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The Alamo (2004)

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The Alamo (2004)	comment	The Alamo is a 2004 film made by Touchstone Pictures. It was directed by John Lee Hancock and starred Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett.Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and the Texas militia try to defend the Alamo from General Santa Anna.Not to be mistaken for John Wayne's directorial debut, The Alamo (1960).
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The Alamo (2004) / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
The Alamo (2004) / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Presumably why the Spanish general with a pointed beard and mustache is among the living after the battle of San Jacinto—he's the only Mexican commander shown to be able to speak English. Santa Anna too. The Texians want to hang him from the tree they're standing at. Houston knows this is a mistake and refuses to allow it, because he needs Santa Anna to sign over any kind of rights to Texas.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Alamo (2004) / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Santa Anna tries to flee on horseback during the Battle of San Jacinto. Castrillon sees this and simply turns to face his death at the hands of the onrushing defenders in disgust. When Santa Anna is caught later, in a private's uniform, no less, his men are shown to look completely betrayed.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Alamo (2004) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: "The Mexican Army would have to march 500 miles in the dead of winter to get here before I return." They do.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_17122b19	type	Exactly What I Aimed At
The Alamo (2004) / int_17122b19	comment	Exactly What I Aimed At: Inverted. Crockett shoots a decorative shoulder-tassel from Santa Anna's uniform (while Santa Anna is dismissing the "exaggerations" of Crocket's rifle skill as a Mexican soldier relays all of Crockett's legendary feats to him). As Santa Anna panics, Crockett turns over to his fellow defender and faux-sheepishly comments "Wind kicked up."
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The Alamo (2004) / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
The Alamo (2004) / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: Bowie. He starts coming down with a sickness on arriving in San Antonio, and it goes a bit further than most examples of the trope because we see him coughing up blood into a handkerchief and it progressively getting worse and worse. According to him when speaking with Crockett, it could be one or all of consumption, typhoid, or pneumonia (historically, it was most likely tuberculosis). It finally causes him to become bedridden, where he remains until his death. In the real world, it is unknown if he died from this disease before the final battle, but in this movie, he is still lucid enough and capable of taking two attackers with him.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
The Alamo (2004) / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: The Mexican army plays Degüello, which translates to 'slit throat', to tell the Texians that they wouldn't be taking prisoners. Subverted, as they do (temporarily) take Crockett prisoner in the end.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
The Alamo (2004) / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The film opens after the battle, before flashing back to show How We Got Here.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_278a8f2b	type	ChildSoldier
The Alamo (2004) / int_278a8f2b	comment	Child Soldier: One of the Mexican soldiers is a boy or young teen. It is he who shoots Travis - while panicking, not even aiming, as Travis takes aim at him. In the novelization, he gets butchered by Texians at San Jacinto in their bloodlust.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_33ebf487	type	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight
The Alamo (2004) / int_33ebf487	comment	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight: Discussed in Bowie's backstory, as he got into a gunfight/brawl and survived despite being seriously wounded (including getting shot several times and stabbed in the chest with a Sword Cane), and killed his attacker with his knife. The movie actually downplays this a bit, leaving out that it was a group brawl of several men devolving/erupting from a formal one-on-one duel, so Bowie had faced multiple opponents with guns while only using his knife, that he not only killed one man but also maimed another, and that Bowie was not even one of the two original duellists.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Alamo (2004) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Santa Anna has a captive Crockett bayonetted to death instead of simply shooting him, and it is implied he does this because Crockett refused to let himself be humiliated in front of the Mexican army, simply telling Santa Anna to take Crockett to Houston so that the Mexicans can surrender.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Alamo (2004) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: The Texians in general. Travis offers to allow any of them to desert if they desired. No one does. Historically, however, one person did desert the siege. Juan Seguin even expresses outrage at Houston for not being allowed to return to the Alamo to die with them. Bowie, hearing the sounds of the final battle, calmly unbuttons his clothes, loads two of his pistols and takes two of them with him. Crockett acts Defiant to the End in front of Santa Anna, despite confiding in Bowie earlier in the film that he really was pretty scared of what was coming, but because everyone was looking to him due to his legend, he knew he needed to set an example. General Castrillon, as the Texians overwhelm the Mexican camp, which contrasts with Santa Anna's cowardice. He sees the approaching Texians, folds his arms, and simply waits until he is smashed in the face with the butt end of a rifle and brutalized. Santa Anna is a total aversion, and lives. He attempts to flee the battle, disguises himself as a private to get away, gets caught anyway, and looks more humiliated than dignified as the Texians call for his blood around him.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
