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El Mariachi

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25 referencing feature instances

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El Mariachi	label	El Mariachi
El Mariachi	page	ElMariachi
El Mariachi	comment	El Mariachi is a 1992 independent neo-Western action film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It is his first feature length film, and the first of the Mexico or Mariachi Trilogy, followed by Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.A mariachi searching for work in Mexico ends up getting mistaken for gangster Azul. Azul has been marked for death by a former associate Moco, and Azul is trying to kill Moco first. Things get much worse for our protagonist when he starts living with Moco's love interest and his guitar and case get switched for Azul's guitar case of guns.This film is quite well-known for being made on a budget of a mere $7,225, which is very low by Hollywood standards — Rodriguez states that the Columbia Pictures logo that appears before the movie cost more than the movie itself took to make. Rodriguez made almost half of this money by volunteering for experimental clinical drug testing. In the extras on the DVD, Rodriguez explains the techniques that he used to save money during the making of the film, including using a wheelchair in place of a dolly and using the actors not involved in scenes in place of a regular film crew.
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El Mariachi / int_231e8193	type	Mistaken Identity
El Mariachi / int_231e8193	comment	Mistaken Identity: Azul and El Mariachi are constantly mistaken for each other. Both wear black and carry guitar cases. As for what's inside the cases...
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El Mariachi / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
El Mariachi / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: See The Dog Bites Back.
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El Mariachi / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
El Mariachi / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Moco, Azul, and Domino's names. Moco in particular seems a touch less threatening if you know what his name means in Spanish.note "Booger", or "Kiddo" in some places Lampshaded by El Mariachi who asks why someone named Azul note "Blue" would wear black.
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El Mariachi / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
El Mariachi / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Azul may be a vengeful hitman, but he's shocked and appaled when Moco murders Domino. Moco's henchmen aren't too thrilled to see a woman die right in front of them either, and having to see El Mariachi get his hand shot by Moco only drives their disgust towards their employer, so much that they don't bother avenging Moco once El Mariachi retaliates with Azul's revolver.
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El Mariachi / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
El Mariachi / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: El Mariachi keeps waking up from his nightmares to Domino's pet pitbull.
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El Mariachi / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
El Mariachi / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: El Mariachi starts off as an innocent, cheerful young musician looking for work. The events of the movie turn him into the cynical, vengeance-driven vigilante we see in Desperado.
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El Mariachi / int_4c3f14e0	type	You Are Too Late
El Mariachi / int_4c3f14e0	comment	You Are Too Late: The title character arrives too late to save his love interest, who is gunned down by Moco in a fit of jealousy shortly before Azul also buys it.
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El Mariachi / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
El Mariachi / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: At the end of the film sure, Moco is dead, but El Mariachi has lost Domino, lost his guitar, had his hand shot, meaning he may never play the guitar again (although he still can, as he does the sequels), and is left with Azul's cache of weaponry, and the final shot of the film is him riding alone and depressed down an empty highway, with only the weapons and Domino's dog accompanying him.
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El Mariachi / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
El Mariachi / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The next film in the series, Desperado, is basically a Soft Reboot of this one that made El Mariachi a full-blown Action Hero in contrast to his everyman Action Survivor characterization here, and recast the lead actor Carlos Gallardo with Antonio Banderas. Gallardo does have a cameo role as a fellow mariachi, but continuity nods like a recreation of this film's climax makes it clear that Banderas is supposed to be his character here, despite the discrepancies. Also, unlike the next two films, here El Mariachi is the narrator.
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El Mariachi / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
El Mariachi / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: El Mariachi. The vast majority of the action sequences he takes part in mostly consist of guys with guns chasing him, and him running away trying to figure out why these guys are trying to kill him.
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El Mariachi / int_5e1ecc50	type	Mistaken for Badass
El Mariachi / int_5e1ecc50	comment	Mistaken for Badass: The focus of the plot.
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El Mariachi / int_60d73edb	type	Drink-Based Characterization
El Mariachi / int_60d73edb	comment	Drink-Based Characterization: El Mariachi only drinks soda to show his role as a naïve everyman (In-Universe it's to protect his singing voice). Azul orders beer a couple of times throughout the film and angrily insists that it be kept in the bottle, showing he's a rough-and-tumble badass.
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El Mariachi / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
El Mariachi / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: El Mariachi keeps having ominous nightmares, hinting to his growing discomfort in town. Rodriguez admitted to having planned more of these as filler if the 90 minute time requirement wasn't met.
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El Mariachi / int_68a77024	type	Untranslated Title
El Mariachi / int_68a77024	comment	Untranslated Title: See Market-Based Title.
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El Mariachi / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
El Mariachi / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: El Mariachi is shot through the hand by his lover's vengeful ex, preventing him from ever playing guitar again. El Mariachi responds by shooting the man through the chest.
