Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Conan
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Quotes
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Mongol General : Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Mongol : The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Mongol 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.
Mongol General : That is good! That is good.
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Conan : Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!
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Thulsa Doom : I wish to speak to you now. Where is the Eye of the Serpent? Rexor says that you gave to a girl, probably for a mere night's pleasure, hmm? What a loss. People have no grasp of what they do. 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... ah -
[Rexor twists his arm]
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; a beautiful girl. Come to me, my child...
[coaxes the girl to jump to her death]
Thulsa Doom : That is strength, boy! That is power! 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!
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Conan : What gods do you pray to?
Subotai : I pray to the four winds... and you?
Conan : To Crom... but I seldom pray to him, he doesn't listen.
Subotai : [chuckles] What good is he then? Ah, it's just as I've always said.
Conan : He is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, "What is the riddle of steel?" If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me. That's Crom, strong on his mountain!
Subotai : Ah, my god is greater.
Conan : [chuckles] Crom laughs at your four winds. He laughs from his mountain.
Subotai : My god is stronger. He is the everlasting sky! Your god lives underneath him.
[Conan shoots Subotai a skeptical look. Subotai laughs]
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[director's cut]
Conan : I remember days like this when my father took me to the forest and we ate wild blueberries. More than 20 years ago. I was just a boy of four or five. The leaves were so dark and green then. The grass smelled sweet with the spring wind.
[pause]
Conan : Almost 20 years of pitiless cumber! No rest, no sleep like other men. And yet the spring wind blows, Subotai. Have you ever felt such a wind?
Subotai : They blow where I live too. In the north of every man's heart.
Conan : It's never too late, Subotai.
Subotai : No. It would only lead me back here another day. In even worse company.
Conan : For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm.
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Subotai : Food... FOOD! I have not eaten for days.
Conan : And who says you will?
Subotai : Give me food, so I have strength when the wolves come. Let me die, not in hunger, but in combat!
Conan : Who are you?
Subotai : [jumps to his feet] I am Subotai! Thief and archer! I am Hyrkanian... the great order of Kerlait!
Conan : So what are you doing here?
Subotai : [holds up chains] Dinner for wolves.
[Conan and Subotai laugh]
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Subotai : Hey, old man, where did you get this stuff?
The Wizard : The dead... the gods are pleased with you, they will watch the battle.
Conan : Are they going to help?
The Wizard : No.
Conan : Well, then tell them to stay out of the way.
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Priestess : What do you see?
Conan : Um... infinity.
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The Wizard : The mounds have been here since the time of the Titans. Kings buried in them... great kings... domains once glittered like the light on a windy sea. Fire won't burn there... no fire at all. That's why I live down here in the wind.
Conan : Do you care for these places?
The Wizard : I sing to them. On nights, when they wish, I sing of the tales of battles, heroes, witches and women. Nobody bothers me down here. Not even... Thulsa Doom.
Conan : Do flowers grow around here?
The Wizard : Flowers?
[laughs]
The Wizard : Flowers.
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Priest : Where do you think you're going, brother?
Conan : I am afraid.
Priest : Afraid to bare yourself? Why? You're so big and so well grown. You should be proud of your body. How do you expect to reach emptiness without knowing your own body?
Conan : Could we talk over there... where the others cannot see?
Priest : Why, yes, brother. Of course.
Conan : I am afraid and I am shy. Is this, uh, your robe? Priest's robe?
Priest : Yes, it's all I have.
Conan : Good.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
Conan : That's all you'll ever need.
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Conan : Adieu!
