I'll be satisfied with flying blood. I want an R rating. 
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For those who are interested, there apparently are few details on the story in the 2011 Conan film, but it's been said that Paradox Entertainment is concerned about being close to the original Robert E. Howard material in hopes of producing future films based on it.
Below is from Wikipedia regarding the original Schwarzenegger Conan the Barbarian and its relation to the original Howard stories:
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Relation to Robert E. Howard's stories
The tone of the film was loosely taken from Howard's original Conan stories, though Howard's Conan was more vocal and sarcastic.
Scenes influenced by Howard's stories were slightly altered. Examples: While a character named Valeria appears in Red Nails, the film character's attachment to Conan and her return from the dead to save his life are more akin to Bêlit of Queen of the Black Coast. Conan's killing of a vulture, using only his teeth, while he was nailed to a tree is a borrowing from a scene in A Witch Shall Be Born. Other elements have been borrowed from non-Conan sources, including the face-changing Snake Folk and the Thulsa Doom character which originated in Howard's Kull stories. Conan's encounter with the witch in the film bears some similarity to Worms of the Earth from yet another of Howard's series, Bran Mak Morn. Thulsa Doom's monologue about fearing the dark is also drawn from that work. The sequence in which Conan flees pursuit by wolves and discovers the tomb in which he obtains his iconic broadsword was lifted from "The Thing in the Crypt", an introductory short tale by Lin Carter and L Sprague DeCamp included in the edited chronological Conan series of Ace paperbacks.
Other elements of the film have no relation whatsoever to Howard's stories, including the "Riddle of Steel", the Black Sun Cult of Set, Conan's adolescence in slavery, and his service as a gladiator in the East. Howard's Conan was still with his tribe in Cimmeria around the time he was 15 or 16, taking part in the destruction of the Aquilonian outpost of Venarium.
Also, the script draws from non-Howard sources. Conan's answer to the query from his master, "What is best in life?" ("Crush your enemies, see them driven before you" etc) is from the Secret History of the Mongols.
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Conan the Barbarian (1982 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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