Nyt ajatus kyllä harhailee pahemman kerran. Suosittelen tarkistamaan Beyond the Black Riverin 6. luvusta, kuinka paljon sympatioita Howard yrittää herättää fasististen uudisasukkaiden alistamien piktiparkojen puolelle, kun Conan ja Balthus löytävät nuoren pariskunnan silvotut ruumiit. Conan ei ole piktien puolella, eikä lukijakaan, jos vain keskittyy siihen, mitä tekstissä kerrotaan, eikä omiin barbaarifantasioihinsa.
aivan ,mutta jos lukee koko teoksen niin alusta saakka jossa Conan valistaa Balthusta:
"The best land near Thunder River is already taken," grunted the slayer. "Plenty of good land between Scalp Creek -- you crossed it a few miles back -- and the fort, but that's getting too devilish close to the river. The Picts steal over to burn and murder -- as that one did. They don't always come singly. Some day they'll try to sweep the settlers out of Conajohara. And they may succeed -- probably will succeed. This colonization business is mad, anyway. There's plenty of good land east of the Bossonian marches. If the Aquilonians would cut up some of the big estates of their barons, and plant wheat where now only deer are hunted, they wouldn't have to cross the border and take the land of the Picts away from them."
"That's queer talk from a man in the service of the governor of Conajohara," objected Balthus.
"It's nothing to me," the other retorted. "I'm a mercenary. I sell my sword to the highest bidder. I never planted wheat and never will, so long as there are other harvests to be reaped with the sword. But you Hyborians have expanded as far as you'll be allowed to expand. You've crossed the marches, burned a few villages, exterminated a few clans and pushed back the frontier to Black River; but I doubt if you'll even be able to hold what you've conquered, and you'll never push the frontier any further westward. Your idiotic king doesn't understand conditions here. He won't send you enough reinforcements, and there are not enough settlers to withstand the shock of a concerted attack from across the river."
"But the Picts are divided into small clans," persisted Balthus. "They'll never unite. We can whip any single clan."
"Or any three or four clans," admitted the slayer. "But some day a man will rise and unite thirty or forty clans, just as was done among the Cimmerians, when the Gundermen tried to push the border northward, years ago. They tried to colonize the southern marches of Cimmeria: destroyed a few small clans, built a fort-town, Venarium -- you've heard the tale."
"So I have indeed," replied Balthus, wincing. The memory of that red disaster was a black blot in the chronicles of a proud and warlike people. "My uncle was at Venarium when the Cimmerians swarmed over the walls. He was one of the few who escaped that slaughter. I've heard him tell the tale, many a time. The barbarians swept out of the hills in a ravening horde, without warning, and stormed Venarium with such fury none could stand before them. Men, women, and children were butchered. Venarium was reduced to a mass of charred ruins, as it is to this day. The Aquilonians were driven back across the marches, and have never since tried to colonize the Cimmerian country. But you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted the other. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the walls. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires."
toki myönnän lukevani tuota kuin piru raamattua. Tuo on vain ote suosittelen kaikille omaa arvioita.
conanin maailma on tosiaan harmaasävyinen. Mutta sivistys = fasismilla viittasin ennenmuuta niin Beyond black riverin alun uudisasukaskuvaus(huomaa kuinka Balthus esittää barbaarit raakalaisina, conanin tulkinta lienee..toinen) ja Queen of the Black Coastin alku jossa Conan tekee ratkaisun ystävyyden, ei oman etunsa tai sivistyksen mittapuulla.
Ei että Conanin vastine olisi juridisesti hyväksytty toimintatapa oikeusistuimissa.
ja kiitos,
aiemmasta viestistäni oli editoitunut ajatusklaffina näemmä se pääasia pois. Eli se mitä mieltä Howard oli 30-luvun fasisteista.
Howard vihasi näitä sydämensä pohjasta millä ei tienannut silloiselta intelligentsijalta lisäpisteitä.
Itseä on hämmentänyt monasti monen oikean käden jäykkyyttä sairastavan käsitys Conanista hengenheimolaisena. tai oikeastaan huvittanut on oikeampi sana.
Howardin synkkäkulmat ovat paraikaa nosteessa joten siksi soisin että elokuva pohjaisi mitä vankimmin Howardiin.
nispelin näytöt kun ovat oikeastaan Pathfinderin varassa ja toimintaosuuksissa. Blogimerkintä oli tähän mennessä ainoa osoitus että edes yrittää.
Kun kuitenkin vaihtoehto on Brett Ratnerin taso,
