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Post by neferetus on Sept 7, 2006 12:22:41 GMT -5
A movie, or recording something about the Alamo?
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Post by Bromhead24 on Sept 7, 2006 13:56:55 GMT -5
A movie, or recording something about the Alamo? Yes, a movie. I have tons of ideas only i don't have the zillions of dollars it takes to back those ideas
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Post by neferetus on Jan 21, 2007 4:45:32 GMT -5
The more time passes, the less miseries are remembered. And while I feel that I will never be inclined to do something like that again, I'm still glad that I did it, all the same.
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Post by Greg C. on Jan 21, 2007 16:43:01 GMT -5
it will always be cool when you can tell someone that you've been in a movie, even if you only were an extra.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 21, 2007 19:50:41 GMT -5
Well, if we can find some sponsers and raise lets say $150,000,000, i'll tackle the project!
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Post by neferetus on Feb 25, 2007 22:51:31 GMT -5
Some Alamo film trivia: In THE ALAMO (2004), when Col. Neill tells Travis that he has 'business to attend to in Mina', he is actually referring to the town of Bastrop. For, in 1844 German Baron de Bastrop set up a colony there and changed the name of the town from Mina to Bastrop. Coincidentally, Bastrop is the town where we filmed the San Jacinto scenes. Neat how history and film can come together, yes?
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Post by neferetus on Jun 14, 2007 19:52:04 GMT -5
Whoa, I seem to have let the 4th anniversary of filming THE ALAMO (2004) in Bastrop go by unnoticed. Last day we worked there on the film was June 4, 2003.
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Post by Greg C. on Jun 15, 2007 5:56:05 GMT -5
What scene was filmed on the last day?
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Post by neferetus on Jun 15, 2007 17:48:48 GMT -5
What scene was filmed on the last day? Houston (Dennis Quaid) was charging the Mexican camp on his white horse, Saracen, when he got shot down, only steps from where I and a bunch of other extras were hoofing it toward the barracade. The set dressers had dug a big pit filled with sawdust and then covered with brush for the horsefall. After Quaid's double had effected the horsefall, Quaid himself remounted a new horse to continue the charge.
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Post by neferetus on Oct 27, 2007 22:32:24 GMT -5
Another little piece of trivia from the filming of THE ALAMO (2004)...
The San Jacinto set was located on the Lost Pines Ranch, just outside of Bastrop, Texas. During the American Civil War, the film's battlefield was once the location of a pottery factory. We soon learned this fact the hard way, stepping on thousands of broken pottery shards, while marching, or running across the field.
This experience certainly brought the history of the site to life for us!
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Post by neferetus on Nov 15, 2007 18:50:52 GMT -5
Here's the film tee-shirt I got in the reenactor's camp at Hidden Pines, near Bastrop.
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Post by seguin on Nov 15, 2007 19:10:34 GMT -5
Nice motif on the T-shirt with the "trinity" on top of the Alamo...
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Post by neferetus on Nov 15, 2007 20:00:27 GMT -5
Yeah, filming went from January, 2003 through June, 2003. Everyone thought that the film would be coming out on Christmas of that year. That's why the tee-shirt says 2003.
In reality, the film would not becoming out for almost a year from the time filming wrapped.
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Post by seguin on Nov 15, 2007 21:17:09 GMT -5
Were there any specific reasons why it took almost a year for the movie to premiere?
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Post by neferetus on Nov 15, 2007 21:39:29 GMT -5
Were there any specific reasons why it took almost a year for the movie to premiere? The 3 hour plus movie went over poorly with the test audiences, so Disney decided to pull the Christmas release date and then send the film to the editing room. The 2 hour 18 minute version was releaed on Easter, 2004, only to be shut down by THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, HELL BOY and VAN HELSING. You know the rest.
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Post by seguin on Nov 15, 2007 22:00:36 GMT -5
That´s right! I forgot about the test audiences reaction and the re-editing...
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Post by neferetus on Nov 15, 2007 22:12:50 GMT -5
That´s right! I forgot about the test audiences reaction and the re-editing... Test auduiences! What do they know? I'll bet if it were a test screening of HELL BOY, the audience would've demanded more. I want my director's cut!
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Post by Bromhead24 on Nov 16, 2007 11:12:31 GMT -5
Where was this test screening at? i bet if they went to San Antonio the test audience would have loved it. I could be wrong.
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Post by neferetus on Nov 16, 2007 11:46:24 GMT -5
Where was this test screening at? i bet if they went to San Antonio the test audience would have loved it. I could be wrong. They had several of them. My friend Jerry Laing, who was also in the film, told me that there was a test-screening in Pasadena, CA, his town. A friend of his had gone to the theater just a couple of days prior to the test screening and was offered free tickets to it, but turned them down. Some friend, says Jerry.
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Post by Rick on Nov 16, 2007 16:44:54 GMT -5
A friend of mine here in El Paso has an adult daughter in Southern California who attended one of the test screenings. I tried hard to set up an interview with her, but he said she had no idea what to tell me about the film.
She wasn't impressed by it, apparently, nor was she interested in telling me exactly what it had in it. I imagine the version she watched was the one detailed in the screenplay printed in Frank's Making Of book.
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