El Mariachi

El Mariachi is a 1992 American action film and the first installment in the saga that came to be known as Robert Rodriguezs Mexico Trilogy. It marked the feature length debut of Rodriguez as writer and director. The Spanish language film was shot with a mainly amateur cast in the northern Mexican bordertown of Ciudad Acua, Mexico across from Del Rio, Texas the home town of leading actor Carlos Gallardo. The US7,000 production was originally intended for the Mexican home video market, but executives at Columbia Pictures liked the film so much that they bought the American distribution rights. Columbia eventually spent several times more than the 16mm films original budget on 35mm transfers, promotion, marketing and distribution.

After breaking out of jail in a small Mexican town, a ruthless criminal, nicknamed Azul Reinol Martnez, ventures off with a guitar case full of weapons and vows revenge on the local drug lord, Moco Peter Marquardt, who had had him arrested in the first place. Meanwhile, a young musician Carlos Gallardo arrives in town carrying his own guitar case which contains his signature guitar. He hopes to find work in the town in order to pursue his dream of becoming a mariachi like his father.From the confines of his heavily guarded villa on the outskirts of town, Moco sends a large group of hitmen to kill Azul. They are told to look for a man who is wearing black and carrying a guitar case, but because the Mariachi also matches this description, the hitmen mistake him for Azul and begin to pursue him. Only Moco, however, knows Azuls actual face. The Mariachi is then forced to kill four of the attackers in selfdefense after being chased through the streets. As the Mariachi seeks refuge in a bar owned by a beautiful woman named Domin Consuelo Gmez, he quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, Moco is not only financing the bar, but also has his own romantic interest in Domin. ........

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