I doubt that very much. He was a slave. He was probably fed leftover wild goat meat after each days shift and his body consumed almost all of it, giving him a tough body
Jeez, talk about flashbacks... Everquest just sitting in one spot, med up some mana, kill a light blue, sit, med up mana, kill a light blue... I can't believe I used to do that.
It's the influence of business people in the artistic process. The more they try to control what the script is and what is being portrayed the worse the movie is. If the pencil pushers would just shut the fuck up and let the artists be artists we'd have way more worthy films in the market.
I have twin boys three and a half years old. I keep telling my wife I'm going to build one of those mill-wheels in our backyard and chain them to it night and day. I'm hoping in 20 years they'll turn out looking like Conan. She is not supportive of the idea.
Sometimes when I'm dragging my grocery shopping stroller through two feet of snow for three blocks from the bus stop to my house in a windy blizzard, I pretend I'm Conan.
The way Milius introduces an adult Conan and Arnold for that matter is epic and pretty badass in my books, one of the best intros in movies. The timing of the music plus raising of the head and then witnessing the cold, dispassionate eyes/face speak volumes for the character. He is mentally hardened and will endure where others have fallen...for he IS Conan
For those of you wondering, this is a (very large) mill wheel. The Romans also used to work slaves like this, it was actually cheaper to use slaves to turn a wheel then to use oxen. Similar mills could be used to grind wheat, ore, etc.. though none this big. The one in this scene seems like a mill for ore given the climate.
Huge doubt. One ox can pull close to one ton. You would need close to 20 men to do the same. To feed one ox is much cheaper than men. You could even feed it leftover or waste grain, humans can't eat that.q
@@danmj1074 it was cheaper up front to buy 20 men in ancient Rome then it was to buy 1 Ox, at least depending on time time period.for decades following major campaigns and during periods of regular expansion, the slave markets were saturated with massive numbers of slaves lowering the value dramatically. This allowed the super rich to essentially bulk buy slaves. This actually created huge economic problems in Rome, as wealthy owners of large scale slave plantations forced low class farmers out of work, sending literally millions of unemployed people into Rome and other major Italian cities abd creating the "urban poor" for the first time in history. This lead to a host of social problems which were at the core of basically every civil conflict in the late republican and early imperial eras. The plantations ran themselves pretty much, however the rich owned large amounts of land that were neglected and and a lot of the crop went to feeding the slaves, so Italy which had previously been a large exporter of food now realyed on Sicily and Egypt to meet their grain needs, especially with the grain dool, which was basically a welfare system where the state would give grain to the urban poor for free to keep them from rioting. This took up something like 30% of the national budget on average.
The wheel of pain was used to break the souls and fighting spirit of captives making them more complacent and agreeable to their slave masters. The fact that Conan was the only one that survived showed you what he would later become. If you want to survive and be good at something, imagine being strapped to a wheel of pain and fight to survive!
From what you're saying sounds like he was the only one complacent enough to survive so long at the wheel. And for sure he had to be good at pushing the wheel 🤣
This seems to have a magical goal, one akin to a prolonged human sacrifice. Its sole point is to slowly destroy people, so as to please both their masters and the gods.
My favourite film of all time, watched it first when i was like 7 years old. Never-ever had i tought about this but from now on my friend i will laugh so hard when i think about this. Im laughing my ass off right now!
Happy I could help with your reminiscence! This one often makes me laugh too -- "CRUSHZ YA ENEMEES, ZEE DEM DRIVEN BEFORE EWE, AND HEAR DAH LAMENTASHINZ OF DER WIMMEN!"
Nestor Makhno, the great Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary, was sentenced to life of hard labour in the meanest, toughest prison in Russian at the age of 17. Because he was never expected to be released, they welded the huge steel shackles shut around his legs. When the Soviets emptied the prisons seven years later as part of the general amnesty following the October Revolution, Makhno had to learn how to walk all over again because he had grown so accustomed to the terrible weight of his chains. Makhno became a ferocious and unstoppable warrior, like Conan. He led 50,000 untrained anarchists with makeshift weapons against an army of 600,000 German troops and drove them out of Ukraine. And he wasn't some general sitting behind a desk ordering men around, either. He would lead the charge on horseback at the head of his army, pistol in one hand and cavalry sabre in the other. Despite having an enormous bounty on his head, despite being severely wounded more than 20 times, despite throwing himself into the thickest part of the enemy forces time and time again, no one could stop him. In the end, it was the Soviets who betrayed him and broke the Makhnovshchina -- and they _never_ defeated Makhno. They invaded Ukraine with _millions_ of troops, and Makhno and his 50,000 men held out for five years against them. In the end, with all his men dead, Makhno fled for France, intending to return and raise another army. Stalin was so afraid of Makhno that he starved 10 million Ukrainians to death to prevent Makhno from doing so. Makhno died heartbroken, drunk in a Paris alley, at the age of 43. The greatest warrior of the 20th century died of sorrow.
I found it disappointing to watch, did anyone think this through or try it out? Push it 40 ft. or so and tire out. Was expecting to see at least one full revolution and tiring out on the second. The implement behaved like a loaded up sled rather than the wheel that was depicted in the movie.
One revolution and not making a second. Also with the industrial braking equipment and electronics available, this could be made to work similar to a tractor pulling sled along with data such as speed and and final push weight and locks in at final movement for distance. Brake releases and one staff member can reset it for the next competitor.
+Spartaculus Jones Some of the computer programming projects I've worked on in the past as well as the last three senior level Cisco network engineering jobs I worked at bore some similarities to this video clip. About 2 minutes and 56 seconds of the way in to the clip is the part where everyone else burned out and went home on Friday night to visit their families, and I would still keep programming code or configuring routers until 3AM on Saturday morning and I start to grow a thick beard from not shaving. And then the project managers could never figure out why productivity ground to a stand still and why none of the projects were getting completed on time anymore after I left that company and started working for a different one.
Every time I have to do something physically exhausting I remember this scene. I know it is unrealistic but the point is "That which does not kill me only makes me stronger!" Very motivational in my opinion.
