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#92 - Val Kilmer Remembered: A Legacy That Will Never Die · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Val Kilmer has passed away at the age of 65.
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  He passed away yesterday, Tuesday, April 1st, and the cause of death has been
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  reported as pneumonia, and this was said by his daughter Mercedes Kilmer.
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  So today we're going to talk, we're going to take a look at the career Val Kilmer
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  had and some of the roles he had in his most notable movies that I thought were
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  just amazing and what I most remember him for.
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  And he was an awesome actor. He was, but he was more than that.
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  There was a just amazing things he did in his life, but we're going to primarily
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  focus on the movie roles that he performed in. My name is Brandon Fogle. This is Evolution.
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  Let's get into it. So when you think of Val Kilmer, when you hear that name,
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  what immediately goes to mind?
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  What role that he played goes to mind? Mine is, without question,
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  no hesitation, Doc Holliday in the movie Tombstone.
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  We're going to take a look at a couple of his big roles, but the one that stands
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  out to me the most, even though he wasn't the primary actor,
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  the primary person on stage in the movie Tombstone, to me, he made that movie.
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  You know, Kurt Russell was incredible, incredible, but Val Kilmer and as Doc
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  Holliday, no one could have done it better. I'm here, Huckleberry.
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  That is the line. And I just followed a guy on X solely by the solely the reason
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  he had Doc Holliday's picture played by Val Kilmer in his profile.
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  That was the only I mean, that won me over just that, you know,
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  so I I'm going to probably have to get a picture of Doc Holliday.
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  Val Kilmer playing that role in here as well.
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  I got my Al Pacino playing Scarface and the Joker as well.
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  So I'm definitely into movies and into acting and somebody that could have just
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  stole the stage and ran away with it would have been Val Kilmer and his role as Doc Holliday.
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  But there are so many other roles. I just forget about it because it's been
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  a while before, since he was in the limelight and he,
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  one that you might've forgot about was Willow when in his role as in the,
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  in the story of Willow, you know, the, and he, he kind of had a villainous role in that.
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  And he was just a bad dude in it, but he was overall, he had a good heart,
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  but he was just caught up in a lot of things that made him seem like,
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  you know, he wasn't the best guy that Willow should have trusted in his journey
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  and his, you know, his quest.
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  But he was amazing that another one I go to is Ghost in the Darkness and his
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  role as they're in Africa. And he's an engineer. He's got to build a bridge.
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  Help this village, help this, these, these, this people group that's out there,
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  but they are just being attacked by lions every day.
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  And he has to put an end to this, these, these ghosts in the darkness that are
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  these lions that are just man eaters that are just destroying people.
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  He was amazing in that role.
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  Deja vu. That was a one that I pulled up the list of movies that he did and
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  it never popped up, but he was in the movie Deja Vu, or am I having Deja Vu?
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  The movie with Denzel Washington, he was in that, wasn't he?
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  And I thought that was a really good movie, but every time I pulled up a list
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  for Val Kilmer, he never, that would never made the top 10 or anything.
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  I didn't even see it on the list. So am I wrong on that? I don't know.
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  I don't think I am. I'm pretty sure he was in that. He just didn't have the
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  Denzel Washington role.
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  He was just a character in that, but he did a good job, a really good job in that as well.
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  Batman. Is he the best Batman? Will he go down as the best Batman of all time?
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  To me, that's a very tough one, but I would say he's up there.
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  I would say he's definitely in the top three, at least the top three,
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  I would give him a top three position, him playing Bruce Wayne and Batman three.
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  That one was an amazing movie with Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey.
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  That one was a very good one. And I thought he did a stellar job at that,
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  but I know people are going to land and you can argue with me if you want.
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  Everybody goes to Top Gun.
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  Top Gun is the critical role that Val Kilmer played as Iceman.
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  And that was like eighties. That was eighties.
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  I'm, I'm, if I'm remembering it right, you know, I wasn't really in tune what
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  was going on in the eighties, but I think that was an eighties movie.
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  And him playing almost the antagonist against Tom Cruise in that movie,
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  who was the primary character.
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  In his role as Maverick, but Iceman was the guy that just kept going at him
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  and just challenging him on everything and just trying to make him look stupid.