The Alamo (2004) / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Crockett and his men put in for defending the palisade, the weakest section of the Alamo wall (literally a wooden fence stuck between high stone walls). By the end of the battle, their wall is the only wall that did not fall, until they are forced to abandon it after the rest of the walls are overrun.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Alamo (2004) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The film opens with a messenger running into Houston's camp and proclaiming news of the fall of the Alamo, and we see the Mexican soldiers prowling the fort with the dead lying around. Not to mention it's The Alamo. We all know how that section of the film ends.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Alamo (2004) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: All the Alamo defenders die, but their heroic deaths spur Sam Houston's army into action at San Jacinto, and they win the battle in 18 minutes.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_40df2ec6	comment	Big Freaking Gun: The 18-pounder cannon at the Alamo was designed to take on ships. The defenders load it with nails and scrap iron and use it to mow down swaths of Mexican infantry, shotgun-style. Houston tasks Bowie with retrieving it, to deny the Mexican army that gun if they take the mission, to have one more big gun for the Texian army, and to give the defenders one less reason to be confident in their defenses and to get out and live to fight another day, but he ultimately fails.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
The Alamo (2004) / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Santa Anna's entire strategy in the final assault. It works, but there are multiple wide shots that show how heavy a price the Mexicans paid just getting in.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Alamo (2004) / int_44fc28e8	comment	Bowie and Travis are the most apparent. Both are military men with marriage trouble who love to bring the other's trouble to antagonize them. Travis is a career uncompromising military man and is very unpopular, very much an Honor Before Reason kind of person, whereas Bowie is much more pragmatic and more well-liked by the general populace. Travis only earns Bowie's respect when he picks up a still-smoking cannonball (that could explode at any moment), carries it back to a cannon, and has it fired right back at the Mexicans, and after that, they start to get along much better.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Alamo (2004) / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: It's implied this is part of the reason General Castrillon asks Santa Anna to spare Crockett, in addition to knowing that if they did kill him, it would no doubt add fuel to the fire that the Battle of the Alamo had lit in the rest of the Texians. A deleted scene even shows Castrillon and the Mexican army leaving San Antonio de Bexar to the jeers of the Texian army, and while he looks shamed, he also looks quite impressed with said defenders.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Alamo (2004) / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bowie is a blunt Deadpan Snarker who never holds back when it comes to people he doesn't like, such as Travis. Travis has a multitude of vices that he is dealing with that he gets very prickly about when they're brought up. The two of them bickering make for most of the Texian drama in the film. But when they start to respect each other, they both show a much more likable side underneath. Travis even tries to save Bowie's life by getting him out of the Alamo, but Bowie refuses to allow it to happen.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Alamo (2004) / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Sam Houston's leadership style earns him a lot of criticism, but his methods work. Initially, he felt that defending the Alamo was a mistake, and wanted to remove any reason to be in San Antonio de Bexar, so he tasked Bowie to retrieve the heaviest cannon in the mission and return with it to bolster their armies' artillery and deny the Mexican army the mission's strongest armament. Unfortunately, Bowie and Travis were trapped in the mission before Bowie could ferry the cannon away. Later, rather than face Santa Anna head-on, Houston is baiting Santa Anna to chase his smaller force by staying just out of reach. A letter from David Burnett criticizes him for it, but he explains his plan to Juan Seguin and a few of his trusted generals, showing that there's a plan in place, as he is waiting for Santa Anna to make a crucial mistake. When he does (splitting the army to try and out-flank him), he pounces and seizes victory in less than twenty minutes.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
