also it makes more sense that someone on conans side that knew him well would be telling his tale. the fact that Mako also happens to play Akiro makes it even better
To answer some of your questions - It was not uncommon for slaves to earn their freedom after long and profitable servants to their masters. The wheel of pain was just a common method to break them, or make them stronger, determining which were best for servitude and which were best for battle. For the sword, no, you can't just beat the rust off them like that, but the implication here is that Conan found an enchanted blade, which was a common thing in the comics. Like you originally suspected, Conan was very much an early inspiration for D&D, so enspelled steel, and even mythical metals like star metal from fallen meteorites, were mentioned in the Conan lore. Sorcery and magic were prevalent, though often subtle, things in the world of Conan, and he personally had a distrust for it. The cult ate people because Set was a god of indulgence and greed, as well as serpents and poison. The priests usually used corruption and deception like a venom, and would ply people with religion, harems, drug dens, or other forms of exploitable vices like metaphorical snakes coiling around their prey. Thulsa Doom was able to enjoy several profane miracles as a reward for his devotion to Set, including shapeshifting, the serpentine arrows, but more subtle was his serpent gaze, which could mesmerize people. That's what he used on Conan's mother at the start of the movie to disarm and kill her, and its what he tried on Conan at the end before Conan resisted it and killed him.
Honestly, Age Of Conan was one of my favourite MMOs. It was just different enough from the other games of the time to be really interesting, and I kind of miss it at times.
1. That black body paint didn't want to wash off. The production had to wait until it wore off to resume filming. 2. Arnold actually owns that sword to this day. it was displayed in his office when he was Governor of California. 3. I think this may have been the first movie where Schwarzenegger was allowed to talk; in "Hercules in New York" his voice was dubbed.
Funny fact: He-Man owes his existence to this movie. There were plans to release a toy line based on this movie, but when it got released it was clear that it wasn't going to happen. Different target audiences and all that. Then they retooled the toy prototypes, created a more kid-friendly universe to base it on and so a legend (?) was born. The voice over in the beginning and the end are some of the worst let down of cinema history. In the books, Conan went form young barbarian to middle aged king of the strongest realm of the known world. The movie was conceived to be the first of a franchise that would end with him as King Conan. It didn't go according to plan.
There is no George Lukas Remastering of Conan. Robert E. Howard had several Conan stories finished before passing, and several more with finished outlines but not fully written. The time lines of the stories go as far back as late Teens Conan helping Nords in the north battling with rival enemies, to as late as old King Conan going out to save his son from the clutches of a Wizard, and two having a bonding/passing of the torch with adventures on their way home. Also in the original books, Conan had encountered at least one good wizard. Most wizards in Howards universe are mad men that call upon demons and eldritch horrors to get the magic they have acquired, and normally at a cost, as such power can go wild and consume a person. Getting back to the ending, as far as I'm aware, what you see was in theaters, and they had planned to continue Conan if things went well. They did do a second movie a few years later, but they cut back a lot of it's content, and used very poorly made effects that soured viewers interest as it became to silly. There was an intent to at least have a 3rd movie where Conan finally takes his throne, but that script eventually got butchered, reedited, and came as Krull the Conqueror, while better than the second Conan it wasn't as good as the first, and being a prequel to the original Conan by 100's of years in cannon did little to help interest either, even though Krull like Conan was first to single handedly take a Kingdom by his own hand, which is what the film is focused on. There was an attempt to start Conan over again, but the studios meddled with the intent, and from what I hear, outside of Jason Momoa doing a good job at being a very close to cannon Conan, the rest of the movie is a dud, and lands worse than Conan the Destroyer. Currently the rights holder of Conan, and all of Howard's works, has hand picked a game studio to make games, which has been going very well, and he's looking to start a live action Conan series, which he apparently has apparently found a potential studio, and host for the series, but hasn't shared any further details than that, and sounds to be in a similar state for Solomon Kane, another fairly popular character by Howard.
