#alamo movie

[ruzqtx]

THE ALAMO (2004) / GODSPEED

hi guys i’m back with a HUGE art dump!!!

lots of ursula this time hehe our queen

some flynn of course my baby

lots of multi-doodles for godspeed stuff/movie stuff

AND lots of santa anna this time ooooouuh (plus my mexican soldier oc manuel andazola)

PAST BUT NOT LEAST my good friend @lexusinsannus’s alamo oc, carolina my shayla 💗💗

WHEW yes lots of doodling on both math and physics work…you can tell which classes i hate LMAO okay bye alamoers

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There's a movie coming out fairly soon called September 5. It's a dramatic retelling of the hostage taking and massacre of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich in 1972, told from the perspective of the ABC sports journalists who had to make the decision to air the event live to the United States as part of their Olympic coverage.

The movie has gotten... fairly middling press? Reviews I've seen say that it's pretty bog standard as historical action/thriller movies go. I, as a Jew, take some umbrage with having the PoV of a recent traumatic event in Israeli-Jewish history be that of the unaffected goyim on the sidelines, but... eh, fine. If it's a story told well, then gei gezunte heit.

I bring this up because the staff of the NYC location of Alamo Drafthouse - a US movie theater chain that I can only really describe as "the Trader Joe's of cinema" (in that it purports to have a better customer experience and support more out there projects) is trying to cancel screenings of September 5, calling it "Zionist propaganda" because, according to their petition:

So right off the rip, they call the Munich massacre by Black September's name for the plan, Operation Iqrit and Biram. This signals to the reader that they believe the massacre to have been a legitimate military operation, rather than what it was - the kidnapping and wanton murder of civilian athletes in the middle of the Olympic games. The rest of the paragraph is the same asinine drivel about how this is obviously Western propaganda and how portraying Black September as evil, antisemitic terrorists (which, by the way, they were, by dint of the fact that they kidnapped and murdered Israeli Olympic athletes at the Olympic games), and they plan to bring this petition to their union meeting later this month.

I spent the last few paragraphs writing about this because I'm disappointed. I've been to that Alamo Drafthouse, and I support the company's ideals of bringing less mainstream cinema into the greater fold, and having cool and interesting showings of popular movies. And now I probably can't go back there, ever, because even if Alamo Drafthouse dismisses the workers' petition and shows the movie anyways, I'll never feel comfortable supporting an institution that can see the existence of a film where terrorists kill my people and cry that it's propaganda by the victims.

[ruzqtx]

IN DYINF. IM DEAD. IM GONE IM leGIT GONE

okay first of all i did add ya in discord, second of all, i will agree that jason patric is so unbelievably hard to draw for…whatever reason 🥲 me and my friends pointed out his jawline the first time we saw him and went “how the hell does he have such a fine jawline 😦”

second of all OH MY GOD YOU DID AWESOME ON THIS????? I CANT FIND WORDS TO DESCEIBE THIS BUT IT JUST FITS SO WELL OH MY GOODNESS

third of all i didn’t think of until now but it was probably REALLY freaking hard to find any reference photos 😭 they don’t have many of him as JIM BOWIE specifically, i know the struggle is real LMAO the random curls kind of make sense for him—

someone get his wife back someone go get this man his wife,,,,criess

now that i look at him why DOES he look so hard to draw 😭 IM SORRY FOR THAT ONe GOODNESS

iM SORRY IM BACK ALREADY 💔💔 sighs sooooooo deeply,,,,i’m curious ab how jim bowie from the alamo’s 2004 version of the movie would look in your style, like jason patric version…that or i could always do a billy bob thornton davy crockett 🙏😔 /nf

also i’d lOVE to do an art trade at some point with you if you’re up for it!!!!!!! your art is literally awesome and u r too ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥

NOO i love ur questions pls keep coming back it’s ok HEHAHAHA

i can draw any variant of davy crockett with my eyes closed so why not try something new.. here’s jim bowie

&yes yes we should (i’m percyweasley on discord [few free to add me other viewers of this post but i’m very antisocial])

i have officially found the most hardest person for me to draw… no it’s not max verstappen, it’s jason patric. this took me so unecessarily long (maybe 2 hours 💀💀) cause i kept trying new coloring and i had been looking at photos of him and i’m like “how does his jawline park this is insane” like it’s not like a timothee chalamete kinda thing yk like AHHH but it’s ok i love jimmy

random ass loose curl squiggle there idk

[clemsfilmdiary]

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985, Tim Burton)

6/29/24

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Common Bruce W / Danny L

[mannyblacque]

These were handed out at the Alamo Drafthouse during their Valentine's Day showings of Lisa Frankenstein.

