Supplement Four said:But, I also heard someone call the world "Hyboria".
PrinceYyrkoon said:Looks freakin awesome. Seriously. Bobby would have loved it.
REH said:That's the kind of stuff I like -- rough, raw and brutal. Tiger-stuff. All this singing and dancing and ga-ga-stuff makes me sick.
REH said:"Back Street" was powerful, to my mind, and most damnably harrowing. I wept bitterly. That's no lie.
REH said:While weeping some yegg in front of me turned around and gave me an incredulous look, and thinking he was about to make some smart crack, I gave him a murderous glare, wiped away my tears and drew back my right to mash him for the insect he was, but he made no comment and turned around again. Maybe he was weeping too.
REH said:I wish I hadn't seen that show. It really tore me up. The thought of an intelligent and talented woman wasting all her years on a low-lifed son-of-a-bitch and sacrificing herself and living in the shadows, it gave me the jitters.
REH said:I felt like taking a club and wading through the populace like Samson through the Philadelphians.
Howard never used the word Hyboria, simply because there is no land with this name. If Mongoose used it, its use is definitely not canon.PrinceYyrkoon said:Looks freakin awesome. Seriously. Bobby would have loved it.
I'm not sure what people expect from a film about a one-dimensional pulp character.
And Mongoose called it Hyboria all the time without anyone raising an objection.
PrinceYyrkoon said:And Mongoose called it Hyboria all the time without anyone raising an objection.
thulsa said:PrinceYyrkoon said:Looks freakin awesome. Seriously. Bobby would have loved it.
Maybe, it's really hard to tell. There are some interesting insights on this page:
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- thulsa
PrinceYyrkoon said:Vincent was a bit of a stickler, I admit, but even he uses terms like 'Hyborian lands', 'Hyborian culture', etc., (when, perhaps it should be 'cultures of the Hyborian age' more correctly).
Spectator said:I wish he a tad more celtic looking though!
Yeah I caught the Hyboria gaffe, but really, we are nitpicking now.
I hope it will be awesome!!!!
tarkhan bey said:There is a continent called Africa, filled with assorted African nations but ultimately (almost) everyone living there is African.Same with Europe.
Therefore, using the same logic, that part of Howard's world where the Hyborians predominate in their own myriad Kingdoms could feasibly be referred to as Hyboria. I don't see the problem except in places like Turan, Shem, Khitai etc where the people are clearly not Hyborians.
Supplement Four said:Spectator said:I wish he a tad more celtic looking though!
I think he looks the part, too. But one thing I do miss and was kinda hoping to see is the Irish-accent. I thought the Age of Conan game did that well. People had accents according to their cultural background.
Yeah I caught the Hyboria gaffe, but really, we are nitpicking now.
I don't know why it bothers me so much--probably not because of the gaffe, but because it's a sign that the film is not well researched.
I hope it will be awesome!!!!
As do we all. :wink: