Sometime in Mexico
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| German title | Sometime in Mexico |
| Original title | Once Upon a Time in Mexico |
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| Country of production | Mexico , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Robert Rodriguez |
| script | Robert Rodriguez |
| production |
Elizabeth Avellan , Carlos Gallardo , Robert Rodriguez |
| music | Robert Rodriguez |
| camera | Robert Rodriguez |
| cut | Robert Rodriguez |
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Sometime in Mexico (original title Once Upon a Time in Mexico ) is a Mexican - American action film from 2003 by Robert Rodriguez .
He closes his El Mariachi - trilogy from which also the films El Mariachi and Desperado includes. As in Desperado , Antonio Banderas plays the leading role again alongside Johnny Depp , Willem Dafoe , Enrique Iglesias , Salma Hayek and Mickey Rourke .
action
The CIA agent Sheldon Sands hires the mariachi to kill the Mexican General Marquez. Since Marquez was responsible for the death of Carolina, Mariachi's wife, he accepts the assignment. Marquez is preparing a coup in Mexico to take place on Day of the Dead , in which the newly elected president, who refuses to cooperate with criminal forces, is to be killed. Marquez is supported by the drug lord Barillo, who is a thorn in the side of a non-corrupt president and who fears for his business. According to the instructions received from Sands, the mariachi should not kill General Marquez until after Marquez has murdered the President, because Sands wants both the death of the President and the death of General Marquez.
Sands recruits retired FBI agent Jorge Ramirez to kill Barillo. Ramirez wants to avenge the death of his friend and longtime partner, FBI agent Archuletta, who was tortured to death by Barillo. El Mariachi has now found two old friends and fellow musicians in the womanizer Lorenzo and the drunkard Fideo, who support him in his mission.
In order to implement the plan, Sands builds a network of informants that includes his lover, the Mexican AFN agent Ajedrez. Ajedrez, however, has a false identity. In truth, she is the daughter of the drug lord Barillo and spies on the Mexican police agency AFN and the American CIA on her father's behalf under her false identity. Accordingly, CIA agent Sands is betrayed by his lover Ajedrez and ends up in captivity by Barillo, who has his eyes removed to deter him (against foreign interference in internal Mexican affairs or in his drug dealings).
On " Day of the Dead ", General Marquez and his troops surround the presidential palace and open fire in an attack that kills the presidential bodyguard, who is overwhelmed. However, El Mariachi has since gained the impression that the newly elected president is the only decent person in a completely corrupt environment. El Mariachi is not ready, as actually pretended by Agent Sands, to have the President murdered by General Marquez and only then to take revenge on Marquez. Rather, out of love for his people and fatherland (as the “son of Mexico”) he decides to protect the president together with his friends. They want to get him to safety and defend the palace. The city's population also furiously attacked the putschists with shouts like “Long live democracy” and “Long live Mexico”. When Marquez manages to penetrate the palace despite the resistance, he is killed in a showdown by Mariachi, who avenges his Carolina and defends his people and his fatherland against the coup plotters. Blind Sands is led to the presidential palace by a young Mexican boy and shoots some of Barillo's guards, but is also hit himself. Ajedrez sees him lying on the floor from the window and goes to him. She puts him on his feet and kisses the apparently dying half-dead Sands, but is shot by him. He was able to deceive her with his artificial arm. The drug lord Barillo, who shortly before had to deal with the death of his friend General Marquez, now has to watch the death of his beloved daughter from the window of the presidential palace, surprised and helpless. When Barillo turns away from the window in horror, he discovers the retired FBI agent Ramirez in the hall, whose murder he has unsuccessfully ordered and by whom he is now being killed in another showdown. Bleeding, hit several times and with empty eye sockets, Sands leans against a wall at the end, next to him the little boy and his ally Ramirez. Marquez's troops are being wiped out by the Mexican people who are armed against the coup plotters. El Mariachi brings the president out of town and to safety. At the end you can see Mariachi walking down a country road. He has put on the presidential sash.
background
The film was shot in the Mexican cities of Guanajuato , San Miguel de Allende and Santiago de Querétaro . The "Presidential Palace" is actually the main building of the University of Guanajuato. It is the first Rodriguez film to be shot with high definition cameras.
To forestall a possible strike by the actors' union, Rodriguez shot the film before the films Spy Kids 2 and Mission 3D .
Agent Sands eats or orders the Mexican dish Puerco Pibil several times in the film . On the DVD, director Robert Rodriguez explains a recipe for this dish.
In the audio commentary on the film, Robert Rodriguez explains that the part of Cucuy was actually intended for Quentin Tarantino , for the role of CIA agent Sands he had intended George Clooney .
With an estimated production budget of $ 29 million and marketing costs of another $ 20 million, the film grossed approximately $ 98 million at box offices worldwide, including $ 56 million in the United States. Sometime in Mexico premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in August 2003 and opened in German and Austrian cinemas on September 25, 2003. It was shown in Swiss cinemas from December 24, 2003 (French-speaking Switzerland) and January 1, 2004 (German-speaking Switzerland).
