Posted on 03/16/2002 11:42:07 AM PST by Green Knight
Did a search and didn't find it, so I'm assuming nobody else has posted this, yet. But it appears that there WILL be a new Conan movie, which'll be at least written if not directed by John Milius, and will have Arnold Schwarzenneger reprising the role of Conan.
I must say that from what I read, there, I am PSYCHED! This movie sounds like it'll be fantastic. It'll truly blow the first one, away, I believe. And from the end, there'll yet be another Conan movie, Beneath My Sandaled Feet! One more movie to round out the trilogy (yeah, there's Conan: The Destroyer, but that doesn't count. Milius had nothing to do with that one).
Anyway, just thought I'd post this as there're a lot of Conan fans, here. And Milius is a conservative, from what I hear, and it doesn't hurt to support other conservatives. Especially when their work is as fantastic as what King Conan: Crown of Iron appears to be!
- Green Knight, totally blown away after reading that script review
Thanks for the tip.
prisoner6
"Conan The Barbarian" was the very last movie my girlfriend and I saw before I asked her to marry me, BTW :-)
I'm kind of afraid to ask what scene in the movie inspired your proposal. Was it the caged love-encounter between Conan and the slave girl? Please tell me it had nothing to do with an aroused gastronomical curiosity about Thulsa Doom's cannibal soup!
The new movie could only do it by digital wizardry -- otherwise Arnold won't be showing much muscle at the ripe old age of 50. OTH, if the setting is winter, he can get away with just showing his forearms. Still, I'll be looking forward to seeing it.
Not necessarily: "Conan the Barbarian" is a great movie because of it's story and it's characters. It has a classic theme that has rarely been explored since: that trial and tribulation is NOT a bad thing. Oftentimes going through great suffering makes us stronger, so that we may overcome even greater obstacles.
There's one scene I've heard about in "King Conan: Crown Of Iron", it's between the now-older Conan and his young son. Remember that scene at the beginning of the original (and let's not mention that atrocity "Conan The Destroyer", it doesn't exist kapeche? :-) where Conan's dad tells Conan about the "Riddle of Steel"? Well this scene in "Crown Of Iron" mirrors that one, and in it Conan is telling his son about power and what it is to wield it.
Even with the combined might of ILM and WETA, if they had that at their disposal... even all the tech wizardry of the world couldn't overshadow a scene like that!
OTH, if the setting is winter, he can get away with just showing his forearms. Still, I'll be looking forward to seeing it.
Another reason to see it: Mako is returning as that crazy wizard :-) My girlfriend says I do a dead-on impression of that guy...
"YEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! I'm a wizard mind you! This place is kept by POWERFUL GODS, and spirits of KINGS! Harm my flesh, and you will have to deal with the DEAD!":-)"Can you summon demons, wizard?"
"Hmmm? Mmmmm... YES!!! If I strike at you, I would summon a demon more ferocious than all in HELL!!"
Gonna be on my must see list.
Robert E. Howard. From Texas.
He was kind of a strange guy. He was very young when he died (at 30, from self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head) but had already amassed a HUGE body of work with his Conan, Kull, and Solomon Kane stories, among others. He killed himself the same day his mother died.
Kind of like Teddy Kennedy, he built his physique up, but mostly out of paranoia: he was afraid of getting beat up by roughnecks that were all over his part of the country. I've seen photos of him that see him fluctuate from being very fat, to very muscular. That didn't give him confidence enough to go outside on some days, as he'd button down tight in his room, close the windows and lock the door, afraid that someone might come and beat the daylights out of him (told you he was kind of weird).
BUT, he possessed a *brilliant* creative mind. And he had a really neat process of writing Conan. He'd sit at his typewriter late at night, and the door behind him would open. Into the rooom would walk the spirit of a warrior king, dead for untold millennia, and the spirit would begin whispering stories into Howard's ear. Howard could do nothing but look at his typewriter. He dared not turn around and confront the spirit: if he did, the warrior would cleave him in half with his battle-axe.
Howard typed out everything the spirit told him, everything about this pre-Judeo/Christian brutality that the world had once known. When the light of dawn crept through the windows, the spirit of the warrior would tell Howard, "I am done for this night. I will return later." Then he would leave, and Howard, exhausted, would collapse onto his bed, and have to await the coming of the next dusk.
Now, there really wasn't a spirit standing with an axe behind Howard. But that's how he motivated himself to write about Conan and his realm.
Pretty cool :-)
God, what the hell was I thinking?!
That's what I copied from the book "Conan". This is from memory: When his mother died, within days, Howard shot and killed himself. When one of the deputies, entered his home to investigate, the deputy looked at the page that was in the typewriter and noticed the only thing written. "Now light the Pyre."
The deputy exclaimed, "What's a pyre?"
CONAN
They say the gods live here.
KON
I thought they lived in the mountains?
CONAN
Our god does. He sits on a cliff in the cold and watches.
KON
Can he see us here?
CONAN
Even here where the wind is warm and the smells of food and spice, where men wear silk and brocade and women wear little or nothing. Yes, he watches us in places like this.
He turns to Kron, kneels down.
CONAN
Remember how I showed you my father's sword?
KON
Yes.
CONAN
It was not my father's. I broke my father's sword with mine. He told me to trust steel, not men, women, animals. I trust nothing but my will and instinct. Trust no one, Boy... not any of this.
He gestures.
CONAN
If gods live here, they are treacherous and dark. Trust no one but the wind and the cold night sky. Make them your friends and you won't need this. You won't need me.
KON
I'll always need you, father.
Tears fill his eyes.
CONAN
No... someday you must break my sword. Now let us go and eat their beeves and pigs and watch their women dance for us.
CONAN
Crom! Again we are here. One thing I know... you are watching, you old wolf! The odds are long again, you enjoy that. If I die, we will meet in Valhalla, I will eat at your table. And if I live, you will find other ways to torture me.
Conan salutes the sky.
CONAN
I hope you enjoy it!
"To crush your enemies, see them drivem before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!"
"CROM! Grant me one thing. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen... then to hell with you!"
(James Earl Jones) "Contemplate this on the tree of woe."
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