Hollywood Hates History, Part 7: The Alamo (2004)

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History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In the final two episodes of this mini-series, Steve and Scott talk about movies that actually do a good job of conveying history, or at least as much as possible when handled by Hollywood producers enslaved to suggestions from marketing research reports. The first film is the Alamo (2004).The purported goal of the filmmakers was to have this movie be as historically accurate as possible, or at least more so than the John Wayne Alamo film of 1960. It stars Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston, Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett, Patrick Wilson as William Travis, Jason Patric as Jim Bowie, and Jordi Molla as Juan Seguin.

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1:21.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome back to our series where we're looking at the most historically inaccurate movies that have ever been made.
1:33.0	Steve, I'm really interested in digging into this movie because when you mention the Alamo to people of a certain age,
1:40.0	I'm thinking, I don't know, Gen Xers or maybe older millennials in the 40s, 30s age range.
1:47.0	And you mentioned the Alamo. What almost anyone will mention is Peewee's Big Adventure,
1:52.0	where Texans laugh at Peewee because he asks if the Alamo has a basement and they tell him that it doesn't.
1:58.0	And then they'll know the phrase, remember the Alamo, but with no context whatsoever about what that means.
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