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    Throughout the fantasy film Conan the Barbarian, the director John Milius, uses many different film techniques to imply to the audience a specific message or deeper meaning behind his intentions. The movie is about a young boy named Conan who loses his family. Once Conan’s parents are dead, Thulsa Doom immediately forces Conan into slavery and fighting. As a result, Conan grows up being exposed to a barbaric lifestyle. He uses this lifestyle to defeat Thulsa Doom and the disturbing ritual-like worshiping

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    Effects of Film Technique on the Characters in Conan the Barbarian Throughout the fantasy film Conan the Barbarian, the director John Milius, uses many different film techniques to inform the audience of a specific message or a deeper meaning behind his intentions. The movie is about a young boy named Conan who loses his family because Thulsa Doom kills them. Once Conan’s parents are dead, Thulsa Doom immediately forces Conan into slavery. As a result, Conan grows up being exposed to a barbaric lifestyle

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    In the movie, Conan the Barbarian, the director John Milius provides the audience with the opportunity to enter into a fictional world where a man has the ability to transform into a snake. Throughout the course of the movie, the lead character, Conan, experiences many hardships including the death of his parents, being a prisoner, and even death. Another movie that involves a fictional world is Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, directed by George Miller. The setting of this movie in a post-apocalyptic

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    the Barbarians In Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee introduces the controversial idea of civilized and barbaric through a nameless empire. The novel features the first person narration of an unnamed magistrate who becomes conflicted upon his duties after meeting Colonel Joll. As the antagonist of the novel, Colonel Joll coincides with the depraved actions of the Empire, one of the most prominent being imperialism. Later in the novel, the Magistrate also encounters an unnamed barbarian girl

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    Coetzee’s empire established in Waiting for the Barbarians should be viewed as a direct reference to empires of the real world as it brings light to the nature of the hierarchy within. Waiting for the Barbarians follows the plot of a magistrate’s peaceful life coming to an end due to the sudden appearance of the Third Bureau, the empire’s special forces. A single barbarian woman is left behind after mass imprisonment, and the magistrate takes it upon himself to nurse the wounds left by her torturers

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    Coetzee’s empire established in Waiting for the Barbarians should be viewed as a direct reference to empires of the real world as it brings light to the nature of the hierarchy within. Waiting for the Barbarians follows the plot of a magistrate’s peaceful life coming to an end due to the sudden appearance of the Third Bureau, the empire’s special forces. A single barbarian woman is left behind after mass imprisonment, and the magistrate takes it upon himself to nurse the wounds left by her torturers

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    films Conan The Barbarian written by John Milius and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior directed by George Miller, share many concepts that fall under the themes of masculinity and heroes, but also differ greatly in the theme revolving around power. The theme of masculinity in both Conan The Barbarian and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior play a significant role in these films. The main actors in these movies, “one of Hollywood's . . . icons of masculinity” (Alegre 87), Arnold Schwarzenegger, as Conan and Mel

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    Arnold Schwarzenegger and the American Dream America is a place where you can make your hopes and dreams come true. Millions of immigrants travel from many different countries in hopes they will be able to change their lives and live the so called American Dream. The American Dream is when you fulfill your own personal expectations of what you want to do in life and the journey building up to it. One of the world’s most famous bodybuilders, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was born in Thal, Austria in 1947

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    worth James Earl Jones was born on January 17 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi USA. He is a renowned actor, basing his career not only on screen, but as well in theater, taking part in countless successful film and theater productions such as “Conan the Barbarian”, “Dr. Strangelove”, “Great White Hope” and “Otello”. Have you ever wondered how rich James Earl Jones is? According to sources it is estimated that James Earl Jones`s net worth is $45 million. Amount earned through successful acting career

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    from Richard Lester's Superman II (1980) and Paul Verhoeven's Robocop (1987) to Tim Burton's Batman (1989).[5] Other films were released during the 1980s and 1990s including Flash Gordon (1980), Swamp Thing (1982), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Superman III (1983), Supergirl (1984), Conan the Destroyer (1984), The Toxic Avenger (1985), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Bollywood's Mr. India (1987), The Punisher (1989), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and

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