The wheel didn't just make Conan's muscles stronger, It made his mind stronger as well. For 15 years he had to endure pain and focus on one purpose; "Push the wheel". Is probably all that ran through his mind. Conan's physical prowess definitely contributed to his badassery and conquest, but is was also his strong focused mind that gave him the ability to lead and push through the obstacles.
***** Robert E. Howard, who created Conan, told us that Cimmerians were never defeated in battle, were feared, and never taken as slaves...Conan grew strong fighting, and living by his wits..Robert E. Howards Conan would never have been taken as a slave...
Lol,I just watched the conan wheel of pain video for rouge Arnold classic,just to see how similar the wheels are ,and they've done a great job rouge have,I was hoping I'd find comment about the Arnold classic conan wheel,I week to go,going to be good .
i cant believe the music track is in 1 whole piece. look at how the epic scenes and the music flow together as one, telling the story. truly ingenious.
Millius worked with and studied under the Great Sergio Leone and understood the importance of audio visual storytelling. Basil Poledouris was just as instrumental as Arnold and Millius in Making this film a work of high art in comparison to other films in the genre. This is a cinematic masterpiece.
This "Wheel of Pain" apparatus / excersice should be a staple-feature in every gym. Talk about building a great foundation via GPP (ie, "General Physical Preparedness")!! ☸️💪☸️💯
If you want large muscles and strength, you will need some kind of progression and periodisation in your training involving higher weights in your lifts. If all you're doing is pushing a wheel, than you will get better in ... pushing the wheel. There really is no way around it, you have to increase the intensity of your training, while decreasing the volume.
@@John-Amata Not really, you will for the most part only use a couple of your muscles, mainly the legs, where as the rest of your body is just there for stabilisation and that for it self, isn't the most efficient way to build muscle, or every body builder would do nothing but pushing a wheel all the time. Most of your muscles need some kind of contraction and extraction with a logical periodisation and progression in weight. So even if you add more weight on to the wheel, you're not going to see big results. Even in your legs. You're just going to fuck up your joints.
+fashizzle78 Well, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger". Says so right in the beginning. Still the best film of its kind. And still the best epic soundtrack of all.
Flop Flip the wheel of pain is a torture device, used to break a persons spirit, for slavery, he was only on it for such a long time because he wouldn't break
Jesse Bowman Manners, please: it isn't that obvious. First off, it clearly shows the man paying money for Conan's release. Second, none of the rest is stated outright, if at all. I'm not being stupid, just asking a question.
Will nonya Same cloak? Good catch: I missed that. But I can report that there is no parallel in the original stories, which go very differently. This appears to be a character created for the film.
Nick Hentschel Yeah, with the talk of the new movie I decided to start reading the Conan stories. Read the one about Yamir's daughter last night. Oddly enough the first time I was reading Howard's work I never touched Conan.
I was yanking around 1,000 pound carts with one arm today at work like it was nothing. It's great to be a strong man! I saw this movie in the theater back in the early 80's, scenes like this have always inspired me to rely on my own strength. Thanks Conan!
@@jmlkhan5153 Got ya Feelin' like Popeye, Huh? I've done a lot of that too. What bedazzles me the most about that is when Dummies wanna get the biggest, longest, heaviest couches possible and wanna put'em up in the 3rd floor attic apartment. You gotta keep flippin' it around like a piece in Tetris to get it up the winding staircases, LOL.
This is such an inspiring scene! It shows that through hard work and dedication someone can go from having the strength of 1 child to having the strength of 27!
I took over the lawn mowing duties around age 8 or 9 at my house. There was an area with a steep uphill slope that was difficult for me. To push the mower up the hill I had to lower my hips and drop my head with my arms straight out in front of me. No joke, I imagined I was kid Conan pushing the wheel of pain! I even had the music playing in my mind! It gave me the mental strength I needed to push the mower up the hill! Thank you Arnold and Basil for this epic and motivating scene!
That moment when you hear Mako's voice and it makes you think about his last voice over has Uncle Hiro in Avatar last airbender and can't help but shed a tear...
As stated by others here. The wheel was so perfectly balanced that they had to make resistance to make Arnie look like it was a effort to push. In Kingdom Of Heaven Ridley Scott ordered the seige towers be built with real solid hard wood. The hundreds of extras strained to push them up against the castle walls. When asked why they were constructed for real. Ridley pointed out. It would have been like that in the day. Also the dozens of extras pushing the seige towers were straining every muscle. There was no acting involved. You also don't have to keep directing the extras to show a heavy load. How many times have a seen a modern sitcom or TV series, where an actor is carrying his/her luggage. You can tell the suit cases are empty. Just by the ease and the shoulders position and posture of the body of walking and carry weight. I worked on a small independent film (2 Of A Kind) one scene a crook took out a body from a trunk. It was shot beneath the car. They did it with the actor pretending to open the trunk and lift the body out to where it was to be dumped. The framing was a little above the ankles down to the road level. I insisted he actually carry someone. I was laughed at as they all said no one will tell. We then did a take and saw the strain on the running shoes and feet and the balancing needed to counter weight. Then the shuffle and how the actor needed to throw the actress a little higher to get a better grip around her body. They saw the 2 takes, then commented oh yeah the second take looks like he is carrying someone. After a few weeks It was brought up in conversation on another film shoot. One of the crew said they were shooting office people (in the story) at a gym. for insurance purposes they had most with fake dumbell weights (discs) the 2 gym instructors who were extras had about 30kg/65 pound weights. The editor on that noticed the swaying on the 2 with real weights, like a pendulum.
Best movie prop story I ever heard was from a SEAL buddy of mine while we were doing contractor work. He said that one of the bad ass instructors came out for an endurance run wearing scuba gear. He told me he had a feeling something wasn't right after the instructor warned what would happen if he beat anyone on this run. He said he ran as fast as he could and finished ahead of most of the class that ran next to the instructor laughing and joking all the way to the halfway point. At the halfway point this instructor took off at his regular speed and they all found out the hard way it was just a movie prop from The Posidean Adventure. They have a saying, "Don't let me lead you into a false sense of security" and they mean it.
