Robert Rodriguez- A Latin American Director who has been “Hollywood-ized”
Robert Rodriguez- A Latin American Director who has been “Hollywood-ized” Robert Rodriguez’s first film, El Mariachi, is a cult classic to many and the first of a long line of other successful movies for this talented director. El Mariachi captured the attention of many with its large amount of violence and shockingly low budget. With a dirt cheap budget and a first time director, this film did not have high expectations, yet it provided an entertaining story that showed the evolution of a young mariachi player. Machete, the most recent film made by Robert Rodriguez in 2010 is an action packed experience that can only be described as epic. There are few similarities between El Mariachi and Machete and it is obvious that Rodriguez’s directing has become very “Hollywood” and no longer resembles his original work. One similarity between El Mariachi and Machete is that both have a Latin main character who has to use violence in order to survive. Although both main characters have to kill to survive, the amount of killing in Machete blows the amount of killing in El Mariachi out of the water. Those that thought El Mariachi was overly-violent would be astonished by Rodriguez’s most recent film. This large amount of violence isn’t necessarily a bad thing because it does entertain certain groups of people, but when a man pulls out another man’s intestines and uses them to repel from a window (this is a scene from Machete), things begin to get ridiculous. It is not easy to stay true to one’s roots when Hollywood and others in the “show business” are pressuring you to change with the times, but the contrast between Rodriguez’s first and most recent movie is vast. In El Mariachi, the main character is an innocent mariachi looking for work that gets thrust into a world of violence and death because of a mistaken identity. In Machete, the main character, Machete, begins as a stone cold killer who can lay waste to all in his path, and he continues this