Usually I m trying to add a point of view that I think has been missing even if the story has been told. You just look at them in a certain kind of way and look for those elements. I think it is inevitably compromised in any telling. The difficulty is this. The truths of the movie tend to be clean and pure and powerful and simple.
Movies make good guys too good, bad guys too bad.
They adopt narrative lines that are too simple, all in an effort to reach a broad audience. The more expensive the movie, the greater the need to reach a huge audience, an audience that can quickly apprehend its themes. You know, this emphasis on simplicity and power and immediately hitting your audience means that the movies are much too simple compared to the past. In one sense, when you re grappling with difficult, complex problems, movies say there are solutions. But he wasn t thinking of the real Alamo experience.