Top cast Edit. Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan as Conan. Sandahl Bergman Valeria as Valeria. Ben Davidson Rexor as Rexor. Gerry Lopez Subotai as Subotai. Mako The Wizard as The Wizard …. Nadiuska Conan's Mother as Conan's Mother. John Milius. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Beyond the mists of time, having witnessed the brutal death of his blacksmith father and the massacre of the entire village by the murderous followers of Thulsa Doom, the undead evil wizard and servant of the serpent-god, Set, Conan, the orphaned young Cimmerian, is condemned to a life of slavery.
Chained to the perpetual Wheel of Pain, the helpless boy grows into a man, and after years of rigorous training as a fierce gladiator, Conan, now an unstoppable mountain of muscle, regains his precious freedom. But, with the image of the blood-soaked raid etched on his mind, Conan teams up with Subotai, the Hyrkanian thief, and Valeria, the Queen of the Bandits, and embarks on a peril-laden journey to the mysterious Mountain of Power, and the impregnable Snake Cult Temple.
Will Conan avenge his parents? He conquered an empire with his sword. She conquered HIM with her bare hands. Did you know Edit. Trivia James Earl Jones was a last minute addition to the cast because of his commitments on Broadway. He and Arnold Schwarzenegger became friends on-set; Schwarzenegger helped Jones stay in shape and Jones coached Schwarzenegger on acting; so did Max von Sydow. Goofs at around 1h 5 mins When Conan leaves the wizard to go to the mountain on the camel, he carries a bunch of purple flowers.
By the time he reaches the mountain, the flowers are white. Quotes Mongol General : Hao! Mongol : The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair. Alternate versions UK version is cut by 19 secs to remove horse falls one of which can still be seen in the accompanying documentary on the UK DVD and the sex scene with the witch is shortened to remove one brief shot of her bare behind and to reduce her groaning sounds from 6 to 3.
User reviews Review. Top review. My favorite movie as a child and still the best fantasy! This is really an amazing movie! It is so passionate and intense. It all feels so genuine as well. During my childhood this was my all-time favorite! He is a talented commander, strategist, thief, as well as a born leader.
In some stories, he's able to recognize, or even decipher, certain ancient or secret signs and writings, such as when he uses the sign of Jhebbal Sag in Beyond the Black River. However, Howard never has him reading Stygian, although he can speak it.
Another noticeable trait is his sense of humour, largely absent in the comics and movies, but very much a part of Howard's original vision of the character, particularly apparent in " Xuthal of the Dusk " "The Slithering Shadow". He is a loyal friend to those true to him with a barbaric code of honour and chivalry that often marks him as more civilized than those more sophisticated people he meets in his travels.
Indeed his straighforward nature and barbarism are constants in all the tales. One fact that is often emphasized is that Conan is very difficult to defeat in hand-to-hand combat. Conan needs only to have his back to the wall so that he cannot be surrounded, and then is capable of engaging and killing opponents by the score.
Conan prefers to fight with a single sword and an open off-hand, which he uses for punching and grappling. However, he is also skilled with shields, axes, spears, daggers, and many other weapons. Conan is not superhuman, though: he did need the providential help of Zelata's wolf to defeat four Nemedian soldiers in the story The Hour of the Dragon.
Some of his hardest victories have come from fighting single opponents, but ones of inhuman strength: one such as Thak , the ape man from " Rogues in the House ", or the strangler Baal-Pteor in " The Man-Eaters of Zamboula " "Shadows in Zamboula". Conan is far from untouchable and has been captured several times knocking himself out running into a wall while drunk after being betrayed, although he still slays the people initially sent to arrest him, a fall from a wounded horse but never as a result of martial failings.
One of Conan's skills is that of climbing. Cimmeria is a land of hills and cliffs, and its people are skilled at navigating them. Conan frequently astounds others with his abilities to climb sheer walls and cliffs. Conan is not greatly skilled at diplomacy or deception.
However, his many years of combat experience have made him highly skilled at recognizing dissembling in others. He is especially skilled at reading body language, or in using it to miscommunicate his intentions.
The very first Conan cinematic project was planned by Edward Summer. Summer envisioned a series of Conan movies, much like the James Bond franchise. He outlined six stories for this film series, but none were ever made. An original screenplay by Summer and Roy Thomas was written, but their lore-authentic screen story was never filmed. Instead the resulting film, Conan the Barbarian , was written by the unlikely pairing of Oliver Stone and John Milius. Their script had very little in common with Howard's original Conan tales, and was a complete re-imagining of Conan's life.
The plot of Conan the Barbarian begins with Conan being enslaved by the Vanir raiders of Thulsa Doom , a malevolent warlord who is responsible for the slaying of Conan's parents and the genocide of his people.
