The next movie From Dusk Till Dawn was his second collaboration with Quentin Tarantino, where Tarantino scripted and acted alongside George Clooney. Perhaps their all-time most famous line is “Dave’s not here, man” (from their self-titled debut album). Their best-known comedy routines include “ Earache My Eye“, “ Basketball Jones“, “ Santa Claus and his Old Lady“, and “ Sister Mary Elephant“. They were sort of Monty Python of the US back then. Cheech played a cholo from Los Angeles, while Chong was a burnt-out “druggie” whose entire life revolved around getting high. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong were a comedy duo who found a wide audience in the 1970s and 1980s for their stand-up routines, which were based upon the era’s hippie, free love and (especially) drug culture movements. Cheech Marin is a legendary figure being one half of the cult 70s comedy duo Cheech and Chong. Little info on Cheech Marin ( born Richard Anthony Marin) I might add. This movie also gave opportunities to some of his favourite actors like Cheech Marin (is a really brilliant actor from Los Angeles who plays 3 different roles in From Dusk Till Dawn!), Steve Buscemi (used to be the usual suspect of indie flicks), Danny Trejo who appeared in most of Rodriguez’ movies. It introduced mexican damsel Salma Hayek to American audience along with Antonio Banderas. All these are the same outlaws who had quit Director’s Guild of America when confronted with reasons that I’d discuss later.Īfter El Mariachi brought him to Hollywood circle, he continued his work on the sequel, Desperado. His buddies include new generation film-makers like Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater and so on. Robert Rodriguez’ studio is called as Troublemaker Studios, formerly Los Hooligans (the name of the comic strip he wrote and drew as a teen for a local Texan daily), is far removed from Hollywood. It was the first Spanish and also the lowest budget movie ever to be released by a major studio in Hollywood. In the meantime he ended up developing some kind of technique to depict shooting sequences and blood splattering in the same shot that he later used extensively in Desperado and the final instalment of the trilogy Once Upon a Time in Mexico. He also provided special effects for the movie. The movie was written, produced, shot, cut and directed by Rodriguez originally intended for Spanish home video release, won Audience Award at Sundance Festival and was later picked up by Columbia Pictures and released in the US. He sort of ‘rented’ his body to medical research for a mere amount and the rest financed by the his friend, co-producer and main character of the movie, Carlos Gallardo (you can also see him in the sequel Desperado as one of Antonio Banderas’ guitar wielding buddies). The means he adopted to gather budget for the movie is already a legend in itself. He was only 23 year old when he made his breakthrough movie, El Mariachi on a meagre budget of $7,000. If you thought that ‘guest-direction-by-Quentin-Tarantino’ was a cheap gimmick, you are goddamn wrong. Robert Rodriguez‘ cinematic transformation of Frank Miller’s comic series (ee, graphic novels, as fans of this genre love to call them) stays true to the original storyline, storyboard and noir style.Īlright that said, shot, sliced and done, here’s a story behind the maker of the movie, Robert Rodriguez. Frank Miller’s interpretation of style is so updated and savage that the viewer almost fails to recognise the parody or parallels to the noir cinematic vision. Savage, noir, medieval-style survival stories involving evil villains, ruthless goons, not-so-bad good guys, corrupt cops, deadly dames and so on. Its easy to draw parallels in this sentence with characters that inhabit Frank Miller’s Sin City. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.” says Travis Bickle played by Robert DeNiro in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976). “All the animals come out at night – whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal.
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