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April 14, 2004 |
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John
Wayne’s movie classic inspires Texas pride
By
Crystal Forester
Skiff Staff
Once the true story of the Alamo and the fighting begins,
John Wayne’s “The Alamo” is a movie worth
watching.
The first 45 minutes have a few issues before the true
movie begins.
The major challenge of the movie is the actors’ horrible
southern accents. The first 10 minutes of the movie are
spent trying to understand what they are saying. Our accents
are unique to us and hard to mimic, especially, when an
English actor, Laurence Harvey, as William B. Travis,
tries.
Just like any film about a historical event, Wayne tries
to make the characters seem like real people.
All movies during this time had to have a leading lady
with a touching love story; the problem with this is it
doesn’t fit in the movie. Having Wayne’s character,
Davy Crockett, fall in love with someone was definitely
a mistake. The love story seems to just be thrown in the
movie as an afterthought. It doesn’t help Crockett
become a real person. In fact, it makes him seem less
like a real person.
Despite these problems, the movie is pretty good. It definitely
becomes a Texas pride movie. The battle at the Alamo is
one of the many reasons Texans today love the state so
much.
Although Santa Anna and his men managed to kill almost
200 men without shedding a drop of blood in the movie,
the audience understands the heroic battle that the men
at the Alamo took on. Knowing they would die, they stayed
and fought holding back Santa Anna for a few days to give
other Texans the chance to build their forces to eventually
gain independence.
Today singers like Pat Green get to “sing songs about
Texas” because of the men that gave their life at
the Alamo, and John Wayne’s version lets people identify
with those men. |
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