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moviemunchies · 7 months

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I think I underestimated this film when I decided to watch it this time. I had thought I would find it a very dumb actionized adaptation of the Howard character with little substance. And that’s not really what I found? There was more to this movie that I rediscovered on this watch-through.

So that’s cool.

Conan the Barbarian is an adaptation of the Conan character (who wasn’t really known exclusively as “Conan the Barbarian” in the original stories, though he is sometimes described as a barbarian) from Robert E. Howard, set in the mythical prehistoric ‘Hyborean Age’, but with more Plot to make it a film. Conan is a Cimmerian child whose parents and village are slaughtered by the forces of cult leader Thulsa Doom. He’s sold into slavery, and grows up as a champion gladiator. When he escapes slavery, he becomes a thief. When he and his friends go up against the cult of Thulsa Doom, Conan decides it’s the perfect time to take revenge. Of course, it’s not so simple as that to kill a powerful cult leader.

The original Conan stories tend to be mostly self-contained. There is not an overarching Plot to the stories. This movie, and th 2011 remake, try to make it more cinematic by having Conan’s parents be murdered, and Conan hungering for revenge on the warlord who killed them. But that’s not in the stories–Conan isn’t a tragic hero looking for vengeance. He’s a wandering warrior trying to make a buck!

So the first time I saw this movie, I was a teenager, and I had started reading the Conan stories (albeit, the ones with editing by Sprague de Camp, not the original Howard stories, because that’s what my dad had); I was frustrated that the movie turned Conan’s into a typical Hollywood fantasy revenge tale. That doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it, only that it didn’t really feel like Conan to me, and I resented how it became the version of the character most people knew about.

But this is actually a pretty good movie on its own? It has some problems, of course. The female lead, Valeria, never has her name spoken in the movie (she’s named in the credits, and in the sequel, but not int he movie), and I’m not sure WHY she’s so in love with Conan in the first place, other than that he’s the lead.

Conan’s also got a lot less agency than he should. Yes, his slave masters taught him to read for… Reasons (and also used him as a breeding slave what??). And he’s set free, he doesn’t escape slavery, again, for Reasons. He sort of stumbles onto Thulsa Doom’s cult, though when he does, he decides to go all the way, so that’s definitely a choice on his part.

I’m sorry I’m making this sound like a really stupid movie. It’s not! This is a movie that defined fantasy filmmaking for years for a reason. There are plenty of action scenes and sword fights, which feel exciting without feeling overdone or over-choreographed. The brutal style of combat fits for a world that we’re told is before the rise of civilization as we know it. I’m also impressed at times at how clever some of the characters are in combat–shooting enemies from a distance, setting traps. And yet those action scenes are still loads of fun.

The music is, all in all, surprisingly good? I didn’t remember it being this good, which is dumb because it’s apparently famous. But it captures the idea of an exciting, swashbuckling fantasy adventure (despite not really being swashbuckling, I guess?). I could listen to this over and over for a while now.

I don’t know if I’d call this movie deep, but it’s certainly thinking about deeper themes. Conan’s god Crom never appears in the story, but his relationship with Crom is a key if understated part of his character. The Riddle of Steel clearly occupies his mind, and while it’s not as if he goes around demanding the answer, it’s one of the first things about his religion that he explains to Subotai.

[Also, some people seem to think we’re meant to assume that Thulsa Doom’s answer is correct by default? I don’t know that it is, at least, not completely.]

And of course, Conan’s final prayer for vengeance, which he ends by saying that if Crom doesn’t grant it, then “to hell with you!” It’s certainly memorable.

Thulsa Doom is not actually a Howard Conan villain (I believe he’s a Howard Kull villain?). He’s still terrifying. I am not generally a fan of ‘religious fanatic’ characters in fiction because they tend to be shallow and written without any effort at making them make sense. But a cult leader? This is a great type of villain, when done correctly, and Thulsa is pretty good. He actually feels like a threat, because you see his hordes of fanatical followers, and how devoted they are to him.

Although I don’t know how his cult makes sense–they have a weird orgy where they serve people soup? What is your theology, guys? What does this have to do with snake worship?

And why does he turn into a snake? Not a deal-breaker, but it’s weird. Supposedly the novelization explains it. Either way, it’s freaky and unsettling, which is I think exactly what they’re going for. It definitely works in the scene it takes place in.

I liked this movie more than I thought I would on the rewatch. If you’re interested in fantasy films, old school action movies, well, Conan the Barbarian should be able to satisfy that itch. It’s fun, it’s deeper than you’d expect, and it’s certainly memorable. It’s not flawless, and it’s certainly not close as an adaptation of the Howard stories, but that doesn’t make it a bad movie. It’s still a pretty good one.