I never saw this in the theaters but for many years on VHS the version I watched was shorter. I assumed it was the theatrical version until the extended edition (that you watched here) was released. The VHS version did not have the dialogue about the spring wind right before the final battle. Also the princess was completely edited out of the final scene, so this scene was much shorter. It ends with the shot of the mountain palace burning. Finally the scrolling (and spoken) dialogue at the end while older Conan is sitting on the throne is different. They never filmed the 2 sequels that were planned. Instead they made one more film a couple years later (The Destroyer) that was loosely related to this one and had more of a comedic tone to it.
If you guys like old sword and sorcery and things that make you think of D&D, you need to watch Excalibur. It's by far the best King Arthur movie, with more of a epic and mythic feel than the others. The soundtrack is similar to this too (those it's mostly just Wagner.)
You were right about the inspiration for videogames.Especially the sequel."Conan the destroyer" inspired lots of rpg and adventure japanese videogames.Back when western entertainment was cool.
Cool -- always been one of my absolute favorite pieces of half cheese half badassery. I love how it took Simone less than a minute to note the epic soundtrack -- still one of the all time best scores for any movie, and really carried a story with so little dialog. This is, however, one of those theatrical > > extended version movies though -- the pacing is much better.
This is not the theatrical version. Not much is different. The daughter doesn't go with him at the end and the end title scene is different. Theres like 1 or 2 other scenes with a little dialog. Nothing really changes.
In the director's cut they show Conan using some ancient wd-40 and metal polish to get the sword new again, but because I made that up no one's ever seen it
@@simonfernandes6809 I agree, although i would also count the star wars trilogy (there were only three star wars films) and The Matrix (there was only one) as fantasy rather than science fiction
Basil Poledouris' score really elevates this movie into epic territory. The film was made 40 years ago and has really aged well, due to its music and its magnificent practical effects.
The first Conan was lighting in a bottle, a thermodinamic miracle that is not possible to repeat. It's a movie that by all means should have been a shchlocky cheesefest at best, but somehow the right people converged to make it happen.
Even today, some film productions use pieces of Poledouris' score as placeholders (in lieu of the still to be finished score for the film itself) in different scenes during the editing process
The City Of Prague Orchestra is unequalled in their recording of the Riddle Of steel Riders Of Doom cue. Other orchestras have tried to reproduce its greatness but all have failed. Cudos in particular to the percussion section. Amazing.
Younger people don't realize how impactful "Conan" was. The novels were reprinted in the 60s-70s and the sales went through the roof because of the groundbreaking cover art of painter Frank Frazzetta. Frazzetta's breathtaking art was unlike anything the world had seen before. In many ways it could be said he IS responsible for the fantasy genre. No doubt D & D was heavily influenced by Conan. The Novels were quickly adapted into comic books and then eventually into this movie. This was Arnold Schwarzenegger's first major lead role and it rocketed him to stardom. Every Tom Dick and Harry was throwing money at Arnold after this. The lead Female lost a finger during the filming of this movie.
@@ThreadBomb Just to Clarify, Frazzetta was an artist. not a writer. Frazzetta is the father of Fantasy ART. You wont find much good fantasy art before Frank Frazzetta because there was no real market for it. After his art was proven to sell comics/albums/novels/ect., the genre exploded .Many other artists would soon follow Frank's basic example as the demand continued to grow.
@@ThreadBomb Tolkien wrote his "thing" after Robert E. Howard... but no, those aren't responsible for the "fantasy" genre, that should be a guy called Homer like 2000 years ago. And the genre archetypes and stylems are still based, to this day, on the Ilyad and the Odissey... just saying in case that somebody think that after 2000 years we went much further from that, because the answer is NO
@@JulioLeonFandinho There have always been fantasy stories but i think Thread Bomb is right about the MODERN fantasy genre being founded by Tolkien. Wizards, Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Trolls and Orks are so universal in high fantasy today and Tolkien created the archetypes of all of them.
The "Barbarian" class was definitely an attempt to make Conan "playable" in the game, waaaay back in the day. The flavor of the class changed a bit in the intervening editions, but its origins are definitely here, and the pulp books, and probably the Marvel comic series... plus Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo's art, of course
@@nenorii3234 i concur greatly with that. Same for Interstellar. Average screenplay but saved in score and edit. Also similar for J Williams in ep 1, 2 and 3. Composers that elevated average movies a bit higher and in some sense save it.
