What is insane is that this REALLY happened. Earp ran shooting in the river and every single shot the Cowboys fired at him was a miss, including Curly Bill's. Earp killed Brosius, and broke the morale of the remaining Cowboys. This is not movie plot armor - it actually happened like this.
What's also insane is that the 3 triggered Stevens 10 gauge Wyatt used to kill Curly Bill was the exact same shotgun that US Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas used to kill Bill Doolin. They both borrowed it from the same mutual friend, Wells Fargo agent Fred Dodge.
This is what was said to have happened, but unfortunately they didn't have cameras back then that could record it. It's not totally implausible though, because they had run out of ammo on their rifles and were shooting at him with their revolvers, which are already terribly inaccurate. Add to that the panic and disbelief from seeing a guy charging at you with a shotgun and it's not hard to see how a small army of people could shoot at him and all miss.
Doc is just the kind of guy you ALWAYS want around when the shit goes down. Not only one of the most legendary gunfighters, but a die hard loyal friend.
One of the things that makes this scene so powerful is that Doc was the first to get up and run into the river after him. It pairs beautifully with his statement later about Wyatt being his (possibly only) friend.
@@subclangor One can find plenty in both films questionable, where they played fast & loose with what really happened, that's not at all uncommon. But overall they're both good pictures.
Hate to burst your bubble, OneBiased, but the actual shootout at the watering hole didn't go like this at all. When the outlaws (led by Sheriff Behan) began firing on Wyatt Earp's posse.... They all, including Doc Holliday, ran for their lives. They all rode over the nearby rise, leaving Earp to defend himself. As in the movie, (and they got this sort of right) Curly Bill was walking toward Earp, who was struggling to get his twelve-gauge out of his saddle pocket. He was turning and twisting, which probably actually went in his favor, because the buckshot from Curly Bill's gun went through Earp's coat, but never wounded him. Earp finally got his shotgun down, aimed it at Curly Bill and shot him dead. Then he drew a pistol and fired it, and luck was with him again....he wounded one of the members of Behan's posse, outlaw Johnny Barnes. (Who later died of his wound). Then somehow, Earp was able to grab his horse and ride away from the watering hole without getting shot. Meanwhile, Doc Holliday and the others stayed well out of range of the Behan posse fusillade of bullets. A fool would call that cowardice, but actually Holliday and the others were doing the only right thing to save themselves. The movie version, where Doc is right beside Earp firing at the bad guys is the one you wished might have happened, but unfortunately, real life is NOT Hollywood. Also, I might add, the end of the movie when Wyatt Earp visits Doc Holliday in the Glenwood Springs Sanatorium never took place. What really happened is Doc Holliday, a southerner, called Wyatt Earp a "Jew lover." (Josephine Marcus, Earp's girlfriend, was Jewish). Earp and Holliday were never close again, and Earp didn't find out Holliday had died until months later.
I have always loved that exchange. The most underrated two lines in a movie packed with great lines that have been quoted a thousand times. Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday naturally gets all the love, but for my money, Kurt Russell's Wyatt Earp has the single most badass line in the entire movie: "You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, do you understand?" Nope, he ain't bluffing.
in the script the two cowboy survivors get back to the cowboys camp and they tell Ringo that they shot Wyatt Earp "a dozen times" and he just kept coming and killed Curly Bill. Ringo tells the panicky cowboys "He's just a man." the cowboy responds "You didn't see his face!" Ringo stares him dead in the eyes and says "You see my face, don't you?" he shoots both cowboys dead and vows to the rest that Earp and all his friend die.
Wyatt Earp was actually noted of being exceptionally lucky with not being shot. This was point of fact noted by everyone around him. Including his brothers.
I believe he was famous in Dodge City for pistol whipping people during gun fights instead of shooting them. Take guts to walk right at a man shooting you and hit them.
It also probably had something to do with his opponents not being used to seeing a man brave enough to just waltz up to them in the middle of a gunfight. It probably played on their anxiety and threw off their aim... psychological warfare.
directly from the script -scene not filmed. 1ST COWBOY: We hit him half a dozen times but He just kept comin', walked right Up to Curly Bill with that 10 Gauge and blew him up! RINGO: He killed Curly Bill? 2ND COWBOY: He didn't just kill him, he Burned him down! Blew him in Half! Then he turned Around with that big Colt and Killed Johnny Barnes. Blasted down a few more fore we got outta there. But it was his face. You should have seen his face. RINGO: He's just a man. 1ST COWBOY: You didn't see his face! RINGO: You see my face, don't you? (Ringo shoots both cowboys dead.) RINGO: Everybody get this through their Heads. Wyatt Earp dies. They all die. Understand?
In this movie they didnt make Curly Bill out to be the notorious killer he actually was. He was clearly made a 2nd fiddle to Ringo. But Curly in his own right was a deadly gunfighter.
They were probably so amazed at him coming out the way that he did that they couldnt shoot straight!! He had bullet holes through his coat but he was unhit. Absolutely amazing!!!!
@@Chuckclc Curly was known for being a deadly gunfighter among the Cowboys (second only to Johnny Ringo). He seemed to have good pinpoint accuracy during the gunfight against the Mexican policemen at the wedding in the beginning of the film. Yet he suddenly has terrible aim when he goes up against Wyatt Earp. He was only a few feet away and Wyatt wasn't even shooting back until Curly ran out of bullets and decided to use his shotgun. Not too surprising when you think about plot armor.
@@Cestro Except it wasn't plot armor. According to witnesses from both sides, that *really happened*. The real Wyatt Earp had bullet repellent on him or something, being one of the very few gunfighters to never be shot (not *once*) and die peacefully at a ripe old age.
Same thing happened with George Washington in the Battle of Monongahela that took place on July 9,1755. A bunch of Native Americans shot at George Washington and it all missed him. He had 2 horses shot under him and 4 bullet holes in his coat. The Native Americans believed that a "Great Spirit " protected him.
Did Wyatt have a personal force field around him, despite the fact that Wild Bill's aim was worse than a Stormtrooper's? The real Wyatt Earp was nearly immortal himself by not only surviving the last days of the Wild West in Tombstone but living to the ripe old age of 80 and outliving all his siblings. He was already 17 years old when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and died just 12 years before Pearl Harbor. Damn.
