Gov. Schwarzenegger distances self from Conan games

by Kyle Orland { Dec 12th 2007 at 4:23PM }

While he might be a big shot politician these days, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will always be associated with his breakthrough movie role as Conan the Barbarian. So it's not horribly unfair for the ABC7 Sacramento news team to ask the Governor's office how his public opposition to video game violence gels with THQ's new, extremely gory Conan video game. "The Conan character existed far before the governor portrayed him in the movies, and it still exists in different forms of entertainment," said Aaron McLear, the governor's press secretary. "The governor has no association with that game."

Fair enough, but we're a little disappointed the ABC7 reporter didn't go the extra step and ask Schwarzenegger how he felt about the violence in the Conan movie -- the one he was associated with. Surely some children were exposed to the movie's wonton brutality and turned into broadsword wielding murderers, right? So why the double standard? And why no Kindergarten Cop video game? Inquiring minds want to know!

[Via GamePolitics]

Tags: Arnold, Arnold-Schwarzenegger, clifornia, controversy, laws, Leland-yee, Schwarzenegger, violence

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

sifer2400 @ Dec 12th 2007 4:25PM

lol this picture is priceless along witht eh line Get into the CHOOPPPER

Arturo @ Dec 12th 2007 5:01PM

No. It's "RUNNN!! GOOOO!! GET TO THE CHOPPAAAA!!"

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Anticrawl @ Dec 12th 2007 6:17PM

Heh that was on Spike TV last night. Predator is truly a classic.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Dec 12th 2007 4:26PM

I prefer the wonton nudity and orgies in the conan movies, myself :)

darkeyez @ Dec 12th 2007 4:39PM

Agreed. I think the Conan movies sparked my very first sexual fantasies.

Obie @ Dec 12th 2007 5:49PM

I know those bulging muscles and strong jawline......
oh wait...nevermind.

JAmerican @ Dec 12th 2007 4:28PM

Schwarzenegger is a hypocritical SOB!

ageary @ Dec 12th 2007 4:42PM

At least hes openly hypocritical, unlike many politicians through the ages who were happy to practice.

and also, heres some funny impressions !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlxoyw_8I7I

oshin @ Dec 12th 2007 4:43PM

Damn, I meant to say, happy to practice what they preached against behind closed doors.

Guess i was just too eager to post mad arnold

Kristof @ Dec 12th 2007 4:47PM

He's not a hypocrite you retards.

Now if he said one thing and did the opposite sure .... but not with a 20 year dispairity between them. People evolve, change and have new opinions about something.

Like if you kicked a puppy when you were 5, then 20 years later told your kid not to kick puppies, you're not a hypocrite. (Unless of course, you still kick puppies, but if you learned from your mistake and realized it's wrong, that's something different)

Vaitork @ Dec 12th 2007 5:40PM

Maybe, except Schwarzenegger was 35 at the time he did Conan, not 5.

It's not about having new opinions. It's about having new interests and priorities.

Kristof @ Dec 12th 2007 5:51PM

It's called an example. I love how people are so literal. Here, here's an example.

A starting up actor is offered a role of a warrior in a movie. Sure he says, thinking it would be fun and he needs money ... and after all, he wants to be an actor, so he'll take a role.

Later in life, he forms different opinions on the matter and comes to different conclusions than what he used to think. He then advocates these ideas to others.

Is that better?

Marty @ Dec 12th 2007 4:46PM

Someone has to say it: "I'm a cop, you eediot!"

Geist @ Dec 12th 2007 11:29PM

It's naht a TOOMAAH!

robotrock @ Dec 12th 2007 4:51PM

What is best in life? To crush your enemies. To see them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women...and to govern Kahleefornia

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Dec 12th 2007 5:18PM

Do you know the riddle of steel?

WiNG @ Dec 12th 2007 4:55PM

20 years ago I though I had a better theory for atomic structure than what already exists.

Am I a hypocrite now because I realize I was totally wrong?

Anticrawl @ Dec 12th 2007 6:25PM

Hypocrite (Noun) - a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives.

There, now you know what the word means and can stop asking stupid questions.

Dale @ Dec 12th 2007 4:58PM

Who is your daddy and what is his Gamertag?

Ranko @ Dec 12th 2007 5:05PM

Fact: It's not a tumor.

Nick the Hero of Canton @ Dec 12th 2007 5:05PM

The man has been against game violence for a few years now. What was his last significant movie? 2003's Terminator 3.

Dale @ Dec 12th 2007 5:28PM

There's a difference between something he earns millions of dollars from and something he has no involvement with, clearly.

unfriendly_cat @ Dec 12th 2007 5:10PM

'wonton brutality' - sounds delicious

Sam @ Dec 12th 2007 5:23PM

CRUM!!!!!!!!!!

someshow @ Dec 12th 2007 5:24PM

This explains it!

http://andheneverdies.ytmnd.com/

hvnlysoldr @ Dec 13th 2007 12:26AM

That spooked me. Not so much the video but that it attracted the real ghosts in the house. Brr.

Obie @ Dec 12th 2007 5:51PM

Hasta la vista...royalties.

Nick the Hero of Canton @ Dec 12th 2007 5:55PM

I also recall him saying he would have signed onto Terminator 4 if it was filmed in CA and if he had a flexable filming schedule.

ThornedVenom @ Dec 12th 2007 6:39PM

So tell me... how can you define Schwarzenegger's stance by correlating a movie character with a violent videogame?

Sean Newton @ Dec 12th 2007 6:53PM

Eh, unless Aanold is getting some royalties from this game (which I doubt), he really isn't involved.

A good analogy would be Battlestar Galactica. The original Boomer had the same comment on the new Boomer when I asked him what he thought about the new series.

Just because he portrayed the character once, doesn't mean he was involved in the game.

And for the record, I've read a few of the old black+white comic books. Conan was a gore-splattering individual long before Aanold took up the sword of Atlantis (or whatever it was).