Desperado is a 1995 film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film stars Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. It is a sequel to Rodriguez's earlier film El Mariachi, although the storyline isn't fully linear, nor are all the events connected. This is the second entry in his "Mariachi Trilogy", which culminated in 2003 with Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
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Released in the US as a split reel along with the comedy Une ruse de Patouillard (1911).
Original French title is undetermined.
From 1970 to 1873, Texas suffered under the carpetbag administration of reconstructionist Governor E. J. Davis (the name and the stated conditions was about the last of anything authentic in this film) and his despotic state police commanded in John's City by Captain Jake Thornton (Nestor Pavia.) Two young men, Tall Cameron (James Lydon) and Ray Novack (Rayford Barnes) flee to the Big Bend area to escape persecution. Ray pretends to be Tall's friend but actually hates him because he is madly jealous that Laura Bannerman (Beverly Garland) is to become Tall's wife. They join forces with Sam Garrett (Wayne Morris), a killer with a price on his head. Ray tries to kill Garret to collect the reward, but Tall saves Garrett's life and Ray flees back to John's City, where he is taken prisoner. Ray kills Thornton and another trooper but Tall is blamed for the crimes. Garrett can clear him, but will he? Written by Les Adams
With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, "El Mariachi," director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of "El Mariachi," where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown. Written by Tad Dibbern
After the first movie, El Mariachi isn't doing so good. First off, one of his hands was chopped off. And his girlfriend was murdered. And, once again, El Mariachi is mistaken for a hit man. This now leads to meeting up with a beautiful woman, and another face-to-face bloody gun-shooting action. Written by neo101
