El Mariachi is a Mexican-American contemporary Western action film of 1992 and the first installment in a story known as the Mexican Trilogy < Robert Rodriguez . This marks the long debut of Rodriguez as a writer and director, the Spanish-language film was shot with an amateur main actor on the northern Mexican border of Ciudad AcuÃÆ'Â ± a, Coahuila, Mexico opposite Del Rio, Texas, the home town of leading actor Carlos Gallardo. 7,000 was originally intended for the Mexican home video market, but executives at Columbia Pictures were so fond of the movie that they bought American distribution rights.Columbs eventually spent several times more than the original budget of the 16 mm film on 35 mm transfers, promotion, marketing and distribution.
The success of Rodriguez's debut director earned him two further entries, Desperado (1995) and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003). For two sequels, Antonio Banderas took over from Carlos Gallardo for El Mariachi's main character, though Gallardo co-produced both films and had a minor role in Desperado.
In 2011, El Mariachi was sworn in to the Library of Congress to be retained as part of the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically." The film is also recognized by Guinness World Records as the film with the lowest budget up to gross $ 1 million at the box office.
Video El Mariachi
Plot
After getting out of jail in a small Mexican town, a cruel criminal, dubbed Azul, ventured with a guitar box full of weapons and vengeance oath to the local drug king, Moco, who had him arrested in the first place. Meanwhile, a young musician arrives in town carrying his own guitar bag containing his signature guitar. He hopes to find a job in town to pursue his dream of becoming a mariachi like his father.
From the boundaries of the guarded villa on the outskirts of town, Moco sends a large group of assassins to kill Azul. They were ordered to find a man dressed in black clothes and carrying a guitar bag, but since Mariachi also fit this description, the assassins considered him as Azul and started chasing him. Only Moco knows Azul's real face. The Mariachi was then forced to kill four of the attackers to defend themselves after being pursued on the streets. When Mariachi sought refuge in a bar belonging to a beautiful woman named DominÃÆ'³, she quickly fell in love with him. Unfortunately, Moco not only finances the bar, but also has its own romantic interest in DominÃÆ'³.
When Azul visits the bar for beer and information about Moco, he accidentally goes with Mariachi's guitar box. Mega thugs captured Azul on the street but let him go when they found out that the bag he was carrying contained only a guitar. Shortly afterwards, Mariachi was arrested and taken to Moco, who identified him as the wrong person and released her.
Meanwhile, Azul, who has no direction to Moco's house, takes DominÃÆ'³ with him and orders him to take her to Moco's, or Moco will kill mariachi. DominÃÆ'³ agrees to save Mariachi's life. When they arrived at Moco's gated complex, Azul pretended to take the Dominion hostage to gain entry. Moco soon realizes that DominÃÆ'³ has fallen in love with Mariachi and, in anger, shoots him and Azul. Suddenly, Mariachi arrives to find the woman he loves in love. Moco then shoots Mariachi's left hand, making him useless as a guitar player, and starts to mock and laugh at Mariachi. Overcoming sadness and anger, Mariachi takes Azul's weapon with his right hand and kills Moco, taking revenge for Dominó's death. Moco's surviving minions, seeing their leader die, walk away and leave the injured Moco and Mariachi bodies behind.
Mariachi leaves the city with the Dominino motorcycles, picking up the pit bull and the opening letter to remember it. His dream to become mariachi has been destroyed, and his only protection for his future is the Azul weapons he brings in his guitar box.
Maps El Mariachi
Cast
- Carlos Gallardo as El Mariachi
- Consuelo Gómez as Dominó
- Peter Marquardt as Mauricio (a.k.a. Moco)
- Reinol MartÃÆ'nez as Azul
- Jaime de Hoyos as Bigotón
- Ramiro Gómez as a Servant
- JesÃÆ'ºs López Viejo as Officer
- Luis Baro as Dominion assistant
- ÃÆ' "grind Fabila as The Boy
Production
The film was shot at various locations in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico located in northeastern Mexico adjacent to Del Rio, Texas. Rodriguez has a budget of $ 7,000, nearly half of whom grew up participating in experimental clinical drug testing while living in Austin, Texas. The opening scene shows a shoot-out in prison. It is a local prison located on the outskirts of the city. Also, female wardens and male guards are wardens and guards of real life; Rodriguez considered it convenient because it saved him the cost of hiring actors and renting out clothes. The intro bar scene was shot inside the Corona Club and the exterior street scene was shot on Hidalgo Street. The shots were filmed outside in "Boy's Town", the local red light district.
Not everyone in Acuà ± a was happy at first. Local journalists Ramiro GÃÆ'³mez and JesÃÆ'ºs LÃÆ'³pez Viejo are very critical of the making of the film, and to win it, Rodriguez gives them small parts in the film. Due to the high number of films (ie people whose characters can not be shot back), Rodriguez is finding it increasingly difficult to find adult men to play thugs; for that reason, when Mariachi meets the Moco gang in the final scene, the gang is mostly made up of teenagers.
