I had the feeling I was watching the parody of a genre I'd never encountered.
heh, yeah, it's a COMPLETE parody of all those old westerns, right down to the convoluted assasination plots and the dance-like violence and the re-using actors from old films to play new characters (which is where you might've seen Jorge)
regarding this:
but there was a beauty to some of the violence and the way it was used.
completely. That's the only way you can look at it I think, because once you start doing body counts it gets really gruesome and horrifying.
here, this quote from the production notes might help:
"Robert has boiled everything down to pure action in this film. The character of El Mariachi comes to life through action and movement rather than through dialogue. He is basically a classic hero in that sense. He speaks very little and he moves like a bullfighter or a flamenco dancer. When he shoots a gun it’s like he’s playing a guitar. They are the same thing to him. There’s the same music behind it. The movie almost plays like rock ‘n roll. The violence is all choreographed."
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Date: 2003-09-28 12:03 pm (UTC)heh, yeah, it's a COMPLETE parody of all those old westerns, right down to the convoluted assasination plots and the dance-like violence and the re-using actors from old films to play new characters (which is where you might've seen Jorge)
regarding this:
but there was a beauty to some of the violence and the way it was used.
completely. That's the only way you can look at it I think, because once you start doing body counts it gets really gruesome and horrifying.
here, this quote from the production notes might help:
"Robert has boiled everything down to pure action in this film. The character of El Mariachi comes to life through action and movement rather than through dialogue. He is basically a classic hero in that sense. He speaks very little and he moves like a bullfighter or a flamenco dancer. When he shoots a gun it’s like he’s playing a guitar. They are the same thing to him. There’s the same music behind it. The movie almost plays like rock ‘n roll. The violence is all choreographed."
-Banderas