#Movie Munchies #Conan the Barbarian #arnold schwarzenegger #reviews #Conan

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cardest · 3 years

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Norway playlist

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Stevie Moore – Norway 263 Lucifer Was - In Anadi's Bower 264 Susane Sundfor - White Foxes 265 Kjeld - Betsjoend 266 Kari Rueslåtten - Sørgekåpe 267 Green Carnation - Sentinels 268 Agenda - Suffer 269 Mortiis - Tribute to Euronymous Unreleased Outro 270 Sirius - Sidereal Mirror 271 Insidious Disease - Betrayer 272 Gehenna - Through The Veils Of Darkness 273 The Deviant - Atomic Revolt 274 Varde - Halvdan Svarte 275 Carpathian Forest - He's Turning Blue 276 Ragnarok TV show - Outro 277 Sâver - How They Envisioned Life 278 Dold Vorde Ens Navn - Drukkenskapens Kirkegard 279 MANES - Young Skeleton 280 Nattefrost - Nekronaut 281 Cadaver Inc. - Primal 282 Ida Maria - I Eat Boys Like You For Breakfast 283 ragnarok - En Verden Av Stein 284 Mari Boine - Chasing Myself Into Reality 285 Death By Unga Bunga - Don't Go Looking For My Heart 286 Hexvessel - The Tunnel At The End Of The Light 287 Urgehal - The Iron Children 288 Darkthrone - Soulside Journey 289 Theatre of Tragedy - Der Tanz der Schatten 290 Wardruna - Kvitravn 291 Einherjer - Dragons of the North 292 Thale OST - Thale theme 293 Hedvig Mollestad Trio -Bewitched, Dwarfed and Defeathered 294 Motorpsycho - Spin, Spin, Spin 295 Susperia - Vainglory 296 MYRKUR - Jeg er Guden, I er Tjenerne (Live at the Mausoleum) 297 ICS Vortex - Odin's Tree 298 1349 - Beyond The Apocalypse 299 PRISTINE - You Are The One 300 Tristania - Beyond the Veil 333 Immortal - Where Dark And Light Don't Differ 444 Folket Bortafor Nordavinden - Odin 666 Satyricon - Mother North Songs are right here at this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1_gH0U66TKasbEjdbkPxeW7 Have I missed a song or band? 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inchling-prince · 3 years

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And, we don't see any anacondrai imprisoned on that island, so, I put forward... Clouses anacondrai serpent is the result of a, lets just say... modified version of that spell, instead of creating an artificial serpent whole cloth, Clouse found a way to use a person. Probably with some mind control magic in there as well, unless he convinced someone to do this willingly, which is doubtful

I mean, I’m always ready to believe evil stuff out of Clouse, but there WERE a lot of snake cultists on that island, it might be. Plausible that one of them would volunteer.

Clouse’s snake remind’s me of Thulsa Doom’s giant snake in Conan the Barbarian actually. Up to and including feeding people to it and referring to it as a pet.

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thealmightyemprex · 4 years

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Flight of the Dragons review

The final film in the Rankin/Bass Fantasy tetrology .....And while I feel it is better then their version of Return of the King ,it lacks the charm and great writing of both Hobbit and LAst Unicorn .Theres a good idea in this movie ,about magic and fnantasy in conflict/trying to work with/EXIST in a world of science and logic ,as well as going into a scientific way dragons work in this world.....The problem is there is too many characters,a lot of them are very basic fantasy tropes,the designs for the dragons are kind of ugly,and it’s just a bit of a mess.Hower I will say the cast is mostly pretty good,with John Ritter as the hero from the 20th century ,James Gregory in a duel role as the good old dragon and as the evil dragon ,and the stand out is James Earl Jones as the evil red wizard .In fact while he is a standard evil wizard ,Ommadon is the best part of the movie ,and it’mostly due to some moments of inspired animation and Jones’s performance,as unlike other villains protrayed by Jones such as Darth Vader and Thulsa Doom who were restrained ,Jones deliver a hamtastic over the top performance as Ommadon that is a joy to listen too,still menacing but undniably fun .And fun is the main takeaway I get from this movie ,there are some neat ideas if not fully explored and a charm to the film .I think the film is a solid 7/10

#rankin bass #fantasy #flight of the dragons

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blackkudos · 6 years

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William Marshall

William Horace Marshall (August 19, 1924 – June 11, 2003) was an American actor, director, and opera singer. He is best known for his title role in the 1972 blaxploitation classic Blacula and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream (1973), as the "King of Cartoons" on the 1980s television show Pee-wee's Playhouse beginning with its second season, and an appearance as Dr. Richard Daystrom on the original Star Trek television series. He had a commanding height of 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), as well as a deep bass voice.

