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Originally Posted by LordEden
Shouldn't the actor playing Conan be a *BAD* actor? Do we really want a well spoken Conan? Should he stumble over his lines like a good barbarian/thief mutli-class character? I got a huge sword but I steal things, shouldn't that be all he is? Who needs Int and Chr stats? I want 18/00 STR!
I loved Robert Jordan's Conan books, I got the first three in a huge leather bound book. I liked the way he fleshed the character out, making him smarter, a bit well spoken and sometimes the leader of a small merc group.
Don't know which Conan I would want for a movie, Smart or Dumb Conan.
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Well, what does the source material show? Is Conan a dumb brute who merely swings his sword to get the job done, or is he a tactician, a thief, a king of men? "Barbarian" doesn't have to mean "dumb." It can also mean simply crude and warlike.
Do we want a Schwarzenegger do-over? Or a Conan reboot?
I'll take the reboot.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 07-24-2009 at 10:25 AM..
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