A few years back I worked in the stunt team of a tv show called "Beowulf". Show turned out to be a dud, but the sets were amazing. A mixture of Lord of the Rings, 13th Warrior and Conan the Barbarian. And they had a full size Wheel of Pain mill right in the middle of the set. Carvings and everything. Firsr thing we did on day one was jump up on it, got into Pushing Pose and got our photo taken before the set director caught us.
what is crazy is this... Rogue Fitness just built a massive version of this for the strongman contest for the upcoming 2019 Arnold Sponsored Event... he will get to see it used in an event!!!! epic... who ever can push the wheel the furthest under a certain time limit wins.
My dad always told me that seeing this moment on the big screen, where Arnold looks up defiant at the screen with an ocean of rippling muscles, was one of the most impressive things he had ever seen at that point
Wow 15 to 20 years on that wheel of pain. And then he was only one left pushing an enormous heavy wheel all by himself ..no wonder his muscles grew over time. Great start to a great life of Conan.
Ah yes the greater wheel of pain. It is designed to break the mind and strengthen the body. Perhaps the biggest of its kind, this wheel of pain can break(or train) up to 8 people at a time. 200 Insulated Wood 200 Hardened Brick 200 Steel Reinforcement 150 Twine
One aspect that seems to elude most people is that Conan is tied to the Wheel of Pain with other children and, little by little, they all vanish (probably death took them) 'till only an adult Conan remains, showing that he is inherently stronger than all the others. It may also hint to the unseen fire that burns within: his thirst for revenge. To kill those who murdered his parents. A fire so strong that fuels his soul and body in an apparent perfect mix, making him possibly the strongest man who has ever lived, both in body and mind.
Seriously though.this scene is a wonderful thing to express the theory of strength 💪💪..mentality and physical.Robert E Howard has a great inspiration for this film from the eastern and western philosophy studies he was fascinated by.mental state predicates how long we endure...the physical health is governed by the will of the mind
You will find me commenting on all these clips from Conan, every few months. This movie is brilliant! I love that there are so many speculations and theories about the red-haired boy and man. Just like there are about the facial expression Thulsa made just before he beheaded Conan’s mother. What makes it great is that he is there, his story is left to our imagination, but the seed has been planted! In the documentary of the making of the movie, someone said that during the premiere, when Conan lifted his head, and it was the face of Schwarzenegger, the people in the cinema lost their shit. Wish I was there...
That wheel would make a good workout machine. Although I did hear that it was VERY lightweight in real life that they needed other people to push Arnold's pushing to give it more resistance weight. I always thought Mako (Akiro The Wizard) had a really cool voice while narrating. I also heard in real life that wheel was a real operating grain grinder that worked.
I like listening to the full length soundtrack on earbuds when I'm cutting grass. When it gets to "The Wheel of Pain" I'm stepping in time with the music pretending like I'm Conan pushing the wheel.
I took me until my last rewatch a few weeks ago to realize that the red headed kid who affixes Conan's chain to the wheel is the same red haired man who returned at the end to take Conan to the gladiator pit, and who later set him free.
Through pain, one becomes strong.... Only if one is capable, and willing to push through the madness, forge through the fire, persevere through the torment, fight through the injustice, live through the hell, and conquer the chaos.... When dealt with more pain than one ordinary individual should live through..... You must make a choice. Live or Die.
This scene is fucking awesome in every way. Conan as a kid pushing the wheel, the multiple shots of everyone else working their ass off pushing it as well, the day and night flipping, the seasons changing, Conan gtowing slightly older, the wheel's creaking and screeching, and the music tops it off
I felt like this too. But now I look at it differently. The maid was performing wifely duties in his home (keeping house is considered by many to be a wifely duty deeply appreciated by husbands) what was his wife doing? She was doing something more important to her than keeping house. I used to babysit for a few different families in my teens and early twenties. I've had husbands tell me they "love me" when they walk into a clean house and I report the kids are fed, bathed, and in bed asleep. I've had husbands give excessive and disproportionate amounts of praise when seeing a prepared meal. I think if Miss Kennedy had not cooperated in establishing a situation where there was another woman in her home doing her duties, the affair wouldn't have happened. I think Arnold turned down many many opportunities to cheat with other more stunningly beautiful women. I believe that 100%. Why was this woman different. I think most men are simply in that they want their wives and they want appreciation for the home they provide. I think this maid happily going around taking care of the home ARNOLD worked hard to create was just too much for him. She got him in the heart. God bless him and his family and all his children.
@@elainemiller8296Jesus f*cking Christ! Couldn't you be MORE male chauvinist than this? Arnold cheated Maria a thousand times - Brigitte Nielsen and Rae Dawn Chong included. It was never a secret for no one. You are living in the past, in the 40s and 50s , when housewife was the perfect role for a woman.
i think of this movie more as one of robert e howard stories, but not necessarily about Conan. the Howard conan got his superior fighting and survival skills by being born a barbarian and living outside of civilization, not from being a slave. The fact that Conan learns his skills and mental fortitude from being a slave directly contradicts not only the character of Conan, but why he always survives according to Howard (because he is a barbarian, he wasn't taught these things, he was born to them). There are plenty of howard stories, though, with revenge plots, slaves getting their freedom, etc. The aspects of this movie such as the dialogue, the violence, the music and imagery, are all very much vintage Howard, painted in broad strokes with great energy. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this movie and the vision that milius brought. He created a Robert e Howard story come to life!
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More like the WHEEL OF GAINS
Dom Mazzetti in da house 😂😂😂
This is really the best comment
You bloody legend.
Lmao
Lol yes
Conan never skipped a leg day.
LMAO
+Donisgr You sir, win the internet.
+Donisgr All he had were leg days.
How did he get so muscular up top too and were his slave masters feeding him the right macros?
The wheel of pain = the archaic stair master
This isn't from the movie. This is a documentary about Arnold's childhood in Austria.
