Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)
Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American fantasy film cowritten and directed by John Milius. It is based on stories by Robert E. Howard, a pulp fiction writer of the 1930s, about the adventures of the eponymous character in a fictional prehistoric world of dark magic and savagery. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones, and tells the story of a young barbarian Schwarzenegger who seeks vengeance for the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom Jones, the leader of a snake cult. Buzz Feitshans and Raffaella De Laurentiis produced the film for her father Dino De Laurentiis. Basil Poledouris composed the music.
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryus, there was an age undreamedof. And unto this Conan, destined to bear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure.Conan the Barbarian is a film about a young barbarians quest to avenge his parents deaths. The story is set in the fictional Hyborian Age, thousands of years before the rise of modern civilization. The film opens with the title card, That which does not kill us makes us stronger, a paraphrasing of Friedrich Nietzsche, nb followed by a voiceover that establishes the film as the story of Conans origin. ........
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