ever heard of Jack Lalane?
I believe she was referring to the time in which the movie was set not the time when it was filmed.
@@nimz8521Oh. Good point. I'm sure men were relatively fit back then in order to hunt and survive. That was their gym. Nature. -OG
All you have to do is watch old footage of African tribes. They are all muscular and slim
You would want to breed lets say your dog, like they can hurt each other and when they are not wild they sort of don't learn everything they should. Most of written human history we have had slaves so breeding slaves have been a thing and you are missing the whole point of the scene by thinking they are perverts when the point is that a slave was nothing else than a possession.
You don't know anything do you? Maybe some Cinema history might help... Slow paced? Yeah sorry it's not a 15 second video, I can see how taxing it must be for you. 😂
I think I missed this part of history in class. 😆
There were more rapid fire dumb comments and questions per minute than I’ve seen in any other movie reaction ever!! 😂
37:35 if you look carefully, the extra actually pulled open the blood pouch himself.
This movie was the first in the "sword and sorcery" genre. There is a lot to take away, it was precursor in many ways. For example, partners are all true to each other, there is no betrayal. Even the vilains: Doom does not sanction his henchmen when they fail, as we see it in James Bond movies for example. To the contrary, he helps and supports them. Also, did you notice that races and genders are treated equally? When Conan first meets the blonde Valeria, he takes her as a serious threat, there is no reaction such as "oh it's a girl".
There were some movies in the genre that preceded it in the 60s, but it definitely helped to popularize it in the 80s.
Excalibur, Dragonslayer, and Hawk the Slayer preceded THIS one. And I guess you could go further back and cite stuff like Sinbad flicks and whatever.
Never really thought about the equality aspect of this movie, great observation!
I'm not sure these aspects are precursors to the genre which followed though.
Doom is a cult leader. It is part of his character to refer to those around him as 'My Child" and treat them as the 'loving father figure' - This is not a dynamic which exists between all villains in the genre....Also, the women Conan is given to breed with, are referred to as 'The finest stock'. ..I think as long as a woman has a sword, She might get some respect.
@@Wezwolf Maax of Beastmaster was absolutely a cult leader, as were many other villains in the genre.
Also, Howard's views of women were...complicated. Belit, for instance, was introduced as virtually Conan's equal in combat and a badass pirate queen who EARNED command of her crew. And yet after she hooked up with Conan she suddenly becomes a damsel who completely submits herself to his will.
The original & BEST Conan movie. To this day I always wonder about the scene in the underground tomb. Was that the tomb of King Kull (AKA Kull the Conqueror)? At the time Marvel had the rights to both Conan & Kull; & in the comics & Savage Sword of Conan (SSoC) it was heavily implied back then that Conan was Kulls descendant. It would've been poetic, Conan doing what his ancestor was incapable of (Thulsa Doom is actually a Kull villain in the lore). Near the end, Conan was wise to pray indirectly to Crom. In the lore Crom takes a dim view of those who pray directly to him. This thinking is thus, "I gave you what you needed to survive & thrive when you were born." Praying for more after, even if temporary, is greedy in Croms eyes. Annoy Crom enough, he might actually curse you instead of hearing your plea. As far as know, in the novels, Crom has never once answered Conan; some of the other gods have though.
I always thought that one of the reasons 2016 Conan movie failed was that it simply wasn't as raw as this one was. A Conan that isn't practically swimming in blood isn't Conan to me. As far as THIS Conan move goes, it was originally supposed to be a trilogy, but things happened. We would've seen Conan become king in the 3rd. In the novels he did become king by his own hand, by strangling to death the previous king of Aquilonia (pure revenge).
Both Conans father & Thulsa were wrong about the answer to the riddle of Steel though, unsure if Conan knew.
Thanks for the info on Kull. It definitely adds to the story. I have only recently started reading the Conan stories. (Even though I saw the original version of this movie in theaters several times). I was unaware of the connection between Conan and Kull, except for the author.
@@timlemmon2332 It was only when Marvel, back then, had the rights. No idea if that's the case with those who currently have Conan rights.
I've read all the original Conan Books. I like characters in fiction like Conan, the anti-hero. Conan may be a mercenary, a thief, an adventurer and looter of tombs. He doesn't always operate within the confines of the law, but that's not to say he doesn't have his own code of ethics. Conan has a clean moral code that he lives by. It may be harsh, in some ways, but he leaves peaceable people alone and won't harm women/children.
It's like Clint Eastwood's characters in the Sergio Leone movies, they aren't the purely good white cowboy hat characters of the old Westerns. These characters are a bit tougher and more jaded, but they are still basically good guys. I think our modern age loves the anti-hero, for the hero.
I would like to recommend The Beast master from the year 1982 I think and also I would like to recommend Willow from the year 1988.
When this movie first came out in theatres it wouldn't have even been consired a Disney movie !!!!😂😂😂😂. Disney just wants to own everything these days. If I recall , this was Rated R.
PG17
@@RedEdgedSavage I may be mistaken , but PG17 didn't come out until later. And even if it was PG17....Disney? 😖 they ruined the " Star Wars " franchise . What more do they want ?
@guitarman8462 . It was PG17..I sneaked in the theater when I was twelve
@@RedEdgedSavage regardless , Disney ?🙄
"Barbarian" comes from the Latin "bar-bar", that is, the way Romans mocked Germanic, Nordic and Eslavic languages, as these sounded to their Latin ears like "barking dogs". Romans then called all foreigners from these lands "Barbarians". By the way this is the same origin they used for a few northern African languages from nomad tribes, but now there these people are called "Berebere".
Golden era of cinema!
17:40 = it's called " starving".lack of highly-PROCESSED sugars/fats . eating " when you CAN" as opposed to " when you WANT".
God tier OST!
No, Valeria is not Thor now 😆, but rather I think she is a Valkyrie.
Standards are the symbols they carry into battle. The word had a different meaning back then. All those flags and symbols they would carry at the front of an army were standards.
That same meaning still applies today.
@@jimj9729 I know, but very few people know that.
the woman were this fit,because mc donalds wasnt that popular at this time ^^