The Alamo (2004) / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: The Texian and Mexican soldiers, who are all equally terrified of the bloodbath they know is coming.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Alamo (2004) / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Santa Anna. At one point, when asked about the legitimate concern of how many soldiers he's willing to lose, he simply brushes it off with a comment about how soldiers' lives are little more than chickens'.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_5532b579	type	Acoustic License
The Alamo (2004) / int_5532b579	comment	Acoustic License: The scene where Crockett plays his fiddle in harmony to Degüello is a beautiful scene, but sound simply does not allow for it to work in real life. For starters, by the time he heard it, his sound would be behind time compared to the military band. He could be watching the conductor rather than listening (something every musician learns early), but even so, sound is much much slower than light, so by the time the tune made it back to the Mexicans (if it could even be heard over that distance considering it was one fiddle versus a full military drum and bugle corps), it would be very out of time. Heck, it would even be out of time to the Texian defenders down below unless they were close enough.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_56434ecd	type	Music for Courage
The Alamo (2004) / int_56434ecd	comment	Music for Courage: The Mexican army would always play a fanfare called "Degüello" (Slit Throat) before they started their bombardment. Hours before the last stand, Davy Crockett steps up the rafters and plays in harmony with them on his fiddle to boost morale. It even causes the Mexican army to not fire a shot in that evening's bombardment.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Alamo (2004) / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: The film went out of its way to be extremely accurate, but a few inaccuracies did slip in. While Crockett was a violinist and he would fiddle to drown out Degüello after he tired of hearing it, the tune he plays his violin at the party before the siege, "Listen to the Mockingbird", was not written until 1855, 19 years after the war had ended. The scene where Crockett takes a shot at Santa Anna. In actuality, this was done by Micajah Autry. Santa Anna is portrayed as greying and implied to be on the far side of middle-aged, but he was only in his early forties at the time in real life and contemporary portraits show him with dark hair. Possibly, regarding Crockett's death. Historians can't seem to agree on how he died. Either he was captured and executed (as the film shows) or he died during the fighting, and there are several supposed eyewitness accounts for either. Complicating matters is that the claim of executing prisoners may have been done by Mexicans to vilify Santa Anna, while Texian accounts have Crockett dying in action, surrounded by enemy corpses, which of course would add to his already larger than life figure. For his part Santa Anna himself never claimed to have executed such a celebrity as Crockett, and supposedly had the mayor of San Antonio identify Crockett among the dead, along with the other Texian leaders. The way Santa Anna was identified after being captured at San Jacinto. Historically, he was identified by a single Mexican soldier, and his identity was confirmed beyond all doubt when it was discovered he was wearing expensive undergarments. Here, he's identified when a group of captured Mexican soldiers impulsively stand at rapt attention upon seeing him with other captured soldiers, and in a private's uniform, no less. General Castrillon was not bludgeoned to death; he was shot. It was also agreed after the fact that this was an accident and that Castrillon should not have been killed, which is alluded to with the horrified look on the Texian soldier's face as he watches. Juan Seguin and his men put pieces of cardboard in the brims of their hats to avoid being mistaken for Mexican soldiers, not playing cards. The ending makes it seem like selling Texas was a desperate decision made to save his own life, but Santa Anna's negotiations over Texas' independence lasted for three weeks, during which time several treaties were signed, which saw Mexico remove all federal military men from the territory and set the borders as everything east and north of the Rio Grande river, and also to allow the territory to self-govern (though they never actually recognized the Texas territory as truly independent; Texas joining the Union was one of many things that led to the Mexican-American War).
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The Alamo (2004) / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The Alamo (2004) / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Several Mexicans are shown desperately trying to communicate with the Texians and surrender in the end, but due to the language barrier (and the heat of the battle) almost none succeed. Travis' slave, as well, once he sees his master fall in battle, retreats to a secluded room, gathers what few belongings he has, and starts reciting "Soy negro, no disparo" in case the Mexicans break in. We never see what happens to himnote Historically, he survived. Averted with Crockett, who doesn't beg even after he is told Santa Anna will spare him if he asks for his mercy. He more or less tells him (in front of all his men and generals) to fuck off.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Alamo (2004) / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Santa Anna says to an underling concerned about casualties that he shouldn't worry because soldiers are nothing but "so many chickens".