He didn't kill Curly Bill like this. They ran into each other and Wyatt got the drop on him blowing him away with shotgun. ua-cam.com/video/Byk58QOwwck/v-deo.html&t=
Great performance by Powers Booth as Curly Bill Brocious & he was believable! That's important as I don't know if there's alot of history or background on life of Curly Bill. "Yeah, Come get some boy"!!!
the fact that this scene was actually documented in history to actually happen its fucking crazy. Wyatt's sack had brush burns that day for dragging them massive things around that day
@@sofakingonmynuts1438 correct, wyatt was left pretty much on his own during the fight at iron springs. The rest of the posse ran off, wyatt was left doing a two step with his bucking horse in one hand and a previously loosened gun belt flopping around his knees.
It's not as unusual as you think, for two men to blast at each other at close range and miss. Adrenaline and fear can cause tunnel vision, tensed muscles, and overall spoil aim.
You just described what is known in the trade as "stressfire." Wyatt's duster was peppered by Curly Bill's shotgun blast during actual fight, but incredibly, Wyatt wasn't hit! Curly Bill wasn't as fortunate. He screamed & fell dead backwards as Wyatt's shotgun blew his chest open. Number years later Bat Masterson would write, "Wyatt Earp didn't know what fear was." An exaggeration perhaps? I don't know, but Wyatt did seem to live up to that & a charmed life also as he was never once hit or wounded.
0:54 seconds is very important You can see he is clearly very scared, and doesnt know what to do. Then we see him again, and his face hardens. Its how men charge an entrenched position despite being shot at. Sometimes people, when all else is failing, totally deny their fear and do what they know needs to be done Edit I also notice now it is only until he sees Doc and the rest of his friends that he acts, since Wyatt himself is the one who led them there, and what happens to them is his responsibility
This is where I pop in to tell the tale of Sgt. Maj. Bradley Kasal during Operation Phantom Fury in 2004. In a firefight in a house in Fallujah, although wounded by seven 7.62x39mm rounds and hit by more than 43 pieces of hot fragmentation from a grenade while using his body to shield an injured fellow Marine, Kasal refused to quit fighting and is credited with saving the lives of several Marines during the U.S. assault on insurgent strongholds in Fallujah in November 2004. By the time he was carried out of the house by LCpl Chris Marquez and LCpl Dane Shaffer, Kasal had lost approximately 60 percent of his blood. The photograph of Kasal, taken by photographer Lucian Read - blood-soaked and still holding his M9 pistol and KA-Bar fighting knife - being helped from the building by fellow Marines, has become one of the iconic pictures of the war. His navy cross citation reads: "When First Sergeant Kasal learned that Marines were pinned down inside the house by an unknown number of enemy personnel, he joined a squad making entry to clear the structure and rescue the Marines inside. He made entry into the first room, immediately encountering and eliminating an enemy insurgent, as he spotted a wounded Marine in the next room. While moving towards the wounded Marine, First Sergeant Kasal and another Marine came under heavy rifle fire from an elevated enemy firing position and were both severely wounded in the legs, immobilizing them. When insurgents threw grenades in an attempt to eliminate the wounded Marines, he rolled on top of his fellow Marine and absorbed the shrapnel with his own body. When First Sergeant Kasal was offered medical attention and extraction, he refused until the other Marines were given medical attention. Although severely wounded himself, he shouted encouragement to his fellow Marines as they continued to clear the structure. "
Cheesy as the NOOOs! are this is still probably my favorite western. Even better than the classics for me. There is just something about this where you can watch it time and time again and it never really loses its magic. Everyone was at their best Val and Russel and all the others bill Paxton powers booth. Shit. Golden cast.
This is why Wyatt Earp is a famous out-lawman. During the fight at the OK Corral, he was the only one who walked away unscathed. Morgan, Virgil and Doc were injured, and the cowboys on the other side were all killed. Their original intention while walking to the field of battle was to disarm and arrest the cowboys. They never intended to shoot or kill them. But they did what they had to, in order to defend themselves. As for the fight depicted in this scene, the two groups met completely by accident. They weren’t looking for each other at all. It also happened in real life in a similar way it does in the movie. Wyatt walked right into the line of fire and was never touched by a single shot. In other words, Wyatt Earp was the badass of the Old West. Wyatt Earp: The Original Badass.
The funny pet about this story, is that this scene is true. It seems like perhaps the most absurd part of it all but it really went down pretty much like this. I’m not sure how accurate everything in this movie is, but this is probably the most spectacular scene, and it’s right from the history books, no Hollywood embellishment needed!
Can confirm, tested (many years ago) with black powder percussion revolvers, modern cartridge revolvers, and various semiautomatic pistols. You either need lots of practice or unusual talent to hit much of anything (reliably) outside of perhaps twenty feet or so - and in many cases, the same situation applies at any distance greater than that where “they *wear* the soot of your gun,” e.g. powder-burn range.
@@dennisyoung4631 both of you ass fucks i bet have never fired a gun in your life, its obvious you know fucking nothing about firearms, a colt single actin revolver you can hit anything you can see, if you had ever fired one you would know. comments from two wheel chair generals, FUCK BOTH OF YOU !!!
@@ftniceberg874 nothing to worry about. it's basicly tells us why people had rifles at hand then, instead of pistols. much easier to aim if it's long and pressed to your shoulder.
@@josephlino4452 that could be anything though anyone could just write up historical events and just say oh this is factual evidence it just doesn't sound very realistic sounds more like cliche Hollywood magic
@@SiouxW4rrior3856It's obviously a dramatization but it is based on real events. Obviously even first hand accounts should be taken with a grain of salt at times but the facts are out there. For the record after the shootout Earp's coat had bullet holes in it so at the very least he was in the line of fire when he killed Brocius
@@biggusdickus1689 Those "facts" could be anything, anyone could have written that even the greatest writer in the world could have written stories like that or even someone who writes books for a living with how powerful technology these days you can pretty much do anything with it even NASA who filmed the moon landing was fake so that's no different then the historical events of these movie I just I find it very skeptical considering that cowboys used to draw against each other and they didn't have a problem with aiming then so the hole thing just seems suspicious to me
Although the actual gunfight didn't happen this way, its still fun to watch. Wyatt Earp lived an amazing life and was simply lucky not to hit by a single bullet. Great movie. One of the best westerns ever.
