One of the best scenes in the movie. His exchange with Johnny Ringo in the Saloon is also a good one.
Yea, this one hit me pretty Hard..
RIP Val
It would be kinda neat if Trump picked up on that saying.
Foreign leader: “We will increase tariffs on American goods!”
Trump: “I’m your huckleberry.”
If anyone is interested in the rumor that the word “Huckleberry” isn’t accurate, I have quite a bit of research on it proving that it is the correct word.
Val was a great actor, and he made it look easy. He just seemed comfortable in any role he played.
Going to watch Tombstone again tomorrow night with my brother. We get together and hang out, have dinner, watch a movie. Every Tuesday...:)
How lucky a man am I?
RIP, Val. Best movie for him is Tombstone, my favorite scene is like many, the bar scene with the cup and Latin conversation!
This scene is a great play on words! Doc says “I’m you’re huckle bearer” whereas a Huckle is the handle on a casket and a pol bearer would there be a huckle bearer. Val may well have said “I’ll be your huckle bearer” basically taunting his opponent that he’d send him to his grave. It’s a little slurred.
I read an article that it was never meant to be huckleberry but huckle bearer which is the handle on a coffin that a pallbearer would grab.
Not many before or since who could step into any role and own it like he did.
One of my favorite Westerns, but in the context of his passing, to me the most noteworthy scene is near the end, when he’s dying of TB, and tells Wyatt to get up and go, and don’t look back….
I heard Michael Mann just finished the screenplay for Heat 2. Sad Val won't be around to see it. He was such a big part of Heat.
He had met his wife, actress Joanne Whalley, when they played each other's love interests in Willow, one of my all-time favorite fantasy movies.
Some years later while he was filming "Dr. Moreau" with Brando in a South Pacific locale, he retired to his motel room one day and turned on CNN, only to hear the news that Whalley, his wife of 7 years, was divorcing him. He had no prior warning. At that point, he & Whalley had a 6 year old daughter and a newborn son.
I remember thinking, Wow! What a great way to find out your wife and the mother of your only children is leaving you ... by flipping on a TV newscast!
What I like about this scene is that Doc had no problem dropping a drunk Ringo.
A completely cold blooded move.
My first memory of Val is probably the Real Genius movies.
I never saw “The Doors”, but I’ve been told Val did a perfect, method actor job of as being Jim Morrison.
To me? His iconic role is Iceman in Top Gun, this, Tombstone...
I actually enjoyed him in “The Saint”.
His Batman was decent, and worthwhile for more exploration.
I know (without looking) he was Julliard trained.
But, again, despite it all, “Real Genius” was my favoite.
https://screenrant.com/val-kilmer-julliard-drama-school-youngest-student/
The whole cast was absolutely magnificent. Every actor. Superb direction too.
He owned that movie as Doc Holliday.