They weren't loyal to England. How can you feel loyalty to your country's occupiers? The ones that stole your crops and left you to starve? They wanted to prove themselves to their new land, the United States but they were treated brutally. Treated like swine only because they loved Jesus in a way that was different than the president and the army commanders. They were loyal to the righteous cause, and at the time that cause belonged to Mexico. Honor to these men, these heroes of Eire and Mexico
I was clowning earlier, but I think this is the only movie recently to ever make me tear up. Man I don't even care that Mexico lost and I'm Mexi American. They killed Reilly's men and that's what fucked me up. Give them a blizzard...
I was born in the USA but I am still Mexican, Ireland you will always be our friends and our brothers forever,Viva Mexico and Viva Ireland 🇲🇽🤝🇮🇪💪. For all my Irelander friends hi
I've known about the story of the San Patricios for a while now, always wanted to watch this movie ever since I heard of it - I never expected it make me tear up 🥺Erin Go Bragh☘ & Viva Mexico🦅
Beautiful movie I’ve always wanted to watch a movie about the San Patricks Now I understand why my mother always told me to wear green in the whole month of April to honor to people to protect Mexico & string by faith Crazy how things were back then Love to the Irish people 💚
Interestingly, in this movie, One Man's Hero, the heir (at the time) to the Principality of Monaco, Prince Albert, has a cameo as James Kelly. His mother was Grace Kelly, paternally Irish. His father was Prince Rainier Ill, whose father was the half Mexican Duke of Valentinois. His grandmother was part of the Mexican aristocracy. He got to honor both his Mexican and Irish roots. At 51:35, it shows them telling him “We have no royals here now!” 😂 and he says, “No Sir”. 🤣 Also interestingly, Mexico did have royals still at that time (The Iturbide family), and would add more Mexican royals in about 15 years time during the Second Mexican Empire with Emperor Maximiliano I and Empress Carlota.
ITURBIDE DID NOT HAVE ANY ROYAL BOOLD AND WAS JUST PLACED AS A MONARCH BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ONE BUT THAT LASTED VERY BRIEFLY. PLUS, BY THE TIME OF THE WAR THERE WAS NO EMPIRE IN MEXICO OR MONARCHY, AND WHEN MAXIMILIAN CAME TO POWER IT WAS FORCED VIA THE FRENCH AND AND A VERY FIEW RICH CONSERVATIVES, BUT THE MEXICAN PEOPE QUIKLY GOT RID OF THEM THEM.
51:27 The man in the right (playing as James Kelly) actually is Prince Albert II of Monaco, son of Pricess Grace Kelly. He's credied as Albert Grimaldi. .
The San Patrick Battalion poor Irish Catholics people who were mistreated by the Americans in the 19th century for his religion in an unjust and uneven war where they decided to defect to the American army and join the Mexican army in 1846 ERIN GO BRAGH 🇮🇪 AND LONG LIVE MÉXICO 🇲🇽
Here's my question. What was the pagan religion that the first American sellers brought with them from England? In other words, what were these American soldiers fighting for other than the good parts of Mexico?
