Your so-called liberal media at work: from a New York Times review of the recent flop The Alamo on DVD: From Touchstone, the studio that brought you "Pearl Harbor" with a happy ending, here is a bafflingly upbeat version of the battle of the Alamo, the second most famous defeat in American history. Directed by John Lee Hancock ("The Rookie") from a script by himself, Leslie Bohem ("Taken") and Stephen Gaghan ("Traffic"), the film imposes a not-so-subtle 9/11 framework on the action, with the Mexican general Santa Ana (Emilio Echevarrķa) strutting around in peacock military garb like Saddam Hussein. Saddam, Osama bin Laden, whatever. But wait, there's more Bush propaganda:The 200 brave men of the Alamo go down with all due spectacle, but then the film tacks on a 30-minute coda in which Houston leads a victorious invasion spurred by the famous words "Remember the Alamo" - presented as 1836's anticipation of President Bush's ground zero speech, "The people who knocked down these buildings will hear all of us soon." I guess we know who the reviewer, Dave Kehr, is voting for.
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Your so-called liberal media at work: from a New York Times review of the recent flop The Alamo on DVD: Saddam, Osama bin Laden, whatever. But wait, there's more Bush propaganda:I guess we know who the reviewer, Dave Kehr, is voting for.
- tom moody 9-28-2004 6:15 pm