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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 ...
- $68.9–79.1 million
- Basil Poledouris
- $20 million
May 14, 1982 · Conan the Barbarian: Directed by John Milius. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman. A powerful warrior seeks to avenge the genocide of his people and the murder of his parents at the hands of a snake cult.
- (158K)
- John Milius
- R
- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his ...
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The film begins with a young Cimmerian boy, Conan, witnessing the destruction of his village and the death of his parents at the hand of warlord Thulsa Doom. The narration tells, "Who knows what they came for, weapons of steel or murder? It was never known, for the leader went to the south". The battle standard carried by the invaders, a snake with...
For a large budget film, the cast of Conan the Barbarianincludes an unusual number of then-inexperienced actors. Dancer Sandahl Bergman and surfer Gerry Lopez were cast in major supporting roles as Conan's closest companions. In addition to Schwarzenegger, the cast also included several famous bodybuilders including William Smith, Sven-Ole Thorsen,...
Filming
The film was originally going to be filmed at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England, and the ending scene was filmed there in October 1980 before they chose another location. The crew considered filming at Jadran Film Studios in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), but due to complications, they decided to search for a different location. They initially thought of filming at Cinecittà Studios in Rome, before finally selecting their production location. Once they had chosen their location, filmin...
Originally, producer Dino de Laurentiis had planned a soundtrack of pop music for the movie - a là Flash Gordon (1980) - but was eventually persuaded by Milius to use a full orchestral score. For this purpose, Milius hired Basil Poledouris, a former classmate from the film department at the University of Southern California, and tasked him to make ...
Mongol General: "What is best in life?" Conan: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women." (Note that this is actually a quote from Genghis Khan)Conan's Father "Fire and wind of the sky, from the Gods of the sky; but Crom is your God, Crom who lives in the Earth. Once giants lived in the Earth, Conan, and in the darkness of chaos they foole...Conan: "If I die I have to go before him, and he will ask me, "What is the riddle of steel?" And if I don't know it he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me. That's Crom, strong on his mount...Conan: "Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you will remember, if we were good men, or bad. Why we fought, or how we died. No, all that matters is, th...In the 1914 silent film Cabiria, a slave named Maciste pushes a mill wheel for ten years just as Conan does.
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy • edited by John Clute and John Grant • Orbit 1997 ISBN 1857233689All Movie Guide: Conan the BarbarianPeople also ask
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