Desperado

The Brief

The second film in Robert Rodriguez's Mexico trilogy. Following Robert Rodriguez's successful feature film debut, El Mariachi from 1992, this continues the story of the mythical musician with a guitar case full of weapons. While El Mariachi had only a $7,000 budget, Desperado was considerably more lavish and significantly more intense. The lead actor has also been replaced, in favor of Antonio Banderas. Bucho is a wealthy but bloodthirsty drug lord who controls a seedy Mexican border town. Bucho and his men make a mistake when they anger El Mariachi himself, a former musician. Bucho was responsible for the murder of El Mariachi's lover and placed a bullet in one of his hands, rendering him unable to play guitar. Filled with vengeance, the musician, now turned killing machine, arrives in town to put Bucho out of business.