My Favourite Movie Scenes :: #3 TOMBSTONE

Some time after Wyatt Earp and his homeboys had laid waste to the majority of the cowboys ravaging the town of Tombstone, Johnny Ringo, the new kid on the block fastest gun in the West best thing since sliced bread hot shit cowboy challenges Earp to a duel as the only way to stop whats going on. Knowing that Earp can’t win, Doc Holliday (despite being critically ill from cancer) shows up earlier and challenges Johnny Ringo instead.

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While the other scenes in higher spots are either more resonant with me or meant more in my growth as a human being, there’s no scene in the world that I think is cooler than this one.

I mean there are times when Obi Kenobi will kill sixty confederate androids without breaking a sweat, but its nowhere near as cool as seeing Johnny Ringo shit his pants when he sees Doc Holliday step into the clearing smoking a cigarette looking cool as hell. Or “Why Johnny Ringo, it looks like someone just walked over your grave.” as Holliday says.

It’s beyond me how Val Kilmer isn’t nominated for an Oscar for this role. Everything he says is a gem, I dont think I can say that about another performance ever. There are so many awesome moments in this film, and they all involve Val Kilmer, except the part where Kurt Russell holds a gun to someone’s head and says “You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me? “

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