Biography

Early life and career

Marshall was born in Gary, Indiana, the son of Thelma (née Edwards) and Vereen Marshall, who was a dentist. He attended New York University as an art student, but then trained for a theatre career at the Actors Studio, at the American Theatre Wing, and with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse.

He made his Broadway debut in 1944 in Carmen Jones. Among his many other Broadway appearances, he understudied Boris Karloff as Captain Hook in Peter Pan in 1950, then played the leading role of De Lawd in the 1951 revival of The Green Pastures (a role he repeated in a BBC telecast of the play in 1958). He performed in Shakespeare plays many times on the stage in the United States and Europe, including the title role in at least six productions of Othello. His Othello (which was later captured in a video production in 1981), was called by Harold Hobson of the London Sunday Times "the best Othello of our time," continuing:

...nobler than [Godfrey] Tearle, more martial than [John] Gielgud, more poetic than [Frederick] Valk. From his first entry, slender and magnificently tall, framed in a high Byzantine arch, clad in white samite, mystic, wonderful, a figure of Arabian romance and grace, to his last plunging of the knife into his stomach, Mr Marshall rode without faltering the play's enormous rhetoric, and at the end the house rose to him.

Marshall even played Othello in a jazz musical version, Catch My Soul, with Jerry Lee Lewis as Iago, with Center Theatre Group at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in 1968.

He also portrayed the roles of Paul Robeson and Frederick Douglass on stage . Marshall had researched Douglass' life for years and portrayed him on television in Frederick Douglass: Slave and Statesman, which he co-produced in 1983.

Film and television career

Marshall's career on screen began in the 1952 film Lydia Bailey as a Haitian leader. He followed that with a prominent role as Glycon, comrade and fellow gladiator to Victor Mature in the 1954 film Demetrius and the Gladiators. His demeanor, voice and stature gave him a wide range, though he was ill-suited for the subservient roles that many black actors of his generation were most frequently offered. He was a leader of the Mau-Mau uprising in Something of Value (1957), and Attorney General Edward Brooke in The Boston Strangler (1968). He probably received the most notice for his role in the vampire film Blacula and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream. In later years, Marshall played the King of Cartoons on Pee-wee's Playhouse, replacing actor Gilbert Lewis, during the 1980s. (The character's catchphrase "Let...the cartoooon...begin!" became immensely popular.)

In the early 1950s, Marshall starred briefly in a series about black police officers, entitled Harlem Detective. The show was canceled when Marshall was named as a communist in the anti-communist newsletter Counterattack.

Despite the blacklisting because of his supposed communist connections, Marshall managed to continue appearing in both television and films. In 1962, Marshall appeared on the British spy series Danger Man in the episode titled "Deadline" and in 1964 Marshall played the role of travelling opera singer Thomas Bowers on the Bonanza episode "Enter Thomas Bowers." Additionally in 1964, he appeared, with actor Ivan Dixon, as the leader of a newly independent African nation and as a T.H.R.U.S.H. agent in the first-season episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. entitled "The Vulcan Affair". In 1968 he appeared as Dr. Richard Daystrom in the Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer". In 1969, he had a special guest appearance as the character Amalek in an episode of The Wild Wild West entitled "The Night of the Egyptian Queen".

He also won two local Emmys for producing and performing in a PBS production, As Adam Early in the Morning, a theatre piece originally performed on stage. He also was featured in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour titled, "The Jar", with actors Pat Buttram and George Lindsey.

Later life and death

In addition to acting and producing, Marshall taught acting at various universities including the University of California, Irvine, and the Mufandi Institute, an African-American arts and music institution in the Watts section of Los Angeles. He did similar work at Chicago's ETA Creative Arts Foundation, which in 1992 named Marshall one of its Epic Men of the 20th century.

For 42 years, Marshall was the partner of Sylvia Gussin Jarrico, former wife of blacklisted screenwriter Paul Jarrico. Marshall died June 11, 2003, from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. He was survived by sons Tariq, Malcolm, and Claude Marshall and daughter Gina Loring. Eulogists at his funeral included Sidney Poitier, Ivan Dixon, Paul Winfield, and Marla Gibbs.