It's little detail scenes like 1:43 that make this movie so good. The close up of Wyatt's gun firing and that little sound effect of like the spinning bullet leaving the barrel. So awesome.
ICONIC Western Movie! Grow up watching old western movies with my dad and although he had already left us by the time “Tombstone” came out. I’m sure he would have loved it just as much as I loved watching this movie. Miss you dad ♥️! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
1:21 [Curly Bill -> Guns (Pistol) roll: 16 -> FAILURE.] [Wyatt Earp -> Move.] 1:22 [Curly Bill -> Guns (Pistol) roll: 15 -> FAILURE.] [Wyatt Earp -> Move.] 1:23 [Curly Bill -> Do Nothing.] [Wyatt Earp -> Move.] 1:24 [Curly Bill -> Guns (Pistol) roll: 16 -> FAILURE.] [Wyatt Earp -> Move.] 1:24 [Curly Bill -> Do Nothing.] [Wyatt Earp -> Move.] 1:26 [Curly Bill -> Guns (Pistol) roll: 10 -> Out of ammunition -> FAILURE.] [Wyatt Earp -> Move.] 1:27 [Curly Bill -> Drop weapon.] [Wyatt Earp -> Move.] 1:28 [Curly Bill -> Do Nothing.] [Wyatt Earp -> Move.] 1:29 [Curly Bill -> "Son of a bitch.".] [Wyatt Earp -> Wait ("I will shoot Curly Bill if he tries to shoot at me.").] 1:30 [Curly Bill -> Guns (Shotgun) roll: 11 -> Wyatt's "Wait" action is triggered.] 1:31 - 1:33 [Wyatt Earp -> "Nooooo!" -> Guns (Shotgun) roll: 9 -> SUCCESS -> Curly Bill fails to Dodge and catches the full blast of a single shell.] 1:34 [Wyatt Earp -> Guns (Shotgun) roll: 10 -> SUCCESS -> Curly Bill fails to Dodge and catches the full blast of the second shell.]
I know my D&D knowledge isn't perfect, but shouldnt high rolls have a greater chance of success and low rolls constitute failure? Or is it backward for ranged attacks?
@@Firan25 Shotgun definitely has bonus hit chance if fired from close range. Wyatt also having a blessing active meant he didn't get nailed despite what would have been sure shots. Also dodge rolls.
@@Ragitsu Just mentioning the stacks on rolls. And I should clarify, by close range, I mean close enough the pellets start to spread, not so close you're almost touching them with the barrel. Otherwise there wouldn't be advantage.
The fight didn't actually develop that way, but Wyatt really did walk up to Curly Bill through a hail of gunfire and blew him in half with a 10 gauge shotgun!
@@b.3397 No one ever saw Curly Bill alive again. That's proof enough that he was dead. He certainly wasn't the sort of fellow who would voluntarily fade away into obscurity.
My research on Doc Holiday intrigued me to research Wyatt Earp and this scene in the movie Wyatt can be credited with the first bullet proof vest. He put it together with plates from an iron stove. Smart man!
According to Barnes who was wounded at the battle of iron springs. And died around 2 weeks later claimed on his death bed. Wyatt Earp blew curly bill in half at close range. And they(cowboys)payed two Indians to burry him in 2 different places.
+Red Challenger Technically seeing as Star Wars was (Along Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away) Wouldn't Han Solo likely have been reincarnated into Wyatt Earp?
It's total bullshit Val Kilmer didn't at least get nominated for Best Supporting Actor that year and history will repeat its self if Kurt Russell doesn't (at least) get nominated for the same award for "The Hateful Eight" at this year's Academy Awards. Two extraordinary actors who will probably never get their due.
worse bullshit is that thisfight never happened in reality and also the one with johnny ringo that always was too dangerous for hearp and was shoted from very far with a rifle e never was clear who shoted him
+pediatrapaola Ringo in real life committed suicide, but hey, that and the real fight of this scene would have been boring in the movie, I'm glad the changed it
Fiction is cooler than fact In the actual gunfight, Wyatt was left behind, everybody else rode out and left him, , including Doc ( which Wyatt NEVER let him forget) when Wyatt dismounted his gun belt slid down to his feet because he'd loosened it to be more comfortable while in the saddle on the long ride. The part about all the shots missing was true, later Wyatt stated his duster looked like a sieve and he did kill Curly Bill.
Nathan Holstrom There is a true story about Washington where shortly after he became President he met with some Chiefs of various tribes. One chief was an old man of the Shawnee who told Washington that he knew that Washington had been destined for great things. During the French and Indian War, Washington was a young officer under Braddock when they were ambushed by the French and their Indian allies. The French wore buckskin and blended into the forest while the British wore red uniforms thus were easy targets. The chief related how they first shot the British officers off their horses, all save one, this young officer rode along the line of regulars and was continually shot at but could not be brought down either the shooter missed or their rifle misfired. All the Shawnee warriors agreed later that the Great Spirit protected him for some reason. That young officer was Washington.
Their weapons had a lot of kick and many of them had no real experience with much else than shooting someone unawares and in cold blood. Many were known for basically shooting enemies in the back, like Wild Bill.
+tdizz88 "Where is he?" "Down by the creek...walkin on water." "Well, let's hope he's got another miracle up his sleeve, cause if I know Ringo, he's headed right for us. If they were my brothers, I'd want revenge, too." "No, make no mistake. It's not revenge he's after. It's the reckoning." As in, it's not that you killed my BROTHERS. It's that, you killed MY brothers. Of all the people in this world you could've picked a fight with, who the HELL do you think you are picking one with ME?! ;) God, I love that line. Makes me wanna listen to Reckoning Day by Megadeth. And definitely makes me wanna watch the movie all over again.
With the exception of a few individuals such James Butler Hickock and John Wesley Hardin, most people were rather indifferent shots with pistols during this era, that goes for Good guys as well as the Bad. Which is why most serious duels or gun fights took place at really close quarters; ten to fifteen feet or less is a good average distance.
is that because ammunition was to expensive to waste on target practice, or was it the face the guns were hand crafted so the guns weren't as accurate?
"In some form" would be the operative words there. Yeah ... in some form. As in the imagination of some fantasy writer who was no where near the incident.