That comment left me howling.
lmao. Nice one.
Some Tank tops maybe.
Star Wolf im watching this at the gym and you just made my day
Bahahahhaha!!!
They skipped the part where Conan was fed 30 chicken breasts and 40 eggs a days and given Yak's milk and dianobol to wash it all down.
I give my thralls cooked fish usually
@@masteroutlaw100 I just give mine shredded roast 😂😂
I doubt that very much. He was a slave. He was probably fed leftover wild goat meat after each days shift and his body consumed almost all of it, giving him a tough body
What do you think happened to everyone else when they disappear and Arnold gets all big and stuff?
@@paladin677 Sold into slavery or died off probably
i swear basil poledouris created one of the best orchestral soundtracks ever for this movie.
he needs to be recognised for his work
He absolutely did. It fits the movie so perfectly, and is awesome music by itself.
The best soundtrack to any film ever made.
I prefer Morricone.
It's not a complementary sound it's intrusive.
@@jackballjohnson3468 except Basil also did the magnificent Robocop soundtrack as well!
For those who wonder how Conan got his back and chest so big. The Wheel of Pain works it all. Its the Bow Flex of the dark ages.
Level grinding, the old school way.
Hahaha... these level comments always get me xD
Stack strength>get witch-buffed>find some rogues>Serpent Monastery
Jeez, talk about flashbacks... Everquest just sitting in one spot, med up some mana, kill a light blue, sit, med up mana, kill a light blue... I can't believe I used to do that.
Hahahaha
@@davidgoldberg8238mana idols died in crossfire
😭tauba😭
This is what new movies fail to understand. LESS IS MORE, its so super simple but so extremely expressive! Its brilliant.
Yep, agreed this one scene said so much about the upbringing of Conan and how he was the fittest to survive the hardship of the wheel of pain.
its the music that really brings this movie to life
They still make them - the talented ones.
It's the influence of business people in the artistic process. The more they try to control what the script is and what is being portrayed the worse the movie is. If the pencil pushers would just shut the fuck up and let the artists be artists we'd have way more worthy films in the market.
New movies dont have to entertain boomers
I have twin boys three and a half years old. I keep telling my wife I'm going to build one of those mill-wheels in our backyard and chain them to it night and day. I'm hoping in 20 years they'll turn out looking like Conan. She is not supportive of the idea.
You have not married well. She should want you to drive your enemies before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!
Father of the year.
Your wife doesnt deserve you.
She should contemplate that on the Tree of Woe.
Only consider her support necessary if she can answer the riddle of steel.
When you're so badass that you didn't stop pushing a wheel from childhood to adulthood non-stop throughout all seasons of the year.
that's why the other people aren't there
I wonder if he took any bathroom breaks.
@@russkate88nah. He pooped and peed like a real man, standing.
@@russkate88 In the book, Conan and the other children only stop at night. They piss where they stand.
@@TheSpicyLeg what about if they need to poop 💩?
Sometimes when I'm dragging my grocery shopping stroller through two feet of snow for three blocks from the bus stop to my house in a windy blizzard, I pretend I'm Conan.
Spartaculus Jones where you live they let you take shopping carts?
@@hunter.whitmore I need an answer to this has well!! Over here only homeless people use shopping cart and only during summer. wtf man.
Besides, he wasn't dragging the mill.
Actually, I meant a stroller which means the wheels come off in the snow.
@@toutatismoralis285 Actually I meant a stroller although nowadays I see a lot of people taking the store carts.
"Do you even lift bro?"
"No, i just use the wheel of pain"
Totally read that in Arnold’s voice.
How much ya bench?
"Let me tell you of a story of HIIIGH ADVENTURE!!"
sooooo good. I miss the eighties!
The way Milius introduces an adult Conan and Arnold for that matter is epic and pretty badass in my books, one of the best intros in movies. The timing of the music plus raising of the head and then witnessing the cold, dispassionate eyes/face speak volumes for the character. He is mentally hardened and will endure where others have fallen...for he IS Conan
Cimmerians are used to the cold. Snow does fall in Cimmeria.
saruman66 - You don’t get out much, do you? 😂
Script by Oliver Stone.
@@odeleon24 completely rewritten by Milius
The scene when he looks up muscles fully developed and the music added to that. What a master piece ....
For those of you wondering, this is a (very large) mill wheel. The Romans also used to work slaves like this, it was actually cheaper to use slaves to turn a wheel then to use oxen. Similar mills could be used to grind wheat, ore, etc.. though none this big. The one in this scene seems like a mill for ore given the climate.
thanks, was looking for this comment!
I always knew it was a mill but didn’t understand why humans and not animals.
Huge doubt. One ox can pull close to one ton. You would need close to 20 men to do the same. To feed one ox is much cheaper than men. You could even feed it leftover or waste grain, humans can't eat that.q
@@danmj1074 it was cheaper up front to buy 20 men in ancient Rome then it was to buy 1 Ox, at least depending on time time period.for decades following major campaigns and during periods of regular expansion, the slave markets were saturated with massive numbers of slaves lowering the value dramatically. This allowed the super rich to essentially bulk buy slaves. This actually created huge economic problems in Rome, as wealthy owners of large scale slave plantations forced low class farmers out of work, sending literally millions of unemployed people into Rome and other major Italian cities abd creating the "urban poor" for the first time in history. This lead to a host of social problems which were at the core of basically every civil conflict in the late republican and early imperial eras. The plantations ran themselves pretty much, however the rich owned large amounts of land that were neglected and and a lot of the crop went to feeding the slaves, so Italy which had previously been a large exporter of food now realyed on Sicily and Egypt to meet their grain needs, especially with the grain dool, which was basically a welfare system where the state would give grain to the urban poor for free to keep them from rioting. This took up something like 30% of the national budget on average.
@@pandaman2234 you are so super correct. But slaves still didn't drive these mills on a regular basis.