The vengeful Conan, the archer Subotai and the thief Valeria set out on a quest to rescue a princess held captive by Thulsa Doom. The character of Conan was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and was his break-through role as an actor. This film was followed by a less popular sequel, Conan the Destroyer in Howard's gruff and violent barbarian completed his long transformation into a character for children with the debut of Conan the Adventurer , an animated series from Sunbow productions, the studio behind such Hasbro-based productions as G.
Joe , Transformers , and Jem and the Holograms. Conan's animated adventurers would not prove quite as successful as those series, lasting two seasons before being rebooted as Conan and the Young Warriors , which in turn only ran for 12 episodes. This version of Conan was friendlier and had a more conventionally heroic morality. In one episode, for example, he refuses to join a pirate crew because stealing is wrong, whereas Howard's Conan or even Marvel's Conan would steal if it served his purposes, and even joined forces with pirates in the course of his adventures.
This Conan led a team of adventurers created for the show. Zula was an African warrior similar to his Destroyer namesake, but male this time around. Jezmine was Conan's love interest, a former thief who'd reformed to join this law-abiding barbarian. Greywolf was a young wizard whose sibling had been turned into wolves, and he hoped to turn them back.
Finally Snagg was a Viking-esque warrior from a rival nation to Conan's. The main villain of the series was Wrath-Amon, leader of a Set-worshiping snake cult who earned Conan's ire primarily by turning his parents to stone. In , Conan returned to TV for another series with the same title as his cartoon, Conan the Adventurer , but this time in live action.
This was the era of the popular Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its spinoff Xena: Warrior Princess , and Conan the Adventurer was an obvious attempt at achieving something similar — but it lacked those shows' charm, and ultimately their success.
With German bodybuilder-turned-actor Rolf Mueller as Conan, the series drew more from the Schwarzenegger movies than the original stories, but the character of Conan drifted even further from his source material. Mueller's Conan was friendly and jovial, and his power came more from pure brute strength than any particular skill or intelligence.
Like in the animated series, he led a whole party of adventurers, featuring Danny Woodburn as the clever dwarf Otli, Robert McRay as a deaf warrior named Zzeben who communicated with sign language, T.
Storm as the capoeira warrior Bayu, and Aly Dunne as Karella, the latest incarnation of Conan's fiery love interest. Conan and his companions didn't even wander the world in this series. They spent their time attempting to free Cimmeria from the evil conquerer Hissah Zul Jeremy Kemp , who was also responsible for the death of Conan's parents.
Furthermore, the Cimmerian god Crom is no longer an absent, distant deity, but instead a central and active force in Conan's life. Conan the Adventurer only ran for one season. In , Dark Horse Comics obtained the rights to publish Conan, and over the next 13 years the barbarian was featured in a number of series which hewed closer to Robert E. Howard's original stories than any adaptation in recent memory. The first Dark Horse series, which was simply titled Conan , ran for 50 issues.
It was followed up by Conan the Cimmerian , which lasted 25 issues. The third Dark Horse series, Conan: Road of Kings , lasted 12 issues and led into a comic with the familiar title Conan the Barbarian , which ran for 25 issues.
Conan the Avenger also lasted 25 issues. The sixth and final Dark Horse series, Conan the Slayer , ran for 12 issues, ending in King Conan , a series featuring stories of Conan's reign as monarch, also ran for 24 issues, in parallel with the other books.
There were also various miniseries and one-shots along the way. The Dark Horse comics were very popular and proved the ongoing viability of Conan as a property. That led the company that brought Conan to comics in the first place, now backed by the Disney Corporation, to re-obtain the license from Dark Horse. In , with the Dark Horse comics going strong and a generation of adults with nostalgia for the Schwarzenegger movies, it seemed like time to relaunch Conan the Barbarian on the big screen.
Jason Momoa, who at the time was playing the barbarian warlord Kal Drogo on HBO's Game of Thrones , seemed like a perfect choice to play the title role, and modern special effects could bring the Cimmerian's world to life on a whole new level.
At least, that was the theory. By all accounts , the movie just doesn't work. The writing is a mess, the dialogue is terrible, and the acting didn't win anyone over.
And with those weaknesses, the level of violence, however faithful to Robert E. Howard it might have been, just didn't feel justified within the movie. Furthermore, it was filmed in 3D, which a lot of people seemed to be getting burnt out on by , and it was criticized for particularly unnecessary 3D effects. The movie was a resounding box office bomb. The only one who escaped relatively unscathed was Momoa, who would go on to play another warrior-king, DC's Aquaman.
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