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Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American epic sword and sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by Milius and Oliver Stone. Based on Robert E. Howard's Conan, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones, and tells the story of a barbarian warrior named Conan (Schwarzenegger) who seeks vengeance for the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of a snake cult.
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"He is Conan, Cimmerian. He won't cry, so I cry for him."
Everybody needs a friend like that.
Not to mention that he ran through a freakin' desert to find and rescue Conan from the Tree Of Woe, and he pinned that giant serpent's head to the wall so that Conan could finish it off.
Subotai is ride or die; a true homie!
This movie has one of the best soundtracks ever. So iconic and bombastic.
It is actually considered a legitimate stand alone piece of classical music in those circles. It is so much more than just a traditional film score. You can actually listen to it from start to finish and the entire thing is beautiful with many great themes.
Horrible soundtrack while driving and keeping the speed limit.
@@czos9239 "trying to keep"
@@czos9239 this...
Aural testosterone.
The sword in the crypt is an Ancient Atlantean sword once wielded by a powerful king entombed within. The skeleton almost nods in approval once Conan brandishes his sword. It's a true masterpiece of a film in the fantasy genre and still holds its own even today.
The skeleton was supposed to animate to life and fight Conan. Alas, the budget did not allow such a scene, so we'll take your explanation.
*ArghHahhh ahrrhhghghahhhh ahhrhrrhaghhhhh*
@@ravenwind1062 It's better that didn't happen.
@@mrglasses8953 Well. a fight with dead King would definitely been more in line with something Howard would've written. I also kind of prefer that Conan earns the sword rather than he just finds it laying around. But to each his own. I still love the movie as it is.
11:20 The dogs chasing Arnold actually caught him in one deleted take and pulled him off the top of the rocks. When he fell he truly got hurt cutting his chest.
Arnold blurted out at director John Milius- "Look I'm bleeding *real blood!*
Milius responded- "WELL DON'T TOUCH IT! IT LOOKS GREAT!"
Fun Fact - The 3 main protagonists were not Chosen because of their Acting skills, but because of their Physical Skills.
Conan was a Weightlifter
Valeria was a Dancer
And
Subotai was a Surfer
And they did a better job than 95% of the Actors could have!!!
... because they ARE ... instead of PRETEND TO BE.
Just compare all of the Disney Star Was lightsaber battles ... CHOREOGRAPHED DANCES all of them, with illogical moves ... to Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin PRACTICING FENCING for a few months to deliver a believable performance in "The Princess Bride".
If only all, heck MOST, movies casted their talent in the same way. BE before you can pretend!
My grandfather had all of Robert E. Howard's Conan novels and stories from his childhood, and after I saw the movie for the first time, he gave them to me.
@Odessa-James ah nice...I had alot of those large Conan comic books. More like a magazines..I wish I still had them all..
You lucky SOB!
In the final battle, it was his father’s sword that broke.
And the use of a broken sword to slay a so called immortal.....
you took my fathas soad !!!
That's the answer to the riddle of steel, the power is not in steel (broken sword), not in the flesh (Tulsa's severed head) but in your heart (Conan's will to survive and fight).
Thulsa Doom had supernatural hypnotic powers which is why he was able to freeze Conan's mum in place without her fighting back before he chopped off her head and he tried to do the same to Conan but Conan shook it off and killed Thulsa.
Yep! The movie doesn't do anything overtly obvious to indicate it, such as sparkly or glowing effects, and a lot of people miss the implication. I'm glad they didn't go hard on making it too obvious. The Snake-Man doing the charming. 😉
The force is strong in him.
I always thought that if Thulsa hadn't said "my son" Conan wouldn't have snapped out.
Conan made his Wisdom save. Unfortunately his mother did not 😢
Yeah, his hypnotic abilities aren’t always picked up by everyone. Maybe if they threw in some kind of mild effect like seeing his dad’s face on Thulsa Doom’s body, more people would’ve gotten it. It’s like when Conan found that sword underground, none of us were really sure whether that was actually Crom, or just some forgotten king, whose empire had crumbled long ago.
Gerry Lopez, who played Subotai, was a champion surfer and renowned surfboard maker.
He is 75 now and snowboarding and making snowboards. Wow!