The wheel of pain was used to break the souls and fighting spirit of captives making them more complacent and agreeable to their slave masters. The fact that Conan was the only one that survived showed you what he would later become. If you want to survive and be good at something, imagine being strapped to a wheel of pain and fight to survive!
Not really, the purpose of the wheel was to create a warrior
Sounds like physical therapy
From what you're saying sounds like he was the only one complacent enough to survive so long at the wheel. And for sure he had to be good at pushing the wheel 🤣
This seems to have a magical goal, one akin to a prolonged human sacrifice. Its sole point is to slowly destroy people, so as to please both their masters and the gods.
It's just a wheat mill, the farmers invented it for extra income
most well fed slaves ever in history
They weren't slaves they were Thralls
@@Thedisciplemike So how this wheel of pain turn them into thralls and how it work? It is involve with mental or physical pain?
@@Thedisciplemike thrall means slaves
and their footwear was extraordinarily well-maintained.
Ox blood ,heart,liver etc
Carnivore.
Plot twist: Conan ATE everyone else in order to get that big
David Vu Gotta get protein somewhere.
David Vu Apparently they are what was best in life.
Will nonya Not falcon at your wrist and wind in my hair?
David Vu The falcon is scrawny and you can not eat the wind.
LMAO
I wonder if they were ever allowed to go clockwise.
Only on casual Fridays, when the slaves were also allowed to were Hawaiian shirts and khakis.
What about on Thirsty Thursday?? Were they given a meal break?? At the very least have someone call Domino's....lol😂
@@cicada_games lol
no
@@michaelvaughn8864 and money monday were they got payed
My friends & I used to joke that when Conan was eventually taken off this thing that he could only walk in circles.
My favourite film of all time, watched it first when i was like 7 years old. Never-ever had i tought about this but from now on my friend i will laugh so hard when i think about this. Im laughing my ass off right now!
2 years later i am back at this video, totally forgot about your comment, now im rolling on the floor again. best Conan joke ever :)
Happy I could help with your reminiscence! This one often makes me laugh too -- "CRUSHZ YA ENEMEES, ZEE DEM DRIVEN BEFORE EWE, AND HEAR DAH LAMENTASHINZ OF DER WIMMEN!"
He could only turn left like a more masculine Zoolander.
Nestor Makhno, the great Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary, was sentenced to life of hard labour in the meanest, toughest prison in Russian at the age of 17. Because he was never expected to be released, they welded the huge steel shackles shut around his legs. When the Soviets emptied the prisons seven years later as part of the general amnesty following the October Revolution, Makhno had to learn how to walk all over again because he had grown so accustomed to the terrible weight of his chains.
Makhno became a ferocious and unstoppable warrior, like Conan. He led 50,000 untrained anarchists with makeshift weapons against an army of 600,000 German troops and drove them out of Ukraine. And he wasn't some general sitting behind a desk ordering men around, either. He would lead the charge on horseback at the head of his army, pistol in one hand and cavalry sabre in the other. Despite having an enormous bounty on his head, despite being severely wounded more than 20 times, despite throwing himself into the thickest part of the enemy forces time and time again, no one could stop him.
In the end, it was the Soviets who betrayed him and broke the Makhnovshchina -- and they _never_ defeated Makhno. They invaded Ukraine with _millions_ of troops, and Makhno and his 50,000 men held out for five years against them. In the end, with all his men dead, Makhno fled for France, intending to return and raise another army. Stalin was so afraid of Makhno that he starved 10 million Ukrainians to death to prevent Makhno from doing so. Makhno died heartbroken, drunk in a Paris alley, at the age of 43. The greatest warrior of the 20th century died of sorrow.
Who's here after seeing Rogue's video introducing the Wheel of Pain in this years Arnold Classic? So freaking awesome.
Watching it now lol
ForHisGlory me LOL
I found it disappointing to watch, did anyone think this through or try it out? Push it 40 ft. or so and tire out. Was expecting to see at least one full revolution and tiring out on the second. The implement behaved like a loaded up sled rather than the wheel that was depicted in the movie.
@@rafterbarr1506 what would be the point to have them keep going in circles? If it was as easy as the one in the movie it wouldn't even be a challenge
One revolution and not making a second. Also with the industrial braking equipment and electronics available, this could be made to work similar to a tractor pulling sled along with data such as speed and and final push weight and locks in at final movement for distance. Brake releases and one staff member can reset it for the next competitor.
I've had some telemarketing jobs as bad as this.
Spartaculus Jones Unless you came out with an awesome physique, I think they were much worse.
LMAO!
+Spartaculus Jones Lol are Telemarketing jobs really that bad ?
+Spartaculus Jones Some of the computer programming projects I've worked on in the past as well as the last three senior level Cisco network engineering jobs I worked at bore some similarities to this video clip. About 2 minutes and 56 seconds of the way in to the clip is the part where everyone else burned out and went home on Friday night to visit their families, and I would still keep programming code or configuring routers until 3AM on Saturday morning and I start to grow a thick beard from not shaving. And then the project managers could never figure out why productivity ground to a stand still and why none of the projects were getting completed on time anymore after I left that company and started working for a different one.
worst shit ever made for working mate
Every time I have to do something physically exhausting I remember this scene. I know it is unrealistic but the point is "That which does not kill me only makes me stronger!" Very motivational in my opinion.
You have strength.
You endure!
You. ARE STRONG.
F I G H T
no, you just stupid. He would die if it was real
You could spin a wheel of pain too.😀
It reminds me of me starting at 2 - the Monks had me punch concrete. I broke my knuckles over and over, wore out concrete.
The wheel didn't just make Conan's muscles stronger, It made his mind stronger as well. For 15 years he had to endure pain and focus on one purpose; "Push the wheel". Is probably all that ran through his mind. Conan's physical prowess definitely contributed to his badassery and conquest, but is was also his strong focused mind that gave him the ability to lead and push through the obstacles.
I concur it was pretty the thing that gave him his strength
***** Interesting points. Thanks.
***** Robert E. Howard, who created Conan, told us that Cimmerians were never defeated in battle, were feared, and never taken as slaves...Conan grew strong fighting, and living by his wits..Robert E. Howards Conan would never have been taken as a slave...
