Wyatt Eerp: Why does Ringo do all the bad he does?
Doc Holiday: Revenge! Revenge for being born!
There have been several great movies made about the gunfight at the O. K. Corrall but one of the best westerns ever was the movie "Tombstone" with a great story, cinematography, and cast like Kurt Russell, Van Kilmer, Sam Elliot, and Charleston Heston to name a few. This is not only a great western but has great theological remarks throughout this film.
Kurt Russell plays the famous Wyatt Eerp and Van Kilmer does the most remarkable acting job of his career playing Doc Holiday. The movie raises theological issues such as justice, vengeance, sin, evil, and why should we do good? Doc Holiday says things like "its not about vengeance but a day of reckoning." There are apocalyptic hints throughout the movie like what happens after you die and is there really justice in this life (or the life to come?).
One of my favorite parts of the movie is where Kate, Doc Holiday's woman is constantly pushing him to extreme behaviors of drinking, gambling, and sex. Doc learns he is dying and he has to give up these things if he is going to survive his sickness. Kate presses her body against Doc Holiday, puts a cigarette in his mouth and fills his whiskey glass. She says, "I've been good to you . . . Haven't I been a good woman?"
In an unforgetable moment, Doc Holiday looks at her and says, "It appears you are a good woman OR you might be the Anti-Christ!"
Wow, does evil come clothed in the beautiful and the subtle? Maybe the contemporary song has a point that the Devil often comes in bluejeans?
Doc Holiday: Revenge! Revenge for being born!
There have been several great movies made about the gunfight at the O. K. Corrall but one of the best westerns ever was the movie "Tombstone" with a great story, cinematography, and cast like Kurt Russell, Van Kilmer, Sam Elliot, and Charleston Heston to name a few. This is not only a great western but has great theological remarks throughout this film.
Kurt Russell plays the famous Wyatt Eerp and Van Kilmer does the most remarkable acting job of his career playing Doc Holiday. The movie raises theological issues such as justice, vengeance, sin, evil, and why should we do good? Doc Holiday says things like "its not about vengeance but a day of reckoning." There are apocalyptic hints throughout the movie like what happens after you die and is there really justice in this life (or the life to come?).
One of my favorite parts of the movie is where Kate, Doc Holiday's woman is constantly pushing him to extreme behaviors of drinking, gambling, and sex. Doc learns he is dying and he has to give up these things if he is going to survive his sickness. Kate presses her body against Doc Holiday, puts a cigarette in his mouth and fills his whiskey glass. She says, "I've been good to you . . . Haven't I been a good woman?"
In an unforgetable moment, Doc Holiday looks at her and says, "It appears you are a good woman OR you might be the Anti-Christ!"
Wow, does evil come clothed in the beautiful and the subtle? Maybe the contemporary song has a point that the Devil often comes in bluejeans?
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