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Conan! What is Best in Life?
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To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Conan the Barbarian is a character created by pulp author Robert E. Howard and featured in a series of short stories of the sword and sorcery subgenre, as well as some pretty ballin' comics and a couple of films, the first of which is one of the greatest cinematic works in history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1XmZ9_ckdw
So what's his deal?
Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."
Conan is a Cimmerian, a member of a far northern barbarian tribe. After getting tired of wrecking faces in his homeland, he decides to set out across the world and see what adventure he can find. Evil wizards, giant snakes, eldritch gods, other barbarians - you name it, he's fucking killed it. Maybe he'll do something heroic for you, if there's something in it for him, but don't complain if he also bangs your woman in the process.
The Way of the Barbarian: Infusing Your Spiritual Life With Conan
Due to some wonky copyright shit, a lot of the original Howard stories are now public domain! You can find them on Wikisource and Project Gutenberg and such.
Coming soon to a theater near you is a new Conan movie! Starring Khal Drogo and Colonel Quaritch.
There's a red band trailer under here that has a really brief glimpse of some tits, so you know, NSFW
It's better than the theatrical trailer though
There's no way it'll match the first one but hopefully it'll be fun. I guess we can talk about other Howard stories in here too, and pulp in general if you're diggin' it.
Contemplate this, on the Tree of Woe.
Conan the Barbarian is a character created by pulp author Robert E. Howard and featured in a series of short stories of the sword and sorcery subgenre, as well as some pretty ballin' comics and a couple of films, the first of which is one of the greatest cinematic works in history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1XmZ9_ckdw
So what's his deal?
Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."
Conan is a Cimmerian, a member of a far northern barbarian tribe. After getting tired of wrecking faces in his homeland, he decides to set out across the world and see what adventure he can find. Evil wizards, giant snakes, eldritch gods, other barbarians - you name it, he's fucking killed it. Maybe he'll do something heroic for you, if there's something in it for him, but don't complain if he also bangs your woman in the process.
The Way of the Barbarian: Infusing Your Spiritual Life With Conan
Due to some wonky copyright shit, a lot of the original Howard stories are now public domain! You can find them on Wikisource and Project Gutenberg and such.
Coming soon to a theater near you is a new Conan movie! Starring Khal Drogo and Colonel Quaritch.
There's a red band trailer under here that has a really brief glimpse of some tits, so you know, NSFW
It's better than the theatrical trailer though
Spoiler:
There's no way it'll match the first one but hopefully it'll be fun. I guess we can talk about other Howard stories in here too, and pulp in general if you're diggin' it.
Contemplate this, on the Tree of Woe.
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I got a collection of conan stories recently, haven't read it yet.
Whether the movie will be good is another matter entirely.
AND RON PERLMAN IS IN IT YES YES YES YES YES YES
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it's fucking conan
I'm gonna see it anyway
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did you know that robert jordan got his start writing conan books
the wheel of time guy wrote conan the destroyer
However, from watching the trailers, it doesn't feel like the original Conan. I'm not exactly sure how to describe it, but I hope that all the dialogue I've heard from him is no less than 2/3 the character's dialogue in the whole film. One of the things I really liked about the original was how literally it seemed to take the whole "show, don't tell" rule.
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holy shit
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Also, this looks like it could be pretty good
And then suddenly cuts to different music for no discernible reason?
I thought the same thing.
so
you may wanna mark it nsfw
So at one point during college my buddy and his roommate were at this get-together, hosted and mainly attended by women. Somebody suggests they play a game where they all write a question on a piece of paper, put the questions into a hat, and then take turns answering random questions.
Knowing his roommate will get a kick out of it, my buddy puts "What is best in life?" on his paper. The girls all take turns pulling out random questions and giving these really heartfelt and emotional answers. Somebody draws "What is best in life?" and gives an answer about nature and spiritual fulfillment that draws tears from the eyes of the rest of the girls in the group.
Not two seconds after she finishes answering, my buddy's roommate yells out "WRONG!!!!!" and he and my buddy just die laughing. All the girls get super pissed and kick them out of the house, and they're just laughing too hard to even be able to explain anything.
Wait I thought you were one of the few people old enough to remember the hyborian age.
he already did
I enjoyed this story :^:
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I am glad he shaved his beard.
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I double marked it now!
Can't be too careful
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pip are you opposed to titties in the work place?
Why you gotta be so sexist, pip?
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And I'm always like, man, what kind of barbarian are you?
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he isn't
he's learning from steppe nomads
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his kids don't get that he loves killing so much
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I have up to book six, my book one disappeared on me, and I have a fund going in a Thor slurpee cup for the remaining books and to replace the one that was lost.
My childhood is printed in those books. I goddamn love Conan, and I will see this movie twice even if it sucks. Just in case.
Conan The Barbarian is pretty great. The Destroyer is a pile of shit. Seeing Drogo in Game of Thrones has convinced that I may actually like the new Conan joint.
I've mentioned several times on here that I haven't read Jordan's books even though I have them laying around. I don't think I will ever read them.
Did I mention that I am a Conan fan?
They're basically the same guy, anyway.
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Triple digit bodycount. Mostly during the commercial breaks, sadly.