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The Alamo (2004) / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Alamo (2004) / int_6682d6e4	comment	Averted with Crockett, who doesn't beg even after he is told Santa Anna will spare him if he asks for his mercy. He more or less tells him (in front of all his men and generals) to fuck off.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Alamo (2004) / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: The play actor praises Crockett and announces his presence at the play, before gesturing to him and saying "Good evening, Mr. Crockett." David rather bashfully stands up and lets everyone applaud, before grinning and replying "Good evening, Mr. Crockett," to the actor, much to everyone's amusement.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
The Alamo (2004) / int_6f33059b	comment	Crockett's raccoon-skin hat that he admits to Bowie he only started to wear it after the actors in heavily dramatized plays about Crockett's life made it an iconic part of his look. Crockett also wears his Iconic Outfit, a buckskin coat along with the coonskin hat, only when he arrives at the Alamo. But earlier he is watching such a play about himself and the actor portraying him wears the full outfit.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_6f619fab	type	Let's Split Up, Gang!
The Alamo (2004) / int_6f619fab	comment	Let's Split Up, Gang!: After the Battle of the Alamo, Santa Anna begins his pursuit of Houston's army, though they are unable to catch up to him. So Santa Anna splits up his army in an attempt to catch up to him, and also to try and flank. This proves costly, as now with weaker numbers, the Texian army turns right around and takes them completely by surprise, overwhelming them in the Battle of San Jacinto in just 18 minutes.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
The Alamo (2004) / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: Seguin is not thrilled that Houston orders him to stay with his main army instead of returning to the Alamo as promised. He does end up fulfilling his promise in the end, returning to bury the fallen defenders.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Alamo (2004) / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: The Mexicans get a lot more sympathy and a scene where their motives are explained, and one very young Mexican private is one of the recurring Everyman characters who witness the action. Jim Bowie and William Travis, the leaders of the plucky defenders, are also accurately depicted as slaveowners, with Bowie even spitefully denying Sam his manumission papers on his deathbed.note Though the specifics of this incident may be fictional - a man named Sam was owned by Bowie at one point, but his presence at the Alamo is a matter of tradition, not history, and the real man's fate is unknown.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_737394ab	comment	Iconic Item: Crockett's raccoon-skin hat that he admits to Bowie he only started to wear it after the actors in heavily dramatized plays about Crockett's life made it an iconic part of his look. Crockett also wears his Iconic Outfit, a buckskin coat along with the coonskin hat, only when he arrives at the Alamo. But earlier he is watching such a play about himself and the actor portraying him wears the full outfit. The original Bowie knife. As Bowie is bayonetted to death, he reaches out to grab it at his bedside, but fails, in contrast to other depictions which have him getting a last stab or two in. Alternately, he tries to grab the picture of his wife next to it instead in the novelization of the film (from the script?).
