>>5513595>>5516930I mentioned on the last qtg about Italian renaissance Mannerism, the Figura Serpentinata spiral pose imitating Laocoon and his sons sculpture (basically, Ancient Greek or Roman snake wrestling / tentacle hentai) and their contorted figures
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figura_serpentinataI think Frank Frazetta studied extensively under an Italian art teacher (Falanga?) and you really see this influence in his sword and sorcery artwork and poses. This one the pic related is called The Green Death
>>5516930There is another Frazetta art piece which almost exactly looks like the Conan (1982) film image here
>>5513595Interestingly I rewatched the film recently and this exact image or cinematic shot angle does not actually feature in it, though the scene does occur (when Conan baits Thulsa Doom into attacking him by the wizard tomb, by stealing and chaining his princess etc, and where Conan and the thief Subotai and the wizard face off against a huge horde of warriors alone with their traps etc) So maybe this image was a promotional one, or some edited out unused scene, not sure why it is not in the final film.
Something I learnt after looking it up and rewatching Conan - in the beginning the father tells him the Riddle Of Steel, after he forges his cool golden goat skull sword, it is something like: do not trust in gods or women or anything else, only trust in this (gestures at the sword). Of course then his father gets mauled to death by marauder dogs when their village is raided, his mother gets decapitated by the cool goat skull sword which is then taken as a trophy by Thulsa Doom (Darth Vader lol) and child Conan is enslaved on that mill wheel chain thing. But later on, Conan retrieves his Father's Sword, which breaks (!) in a climactic fight against one of Thulsa Doom's barbarian henchmen moustache warriors lol. After using the broken sword to achieve vengeance etc Conan just throws it away (which seems very strange). So I think the message was that his Father was actually wrong - you cannot trust in steel alone (the sword breaks etc) nor the flesh domination / mind compulsion snake sorcery of Thulsa Doom etc and in fact you can trust in women and the companionship of other people, the whole plot of Valeria giving her life to resurrect Conan after he was crucified on the Tree Of Woe etc. and also Subotai the thief coming back to rescue him. It is actually very clever how the film poses that question of the riddle and leaves it mostly unanswered, but offers some clues and hints as to different possible interpretations through the action and what is cinematically shown.
