taped and watched Wyatt Earp. fucking brilliant film. underrated and better than Tombstone, which is the same story. also, Doc Holliday was portrayed better than i've ever seen else where in this film; he wasn't always smiling, he didn't look like a magician, he was dying of TB.
i love Westerns, so i'm biased, but its a brilliant portrayal of what happened and is very accurate. i have a soft spot for Doc Holliday anyway, even though he wasn't in the film until half way through, but he still fucking dominated it.
also; at the end, years later, when a lad comes up to Wyatt and tells him a heroic story his father told him about Wyatt saving his uncle from being lynched by an angry mob, then thanking Wyatt for what he did. when he leaves, Wyatt says to his wife "it's just a shame that's not what happened." nice twist to it.
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