Conan Pin-up FRAMED # 6 the Barbarian Valeria Sandahl Bergman Red Sonja

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Sandahl Bergman (born November 14, 1951) is an American dancer, stuntwoman, and actress. Her best-known role was playing Valeria opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian. She won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for her role in the film. Because no stunt women could be found to match her size, she learned to do all her own stunt work. She commented on the experience, “It was tough. I nearly lost a finger. Arnold smashed his head against a rock. But that was nothing compared to what the stunt men went through.” In 1985, she played a different character, Queen Gedren, in another Conanesque film, Red Sonja. She was offered the title role, but asked to play the villainess instead. Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 sword and sorcery/adventure film directed and co-written by John Milius. It is based on stories by Robert E. Howard, a pulp fiction writer of the 1930s, about the adventures of the eponymous character in a fictional pre-historic world of dark magic and savagery. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones, and tells the story of a young barbarian (Schwarzenegger) who seeks vengeance for the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of a snake cult. Valeria has her roots in two strong female characters from Howard’s Conan stories. Her namesake was Conan’s companion in “Red Nails”, while her personality and fate were based on those of Bêlit, the pirate queen in “Queen of the Black Coast”. According to Kristina Passman, an assistant professor of classical languages and literature, the film’s Valeria is a perfect archetype of the “good” Amazon character, a fierce but domesticated female warrior, in cinema. Rikke Schubart, a film scholar, said Valeria is a “good” Amazon because she is tamed by love and not because of any altruistic tendencies. Valeria’s prowess in battle matches that of Conan and she is also depicted as his equal in behavior and status. The loyalty and love she displays for Conan makes her more than a dear companion to him; she represents his “possibilities of human happiness”. Her sacrifice for Conan and her brief return from death act out the heroic code, illustrating that self-sacrificing heroism brings “undying fame”. Valeria’s name is not spoken in the film; the only scene where she was named, her self-introduction, was cut.

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