I just love when he gets out of the cave where he gets his sword...you see the wolves that hounded him wake up and he gives this grin...and then just a cut and he's wearing all their pelts XD
The paint all over him were protective spells against the dead that were coming to take him.
4:20, I like that over the course of the movie that Conan actually discovers he can trust people more than steel. When he was hanging on the Tree of Woe, his best buddy and his girl came to rescue him. They could have went their own way and left him. Instead Subotai repays Conan for setting him free and Valeria shows that she truly loves him.
In his fight with the last of Thulsa Doom's main henchman, he is moments from death only to be saved by Valeria at the last second. She kept her promise to fight by his side always in this life or the next. Once he gets to his feet, Conan shatters his father's sword which he was told he could always trust.
Warlord, "Conan, what is best in life?"
Conan, "To push the like button, to subscribe and to set notifications to all so you never miss content."
And hear the lamentation of Cami....
@@gallendugall8913 now THAT'S barbaric lmao.
"This you can trust."
But the steel broke.
"What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?"
But they broke his flesh.
"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."
Valeria showed him that it's the Will of Steel that is strongest.
And the love of a ride or die woman!
I think the whole concept of steel and flesh is lost on her.
This! This is the answer to the Riddle of Steel. Trust not in swords, as his father taught, nor in flesh, as Thulsa Doom taught. But in Willpower alone, which defeated the mesmerism of Doom and set Conan on his path of vengeance in the first place.
Fun fact: the guy in the beginning at 4:40 on the rock is Arnold's fellow training partner Franco Columbu from the Golden Era and his long-time best friend, who unfortunately passed away just a few years ago.
You're gonna throw out ol' Franco but ignore Sven Ole Thorsen? Or Jody Samson, the renowned swordsmith who designed and crafted all the swords in this film and whose hands and arms we see in the opening sequence forging the Father's Sword?
Another fun fact 15:40 The black lotus merchant who talks about the snake cult is Ron Cobb concept artist and designer for this movie and many, many others. He designed the interior of the Nostromo in "ALIEN". and the Sulaco in "ALIENS"
The director originally wanted pop music for the soundtrack. Luckily, he changed his mind. The sword master was actually the sword master for the actors, and he got a small part.
The "camo" makeup at the end was worn by a female pit fighter, but the scene was cut. You can see her legs during the pit fights.
The man who releases Conan was the same boy who chained him to the wheel. He had owned Conan for years.
BAH! CROM LAUGHS at the Lord of the Rings, and D nD ! Laughs from his mountain!
Honestly Conan and LotR are very different so there is no point comparing two.
@@edwardleonetti2492 🤣🤣🤣
@@edwardleonetti2492 Conan was one of the inspirations for Dungeons and Dragons. Along with pretty much every other fantasy author of the era. Lovecraft, Lieber, Vance, Moorcock, etc.
@@Mecha82 Conan is sword and sorcery, Lotr is epic high fantasy, two differnt subjonras of the fantasy world.
As a teenager who had read all the original Conan stories, I was so excited when this came out! It was the first big role for Arnold and he was perfect for it. My friends and I loved it!
Conan pre-dated the lord of the rings. Robert E Howard the creator of Conan is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery genre. Both he and Tolkien had a huge influence on the fantasy genre.
for the longest time I envisioned LOTR was from the 20s/30s and Conan from the 60s/70s. Guess I had it flipped around. Thanks for the clarification :)
It predated the publishing of Lord of the rings, but not the writing of Tolkien, which started all the way back before and during world war one, and Conan is not an influence on Tolkien.
L. Sprague de Camp visited with Tolkien and he told him he'd read Robert E. Howards works and that he rather liked them.
The first Conan, the barbarian short was published in 1932, the hobbit, tokens‘s first book was publishing 1937. They are contemporary authors.
CON-AN BARBARIAN also pre-dates GAME OF THRONES that viewers often compare it to, I don't know why,
When this came out we'd be running out in the yard swinging sticks at each other yelling "I get to be Conan!"
I really liked the way they showed his girlfriend coming back from heaven and the silver light shining from where she came from.
She was glorified by the GODS to return to Conan's side one last time.
Valeria the Valkyrie sent from Valhalla.
Subatai is the realest friend. "His is Conan: Cimmerian. He won't cry, so I cry for him."