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The Alamo (2004) / int_76db0ef5	type	Slobs Versus Snobs
The Alamo (2004) / int_76db0ef5	comment	Slobs Versus Snobs: The Regulars (career military men) vs the Volunteers start this way, though it's more pronounced in their commanders, Travis and Bowie. Once they're all in the mission, people stop caring, especially once Travis carries the primed cannonball bomb back to a cannon and sends it back to Santa Anna.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
The Alamo (2004) / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: Crockett's last stand ultimately subverts this trope, as it cuts away while the remaining five defenders engage the Mexican soldiers rushing them. Then it cuts to Crockett, the final survivor, kneeling and captive in front of Santa Anna, who wishes to humiliate Crockett and make him beg for his life. Crockett refuses to comply.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_79b5990c	type	Mr. Vice Guy
The Alamo (2004) / int_79b5990c	comment	Mr. Vice Guy: Bowie and Travis both have some serious issues even if you look past how they own slaves. Bowie is a drunk, hotheaded, and according to Travis, he married a woman to try and inherit her father's money. Travis, meanwhile, gambles, is sexually promiscuous, and abandoned his wife and son to pursue his military career. All of these issues are serious Berserk Buttons for both men, and they are not afraid to push each other's.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_7b23aecb	type	Bayonet Ya
The Alamo (2004) / int_7b23aecb	comment	Bayonet Ya: Particularly in the final battle of the Alamo, the bayonets are used to allow the Mexican army to approach stealthily and kill any sentries that are sleeping at their posts. Bowie gets several to the chest, and Crockett is executed with these rather than be shot.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Alamo (2004) / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The film opens with the aftermath of the Battle of the Alamo, all the defenders dead. Then it goes into a Flashback starting one year earlier until the end of the battle, then continues with the rest of the war, finally ending with the Battle of San Jacinto.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Alamo (2004) / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: After Crockett remarks that he thought Santa Anna would be taller, the soldiers around look nervous, but Santa Anna gives a wry smile.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
The Alamo (2004) / int_830b0ac9	comment	Final Battle: For the siege, on the thirteenth day. For the war for independence, at San Jacinto.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_881b90be	type	Bling of War
The Alamo (2004) / int_881b90be	comment	Bling of War: Davy Crockett lampshades this aspect of Santa Anna at one point, calling him a peacock. Notably, William Travis also quite likes his gaudy uniform. His Establishing Character Moment is ordering a showy uniform from a tailor, with gold bullion buttons.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Alamo (2004) / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: David Crockett deconstructs the Living Legend trope. He talks about how most of the legendary elements were only applied thanks to the play that was made about him, which is why he started wearing the cap and leathers, because everyone had come to expect it. In reality, as he says to everyone, he was not much different from anyone else there. By the end, however, he makes the conscious decision to reconstruct it by showing off to the Mexican troops that have him at their mercy after he sees one of the younger soldiers wearing a coon-skin hat. Even before, he nods to it when the Texians in the Alamo ask him about his war experiences, and he admits that he, like them, would love nothing more than to get away if an opportunity presents itself, but because of this legendary status, and because everyone is looking to him, he doesn't.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_8b24fe5e	type	JustShootHim
The Alamo (2004) / int_8b24fe5e	comment	General Castrillon was not bludgeoned to death; he was shot. It was also agreed after the fact that this was an accident and that Castrillon should not have been killed, which is alluded to with the horrified look on the Texian soldier's face as he watches.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_8f5247eb	type	Arrow Cam
The Alamo (2004) / int_8f5247eb	comment	Arrow Cam: One shot follows a cannonball as it is fired from a Mexican cannon, before it harmlessly lands in the Alamo grounds, doing no harm to anyone or even exploding as others like it normally do.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
The Alamo (2004) / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Mexican General Manuel Castrillon. He wants to reduce Mexican casualties, shows some amount of sympathy for the Texians, begs Santa Anna to spare Davy Crockett's life, and is visibly disgusted by Santa Anna's cruelty and arrogance. Sadly, it doesn't save him from the Texians' wrath at San Jacinto.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
The Alamo (2004) / int_963086ce	comment	The way Santa Anna was identified after being captured at San Jacinto. Historically, he was identified by a single Mexican soldier, and his identity was confirmed beyond all doubt when it was discovered he was wearing expensive undergarments. Here, he's identified when a group of captured Mexican soldiers impulsively stand at rapt attention upon seeing him with other captured soldiers, and in a private's uniform, no less.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
The Alamo (2004) / int_966da803	comment	Crockett acts Defiant to the End in front of Santa Anna, despite confiding in Bowie earlier in the film that he really was pretty scared of what was coming, but because everyone was looking to him due to his legend, he knew he needed to set an example.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Alamo (2004) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: General Santa Anna is the one leading the charge to take the Alamo.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
The Alamo (2004) / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Once the Mexicans signal they won't be taking prisoners, Travis suggests only the officers will be killed. Crockett's response to this?