Wyatt Earp was One of the few real humans to be blessed with plot armor
Don't forget about George Washington, who had bullets flying around him and was never hit. Some people are just blessed by God almighty.
That isn't plot armor, Wyatt Earp was blessed with God's Wrath at that point
more like body armor or both actually lol
@@VictoriaCortes1717come right along now, you can't run with the big if you're piss'n like a puppy.
Him and Hitler
What is insane is that this REALLY happened. Earp ran shooting in the river and every single shot the Cowboys fired at him was a miss, including Curly Bill's. Earp killed Brosius, and broke the morale of the remaining Cowboys.
This is not movie plot armor - it actually happened like this.
What's also insane is that the 3 triggered Stevens 10 gauge Wyatt used to kill Curly Bill was the exact same shotgun that US Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas used to kill Bill Doolin. They both borrowed it from the same mutual friend, Wells Fargo agent Fred Dodge.
According to the survivors....
It's wild really. I believe EVERY bit of it
This is what was said to have happened, but unfortunately they didn't have cameras back then that could record it.
It's not totally implausible though, because they had run out of ammo on their rifles and were shooting at him with their revolvers, which are already terribly inaccurate. Add to that the panic and disbelief from seeing a guy charging at you with a shotgun and it's not hard to see how a small army of people could shoot at him and all miss.
Take into account how dirty the inner barrel were or how worn out thier guns were from excessive use
Doc is just the kind of guy you ALWAYS want around when the shit goes down. Not only one of the most legendary gunfighters, but a die hard loyal friend.
People with loads of friends are unloyal, those with few friends will die for theirs.
Thats why I used to hang out with the least popular people, it pays off in adulthood.
A real ride or die friend.
@@flammafortis9669 or you generally enjoy their personality and friendship
1:46 the look on doc's face. Thats the look of someone who's got your back when the shit goes down!!!
One of the things that makes this scene so powerful is that Doc was the first to get up and run into the river after him. It pairs beautifully with his statement later about Wyatt being his (possibly only) friend.
"You don't have many friends do you Wyatt Earp"? (Shakes head no,) "Well you just found yourself one, call me "Doc." (Offers his hand.)
@@a.leemorrisjr.9255 Yes! Both films are entertaining.
@@subclangor One can find plenty in both films questionable, where they played fast & loose with what really happened, that's not at all uncommon. But overall they're both good pictures.
Val had to get up because Russell was stealing the scene. I'm surprised Kilmer didn't scream "I'm your huckleberry" again.
Hate to burst your bubble, OneBiased, but the actual shootout at the watering hole didn't go like this at all. When the outlaws (led by Sheriff Behan) began firing on Wyatt Earp's posse.... They all, including Doc Holliday, ran for their lives. They all rode over the nearby rise, leaving Earp to defend himself. As in the movie, (and they got this sort of right) Curly Bill was walking toward Earp, who was struggling to get his twelve-gauge out of his saddle pocket. He was turning and twisting, which probably actually went in his favor, because the buckshot from Curly Bill's gun went through Earp's coat, but never wounded him. Earp finally got his shotgun down, aimed it at Curly Bill and shot him dead. Then he drew a pistol and fired it, and luck was with him again....he wounded one of the members of Behan's posse, outlaw Johnny Barnes. (Who later died of his wound). Then somehow, Earp was able to grab his horse and ride away from the watering hole without getting shot. Meanwhile, Doc Holliday and the others stayed well out of range of the Behan posse fusillade of bullets. A fool would call that cowardice, but actually Holliday and the others were doing the only right thing to save themselves. The movie version, where Doc is right beside Earp firing at the bad guys is the one you wished might have happened, but unfortunately, real life is NOT Hollywood. Also, I might add, the end of the movie when Wyatt Earp visits Doc Holliday in the Glenwood Springs Sanatorium never took place. What really happened is Doc Holliday, a southerner, called Wyatt Earp a "Jew lover." (Josephine Marcus, Earp's girlfriend, was Jewish). Earp and Holliday were never close again, and Earp didn't find out Holliday had died until months later.
"Hell i ain't never even HEARD of anything like that" Always got a kick out of that line
that is a great line
I have always loved that exchange. The most underrated two lines in a movie packed with great lines that have been quoted a thousand times. Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday naturally gets all the love, but for my money, Kurt Russell's Wyatt Earp has the single most badass line in the entire movie:
"You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, do you understand?" Nope, he ain't bluffing.
in the script the two cowboy survivors get back to the cowboys camp and they tell Ringo that they shot Wyatt Earp "a dozen times" and he just kept coming and killed Curly Bill.
Ringo tells the panicky cowboys "He's just a man." the cowboy responds "You didn't see his face!" Ringo stares him dead in the eyes and says "You see my face, don't you?" he shoots both cowboys dead and vows to the rest that Earp and all his friend die.
My reaction when work tries to call me in on my day off.
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Hell yeah ! They called me
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NO NO NOOOO!
Ughh such a tragedy
Wyatt Earp was actually noted of being exceptionally lucky with not being shot. This was point of fact noted by everyone around him. Including his brothers.
The man had real like plot armor. The force was with him and he was one with the force.
I believe he was famous in Dodge City for pistol whipping people during gun fights instead of shooting them. Take guts to walk right at a man shooting you and hit them.
He had bullet holes all through his clothes but no wounds
It also probably had something to do with his opponents not being used to seeing a man brave enough to just waltz up to them in the middle of a gunfight. It probably played on their anxiety and threw off their aim... psychological warfare.
He stood still calmly in a lot of gun fights, usually the people that move around are who you would shoot at in that situation
"He's over there... *cough... walkin on water."
-Doc Holiday
@Mary Burdette Hadn't seen the movie in a long while and was going off memory.
But yeah you're totally right.
Too bad the clip cut out before that great line!!!
directly from the script -scene not filmed.
1ST COWBOY: We hit him half a dozen times but He just kept comin', walked right Up to Curly Bill with that 10 Gauge and blew him up!
RINGO: He killed Curly Bill?
2ND COWBOY: He didn't just kill him, he Burned him down! Blew him in Half! Then he turned Around with that big Colt and Killed Johnny Barnes. Blasted down a few more fore we got outta there. But it was his face. You should have seen his face.
