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2004 epic war film by John Lee Hancock

The Alamo
The Alamo 2004 film.jpg

Theatrical release poster
Directed past John Lee Hancock
Written by John Lee Hancock
Leslie Bohem
Stephen Gaghan
Produced by Ron Howard
Marking Johnson
Starring Dennis Quaid
Billy Bob Thornton
Jason Patric
Patrick Wilson
Jordi Mollà
Emilio Echevarría
Cinematography Dean Semler
Edited by Eric 50. Beason
Music by Carter Burwell

Production
companies

Touchstone Pictures
Imagine Entertainment
Distributed past Buena Vista Pictures

Release date
  • April ix, 2004 (2004-04-09)

Running time

 137 minutes
State Usa
Languages English
Spanish
Budget $107 million
Box role $25.8 meg

The Alamo is a 2004 American war drama film about the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. The moving picture was directed by John Lee Hancock, produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Mark Johnson, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures (through its Touchstone Pictures banner), and starring Dennis Quaid equally Sam Houston, Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett, Jason Patric as Jim Bowie, and Patrick Wilson as William B. Travis. The screenplay is credited to Hancock, Stephen Gaghan, and Leslie Bohem.

The movie received mixed reviews by critics and was a box office bomb, losing the studio over $146 million.[1]

Plot [edit]

The moving picture begins in March 1836 in the town of San Antonio de Bexar, showing the aftermath of the Battle of the Alamo. The movie then flashes back to a yr before. Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid) attends a party where he tries to persuade people to migrate to Texas and encounters David Crockett (Baton Bob Thornton), recently defeated in his bid for re-election to Congress. In San Felipe, Texas, the Texas conditional government is coming together to discuss what activity to take after the recent capture of the Alamo and Bexar by the Texans at the first Battle of San Antonio de Bexar. Texas has rebelled against United mexican states, and its dictatorial president Santa Anna is personally leading one wing of his army to retake San Antonio, so invade the settlements and put an end to the rebellion. Various selfish members of the Texan War Party call for the Texas army to depart Bexar, cross into Mexico and capture the town of Matamoros. The more than sensible Opposition Party seeks to rebuild the Texan ground forces and constitute a permanent government.

The provisional government votes out Sam Houston as commander of the Texas army; a disgusted Houston tells Jim Bowie to go to San Antonio, destroy the fortifications (including the Alamo) and retreat east. The conditional authorities in turn orders William Barret Travis (Patrick Wilson) to Bexar, where Col. Neil, the Alamo's bodily commander, gives Travis command of the mail equally Neil must go out to take care of a family emergency before returning with reinforcements. Travis, knowing that the Alamo'due south small strength cannot withstand the Mexican Army, sends couriers with pleas for reinforcements. As small groups of Texans arrive, Travis oversees defense preparations, hoping that enough reinforcements volition arrive before the inevitable final set on.

Crockett, coming to Texas to revive his political career, arrives in San Antonio, is surprised to learn that the fighting isn't over, and that Santa Anna and his army aren't expected until perhaps mid-March. Simply later a grueling forced march, Santa Anna unexpectedly arrives on Feb. 23, forcing the Texans to hurriedly retire to the Alamo chemical compound. Despite its vulnerability, the Texans resume fortifying it equally best they can. Travis continues to write for reinforcements, but few men go far.

Santa Anna'south troops surround the fort, and the xiii-day siege begins. Bowie meets with Mexican General Manuel Castrillón (Castulo Guerra) to talk things over, just Travis stubbornly fires a cannon at the Mexican camp, abruptly ending their conversation. Bowie returns to tell Travis that Santa Anna has offered the opportunity to surrender. Travis passes this to his men, but the defenders decide to stay and fight. With his hopes of an easy victory foiled, Santa Anna settles in for a siege but orders that no quarter be given to the Alamo defenders. Bowie's ongoing illness renders him crippled, and Travis assumes full control.

