Desperado (film)
1995
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91% Tomatometer 76 Reviews 76% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings El Mariachi (Carlos Gallardo) is a traveling guitar player with the modest desire to play music for a living. Looking for a job,...
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Mar 12, 1993 · The movie was written, directed, photographed and edited by Robert Rodriguez, a 23-year-old from Austin, Texas, who shot on location in a Mexican border town and tells the story of a young mariachi, or rambling guitar player, who arrives one day looking for work.
Feb 26, 1993 · El Mariachi: Directed by Robert Rodriguez. With Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos, Peter Marquardt. A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.
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Originally produced for the Mexican home video market and made for a mere $7,000, much of which famously came from Rodriguez's participation in trials for medical research,El Mariachi follows the action-packed (and unintended) exploits of its unnamed protagonist (Carlos Gallardo). Bouncing from one small town to another in search of work as a music...
From day one as a filmmaker, Robert Rodriguez has unquestionably been a creative and resourceful talent. Consistently employing cost-effective techniques both in front of and behind the camera, the maverick director has always had a knack for maximizing efficiency. In no film is this more apparent and admirable than in El Mariachi, and one might in...
Aside from the film's stripped down narrative, what sets El Mariachi apart from other films directed by Rodriguez is the level of cleverness employed to pull it off on a shoestring. $7,000 doesn't buy a filmmaker much of anything to work with aside from the bare essentials, especially in a pre-digital era that required the use of precious and expen...
While Rodriguez would ultimately go on to great heights of fame and fortune in Hollywood, rubbing elbows with A-listers and working with budgets in the tens of millions and beyond, the lessons learned and techniques used to complete his debut film have stayed with him. Even while working on major productions for big studios, the filmmaker has conti...
Dec 31, 1992 · El Mariachi Review. A new guitar player (Gallardo) comes to town to play his music but is somehow mistaken for a hitman, another recent arrival. The mariachi then stumbles across the local...
Feb 26, 1993 · Reviews/Film; Two Men Wear Black; Only One Plays Guitar - The New York Times. El Mariachi. Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Action, Crime, Thriller. R. 1h 21m. By Janet Maslin. Feb. 26, 1993. The...