RINGO: He's just a man.
1ST COWBOY: You didn't see his face!
RINGO: You see my face, don't you?
(Ringo shoots both cowboys dead.)
RINGO: Everybody get this through their Heads. Wyatt Earp dies. They all die. Understand?
I love Curly Bill's "Look at that." You can tell he's amazed seeing Wyatt walk out like that..
In this movie they didnt make Curly Bill out to be the notorious killer he actually was. He was clearly made a 2nd fiddle to Ringo. But Curly in his own right was a deadly gunfighter.
They were probably so amazed at him coming out the way that he did that they couldnt shoot straight!! He had bullet holes through his coat but he was unhit. Absolutely amazing!!!!
@@Chuckclc Curly was known for being a deadly gunfighter among the Cowboys (second only to Johnny Ringo). He seemed to have good pinpoint accuracy during the gunfight against the Mexican policemen at the wedding in the beginning of the film. Yet he suddenly has terrible aim when he goes up against Wyatt Earp. He was only a few feet away and Wyatt wasn't even shooting back until Curly ran out of bullets and decided to use his shotgun. Not too surprising when you think about plot armor.
@@Cestro Except it wasn't plot armor. According to witnesses from both sides, that *really happened*. The real Wyatt Earp had bullet repellent on him or something, being one of the very few gunfighters to never be shot (not *once*) and die peacefully at a ripe old age.
Same thing happened with George Washington in the Battle of Monongahela that took place on July 9,1755.
A bunch of Native Americans shot at George Washington and it all missed him. He had 2 horses shot under him and 4 bullet holes in his coat.
The Native Americans believed that a "Great Spirit " protected him.
The best "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" in movie history.
I think Agent Smith from the first Matrix beats him out.
Haha yeah that was a good no. I think this ones great though cuz it always gets my friend on the flood laughing.
Luke Skywalker.
Stone David Yesssssssssssssssss!!
Darth Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Did Wyatt have a personal force field around him, despite the fact that Wild Bill's aim was worse than a Stormtrooper's? The real Wyatt Earp was nearly immortal himself by not only surviving the last days of the Wild West in Tombstone but living to the ripe old age of 80 and outliving all his siblings. He was already 17 years old when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and died just 12 years before Pearl Harbor. Damn.
He didn't kill Curly Bill like this. They ran into each other and Wyatt got the drop on him blowing him away with shotgun.
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If he had been around during pearl harbor he would have said NOOO and shot out the japanese planes
He actually had a sister who outlived him
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Amen
“Look at that!” Powers Boothe's portrayal of Curly Bill Brocius was totally B-A-D-A-S-S!
I love how Wyatt's bravery inspires him in that moment. That exasperated look is priceless and makes the whole scene so much more powerful.
Fine performances all around!
Matt Drew did some of these guys have quicker reflexes for showdowns in western movies like this
Great performance by Powers Booth as Curly Bill Brocious & he was believable! That's important as I don't know if there's alot of history or background on life of Curly Bill. "Yeah, Come get some boy"!!!
The whole cast was brilliant.
Very polite of Curly Bill to ask him how he was while engaging him in gunfire.
Polite???? I don't think so! Curly Bill was actually taunting Wyatt Earp, basically saying in so many words, "Let's see you get out of this one!"
@@thomasromano9321 *woosh* the sound of the joke going over your head.
@@Krakaet Yeah, guess it did.
@@thomasromano9321 no worries, I enjoyed your literal take
You could call the conflict between the Earps and the Cowboys as a private war. Curly bill was making it a civil war.
Walking on water? He didn't walk on water... he thundered through it in righteous fury.
HELL YEAH HE DID!!
Yeah man. Totally badass
You heard the other guy refer to hiim as Jesus Christ. Need glasses? lol
And he struck down upon them with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy his brothers!
The power of the RIGHTEOUS NO.
0:42 curly bill nearly gets his head blown off and comes out laughing lol gets me every time
My favorite moment in this scene!
Gotcha in a lil crossfire, how ya like dat!
Hey Wyatt, how the hell are ya!
The look on Doc's face when he joins in with Earp brings tears to my eyes
You can tell he was struggling, becausse of his health condition,. What an amazing actor to show details like that
"Wyatt Earp is my friend"
"Hell, I got a lot of friends"
"I don't"
... "Hell I ain't never even *heard* of anything like that."
the fact that this scene was actually documented in history to actually happen its fucking crazy. Wyatt's sack had brush burns that day for dragging them massive things around that day
I admire the profile pic, didn't happen like this
@@sofakingonmynuts1438 correct, wyatt was left pretty much on his own during the fight at iron springs. The rest of the posse ran off, wyatt was left doing a two step with his bucking horse in one hand and a previously loosened gun belt flopping around his knees.
Yeah I like that they put several parts of history in there like Wyatt's brothers death, and this and his troubled love life.
theres a video on youtube of a guy going and showing the place where it happened.
Danny Trala, pay attention to real history. Read my entry above. The actual
shootout at the watering hole didn't go like this at all.
Powers ''Curly Bill'' Boothe
Jun 01,1948--May 14, 2017 ''RIP''
2016BMWi8 some say he still stalks those lands
Damn. Didn't know he died too.
I remembered him as Jim Jones.
"Well... by.
AMAZING ACTOR and an even better person from what I've read about him...
It's not as unusual as you think, for two men to blast at each other at close range and miss. Adrenaline and fear can cause tunnel vision, tensed muscles, and overall spoil aim.
You just described what is known in the trade as "stressfire." Wyatt's duster was peppered by Curly Bill's shotgun blast during actual fight, but incredibly, Wyatt wasn't hit! Curly Bill wasn't as fortunate. He screamed & fell dead backwards as Wyatt's shotgun blew his chest open. Number years later Bat Masterson would write, "Wyatt Earp didn't know what fear was." An exaggeration perhaps? I don't know, but Wyatt did seem to live up to that & a charmed life also as he was never once hit or wounded.
Something like this happened in the Jesse James movie with Brad Pitt
Powers Boothe was an incredible actor. Loved his portrayal of Curly Bill. His portrayal of Jim Jones is chilling. He deserved that Emmy 👏🏻
I was 8 years old when that movie played on TV, and it terrified me.