On Sunday, March vi, Mexican troops assault the Alamo'due south walls in a pre-dawn attack. Despite heavy casualties, they breach the walls, and Travis is killed by enemy gunfire early on. Quickly overwhelmed, near of the Texans fall back to the Long Barracks where they, including Bowie, are all slain. Crockett and the last remaining defenders retreat to the church, where they make their last stand. Crockett is taken prisoner, and in a final act of defiance he mockingly offers to safely atomic number 82 Santa Anna to Sam Houston. Santa Anna angrily orders Crockett to be executed.

Days later, after hearing that the Alamo has fallen and all the defenders slain, Houston, now in full command of all Texan troops, orders a general retreat eastward. They are pursued by the victorious Mexican Regular army, led past the confident Santa Anna. In an attempt to catch the retreating Texans, and against the advice of his officers, Santa Anna divides his forces, taking a smaller, fast-moving force with him to chase Houston and the fleeing Texas regime. A few weeks later, Houston halts his retreat about the San Jacinto, where he decides to risk all in a sudden attack when he learns that Santa Anna himself commands the Mexican troops. With the support of two cannons and a group of Juan Seguin'south (Jordi Mollà) mounted Tejanos, Houston surprises Santa Anna's army during its afternoon siesta, and in the ensuing rout the vengeful Texans massacre at to the lowest degree 7 hundred Mexican soldiers and capture Santa Anna. In exchange for his life, Santa Anna agrees to order all Mexican troops to withdraw from Texas and accept Texan independence. The film ends with an eerie replay of Crockett standing atop the Alamo'south South wall, playing his fiddle while overlooking the chemical compound.

Cast [edit]

  • Dennis Quaid every bit General Sam Houston
  • Billy Bob Thornton every bit Colonel Davy Crockett
  • Jason Patric as Colonel Jim Bowie
  • Patrick Wilson as Lieutenant Colonel Nib Travis
  • Emilio Echevarría every bit General Antonio López de Santa Anna
  • Jordi Mollà as Captain Juan Seguin
  • Leon Rippy as Sergeant William Ward
  • Tom Davidson as Colonel Dark-green Jameson
  • Marc Blucas as Second Lieutenant James Bonham
  • Robert Prentiss every bit Albert Grimes
  • Kevin Page as Micajah Autry
  • Joe Stevens as Mial Scurlock
  • Stephen Bruton as Lieutenant Almeron Dickinson
  • Laura Clifton as Susanna Dickinson
  • Ricardo Chavira every bit Individual Gregorio Esparza
  • Emily Deschanel as Rosanna Travis
  • Brandon Smith every bit Lieutenant Colonel James C. Neill
  • W. Earl Brown as President David G. Burnet, President of The Republic of Texas
  • Tom Everett equally Captain Moseley Baker
  • Rance Howard every bit Governor Henry Smith
  • Stewart Finlay-McLennan as Private James Grant
  • Castulo Guerra as General Manuel Fernandez Castrillon
  • Francisco Philbert as General Martin Perfecto de Cos
  • Flavio Hinojosa every bit Colonel Juan Almonte
  • Michael Crabtree every bit Erastus "Deaf" Smith
  • Rutherford Cravens every bit Mr. Smith
  • Afemo Omilami as Sam
  • Dameon Clarke as Mr. Jones
  • Nathan Price as Charlie Travis

Production [edit]

Evolution and writing [edit]

Crew members film a battle scene.

The prepare of the Alamo used during filming.

The origin of the project began in the mid 1990's, with screenwriter Leslie Bohem, who had previously worked on films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, and Dante's Elevation, Bohem had a conversation with Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace at the Austin Motion-picture show Festival, Wallace had told Bohem virtually a trip he had taken to San Antonio to take a expect at The Alamo, Bohem so gear up off to write a script. In 1998, Touchstone Pictures, a subsidiary of Disney bought the screenplay, and hired Ron Howard and Brian Grazer as producers, with Howard set to directly.[2]

