Movie
1993
El Mariachi is a 1992 Spanish-language American independent neo-Western action film and the first installment of the saga that came to be known as Robert Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy. It marked the feature-length debut of Rodriguez as writer and director. The film was shot with a mainly amateur cast in the northern Mexican border town of Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico across from Del Rio, Texas, the home town of…
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The most amazing films aren't necessarily the best ones. Or the worst ones, either. Sometimes the mere circumstances of production are enough for the film to earn place in history books. *El Mariachi*, 1992 action thriller written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, is one of such titles, arguably the most amazing film made in 1990s. Shot for unimaginably low budget of mere 7000 US$ in circumstances worthy of an urban…More
If you take the Western genre and move it South of The Border...add a healthy dose of graphic comics with a dash of tongue-in-cheek humor, a pinch of cartoon-inspired action and blend it with campy English voice-overs, you end up with El Mariachi. The film was released in 1992 and was, in many ways, ahead of its cinematic time. A fun foreign western that was the second film from Robert Rodriquez, who also wrote the…More