Father's sword broke as, forged by his dad, it was not meant to hurt the son. On the other hand, Conan has been gifted a king's sword that gave him the upper hand in combat
By Crom!
it wasn't just a king's sword .. it was an atlantean refugee-king's sword the sword was forged in atlantis with superior technology. 1000's of years before conan's time . when atlantis sunk beneath the atlantic ocean many surviors made it to the main land , some became noamdic others set themselves up as kings using their superior weapontry they manged to birng with them , this king was such a king. Also, the cimmerican's themselves are descendants of atlantis they were the ones that turned to a nomadic lifestyle . which made this fact far more significant than the movie "told you". also conan is not the last cimmerican being nomadic they were also very tribal there are many tribes of cimmerians out there.
Those henchmen for Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) are body building buddies of Arnold's.
I think one of the Brothers was former Oakland Raiders Linebacker Ben Davidson(?)
To understand this film you have to know the world of Robert E. Howard. The thoughts he had were heavily concerned with the rise and fall of advanced civilizations. His father was a doctor and was very educated although he mostly cared for various people who lived and worked in the oil fields in Cross Plains, Texas. REH spent a lot of time at home caring for his mother and reading a lot about peoples and different races. REH lived from 1906 to 1936 but had accumulated a lot of wisdom in his short life. He had imagined an entire world that couldn't really be made into a film. Quotes from REH show how intelligent and forward-looking he was. That was all before The Lord of the Rings. There is a good film about REH "The Whole Wide World" from 1996 that you have to watch. cu 🙂
Howard's books(12)plus all the rest of the books written about Conan total at least 47. Anyway that's how many I've read.
However juicy the background was, it is completely unnecessary to enjoy his work.
@@robertmaez6706 I have done the same. I loved Howard's work.
@@russellbuck4175 I'm going to be 76 in Sept. and I still have all the paperbacks.
The Whole Wide World was a passion project for Vincent D’Onofrio, who played Bob Howard. Newcomer Renée Zellweger costarred and that landed her the role in her breakout film, Jerry Maguire (1996), opposite Tom Cruise. It was based on the book, One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard, The Final Years.
It’s also worth mentioning that REH was also friends with H.P. Lovecraft, who created the Cthulhu mythos. Both were published in Weird Tales, the fantasy and horror pulp magazine that was started in the 1920s.
In last season's Stranger Things David Harbour picks up a sword during the fight in the Russian prison. It's a Conan sword. The stance he assumes with it is the same as Conan's too.
It's a rated R film. Awful happens.
Not even in Pumping Iron did Arnie make so many guttural utterances that would become one of his signatures.
One of the few reactors to register Valeria's promise to return, and how she came back during the final battle. Impressive.
"Amd when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of The Sons Of Arias, there was an age undreamed of, and unto this, Conan, destined to wear the crown jewel of Acquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of this saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure."
Most of the Conan stuff was published in pulp magazines between 1930-1936 by Robert E Howard, LOTR was was finished 1956.
This is nothing like LOTR that person who told you that did a disservice to you, Conan is 'Sword and Sorcery' and LOTR is 'Epic High Fantasy' (S&S is about kicking ass and then smacking ass:P)
Good... evil... Conan was the one with the sword or the axe.
"Good and evil" is a grey area with all Conan fiction... the novels, the comics, the movies... Conan is not a hero.. hes an antihero, a mercenary, and an adventurer.. hes out for himself... sometimes he'll help out someone less fortunate.. but not because he's good, moral or "virtuous". Hes mostly after his own glory, and he reeeeeeeally likes to fight. That's why he's a "barbarian" 😂
wasnt done well in the film. stupid director
@@natmanprime4295 The new version was worse in my opinion.
When will they learn that the original origin story is much better for the big screen than anything they can come up with.
A 16 year old Conan that is one of the first over the wall of an Aquilonian Fort when his people take it and push back against the Aquilonian expansion.
Show us why his people are so feared. Not some cookie cutter revenge story.
Where a young Conan that discovers wine, silk and other luxuries and wants more of it.
@@Dreamfox-df6bg when conan was yelling "you killed my mother" etc, james earl jones could have asked him "what is best in life"? or something to develop the character of conan. and he shoulda recieved more than a simple head chop after all that evil he did, so unsatisfying, so simple minded
Conan ain't Star Wars and Tolkien. The originals and adaptations are very nihilistic, much closer to Lovecraft (minus the casual racism of his time) and Dune.
