Monday, June 20, 2005
For those of you who have visited my site you know I like Robert Rodreguez. For those of you who have read my blog you know I like Robert Rodreguez and Indie Filmes. What a coincedence Rodreguez's first film was an Indie. Yes El Mariachi.
This is the first of the films in the Mariachi triology, Desparado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico are the other two, and is made up completely of unknown actors. When I say completely I mean it. None of them had ever really appeared in any motion picture. The closes thing any of them came to was appearing in some of Rodreguez's short films. Some had a little acting experience, others like Peter Mardequet (I think that is his name) had none, and it does not show at all. This movie was made for $7,000 and was raised by a combination of Rodreguez allowing medical experiments to be done on him and his short film Bedhead going through the film festival curciut. (Bedhead is on the DVD and is actually very enjoyable and extremely funny) Once again if you think a $7,000 dollar movie would look like crap, you would be wrong. It looks like he spent top dollar on it. The effective lighting, cut away and back film style, and creative Camera angles contribute to this. Did I mention that the entire film was done in almost one take. Yeah that's right, almost every shot was done in one take. Uno. Un. Once. Once again, it does not show. They figured out exactly how to shoot around mistakes through creative means and made a better movie because of it.
Heres a quick plot synopsis. Azul is a very bad man living in prison and making a living with a cellular phone and a few loyal men. His old partner Moco is a sadistic and greedy man and sends his boys to the prion to kill Azul...It doesn't work. Azul leaves the prison and picks up his guitar case full of weapons. When I say weapons I mean a MAC 10, .45 pistols, Sawed of shotgun, and grenades. Yeah he is fully armed. On a highway the mariachi trys to hitch a ride, he doesn't succeed. When he gets to town he is cast aside by every singal bar who claim that the way of the mariachi is dead. Because of his guitar case and the fact that he wears all black, Azul wears nothing but black as well, Moco's men confuse the mariachi for Azul.
This is an exciting movie filled with action, adventure, and romance. It's Rated R for violence, some language, and some sgestive content. I give it *** out of ****. Rent or buy it. It will be worth your money
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