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The Alamo (2004) - 2 corrections

starring Billy Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson (add more)

Genres: Drama, History, War, Western

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During the final attack, the Mexicans charge a corner of the fort guarded with wooden stakes set at an angle in the ground. As the Mexicans temporarily fall back, the stakes can be seen wiggling like rubber. Though it could be green wood, no defender would use green wood as a stake intended to stop attackers from charging onto it exactly because it would bend. [The wiggling that you see is more reasonably attributed to the natural spring of the wood. A six foot long pike made of juniper or cedar (the most likely woods used, as they are the most abundant trees in this area of Texas which produce branches like these) would spring like this if a grown man or a musket were to strike it like they do in this scene. Also, these pikes would not need to be hard and unbendable, as their purpose is not to stop attackers, but merely to slow a charging line and break it up into single files, which are easier to defend against. For this purpose, they only need a sharp point at the end; if they were still green, it wouldn't matter.]

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The first scene of the movie shows stone on the Alamo's wall marked as a calendar of the siege. There are 13 marks on the stone. The final assault takes place before dawn of the 13th day. So, the stone in the first scene should have had only 12 marks. [It would still be considered the 13th day even though it happened before dawn as long as it happen after 12am.]

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