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Fun Conan the Barbarian 1982 film facts: Oliver Stone's original script had Conan adventuring through a post apocalyptic world with mutants and and ruined skyscrapers. Early on in the film's production Mattel started making molds for Conan the Barbarian toys, but then the movie came out and they decided no way in hell they were selling toys based on Conan the Barbarian kids (I guess we didn't reach pure capitalism until the almost x rated Toxic Avenger got a Saturday morning cartoon and NES game), so they created He-Man. Notice how He-Man's rogue's gallery and some of his allies are an assortment of post-apocalyptic mutants, snake men, and people wearing lots of snake accoutrements. Thulsa Doom has a pet leopard you see for just a few seconds in the movie. Originally it was going to be a bit more prominent and our heroes would have to find a way around it while grabbing the princess and leaving, but according to Milius on the commentary track the leopard was a *HUGE VIOLENT rear end in a top hat* any time they were actually trying to film but would be super docile and friendly otherwise so, since it basically acting like all cats do they just said gently caress it. The giant snake was a huge complex animatronic but they hosed up and made it too big to fit the snake's body and mechanism into the actual set which is why it's barely mobile. The way Akiro/Mako has Conan's corpse dressed up during the resurrection scene is an homage to Kwaidan. Whenever Conan/folks travel to Akiro's part of town, there's occasionally some shots of the sea that seem a bit....not quite the same quality? These were unused shots from a previous John Milius film that starred Gary Busey, the surfer movie Big Wednesday. Speaking of Big Wednesday and surfers, Subotai is played by a surfer friend of Milius' named Gerry Lopez previously played himself in Big Wednesday, and for the casting of Subotai they kept wanting someone with the same look Lopez was sporting at the time. But eventually they realized, wait, why not just cast this dude that was already in a movie and looks exactly like what we want? Thulsa Doom's cult was inspired by Jim Jones' Heaven's Gate cult. When Conan and Subotai are high on black lotus they just bought from Ron Cobb, you can briefly see what looks like a guy humping a llama in an open tent. If you watch the director's commentary it seems like Milius is genuinely shocked by this and never noticed til now. The vulture Conan bites was a real freshly dead one they "found" and used on a whim. They spent a lot of time training the horses to do this sort of sideways half fall but crouch instead sort of thing so that, with editing, it would look like they're throwing their rider and falling over after being struck in battle or otherwise thwarted. This was so much fun for the horses that there were a lot of instances where they'd be just sitting around planning/shooting other scenes and the horses would just spontaneously throw everyone off and have a seat and be super happy. Animals are loving awesome. When Subotai is shooting arrows at the snake a few inches from Arnold's head, that's John Milius shooting actual arrows from off screen. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 01:19 on May 25, 2017 |
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