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Just saw "El Mariachi" last night | by swisscheese | 2004-03-09 12:21:28 |
| Well, it was kinda made for $7,000. |
by rapido75 |
2004-03-09 14:16:27 |
Actually, Robert Rodriguez lived in Austin; he went to Mexico just to shoot the film. He did all of the behind-the-scenes tasks. It cost $7,000 to shoot the film (on 16mm, using an old film camera his neighbor had stored away; BTW, he recorded the sound on a cheap radioshack cassette recorder and microphone, without any sound sync), and have it processed and transferred to video tape. He cut the film on two standard VCRs, BION. That's why it was so cheap; he did the film on videotape instead of having a film print made.
He then took the film to Hollywood to try to sell to a Spanish-language distributor; instead, he managed to sell it to Columbia Pictures. Imagine that. Columbia spent a few hundred-grand to have an actual film-print made, blow it up to 35mm (standard theater film size), and remix the sound to stereo. Rodriguez likes to joke that the Columbia logo at the beginning cost more than the actual film itself.
The story behind the film is pretty neat, and it a testament that if you wanna do something, just go and do it; To hell with the standard industry channels. |
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