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Desperado

Year:

1995

Duration:

104 min

Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

IMDB rate:

7.2

Director:

Robert Rodriguez

Awards:

4 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1995-08-25

Filming Locations: Coahuíla, Mexico

Earnings

Budget: $7,000,000

Gross: $25,625,110 (USA)£939,900 (UK)

Cast

Actor

Character

Salma Hayek

Desperado

Danny Trejo

Desperado

Consuelo Gómez

Desperado

Antonio Banderas

El Mariachi

Joaquim de Almeida

Bucho

Cheech Marin

Short Bartender

Steve Buscemi

Buscemi

Carlos Gómez

Right Hand

Quentin Tarantino

Pick-up Guy

Tito Larriva

Tavo

Angel Aviles

Zamira

Abraham Verduzco

Niño

Carlos Gallardo

Campa

Albert Michel Jr.

Quino

David Alvarado

Buddy

Angela Lanza

Tourist Girl

Mike Moroff

Shrug

Robert Arevalo

Opponent

Gerardo Moscoso

Priest

Peter Marquardt

Moco

Jaime de Hoyos

Bigoton

Cristos

Richie Gaona

Case Opener

Mark Dalton

Fighting Barfly

Tommy Nix

Fighting Barfly

Patricia Vonne

Bar Girl

Elizabeth Rodriguez

Mariachi Fan

Enrique Iglesias

1 of the 3 hitmen searching for Antonio

Reinol Martinez

Guy Scolding Niño Outside Tarasco Bar

Diego Sandoval

Empty Gun Man (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Carlos Gallardo: Campa is played by the lead actor of El mariachi (1992).

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This film cost approximately $7 million to make, 1000 times the amount of money Rodriguez spent to make El mariachi (1992).

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The huge black handgun that is seen throughout the movie (used by the bad guys) is a Desert Eagle .50AE pistol.

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Goofs

When El Mariachi follows the boy and slides his shoulder along the wall, leaving blood smears, in one shot you can see what look like places where smears from a previous take have been not-quite-completely scrubbed off.

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The shirt of the thug that El Mariachi pushes up with his feet during the cantina battle.

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When El Mariachi is singing his song in the bar, his voice isn't synchronized with his mouth.

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Quotes

Tourist Girl: And, your beer tastes like piss.

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Buscemi: Ya know, one of these days you're gonna lie down too hard on that thing and blow your brains out.

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Tavo: [in Spanish] How much in dollars?

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Faq

Is this a remake of El Mariachi?

No. Desperado has many things in common with El Mariachi structurally, but it is a sequel, not a remake. Just after the title sequence, a dream scene replays the ending of the first film (though a reshot version, with Antonio Banderas replacing Carlos Gallardo), recapping the death of Domino and the wounding of Mariachi's hand. In the first film, the titular character was an actual mariachi, only inheriting the guitar case full of weapons from the killer known as Azul at the end of the film. Desperado picks up an unspecified length of time later, with the Mariachi having become something of a local legend in the interim.

Is this really a sequel?

Yes, it is a sequel to El Mariachi, although you don't have to see El Mariachi to understand Desperado.

Why don't any police ever show up at any of the numerous shootouts?

Robert Rodriguez has stated that coming from a background in comic books, he has always had a bit of comic book fantasy in his films. In the town Mariachi finds himself in, there are no police. It is run by gangs, and gangs only.

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