The final shot of King Conan on the throne was actually the FIRST thing they shot. This was the first of a planned trilogy chronicling his rise to power. The one sequel they did make abandoned that plan and went in a different direction, adding more VFX and comedy relief and toning it down to a PG-13
@@iantellam9970 I like the theory that Kalidor is an older Conan in disguise, who wants more adventures but doesn't want anybody to know he is the king
@@iantellam9970 It's crazy that she's actually a Conan spin-off character and they couldn't get Conan in the movie. Also I believe that makes it the true first Marvel movie, preceding Howard the Duck by a couple years.
Gary Gygax (dnd's central creator) was so into Conan he actually created multiple character sheets for Conan tracking what he thought his stats were at various ages. There are photos of them available online.
"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women" is actually based on a real quote by the Great Khan: "The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters."
@@radbarij An even better quote comes from Robert E. Howard's Conan: "I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.” Of course, that wouldn't quite have worked with dull-witted Conan presented in the film.
FYI: I did a video conference with the Governors Office in California when Arnold was Governor. And, he gave us (three K-8 school classes) a virtual tour of his office. Guess what was over the mantle in the California Governors office? THAT Sword... The staff were all excited to see it... the kids didn't know who "Conan" was... made us feel old.
George is right after a good theory right away. Robert E Howard and his work are arguably the second most influential set of works on D&D and all of its tropes and lore, after the amazing work of our favorite man Tolkien of course.
Robert E. Howard was a nut. He'd lock himself in his house, go into his basement and write his stories. He believed Conan was standing behind him with an axe threatening to kill him if he stopped. Shat bit crazy.
Howard, Tolkien, Leiber & Moorcock are probably (in my opinion) the biggest influences on the original, 1970’s D&D. Leiber for all the city adventures, roofwalking, tower climbing, thieves guild fighting & going on adventures. Moorcock for enchanted swords & fighter/magic user combos. Howard for 18/00 strength, beast fighting, tower climbing & countless saves versus spells/illusion etc. Tolkien for epic adventure, elves, dwarves, dragons, orcs & too many other things to count.
No D and D is much more influenced by Conan than Tolkien. Indeed the creators of D and D have tried as much a possible to distance themselves from Tolkien as they can. Tolkien is very low magic and very much good v evil. D and D is very much high magic and everybody is evil/chaotic. One of the reasons I am quite anti D and D.
I'd say Robert E. Howard is definitivly a bigger inspiration than Tolkien. The entire structure of early D&D is inspired by his series of short episodic quests rather than Tolkiens grand war novel format. The cosmology is mainly Michael Moorcock and Poul Anderson. The magic system is directly based on Jack Vance's. Sure there are a bunch of Tolkien monsters, but Gygax and Arneson pulled those from everywhere. There is about as much inspiration there from authors no one knows about anymore like Margaret St. Clair. Tolkien's main inspiration on D&D is the races, but the Tolkienesque races in early D&D were almost activly discouraged and treated like just a class, nothing like race has become in newer D&D. I think Gygax even said somewhere that he only included the option to play those because he knew people would be asking for it anyways because LotR is popular. So while Tolkien's contribution to the creation of the game is not insignificant, I'd place him far from the top of that list.
@@knightofnii4659 where the hell do u base that "everyone is evil/chaotic"? Most dnd at least in forgotten realms case is not, maybe in ravenloft or dark sun
I believe the ending when Conan drops the sword and Thulsa Dooms head on the stairs leaving him alone atop the stairs is the answer to the riddle of steel as was hinted at by the opening Nietzsche quote. 1. His dad wrongly believed the strength of steel was the answer, but as we saw that can be broken when Conan broke his father's sword. 2. Thulsa Doom wrongly believed the answer was the strength of flesh, but as we saw his flesh failed with his beheading and his followers leaving. 3. It was Conan's strength of will that could not be broken the whole movie and is why he is left standing at the top of the stairs. edit: reading comments 98th emperor stated this!
