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Tombstone: The Dead Killing the Dead
||May 05, 2008|437 reads
 

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Hudnall
May 05, 2008
Yes!!  And people think I'm nuts for it. 
Mike n Laura
May 05, 2008

Interesting perspective, Eric.

When this movie was released, I recall a second movie about the gunfight at the OK Corral being made. I liked the other one better. Don't remember what it was called though.

Hudnall
May 05, 2008
Oh yeah, and yes, God can use anyone He wants to.
Lots of that in the old testament.
David Binford
May 05, 2008
Wasn't the other movie with Kevin Costner as Wyatt Earp? I believe it was called Wyatt Earp in fact.  Great perspective!
Hal Waterhouse
June 06, 2008

I loved the movie, (I own it) and partly because of it's perspective on the world's morality. 'Course, it doesn't hurt that I love westerns and gun-play, although watching others play kill for the sake of entertainment is a bit distressing on the abstract, spiritual side.

The world sees morality much like the movie portrayed. A good "moral" man like Wyatt can have an extra-marital affair with a "virtuous" yet adultorous actress, because his wife is a druggie and doesn't like being ignored by him. And of course, killing is okay because vengeance is Wyatt's for a good reason --the bad guys killed a brother and it got personal. Revenge is okay --an eye for an eye, etc.

Doc Holiday is another study in what's okay to kill a bully...as long as he is is more evil than you and that you care about your friends. The "I'm not as bad as him, he did it first!" philosophy. 

The most confusing character was Jeff Goldbloom's character. He was a kind of morality scale, tilting back and forth until he was finally too evil and got killed for it. I'm still confused about his character.

I've been a Christian for a long time and sometimes it makes me feel that my world-view can't be "smudged" anymore because of my "grounding" in God's Word and by His Spirit. Don't I sound like a spiritual giant? LOL, of course I am not! I do know that what I invite into my living room could be "smudging" me. I often have to watch what I recommend to people because I have literally censored the bad stuff in my mind and not let it come to roost in my heart. This is not always possible and so I will mostly shun the R-rated (and worse) movies and content. But perhaps the same morality scale is going on in me, as well. Hmmmm...freedom, grace and the law... a balancing act, no?

Thanks for the interesting perspective. I will watch out for smudges in the future! 

Mike n Laura
June 06, 2008

I guess I'm still waiting for a blog on the spiritual lessons from "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly".

lol 

Hal Waterhouse
June 06, 2008

ROFL!

That's easy:

Good = Good

Bad = Bad

Ugly = your parent's fault! 

Eric
June 14, 2008
Halz, awesome insights!  Thanks for sharing!  I'm going to pass that on to my friends who I saw the movie with.