You could make a YKTTW for a "desert punk" trope. Off the top of my head, examples would be Darksun, a Dn D campaign setting, Conan, probably Kull too, The Scorpion King (it's basically a Poor Man's Substitute of the first Conan movie.)
Though I must admit I find this odd that you post this in film. Wouldn't it be more fitting in Litterature?
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Ah well, ok, we'll find something else to call it. Let me see... Harsh Fantasy?
Wait, so didn't know there was books (short stories to be precise) before the movie, or you knew but you thought the movie would be more well-known (which isnt a bad assumption.
edited 11th Nov '10 8:02:45 AM by collex
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Conan doesn't really fit into a Punk genre at all.
The various -punks all have other aspects in common besides "cool stuff" — as our own page says, "Common for all such genres is that the technology (and/or magic) level is turned way up, an ultra-modern sensibility is grafted on, and that the protagonists are somewhere along the Sliding Scale Of Anti Heroes living in a Privately Owned Society."
Conan doesn't have the technology or the magic turned way up (and much of what magic exists is divine (from a god or gods) in nature, there's no ultra-modern sensibility, and it's not a privately-owned society
Basically Conan falls into Heroic Fantasy, a genre which his creator to a large extent invented (the modern incarnation anyway).
Trump delenda est(I'm still not getting the hang of discussion layout, so hopefully this appears in the Conan thread and not a new one)
"I figured there'd be a Punk name to describe a rocky wasteland world where civilization is uncultured with very low technology. "
That's the films: the original short stories had technology varying from the neolithic to the Renaissance. Whole armies wearing full steel plate, highly advanced metallurgy, substantial agricultural development, huge cities, and *very* infrequent sparks of complex modern technology (usually stuff like gunpowder as opposed to clockwork/steam/whatnot).
"Thud And Blunder"
In Poul Anderson's original essay, he more or less says that Howard's Conan stories do NOT come under the uncomplimentary banner of "Thud and Blunder," and instead mentions him in the same breath with the likes of Eddison, Vance and Dunsany. Indeed, in every case where Howard is mentioned in the essay, it's how Howard doesn't fall victim to these tropes.
In any case, Heroic Fantasy or Sword-and-Sorcery is the genre. No "punk" element, really.
Conan's also been referred to as kind of cynical Low Fantasy
I saw the teaser before The Lincoln Lawyer. The teaser isn't very good as doesn't show much footage but I will still see it anyway.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/Necroing this thread because the new movie's about two weeks away.
I remain cautiously optimistic. I'm not really really hyped for this movie, but I didn't have much high expectations for Thor, or X-Men First Class, or Captain America, and they just got progressively better for me. I'm a fan of the Arnold movie first and then the original stories, but I'm not one of those "BAWW MY CHILDHOOD" types about remakes/re-imaginings.
I think this movie tends to the latter, from what I've seen. It's kind of like the Karate Kid remake: they took a beloved 80s film and instead of just copying it, they took similar plot ideas and did new things with them. New Conan looks like it's doing that with the first Conan movie: having a similar plot, but taking it in a whole new direction, with slightly more emphasis on the books as a source.
Honestly, what I think is ideal is the Film.Sherlock Holmes approach: instead of just adapting one of R.E. Howard's stories direct to film, where it may well not work, take bits and pieces from many of his stories to make a plot that works as a film, not as a written work.
Also, Jason Momoa may have been the best casting choice I've ever seen. Nobody but Arnie can copy Arnie, so they didn't try to.

Here's something I've been wondering for a while in regards to a certain trope.
I've been looking through all the Punk tropes (Desert Punk, Steampunk, Cyberpunk, etc), and got to thinking: What type of Punk does Conan fall into? I can't seem to find any proper description of the series' setting that describes its.
edited 10th Nov '10 8:28:49 PM by DRCEQ