>>212723101
Yes, for the third time, since you have no other points. I already agreed that it's influenced by Nietzsche, but that doesn't make the rest of your points true. Nietzsche himself would tell you that if you were in a seminar with him.
Pic related is the quote, for the record. >"That which does not kill us makes us stronger".
Now, along with inspiring the lyrics of noted true kvlt pop singer Kelly Clarkson, it's fair to say this quote is very important to this movie or else it wouldn't be in the title card.
So, do we think that is because:
>Conan is forced to survive the death of his whole tribe, only to be enslaved and tortured
>All the powerful people underestimate him and expect him to be broken by this into a docile slave, but he only gets stronger, sharper, and more resilient
>Ultimately the savage boy the villains spared comes back from his ordeals so strong as to threaten the whole enterprise
>As he defeats the ubermensch (Thulsa Doom) who had shaped an evil empire in his image, he is recognized himself as an ubermensch for denying the lot the world handed him
>The answer to the riddle of steel is indeed that the Human Will (perhaps..
to Power???) is stronger than blade or muscle
>King Conan will one day lead his own nation of slave morality people under the definitely-not Christian stand in faith of Mitraism, just as Thulsa did, because the point is that those with the Will rule and those without obey
OR
>Conan is le heckin based euro chad paleomaxxing in cimmeria
>Stinky brown desert cultists (except they're largely europeans...so converts?) kill his family
>The Abrahamists (Setitism is just a cover because of (((them))) surely) torture Conan, but he is too strong
>Conan overthrows the stinky poo-poo religion because he's a heckin Cromcel or whatever
>The thing that was wrong with Thulsa's little fiefdom was that the people were part of the evil religion, not that they were subjects to Thulsa's inferior Will to Power
Which is more right, I wonder?