Conan The Barbarian (film) criticism

[AndrewMeronek]

I was extremely disappointed when in the film Conan The Barbarian, Conan doesn't actually cut anyone's hair. Closest he comes is someone's neck.

[Posaunus]

Perhaps you should take in a performance of The Barbarian of Seville?

[robcat2075]

There is a fair amount of hair-cutting in the books because, sooner or later, some ne'er-do-well is certain to have Conan "split his skull".

[Posaunus]

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barbarian of Fleet Street ?

[robcat2075]

Shadows in the Moonlight

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In the ghastly whiteness of dawn a handful of tattered, blood-stained figures staggered through the trees and out on to the narrow beach. There were forty-four of them, and they were a cowed and demoralized band. With panting haste they plunged into the water and began to wade toward the galley, when a stern challenge brought them up standing.

Etched against the whitening sky they saw Conan the Cimmerian standing in the bows, sword in hand, his black mane tossing in the dawn wind.

'Stand!' he ordered. 'Come no nearer. What would you have, dogs?'

'Let us come aboard!' croaked a hairy rogue fingering a bloody stump of ear. 'We'd be gone from this devil's island.'

'The first man who tries to climb over the side, I'll split his skull,' promised Conan...