El Mariachi

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Movie
German title El Mariachi
Original title El Mariachi
El Mariachi logo.svg
Country of production Mexico , United States
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1992
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Robert Rodriguez
script Robert Rodriguez
production Carlos Gallardo
Robert Rodriguez
music Nestor Fajardo
camera Robert Rodriguez
cut Robert Rodriguez
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Desperado

El Mariachi is a Mexican-American action film directed by Robert Rodriguez that made him widely known. The low-budget film is the first part of the so-called mariachi trilogy , which also includes Desperado and Sometime in Mexico .

action

The mariachi is actually only on the move and looking for a job as a musician. In a small town, the men of the local gang boss Moco mistake him for the killer Azul, who carries his MAC-10 around in a guitar case and decimates Moco's men because of an open bill. So the mariachi gets into bloody arguments with the gangsters. He escapes to a bar, where he meets the owner Domino, who helps him and falls in love with him. Dominos Bar, however, is financed by Moco, who wants to use it to buy their affection.

After an accidental exchange of the two guitar cases, the mariachi is overwhelmed by Moco's henchmen and taken to his property, where the misunderstanding is cleared up and the innocent is finally brought back. Back at Dominos Bar he learns that she is on her way to Moco's ranch with Azul, assuming he is in captivity there. While Azul is taking Domino hostage towards Moco, Moco asks for the mariachi's release. As a result, Moco notices her feelings for the guitarist and in his anger kills her and Azul.

When the mariachi arrives a short time later and bends over the corpse of his lover, Moco shoots him in the left hand. Hunched over in pain, the mariachi reaches for Azul's revolver and shoots Moco. Uncertain whether he will ever be able to play the guitar again, the mariachi drives away on their motorcycle with Azuls suitcase and Dominos Pitbull.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that El Mariachi was an "excellent" introduction to Robert Rodriguez's talent. It doesn't look like a Hollywood movie. Not just the subtitles but the script's "cleverness" would make this obvious. It also shows that the quality of a film does not depend on the budget.

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on March 12, 1993 that the film was "tremendously entertaining". He highlighted the visual style that contributed to El Mariachi's "exuberance" and said the actors, especially Gallardo and Gomez, were adequate for their roles.

The lexicon of international films described El Mariachi as an "comic-strip-style action story that sometimes exaggerates and ironicizes genre clichés." The film shows "a great sense of action and timing, although the choice of which is all too intentional" extraordinary "cinematic means not always" convince.

Cinema praised: "Low-budget cinema full of fire and coolness."

background

The budget for this film was 9,000 dollars , were it exhausted just over 7,000; Rodriguez made $ 3,000 from drug testing. During the tests he wrote the script and met Peter Marquardt , who later starred in the film. The film was shot within two weeks in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Acuña , the hometown of lead actor Carlos Gallardo .

While trying to bring the film to the Mexican film market, Rodriguez came across representatives from one of the world's largest acting agencies, ICM . Due to the small budget and his short film Bedhead , he managed to get a contract with ICM. A contract with Columbia Pictures followed, and El Mariachi was re-cut and released as a 35mm blowup .

Sequels

As a sequel to El Mariachi , the film Desperado was released in 1995 with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek in the leading roles. The third part of the accompanying trilogy is called Sometime in Mexico ; also with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek as well as Johnny Depp in the leading roles. It was released in 2003.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for El Mariachi . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 69 775 V).
  2. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  4. ↑ El Mariachi. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 4, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Film review on Cinema
  6. ^ A Film for a Song: Robert Rodriguez's Garage Movie.
  7. ↑ El Mariachi -Budget