That's a good point joeyvader but think about this for a second he was a kid when they took him
The Cimmerian elders would NOT have allowed any of their children to be taken...never defeated...never chained...
Even though this movie is very old, it has a certain charm to it. The storytelling, the music, the characters, the adventures. So epic!
This year's Arnold classic strongman event will have the wheel of pain so excited!!
Lol,I just watched the conan wheel of pain video for rouge Arnold classic,just to see how similar the wheels are ,and they've done a great job rouge have,I was hoping I'd find comment about the Arnold classic conan wheel,I week to go,going to be good .
When the boy, now a man, looks up from the wheel and we see it's Arnold, I remember the audience in the theater went absolutely nuts.
Truly a grand time to go to the theater and be transfixed! Now it’s crap
i cant believe the music track is in 1 whole piece. look at how the epic scenes and the music flow together as one, telling the story. truly ingenious.
Millius worked with and studied under the Great Sergio Leone and understood the importance of audio visual storytelling. Basil Poledouris was just as instrumental as Arnold and Millius in Making this film a work of high art in comparison to other films in the genre. This is a cinematic masterpiece.
Only problem is Conan has a habit of sleepwalking in circles for the rest of his life...
Helium Road when Conan an his cpompanions are lost in a forest
"Conan we've been walking in circles for hours"
Get ptsd
i bet! like when you have a repetitive job that you dream about. GUH!!
@@-Siculus-Hort- Oh god. I've been there
@@aaronkenyon7112 it's a fuking horror show.
Atmosphere visuality and music of the movie is really stunning. True masterpiece.
This "Wheel of Pain" apparatus / excersice
should be a staple-feature in every gym.
Talk about building a great foundation via GPP
(ie, "General Physical Preparedness")!!
☸️💪☸️💯
VredesStall i wanna push that
I agree. In fact, I think about pushing the Wheel in my gym's basketball court if it did happen. That would be cool.
You could probably chain a kid to a Stairmaster for years and get the same effect.
If you want large muscles and strength, you will need some kind of progression and periodisation in your training involving higher weights in your lifts. If all you're doing is pushing a wheel, than you will get better in ... pushing the wheel. There really is no way around it, you have to increase the intensity of your training, while decreasing the volume.
@@John-Amata Not really, you will for the most part only use a couple of your muscles, mainly the legs, where as the rest of your body is just there for stabilisation and that for it self, isn't the most efficient way to build muscle, or every body builder would do nothing but pushing a wheel all the time. Most of your muscles need some kind of contraction and extraction with a logical periodisation and progression in weight. So even if you add more weight on to the wheel, you're not going to see big results. Even in your legs. You're just going to fuck up your joints.
Whenever life get's me down, I watch this scene and think about the wheel and how eventually after many years of pain, I will grow strong... CROM!!
true meaning of "only the strong survive"
+fashizzle78 Well, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger". Says so right in the beginning. Still the best film of its kind. And still the best epic soundtrack of all.
Getting your kneecap shot off won't kill you, but I don't really think it makes you stronger...
The rest of them went out of debt already
Flop Flip the wheel of pain is a torture device, used to break a persons spirit, for slavery, he was only on it for such a long time because he wouldn't break
@@RCAvhstape Or getting put in a coma. I never did like that phrase.
A red-haired boy chains Conan to the wheel; a red-haired MAN buys him out of slavery, years later.
What I keep wondering is, are they the same person?
Nick Hentschel he didn't get bought and of course they are the same person. you move up the ranks from slave guard to owner of gladiators.
Jesse Bowman Manners, please: it isn't that obvious.
First off, it clearly shows the man paying money for Conan's release. Second, none of the rest is stated outright, if at all.
I'm not being stupid, just asking a question.
Nick Hentschel Might be something in Howard's original stories about Conan. But both of them appear to be wearing the same cloak.
Will nonya Same cloak? Good catch: I missed that. But I can report that there is no parallel in the original stories, which go very differently. This appears to be a character created for the film.
Nick Hentschel Yeah, with the talk of the new movie I decided to start reading the Conan stories. Read the one about Yamir's daughter last night. Oddly enough the first time I was reading Howard's work I never touched Conan.
I was yanking around 1,000 pound carts with one arm today at work like it was nothing. It's great to be a strong man! I saw this movie in the theater back in the early 80's, scenes like this have always inspired me to rely on my own strength. Thanks Conan!
Im a furniture mover. I blast this soundtrack every day at work at top volume. Aint nothing heavy.
@@jmlkhan5153 Got ya Feelin' like Popeye, Huh? I've done a lot of that too. What bedazzles me the most about that is when Dummies wanna get the biggest, longest, heaviest couches possible and wanna put'em up in the 3rd floor attic apartment. You gotta keep flippin' it around like a piece in Tetris to get it up the winding staircases, LOL.
This is such an inspiring scene! It shows that through hard work and dedication someone can go from having the strength of 1 child to having the strength of 27!
The only movie soundtrack I ever bought on CD. My favorite of all time!
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women...
That is good.
And most importantly, PUSH WHEEL!!!
This needs to be set up at every Golds Gym.
Kids these days couldn't do it . They have no free hands for their cell phone
I would jump on it immediately.
One of the best of not the greatest "silent" scenes in cinema. So many subtleties. Arnold is the best physical actor in history by far.
Buster Keaton & Jackie Chan might disagree
***** They are great as well, but someone like Chan could never convey emotion with his body like Arnold can.
@@tkjemm they didn’t have gainzzz tho
@@tekubus Buster Keaton made movies in the silent era, he had to convey emotions through his body language for most of his career...
@@leonrififi3543 Buster Keaton is nowhere near as famous as Arnold though. That’s all that matters to these people.
One child's burden becomes his entire life. Superb film.
That is what Freud was all about.
