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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
oh, that's the crappy mainstream version of 'el mariachi", isn't it? if so, i'd bet money that it's ripped off from a bad dubbing of a kungfu movie and the bastardized origins are buddhist---some kind of zen story-- there are plenty of those around.
but the logic in this one, of course, is utter crap as you point out. if he wanted nothing he would not have wanted to shoot the extras. for bastardized orientalism, "ghost dog" did it much much better.
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all the el mariachi movies were made by robert rodriguez/troublemaker studios, they only became more 'mainstream' as rodriguez became more 'mainstream.' ...still how mainstream is a dude who resigned from the Writer's Guild after making this movie and later resigned from the Director's Guild so he could work with Frank Miller?
Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a very different feel than El Mariachi or Desperado, it was shot digital and was sort of a test case for the methods used in sin city. for most of the movie, they used foam rubber prop guns and then added flash, smoke, blood, bullet holes in post production.
rodriguez also continues his "one man film crew" method on this film - he produced, wrote, directed, operated the camera, did the editing, wrote and performed the music, and also did the production design, whatever that is... at any rate, it's not his best film and it's a shoot-em-up for sure, but rodriguez absolutely deserves to be called "the rebel without a crew." he shot this in under a month from a 45 page script for less than 30 million... sure he made el mariachi for like 500 dolllars, but he's hardly become mainstream as he's grown into larger budgets (still pocket change in hollywood)...