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  • Is "Conan" One Of The Best Movies Ever ?

    From 34J.935@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 24 01:43:15 2023
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    Is "Conan The Barbarian" one of the best movies
    ever made ???

    It is chocked-full of "Jungian Archetypes", but
    scaled-down to the practical, human, level.

    It's treatment of personality-cult leaders,
    aptly represented by James Earl Jones, is
    almost prophetic at this point - left,
    right, whatever.

    It's a simple movie, little "flash" or even
    attempt at "seeming relevant" - yet it IS
    relevant and instructive. A very "human"
    film. Today's seeming complexities projected
    on a simpler time.

    I especially liked the short dialogue
    about gods/religions. We can see how
    "omnipotent" gods evolved there.

    Sometimes films are different than they
    SEEM on the surface.

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  • From Johnny@21:1/5 to 34J935@qfxw5.net on Sat Jun 24 07:50:03 2023
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    On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 01:43:15 -0400
    "34J.935" <34J935@qfxw5.net> wrote:

    Is "Conan The Barbarian" one of the best movies
    ever made ???

    It is chocked-full of "Jungian Archetypes", but
    scaled-down to the practical, human, level.

    It's treatment of personality-cult leaders,
    aptly represented by James Earl Jones, is
    almost prophetic at this point - left,
    right, whatever.

    It's a simple movie, little "flash" or even
    attempt at "seeming relevant" - yet it IS
    relevant and instructive. A very "human"
    film. Today's seeming complexities projected
    on a simpler time.

    I especially liked the short dialogue
    about gods/religions. We can see how
    "omnipotent" gods evolved there.

    Sometimes films are different than they
    SEEM on the surface.

    I don't know about it being one of the best movies, but I have listened
    to all the Conan series books by Robert E. Howard.

    You can find them here:

    https://librivox.org/author/937?primary_key=937&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results

    There are some other books mixed in, but most are about Conan.

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