Drewskie

If I remember right, that's the same story Stone was going to draw heavily from in his script and might have been where Milius got the idea.  I still like the scene, even though it's not quite what it is in the story.

Oh, and good job on using a bunch of meaningless facial emotes...

The stories themselves take place in a sort of pseudo-prehistory on the European continent 10,000 years or so ago.  It's the same sort of idea Tolkien had and, no doubt, got from Howard.  Tolkien claims to have liked the Conan stories after all.  Conan was not a Texan...

Duh! Conan was a Cimmerian. Whoever said Conan "was" a Texan?

But isn't it sort of funny that Beyond the Black River shares so much resemblance to the last stand of the Alamo . . . ?

Think on that Drewskie.

You said "american/texan product" which is basically the same thing.  A Texan is a product of Texus.  Doh!  Then went on about how conan wasn't european at all and wouldn't be recognizable as such when Howard clearly had in mind barbaric northern tribes as Conan's origin.

The story should be from a Howard story, not ripping this cool scene from here, that cool scene from there

I thought they did the best job with the crucifixion scene and Vulture killing.  I remember from the story that being the only time Conan ever gave up, though he wasn't so weak as to die as he does in the movie.  Milius used that to reinforce his revenge motif(a very simple one for the simple movie audience), do the most terrible things you can do to the hero and he gets final revenge at the end.  Not unlike a Bronson movie or something...  Anyway, that was a pretty novel thing to show onscreen at the time... the hero hanging from a tree like that.

Howard was an American and Conan is an American/Texas product. I have nothing against you Europeans; in fact, I read European history and lore all the time for my own fun; but Conan was, to me, speaking with an American accent, a barbarian accent compared to Europeans.

The stories themselves take place in a sort of pseudo-prehistory on the European continent 10,000 years or so ago.  It's the same sort of idea Tolkien had and, no doubt, got from Howard.  Tolkien claims to have liked the Conan stories after all.  Conan was not a Texan...

I felt that this was probably the best of the Kane stories. Perhaps not quite so good as a few of the best Conan works, but still very very good.