I took over the lawn mowing duties around age 8 or 9 at my house. There was an area with a steep uphill slope that was difficult for me. To push the mower up the hill I had to lower my hips and drop my head with my arms straight out in front of me. No joke, I imagined I was kid Conan pushing the wheel of pain! I even had the music playing in my mind! It gave me the mental strength I needed to push the mower up the hill! Thank you Arnold and Basil for this epic and motivating scene!
That moment when you hear Mako's voice and it makes you think about his last voice over has Uncle Hiro in Avatar last airbender and can't help but shed a tear...
As stated by others here. The wheel was so perfectly balanced that they had to make resistance to make Arnie look like it was a effort to push. In Kingdom Of Heaven Ridley Scott ordered the seige towers be built with real solid hard wood. The hundreds of extras strained to push them up against the castle walls. When asked why they were constructed for real. Ridley pointed out. It would have been like that in the day. Also the dozens of extras pushing the seige towers were straining every muscle. There was no acting involved. You also don't have to keep directing the extras to show a heavy load. How many times have a seen a modern sitcom or TV series, where an actor is carrying his/her luggage. You can tell the suit cases are empty. Just by the ease and the shoulders position and posture of the body of walking and carry weight.
I worked on a small independent film (2 Of A Kind) one scene a crook took out a body from a trunk. It was shot beneath the car. They did it with the actor pretending to open the trunk and lift the body out to where it was to be dumped. The framing was a little above the ankles down to the road level. I insisted he actually carry someone. I was laughed at as they all said no one will tell. We then did a take and saw the strain on the running shoes and feet and the balancing needed to counter weight. Then the shuffle and how the actor needed to throw the actress a little higher to get a better grip around her body. They saw the 2 takes, then commented oh yeah the second take looks like he is carrying someone.
After a few weeks It was brought up in conversation on another film shoot. One of the crew said they were shooting office people (in the story) at a gym. for insurance purposes they had most with fake dumbell weights (discs) the 2 gym instructors who were extras had about 30kg/65 pound weights. The editor on that noticed the swaying on the 2 with real weights, like a pendulum.
Best movie prop story I ever heard was from a SEAL buddy of mine while we were doing contractor work. He said that one of the bad ass instructors came out for an endurance run wearing scuba gear. He told me he had a feeling something wasn't right after the instructor warned what would happen if he beat anyone on this run. He said he ran as fast as he could and finished ahead of most of the class that ran next to the instructor laughing and joking all the way to the halfway point. At the halfway point this instructor took off at his regular speed and they all found out the hard way it was just a movie prop from The Posidean Adventure. They have a saying, "Don't let me lead you into a false sense of security" and they mean it.
Reticulan 5. That’s very interesting! Really shows sometimes the best acting is doing a thing in real life
Smart man.
A few years back I worked in the stunt team of a tv show called "Beowulf". Show turned out to be a dud, but the sets were amazing. A mixture of Lord of the Rings, 13th Warrior and Conan the Barbarian. And they had a full size Wheel of Pain mill right in the middle of the set. Carvings and everything.
Firsr thing we did on day one was jump up on it, got into Pushing Pose and got our photo taken before the set director caught us.
The people who work on the sets are a dime a dozen.
what is crazy is this... Rogue Fitness just built a massive version of this for the strongman contest for the upcoming 2019 Arnold Sponsored Event... he will get to see it used in an event!!!! epic... who ever can push the wheel the furthest under a certain time limit wins.
RIP James you will always be miss.Thank you
No Pain, No Gain. Conan is the man
I can't wait to use Conan on Mortal kombat 1.
My dad always told me that seeing this moment on the big screen, where Arnold looks up defiant at the screen with an ocean of rippling muscles, was one of the most impressive things he had ever seen at that point
Wow 15 to 20 years on that wheel of pain. And then he was only one left pushing an enormous heavy wheel all by himself ..no wonder his muscles grew over time. Great start to a great life of Conan.
yeah he never sleep, no food and no hair cut. LOL
A new take on being a well rounded person.
One of the greatest movies of all time.
Is there anybody else who chills for that 2:55 moment with such an awesome score?
Its view and the music makes it legendary I think.
"No one would ever know that my Lord's people had lived at all. His was a tale of sorrow" 😥😫
This is still epic and badass in 2019! The soundtrack to the entire movie is amazing!
Ah yes the greater wheel of pain. It is designed to break the mind and strengthen the body. Perhaps the biggest of its kind, this wheel of pain can break(or train) up to 8 people at a time.
200 Insulated Wood
200 Hardened Brick
200 Steel Reinforcement
150 Twine
They must’ve forgot the gruel. Decades to break a thrall? Pffft
8 Orphans (to taste)
One aspect that seems to elude most people is that Conan is tied to the Wheel of Pain with other children and, little by little, they all vanish (probably death took them) 'till only an adult Conan remains, showing that he is inherently stronger than all the others. It may also hint to the unseen fire that burns within: his thirst for revenge. To kill those who murdered his parents. A fire so strong that fuels his soul and body in an apparent perfect mix, making him possibly the strongest man who has ever lived, both in body and mind.
I was this many years when I realized the red headed guy who came to free him from the wheel was probably the boy who chained him to it..
Yeah, I've watched this so many times and that never even occurred to me.
Exactly.He deliberately trained and educated Conan to be able to find and kill Thulsa Doom.
Motive unknown.
I think about this scene and music when I'm carrying and moving heavy equipment makes me stronger
No doubt this scene is powerful motivation.
I always loved the transition from boy to manhood with the swelling of the music when Conan raised his head.
this is pretty much how it feels to work a day before a major holiday . . .
Look on the bright side! At least you're buff!
Amen Sister! Almost 10 years in retailing taught me that.
at least u don t work during holiday like me
Seriously though.this scene is a wonderful thing to express the theory of strength 💪💪..mentality and physical.Robert E Howard has a great inspiration for this film from the eastern and western philosophy studies he was fascinated by.mental state predicates how long we endure...the physical health is governed by the will of the mind
The energy from his pushing the wheel nonstop powered the near by city 100% renewable
One of the best soundtrack and scenes ever
You will find me commenting on all these clips from Conan, every few months. This movie is brilliant! I love that there are so many speculations and theories about the red-haired boy and man. Just like there are about the facial expression Thulsa made just before he beheaded Conan’s mother. What makes it great is that he is there, his story is left to our imagination, but the seed has been planted! In the documentary of the making of the movie, someone said that during the premiere, when Conan lifted his head, and it was the face of Schwarzenegger, the people in the cinema lost their shit. Wish I was there...
