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I loved the John Milius version of Conan The Barbarian. It was authentic looking enough and exotic enough to be something, another world, I'd never visited before. I especially liked the music. I recently saw the remake with Jason Momoa who looks remarkably like the Frank Frazetta illustrations of Conan. But the changes in the story line made me notice what I feel is a disturbing trend in movies today. In the original Conan was taken into slavery as a child and forced to push a giant grinding wheel along with the other child captives. He did this for years and by the time he grew up all his fellow slaves were dead and he alone pushed the wheel. This explains how he developed Arnold Schwarzenegger's musculature. This scene was probably lifted from The Three Stooges Meet Hercules where the...