[thefearandnow]

So with Oppenheimer coming out tomorrow, I feel a certain level of responsibility to share some important resources for people to understand more about the context of the Manhattan Project. Because for my family, it’s not just a piece of history but an ongoing struggle that’s colonized and irradiated generations of New Mexicans’ lives and altered our identity forever. Not only has the legacy of the Manhattan Project continued to harm and displace Indigenous and Hispanic people but it’s only getting bigger: Biden recently tasked the Los Alamos National Lab facility to create 30 more plutonium pits (the core of a nuclear warhead) by 2026. So this is a list of articles, podcasts and books to check out to hear the real stories of the local people living with this unique legacy that’s often overlooked. 

This is simply the latest mainstream interest in the Oppenheimer story and it always ALWAYS silences the trauma of the brown people the US government took advantage of to make their death star. I might see the movie, I honestly might not. I’m not trying to judge anyone for seeing what I’m sure will be an entertaining piece of art. I just want y’all to leave the theater knowing that this story goes beyond what’s on the screen and touches real people’s lives: people whose whole families died of multiple cancers from radiation from the Trinity test, people who’s ancestral lands were poisoned, people who never came back from their job because of deadly work conditions. This is our story too.

The first and best place to learn more about this history and how to support those still resisting is to follow Tewa Women United. They’ve assembled an incredible list of resources from the people who’ve been fighting this fight the longest.

https://tewawomenunited.org/2023/07/oppenheimer-and-the-other-side-of-the-story

The writer Alicia Inez Guzman is currently writing a series about the nuclear industrial complex in New Mexico, its history and cultural impacts being felt today.

https://searchlightnm.org/my-nuclear-family/

https://searchlightnm.org/the-abcs-of-a-nuclear-education/

https://searchlightnm.org/plutonium-by-degrees/

Danielle Prokop at Source NM is an excellent reporter (and friend) who has been covering activists fighting for Downwinder status from the federal government. They’re hoping that the success of Oppenheimer will bring new attention to their cause.

https://sourcenm.com/2023/07/19/anger-hope-for-nm-downwinders/

https://sourcenm.com/2022/01/27/new-mexico-downwinders-demand-recognition-justice/

One often ignored side of the Manhattan Project story that’s personal for me is that the government illegally seized the land that the lab facilities eventually were built on. Before 1942, it was homesteading land for ranchers for more than 30 families (my grandpa’s side of the family was one). But when the location was decided, the government evicted the residents, bought their land for peanuts and used their cattle for target practice. Descendants of the homesteaders later sued and eventually did get compensated for their treatment (though many say it was far below what they were owed)

https://www.hcn.org/issues/175/5654

Myrriah Gomez is an incredible scholar in this field, working as a historian, cultural anthropologist and activist using a framework of “nuclear colonialism” to foreground the Manhattan Project. Her book Nuclear Nuevo Mexico is an amazing collection of oral stories and archival record that positions New Mexico’s era of nuclear colonialism in the context of its Spanish and American eras of colonialism. A must read for anyone who’s made it this far.

https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/nuclear-nuevo-mexico

There isn’t a ton of podcasts about this (yet 👀) but recently the Washington Post’s podcast Field Trip did an episode about White Sands National Monument. The story is a beautifully written and sound designed piece that spotlights the Downwinder activists and also a discovery of Indigenous living in the Trinity test area going back thousands of years. I was blown away by it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/field-trip/white-sands-national-park/

[ruzqtx]

AWWH TY FOR THE TAG

i don’t wanna spoil the end of my fic so i’m going to the end of the first half of the fic (which also isn’t for awhile but oh well)

“ Amie stared at the coonskin cap in her shaky hands, the rain staining it with soft pellets—or was it her own tears? She couldn’t help but think of her father, and mainly, her brother. She’d never live up to either of them, and they couldn’t live up to themselves, either.