@@natmanprime4295 So... hold up... you're calling John Milius... stupid. 🤷♂️ okeedoke. 🤣 I get you might have done it differently, or wanted more... but give me a break man... you're not a better writer or director than Milius.
I think because Arnold's English wasn't so good this early in his career they reduced his dialog which in the end was a wise choose. He still did a good job because he actually feels like the character. Not many body builders who are not native speakers could become a leading man in a movie.
Arnold at that time was working on his speaking with a voice coach to minimize his Austrian accent. You will notice in Terminator 2 years later.
Arnie's english was even then fine, but abusing his Austrian accent, made him more popular/exotic.
This soundtrack is GREAT. It always makes me feel like crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me and hearing the lamentations of their women. And then I come back to reality.
Rexor actually had Conan's father's sword. It's the sword Conan shatters during his battle with Rexor at the Battle of the Mounds. Conan's sword is an Atlantean sword of an Atlantean king who was buried with his royal guards.
And an Atlantean sword in the world of Conan KICKS ASS!!
What an awesome epic this needs to be seen on a wide screen with proper stereo sound system
Arnold really made his mark with Conan seems he was born for the part
Great Sword and Sorcery flick
Crom approves 😄
Thanks Cami
Have a great weekend🙏
The Conan the Barbarian books pre-date LoTR and are generally more fun to read.
I think she would have preferred “Conan the Wise Man” or “Conan the Philanthropist”…
You misunderstand her.
@@thebkg it was just a bit of dry humor, I don’t think she would claim this is exactly her cup of tea. I’ve seen a couple reacts, I view Cami as smart and insightful.
@@RepSummAw hehe I get you! You are right lol :) may have preferred one of those characters. But gotta love some old school Arnie! Thanks for the words as well!
@@Letstuneinglad you didn’t take it negatively but in all seriousness I agree with our friend @thebkg that you will enjoy the sequel more. If not… still okay 😊
The sword made in the beginning of the movie is often called "The Father's Sword." Rexor, the older, mustachioed henchman, appreciated the workmanship when Thulsa Doom's army raided Conan's village, and still possessed it 20 years later. When the adult Conan fell into that tomb, he found a sword that was apparently made for a former king or emperor. It's often called " The Atlantean Sword" and would probably have been made with better techniques and better metals, which is why it breaks the Father's Sword in combat with Rexor. However, Conan recognized his father's work and chose to take his broken family sword for the final showdown with Thulsa Doom.
I have to point out that Valeria saved movie Conan's dumbass thrice, last time even after death :D
This storyline differs from the novels and comics. As a Cimmerian (mountain tribes in a remote country) he fought against the more civilized country building a fort outpost in Cimmeria, when he was 13 years old. Later traveling the known world as a thief, mercenary or pirate I had 47 different books by several different authors
And while his personality changes little, he never stops learning.
Robert Jordan wrote several Conan books in his early career. They were my favorites when I was in middle high-school.
I was 15 years old when this movie was showing at theaters the 80s was the absolute best time to be a growing teenager
Man, the memories of my friends and I playing out the final battle in our front yard with broomsticks for swords, homemade bow and arrows, cardboard axes, and our bikes as horses are times I will never forget. As 80's kids, we couldn't get enough of these medieval aged movies despite the injuries we sustained roughing each other up pretending to be these characters!
Oh, and as for 'Another story', I wouldn't even bother looking at Conan the Destroyer. It pales in comparison to Barbarian. But... Olivia D'abo does make the film watchable.
A few years back the idea of a new Conan film was floated (Didnt get up). Old (coz Arnold is old) King Conan having grown tired of ruling, takes to the wooded highlands to live as a hermit. But years later he comes to know of a terror that threatens his old Kingdom and he returns unlooked for (most of his people thought him surely dead) to Kick arse
I have also heard the the script for the movie Kull the Conqueror (the one with Kevin Sorbo) was origianly the script for the third Conan movie that had been orginaly planned with Arnold.
16 year old me watched this in the theatre in 1982. At the time, it was the greatest thing I had ever seen, and I still put it in my top 5 movies of all time. Thanks for your reaction.
