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The Alamo
1960 · Film · 202 min
Directed by John Wayne
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
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Texas didn't do it - Hollywood did! And for a good reason - to make money!
And so what? We got, and get, a lot of entertainment out of this mythologizing. As a child I knew that much in the movies about the Alamo was BS. No damage was done. We still played cowboys, indians, Mexicans and Texians. The good guys (usually) win!
Its the same for war movies (in fact, for all movies) with over-the-top, word-of-mouth stories depicted as reality. Its a story for God's sake!
Might as well be complaining about Aesop's Fables.
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fweb.law.duke.edu%2Fcspd%2Fpublicdomainday%2F2017%2Fpre-1976
"What books would be entering the public domain if we had the pre-1978 copyright laws?"
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird John Updike, Rabbit, Run Joy Adamson, Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany Friedrich A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Politics of Upheaval: The Age of Roosevelt Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Scott O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique de la raison dialectique
"Consider the films and television shows from 1960 that would have become available this year."
The Time Machine Psycho Spartacus Exodus The Apartment Inherit the Wind The Magnificent Seven Ocean’s 11 The Alamo The Andy Griffith Show (first episodes) The Flintstones (first episodes)
Also listed: songs from 1960 (e.g. Elvis's "It's Now or Never"), and copyrighted scientific research from 1960 still behind paywalls (e.g. 1960 papers on the structure of hemoglobin and myoglobin).
my dad was an extra in the movie The Alamo (1960), which Wayne starred in and directed. My dad said Wayne cussed a lot. My dad played a mexican cavalry man....
My dad and many men of his era and place (we lived in west texas) always sort of lived their lives in a john wayne sort of fashion.... in the movie Hondo, Wayne, upon hearing that a young boy could not swim across the creek in front of him, grabbed him by his underwear and threw him in the creek--sink or swim. My dad did the same to me at about age 6.
Anyway, I think it was John Ford who made Wayne a real star.
I think it's all about 1945-1950. That's when Truman (accidentally?) ensconced employer-based healthcare into law in the US and the NHS began in Britain. Of course France's solution is quite compelling, as is Germany's, Canada's, Japan's...
The "socialism" thing is just spall from decades of identity politics. Pick apart the propaganda aspects of John Wayne's movies, especially "The Alamo". I'm not snarkin' on Wayne, I love his stuff, partly because it's propaganda.
Our cognitive dissonance is best cognitive dissonance :)
I also have to wonder - if the US actually embraces a public health service would that take the pressure off the public health services of the world to keep cost down?
As economics, it's actually pretty difficult to analyze this issue. The assumptions are formidable.