But she was a screamer—A Crockett.

That’s all that ever really mattered, anyways. ”

this is a part from one of the ending scenes of a sadder chapter from my fic called ” Godspeed ,” yet absolutely no one knows the context of this rn because with how it’s published rn it doesn’t make sense MWHAAHAHA

( no pressure— @formulaireone @unanchored-ship @townsendsbiggestfan idk if you guys do fic stuff but oh well)

Last line challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote or drew, and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

Tagged by @nooneherebutaghost! Thank you 😊

The last line I wrote was literally a couple minutes ago lmao

“Th-thanks, Obi-Wan,” they stammered, heart hammering in their chest as if it were trying to burst out and scream at Obi-Wan that they loved him, “I… I should go check on Kenni. Since you brought him up.”

They briskly sidestepped him, hurriedly placing their helmet back over their head as they did so that he couldn’t see that they were blushing.

{Full context here bc I shared the whole snippet not too long ago}

It’s LionObi ofc! Bc when do I not write about them? 🤣

No pressure tags: @wouldntyou-liketoknow @echo-echo31 @nooneherebutaghost (get uno reverse’d!) and anyone else who sees this and wants to give it a go! 🫶🫶

[hq-reviews]

Anora- ★★★★★ (Spoilers)

First Watched- 10/18/2024

Anora broke my heart. 

Now, I don’t want to be that guy, but I feel like this movie was made for me. I don’t want to be that guy, but I’ve been on board with this film since Mikey Madison’s casting. Additionally, when this movie won the Palme d’Or a day after my birthday, I was locked in. I figured this movie was sent down from a higher power just for me, and I was right.

When I think of Anora, I think less of the comedic moments than I think of the echoes of the tragedy of Anora herself. Anora is a story about difference. It is a story about love, and how that larger-than-life, human feeling can manifest in the most unexpected ways. 

One of the reasons this film is so effective is how these deeply human themes can be so prevalent behind humor. The movie plays into irony so well- in fact, I think this is one of the funniest movies of the year. There were points where my hand would fly to my mouth so I wouldn’t, like, cause a scene. This is mostly due to the fact that the dialogue in this film is so sharp, and most importantly, so real. Sean Baker’s writing oozes charisma, and the actors accentuate that beyond what I could’ve imagined. 

Mikey Madison is a star. I seriously believe she is locked in for the Oscar, or, at the very least, she deserves to be. When I read and watched the interviews behind the making of Anora, I was in awe of how much passion and care she brought to the role. Even the supporting actors and actresses were on a different level, however, I want to specifically mention Yuriy Borisov, who played Igor. Exploring that, even before the film starts, the audience, through the marketing, is led to believe that this film is a love story between Ani and Ivan. The surprising beauty of this film, though, is the bond that her and Igor develop throughout the course of the film. The whole series of events throughout this film focuses on Ani and Ivan, yet, by the end of the film, Ani and Igor’s forced proximity bond is finally given the opportunity to shine through.