On DVD El Mariachi , Rodriguez devotes both DVD comments and the "Extras" section to explain the movie movie's tricky tricks with just $ 7,000. Rodriguez strongly emphasized the need to cut costs, "because if you start spending, you can not stop again." This is why he cut costs at every possible opportunity. He does not use slate; the actors, instead, hinted at the number of scenes and the number of shots with their fingers. She does not use dolls but holds the camera while pushed in a wheelchair. He does not use synced voice. Instead, he recorded a still movie, then recorded the audio set so that it could be synchronized in postproduction. Professional lighting is replaced with two 200-watt clip-on desk lamps. No film crew employed; actors who are not in the help scene. Also, Rodriguez believes in sequential shooting scenes in an old shot with a camera; every few seconds, he froze the action, so he could change the camera angle and make it appear that he was using multiple cameras simultaneously. Also, the blooper is saved to save the movie: noted by Rodriguez is the scene when Mariachi jumps on the bus, where Rodriguez looks; Mariachi crashed his gun into the mast; he failed to throw his guitar box on the balcony and DominÃÆ'³ twitched his face when he was dead. Rodriguez saves money by shooting on a 16 mm film compared to 35 mm, and transferring movies to video for editing, avoiding cutting costs on film. In the end, he only used 24 rolls of film and only spent $ 7,225 of the $ 9 he was planning.
Rodriguez also gave insight into his low budget approach to simulate machine-gun fire. The problem is when using real guns, compared to specially designed blank firearms used in most films, the empty ones will jam the weapon after being fired once. To counter this, Rodriguez filmed a blank shooting from a different angle, dubbed a canned machine gun heard above him, and had the actor drop the bullet to the ground to make it appear as if several rounds had been shot. In addition, he sometimes uses water guns instead of real weapons to save money. Rodriguez also revealed that the squibs used in the shoot-out scene were simply condoms filled with fake blood and remained on the weight lifter belt.
Rodriguez also noted the use of improvisation. The turtles crawling in front of Mariachi were not planned, but maintained as a good idea. Similarly, there was a scene in which Mariachi bought the coconut, but Rodriguez forgot to show him paying for the fruit; instead of returning to the scene to take additional scenes, Rodriguez decides to build a sound-where Mariachi insists that the coconut is free. Improvisation is also useful for covering continuity errors: at the end of the film, Mariachi has his left hand, but Rodriguez forgot to bring a metal glove to cover the actor's hand; he broke it by flapping his hands with black tape.
In a DVD commentary, Rodriguez described acting Peter Marquardt who portrayed the Moco gangster boss. Since the language of the film was Spanish, which Marquardt had not mastered, he had to study his dialogue without understanding what he was saying. The gag that runs, in which Moco lights up his matches using a mustache from his minions BigotÃÆ'³n, is described by Rodriguez as a means to start and end the movie: the final scene is a parody of this scene. Also, Marquardt experienced physical discomfort in the final shooting scene. When Moco was hit in the chest, his blood exploded with such force that he literally fell to the ground in pain.
Initially, the film was intended to be sold in the Latin video market as a funding for another bigger and better project contemplated by Rodriguez. However, after being rejected from various Latino direct-to-Latino distributors, Rodriguez decided to post his film (it was in trailer format at the time) to a larger distribution company where it began to get noticed.
When the sequel Desperado was produced, Antonio Banderas replaced Gallardo as the actor for the main character of the series. The filmmakers again fired the last bout from El Mariachi as a flashback sequence for the Banderas character in Desperado.
Music
For the scene in which Mariachi delivers the song in front of DominÃÆ'³, Rodriguez hires a local entertainer. Recording a song with little more than a microphone held next to a musician, Rodriguez put up a voice to match the voice of actor Mariachi Carlos Gallardo.
Messages
The production story of this film inspires Rodriguez to write the book Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $ 7,000 to be a Hollywood Players .
Television adaptation
Sony's AXN channel confirms that the channel will feature an adaptation of the TV series from the Mexican Trilogy franchise. The series aired on March 20, 2014.
Reception
Critical reception
The film received critical acclaim. Review the Rotten Tomatoes aggregator website showing a 93% score based on 27 reviews, and an average rating of 7/10. The consensus of the site states: "Made with a frugal budget, El Mariachi's story is not new, but it has so much energy that it's really fun." Metacritic reports 73 out of 100 judgments based on 9 critics, which shows "favorable public reviews".
Awards and honor
El Mariachi won many international awards, and writer/producer/director Rodriguez went on to gain international fame; she was interviewed at shows like SÃÆ'¡bado Gigante and proceeded afterwards to secure Hollywood support for movies like The Faculty and Sin City . In December 2011, El Mariachi was considered "culturally, historically, or aesthetically" by the United States Congress Library and elected for preservation at the National Film Registry. Quoting it as a film that "helped to lead an independent film boom in the early 1990s", the Registry paid special attention to director Robert Rodriguez and his ability to combine two separate film genres - "narcotraficante, Mexican police genres and transnational soldiers' action films rooted in West Hollywood "- succeeded" despite limited budget constraints. "
The film is recognized by the American Film Institute in this list:
- 2001: AFI 100 Years... 100 Thrills - Nominated
References
- Further reading
- Rodriguez, Robert (1996). Rebel Without Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $ 7,000 Be a Hollywood Players . Dutton Signet. ISBNÃ, 0-452-27187-8.
External links
- El Mariachi on IMDb
- El Mariachi in Box Office Mojo
- El Mariachi at Rotten Tomatoes
- El Mariachi in Metacritic
Source of the article : Wikipedia
0 Comments