DAVY CROCKETT - STILL KING!!!!

Got that right! I just got back from babysitting, and was showing the kids (10, 8, and 5) my "old" movies (Rescuers, That Darn Cat, Bednobs and broomsticks... ect, oh yeah, I'm 16, so I ain't old!!), and they wanted to watch this one... Ok, the youngest was asleep, but the other 2 loved it! When their parents came home, the boy (8) was all "We watched Davy Crocket!" DAD: Davy Crocket? KID: Yeah, he was in the Alamo.
lol. Yes, this movie is still an amazing movie, none of them picked it apart like they did to Bednobs and Broomsticks "you can tell she's lipsyncing..." (no, she wasn't), You can tell there were strings attached to them to make them do that... how did they make the shoes move... yadda yadda yadda, enough to make me almost regret showing them the movie (which they did love), but when I put in Davy Crockett, they sat absorbed, watchign it... I occasionally had to explain a few things, but they absolutely loved it, the whole thing.

They were also talking about that rubbish that was mentioned before, "The Alamo" Ain't never seen it, and I ain't a fixin' to either. Give ol' Davy Crockett and his ballad any day.

Namaarie ar' vanya sulie,
Aier of Mirkwood

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Amen, brother.

lol, someone who finally gets me! Welcome to my world, pastabake-1! There's enough room for the both of us and other converts or believers and dreamers such as us!

Namaarie ar' vanya sulie,
Aier of Mirkwood

So what? Let people have their fun. So what if it's not accurate. It's entertaining! If you want the truth, watch the history channel. Davy Crockett wasn't meant to take the place of a history class. Davy is an american folk hero, and just like the others, the stories (and even the universe) that surround him aren't entirely factual.

There's nothing wrong with becoming immersed in a fantasy, just as long as you still acknowledge the future. There's no need to make everything "real" or "accurate". That's why we all have imagination! Just because someone may prefer something fantastical over something that is pin-point accurate doesn't mean that they don't know their history or that they don't know what's going on in the world. And why dwell on the past with a negative attitude? Mind you, we should not forget the mistakes we made in the past, but why beat ourselves over the head with it? Let's sometimes take off our thinking-caps and have a glance over the past with a positive and reasonable view, and at least enjoy some things for what we wish they were.

By the way, Crockett didn't die at the Alamo. He was captured and executed soon after.

film_for_me should "know his history". Many of the Americans who were living in the lower Mississippi at that time felt that Texas had been included in the Louisiana Purchase and were beginning to see all that fertile land to be as wide open for settlement as it was. Getting them to become loyal Mexican Catholics ahead of time seemed like a pretty good idea. Americans began pouring into East Texas while Mexico itself started undergoing a civil war to decide whether the conservative Centrist faction or the Democratic Federalists would be in power. Naturally, most of the Americans sided with the Federalists who were lead by General Santa Ana. However, once Santa Ana took over, he changed sides and set up a totalitarian Centrist government. We fought so Texas could be free from a dictator!

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1. There was one southwestern Indian in the whole movie, hardly a depiction of a whole people.
2. Of course he died at the Alamo, the movie acknowledges this, but he has never been said to be one of the first to go. His group was one of the last; defending the low wall in the front of the church. It's actually a common hypothesis he was one of the six prisoners executed after the battle.
3. Another commenter pointed out the falsity and simpleness of the slavery comment, I'd like to add someone else's words to this:

"The continuous struggle of self-rightous academics and other apologists as Señor Olvera ("The Alamo is a Lie" article) for self-serving centralists, who view the world through "race war" glasses, to put the image of loss of and fear of liberation of bonded blacks in the minds of these patriots as they rode to Bexar and penetrated centralist lines as well as their co-defenders in the garrison is an interesting exercise in sociology (socio-pathology?) rather than historical perspective." ---Wallace L. McKeehan

4. He was a reluctant hero turned martyr. He went to Texas for the promised land opportunities, and wound up embroiled in a war for independence. Within days of his death people were yelling, "Remember the Alamo!"

Antonio López de Santa Anna’s usual habit was to ally with the wealthy and privileged, but his immediate concern was to be on the winning side in any battle. Switching allegiances never troubled him, though it did bother the populace.

There is no readily available history for all the defenders, but it is known the thirty from the Dewitt Colony, as well as Captain Dickinson had never been slave owners. Nor had Crockett, whose father had actually sold him to work off debts he owed. Davy was by all accounts a humane man, and it's no secret he was very much opposed to President Jackson's Indian Removal Act.

Know your history.