Film · Film · 1960
Pass it on
The Alamo
56Watch it awake.
A sacrifice told as a legend. The courage is the point. The history is smoothed until it shines.
The review
Use it as myth, and say that you are using it as myth. The stand happened. The men were not the speeches Wayne gives them. A household can still learn the hard fact underneath: some duties end with you not coming back, and the people who benefit are not in the room.
Watch it once with older children. Do not let it be their only Texas. Pair it with a plainer account of who was inside the walls and who was not.
Journal
Keep The Alamo in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Shenandoah
71 instead of 56
Shenandoah is still a western film, and it scores 71 instead of 56. What you gain is household: A widower and his children are the whole principle.
The eight
- 5Industry
Soldiers and volunteers. The work is the waiting.
- 4Household
They have left their houses. The film salutes that and does not show the cost at home.
- 4Piety
Providence is a speech. It is not a practice you can copy.
- 9Courage
Staying when leaving is possible is the whole story.
- 6Republic
A fort is not a republic, but the argument about why they stay is political.
- 5Temperance
It is too fond of its own heroism to be temperate.
- 5Truth
Names and the stand are real. The dialogue is a monument.
- 7Stewardship
They die for a country that is not finished. That is the handoff.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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