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Actors: Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp, Mickey Rourke
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Once Upon A Time In Mexico |
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A CIA agent is working on a case involving several drug dealers. They plan to assassinate the president of Mexico in a coup d'etat. The agent calls out El Mariachi. El Mariachi and two of his friends join the CIA agent to protect the President and defeat the bad guys.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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The main character, Desperado, is forced to participate in a plot by the US to take down a Mexican General, a general who just happened to have killed his wife and daughter. He is approached by a corrupt CIA agent and then sucked back into the violent life that he thought he had left behind him. He then contacts 2 fellow mariachi friends and proceeds to go on a killing spree. Throughout the movie, he is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. However, he does finally come face to face with his enemy and kills him. Although he is victorious, Desperado is still a ravaged and sad man in the end.
This movie is the final one in a series of three, El Mariachi, then Desperado, then this one.
--Starla Chinn, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 35%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 35%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- deposing an evil leader
Romance
Yes
The terrorist enemy is...
- drug dealers
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- accused criminal
- unemployed
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- longhair/girliemon (man)
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) long, like a girl
Body type
- muscular (man)
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- a criminal organization
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- criminal
- govt employee
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinoa
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Mexico
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
- building
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
- gory visuals of torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 ()
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
- mission to protect something
- mental battles
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- run over
- crushed
- flamed
- impaled
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
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