“El Mariachi = mucho hot Chiquita’s.”
Is that the prequel to “Desperado”?
El mariachi is LEVELS better than Desperado.
El Mariachi was shot when Rodgriguez had just finished at Univ of Texas at Austin (I was there at the school same time as he was).
It remains a GREAT movie. The music is great, camera work is great and the storyline is great. You can see it is an indie flick made with very little money and it is BETTER and more REALISTIC due to the shortage of funds.
It feels real. Desperado, on the other hand, has no soul. It is big fights, big explosions, big tits but no emotional soul to it. It feels like a big hollywood production
So, kudos to El Mariachi and all those kids who dream of making a movie. May all your first full length movies be as good as El Mariachi
Yes, El Mariachi was the original independent film that started the ‘Mexico’ series.
It was followed by the bigger budget ‘Desperado’ and the huge budget ‘Once Upon a Time in Mexico’.
Intersting note: Once Upon a Time was one of the first films shot completely in HD.