The great : Max Von Sydow actor as the king who wants her daughter back . He was in many movies , also in a Stephen King movie called : Needful Things
“He is Conan, Cimmerian. He won't cry, so I cry for him.” You cut out my favorite line! This is true brotherhood!
Morality in the world of Conan is what he quoted early on "Crush your enemies; See them flee before you; Hear the lamentations of their women"
Scar avenged the death of Conan's mother, Killing Mufasa in the Lion King
Yeah, that scene with his arms swinging that apparently heavy sword wasn't something you see in film all that often.
My favorite recurring theme throughout the movie is that Conan is comfortable in quiet contemplation.
John Milius was one of the greatest screenwriters and directors of our time. It's a damn shame that he had a stroke.
Yes I had the privilege to work with him briefly as an executive on a script that never got made but his writing was excellent incredible
The screenplay was done by Oliver stone not millius he directed it though .
Milinus did a lot of rewriting. @@bobbombar6711
@@bobbombar6711 Milius rewrote the shooting script and shares screenplay credit with Stone. The finished film is very much his work.
@reidmason2551 funny that's not what he says on my copy of the movie in the special features .
He specifically mentions Oliver stone .
Dungeons and Dragons is "High Fantasy"
The Hyborean age of Conan is "Low Fantasy", with magic almost unheard of and practiced by few. Blood and Steel are the order of the day.
Of note: Magic in Sword & Sorcery (low fantasy) is often dangerous and corrupting. Most of those who practice it are closer to demonologists than the do-gooder pointy hatted wizards of High Fantasy. I like S&S for just that kind of dark fantasy take ; the world is universally brutal and bleak with all manner of terrible things to be survived.
Dungeons and Dragons has dozens of official campaign worlds, many of which are on the lower end of fantasy. It's not all Forgotten Realms.
@@SleepingGiant77 Unless you were playing old school chainmail, Charlegmain or Vikings setting, Or happen to possess any of the extremely rareRed Sonja.Or Conan modules, Pretty much every setting unless you were doing a homebrew setting is Mid to High magic.
Mystara, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Spelljammer, Dark Sun, Masque of the Red Death, Eberron, Planescape, Kara Tur, Blackmoor, Melnibone, Ravenloft, Maztica.. etc.
The Howard estate Lawyers swiftly clamped down to reclaim the Hyborean Age setting for their own licensing purposes.
@@johannesbowers7467 first of all, you said that "Dungeons & Dragons is high fantasy". Even with the more commonly played of the settings that you mentioned, this isn't really true. Greyhawk(for instance) is, aside from elves and dwarves mingling with humans, no more fantastical in the experience of the average citizen then Hyboria. And Hyboria isn't even that low magic of a setting. Conan's always running into sorcerers, demons, ancient horrors, frog gods, giants, all manner of fantastical creatures, curses, the undead, etc. Spider-haunted Zamora and the distant land of Hyperborea ruled by giants are just as fantastic as anything in the Flanaess.
Several of the other settings that you mentioned don't really have much more in the way of Fantastical elements than Conan does. Mystara gets wacky outside of Karameikos, depends on where you are. It could either be high fantasy or mid to low fantasy. Kara Tur and Maztica are no crazier than Hyboria, especially as they're merely fantasy versions of the same real world cultures that Howard cribbed from to make his more exotic locales. Blackmoor isnt really a setting that anybody played unless they were making up their own version. The only published material on it doesn't actually have any setting info. It doesn't really seem to be all that fantastical. Rather like Greyhawk.
Melnibone- slightly higher fantasy than Conan in that it centers around a kingdom of what are basically elves and occasionally a demiGod shows up. That's not really crazy by Conan standards, especially as there's not a lot of spell casting going on. Also, there's no real published material on this setting unless you count Deities and Demigods.
Ravenloft has numerous sub realms, many of which are low magic. It's kind of hard to have horror when everybody has superpowers.
Birthright- you didn't mention this one but it's a great example of what I was talking about. Not that popular of a setting, but it shows that your standard D&D setting isn't really that high magic.
Dark Sun is a Conan like setting with more fantastical creatures. It's definitely a step up. Not that far off though.
Dragonlance- before the dragons returned to Krynn? I'd almost argue that it was higher fantasy but lower magic than Hyboria. And I'm not too sure about that.
Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Planescape- definitely High Fantasy. At least Forgotten Realms is high magic. Although this one has changed a lot over the editions.
When Conan was laughing on the Tree of Woe, it was hysteria thinking that Subotai was just a mirage.
The classic Conan stories is amazing. Movie was good too
'Ha, time enough for the earth in the grave.' Massively underrated movie.
The DVD commentary for this was one of the funniest I've ever heard: John Milius took it so seriously, explaining the deep philosophy he had about steel, the transformation of the soul through hardship etc etc and Arnold was talking about meeting the witch in scene 16 two weeks ago at a cigar bar. He was still talking as he was leaving, you could hear him yelling from the door on his way out while they were recording lol
One of my favorite films ever. Fun fact - that’s Franco Columbu (Arnold’s best friend) that hops on top of the rock before the marauding men on horseback.
19:15 OMG I forgot Max von Sydow was in this!
King Osric the Usurper. Great name
The markings on his body and his Viking woman help ward off those evil little demons
I grew up with this movie, it is deeply treasured in my family, my Father introduced me to Conan when I was a young boy, he passed when I was 10 years old. I like your reactions to it, they are genuine and cute, great reaction!
The big snake was a hydraulically operated practical effect and it was so powerful that Arnold was actually injured while fighting it.
32:45 "Is she back? Woah! I remember that statement."
Yeah, but did you remember her promise at 27:15 "All the gods, they cannot sever us. 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."
Gotta admire a person that keeps their promise.
Leave it to Max Von Sydow to steal a scene with some choice dialogue and break your heart with such a powerful heartfelt performance. He was among the best of the best.
Fun fact, the actor who played Subotai is Gerry Lopez. He is considered one the greatest and most influential surfers ever.
Valeria said you Conan, if I was dead and you were fighting for life, I'd come back from the darkness, back from the pit of hell, to fight at your side. When Rexor had him on the ropes, she came back. In Germanic lore, she would be what you'd call a Valkyrie/shield maiden. And you didn't notice and other viewers already said it, but Conan killed Doom with his father's sword
Thulsa Doom hypnotized Conan's mom to make her guard down so he could test the sword on her neck and, by the end of the movie, he tried to do the same to old Conan.
16:24 "Do you wanna live forever?"
"That's an odd statement."
It's the Hyborian equivalent to YOLO.
so Conan is a man of few words and mostly action. Arnie mentioned the director said that it was easier to get Arnie ( looks like Conan) to act as conan than a trained actor to look like Conan
Three of the best movies that all men like, but the credits, dog, Conan, the barbarian, the terminator and predator like your updates, your compassion and you make it fun
Thanks for reacting to this one. It's an iconic classic.
...and now I'm all fired up for D&D night
🙂
On the commentary track there is this one detail I have always found hilarious. When Conan is walking in that priest's robe, it was either the director or the producer who commented that he "walks like an ostriche farmer". When ever I see that scene, I remember that comment and it makes me laugh every time.
Don't get too caught up in the good vs. evil conundrum. Conan, his followers, and his enemies are all about doing what is best for them, their families, and their tribes/countries-in that order.
In case you didn't know - Conan is based on a series of novels written by Robert E. Howard.
If you want to know more you should read the novels.
This is the legendary movie that got Arnold going Conan the barbarian which had comics out in the thirties or maybe it was the 40s
On the hill, The Wizard says the hills are consecrated by the spirits, and that is why nothing burns there. His shock was because the spirits allowed it to accept their payment, Valeria's death, and to let Conan honor a woman who fought demons to bring him back from the dead.
Valeria comes back as a Valkrie, one of the female warriors that serve his god Crom.
The Movie is framed around "The Riddle of Steel", and Conan's Journey to learning it on his path of revenge.
The Ending:
When Thulsa Doom tried to bewitch him right before Conan beheaded him, I do not believe Conan was falling for it. I think Conan remembered what Valeria said, that if she died, and he were facing 100 men, not even the gods themselves could keep her from coming to fight by his side, and she came back as a valkyrie, a warrior spirit that serves Valhalla and Crom. Her body, and his died. His father's sword, was shattered and failed its wielder twice. The only thing that survived the crucible of life was the determination of her soul, and his determination to avenge his people.