This is a movie that definitely had potential to be something magnificent, but it stumbles and falls on top of itself in more ways than one (doesn't help that the movie had a budget of $11.3 Million & only made $240,000 at the box office); making the viewing experience a slow burn and the viewer disengaged. Granted, this movie was made at a time when period films were transitioning from theaters to television, but that doesn't make it any less excusable. The writing sounds like something out of a Pureflix movie trying to sell a facetious narrative of what I like to call the "Christian Persecution Complex" that only makes the actor's performances wooden as hell, and their characters more one-dimensional than a stick figure on a piece of notebook paper (half the time I could barely remember what the characters' names were, beyond Tom Berenger as John Riley). Furthermore, when a movie has to rely on subtitles, narration, a convoluted love triangle with no sense of reality, and musical cues to keep the audience on track and remind them of how they're supposed to react/feel in a certain moment, that's just half-ass storytelling. Wether it's on stage or on screen, it all comes down to the old rule, SHOW, DON'T TELL. Even though the movie is visually authentic to the history it's portraying (with the appropriate costuming props, and battle sequences) it doesn't enhance the experience of watching it. Some of the most historically accurate and authentic movies ever made are also the most boring and flawed ("Alexander", "The Alamo", "Gods & Generals", etc.). Whoever was in charge of the cinematography, clearly needed to go back to film school and do their homework. Sure a large battle can be a feast for the eyes spectacle (as seen with the plethora of extras used to create large armies on screen, but it's how your show them and how they're seen in the heat of combat. We the audience, need to know that the characters are committed to action and that their actions propel the story forward (which in this case, they don't) & that the battle scenes themselves are well executed on a technical scale; with the stakes being clear and the action easily followed (which, more then often, cannot, here). Movies like Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky", Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus", Akira Kurosawa's "Ran", Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V", Stephen Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan", & Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" got it right. "One Man's Hero" is high on spectacle, but the characters' piss poor lack of depth make their motivations to fight politically one sided and bland. Top that off with an excessive use of wide shots to show off all the extras and explosions and unnecessary slow motion to overemphasize the drama of certain character's deaths, and you've got yourself a piece of cinema with lots of shine; but almost no substance. Personally, the story of the San Patricios deserves better than this petrified pile of 90's shit. Perhaps if it were under the right leadership with learned filmmaking professionals, and given a chance to give their characters the proper depth and structure so desperately needed, a historically authentic and historically immersive miniseries (either on the History Channel or an appropriate streaming service). That way the story has more time and availability to be depicted in a more politically and culturally well rounded manner, as well as in proper increments (episode by episode), rather than being awkwardly shoved into a 2 hour feature film that demands attention at all times and force feeds its audience a hallow narrative of christian/catholic persecution that radically conservative fundamentalists use as ammunition for an issue that's almost non-existent in America.
Connor Davis, it may very well have been, however most academic that I have encountered & spoken to (History Major) say that the religious convictions of the San Patricios was not the primary reason for desertion from America & brandishing arms for Mexico. Primarily it was for monetary & social gains (better pay than the US Army, more opportunities for rank promotion, and land grants, in the hundreds of acres, for foreign volunteers who signed on). To dedicate the entire movie to this misleading narrative of Catholic persecution, is not how you represent history in media. Had it been a televised miniseries, with more time to flesh out the supporting cast, the opportunity to expand on the diverse political/social/religious motivations of the time & place would’ve been much better to do. In other words, the religious narrative alone makes less like cinema & more like propaganda.
They weren't loyal to England. How can you feel loyalty to your country's occupiers? The ones that stole your crops and left you to starve? They wanted to prove themselves to their new land, the United States but they were treated brutally. Treated like swine only because they loved Jesus in a way that was different than the president and the army commanders. They were loyal to the righteous cause, and at the time that cause belonged to Mexico. Honor to these men, these heroes of Eire and Mexico
Long live germany. Bless you lad.
@@__mindflayer__ - Bless you too brother :) Forever.
God bless you, my German friend.
@@Caritasaveritas God bless you too! "May your Tribe increase: :)
@@portorportor8247 - Many thanks friend :)
Love to mexico our catholic brother and sister love from an irish Australian ❤ viva mexico 🇲🇽
Viva México e Irlanda. 🇲🇽🇮🇪
Erin Go Bragh - Que Viva Mexico. Que Viva Jesucristo - Holy Mother of God, pray for us.
God bless mexico. Stay true and strong.
long live Mexico and Ireland!
Thank you, may mexico live forever. We would gladly do it again.
Thanks for uploading. I always wanted to see this movie.
Viva Mexico 🇲🇽 y Viva Ireland IA. 🇮🇪 Gracias hermanos Irlandeses.
Such great honor these men had!