0:54 seconds is very important
You can see he is clearly very scared, and doesnt know what to do.
Then we see him again, and his face hardens. Its how men charge an entrenched position despite being shot at.
Sometimes people, when all else is failing, totally deny their fear and do what they know needs to be done
Edit
I also notice now it is only until he sees Doc and the rest of his friends that he acts, since Wyatt himself is the one who led them there, and what happens to them is his responsibility
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare.
This is where I pop in to tell the tale of Sgt. Maj. Bradley Kasal during Operation Phantom Fury in 2004. In a firefight in a house in Fallujah, although wounded by seven 7.62x39mm rounds and hit by more than 43 pieces of hot fragmentation from a grenade while using his body to shield an injured fellow Marine, Kasal refused to quit fighting and is credited with saving the lives of several Marines during the U.S. assault on insurgent strongholds in Fallujah in November 2004. By the time he was carried out of the house by LCpl Chris Marquez and LCpl Dane Shaffer, Kasal had lost approximately 60 percent of his blood. The photograph of Kasal, taken by photographer Lucian Read - blood-soaked and still holding his M9 pistol and KA-Bar fighting knife - being helped from the building by fellow Marines, has become one of the iconic pictures of the war. His navy cross citation reads: "When First Sergeant Kasal learned that Marines were pinned down inside the house by an unknown number of enemy personnel, he joined a squad making entry to clear the structure and rescue the Marines inside. He made entry into the first room, immediately encountering and eliminating an enemy insurgent, as he spotted a wounded Marine in the next room. While moving towards the wounded Marine, First Sergeant Kasal and another Marine came under heavy rifle fire from an elevated enemy firing position and were both severely wounded in the legs, immobilizing them. When insurgents threw grenades in an attempt to eliminate the wounded Marines, he rolled on top of his fellow Marine and absorbed the shrapnel with his own body. When First Sergeant Kasal was offered medical attention and extraction, he refused until the other Marines were given medical attention. Although severely wounded himself, he shouted encouragement to his fellow Marines as they continued to clear the structure. "
@@jamiestewart48 A hero’s hero!
One military tactic states when ambushed in a cross fire stay where you are and die or charge head on your aggressor and die or possibly live.
Rest in peace Powers Boothe aka Curly Bill.. forever one of my favorite actors.. I'll always remember you as the mad man Curly Bill..
Cheesy as the NOOOs! are this is still probably my favorite western. Even better than the classics for me. There is just something about this where you can watch it time and time again and it never really loses its magic. Everyone was at their best Val and Russel and all the others bill Paxton powers booth. Shit. Golden cast.
Wyatt Earp is my friend. So what, I've got lots of friends. I don't.
I was rather comforted by this. I'm the type that has maybe one good friend, but few others.
The majority of folks that people call their "friends" are merely acquaintances.
It's been said that it can be counted on one hand the number of true friends a person will have in a lifetime.
@@Ragitsu I keep tellin my kids that!!
Reminds me of me
This is why Wyatt Earp is a famous out-lawman. During the fight at the OK Corral, he was the only one who walked away unscathed. Morgan, Virgil and Doc were injured, and the cowboys on the other side were all killed. Their original intention while walking to the field of battle was to disarm and arrest the cowboys. They never intended to shoot or kill them. But they did what they had to, in order to defend themselves. As for the fight depicted in this scene, the two groups met completely by accident. They weren’t looking for each other at all. It also happened in real life in a similar way it does in the movie. Wyatt walked right into the line of fire and was never touched by a single shot. In other words, Wyatt Earp was the badass of the Old West. Wyatt Earp: The Original Badass.
Ike Clanton survived by cowaring out of the fight during the middle of it, so not all the cowboys were killed in that gunfight.
The funny pet about this story, is that this scene is true. It seems like perhaps the most absurd part of it all but it really went down pretty much like this. I’m not sure how accurate everything in this movie is, but this is probably the most spectacular scene, and it’s right from the history books, no Hollywood embellishment needed!
Most people have no clue how hard it is to actually hit anything with a pistol. Especially one from the 1880s
Can confirm, tested (many years ago) with black powder percussion revolvers, modern cartridge revolvers, and various semiautomatic pistols.
You either need lots of practice or unusual talent to hit much of anything (reliably) outside of perhaps twenty feet or so - and in many cases, the same situation applies at any distance greater than that where “they *wear* the soot of your gun,” e.g. powder-burn range.
@@dennisyoung4631 both of you ass fucks i bet have never fired a gun in your life, its obvious you know fucking nothing about firearms, a colt single actin revolver you can hit anything you can see, if you had ever fired one you would know. comments from two wheel chair generals, FUCK BOTH OF YOU !!!
^^^ These two comments really scare me!
The size of my mum's hairy fanny bush scares me
@@ftniceberg874 nothing to worry about. it's basicly tells us why people had rifles at hand then, instead of pistols. much easier to aim if it's long and pressed to your shoulder.
1:31 Basically Kurt’s answer when Sylvester Stallone asked him to do Tango n Cash 2.
Draven Lmao
LOL. Now THAT'S funny!
I like the part where he says no.
tbr2109 noooo
tbr2109 what part was that
It was the moustache best scene
Remember kids, switching to your sidearm is always quicker than reloading
To those who don't know the real Wyatt actually did this walked right into the line of fire, the man was the definition of no fear
sounds unrealistic if this fight were realistic Wyatt Earp would be long dead before he ever had a chance with his shotgun
@CommanderRedMonkey3856 hmmm well you would be correct if he didn't already do it. Like I said all the events you see took place do some research bro
@@josephlino4452 that could be anything though anyone could just write up historical events and just say oh this is factual evidence it just doesn't sound very realistic sounds more like cliche Hollywood magic
@@SiouxW4rrior3856It's obviously a dramatization but it is based on real events. Obviously even first hand accounts should be taken with a grain of salt at times but the facts are out there. For the record after the shootout Earp's coat had bullet holes in it so at the very least he was in the line of fire when he killed Brocius
@@biggusdickus1689 Those "facts" could be anything, anyone could have written that even the greatest writer in the world could have written stories like that or even someone who writes books for a living with how powerful technology these days you can pretty much do anything with it even NASA who filmed the moon landing was fake so that's no different then the historical events of these movie I just I find it very skeptical considering that cowboys used to draw against each other and they didn't have a problem with aiming then so the hole thing just seems suspicious to me
7 dislikes? no… NO… NOOOOO
i aint never heart anythink like that
TheDuckSneezes they don't know what a good movie is
Who the hell cares?