It's never explicit but I really do think that this is the true answer to the Riddle of Steel. The Nietsche quote at the beginning kind of confirms this, IMO.
This is set in a mythical time known as the Hyborian Age. Robert E. Howard created the basic lore that involved influences of a lot of diferent ancient civilizations, from european, african and asian. Also, from what little I know, Tulsa Doom was one of the last of a tribe of snake men that could hypnotize people with a stare.
Robert E Howard was also highly influenced by HP Lovecraft and incorporated many Mythos themes without actually copying them straight into his own works.
@@paullamb3109 My understanding was that Lovecraft kept up a correspondence with Howard as well as a number of different authors of the same generation/era and they all more or less decided they liked the idea of incorporating elements of Lovecraft's mythos into their own works to help give Lovecraft's mythos a boost in terms of seeming like the sort of real myths created by ancient religions and civilizations.
Conan's lifetime was supposed to be 12,000 years ago - The idea is that iron-age civilizations actually developed before existing recorded history, but a massive global cataclysm knocked everyone back to the stone age in 9500 BC, wiping out all archaeological evidence of prior development.
Conan has everything to do with D&D! The original Conan books were one of the key inspirations for fantasy gaming as we know it. In fact without Robert E Howard and Conan, we probably wouldn’t have D&D. So excited to watch the reaction!
I'm certain we would have gotten something like D&D, it just wouldn't have contained those specific elements that Howard inspired. What would have made D&D really less recognizable than what we've have today is if Tolkien never wrote the LOTR books.
@@amstrad00 Considering Gary Gygax stated Robert E. Howard was a bigger influence on him then Tolkien. Yeah without the tales of Conan, Krull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, Red Sonja we are looking at D&D being a very different game.
The original version of Barbarian in 1e a way more heavily inspired by Conan than later editions. His hatred of magic was written into the class before being removed later.
The origins of D&D come from table top war gaming and group psychotherapy treatments. I forget the specifics but only the details of the setting come from Howard, Tolkien et al. The actual practice of tabletop, pen and paper role-playing groups would still have been a thing, though who knows if it would have been as successful.
Thorgrim, the guy who gets killed by the spike to the stomach, is Svend-Ole Thorsen. He is a bodybuilder from Denmark and was at one point the strongest man in Denmark. He became a very good friend of Arnold in the 70s through the bodybuilding community. He is the stuntman/actor to have been in most Arnold movies than any other actor. He has been in almost any movie Arnold made in the 70s, 80s and 90s. But I think he is mostly known as La Fours in "Mallrats" and most of all Tigris of Gaul in "Gladiator".
I like the pacing. They really take the time to fully occupy a scene and create an atmosphere, like a painting almost, rather then just jumping from one random thing to the next like a hummingbird on speed.
I like the pacing too, although I do understand how people who grew up in a more modern movie era would be bored by some of the longer scenes. I personally feel like they take their time on purpose, to allow the viewer to think about things a little bit and get lost in that world. It also allows the incredible music to add more gravity to each scene.
@@ryanjacobson2508 There was an inquiry into one scene where the horse tumbled down the hill into wooden spikes. The producers showed the footage and said "Did you not also see a man on the horse roll down those same spikes? Do you think he is dead too?" And they were right and won.
I was 14 years old when this movie came out, and the only thing I knew about Schwarzenegger at that point was that he was a bodybuilder who couldn’t speak English very well. My older brother took me to see this and it instantly became one of my all-time favorite movies. Outside of T2 this is my favorite Arnold movie to date.
Milius had explained in a commentary that the orgy and cannibalism scene in the Tulsa Doom's throne room was a sign of the level of sensory and immoral excess Doom's followers had surrendered themselves to.
I loved this film (easily the best of the Conan films). The fanzines said that the production staff had to ask Sandahl Bergman to 'slow/tone it down' for the fight sequences (she was a professional dancer and her speed and grace made Arnie look bad).