I was clowning earlier, but I think this is the only movie recently to ever make me tear up. Man I don't even care that Mexico lost and I'm Mexi American. They killed Reilly's men and that's what fucked me up.
Give them a blizzard...
I was born in the USA but I am still Mexican, Ireland you will always be our friends and our brothers forever,Viva Mexico and Viva Ireland 🇲🇽🤝🇮🇪💪.
For all my Irelander friends hi
I've known about the story of the San Patricios for a while now, always wanted to watch this movie ever since I heard of it - I never expected it make me tear up 🥺Erin Go Bragh☘ & Viva Mexico🦅
Erin Go Bragh! Viva México, gracias amigos! Nunca los olvidaremos 🥺 sus nombres estan escritos con letras de oro.
Beautiful movie
I’ve always wanted to watch a movie about the San Patricks
Now I understand why my mother always told me to wear green in the whole month of April to honor to people to protect Mexico & string by faith
Crazy how things were back then
Love to the Irish people 💚
Interestingly, in this movie, One Man's Hero, the heir (at the time) to the Principality of Monaco, Prince Albert, has a cameo as James Kelly. His mother was Grace Kelly, paternally Irish. His father was Prince Rainier Ill, whose father was the half Mexican Duke of Valentinois. His grandmother was part of the Mexican aristocracy. He got to honor both his Mexican and Irish roots. At 51:35, it shows them telling him “We have no royals here now!” 😂 and he says, “No Sir”. 🤣 Also interestingly, Mexico did have royals still at that time (The Iturbide family), and would add more Mexican royals in about 15 years time during the Second Mexican Empire with Emperor Maximiliano I and Empress Carlota.
ITURBIDE DID NOT HAVE ANY ROYAL BOOLD AND WAS JUST PLACED AS A MONARCH BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ONE BUT THAT LASTED VERY BRIEFLY. PLUS, BY THE TIME OF THE WAR THERE WAS NO EMPIRE IN MEXICO OR MONARCHY, AND WHEN MAXIMILIAN CAME TO POWER IT WAS FORCED VIA THE FRENCH AND AND A VERY FIEW RICH CONSERVATIVES, BUT THE MEXICAN PEOPE QUIKLY GOT RID OF THEM THEM.
51:27 The man in the right (playing as James Kelly) actually is Prince Albert II of Monaco, son of Pricess Grace Kelly.
He's credied as Albert Grimaldi. .
The San Patrick Battalion poor Irish Catholics people who were mistreated by the Americans in the 19th century for his religion in an unjust and uneven war where they decided to defect to the American army and join the Mexican army in 1846
ERIN GO BRAGH 🇮🇪 AND LONG LIVE MÉXICO 🇲🇽
Viva San Patricio....2022
Erin go bragh 💚 Mexico go bragh ✊
The Pesadumbre scene remind me of stories my mom told me of protecting her family’s farm as a girl.
Erin Go Bragh! The world wide freedom fighters! All brave!
I'm born in US to an Irish born and bred father. When I learned this story from a Mexico amigo I was like fuck yeah. Viva Mexico y Erin go Bragh.
Thank you for sharing! ☘️ Mexico 🇲🇽
Chaplain Billy Bob
I'm proud catholic also.
What a brilliant film.
1:52:00 favorite part!
Sad 🇲🇽🇮🇪
Give em blizzards!
Glory to those heroes
I forgot the name of the actor portraying O Reilly coud someone tell me?
Tom Berenger?
Correct@@MrRomanthunder
Here's my question. What was the pagan religion that the first American sellers brought with them from England? In other words, what were these American soldiers fighting for other than the good parts of Mexico?
Holy roman empire. .
what the fuck are you even trying to say
Traitors were given justice
🇮🇪 from Dublin city 🇲🇽 To San Diego
They witnessed freedom denied
So they joined the Saint Patrick's battalion
and fought on the Mexican side.
Viva mexico viva Irlanda
Los verdaderos traidores son los de Texas pero se hizo justicia en el Álamo
The oppressed will always fight the oppressors for freedom
¡¡¡Soldados, Fuego!!!
