Desperado
Desperado is a 1995 American neo-Western action film written, co-produced, edited, and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It is the second part of Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy. It stars Antonio Banderas as El Mariachi, who seeks revenge on the drug lord who killed his lover. The film was screened out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Desperado grossed $58 million worldwide, and received mixed to positive reviews. Co-starring Salma Hayek, it has been cited as her breakout role in anglophonic American film.
Plot
At the Tarasco bar in Mexico, Buscemi, an American man, talks about witnessing a massacre in another bar, committed by El Mariachi, a Mexican with a guitar case full of guns. Tarasco's patrons are uninterested until Buscemi mentions drug lord "Bucho". Moco, Bucho's underling, killed El Mariachi's lover and shot his left hand. Buscemi, who is secretly a friend of El Mariachi, soon discovers that Bucho's underlings work and drink at the Tarasco bar.
More details
| author | Robert Rodriguez |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Mexico |
| director | Robert Rodriguez |
| editor | Robert Rodriguez |
| events | Mexican cartel revenge |
| genre | action western |
| keywords | ambush build burning building drug dealing drug lord even guitar case hotel room hunt injured kill morning mule mule drugs older brother on the road pick up shoot their way wander wound |
| musicBy | Tito Larriva |
| producer | Bill Borden Robert Rodriguez |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures Troublemaker Studios#Los Hooligans Productions |
| publisher | Sony Pictures Releasing |
| recordedAt | Mexico |
| theme | sequel |