It's actually closer to what a Conan movie should be. I remember one critic called Barbarian the Conan battles the Flower Children who own snakes movie.
@@MrGlobbits Red Sonja is also a Conan movie - just they couldn't use the name for licensing reasons. It's basically 'Conan goes incognito for a bit' in my head cannon, lol.
@@iantellam9970 Red Sonja also basically killed this type of movie for awhile - it was a big box office bomb. Also Arnie wanted to get away from this stereotype and wanted better paying movies - he did Terminator the same year as Red Sonja and became a much bigger star.
This is actually one of my favorite movies. Not even a "guilty pleasure" but genuinely I love this move. And yes Conan is not only a big inspiration for the Barbarian class in D&D, but the sword and sorcery genre was a Huge influence on Gary Gaygax when him and his friends were creating D&D.
Absolutely. This film was the gold standard for sword and sandal movies and games going forward. It inspired a huge resurgence in D&D popularity in the early 80s. TSR owed a huge amount of gratitude to this movie in the 80s.
Growing up, I used to watch both Conan the barbarian and the Destroyer in german. Watched it in English in the Patreon version for the first time and it's crazy how heavy Arnie's German accent is (Then the hell with you!). I love this dude so much. P.S - Simone, Conan indeed influenced the DnD warrior/barbarian class - Hail Vex'ahlia!
It fits, though. Howard's map of the Hyborean Age places Cimmeria basically around Germany, with Asgard and Vanaheim (Scandinavia) to the north and Aquilonia (France) to the south.
You might not be aware, but the story takes place in the Hyborian Age or about 10,000 BCE. In the stories there are often references to Atlantis, but which was just as legendary to them as it is to us. So the cultures represented here are proto-versions of ancient civilizations. Stygia, for example, is proto-Egyptian. Cimmeria is a cross between early Scottish and Norse. Howard, much like Tolkien, went to a lot of effort to create these fictional cultures that would later become more familiar to us. I'll also add that the movie (and its sequel) is based on a combination of stories from Conan's early life (like 16 to 20?).
This movie is a masterpiece. You don't need tons of lazy dialogue when you can set the scene like this. Its an art that has been forgotten for the most part... Also King Conan the ending showed Has yet to madam. Arnold has been pushing for it to be made in recent years but the owner of the rights to conan Has yet to agree. However Conan the Destroyer is the sequel And Red Sonya after that. Enjoy them as well
The 80's had a lot of Sword & Sorcery films. I grew up watching them. Some that come to mind are,..Ladyhawke(1985) starring Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Matthew Broderick. Other movies I remember are, Beast Master(1982), and Dragonslayer(1981).
One of the most epic movies EVER. The score is awesome, the action is epic and Arnold never looked better. If you are wanting a great 80’s sword and sorcerer movie, I highly recommend “Dragon Slayer” from 1981 and “Krull”.
@@gibbletronic5139 Source of one of the greatest disses in movie history: "What's going on here?" "We're going to rape this bitch!" "That's a small threat. (glances down) That's a very small threat."
And you guys better not forget Excalibur. Also, "Dragonheart", and "Deathstalker" (1983). You're not a true sword and sorcery fan if you don't know that latter one. A "B" movie, to be sure, but a damned good, if obscure, title that belongs in any collection of that type of movie.
@@IggyStardust1967 If you want to see someone react to movies like "Deathstalker", check out ReelReviewsWithJen. She is always watching 80s B-movies. Now, if you klnow Deathstalker, can assume you have seen "The Barbarians"?
A lot of Conan fans don't like Conan The Destroyer. It's obviously a different level of movie, but it's a fun watch. I've always felt like it was almost a movie version of a D & D campaign. Conan and his different variety of friends with different skill sets go on a quest. Along the way they have to accomplish intermediate goals as they work towards the end of their adventure, with plenty of surprises as they go.
@@dongilleo9743 It has a much more generic adventure story feel to it, doesn't it? I love it tho...(I love Conan The Barbarian too). Queen Tarramiss is one of my favourite movie villains. It also...in a weird way...touches more on the Lovecraftian horror that got mixed into the original stories, Howard being a writing pal of old HPL.
