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Conan The Barbarian (1982 Version)
Khitan General: "My fear is that my sons will never understand me... Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good. But what is best in life?"
Khitan Warrior: "The open steppe, a fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair."
Khitan General: "Wrong! Conan, what is best in life?"
Conan: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!"
Conan's Father: "Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky, but Crom is your god. Crom, and he lives in the earth. Once giants lived in the earth, Conan, and in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom, and they took from him the enigma of steel. Crom was angered, and the earth shook, and fire and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters. But in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and left it on the battlefield, and we who found it. We are just men, not gods, not giants, just men. And the secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan, you must learn its discipline, for no one, no one in this world can you trust, not men, not women, not beasts... This you can trust." (Points to his sword)
King Osric: "There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child."
King Osric: "What daring! What outrageousness! What insolence! What arrogance! ... I salute you."
Thulsa Doom: "You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered my servants, and my PETS! And that is what grieves me the most! You killed my snake. Thorgrim is beside himself with grief! He raised that snake from the time it was born."
Conan: "You killed my mother! You killed my father, you killed my people! You took my father's sword!"
Thulsa Doom: "Ah. It must have been when I was younger. There was a time, boy, when I searched for steel, when steel meant more to me than gold or jewels."
Conan: "The riddle... of steel?"
Thulsa Doom: "Yes! You know what it is, don't you, boy? Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. Steel isn't strong boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks; that beautiful girl. (Points to a teenaged girl on a nearby cliff) "Come to me my child... "
(Doom beckons to her and the acolyte steps from the cliff,plunging to her death.)
Thulsa Doom: "THAT is strength, boy! THAT is power! The strength and power of flesh! What is steel, compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! Such a waste... Contemplate this on the tree of woe. Crucify him!"
Thulsa Doom: (To Conan) "My child, you have come to me, my son. For who now is your father if it is not me? I am the well spring, from which you flow. When I am gone, you will have never been. What would your world be, without me? My son."
Valeria: (To Conan) "Do you know what horrors lie behind that wall?
Conan: "No."
Valeria: "Then you go first."
Khitan General: "My fear is that my sons will never understand me... Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good. But what is best in life?"
Khitan Warrior: "The open steppe, a fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair."
Khitan General: "Wrong! Conan, what is best in life?"
Conan: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!"
Conan's Father: "Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky, but Crom is your god. Crom, and he lives in the earth. Once giants lived in the earth, Conan, and in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom, and they took from him the enigma of steel. Crom was angered, and the earth shook, and fire and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters. But in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and left it on the battlefield, and we who found it. We are just men, not gods, not giants, just men. And the secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan, you must learn its discipline, for no one, no one in this world can you trust, not men, not women, not beasts... This you can trust." (Points to his sword)
King Osric: "There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child."
King Osric: "What daring! What outrageousness! What insolence! What arrogance! ... I salute you."
Thulsa Doom: "You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered my servants, and my PETS! And that is what grieves me the most! You killed my snake. Thorgrim is beside himself with grief! He raised that snake from the time it was born."
Conan: "You killed my mother! You killed my father, you killed my people! You took my father's sword!"
Thulsa Doom: "Ah. It must have been when I was younger. There was a time, boy, when I searched for steel, when steel meant more to me than gold or jewels."
Conan: "The riddle... of steel?"
Thulsa Doom: "Yes! You know what it is, don't you, boy? Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. Steel isn't strong boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks; that beautiful girl. (Points to a teenaged girl on a nearby cliff) "Come to me my child... "
(Doom beckons to her and the acolyte steps from the cliff,plunging to her death.)
Thulsa Doom: "THAT is strength, boy! THAT is power! The strength and power of flesh! What is steel, compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! Such a waste... Contemplate this on the tree of woe. Crucify him!"
Thulsa Doom: (To Conan) "My child, you have come to me, my son. For who now is your father if it is not me? I am the well spring, from which you flow. When I am gone, you will have never been. What would your world be, without me? My son."
Valeria: (To Conan) "Do you know what horrors lie behind that wall?
Conan: "No."
Valeria: "Then you go first."