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The Alamo (2004) / int_a148f27b	type	Living Legend
The Alamo (2004) / int_a148f27b	comment	Living Legend: Davy Crockett was a well-known frontiersman, sharpshooter, and Congressman. Jim Bowie had survived an infamous brawl known as the Sandbar Fight where he took on three other men with only his knife to defend himself. Bowie's knife was as legendary as he was.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Alamo (2004) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: A rebel officer notices General Castrillon getting undeservedly butchered during the battle of San Jacinto and gives a look of pure shame and disgust.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
The Alamo (2004) / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Sam Houston gives one prior to the battle of San Jacinto.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Alamo (2004) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Crockett is visibly unnerved when he first arrives at the Alamo and is told that Santa Anna hasn't been repelled from the area and may return. Travis, when he looks upon the Mexicans surrounding San Antonio de Bexar for the first time. Crockett notices something is off as he's plucking his violin on the night of the last battle, and you can see his expression change as he realizes what's going on, before he peeks over the wall, before hurriedly reaching down, grabbing his gun, and firing a shot.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Alamo (2004) / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: While the Battle of the Alamo was a tactical and strategic victory for Santa Anna, several shots show just how many men he lost trying to take it in the end.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
The Alamo (2004) / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Crockett shows himself to be a shrewd tactician and leader in addition to being a badass on the front lines. He also displays a great deal of wit and guile when dealing with his own men.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
The Alamo (2004) / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: A Mexican soldier is pleading with Santa Anna to believe the rumors of Crockett's touted rifle-aiming skill, while Santa Anna just gives him Skeptical looks. Crockett then shoots the epaulet off Santa Anna's shoulder.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
The Alamo (2004) / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Davy Crockett had a BIG reputation. Lampshaded when Crockett admits to the temptation to bolt if given the chance, but knows that everyone (including history) is looking at him to be a hero.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_c1832fcb	type	Feet of Clay
The Alamo (2004) / int_c1832fcb	comment	Feet of Clay: Crockett expresses the sentiment that he, himself, is an example of this trope, being propped up by public opinion and overblown stories about his so-called exploits. He's not, but it makes for a poignant moment.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_c1cef253	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
The Alamo (2004) / int_c1cef253	comment	Nice Mean And In Between: Nice: Crockett, well-liked by both men and their subordinates, and acts as a mediator between Travis and Bowie. Mean: Bowie, the irrepressible, hotheaded, charismatic volunteer not afraid to speak his mind. Inbetween: Travis, a young leader trying to prove himself a capable military leader and trying to do what's right, but angering everyone in the process.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Alamo (2004) / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: How Travis dies. It was purely an accident, too. The Child Soldier we've been following in the Mexican army saw said character looking down at him, panicked, and fired his gun without aiming.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
The Alamo (2004) / int_c54d550d	comment	The original Bowie knife. As Bowie is bayonetted to death, he reaches out to grab it at his bedside, but fails, in contrast to other depictions which have him getting a last stab or two in. Alternately, he tries to grab the picture of his wife next to it instead in the novelization of the film (from the script?).
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The Alamo (2004) / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Alamo (2004) / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The young woman that seems to fancy Santa Anna early on reappears in bed with him later with a morose look. Based on the context, it is possible she is meant to allude to Emily D. West, the "Yellow Rose of Texas", who was forced to travel with Santa Anna from San Antonio and, according to legend, distracted Santa Anna at San Jacinto with sex, which is why he was caught unawares.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Alamo (2004) / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Bowie shoots two soldiers dead with a pistol in each hand seconds before he's killed in his sickbed. He died reaching for his knife.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
The Alamo (2004) / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: The Regulars and Volunteers do not get along at first. It also helps that nobody likes Travis being in command of the fort. The only people everyone likes is Crockett and his men. Following an incident where Travis picks up a cannonball that could explode at any moment and carries it to a cannon to be fired back at the Mexicans, everyone starts respecting each other a lot more.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Alamo (2004) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Battle of San Jacinto, for both the Alamo and the Battle of Goliad that happened earlier. Until one Mexican general formally surrendered, the battle might have been called a massacre.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_d1fc4a16	type	Please Spare Him, My Liege!
