El Mariachi

Filmed in 1992 and being Robert Rodriquezs film debut this is a film about a guitar player whom walk into town at the same time a gangster shoots up some dudes in a bar wearing same clothes so at first its a case of Mistaken identity but then I believe the Mariachi guy just kind of falls into the role of the renegade assassin that takes out the man running the streets or so he thinks... falling in love with the bosses girl... I thought this film was poetic, romantic and tragic all at the same time... I got a kick out of a scene where the dudes in Dominos tub as she holds a gun on him and forces him to sing... the song he sings was racy but supposedly an original of his... the film starred Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gomez, Peter Marquardt an...

El Mariachi (1992)

Directed by Robert Rodriguez

There's a romantic notion in cinema that constraints breed creativity, that necessity mothers invention, that you don't need a Hollywood budget to tell a compelling story. Most of the time, this is wishful thinking offered by people who've never tried to shoot a feature film with pocket change and borrowed equipment. Then there's El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez's legendary debut, made for approximately seven thousand dollars, which proves that sometimes the romantic notion is absolutely true.

The premise is elegantly simple: a wandering mariachi musician (Carlos Gallardo) arrives in a small Mexican town carrying a guitar case, searching for work. Unfortunately, a hitman dressed identica...