Well......bye
Doc: “Wyatt Earp is my friend” “Hell Doc I got a lot of friends!” Doc: “I don’t”
Life, is stranger than fiction. Truer words were never spoken.
Evey once in a great while, a man is born so tough and lucky that nothing but old age will get him.
Powers Boothe played Curly Bill better than anyone ever!!
*"Wyatt's my friend."*
Wyatt was asked to think of something fast. All he could think of was "NO"! Not today and not like this. Awesome scene!!!
One of the greatest casts of all time!
“Where is Wyatt anyhow”. “He’s down at the creek walking on water”
Doc was the first to follow him out. It’s what best mates do!
Like ten minutes later
All 3 of these guys desever an award.I seen powers booth play jim jones very scary .R I.P curly bill.
I aint never even heard of anything like that. !!
Although the actual gunfight didn't happen this way, its still fun to watch. Wyatt Earp lived an amazing life and was simply lucky not to hit by a single bullet. Great movie. One of the best westerns ever.
Yea because you were there right? lol Shut up
no.....no......NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
1:31
And that's how you say "no" like a badass...
Probably best re-enactment yet of now famous shotgun "duel" that really took place between Wyatt & "Curly Bill."
Wyatt Earp was one hell of a BADASS !!
It's little detail scenes like 1:43 that make this movie so good. The close up of Wyatt's gun firing and that little sound effect of like the spinning bullet leaving the barrel. So awesome.
"I've never seen anything like that before. Hell, I've never heard of anything like that before".
Remember, just say "no".
ICONIC Western Movie! Grow up watching old western movies with my dad and although he had already left us by the time “Tombstone” came out. I’m sure he would have loved it just as much as I loved watching this movie. Miss you dad ♥️! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Just found out Powers Boothe died a few days ago. :(
R.i.p.
Well...bye..
1:21 [Curly Bill -> Guns (Pistol) roll: 16 -> FAILURE.]
[Wyatt Earp -> Move.]
1:22 [Curly Bill -> Guns (Pistol) roll: 15 -> FAILURE.]
[Wyatt Earp -> Move.]
1:23 [Curly Bill -> Do Nothing.]
[Wyatt Earp -> Move.]
1:24 [Curly Bill -> Guns (Pistol) roll: 16 -> FAILURE.]
[Wyatt Earp -> Move.]
1:24 [Curly Bill -> Do Nothing.]
[Wyatt Earp -> Move.]
1:26 [Curly Bill -> Guns (Pistol) roll: 10 -> Out of ammunition -> FAILURE.]
[Wyatt Earp -> Move.]
1:27 [Curly Bill -> Drop weapon.]
[Wyatt Earp -> Move.]
1:28 [Curly Bill -> Do Nothing.]
[Wyatt Earp -> Move.]
1:29 [Curly Bill -> "Son of a bitch.".]
[Wyatt Earp -> Wait ("I will shoot Curly Bill if he tries to shoot at me.").]
1:30 [Curly Bill -> Guns (Shotgun) roll: 11 -> Wyatt's "Wait" action is triggered.]
1:31 - 1:33 [Wyatt Earp -> "Nooooo!" -> Guns (Shotgun) roll: 9 -> SUCCESS -> Curly Bill fails to Dodge and catches the full blast of a single shell.]
1:34 [Wyatt Earp -> Guns (Shotgun) roll: 10 -> SUCCESS -> Curly Bill fails to Dodge and catches the full blast of the second shell.]
I know my D&D knowledge isn't perfect, but shouldnt high rolls have a greater chance of success and low rolls constitute failure? Or is it backward for ranged attacks?
@@Firan25 Shotgun definitely has bonus hit chance if fired from close range. Wyatt also having a blessing active meant he didn't get nailed despite what would have been sure shots. Also dodge rolls.
@@Firan25 I use GURPS whenever a campaign that I have in mind features an abundance of (realistic to only semi-realistic) gunplay.
@@boxtank5288 D&D 5e?
@@Ragitsu Just mentioning the stacks on rolls. And I should clarify, by close range, I mean close enough the pellets start to spread, not so close you're almost touching them with the barrel. Otherwise there wouldn't be advantage.
I Totally Agree. Val Kilmer was at his best. He was Awesome as Doc Holiday😎👍⭐ I Still Gwt Chills😜
Darth Vader: I have the best Noooo
Wyatt Earp: Hold my shotgun.
GREAT scene and one of the best.
Evie Miller UK
“Got you in a little crossfire!”
The fight didn't actually develop that way, but Wyatt really did walk up to Curly Bill through a hail of gunfire and blew him in half with a 10 gauge shotgun!
Is that a fact?
got proof? didnt think so.
@@b.3397 No one ever saw Curly Bill alive again. That's proof enough that he was dead. He certainly wasn't the sort of fellow who would voluntarily fade away into obscurity.
Just google it
Wyatt Earp is the person who taught me no means no.
The power of making your enemy shoot like a stormtrooper.
1:38 in the TV version he says, "No! Curly Bill!"
Ah, you left out one of the best lines in the movie.
-Where is he?
-Down by the creek...walkin' on water.
GOAT... my favorite is "you tell em I'm coming and hells coming with me you here? Hells coming with me.
Powers Boothe plays a villain exceptionally
He's down by the creek.. walkin on water. :)
Greatest movie of all time. Of all time.
My research on Doc Holiday intrigued me to research Wyatt Earp and this scene in the movie Wyatt can be credited with the first bullet proof vest. He put it together with plates from an iron stove. Smart man!
According to Barnes who was wounded at the battle of iron springs. And died around 2 weeks later claimed on his death bed. Wyatt Earp blew curly bill in half at close range. And they(cowboys)payed two Indians to burry him in 2 different places.
highjinxwillie62 uhhh no. Totally false
highjinxwillie62 Wyatt Earp shot Curly Bill with shotgun twice nearly cutting him in half.
Years later… Curly Bill reincarnated into Greedo and Wyatt Earp as Han Solo.
