New Conan Movie Sword

Thats a fact, Conan uses about a new sword at each ten pages of the whole book series written by Howard ( or L.Sprague de Camp for that matter ). And this sure looks like nothing he seems to uses in the books. Neither did the sword in the first movie, but it not only happened to look good but it also did add some bad-ass torque to the character. The hilt casting also have a link to Conan's world. In other words, they manage to go better than the books with the sword while still making a highly recognizable and commercially viable prop.

Now, with the new sword... they did exactely the contrary.Even someone with no experience in swords will see the difference between the two models and clearly see how cheap this one is. In movies of this kind, swords have an iconic presence, they are a character by themselves. Thats sad, cause a new Conan is a perfect opportunity to get the creative minds going and churn out a real piece of art. As Chuck pointed its probably a producer or a tasteless art director that came in with a bunch or really stupid ideas and what Albion did was just tone down the awfulness of what they came in with in the first place. I'm sure the guys at Albions would have like to make something at least comparable to the first movie design, but sometimes the customer isnt willing to put his trust on the artist he hires... Money talks and has a severe case of bad breath.

They probably wanted something big that say KILL when you look at it and has also BIG parts to be easily seen on the screen, something that would be easy to reproduce as a toy also. And its exactely what they did... sadly.


EDIT : check the facial expression of the Albion guy ( Lars ? ) while holding the sword on the OP link : priceless !

Agreed. Suddenly, this sword looks much better.

I wonder how they're going to approach the more fantasy-looking blade with the curved quillions:



If Filmswords.com works on this too, I'm interested in seeing the end result. *Hopefully* there's a chance it will look better than the first sword in this thread.

--Edward

Suddenly I think I know what their inspiration was...

www.museumreplicas.com/g-11-age-of-conan.aspx

Sad thing is, a few of those look better than this...

I don't know why Albion is touching this. Thier creation of the first Conan swords was due to their relationship with Jody Samson. Now, it seems they are trying to cash on on creating a high-dollar garbage replica. I am not impressed, and I know Jody Samson would not be impressed.

Seriously:



The company manufacturing some of the most historically-accurate, highest-quality, most-expensive production swords in the world is going to make THAT? Hell, why not sell replica FX light sabers, inflatable pirate hats, and Beastmaster 4 sword replicas as well? They are doing it soley to try to make money on what may or may not be a good movie - quite unlike the other Conan films which already had a huge cult following by the time Albion started selling their Conan blades.

I am sorry, but Albion lost alot of my respect by doing this: Jody Samson was an artist and a bladesmith that created beautiful weapons, whoever designed these new LARP-looking non-functional swords was an unknown prop sword guy. I am not amused.

Crom laughs at your fake looking LARP swords. He laughs from his mountian... :x

Not without reason, Jason Momoa said at Comic Con that Khal Drogo would have kicked Conan's ass. Sword-wise, he is absolutely right.

I think I'd object to the drogo vs conan statement. but it would be a damn good fight. I got an issue of "what if" where conan kicks captain americas ass twice. ironacly they'll be fighting at the box office this year...

in the words of stan lee, "EXCELCIOR!"

I don't think Jason is referencing Howard's portrayal of Conan in the novels. I believe he is talking about his own portrayal of Drogo in Game of Thrones, versus the depiction of Conan he was paid to portray in the new film. And out of the two, he says Drogo would whoop some ass.

I think what this says is that the new Conan has been sissified to an extent, which is upsetting and somewhat kills any hope I had for this.

Eh, that's not always how it works, Sean. A lot of times you'll have directors who WANT the actors to do their own thing. Jon Favreau is a great example of this. Nearly all of the dialogue in Iron Man was completely improvisational. This gives the actors a lot of freedom to bring their own vision of the character to the table.

Other times you'll have extremely strict directors who want the actors to conform invariably to his/her own visualization of the character.

Jason probably wanted to do the former, and ended up having to do the latter. You can only do so much when you're being paid to perform a part. I'm sure you've had jobs where you wished to do things differently, something that could be improved by your perception. Yet since you're being paid to do a job, you have to do it their way.

About the crying thing, he's an actor. He never said he was Conan in real life. I cried after having a near-death experience when I flipped my car and caved the roof down on top of me. I am no less a man for it. I would't be so quick to judge him based on one comment, falling from a horse is commonly life-threatening (just look at Christopher Reeve).

So, does that mean if I don't respect the original, I don't have to use the * for the new one?