The film "Conan the Barbarian" (2011): actors and roles

The new project of director Marcus Nispel, created in 3D, despite the presence of all the components of success in the action movie genre: the abundance of blood, detailed demonstration of violence scenes - according to world critics, is much inferior to the legendary film of the 80s with a cult personality, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in Leading role.

Sequel

"Conan the Barbarian" 2011 (actors of the first plan: D. Momoa, S. Lang, R. Nichols, R. McGone) begins as a true gift to fans of the genre: aggressive teenager (actor Leo Howard) with a demoniacal look, a wolf cub runs through the forest, More sluggish fellow tribesmen, and when he met the painted natives, famously chopped off their heads. It seems that a few more minutes of timing, and the film with Schwarzenegger will be cast into oblivion, will be remembered only in a historical context. But the feeling is deceptive. "Conan the Barbarian" - 2011, whose actors and roles were chosen for each other during a long and controversial casting, according to the evaluation of the movie community, is inferior to the original film. There are a lot of long tiring dialogues, which are diluted with simple scenes copied from the outstanding directors of modern times, so the artistic bar raised by the film's eyelet falls unstoppably down. It is no coincidence that the film has a rating IMDb: 5.20, and John Milius's 1982 tape IMDb: 6.90.

The plot of the new version of the deserved action

The film "Conan the Barbarian" (2011), whose actors and roles were selected by type with the direct participation of co-producer John Baldecchi, has a well-known plot glorifying the valor of the once-embodied on the screen, glorified by animation and cinematography, who became the hero of the computer games of the progenitor of hundreds of similar Characters - the great Cimmerian. The protagonist Cimmerian Conan (actor Jason Momoa) was born in the heat of battle. His father Korin (actor Ron Perlman) was forced to make his wife Caesarean section to save the life of an unborn child.

From nature, the boy was endowed with remarkable strength. His growing up was truly harsh. One day an army of ruthless warriors, led by the obsessive necromantic leader Khalar Zim (actor Stephen Lang), came into their settlement. He is looking for the last fragment of the Holy Mask to subdue the evil spirits imprisoned in her and enslave the whole world. After the daughter of the leader Marika (actress Rose McGown) finds the desired fragment, the strangers kill all the Cimmerians, only Conan remains alive. For the rest of his life, the young warrior will pursue the only goal - to find and kill Khalar, guilty of the death of his father Konan. Assistant hero will perform a charming, but not at all humble Tamara (actress Rachel Nichols).

Schwarzenegger vs Momoa

In the mood, the general atmosphere, the film of Marcus Nispel is more similar to the "Prince of Persia" (2010) with his embellished gay disney heroism. Therefore, admirers of Jason Momoa's talent are offended to see how the skill of a memorable and original actor is lost in the overall picture of the film "Conan the Barbarian" (2011). The actor in the title role is radically different from the well-known Conan of 1982. Jason has an inimitable smile and plastic stripper, it does not have the angularity, which, not hesitating, showed a rough Austrian with a stony expression. The swarthy native of Hawaii (the new Conan - Momoa) gave the image an exotic character. A playfully raised eyebrow, an expressive, penetrating look - all this more than compensates for the lack of Arnold's bloodthirsty grin and impenetrable expression. Perhaps, especially to the skeptical audience, the character performed by Momoa will seem too "glossy." Otherwise, the image of the new Cimmerian does not differ from his predecessors - the stars of the 80's and the serial hero of the 90's. The brutal young man, as before, lives for his own pleasure, crushing his enemies, taking advantage of the success of women. A barbarian is a barbarian.

The core of the romantic line

"Conan the Barbarian" (2011), the cast of which is decorated by the presence of actress Rachel Nichols, who embodied the role of Tamara, shows the spectator how tense the relationship of the protagonist with the representatives of the beautiful half of humanity. If with smart girls, charged with a fair share of alcohol, Conan finds a common language, then with a decent pupil of the monastery Tamara, the courageous Cimmerian behaves strangely, completely lost. This is another difference of the original version from the sequel "Conan the Barbarian" (2011). Actors Momoa and Nichols, in contrast to their characters, immediately found a common language during participation in the production of the picture. The American model and actress Nichols debuted in cinema in 2000, having played an episodic role in the melodrama "Autumn in New York." She is known to the viewer for participation in the following films: "Amityville Horror", "Dark Forest", "Line of Fire". Nichols played the main roles in the films "Parking" and "Cobra's Throw". In the Conan the Barbarian, her beautiful and bold heroine, Tamara, participant of all the funny moments in the movie, became the core of the main romantic line in the narrative narrative.

Perspective witch

The American actress of Italian origin Rose McGowon embodied in the film the image of her beloved daughter, the main antagonist, the witch Marika, who crippled everyone indiscriminately with her 25 cm steel nails and trying to realize her sensuality, trying to persuade her father to incest. Domestic viewer in the witch must know Paige Matthew, the character played by the actress in the mystical TV movie "Enchanted." The work, which brought the actress a lot of various awards, in the filmography of Rose is a biographical television series "Elvis". McGown is also known for performing roles in the movies "Scream", "Generation DOOM", "Grindhouse", "50 Dead" and, of course, "Conan the Barbarian" (2011). Actors-colleagues Rose on shootings repeatedly noted her incredible charm and professionalism.

Korin and Khalar Zim

American actor Stephen Lang, who began his creative career at the Broadway Theater, played one of the central roles in the film-the main antagonist of the film, Halar Zim. To date, Lang is known as the executor of the role of Colonel Miles Quoritch from Avatar Cameron and on the participation in A. Clenton's film Tumstone. Simultaneously with the shootings in Conan, the actor managed to play the role of Commander-in-Chief Nathaniel Taylor in the telefilm "Terra Nova", which was also released in 2011.

In the father of the protagonist, the Cimmerian blacksmith, Mickey Rourke originally had to reincarnate, but the producers could not get along with the legendary star, so Korina played Ron Perlman. American actor of scoring, television and cinema is best known as the performer of the role of Hellboy in the tapes of "Hellboy 1, 2". Most gamers know the actor as a Storyteller in the post-apocalyptic game Fallout. Among other popular paintings with his participation are "Time of Witches", "Alien 4", "Blade 2", "Chronicles of mutants", "Pacific Frontier".

In general, "Conan the Barbarian" (2011) actors involved in production, regarded as another successful step in his creative career and professional development.