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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2229910" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p>I have read that essay in the past. While it's possible that the guy who wrote it is just reaching and pulling this interpretation out his nether regions that had nothing whatsoever to do with the movie , it seems to be reasonable enough. </p><p></p><p>That actually makes me like the movie considerably less, though. If all that nonsense about Nietschian <em>übermensch</em> was really part of Milius' plan all along, then he didn't care much at all for Howard at all. Before I read that, I just assumed he was a hack, making typical B-movie nonsense. After reading it, if I believe it, then it says to me that Milius merely conveniently grabbed the name of Conan and nothing else to make his own movie about his own character.</p><p></p><p>Not that that hasn't been done over and over again before, but it does tend to tick off the fans of the original source material, and in this case, I'm quite the fan of Howard's original source material. I'm quite surprised that fans have stood for it. Heck, Conan is still trotted around by many fantasy fans as exemplary of the fantasy genre on film. It's enough to make me weep.</p><p></p><p>Huh? I'll take your word for it, but that sounds extremely odd. In an otherwise consistent litany of disagreeing with me on that point, that really came out of left field.</p><p></p><p>But if you didn't mean that to apply to me, then I do apologize for my post overall. It was really that whole paragraph that set me off; the implication that I had no idea what I was talking about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 2229910, member: 2205"] I have read that essay in the past. While it's possible that the guy who wrote it is just reaching and pulling this interpretation out his nether regions that had nothing whatsoever to do with the movie , it seems to be reasonable enough. That actually makes me like the movie considerably less, though. If all that nonsense about Nietschian [i]übermensch[/i] was really part of Milius' plan all along, then he didn't care much at all for Howard at all. Before I read that, I just assumed he was a hack, making typical B-movie nonsense. After reading it, if I believe it, then it says to me that Milius merely conveniently grabbed the name of Conan and nothing else to make his own movie about his own character. Not that that hasn't been done over and over again before, but it does tend to tick off the fans of the original source material, and in this case, I'm quite the fan of Howard's original source material. I'm quite surprised that fans have stood for it. Heck, Conan is still trotted around by many fantasy fans as exemplary of the fantasy genre on film. It's enough to make me weep. Huh? I'll take your word for it, but that sounds extremely odd. In an otherwise consistent litany of disagreeing with me on that point, that really came out of left field. But if you didn't mean that to apply to me, then I do apologize for my post overall. It was really that whole paragraph that set me off; the implication that I had no idea what I was talking about. [/QUOTE]
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