With a remaking of Conan the Barbarian coming out this Friday , it ’s time to contemplate the awesomeness of blade and sandal film . You know – movies set in the mythologic day of ancientness , when everybody carried swords , wore sandal ( or leather charge ) , and open their mouths really wide while struggle .
Nothing says “ sword and sandal ” like crazy leather rig and chest - husking . particularly when you fox some barbarians into the mix . Here are some of the most memorable barbarian looks created by Hollywood .
Let ’s start with a later twentieth century classic : Conan the Barbarian , star Arnold Schwarzenegger in a mankini , tooth necklace , and a fate of oil . This is plausibly the most Hellenic steel and sandal wild outfit , though as you ’ll see there are several variations that involve dresser straps .
In the new Conan the Barbarian movie , coming out this Friday , Jason Momoa shows us a tamer reading of the barbarian outfit . The mankini has been supplant with a modest , long skirt . At least he has several impertinent leather belts and a tooth necklace to keep thing jittery .
In Spartacus , playing the eponymous sub , Kirk Douglas indicate some breechcloth and the ever - popular cross - chest strap . He ’s also got the bonus panoplied weapon , perhaps to make up for the fact that all his other soft parts are defenseless to the air .
In the new Conan pic , Jason Momoa try out the armored arm look too , though does n’t quite pull it off due to his recollective skirt covering up the ever - important breechclout .
Hercules Unchained is one of the most iconic steel and sandal movies , and here you’re able to see Hercules flummox in an off - the - shoulder routine . Muscle - bound hero Steve Reeves teaches us that if you ca n’t wear chest of drawers straps or go mostly naked , at least have the decency to publicize some thorax and one pap .
Now we ’re tattle . In 300 , there are so many mostly - au naturel fighters that you forget that they are civilized Spartans and begin getting that barbarian notion . You ’ve engender to love a flick where everybody wears swords and leather underwear . I do it I do .
You do n’t have to wear a skirt to be a barbarian . Check out the trouser on Jamie Bell , who is giving us his good pube cleavage smolder . He ’s the barbarian pal to a centurion go through the wild of Scotland during the Roman occupation in The Eagle .
And then there are the uncivilized fashions you’re able to never unsee . Here , the future uncivilized Sean Connery wears thigh - high leather boots and a hot flushed breechcloth with ruddy chest straps . It must be Zardoz !
Somehow Charlton Heston manages to keep his nipple enshroud in sword and sandal classic Ben Hur . fuck those fetishistically buckle gloves and whip , though .
He ’s not a barbarian exactly , but Russell Crowe is striking the perfect sword and sandal posture in this picture . Like Spartacus , above , he ’s not show tang . And he ’s got a small leather skirt , with a precious cotton plant pillow slip underneath . Still , he supervise to work some strap in there and keep his mouthpiece in the right shape for a sword and sandal epic . In comics , this facial expression would be shout “ blowjob face . ” In Gladiator , we call it . . . um . . .
And we call this . . . Sparta !
In Centurion , a Roman soldier is being chased by a vengeful peasant who manages to look deadly without baring any chest at all , and without making the cock sucking face . Olga Kurylenko ’s turnout here is the rarified exclusion to the barbarian chest rule , perhaps because she lives in the freezing forests of England . Or maybe because the barbarian musical genre is all about manful nipples , not distaff .
In Disney ’s upcoming swashbuckler John Carter , our titular hero ( Taylor Kitsch ) is transported to Barsoom ( AKA Mars ) . He apace adopts the local barbarian way with — you guessed it — strap on his chest ! plain chest strap fashion is popular all over our solar system .
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