No, that's not how rust works. I think for the story, it was some magical Atlantean steel that didn't rust, just accumulated layers of dust. You also cannot cast carbon steel into a sword like they did in the opening credits. You can cast cast iron, but it would be extremely brittle and break the first time you hit something.
If you ever read the Evil Overlord List, a lot of the entries in there are inspired by this movie, specifically "No.34 I will not turn into a snake. It never helps"
The Director/Writer John Milius always wanted to do a trilogy. Sadly it never got to happen. Milus and Schwarzenegger have been trying for years to get Conan: Crown of Iron made to no avail. But it would be about an aging Conan taking the throne of Aquilonia and his son Prince Conn. In fact Arnold is the perfect age for the character from those tales. Its a shame this hasn't been made. It seems like modern Hollywood just can't make a good decision.
Sandahl Bergman always said that her height was 5'9" because "no woman should be over 6' tall," ( she was 6'1") All the backup actors were friends from Golds Gym... The witch was a fellow competitor from the Mr./Miss. World competition. The two goons of Tulsa Doom were former football linemen and Subati was Jerry Garcia, a pro surfer. Arnie actually bit the neck off a dead vulture!. Arnie had to lose about 30 lbs off his training weight to actually be able to properly weld the sword safely.
The D&D Barbarian class was based on Conan. Mako, the actor that played the Wizard, is also the voice actor for Uncle Iroh in Avatar the Last Air Bender.
18:40 that Recovery Kata scene is amazing. It shows how Conan grew from thinking that Steel was powerful when the strength of his Will was powerful the whole time. And the music is so haunting and beautiful!
It’s always a little sad when I see younger nerds not aware of the legacy of Robert E. Howard. He’s the American equivalent to Tolkien, and contributed a lot to the fantasy genre. You can roll out the ‘problematic’ label, but history is naught but problems by today’s harm-obsessed society.
When I was very young and my dad was still alive he took me to watch this and American Werewolf in London at the drive-in as a double feature. I was a huge Conan fan from the books and comics and I loved werewolves so it was a good night. One of few we had. 🐾🍻🐾
Back then all it took was a great composer and a couple of dozen extras to achieve epicness. Today you just throw in a couple of thousand CGI soldiers and call it epic.
The sword was supposedly the sword of Kull the Conqueror a being very much like Conan, born ages before. It wasn't official I believe, but it was implied that the tomb was of the ancient king Kull. That sword is amazing.
This movie has a few bits added from what I originally saw when it came out. Conan doesn't take the princess with him when he goes to kill Thulsa Doom, and he's not seen carrying her off after burning down the cult temple. The added scenes don't seem necessary, or work that well in my opinion. The final line after the narration at the end was originally "But that is another story". I think it was meant as a homage to ancient storytellers, who were paid "by the story", and thus would always end with the storyteller leaving his audience wanting more.
Amazing film very classic Conan the Barbarian starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max Von Sydow and Jorge Sanz as young Conan. Today Jorge Sanz is one of the greatest spanish actors ever. Thanks guys great reaction excellent😊👍👍👍👍
@@MultiRedskull she was mentioned in the story "Worms of the Earth". That's the only one I can remember at the moment, as it has been years since reading the old series.
Let me explain the cultural melting pot of this film; The world of Conan is actually the pre-historical real world as the author imagined in in the early 1900's. All the cultures you see referenced in the movie are intentionally there as the 'beta version' of our historical cultures. So it's not as random as it seems, just like Conan being a man of few words.
Well Cinebinge, the mish-mash of cultures represented is justified in this universe since this is still our earth just before any recorded history. Plus all these proto-cultures share one continent and aren't separated by oceans.
Great reaction you two! Not only one of my absolute favourite movies(also my favourite versionof the movie) but the absolute joy on your faces during some of the great moments was fantastic. Valaria = greatest warrior woman EVER! She just straight up starts off giving the orders and the other two recognize the skills.
