{"id":1455,"date":"2011-08-11T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2014-05-18T12:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T16:02:38","slug":"conan-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2011\/08\/11\/conan-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Conan&#8217; approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just a week until the new <em>Conan the Barbarian 3D<\/em> movie hits theaters. But it&#8217;s been flying under my radar for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=HowardRobertE\/edit\"><strong>Robert E. Howard<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=ConanCharacter\/edit\"><strong>Conan<\/strong><\/a> stories when I read them back in the &#8217;80s. And since I rarely re-read anything, I haven&#8217;t been compelled to pick them up again.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer below doesn&#8217;t really inspire me to see the movie. It makes Conan seems no different from any other period action movie. In fact, it reminds me of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2011\/07\/14\/john-carter-teaser\/\"><em>John Carter<\/em><\/a> trailer, with different actors, costumes and locations.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/w3UtsgVEW_U\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; aspect-ratio: 550\/359; border: none; overflow: hidden;\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>But I blame the promotions folks who put out cookie-cutter trailers.<\/p>\n<p>I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conanthebarbarianin3d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the film&#8217;s official website<\/a>, where you can watch a two-and-a-half minute clip of the &#8220;egg race.&#8221; Now, that made me want to see the movie. It seems a better representation of the effort that went into the film. But that&#8217;s hard to tell until you actually see the film.<\/p>\n<p>The promotional material says the movie is &#8220;eftly adapted from the original works of Robert E. Howard and faithful to the mythology and psychology of this iconic character.&#8221; Again, it will take watching to the movie to see if this rings true. It is rated R, so in that respect it will be like the stories.<\/p>\n<p>Again, why couldn&#8217;t they have adapted one of the original stories, rather than pulling bits and pieces of ideas from Howard&#8217;s adventures and using them in a completely new story? (I will have to admit, the 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=SolomonKane\"><em>Solomon Kane<\/em><\/a> was an enjoyable film to watch despite being just that.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, it looks as if the first film (assuming this becomes a series) is an origin story. Why can&#8217;t we just start <em>medias in res<\/em>? Every character hero film seems to have to tell the story from the beginning. It would be much more interesting and add a bit of mystery to have us learn of the lead character&#8217;s background as the film (or films) progresses.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well, that&#8217;s the difference between pulp fans and Hollywood bean counters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just a week until the new Conan the Barbarian 3D movie hits theaters. But it&#8217;s been flying under my radar for a while. I enjoyed Robert E. Howard&#8216;s Conan stories when I read them back in the &#8217;80s. And since I rarely re-read anything, I haven&#8217;t been compelled to pick them up again. 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