Marshall was considered by many to be a much underrated actor and one who never got his due. Some have remarked that Marshall should have had a much more successful and larger screen career, even saying that Marshall would have been a perfect choice for the role Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian.

Filmography

Lydia Bailey (1952) - King Dick

Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) - Glycon

Something of Value (1957) - Leader - Intellectual in Suit

Sabu and the Magic Ring (1957) - Ubal, the genie

La fille de feu (1958) - Stork

Piedra de toque (1963) - African Missionary (uncredited)

To Trap a Spy (1964) - Sekue Ashumen

The Hell with Heroes (1968) - Al Poland

The Boston Strangler (1968) - Atty. Gen. Edward W. Brooke

Skullduggery (1970) - Attorney General

The Mask of Sheba (1970) - Captain Condor Sekallie

Zig Zag (1970) - Morris Bronson

Honky (1971) - Dr. Craig Smith

Blacula (1972) - Blacula / Mamuwalde

Scream Blacula Scream (1973) - Blacula / Mamuwalde

Abby (1974) - Bishop Garnet Williams

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) - William Klinger - Attorney General

The Great Skycopter Rescue (1980) - Mr. Jason

Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (1986) - Dr. Dean

Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) - Pirate Captain (segment "Video Pirates")

Maverick (1994) - Riverboat Poker Player

Sorceress (1995) - John Geiger

Dinosaur Valley Girls (1996) - Dr. Benjamin Michaels (final film role)

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megaayeshashafiqueme-blog · 4 years

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scotiaeire · 4 years

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Fantasy....food for the soul.

During the seventies and eighties, movies were GOOD on the whole. I have eclectic tastes in viewing, from horror (vintage such as Hammer, Amicus, etc to some modern) to vintage Bond (Sean Connery. The *only* Bond for me) to Sword and Sorcery and Fantasy films.

One of my favourites was Legend, with Tim Curry as the Lord of Darkness, Mia Sara as the Princess, Lilly, and Tom Cruise as the woodcutter’s son, a wildling of a boy in love with Lilly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_(1985_film)

It was also Curry’s character, Darkness, who held my fascination. I knew why....there has always been something (and of course I’m speaking as a straight heathen/pagan woman here, sorry) about strong male figures, but more so when they sport horns and hooves. It’s the ancient image of the Wild Forest God (although of course his character was anything but!) and of all the old Fertility Gods...

His skin was red, his eyes lizardlike and feral, his teeth fanged and sharp, he had claws and of course, the hooves...and I just thought he was fucking fantastic!

The film had the classic fairytale script...Princess, captured by Darkness, threatening to plunge the whole world into eternal winter, rescued by her true love, the woodcutter’s son.

I still have both versions..the one where Jerry Goldsmith did the score, and the one with the Tangerine Dream score. Tbh, I prefer the former.

But Ridley Scott did the tale great justice. It was so beautifully filmed, so atmospheric, so magical, it just caught and held me and I’ve loved that film for many decades still.

And there were others...Willow, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Dragonslayer and others. Amidst the copious post Apocalyptic movies, fantasy was my *thing* then. And I ate them all up. Lived, in my mind, inside a world where Fey folks walked and heroes stalked and dragons flew and of course (Conan the Barbarian, with Arnold and Sandahl and the great James Earl Jones, as Thulsa Doom... https://conan.fandom.com/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian_(1982_movie) )

swords and edged weapons took on lives of their own and defeated “evil”....

These films, and equally copious heroic fantasy pulp novels from the sixties and seventies, kept me going through a very rough time in my life....my first marriage to an abusive husband. When things got so bad, I could retreat into these worlds, become part of them, take inspiration from them (Valeria, from Conan, was my personal heroine and girl crush) and well, the fact I still keep these films (albeit no longer on video, but hard drive) probably tells how much they helped me. I had no friends at the time, I was alone and suffering so I did what many folks do...retreated into fantasy, escapism.

Thing is, I always had an inner belief that this, the worlds in these films or books, was how life was really meant to be. Sometimes, I still do....

We create the world around us. All of us contribute to what the world is like, now.

I wish more folks would work on the fantasy part of life. Why we’ve created countries where the majority let elite few regimes rule them, almost always with cruelty, austerity and utter lack of concern, has always confused me.

I believe time has shown in many nations, democracy doesn’t exist, voting doesn’t work, and governments dictate our every day down to what we eat, watch, read, work at and do.

No, I don’t have the answers. Wish I did. But I’ve no shame for my attraction, still, after all these decades, to fantasy, sword and sorcery, heroic tales and legends, and better worlds.

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