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El Mariachi / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
El Mariachi / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Averted. The MAC-10 still sounds incredibly loud when it fires, and thus the silencer is used more like a barrel extension/handgrip.
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El Mariachi / int_7e1184d8	type	Suspect Is Hatless
El Mariachi / int_7e1184d8	comment	Suspect Is Hatless: El Mariachi looks nothing like Azul, but the only description Moco's men have been given is "wears black, and carrying a guitar case".
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El Mariachi / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
El Mariachi / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Domino is initially pretty cold towards El Mariachi, but gradually grows friendlier, especially with how good he and his music is for business at her bar. She ends up staring in awe during one of his songs too.
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El Mariachi / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
El Mariachi / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: North By Northwest...IN MEXICO!
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El Mariachi / int_96e01893	type	Bodyguard Babes
El Mariachi / int_96e01893	comment	Bodyguard Babes: The actor playing Azul said he'd only appear in the film if he could be seen in bed with two women. Rodriguez said they weren't making that kind of movie, but if he could find the women then Azul could have a couple of female bodyguards instead.
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El Mariachi / int_99c3dd05	type	Lifesaving Misfortune
El Mariachi / int_99c3dd05	comment	Lifesaving Misfortune: Although Azul is more than a little upset after the fact, he still gets saved from being blasted by Moco's goons at one point when they have him dead to rights and check the guitar case, but seeing there is only a guitar inside they let him go because he obviously is not the man they are looking for.
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El Mariachi / int_9ec60b8b	type	White Shirt of Death
El Mariachi / int_9ec60b8b	comment	White Shirt of Death: Moco. Azul even Lampshades this early in the film, saying he'd feel guilty ruining a perfectly good wardrobe out of revenge.
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El Mariachi / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
El Mariachi / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: What Rodriguez refers to as The Kindergartner's Method of Script Writing. You'll see Running Gags pulled off thrice, with a twist at the third use.
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El Mariachi / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
El Mariachi / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Two of the goons trying to kill El Mariachi miss him when he passes between them, literally inches from the barrels of their guns... and shoot each other in the chest.
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El Mariachi / int_ab160fbe	type	South of the Border
El Mariachi / int_ab160fbe	comment	South of the Border: Beaten to death. The proudly-Mexican (well, Mexican-American) Rodriguez wants to show you the real Mexico (at least as real as you can get while making this sort of film), as experienced by Mexicans, not some imperialist romantic gringo bullshit.
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El Mariachi / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
El Mariachi / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: The film kept its Spanish-language title for its American release simply because The Guitar Player wasn't catchy enough.
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El Mariachi / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
El Mariachi / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Azul is a hitman who worked for Moco and was perfectly okay with making his own little business from the little prison cell he was in, but Moco just had to send people to try to kill him. Even then, he shows some more standards than Moco in a couple of scenes.
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El Mariachi / int_c5a2d75f	type	In Love with the Gangster's Girl
El Mariachi / int_c5a2d75f	comment	In Love with the Gangster's Girl: Sets up the final tragedy of the movie.
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El Mariachi / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
El Mariachi / int_c6538cc6	comment	The Dulcinea Effect: "She was the most beautiful creature I've seen today. Next to the turtle, of course."
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El Mariachi / int_c9954979	type	Crippling the Competition
El Mariachi / int_c9954979	comment	Crippling the Competition: At the end of the film, El Mariachi is shot through the hand so he can never play the guitar again.
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El Mariachi / int_c9eb478e	type	Satchel Switcheroo
El Mariachi / int_c9eb478e	comment	Satchel Switcheroo: When you have two characters who are mistaken for one another because of their guitar cases, something like this is bound to occur.
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El Mariachi / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
El Mariachi / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": El Mariachi is only ever known as such.
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El Mariachi / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
El Mariachi / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After his abusive employer is killed, The Dragon simply lights up a smoke and leaves. Moco isn't too popular among even his employees. When El Mariachi raises his gun to shoot Moco, none of his men try to defend him. Instead, they all jump back away, giving El Mariachi a perfect shot.
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El Mariachi / int_dd608032	type	Hell Hotel
El Mariachi / int_dd608032	comment	Hell Hotel: The manager of the cheapest hotel in town is a sleazeball who readily complies with obvious cartel members and tries to fleece as much of a down payment as he can from El Mariachi.
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El Mariachi / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
El Mariachi / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Poor Domino was just an innocent bystander in this whole mess.
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El Mariachi / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
El Mariachi / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Moco spends much of the movie striking matches off The Dragon's face. When he is shot dead by El Mariachi, The Dragon's reaction is to strike a match off Moco's corpse and walk away.
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El Mariachi / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
El Mariachi / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Moco, a gringo drug dealer who seems to have this entire town in his pocket, and is otherwise insulated in his ranch outside of town.
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