>>212720114
Nietzsche, his philosophy, and his works long predated whatever smooth-brained viewpoint you're ascribing to this movie.
One of Nietzsche's main themes was that man was that in the absence of the comforting padding of slave morality, only the overman can triumph.
He's quoted because in this movie thst overman is Conan.
He is this way because Howard's entire thesis was that civilization has a downside - namely that it empowers weak, venomous people to do evil they otherwise wouldn't because they no longer needed to fear the strong man caving their skull in.
This is the essence that came through the film, that a strong enough man is capable of overcoming the evils of conniving sorcerers and massive institutions and that this is the one good thing about having barbarians around.
>>212720167
In the world of Conan half the fucking religions are desert cults and if any of them vaguely resembled Christianity it would be Mitraism, the predominant faith in civilized societies like Aquilonia.
Set is - shockingly - a snake version of Set, the egyptian god.
The proto 'abrahamic faiths' are in Shem (again, shocking), which still has a pantheon because this is pre-history.
To anon's
>>212720371 point, Conan stories are set when they're set specifically to avoid invoking 'muh topical cultural issue'. It's not about Christians, Jews, Americans or anything else. It's about the primal truth that man will always be somewhat uncomfortable with society and will be somewhat savage deep down.
If it has any point at all it's that effete sorcerers and manipulative bureaucrats are bad and that one of the few good things about barbarism is that guys like Conan can be relied on to kill such faggy tyrants.
You're out of your depth and talking out of your ass.
