M Blumenthal wrote:
> I went to Don Herron's website to find out about the
Hammett tour. He also
> has a lot on Conan. It made me wonder if we should
consider Conan hard
> boiled. Until he becomes king of Aquilonia in the
last stories, he is a
> wandering mercenary and sometime pirate or just
thief. He certainly is
> tough. The stories appeared in pulp magazines and
except for some
> inappropriate oaths like 'By Crom!, his language is
colloquail especially
> if you consider it must have been translated from
the original Cimerian,
> Aquilonian or such.
> Mark
Speaking of Conan, John Milius, who wrote and directed the
first Conan movie, ended it exactly the same way he and
Coppola ended the other lit flick of the day, APOCALYPSE NOW,
with the questing hero chopping up the Kurtz figure in front
of his tribe. The tribe then lays down their weapons and
allow him to vamoose.
Milius must have really liked his source materials.
TL
P.S. - I always thought Apocalypse Now was anti-war, not
anti-American. (And at times it doesn't even seem
anti-war.)
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