I really need to watch this movie again.
That wheel would make a good workout machine. Although I did hear that it was VERY lightweight in real life that they needed other people to push Arnold's pushing to give it more resistance weight.
I always thought Mako (Akiro The Wizard) had a really cool voice while narrating.
I also heard in real life that wheel was a real operating grain grinder that worked.
Simple yet great scene. I loved the way they showed his development from childhood to manhood. Arnold has some huge legs.
I like listening to the full length soundtrack on earbuds when I'm cutting grass. When it gets to "The Wheel of Pain" I'm stepping in time with the music pretending like I'm Conan pushing the wheel.
I took me until my last rewatch a few weeks ago to realize that the red headed kid who affixes Conan's chain to the wheel is the same red haired man who returned at the end to take Conan to the gladiator pit, and who later set him free.
Leg day is everyday for Conan
Best Fantasy Movie EVER MADE!!!
Conan maxed out his stats at level 1. That’s why the rest of the levels were easy. Smart grind.
Through pain, one becomes strong.... Only if one is capable, and willing to push through the madness, forge through the fire, persevere through the torment, fight through the injustice, live through the hell, and conquer the chaos.... When dealt with more pain than one ordinary individual should live through..... You must make a choice. Live or Die.
i was pushing the wheel of pain all day it's like coming so i was coming all the time all day every day
elias sadek huh?
He means that conan is cuming night and day.
In the days of yore when there was no gym centers, ancients could build those bodies only by using the wheel of pain. Those were the days...
This is such an amazing scene.
The wheel scene is great, no words but so much message. Masterpiece.
I really wanna see a gym make this a real thing, a big resistance machine for a bunch of people to push
Would always be a spot available on the machine which is good...
No use. Not selfie friendly.
A real workout for those grinding on the path to swole, no selfie THOTs!
Wouldn't that cause some serious muscle imbalance?
Not if they evened it out by reversing direction at regular intervals. 1 Hour clockwise, 1 hour counter-clockwise.
This is one of the best films ever made.
This is what I’ve done my whole life since I watched the movie ...now I’m a beast
Inigualável... 300 anos se passarão e não se fará um filme melhor do que esse em sua categoria.
This is what I feel like playing an MMORPG.
John Titor The grind....
Especially Age of Conan, holy crap that game
John Titor I hear this music in my mind when I walk the dogs; it's just the right rhythm for it.
This is how I feel when playing a "free to play" mobile MMORPG.
John Titor play conan exiles then..
Probably the best movie sound track
Rogue just built a new “Wheel of Pain” for the Arnold Classic 2019 strong man event!
That's why I watched this video lol
This scene is fucking awesome in every way. Conan as a kid pushing the wheel, the multiple shots of everyone else working their ass off pushing it as well, the day and night flipping, the seasons changing, Conan gtowing slightly older, the wheel's creaking and screeching, and the music tops it off
Can you imagine getting jumped by some Hyborians on the highroads and you hear one of them say: "Put his ass in the wheel of pain."
At that moment, their defeat would be guaranteed.
Can't wait for this movie to come out!!
What Conan repeated in his head every day, "I will push this wheel until it breaks or it breaks me. I will not break. I will push another day."
Underrated soundtrack and composer for sure !
This is the best physical representation I've ever seen of how it feels like to be a Jets fan
This is the scene I remember the most from the movie when I first saw it on VHS :)💪😉👍
Arnold is the embodiment of perfection which makes his 'altercation' with the family maid all the more staggering.
I felt like this too. But now I look at it differently. The maid was performing wifely duties in his home (keeping house is considered by many to be a wifely duty deeply appreciated by husbands) what was his wife doing? She was doing something more important to her than keeping house.
I used to babysit for a few different families in my teens and early twenties. I've had husbands tell me they "love me" when they walk into a clean house and I report the kids are fed, bathed, and in bed asleep. I've had husbands give excessive and disproportionate amounts of praise when seeing a prepared meal.
I think if Miss Kennedy had not cooperated in establishing a situation where there was another woman in her home doing her duties, the affair wouldn't have happened. I think Arnold turned down many many opportunities to cheat with other more stunningly beautiful women. I believe that 100%. Why was this woman different. I think most men are simply in that they want their wives and they want appreciation for the home they provide. I think this maid happily going around taking care of the home ARNOLD worked hard to create was just too much for him. She got him in the heart. God bless him and his family and all his children.
@@elainemiller8296Jesus f*cking Christ! Couldn't you be MORE male chauvinist than this? Arnold cheated Maria a thousand times - Brigitte Nielsen and Rae Dawn Chong included. It was never a secret for no one. You are living in the past, in the 40s and 50s , when housewife was the perfect role for a woman.
Very symbolic the whole scene . love the soundtrack too . Epic movie.
i think of this movie more as one of robert e howard stories, but not necessarily about Conan. the Howard conan got his superior fighting and survival skills by being born a barbarian and living outside of civilization, not from being a slave. The fact that Conan learns his skills and mental fortitude from being a slave directly contradicts not only the character of Conan, but why he always survives according to Howard (because he is a barbarian, he wasn't taught these things, he was born to them).
There are plenty of howard stories, though, with revenge plots, slaves getting their freedom, etc. The aspects of this movie such as the dialogue, the violence, the music and imagery, are all very much vintage Howard, painted in broad strokes with great energy. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this movie and the vision that milius brought. He created a Robert e Howard story come to life!
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women
Interesting that he's locked into the wheel by a red-headed boy, then later bought by a red-headed man. Makes ya wonder if they're the same person.
Perfect that this is an actual even at the Arnold Strongman Classic.