"The Alamo"

I chose the movie “The Alamo” with Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Quaid. The movie was made in 2004. For the most part the movie was good and did a good job keeping my attention. This movie was pretty real telling in how the battle happened they way I was taught in school. It had everything I learned about the Alamo and more. There is no way it can be one hundred percent correct, shot for shot. Since there was no cameras only writing and what people say. The movie was based on what the Tajonos/Anglo settlers point of view. Seventy percent of the movie was film around the Tajonos/Anglos, like the at the Alamo and the rest was about Mexicans attacking and planning. This is when less than two hundred Texan and Tejano volunteers led by William Berret Travis took on general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and thousands of Mexican forces to gain their independence from Mexico. This movie does a good job of showing the courageous effort and dedication the Tejano fighter contributed. The ulimate sacrific for freedom. William Travis even drew a line and said if you wanted to stay and fight cross the line, only one person did not. Even though they all knew that they would be killed the fought to the end.

The Bexarenos called it the Alamo after Alamo de Parras, a Spanish Calvary unit that moved in 30 years ago. It was said “as goes the Alamo, so goes Texas”. Texas was a republic before it was a state in the United States of America. The Alamo was established as a Spanish mission in 1718. In 1824 Texas swore allegiance to Mexico under The Federalist Constitution. Santa Anna tore the document up and named himself Supreme dictator. After the Alamo Santa Anna decides to split his troops up and then meets his fait at the battle of San Jacinto. Sam Houston and his troops stormed Santa Anna and his forces and defeated them in only eighteen minutes. During the battle Santa Anna shows what a coward he really is, by removing his general’s uniform and trying to hide amongst his soldiers. In the end it was his own men that recognized him and pointed him out. After the fall of the Alamo, nine years later Texas became the 28th state of the United States.

Remember the Alamo. DVD. Dir. Josheph Tovares. PBS Home Video, 2004, 54 min.