6. The Alamo
The Battle of The Alamo is infamous for being known historically as a losing battle for the Texans who stood their ground at, well The Alamo. If you don't know the story, everyone dies. It's kind of like Game of Thrones except with less nudity. Davy Crockett dies. Jim Bowie dies. Some other people who don't have a merchandise line die. So you think, okay, so the odds of playing a character that dies must be in Dennis Quaid's favour in a movie where the story is about the main characters battling and losing and dying. "Hell no", said Dennis Quaid. I want to play Sam Houston, get credit for being a lead actor in the fill, do twenty minutes of screen time, and become a hero at a battle that is not The Alamo. "Shoot me in the ankle, I don't care - I'll catch you while you're sleeping." Sam Houston must have been quoted when acting as a general of the Texan Army in a fight of independence against the Mexican Army. Good enough of a film that would propose an educational way to waste time in history class for any secondary school that's following history of a single state that odds are you are not living in, The Alamo adds to DQ's report of characters that in the end are impossible to kill. Yes, according to history Sam Houston lives. But at the time, Sam Houston had to have had his mind blown when he, you know... didn't die.