![]() Conan, it appears, is purchased on the premise that size alone is good enough to qualify him to fight as a gladiator. After a period of enduring the elements, a lone horseman appears. Reaching adulthood as the sole survivor, he has become broad and strong, (at this point the viewer is introduced to an adult Conan via the massive back and stoic stare of a 33-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger). Sold into slavery along with the other children from his village, Conan is forced with others to push a human-powered mill, The Wheel of Pain. The battle standard carried by the invading Vanir - two snakes facing each other over a moon and a rising sun - is burned into the memory of young Conan. Doom himself hypnotizes and then decapitates Conan's mother. Conan's father, a blacksmith (William Smith) valiantly fights the bandits, but Thorgrim and Rexor mortally wound him, finally killing him with their pack of trained dogs. As a young Cimmerian boy, Conan witnesses the destruction of his village at the hand of three Vanir warlords: Thulsa Doom(James Earl Jones) and Doom's lieutenants, Rexor (Ben Davidson) and Thorgrim (Sven-Ole Thorsen). That should give you an idea.Ī yet-unseen Wizard (Mako) narrates the story, with an altered version of the Nemedian Chronicles. Then, compare the amount of bold & italics to the plain text. I'll be providing annotations for further discussion.Īnything in plain text is a complete invention of Oliver Stone and John Milius, or Thomas Dean Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer in the case of the upcoming film. I've no doubt this will be particularly controversial, so I invite people to debate whether something I consider "anti-Howard" or "un-Howard" is valid. Basically, if I can't see it happening in a Howard story due to it being out of character or outright impossible, it's going to be in red. This is some of the more egregious stuff, like the entire backstory, Conan praying to Crom, the Hyborian Age being quasi-Bronze Age, as well as a few others. Those that are taken from non-Howard Conans (such as De Camp's "The Thing in the Crypt") are not under scrutiny, because I don't care about those elements.Īnything in red text denotes something not just absent in the Howard stories, but antithetical to Howard's themes. Some examples may be from Conan stories, others from non-Conan Howard stories. Įverything that is described by Howard is in blue, though it might be altered substantially.Įverything in green is a Howard name taken out of context, such as from a non-Conan story.Įverything in orange is an event from a Howard story taken out of context. I have taken the synopses from wikipedia and Conan The Movie Blog. So, for the benefits of those people, I plan to enlighten them, so they can fully understand the enormity of the gulf between the two. It's crazy how little people seem to know about Conan the Barbarian's deviations from Howard. ![]()
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