What is EL MARIACHI/ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO about?

EL MARIACHI, 1992, Sony Repertory, 81 min. Robert Rodriguez’s feature directorial was famously made on a shoestring for $7000. Carlos Gallardo stars as the title musician, thrown into the fight of his life when he is mistaken for a ruthless criminal who also carries a guitar case. ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, 2003, Sony Repertory, 102 min. The final installment of director Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy stars Antonio Banderas as the gunslinging El Mariachi, hired by a CIA agent (Johnny Depp) to kill a renegade general (Gerardo Vigil) working with a drug-lord (Willem Dafoe) to overthrow the Mexican government.

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What is EL MARIACHI/ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO about?: EL MARIACHI, 1992, Sony Repertory, 81 min. Robert Rodriguez’s feature directorial was famously made on a shoestring for $7000. Carlos Gallardo stars as the title musician, thrown into the fight of his life when he is mistaken for a ruthless criminal who also carries a guitar case. ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, 2003, Sony Repertory, 102 min. The final installment of director Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy stars Antonio Banderas as the gunslinging El Mariachi, hired by a CIA agent (Johnny Depp) to kill a renegade general (Gerardo Vigil) working with a drug-lord (Willem Dafoe) to overthrow the Mexican government.