El Mariachi Trilogy 720p 110
Melvin Amey
The trilogy began with the 1993 ultra low-budget production of El Mariachi. The film was made on a budget of only US$7,000 using 16-millimeter film, was shot entirely in Mexico with a mostly amateur cast, and was originally intended to go directly to the Mexican home-video market (a process detailed in Rodriguez's book Rebel Without a Crew).[2][3] Rodriguez got some funds for the film by serving as a human guinea pig to science labs.[2] Other finances came in the form of prize money won by his short student film, Bedhead, at film festival competitions.[4]
Executives at Columbia Pictures liked the film so much that they bought the rights to it for American distribution. They eventually spent several times more than the film's original production budget on 35 millimeter-film transfers, a marketing campaign, and the eventual distribution/release of the film.[2][5] It was so well received that they eventually chose to finance the second part of the trilogy, Desperado,[6] and subsequently the final chapter, Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
The trilogy was originally conceived as a way for Rodriguez to make three movies for the Spanish-language home video market to hone his skills as a director. Quentin Tarantino, a friend of Rodriguez, is reported to have said to Rodriguez that El Mariachi and Desperado were the start of his Dollars Trilogy, the trilogy of Western films directed by Sergio Leone consisting of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Rodriguez agreed on this idea, and the resulting conclusion of the trilogy, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, has many similarities with its Spaghetti Western counterpart. This is often the explanation of, and reason behind, the inclusion of much more screen-time and story centered around different characters other than El Mariachi within Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
The trilogy began with the 1992 low-budget production of El Mariachi. The film was made on a budget of only US$7,000 using 16-millimeter film, was shot entirely in Mexico with a mostly amateur cast, and was originally intended to go directly to the Mexican home-video market (a process detailed in Rodriguez's book Rebel Without a Crew). Reportedly Rodriguez got some funds for the film by offering himself up as a human guinea pig to science labs. Other finances came in the form of prize money won by his short student film, Bedhead, at film festival competitions. Executives at Columbia Pictures liked the film so much that they bought the rights to it for American distribution and eventually spent several times more than the film's original production budget on 35 millimeter film transfers, a marketing campaign and the eventual distribution/release of the film. It was so well received that they eventually chose to finance the second part of the trilogy, Desperado, and subsequently the final chapter, Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
Across the Mariachi trilogy, Rodriguez moves actors around like action figures on a playset, recasting the same faces in different roles (Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo) and even the same role with different faces (Gallardo and Banderas), entirely unconcerned with continuity from one adventure to the next.
El Mariachi Tribute. Inspired by the genius of Director Robert Rodriquez, creator of the greatest movie trilogy of all time! The El Mariachi trilogy includes El Mariachi, Desperado, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
Desperado is immediately recognizable as bigger budgeted, with grand set pieces, and recognizable faces like Cheech Marin, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, Danny Trejo, Salma Hayek, and of course, Antonio Banderas. The action scenes, which are at the core of the trilogy, are bigger and better, and just as well shot and edited. Rodriguez is of that new(ish) school of action filmmakers that was influenced by the ballet of bullets cinema of John Woo.
I like my cheese spicy with extra gunfire, so my choice for Guilty Pleasure would be "Desperado," the 1995 hit with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. The movie is the middle episode in the "El Mariachi" trilogy, directed by Robert Rodriguez. In the trilogy, a...
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