The Alamo (2004) / int_d1fc4a16	comment	Please Spare Him, My Liege!: General Castrillon begs Santa Anna to spare Crockett's life. It doesn't work.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_da19c62a	type	Leave No Survivors
The Alamo (2004) / int_da19c62a	comment	Leave No Survivors: The Mexican army allows no quarter, even when it is tradition to spare at least some of the prisoners. Part of this is because Santa Anna is hoping to enforce his will. At San Antonio de Bexar, it is mainly as a result of Travis firing on the Mexican troops while Bowie was trying to negotiate allowing the Mexicans to take the Alamo, which Santa Anna does not take kindly to.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
The Alamo (2004) / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed in Story: Both Crockett and Bowie were already legends by the time they get to the Alamo to defend it. Crockett deconstructs it, talking about how most of his outdoorsman/frontiersman feats were exaggerated by folklore like the play seen earlier in the film, and how he really is just another man like them. In contrast Bowie just shrugs and accepts it, and he and Crockett discuss the "Sandbar Fight" which made him and his namesake knife famous. After Crockett takes a look at Bowie's knife and brings the fight up, Bowie at first chides him for believing everything he reads about (Crockett retorts that he only heard about it) but then he corrects Crockett on the details, saying that he was shot thrice, not twice.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
The Alamo (2004) / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: More like Title dissonance, but we have this exchange on the first night.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_e0113647	type	Decon-Recon Switch
The Alamo (2004) / int_e0113647	comment	By the end, however, he makes the conscious decision to reconstruct it by showing off to the Mexican troops that have him at their mercy after he sees one of the younger soldiers wearing a coon-skin hat. Even before, he nods to it when the Texians in the Alamo ask him about his war experiences, and he admits that he, like them, would love nothing more than to get away if an opportunity presents itself, but because of this legendary status, and because everyone is looking to him, he doesn't.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Alamo (2004) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Crockett prefers David to Davy.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
The Alamo (2004) / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Travis in spades. It drives Bowie up the wall.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Alamo (2004) / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: A prominent theme when seen from the defenders' point of view. Most notably seen by Crockett as he comforts a dying Mexican soldier who was desperately trying to crawl back away, and thereafter affecting his mood for the rest of the film, and also discussed by Crockett. When asked about his experience in the Red Stick War. Crockett tells them the story of his experience, where they trapped several Creeks in a house, before deciding to simply burn it down with everyone in it. He describes how everyone inside was cooked alive, and the natural oils of their burning bodies cooked a cache of potatoes, which the hungry militia men then devoured, something that has stuck with Crockett ever since. A Mexican soldier is also shown grieving over his brother, one of the few "Tejanos" (in modern terms, Hispanic-American Texan) among the mostly "Texian" (Anglo-American Texan) defenders.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_f771f23b	type	Battle Strip
The Alamo (2004) / int_f771f23b	comment	Battle Strip: Sam Houston and James Grant at the strategy meeting start quickly removing clothing when Houston calls Grant a "scottish catamite" and Grant (naturally) doesn't take too kindly to this. They get interrupted by Jim Bowie barging in.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
The Alamo (2004) / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: The final battle in a nutshell, but there are smaller, minor ones in it. Earlier, the defenders dig "fallback trenches" in case the walls are breached. About halfway through the battle, several seconds of footage show just how many Texians fell back to said trenches only to find themselves backed against a wall, and just be massacred by the Mexicans, averting this trope. A shot toward the end of the final battle of the Alamo shows Crockett and five of his men, backed up and fighting to the last man as the Mexican army rushes toward them. All but Crockett die, and Crockett ends up taken prisoner, before ultimately being put to death himself.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
The Alamo (2004) / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: The defenders are realistic about their odds of survival.
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The Alamo (2004) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Alamo (2004) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: An early scene shows a stage actor dressed up as Davy Crockett and telling a bunch of whoppers. Later, one of the Alamo volunteers recalls seeing a similar show and is disappointed to learn that the man he saw wasn't the real Davy Crockett.
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