In January 2001, Variety Magazine appear that Kevin Jarre was writing a new script,[iii] In October of the same year, information technology was appear that John Sayles was hired to write a new typhoon, Sayles, who previously had written and directed Lone Star, had came upward with a 137-page draft that was considered brilliant,[4] [5] [6] [7] In contrast to the 1960 film of the same name starring John Wayne, this film attempted to describe the political points of view of both the Mexican and Texan sides; and explore the personal lives of Alamo heroes William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, additionally Santa Anna is a more than prominent grapheme. As Howard mentioned in an interview:

"I believe audiences are prepare to embrace the complexities of the motion picture, but it still boils down to heroism," "The simplistic approach is not appropriate and information technology's not interesting, We know there will exist limitations and controversies"

In June 2002, information technology was appear that Stephen Gaghan was hired to rewrite Sayles'due south script.[8] [9] Howard stated that he wanted to shoot a grittier moving picture, much in the mode of Sam Peckinpah's piece of work, with a budget costing about $130 million and having an R rating, further elaborating in interviews at the time with IGN and The Oklahoman, Howard said:[ten] [11]

"I kept maxim I sort of wanted to practise "Traffic", nosotros kept working on the screenplay with that kind of multicharacter, multistory line kind of approach. "I tin't say we e'er had annihilation on paper that I could look at the studio and say, "Y'all've got information technology. You lot're fools if yous don't exercise this only this way, nosotros didn't accept that. It was still this idea, this notion in my heed more than a really fully realized script"

"My sense of what I wanted to do with it was tougher, more graphic, a closer cousin to "Saving Private Ryan".

[12] There were financial and creative disagreements between Imagine Entertainment and Disney, especially over Howard'due south proposed budget. Disney rejected Imagine'southward proposal, and due to the project not moving frontward at the fourth dimension, Howard stepped down as director,[13] [14] but he would stay on the project as an executive producer, alongside Grazer, who stated in an interview at the time:

"I wasn't interested in making 'The Alamo' every bit a PG-thirteen motion-picture show, or PG movie, I didn't get it, I just didn't understand it. Whereas I did understand it through a different filter, through an R-rated, very intense (story) showing sacrifice, showing pain...all of those feelings....I didn't sympathise why y'all should exercise it the other style".

[15]

Robert Rodriguez was briefly considered for director, but Disney opted for director John Lee Hancock and a budget of $107 1000000.[16] [17] [eighteen] [19]

Casting [edit]

During pre-production, several actors such as Mel Gibson and Brad Pitt were considered for roles in the movie, Russell Crowe was in talks to play Sam Houston, while Ethan Hawke signed on every bit William Barret Travis, producer Brian Grazer wanted Sean Penn for the role of James Bowie, and Billy Bob Thornton was bandage every bit David Crockett. After Howard stepped down as director, Crowe exited the projection, Hawke likewise left, while Thornton remained, Viggo Mortensen was considered as a possible replacement for Crowe, simply Dennis Quaid got bandage in the role of Houston.[20] Jason Patric was cast equally Bowie, and Patrick Wilson replaced Hawke equally Travis.[21] A full $35 million was spent promoting the film.[22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]

Filming on the Alamo set [edit]

Most of the moving picture was shot between Jan and June 2003, primarily using sets built at a ranch near Austin; at 51 acres, it was the largest set always congenital in North America (at the time). A number of buildings, including the mission, were constructed for the film, at a cost of about $10 million. They depicted a Spanish colonial village. The sets were subsequently abandoned only were visited occasionally, at the Milton Reimers Ranch Park, although they were deteriorating; they were not intended to endure for a long period of time. 9 of the 12 major structures were damaged in a burn in September 2011.[28] [29] The park'south spider web site in 2020 makes no mention of the movie or the sets.[30]

Hancock'south version was purported to be the about authentic of all the Alamo films, but various liberties were taken, such as building the Alamo chapel facade frontward 40 anxiety more than the extant (and presumably historically-correct) structure. According to one of the DVD version's special features, Hancock did that to show the Alamo chapel and the interior of the fort in ane shot.

