Desperado (film)

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Movie
German title Desperado
Original title Desperado
Country of production Mexico , USA
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Robert Rodriguez
script Robert Rodriguez
production Bill Borden ,
Elizabeth Avellan ,
Carlos Gallardo ,
Robert Rodriguez
music Tito Larriva ,
Los Lobos
camera Guillermo Navarro
cut Robert Rodriguez
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
El Mariachi

Successor  →
Sometime in Mexico

Desperado ( in German : outlaw ) is an action film by director Robert Rodriguez .

Desperado is the first sequel to El Mariachi , the director's debut work. Produced with much more effort than its predecessor, Desperado quickly became a success and established the director and his two main actors in the USA . In 2003, Sometime in Mexico, the so-called mariachi trilogy about the nameless guitarist was concluded.

action

A guitarist appears in a small Mexican town. He claims to be looking for "Bucho", the boss of a drug cartel. Moco, one of Bucho's people, once murdered the guitarist's lover and shot him in the left hand. The search leads to wild shootings in a shabby bar. When one of Bucho's henchmen tries to shoot him from behind on the street, Carolina, the owner of a bookstore, saves him. He is badly wounded in the process.

Carolina takes the injured mariachi in and nurses him back to health. The two fall in love and begin a passionate relationship. Since Carolina's bookstore is not doing well in a city where nobody reads, she was forced to get involved with Bucho, who uses her shop as a cover for his drug deals.

When Bucho finds out that the mariachi is in Carolina's bookstore, he sends his henchmen there to kill him and Carolina. The gang sets fire to the store and there is a shooting. The mariachi and Carolina escape through the roof, and now he in turn has the opportunity to shoot Bucho. However, it does not come to that because he has recognized that Bucho is his older brother. This fact remains unknown to Carolina and the viewer until the final scene.

The mariachi then calls two of his friends over to continue fighting Bucho's men. His friends die in the shooting and a boy is injured. Eventually the mariachi and Carolina break into Bucho's property and are already expected there. During the conversation it turns out that Bucho's real name is Cesar and is the brother of Mariachi, who, as it now turns out, is called Juan and Cesar calls it “Manito”. When Bucho threatens to kill Carolina, Manito shoots him and his bodyguards.

Carolina and the mariachi finally leave town with their guitar case.

Reviews

James Berardinelli said on ReelViews that the film was the most unnecessary sequel since Crocodile Dundee II . On the other hand, he admitted it was nice to see Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek.

Roger Ebert praised the visual style of the film in the Chicago Sun-Times of August 25, 1995, as he did with El Mariachi . What he lacks is a script that consists of more plot than just a structure.

According to the lexicon of international films, a "bloody and brutal Western, staged as an effective quotation cinema whose potential for surprises is quickly exhausted".

Cinema summed up: "Ingenious ballet with a crazy soundtrack."

Awards

The film was nominated for Best Film at the Stockholm International Film Festival in 1995 for Bronshästen .

Salma Hayek was nominated for a 1996 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the kissing scene of Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas was nominated for Best Film Kiss at the 1996 MTV Movie Awards .

Remarks

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1995 and was released in German cinemas on November 30, 1995, and in Austrian and Swiss cinemas on December 1, 1995.

Filmed with a budget of 7 million US dollars , the film already brought back its budget at the US box office on the opening weekend. In total, he grossed 25 million US dollars in the United States alone.

Rodriguez's friend, the director and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino , has an appearance, as does Carlos Gallardo , who took over the title role in the predecessor El Mariachi .

The revolver that Carolina pulls out of the suitcase in one scene is the same one that "Sex Machine" attached to his crotch in the Rodriguez film From Dusk Till Dawn .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Desperado . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 74 122 V).
  2. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  4. ↑ Desperado. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 4, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Film review on Cinema
  6. ↑ Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com