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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8572853" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I won't pretend to know what Milius was going for. I have seen a number of interviews and always find him a little hard to decipher at times because it feels like he is playing a character sometimes. But I think Conan is one of the most beautiful fantasy movies ever made. In terms of Thusla Doom, I always tended to see that group more as bikers, but I can definitely see counter culture stuff in the cult that he starts when Conan finally meets him again (but I think he is going more for a Manson family counter culture than flowers and hippies). I think with stuff like that, it is sometimes hard to know is the person making a statement about those things, or drawing on them as imagery because they are familiar and you will instantly understand what Thusla Doom is doing when has this cult around him and tells the girl to come into his arms. But it is also a love story, so I don't know. It is an interesting thought though when you compare it to Dirty Harry (which he also worked on the script for---and that is a film that deals with the darker side of the counter culture).</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8572853, member: 85555"] I won't pretend to know what Milius was going for. I have seen a number of interviews and always find him a little hard to decipher at times because it feels like he is playing a character sometimes. But I think Conan is one of the most beautiful fantasy movies ever made. In terms of Thusla Doom, I always tended to see that group more as bikers, but I can definitely see counter culture stuff in the cult that he starts when Conan finally meets him again (but I think he is going more for a Manson family counter culture than flowers and hippies). I think with stuff like that, it is sometimes hard to know is the person making a statement about those things, or drawing on them as imagery because they are familiar and you will instantly understand what Thusla Doom is doing when has this cult around him and tells the girl to come into his arms. But it is also a love story, so I don't know. It is an interesting thought though when you compare it to Dirty Harry (which he also worked on the script for---and that is a film that deals with the darker side of the counter culture). [/QUOTE]

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