The Hyborean Age has a ton of cool lore behind it, the "lost era" of history that has all kinds of very cool tales and adventures. And yes, the Riddle of Steel soundtrack is super epic :D
The metallurgy in this film is as inaccurate as it is visually brilliant - ie totally! You can’t make a sword by pouring molten iron into a mould, but the image is so iconic that loads of blacksmiths cite the film as the beginning of their careers.
I think Lindybeige said that for shooting "molten iron" scenes they actually used tin since it's melting point is low enough to give it that fiery red glow. The melting point of iron is so high that to liquefy the metal you'd have to heat it until it turned white. Then there was the rust-scene and no, you can't just shake rust off of metal by banging it against the ground a few times. If memory serves, what the blade was really covered in were the decayed and desiccated remains of a scabbard. The steel itself just had this mystical aspect to it that made it immune to the ravages of time.
Yes, D&D was inspired by RE Howard's Conan stories, among other classic sword & sorcery fantasy authors from that period. More so than Tolkien, although that was obviously included.
The ending is the original version. As I saw in theater. My all-time favorite movie this is. There are SO many details in there you didn’t see on first viewing. Rexor’a blade that breaks at the end, is none other than Conan’s father’s blade. It’s just an awesome movie with the absolute best soundtrack EVER. Also dont waste your time with the sequel, nor the reboot. THIS is the one to see. ÉDIT: I need to add something. There was a third Conan movie after the botched sequel. Though due to movie licensing rights issue, was never called Conan, nor is his character ever called by name. They movie is OK, wee bit cheesy but still good: Red Sonya. A must see in the genre.
This has to be an extended version. I have seen the movie 10 times but have NEVER seen the parts at the end with the princess. Ive only seen Conan go to the temple alone
I actually like Conan the destroyer. Miriam D'Abo is a bit of a pain but Grace Jones kicks ass and Sarah Douglas is... amazing ;) The story needs alot of work and was lackluster, but they acted well ;)
Great reaction as always. I grew up reading Robert E Howard and Edgar Rice Burrows books, and while this film is crude in some ways, it somehow epitomises the raw brutality of the stories. the sequel "Conan the Destroyer" was a disappointment because it was watered down
I love this movie, and the soundtrack is my absolute favourite. I DM'd many a D&D game with the soundtrack playing in the background whenever there was an epic battle. Also, I made the mistake of drinking a glass of Coke when you started in with your 'lamentations'. I shot Coke out my nose because of you two.
One of *the best* scores _ever!_ 🗡️ The version you saw was slightly different than the original release. It has added dialogue as they prepare for war at the end, and originally we didn't see the princess after the snake arrow attempt. It was assumed that they took her back, so they didn't have to include it. And the scroll at the end was slightly different as well. Again, not needing to mention the princess. Save that added dialog as they set up the traps, I prefer the orignal. I never took the sword in the cave to be rusty. Just one that was covered in some kind of corrosion (lime residue?) which protected it from the harsher elements. 🤷🏼♂️ But that's just my take.
@@ThreadBomb I respect your opinion, but I have to disagree. It depends on the movie itself. Lethal Weapon, for example, the "school shooting" scene near the beginning added some depth to Riggs' character. Also, with Terminator 2, removing the chip from Arnold's head and switching on "learning" mode added to the story. Other movies, yeah, the additions don't make sense story wise, or just don't look right (looking hard at several things in Star Wars: A New Hope).
I loved to read the Conan stories - there is just violence. Conan solves anything with his sword. And as a fellow Austrian I´m pretty proud of Arnold and how he improved his English skills :)
Definitely check out Conan the Destroyer too! Yeah they are goofy but they are epic & I love them! Also, Mako voices Aku in Samurai Jack if his voice sounds familiar
Dear Cinebinge - new to your channel but as a longtime Conan the Barbarian pulp reader- I can answer your question about the epilogue. It is well known that Conan becomes King of Aquilonia, the most powerful kingdom one day. This return of Osric’s daughter foreshadowed his ventures into politics and his notoriety.
former blacksmith here. no you can't just smack rust of like that. but I always just imagened the Atlantean sword to be a magic weapon, so it works out