+Red Challenger Technically seeing as Star Wars was (Along Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away) Wouldn't Han Solo likely have been reincarnated into Wyatt Earp?
Good point
"Walking on wata" 😂😂😂BEST SCENE EVER
El inolvidable val kilmer..y su mejor personaje...
Wyatt Earp lived to see the change of the century and even was one of the first people to use his experience to help make movies.
The guys in red were former Storm Troopers and generic Cobra soldiers
It's total bullshit Val Kilmer didn't at least get nominated for Best Supporting Actor that year and history will repeat its self if Kurt Russell doesn't (at least) get nominated for the same award for "The Hateful Eight" at this year's Academy Awards.
Two extraordinary actors who will probably never get their due.
worse bullshit is that thisfight never happened in reality and also the one with johnny ringo that always was too dangerous for hearp and was shoted from very far with a rifle e never was clear who shoted him
+pediatrapaola Ringo in real life committed suicide, but hey, that and the real fight of this scene would have been boring in the movie, I'm glad the changed it
Daniel Sanchez not sure what happened he was faund dead but suicide or shooting from far are both possible options
Doc was close to Ringo when he died. He had a court appearance that day in the same state.
The awards are bullshit anyway.
HEY WYATT ! HOW THE HELL ARE YOU PWAHAHAHA !!
RIP Powers Boothe
Well...bye..
Fiction is cooler than fact
In the actual gunfight, Wyatt was left behind, everybody else rode out and left him, , including Doc ( which Wyatt NEVER let him forget) when Wyatt dismounted his gun belt slid down to his feet because he'd loosened it to be more comfortable while in the saddle on the long ride. The part about all the shots missing was true, later Wyatt stated his duster looked like a sieve and he did kill Curly Bill.
Out of all the gunfights that Wyatt Earp participated in, the most important thing that made him famous was he was never hit by any bullet.
Nathan Holstrom There is a true story about Washington where shortly after he became President he met with some Chiefs of various tribes. One chief was an old man of the Shawnee who told Washington that he knew that Washington had been destined for great things. During the French and Indian War, Washington was a young officer under Braddock when they were ambushed by the French and their Indian allies. The French wore buckskin and blended into the forest while the British wore red uniforms thus were easy targets. The chief related how they first shot the British officers off their horses, all save one, this young officer rode along the line of regulars and was continually shot at but could not be brought down either the shooter missed or their rifle misfired. All the Shawnee warriors agreed later that the Great Spirit protected him for some reason. That young officer was Washington.
Brian Bois Gilbert -There's a "One Step Beyond" episode that tells that story, along with Washington's dream of seeing America's future.
Yes, thanks, I just watched it a few weeks back, there are some great historical episodes on One Step Beyond.
that just doesn't sound like Doc to me to leave but if he did he had a good reason
Does anyone else get the impression that the world would be a more straight forward place if there were more lawmen like that nowadays?
Absolutely everyone packing heat pretty much all of the time would help as well.
+tbr2109 it be high noon 24/7
Worken on it.
William Beattie No
William Beattie No!
One of my top 5 westerns along with Unforgiven, Dances with Wolves, Rooster Cogburn and Young Guns
Silverado is also a great watchable western
Hey Wyatt, you killed Padme.
Nooooo!
The textbook definition of not being able to hit the broadside of a barn. Either that, or Curly and his homeboys were firing blanks.
Wyatt was secretly Neo.
I think he was toying with wyatt and forgot to count his shots.
That, or maybe Curly Bill was drunk and he figured that since he killed Marshal Fred White with ease, he could do the same with Wyatt.
When he shoot Fred, that was an accident.
Their weapons had a lot of kick and many of them had no real experience with much else than shooting someone unawares and in cold blood. Many were known for basically shooting enemies in the back, like Wild Bill.
And you cut just before the reason I came here
+tdizz88 Look at 'Wyatt Earp is my friend" on UA-cam. "...I got plenty of friends." ...."I don't."
+tdizz88
"Where is he?"
"Down by the creek...walkin on water."
"Well, let's hope he's got another miracle up his sleeve, cause if I know Ringo, he's headed right for us. If they were my brothers, I'd want revenge, too."
"No, make no mistake. It's not revenge he's after. It's the reckoning."
As in, it's not that you killed my BROTHERS. It's that, you killed MY brothers. Of all the people in this world you could've picked a fight with, who the HELL do you think you are picking one with ME?! ;) God, I love that line. Makes me wanna listen to Reckoning Day by Megadeth. And definitely makes me wanna watch the movie all over again.
tdizz88 "... a reckoning"
@@middiablo they only killed Morgan Virgil was not killed Morgan and Doc are the saddest scenes in this movie when they die
Huge fan of the movie and Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer
one of the best movies made good a1
It's like the Mexican preacher said the pale horse and death were get him Especially guessing curly bill saw him when wyatt sent him straight to hell.
With the exception of a few individuals such James Butler Hickock and John Wesley Hardin, most people were rather indifferent shots with pistols during this era, that goes for Good guys as well as the Bad. Which is why most serious duels or gun fights took place at really close quarters; ten to fifteen feet or less is a good average distance.
is that because ammunition was to expensive to waste on target practice, or was it the face the guns were hand crafted so the guns weren't as accurate?
I love this videoTome stone is my favorite movie
Then I was like, “No”
whyatt earp goes to walmart with a broken tv. "can I offer you a refund, sir?" 1:31
The fact that this actually happened in some form is incredible
Eh, in reality it was more like Wyatt and his boys rolling up on Curly's camp while they were waking up...
I mean Curly Bill had enough time to open fire on him b4 getting blown away.
"In some form" would be the operative words there. Yeah ... in some form. As in the imagination of some fantasy writer who was no where near the incident.
If you think it happened like this you are retarded lol
I loooove how doc was sick asf but he still fought loyalty
This is my favorite scene from this movie.
1:03
Whenever the social justice warriors arbitrarily declare something offensive.
I like how Curly Bill laughs after everything he says haha
Hey Wyatt, how the hell are ya? Haha.
@@apa1325 mickey mouse does the same thing
@@Jacen436987 So, he's on opiates, too,? I reckon so.
To see and hear something like this had to be magical.
I absolutely love that close up of Wyatt's revolver with that unearthly sound like a raging python.