I did think there were some stuff that the Conan film from 1982 had made a mistake by removing them from the final cut namely...
The procession in Zamora where Princess Yasimina had appeared for the first time. In her role, she was heralded as an important member of the Cult of Set. The princess herself appears where the guards of Doom together with a group of Set's worshipers. Conan supposedly met the princess in this film, have a conversation with Subotai and all about the rise of Set's worship. It's pretty annoying that the name Yasimina was never mentioned in the film just as Valeria's wasn't. Stupid editing if you ask me.
Several of King Osric's lines and even parts got removed. In the coming of him to ask Conan to rescue his daughter while making it clear that Thulsa Doom intended to own his daughter suggesting a coming union, the lines that say the worship of Set takes the youth, makes them into "reptiles" and corrupts them. Many of these were removed like I thought that the whole movie doesn't make sense with that the Snake Cult was doing wasn't elaborated. Later, we have the deleted scene of King Osric's death which changed the entire epilogue. In that death scene, it could have easily been filled by Ben Davidson as Rexor considering that King Osric mentions that Rexor dared to challenge him in his own city. In that draft, Rexor came to ask King Osric to sanction the hellish union between Thulsa Doom and Yasimina so the Kingdom of Zamora can become the Kingdom of Set. When he refuses, Rexor orders the death of the king. I thought this scene would have been interesting to show Thulsa Doom's influence has even reached the inner court. This also came with the reason to why Thulsa Doom wanted to marry the princess- so he can claim to royalty and all though it's not necessary. Thulsa Doom doesn't need claims to royalty- he's an evil overlord, what he says goes as even kings are now under his control!
Conan's lines with the princess after he rescues her against her will from Thulsa Doom's Mountain of Power. Much lines were trimmed which had an exchange of Conan and Yasimina to where he even fed her to keep her alive. Another part was where Conan revealed he was born in the battlefield (which was later added in Jason Momoa's version of Conan) and that the sound of war was what he first heard, or also that Yasimina fears nothing for her lord and future husband Thulsa Doom was coming to her rescue.
The procession in Zamora where Princess Yasimina had appeared for the first time. In her role, she was heralded as an important member of the Cult of Set. The princess herself appears where the guards of Doom together with a group of Set's worshipers. Conan supposedly met the princess in this film, have a conversation with Subotai and all about the rise of Set's worship. It's pretty annoying that the name Yasimina was never mentioned in the film just as Valeria's wasn't. Stupid editing if you ask me.
Several of King Osric's lines and even parts got removed. In the coming of him to ask Conan to rescue his daughter while making it clear that Thulsa Doom intended to own his daughter suggesting a coming union, the lines that say the worship of Set takes the youth, makes them into "reptiles" and corrupts them. Many of these were removed like I thought that the whole movie doesn't make sense with that the Snake Cult was doing wasn't elaborated. Later, we have the deleted scene of King Osric's death which changed the entire epilogue. In that death scene, it could have easily been filled by Ben Davidson as Rexor considering that King Osric mentions that Rexor dared to challenge him in his own city. In that draft, Rexor came to ask King Osric to sanction the hellish union between Thulsa Doom and Yasimina so the Kingdom of Zamora can become the Kingdom of Set. When he refuses, Rexor orders the death of the king. I thought this scene would have been interesting to show Thulsa Doom's influence has even reached the inner court. This also came with the reason to why Thulsa Doom wanted to marry the princess- so he can claim to royalty and all though it's not necessary. Thulsa Doom doesn't need claims to royalty- he's an evil overlord, what he says goes as even kings are now under his control!
Conan's lines with the princess after he rescues her against her will from Thulsa Doom's Mountain of Power. Much lines were trimmed which had an exchange of Conan and Yasimina to where he even fed her to keep her alive. Another part was where Conan revealed he was born in the battlefield (which was later added in Jason Momoa's version of Conan) and that the sound of war was what he first heard, or also that Yasimina fears nothing for her lord and future husband Thulsa Doom was coming to her rescue.
If the Princess is going to marry Thulsa Doom, then why she called him Father when he was about to shoot her with the arrow snake?
ReplyDeleteI guess because all the worshipers of Set called Thulsa Doom as father as a title. Though, she may have been calling out to her real father in regret. Dunno TBH.
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