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14. Remember the Alamo? - Disney doesn't. This is the Texas battle's most confused treatment yet. By David Edelstein
- slate.msn.com
- Remember the Alamo?.
- The director of the new Alamo movieâ ”a Lone Star native with the revolutionary moniker of John Lee Hancockâ ”has said that he wanted to make the definitive story of the fabled Texas last stand, not like that fat hunk of myth-making propaganda fashioned by John Wayne in 1960, at the apex of the Cold War. ... (The movie opens with the bodies of Alamo and Mexican soldiers. ... But the absence of politics is a kind of politics, too, and Hancock's The Alamo is likely to leave people scratching their heads and wondering, "What's the back story here?" This is a profoundly ahistoric movieâ ”a definitive Hollywood muddle.
- As well as our 28th state, the Alamo gave us two archetypes: Bowie, whose big knife had once cut the heart out of a man in the act of shooting and stabbing him; and Davy Crockett, the Tennessee bear-hunter turned politician turned folksy raconteur. ...
- In this new telling (the script is credited to Leslie Bohem, Stephen Gaghan, and Hancock), the story of the Alamo is one of those quintessential American myths: of ragtag underdogs outmanned and outgunned, holding their own against a large, better equipped, and sadistic foe. ...
- The real Alamo fighters knew of Santa Anna's approach for quite a while, but in the movie it's presented as a rude shock⠔most of all to Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), who enlisted in the Texas militia to revitalize his political career and hadn't figured on being at the wrong end of a siege. This is a little unfair to the actual man, who stuck around for months in San Antonio, but it's the best part of The Alamo⠔this conception of Crockett as a semi-fraud trapped by his own mythic persona who rises to the occasion and fulfills his destiny. ...
- When Houston gets the news of the Alamo disaster, he prays like the guilt-ridden king in Becket (1964), then comes back to life as an avenger, styling himself the Wellington to Santa Anna's Napoleon. This is meant as his redemptionâ ”and the movie's, since Hollywood depictions of disasters like the Alamo and Pearl Harbor must end, for commercial reasons, with Americans getting their own back.
- ) But thanks to Hancock's evasive storytelling, it's never clear why Houston moved so slowly or why so few Texians came to the Alamo's aid. ...
- Hancockâ ”best known for scripting A Perfect World (1993) and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), and for directing the baseball inspirational The Rookie (2002)â ”stages battles with the skill of a competent Confederate re-enacter, but in a movie like The Alamo you hope for a little more horror at the waste of so many lives.
- Hancock does make gestures toward social realism: The presence of slaves at the Alamo is finally acknowledged, and one scornfully advises another not to die for as well as clean up after the white man. ... What I took away from this Alamo is that nothing motivates us like revenge. When we remember the Alamo, we don't remember the reasons we shouldn't have fought or the lives that were needlessly lost. ...
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15. Remember the Alamo
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- The Alamo has fallen!.
- The Alamo Garrison .
- (Commander of the Alamo) : One of the first to fall, he died defending the north wall at an early hour on March 6. ...
- (Co-commander of the Alamo): Killed in his bed, where he laid sick with pneumonia, in a small room in the south side. ...
- At the end of the Battle of Alamo, Santa Anna's loss was estimated at 600 men. ...
- The Alamo was remembered, as well as the Goliad massacre (perpetrated by order of General Santa Anna), forty-six days later, on April 21, 1836 at the Battle of San Jacinto, where 783 men led by General Sam Houston defeated 1,500 Mexicans.
- I wish to express my thanks to The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, whose book "The Alamo - Long Barracks Museum" was used as a precious source of information for the preparation of this page.
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17. Texas Treasures - James Butler Bonham - Texas State Library
- www.tsl.state.tx.us
- Probably the most warmly regarded of the Alamo defenders, James Butler Bonham's life before he came to Texas had already been colored by his dedication to defending the rights and honor of himself and others. ...
- He died defending the Alamo March 6, 1836, possibly manning one of the cannons in the interior of the Alamo chapel. ...
18. Images
- www.texancultures.utsa.edu
- Images Quiz on the Alamo .
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19. The Alamo
- www.hollywoodreporter.com
- Defenders of the Alamo have Santa Anna's Mexican soldiers in their sights. ...
- April 08, 2004 The Alamo By Kirk Honeycutt .
- Bottom line: Trying to remain true to history and cinematic needs, the new Alamo movie gets a little lost in history but does achieve glory in battle scenes. ...
