Just watched the movie Tombstone and I was so excited about the experience I had that I decided to write something about it. This is not a review of the movie or anything and I am nobody to write a review on a movie. This is just how I felt about the movie.
Though it is based on a true story I didn’t find anything that much interesting about the movie or its plot but I really liked the characters in it. Specially Doc Holliday. He has got a style that I really enjoyed and I don’t know I felt a deep connection with that character. I was so in to the movie and the character Doc that I answered to Wyatt’s question “for what?” (Wyatt: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc, makes him do the things he does? … What does he need? Doc: Revenge. Wyatt: For what?) exactly as “being born” before Doc spoke those words. I was kind of surprised with this and a bit confused whether my connection was to Doc or Ringo.
I didn’t like Wyatt much. Of course he has got balls but he is sometimes coward or selfish (when he tries to talk his brothers out of policing the town) and he fell for the kind of woman I hate the most, Josephine Marcus. Yes, she is a woman who likes to live her life easy, enjoying, without committed to any man for long but I believe that those kind of women are trouble. A man, may be, can imagine himself falling in love with such a woman or having a relationship with her. But surely he will not be comfortable being born to this world, as her son.
I know a couple of guys like Curly Bill, from my college days and I see them as highly energetic (physical) and extrovert people who appear mad and bad to all around them.This kind generally lack internal courage but have a lot of physical courage.May be they should divert all their energy to something useful or less harmful, like Michael Phelps.
Last but not the least, Ike Clanton, is a common being you can see in your daily life. I have seen many such in my life and let me say, almost every human being is Ike-like but it is just that the ‘level of Ike’ varies from person to person. I have seen Ike-like who are even successful and popular and they show their real character only when they are exposed to a crisis or danger and suddenly people realize them and may start to hate them. But Ike continues to live like normal, later, as if nothing has happened.
Two words to the writer (Kevin Jarre): hats off.
