El Mariachi
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Oct 3, 2026
Matt AtchitySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Matt AtchitySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
the first one he had done was El Mariachi, and then-
Alison RosenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's what I saw
Matt AtchitySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Matt AtchitySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Desperado was the sequel.
Alison RosenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Did people like El Mariachi?
Matt AtchitySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah.
Alison RosenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I didn't.
Mike AshquieHOST
In fact, I, I think this may be my second Robert Rodriguez movie.
Mike AshquieHOST
I'd seen, uh, Desperado, then maybe El Mariachi I might have seen on VHS.
Mike AshquieHOST
I'm not 100% sure.
Mike AshquieHOST
Um-
David DenoyerGUEST
but his third, like- Blockbuster, so to speak? ...
David DenoyerGUEST
big mo- big movie, yeah.
David DenoyerGUEST
Yeah, because El, El Mariachi, uh, crafts him first, and then Desperado, and then Faculty.
David DenoyerGUEST
Is Faculty before this? Uh, no.
PeterHOST
And I think that there's an intellectual side of this that is absent from a lot of what we think of as indie filmmaking.
PeterHOST
I, I think, you know, I think, uh, Clerks or El Mariachi are really fun films.
PeterHOST
I like Kevin Smith and Robert Rodriguez, but I think both of those films are, um...
PeterHOST
And I think those-- So many inde- American independent films have sprung out of those films.
Philip DukeHOST
Like, what are you talking about?" He's like, "Oh yeah, I guess you're right." But it's also the thing that I tell the story, like you said, about sometimes movie criticism is too much.
Philip DukeHOST
Sometimes, you know, it's like, you know, the story that I love to tell, El Mariachi, you know, Robert Rodriguez giving a speech, talking in front of a class, and one of the kids stands up and goes, "Dude, the way you have the dog at the end showing that the Desperado, you know, that El Mariachi has now become an animal and he's become a dog, and he's, like, didn't wanna be.
Philip DukeHOST
He wanted to be a guitar player, now he's this." And Robert's like, "No." He goes, "That was...
Philip DukeHOST
Carlos had a dog.
MikeHOST
Yeah.
MikeHOST
I was a huge fan of El Mariachi.
MikeHOST
That's when I was, like, in, like, film school days.
MikeHOST
You know what I mean? And that movie...
Ole J. HartmannGUEST
I live out in Austin, so I've had the luxury of being able to meet him actually a couple times and, you know, been over to Troublemaker Studios and gotten to, you know, be a part of Meet Him and some of the crew and company over there.
Ole J. HartmannGUEST
And it's just so inspiring, you know, because everything that he did with El Mariachi, I mean, that was what inspired this.
Ole J. HartmannGUEST
And, you know, all the things that he talks about is so true as far as, When you are limited on what you have as far as resources, you have to work that creative muscle.
Ole J. HartmannGUEST
And if you have too much of a budget, sometimes it's like, well, gosh, what do we do? You're not forced to use that muscle.
Ole HartmannGUEST
And I'm one of those guys who like I read trivia and stuff like that.
Ole HartmannGUEST
And I see in the trivia, Robert Rodriguez got started by self-financing his own movie, El Mariachi.
Ole HartmannGUEST
And my wife had fallen asleep already.
Ole HartmannGUEST
And I immediately, it was like a light bulb went off.
Jim EavesHOST
Cause that's nuts.
Jim EavesHOST
But it's interesting.
Jim EavesHOST
El Mariachi and Desperado.
Jim EavesHOST
Yeah.
Mike DeCristoforoHOST
Is that one of those movies?
Mike SmithHOST
That's the end of the, uh, Mariachi trilogy, right? Cause it's El Mariachi, Desperado, once upon a time in Mexico, right? Like all the ones that kind of center around the same character put by Antonio Banderas, right?
Mike DeCristoforoHOST
Yeah.
Mike DeCristoforoHOST
Yeah.
Mike SmithHOST
Rodriguez is, like, kind of famous for, like, kind of being, like, the one-man film crew sort of thing.
Mike SmithHOST
Right.
Mike SmithHOST
You know, he wrote the book Rebel Without a Crew about, like, how he made El Mariachi, which was his debut film, for, like, $7,000 or something insane.
Mike SmithHOST
Like, a very, like, low amount of money.
DennisHOST
Yeah, like
AdamHOST
El Mariachi and stuff, but...
DennisHOST
mariachi was super tiny compared to desperado like like that's what
AdamHOST
i'm saying like he did those movies and made the niche in that market but like the craft put him on on the map like you're saying
Susie CotaHOST
So this, I forgot that this movie is directed by Robert Rodriguez, who, uh, did that grindhouse movie with Quentin Tarantino and a bunch of other, uh, no i'm confusing him with the evil dead guy can you look up what else forever rodriguez has done i've read his memoir and i like can't like pull up um but
Frank CotaHOST
He did El Mariachi, which led to the Mexico trilogy, which is Desperada and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
Susie CotaHOST
Okay.
Frank CotaHOST
He did Mochete.
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