'Alamo' Movie Touches Raw Nerve in Mexico (awwwwhh, too bad ALERT!)

I am inclined to believe what Travis's slave saw and related...but that is my own opinion on the matter after quite a bit if study on my own part.

I would take his account over Mrs. Dickinson's any day. Nothing against her personally, she certainly suffered enough. I just always got the feeling that her memory got better and better as she got older....you can interpret that any way you want. La Pena, he always hated Texas/the US, that's why I didn't take his account seriously.

My beef is that if they used La Pena's account, I hardly believe it was done in a vaccum. That smells real bad of some kind of revisionist agenda to me and I don't like it one bit..

If there was a revisionist agenda, it was to make money and give the crowd what they want. Movies do this crap all the time. Nobody wants to see Crockett dying outside the wall, when the huts were being burned/destroyed early on to remove cover from the Mexicans, or they don't want to see him dying on the wall like Travis, with a shot to the head and that's that.

People want him to die a death as big as his life, they want him to be one of the last, to run out of ammo/powder and get captured swinging his rifle, clubbing Mexicans left and right, and then mocking Santa Anna as he is about to be executed.

It's like Jim Bowie's death. Here Bowie is, this hard-drinkin womanizer who killed well over a dozen men in knife fights and was one of the toughest men around. Nobody wants Bowie to die in bed, unconscious or out of his mind with fever. They want him shooting both pistols and then whipping out his knife and stabbing one of two more.

It pisses me off, don't get me wrong.

Just remember, there are generations of Texans who grew up on Disney's, or John Wayne's version of Davy Crockett, or who read the book published the year the Alamo fell, purporting to be about Crockett's life and stand (and in Crockett's own hand). The book has been debunked, as has Disney and some of the John Wayne movie.

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