#Images of the battle of the alamo movie#

#Images of the battle of the alamo movie#

Banks and The Founder.)ДЇurther The AlamoвЂ™s delay and reedits took the movie over-budget, decimating any industry buzz beyond it likely being the last stand of Michael Eisner, the unloved Disney CEO who was one flop away from seeing his own private Alamo fall. (Prior to The Alamo, Hancock helmed the Dennis Quaid baseball vehicle, The Rookie, and went on to direct Sandra Bullock to an Oscar in The Blind Side while finding sympathy for Walt Disney and Roy Croc in Saving Mr. Albeit the deconstructions still seem pretty mythical. Once a prestige project for Ron Howard, who was revving up for a likely even more expensive take on the myth (he wanted to make in his own words вЂњa new Wild BunchвЂќ), the picture was ultimately given to the man who continues to be DisneyвЂ™s guy for soft-pedaling the demythologization of Baby Boomer idols. If a movie contains a sequence this refined, how can it be the misfire itвЂ™s remembered as? That is when itвЂ™s remembered at all. Nevertheless, in an apocryphal moment, David Crockett reveals why he became Davy Crocket, King of the Wild Frontier, in the popular 19th century imagination-and by extension, the film discovers an aching grace greater than any visions of mass-killing.

He even points out he prefers being called David. Earlier in the film, ThorntonвЂ™s Crockett admits he only saw one battle during the Indian Creek War, which played out more like a massacre, and while a genuinely charismatic man, it is clear his surrounding myth is spun more from townhall glad-handing than coonskin cap heroics. HeвЂ™s deconstructed the вЂњAlamo HeroesвЂќ as something approaching human beings, yet he still can somehow celebrate their larger than life status. ItвЂ™s the scene in which Hancock achieves the elusive effect heвЂ™d striven for the whole film.

And for a brief moment, everything finds harmony: the Mexicans and TexiansвЂ™ music, the soldiers on both sides who share awe for the legendary bear hunter doing something legendary, and even the film. With violin in hand, Crockett offers a soulful rejoinder, fiddling an on-the-spot duet between army band and defending soloist. Yet on this particular evening, as depicted in John Lee HancockвЂ™s sorely overlooked The Alamo, Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett stands atop to the parapets of the Alamo to greet the melodic menace with a little ditty of his own. Each evening, the cheerful beat blasts at dusk, and each evening it is then promptly followed by a nightlong bombardment of cannon fire. For nearly two weeks, the army of Antonio LГіpez de Santa Anna has serenaded the Alamo defenders with вЂњEl DegГјello,вЂќ a bugle cavalry call thatвЂ™s been retrofitted with drums as an opening salvo into psychological warfare. They have been playing the same ominous song every night.