Actually two:

1. After Doc kills Ringo in the grove near the end, Wyatt comes up after Doc lays the badge on Ringo's chest. There is dialog and then Wyatt picks up the badge to which Doc says, "apparently my hypocrisy only goes so far."

What does he mean by that? I dont get it and I have seen this movie a dozen times.

2. Doc is dying in the sanitorium and Wyatt come to play cards. Doc begs Wyatt to leave which he does and then as Doc dies he looks at his bare feet and says, "I'll be damned, isnt this funny."

What is he talking about? What is so funny about his bare feet?.

More than any movie, these two scenes confuse me to no end.





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thanks for the replies, I guess I never thought of that answer for my first question since I always think of Doc as one of the good guys in the movie but your explanations make sense. As for my second question, I thought it had something to do with him dying without his boots on but that just didnt seem right to me..

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I thought it had something to do with him dying without his boots on but that just didnt seem right to me..

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You were thinking right.

In te "Old West" real men died with there boots on. It's as simple as that.

doc holliday in reality was one of the coldest outlaws in the old west. although done well by Kilmer in the movie, his real life existence was far from heroic and even disturbing at times.

but i agree, one of my favorite movies also (even though the historical inaccuracies are all over the place)

Thats a dangerous statement.

Some would say its...unsafe.

I'm having strong cravings, and every time I see this thread, I want pizza.

That's all right, Ellie, I still got one good arm to hold you with.

thanks for reminding me of another awesome movie I have yet to purchase.

wyatt i stand corrected... you're an oak

"I'm your huckleberry."

"You're a daisy if you do."



"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay as soft as we are now. There won't be any America because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a harder race!"
- Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

not to break the string of Tombstone quotes,

but you know what gets me the last few times I've watched the movie. In fact I remember watching it a few years ago and thinking, dang that guys voice sounds familiar. That loud fat obnoxious gambler Johnny Tyler that Wyatt slaps down in the street is Billy Bob Thornton a few years before Slingblade.

Y'all are way off base. I will argue to the death that Val Kilmer's best role (and a role for which he was snubbed an Oscar nomination) was clearly as Madmartigan in 1998 'Should've been Best Picture' Willow



To argue otherwise shows how little you know about quality movies and superior acting roles...

I don't think anyone has really answered your question about the first quote.

When Doc says his hypocrisy only goes so far, this would imply that while he is usually a hypocrite (and in fact he even says a few times: "my hypocrisy knows no bounds" ), in this instance he was NOT a hypocrite.

I don't understand what was NOT hypocritical about Doc wearing a badge to kill Ringo. I do understand why it was hypocritical, but his quote implies that it was not.

[This message has been edited by unmade bed (edited 8/10/2007 1:11p).]

So he has been snubbed twice by the Academy...

Why am I not surprised?

movie fact: bob mitchum was the narrator of tombstone who also appeared in weve never been licked 50 years earlier

Ringo - "Well...bye..."

That perspective on the boots makes sense, although I'd never thought of it.

For some reason I thought it was in reference to a dialogue earlier in the movie when Bill Paxton's character was asking the guys if they believed in God as they left the show that night. He also asked what they thought happened when they died. Always assumed that was a fitting reaction for Doc to make to "whatever happens"

but the boot thing makes sense too

oh and

"Wyatt I am Roolling"

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he figured he die by bullit or blade.

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with his boots on...