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  But then they come together and they join forces and he makes another appearance
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  in the most recent movie of the remake, not really a remake,
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  but just a 20 years or 30 years later of Top Gun when the movie Maverick came out.
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  And Val Kilmer had a, a role in that.
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  It wasn't as front and front and center, but it was a role.
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  Nonetheless, they had to, because Val Kilmer, he was suffering from throat cancer since 2014.
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  He had recovered from that, but you know, it's, it's just, it's very tough,
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  you know, and I just wanted to take this time, just this, this show,
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  just to remember all that Val Kilmer was.
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  I thought he was incredible in all the roles that he did.
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  And I'm going to put his picture on the screen. And if you can see that it's
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  him in that most iconic role of Doc Holliday.
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  I, no one does it better. No one could have done it better.
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  And another, I remember if he, he was in the role, the running for the role Forrest Gump.
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  I'm pretty sure he was in the running for that. He could have been Forrest Gump,
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  but Tom Hanks, I think he blasted that one out of the park. So I don't know.
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  That would have been tough.
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  Could you have seen Forrest Gump being played by Val Kilmer?
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  It was, it might've been one that he missed out on, but either way,
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  he led a, an amazing career.
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  I just, I will all, there are not every, not all actors are people that you're
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  like, you feel a connection with in their roles that they play.
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  And I know they're not the same person that they are on screen as who they are in real life.
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  But some of the times that you, it's like you get to know them when they're
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  on screen. You feel like you know them and they are a part of your life,
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  that you have a connection with them.
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  And I have, like I said, Al Pacino, and I just drew a blank on,
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  I just didn't want to sound stupid of who played the Joker.
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  I just like name earlier.
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  Heath Ledger. That was another one I would have, that I felt a connection.
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  There are people like Al Pacino.
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  That is his name. Heath Ledger. I'm just going to look it up because I don't want to.
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  Heath Ledger. I just, I was thinking, I was going back between Kiefer Sutherland
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  and Heath, and I could not think of it and I didn't want to say it, but that is another guy.
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  So in my, I would say in my life, there are three people that really stand out
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  to me in their roles and it would be Al Pacino, Scarface, Heath Ledger in his
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  role as the Joker, and Doc Holliday, Val Kilmer playing Doc Holliday.
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  Those are people that really stand out to me, characters that they,
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  their performance will last.
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  Into the ages. No one could have done it better.
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  They will have a forever mark on the Hollywood, you know, that landscape.
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  No one could have led a better performance than them, and those are the people
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  you just feel a connection with.
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  I feel, I don't know if you feel about that, about anybody out there,
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  any actors or actresses in roles that they've played that you just, you know them.
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  You you just like, you feel that connection with them and they've left,
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  they've left a lasting mark on your life.
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  This is one of them. This is one of them. Val Kilmer was incredible.
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  He played in so many roles.
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  He had so many contributions to the whole industry of moviemaking.
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  And there's so many other ones that we could have, I could have just listed
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  through one that keeps popping up is the movie, the saint. I never saw the saint.
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  I never saw that. And there were so many other ones that he that
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  he's known for the heat kiss kiss bang
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  bang the secret i've never known this but these are the
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  most the top the top known movies of val
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  kilmer but either way it's it's extremely tough when you lose anyone you know
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  but our life here it's just a reminder of our life here is not what matters
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  forever what matters is what we do in this life goes into eternity what we do in this life.
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  So it's, this is just a, just a spot, a, a moment, a brief moment that we are
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  ever going to experience.
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  We are all eventually going to step into eternity. So the, the things that you
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  are doing every day matter.
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  They are going to last beyond the grave.
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  They are going to last beyond that time that we are all going to take our final breath.
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  So there's not, we, we don't have to fear it.
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  The thing that, the only thing that can make us overcome it,
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  you know, is our relationship with God, you know, trusting in Christ.
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  That's what will carry us through into the next age. So we can have peace no
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  matter what we're going through.
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  But I had to spend this time just to talk about, about Val Kilmer and what he
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  meant to me and, and the movies he was in and just his overall as he,
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  as he was, was a person, you know?
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  So, all right. All right. We'll leave it at that. So everybody just keep going
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  and keep evolving to the best version of you.