Something else I want to gush about is the visuals; this movie is gorgeous. I was lucky enough to catch a 35mm showing at the Brooklyn Alamo Drafthouse with my sister, and our experience was unforgettable. The sheer clarity in the colors was just out of this world. Actually, to expand on that, something about Anora that really did catch my eye was the color. Ani herself is advertised in red. In all the promotional material for the film, she’s got either red nails, red shoes, red outfits, or red accessories. This is really interesting because Ivan, in contrast, is usually seen wearing clothes with blue highlights. This is explored ingeniously by the Vegas-bender scenes. In Vegas, Ani, wearing a red bikini, is in an outdoor pool, with the water and sky taking up most of the screen. I find this important because it serves as a direct mirror to her first meeting with Ivan. At first, the two met on Ani’s “home turf,” so to speak. When Ani first meets Ivan, it’s at HQ, bathed in red light. Compare that to the point in which after agreeing to be exclusive with Ivan for a week, Ani is seen wearing her colors being drowned out by Ivan’s color- blue. Hell, even the scene when Ani first visits Ivan at his house, she is wearing a light blue dress. As she continued going to his house, Ani’s wardrobe got more red. To me, this feels like Baker trying to emphasize not only  the two characters’ differences- how they are two completely different people, but also their individuality, and the strength in that individuality. One of the only times we see the antithesis to this principle is at their marriage ceremony in Vegas, in which both Ani and Ivan wore white; they are both at the same level with the same intention of loving each other. It is also interesting to note that at Ivan’s party to which he invites Ani to, they are bathed in purple lighting. With that, though, as their marriage broke down, so did their colors. By the end of their marriage, Ani is left donning red again with a red scarf(GIVEN TO HER BY IGOR, BY THE WAY) as she has this big crisis of faith in Ivan, while Ivan is left wearing his blue hoodie in broad daylight, as his true colors began to show. 

In that, though, is what I find heartbreaking about Anora. Throughout the first third of the film, Ani and Ivan’s romance is given space to breathe and grow. The movie gives the audience time to believe in their romance, emphasized by the chemistry Mikey Madison and Mark Eydelshteyn had. Ivan’s entire family, though, was hellbent on tearing their marriage apart, telling Ani that she doesn’t know Ivan, and that she shouldn’t trust him. The movie, even around the halfway mark, tries to hammer the point home by having Ivan run away when he was confronted by his family. I remember thinking to myself, Okay, he’s gonna come back, because the movie makes the audience want them to make it all the way. The film did an excellent job of putting us in Ani’s shoes, immersing us into her mindset. Anyways, to go back, I wanted to say that this movie broke my heart because Ivan’s family was right…kind of. They were right in the fact that Ani did not know Ivan- that he was just a bachelor- a bratty kid who wanted to blow his money away. The film broke my heart because Ani believed that her Cinderella dreams were coming true, only for the rug to be pulled underneath her by her own husband.

Anora is a film that I expected to love, honestly. That doesn’t stop the fact that the film was an emotional rollercoaster that left me stunned. What Sean Baker and Samantha Quan achieved with this film is something for the history books, and I hope that Anora receives all the critical praise it can get. My experience venturing to Brooklyn with my sister to watch the film was unforgettable, and I don’t think it’s out of the realm of reason to say this film could potentially be an all-time favorite of mine; hell, it’s already probably my favorite film of the year. Call it recency bias, call me crazy, whatever- the feeling this film gave me is not one a regular film can give me- it’s something more. Anora is more than a regular film, and needs to be experienced by everyone.

[lexusinsannus]

THE ALAGANG!!!

it do be color now

[ruzqtx]

“ But if you wish to stay here with me in the Alamo, we will sell our lives dearly. ”

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A HISTORY BLOG INTRO POST

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This is a HISTORY ONLY BLOG! this blog specializes in:

The Alamo

Texas history

Some Spanish/Mexican/Tejano history

Other Alamo-related topics

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“ I’m Mads/Ruz! I use She/Her pronouns, and I love all things history-related, especially the Alamo! My DMs are open almost all of the time—I’m currently writing my own AU called ‘Godspeed’ on AO3! ”

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death, frequent violence and injury

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[oldbutchdanielcraig]

thinking about going to see queer again tomorrow. even though i have work to do

[un-ionizetheradlab]

Happy holidays from the Los Alamos team!

[nicollekidman]

glen powell is absolutely Moving like an old school Movie Star(tm) and that’s half the battle!

[forthegothicheroine]

30 Days of Horror, Day 2: the last horror movie you saw in the theater

Maximum Overdrive (1986)

"This machine just called me an asshole!"

[gaydiation-poisoning]

Motherfucker I've been sitting here wondering why on earth they'd bring back Darkrai and Dialga and Palkia at the same time, such a deliberate reference to the 10th movie but I couldn't imagine what would prompt it.

It literally JUST hit me that OH RIGHT

WE'RE IN FUCKING BARCELONA