Conan the Barbarian (1982)

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Wikidata Q309003, film, IMDb tt0082198, TMDB 9387: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Dino De Laurentiis as producer (Dune with John Hodgman); 1 more episode agrees.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Krull: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. theme (genre wave): Conan the Barbarian ⇒ Krull (the host's read). The 80s high-fantasy boom was mostly kicked off by Conan the Barbarian's success.
    “mostly, you know, kicked off by the success of Conan the Barbarian, but there was just been so many films in that period of time”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:16:14 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Connected to

Dino De Laurentiis: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Dino De Laurentiis → Conan the Barbarian. Conan had already happened by the time of Dune.
    “Conan had happened at this point, Barbarellas.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:10:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Dragonslayer: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Conan the Barbarian → Dragonslayer. Conan kicked off the 80s fantasy wave; before it, Weissmuller Tarzan films evolved into things like Dragonslayer.
    “that's sort of the Johnny Wart Mueller Tarzan films are sort of what evolved into things like Dragon Slayer and things like that.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:20:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Krull: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (genre wave): Conan the Barbarian → Krull. The 80s high-fantasy boom was mostly kicked off by Conan the Barbarian's success.
    “mostly, you know, kicked off by the success of Conan the Barbarian, but there was just been so many films in that period of time”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:16:14 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Dino De Laurentiis → Conan the Barbarian. Conan had already happened by the time of Dune.
    “Conan had happened at this point, Barbarellas.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:10:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Conan the Barbarian → Dragonslayer. Conan kicked off the 80s fantasy wave; before it, Weissmuller Tarzan films evolved into things like Dragonslayer.
    “that's sort of the Johnny Wart Mueller Tarzan films are sort of what evolved into things like Dragon Slayer and things like that.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:20:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (genre wave): Conan the Barbarian → Krull. The 80s high-fantasy boom was mostly kicked off by Conan the Barbarian's success.
    “mostly, you know, kicked off by the success of Conan the Barbarian, but there was just been so many films in that period of time”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:16:14 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

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