Battle scenes [edit]

In the winter of 1835–1836, when the Mexican Army was moving north through desert areas, before long earlier information technology crossed the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande), it endured a snowstorm of uncommon intensity, and soldiers suffered illness and hunger. Snowfall making machines were used to create the scenes of the march through the snowfall. Four days later, an bodily snow tempest blanketed the prepare. Two calls were made to find thin and gaunt extras to play the soldiers, simply the film's scenes of the attack on the Alamo were shot in harsh weather. Extras stood for hours in cold pelting, making some scenes gruelingly realistic. A few days of the filming was held up, due to bitter common cold and very dingy weather condition.

Terminal editing [edit]

After the film was shot, information technology was edited down to three hours; later information technology was reduced to two hours, with scenes and certain characters removed. Shortly prior to the release, xv minutes were added. Even so, Quaid'south role had been significantly reduced from the outset version.[31]

Historical accurateness [edit]

The depiction of Crockett's fate came from memoirs written by José Enrique de la Peña, an officer in Santa Anna'south army. Though accepted by many historians, this was the first film to show Crockett executed as a prisoner of war; all others had depicted his death every bit occurring during the battle. That sparked criticism from many Alamo enthusiasts and some historians, given the disputed nature of its origins.[32]

Reception [edit]

The film received mixed reviews. It holds a 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the main consensus being: "Too conventional and un-involving to be memorable".[33] Information technology holds a Metacritic score of 47/100, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[34] Variety called information technology "a historically credible but overly prosaic account of the nigh celebrated episode in the creation of an Americanized Texas".[35]

The Houston Chronicle gave the film a class of "B", saying Hancock, whom the paper points out is a "former Houstonian", "shows respect if not reverence for his state's mythical heritage, even while viewing it from mod perspectives"; it notes the "build-up to battle is prolonged and talky, and for a classic tale of heroic defiance, this Alamo feels more restrained than rousing. Once again, it'southward no-win. When Hancock supplies history, the action and drama bog downward. And fifty-fifty when he's correct, he's wrong, since so many historians disagree about what happened at the site in what is at present Downtown San Antonio".[36]

Amusement Weekly gave it a "C+", saying "Hancock'due south moderate, apolitical, war-is-hell dramatization of the famous 1836 battle that shaped the futurity of a free and independent American Texas isn't nearly the flop that the uncommonly harsh and unavoidable advance chatter has suggested information technology is. It's not the jingoistic call to patriotism of John Wayne's 1960 version, either. But The Alamo never harmonizes into a cinematic experience any more resonant than the average, manly, why-we-fight pic, or coalesces into a stirring cry for liberty".[37] According to Roger Ebert: "Conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that any movie named The Alamo must be simplistic and rousing, despite the fact that nosotros already know all the defenders got killed (if nosotros don't know it, nosotros notice out in the first scene). Here is a movie that captures the loneliness and dread of men waiting for 2 weeks for what they look to be sure expiry, and it somehow succeeds in taking those pop-civilisation brand names similar Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie and giving them human being grade". He gave the flick iii and a half stars out of 4.[38]

The film was a box office flop. Its opening was overshadowed by The Passion of the Christ, and kickoff weekend earnings were but $9.i million. The film closed with $22.4 million in the domestic marketplace, and just $25.8 1000000 in total, on a $107 million budget. The Alamo remains 1 of the biggest box office bombs of all time.[39] [40]

See likewise [edit]

  • Boxing of the Alamo
  • The Alamo (1960 moving picture), starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett and Richard Widmark every bit Jim Bowie
  • The Last Command (1955 moving-picture show), starring Sterling Hayden as Jim Bowie and Arthur Hunnicutt equally Davy Crockett
  • The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987 Idiot box moving-picture show), starring James Arness as Jim Bowie and Brian Keith as Davy Crockett

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  29. ^ Alamo movie set burned by burn
  30. ^ Milton Reimers Ranch Park
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External links [edit]

  • The Alamo at IMDb
  • The Alamo at AllMovie
  • Alamo Sentry: Pop Civilization of The Alamo
  • View of movie set from Google Maps

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