- This review was written for the theatrical release of "The Alamo. " The makers of "The Alamo," the new movie based on the legendary defense and fall of the Texas compound, want to wrestle this piece of American history from the ranks of jingoism and patriotic fervor. ... "The Alamo," directed by native Texan John Lee Hancock, making only his second feature, is a respectable and at times an exciting film that should appeal to males of all ages, history buffs and -- yes, it's inevitable -- patriots. ... Produced by Oscar-winners Mark Johnson and Ron Howard (who bowed out as director when the studio reportedly balked at his fee), "The Alamo" is a beautifully mounted historical re-creation. ... William Travis (Patrick Wilson), a young Alabama officer and lawyer whom chance made temporary commander of the old mission turned into a fort known as the Alamo. ... Patric's Bowie enters the Alamo a seemingly healthy man but swiftly takes to his bed, a victim not only of consumption but too many near-fatal wounds from his fighting past. ... Quaid's Houston gets sidelined by the movie's understandable focus on the Alamo. Raising and training an army in another part of Texas, Quaid can do little more than furrow his brow until redeemed by his strategy to lure the egomaniacal Santa Anna to his downfall following the triumph at the Alamo. ... You will remember this "Alamo," but the sum and substance of conflict remains a little sketchy. ...
20. The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
- www.austinchronicle.com
- The Alamo .
- After enough scathing rumors to sink most projects twice its budget, Disney/Imagine’s The Alamo has finally arrived, cut down to a manageable 135 minutes from an original running time of somewhere in the vicinity of three-plus hours. ... It’s loud – the cannon fire alone could wake the Alamo dead – and its sense of ballyhoo is pure Hollywood, but despite all the Sturm und Drang of this version of the 13-day siege and Gen. Sam Houston’s (Quaid) post-Alamo routing of Santa Anna’s (Echevarría) army, the film lacks the emotional, doomed punch for which it’s so clearly striving. Much of this has to do with the structure, which doesn’t end, as you would assume, with the bloody fall of the Alamo but with Houston’s dogged (and tactically valid but dramatically uninvolving) non-pursuit of the Mexican army. ... Thornton takes the character and runs with it, presumably in directions not in John Sayles’ original script (now credited to Leslie Bohem, Stephen Gaghan, and Hancock), and although a sequence of him playing counterpoint fiddle to the strident strains of the Mexican army’s marching band while standing backlit atop the Alamo parapets is something my high school Texas history class failed to mention, the sheer oddness of the moment, combined with Thornton’s obvious relish, makes it peculiarly affecting. ... It’s The Alamo, all right, but will anyone want to remember it? Maybe not, but by the time a dead Mexican soldier floats by facedown in a stream to signal film’s end, you’ll likely be wondering if a visit to a Texas history museum might not be such a bad idea, if only to clear up that whole "tater" thing. ...
21. Maps
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- (North side of the Alamo).
22. For Reservations
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- San Antonio's very own Alamo Inn is known for its comfortable surroundings, a great price and making you feel like you're at home! Alamo Inn is located 3 minutes (by complementary shuttle) from the Riverwalk, Convention Center, Downtown, and many other attractions. ...
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23. Against all cinematic odds, 'The Alamo' is a glorious victory
- seattlepi.nwsource.com
- Against all cinematic odds, 'The Alamo' is a glorious victory.
- In the movies, Alamo-mania is very much a Cold War phenomenon. Hollywood staged the siege no less than four times in that era, most famously in the 1954 Disney miniseries, "Davy Crockett"; most spectacularly as an expression of John Wayne's patriotism in 1960's "The Alamo. ...
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- Yet despite these and other evil omens that have cast a shadow over its opening, and the fact that there's no way the Alamo today can have the same emblematic power it had to a '50s American audience, the 2004 "The Alamo" has turned out surprisingly well. ...
- This version of the tale is framed by Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid), opening as he receives the news of the Alamo's fall and concluding with his defeat of the Mexican Army and capture of its Gen. ...
- Only this time, Travis is an obnoxious pup who has callously deserted his wife and children for his moment of glory at the Alamo; Bowie is a swaggering, slave-owning barroom brute; and Crockett is a gentle man imprisoned by his own myth.
- The movie also lets us know that Texas of the 1830s was a province of a Mexico that already had abolished slavery; and the Alamo defenders were invaders from the north who had every intention of stealing the place and reinstating that abhorrent institution. ...
- The battle scenes are particularly well-staged (and free of gratuitous gore and MTV effects); and the production values -- costume design, cinematography and lavish sets of the Alamo and old San Antonio -- are all Oscar-worthy.
24. Welcome to Alamo Community College District - Home
- www.accd.edu
- Alamo Community College District Nets Prestigious $60,000 Fulbright-Hays Grant for Summer Study Program FULL STORY .
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- The Alamo Community College District, and its affiliated colleges, does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability with respect to access, employment programs, or services. ...
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