Danny Trejo already played in the predecessor Desperado , but not as Cucuy, but as Navajas.
The spelling of the German title varies. Mostly "Mexico" is used, the correct spelling " Mexico " is only occasionally used .
German dubbed version
Gerardo Vigil's original sound can also be heard in the German dubbing .
| actor | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Johnny Depp | David Nathan | CIA agent Shelton Jeffrey Sands |
| Antonio Banderas | Bernd Vollbrecht | El Mariachi |
| Willem Dafoe | Pure beauty | Armando Barillo |
| Salma Hayek | Christin Marquitan | Carolina |
| Eva Mendes | Andrea Loewig | Ajedrez Barillo |
| Julio Oscar Mechoso | Michael Pan | Barillo's advisor |
| Cheech Marin | Roland Hemmo | Belini |
| Mickey Rourke | Joachim Tennstedt | Billy Chambers |
| Danny Trejo | Bernd Schramm | Cucuy |
| Pedro Armendáriz junior | Uli Krohm | El Presidente |
| Ruben Blades | Bodo Wolf (voice actor) | Ex-FBI agent Jorge Ramirez |
| Marco Leonardi | Björn Schalla | Fideo |
| Gerardo Vigil | Gerardo Vigil | General Marquez |
| Enrique Iglesias | Matthias Hinze | Lorenzo |
| René Gatica | Helmut Gauss | Police chief |
| Tito Larriva | Tobias Master | taxi driver |
Awards
The song "Siente Mi Amor", penned by Robert Rodriquez, won the 2004 Satellite Award for best film song. Johnny Depp was nominated for the same award for best supporting actor in a comedy or musical, but had to admit defeat to Eugene Levy . Eva Mendes was nominated for the Teen Choice Award in the Choice Breakout Movie Star category for Sometime in Mexico and three other films . Antonio Banderas and Rubén Blades received Imagen Awards .
The film was also nominated for Best Stunt Woman (Cheryl Bermeo and Gail Monian) and Best Stunt in Height at the Taurus Awards 2004 .
Reviews
Foreign language reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that Sometime in Mexico was less of a movie and more of a collection of action sequences. The film offers the actors Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp and Salma Hayek the opportunity to appear “cool”. He described the casting of the supporting roles with Ruben Blades, Willem Dafoe, Enrique Iglesias, Cheech Marin and Mickey Rourke as "eclectic".
Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian praised the performance of Johnny Depp , whose comedic talent save the movie, but that throw him off balance, as the film loses strength when Depp is not visible.
Roger Ebert compared the film with Sergio Leone's westerns in the Chicago Sun-Times of September 12, 2003. Both directors are more interested in the special moment, great shots, surprising and ironic twists and turns, as well as close-ups of sweaty faces than in a coherent plot. In the film, top-class actors would appear in the main roles as in the supporting roles. Ebert praised the “exuberant feel” of director Rodriguez for films.
The BBC's Nev Pierce criticized the tangled plot. Many good ideas can only be seen in passing, good actors like Dafoe and Banderas are underused.
German-language reviews
Daniel Bickermann from the film magazine Schnitt described the film as a key work in Robert Rodriguez's opus: “Via patriotism, Rodriguez vom Splatter found a gruesome realism, from cynical genre recitation to relevant real satire, from pose to statement. [...] An old-fashioned, entertaining, important film in the best possible sense. "
The lexicon of the international film wrote: "Pleasantly told genre cinema full of clichés, poses and violence, which dissolves its story in favor of a rhythmically elegant staging and is itself sufficient as a gimmicky collection of quotes with some severity."
Cinema wrote: "Iconic stylized violent opera with some lengths, lots of blood and gouged eyes."
Web links
- Sometime in Mexico in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sometime in Mexico at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Sometime in Mexico at Metacritic (English)
- Sometime in Mexico in the online film database
- At some point in Mexico in the German dubbing file
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 Pro7 - no youth release from Sometime in Mexico at Schnittberichte.com
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for sometime in Mexico . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2003 (PDF; test number: 95 200 K).
- ↑ Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com
- ↑ for example on the cover of the Blu-rays, see here and here .
- ↑ a b Sometime in Mexico. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 14, 2014 .
- ↑ James Berardinelli: Once Upon a Time in Mexico. On: ReelViews
- ^ Peter Bradshaw: Once Upon a Time in Mexico. In: Guardian Unlimited, September 2003
- ^ Roger Ebert : Once Upon a Time in Mexico. In: Chicago Sun-Times, September 12, 2003
- ^ Nev Pierce: Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003). In: BBC Film Reviews, October 2003
- ^ Daniel Bickermann: On the way to the epic In: Schnitt, 2003
- ↑ Sometime in Mexico. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 4, 2017 .
- ^ Film review In: Cinema