This is a movie that definitely had potential to be something magnificent, but it stumbles and falls on top of itself in more ways than one (doesn't help that the movie had a budget of $11.3 Million & only made $240,000 at the box office); making the viewing experience a slow burn and the viewer disengaged. Granted, this movie was made at a time when period films were transitioning from theaters to television, but that doesn't make it any less excusable.
The writing sounds like something out of a Pureflix movie trying to sell a facetious narrative of what I like to call the "Christian Persecution Complex" that only makes the actor's performances wooden as hell, and their characters more one-dimensional than a stick figure on a piece of notebook paper (half the time I could barely remember what the characters' names were, beyond Tom Berenger as John Riley). Furthermore, when a movie has to rely on subtitles, narration, a convoluted love triangle with no sense of reality, and musical cues to keep the audience on track and remind them of how they're supposed to react/feel in a certain moment, that's just half-ass storytelling. Wether it's on stage or on screen, it all comes down to the old rule, SHOW, DON'T TELL.
Even though the movie is visually authentic to the history it's portraying (with the appropriate costuming props, and battle sequences) it doesn't enhance the experience of watching it. Some of the most historically accurate and authentic movies ever made are also the most boring and flawed ("Alexander", "The Alamo", "Gods & Generals", etc.). Whoever was in charge of the cinematography, clearly needed to go back to film school and do their homework. Sure a large battle can be a feast for the eyes spectacle (as seen with the plethora of extras used to create large armies on screen, but it's how your show them and how they're seen in the heat of combat. We the audience, need to know that the characters are committed to action and that their actions propel the story forward (which in this case, they don't) & that the battle scenes themselves are well executed on a technical scale; with the stakes being clear and the action easily followed (which, more then often, cannot, here). Movies like Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky", Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus", Akira Kurosawa's "Ran", Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V", Stephen Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan", & Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" got it right. "One Man's Hero" is high on spectacle, but the characters' piss poor lack of depth make their motivations to fight politically one sided and bland. Top that off with an excessive use of wide shots to show off all the extras and explosions and unnecessary slow motion to overemphasize the drama of certain character's deaths, and you've got yourself a piece of cinema with lots of shine; but almost no substance.
Personally, the story of the San Patricios deserves better than this petrified pile of 90's shit. Perhaps if it were under the right leadership with learned filmmaking professionals, and given a chance to give their characters the proper depth and structure so desperately needed, a historically authentic and historically immersive miniseries (either on the History Channel or an appropriate streaming service). That way the story has more time and availability to be depicted in a more politically and culturally well rounded manner, as well as in proper increments (episode by episode), rather than being awkwardly shoved into a 2 hour feature film that demands attention at all times and force feeds its audience a hallow narrative of christian/catholic persecution that radically conservative fundamentalists use as ammunition for an issue that's almost non-existent in America.
Religion was crucial to the historical backdrop. As a Catholic who descends from Catholic immigrants I’m confused on how you don’t see this.
Connor Davis, it may very well have been, however most academic that I have encountered & spoken to (History Major) say that the religious convictions of the San Patricios was not the primary reason for desertion from America & brandishing arms for Mexico. Primarily it was for monetary & social gains (better pay than the US Army, more opportunities for rank promotion, and land grants, in the hundreds of acres, for foreign volunteers who signed on). To dedicate the entire movie to this misleading narrative of Catholic persecution, is not how you represent history in media. Had it been a televised miniseries, with more time to flesh out the supporting cast, the opportunity to expand on the diverse political/social/religious motivations of the time & place would’ve been much better to do.
In other words, the religious narrative alone makes less like cinema & more like propaganda.
@@Thespian821 Are you forgetting this movie took place during persecution of Catholics in America?
They only showed the movie for a couple of days is why.
brilliant
I always thought Peckerwood was something Mexicans came up with. I stand corrected.
explain