Than answer to the Riddle of steel is the strength and determination of the human spirit.
Saw in the theater as a kid
Was epic ....brought the comic to life
That "God-Poker" with Subotai is like an early form of pokemon.
@35:15 they're throwing their torches in the water "Right, well. We'll go home now I guess."
It's worth mentioning that Thulsa Doom was at the very least a powerful sorcerer, and was thinking he could hypnotize Conan to gain an advantage in the same way he did Conan's mother at the beginning of the film before he beheaded her once she let her guard down. Thankfully, Conan snapped out of it.
Conan also broke his father's sword in the battle with Doom's top guy near the end, then used that same sword - which was used to behead his mother - to behead Doom himself if I'm not mistaken.
In this movie, James Earl Jones has power that is obvious, and then abilities that are a lot more subtle. At the beginning when he stared down Conan's mother, and attempted to do the same at the end of the film with Conan, he was using a mesmerizing technique similar to how a serpent stares down its prey. In the world of Conan, Set is is a serpent god, whose followers get stronger by spreading his dogma of poison (in this film's case it was more of a societal poison), excess, and greed.
Conan is one of the earliest inspirations for dungeons and dragons. The original conan stories were written by a guy that looked like a 1920's gangster.
Arnold does some dramatic roles later in his career when he retires from politics and he showed a surprising bit of talent for the more serious tones. For more of his cheesey entertainment though, watch Jingle All The Way.
This was his first dramatic role, but Ahnoldt was already world famous as a bodybuilder when he was cast in Conan. Add in James Earl Jones and a truly first class production, and it couldn't help but do well, but his real breakout role was The Terminator, which came next.
This movie is my absolute favorite, everything about it is awesome, from the soundtrack to the villain played by James Earl Jones, the ending battle was awesome with Arnold's prayer to Krom,and the riddle of steel
The fire that Conan set was a funeral pyre for Valleria.
James Earl Jones 93 yrs old today.
Gen-X, this is my favorite Arnold film and favorite fantasy film. The fantasy films of the 80s were great!
Straight up, old school T&A hack-n-slash. Gotta love late 70s early 80s. Great reaction.
Conan's dad had an American accent. Can you imagine at the end of that Riddle of Steel story, Child Conan answering back with his Austrian accent?
Besides the sequel to this, Arnold did another sword fantasy movie called Red Sonja.
A movie that came after this to cash in on the popularity was The Beastmaster with Marc Singer and Tawnya Robert’s.
Yes, you're overthinking it. The movie is Conan the Barbarian... not Conan the Hero or Conan the Good Guy. It's a savage world full of extremely wicked people and things, and Conan is a savage person making his mark on it. He has honor, but he's NOT a nice guy.
Also, Thulsa Doom was NOT trying to "convince" Conan he was his father... Thulsa Doom had hypnotic powers and he was hypnotizing Conan into believing that. And he was succeeding right up until Conan looked down and saw his real fathers broken sword in his hand. The sword stolen in his childhood and wielded by Dooms henchman until Conan broke it and recovered it in the final battle.
"I'm still waiting for the good, for a pillar of strength"
That, would be Conan. He's all he needs
It was directed very much like Conan was depicted in 70’s and 80’s and Heavy Metal comics imo. I used to have a few Conan’s as a kid and believe me, they didn’t hold back with the blood splatter and carving his enemies up like a turkey. Conan wasn’t a traditional hero. He did have a sense of right and wrong but it never interfered with him going after what he wanted.
31:13 Jamer Earl Jones looks so cool in that armor. He is totally a RPG videogame final boss.
This movie, Terminator and Predator are the trifecta of Arnie movies IMO.
Total Recall ?!?!?!?!?
@@aresgalamatis7022 Fun movie, but not in the top 3 for me.
This movie inspired the look of nearly every heavy metal band back when it came out.
Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Red Sonja (1985)
The guy playing Subotai was one of the greatest surfers in the world
The movie and score superb! Always love watching this
Soundtrack is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Whole LotR love ❤ there can't be enough of it, so i think no one would mind that you love it as well :)
Excalibur is another old, but really good fantasy movie
Yeah, LotR is the best until you hit Tom Bombadil and then Arwen (the book version), then the Ents that kill the flow of the books.