Desperado

A gunslinger is embroiled in a war with a local drug runner.

• Director:Robert Rodriguez
• Genre:Action / Crime / Thriller
• Runtime:105 minutes

Cast

Antonio Banderas : El Mariachi
Salma Hayek : Carolina
Joaquim de Almeida : Bucho
Cheech Marin : Short Bartender
Steve Buscemi : Buscemi

An unnamed man (referred to in the credits as “Buscemi”) (Steve Buscemi) walks into a bar. The customers are initially hostile towards him but he seems not to notice. He begins to tell how he was in a bar in another town and it was cleaned out by a man in black looking for a man named Bucho. This story openly frightens the men and the bartender (Cheech Marin) and his side kick Tavo (Tito Larriva), attempt to get a description of the man’s face. Buscemi claims to not know and remarks that he believes the man is headed that way.

El Mariachi(Antonio Banderas), the man from the story wakes from a dream about Domino, his love interest in the first film. He hears a knock at the door and lets in Buscemi. It is revealed that Buscemi is helping El find out where Bucho is. He tells El that he can find out where Bucho is at the bar he just visited. Buscemi asks El what he will do when he has his revenge. El simply states that it will be over. Buscemi then says he is glad. El remarks that Buscemi never had the stomach for that sort of thing. He replies: “Neither did you.” El then cleans himself up to appear as a mariachi and walks to town. He meets a young boy and teaches him to loosen his fingers when playing the guitar, despite not being able to use his fingers on his left hand due to the gunshot wound to his hand from Moco in the first film. Meanwhile, Bucho is apparently worried that “the man in black” is coming for him. He orders his men to keep an eye out for any strangers and buys a bulletproof limo. El then goes to the bar. The patrons are suspicious of him due to the Buscemi’s story even though he appears nothing like he was described (“The biggest Mexican ever!”) except for the black clothing. They hold him at gunpoint as they open his guitar to search for weapons that they were told were in the guitar case (“The biggest fucking hand cannon I’ve ever seen!”), but only see a guitar. They let him go, just as the guitar is revealed to be a cover inside the case to conceal his guns. They prepare to kill him but he ejects 2 hidden .45 ACP pistols from his sleeves and engages in a gunfight with the men. Meanwhile in a hidden room, several other men see the gunfight on a video monitor and Tavo executes the drug Pick-Up Guy (Quentin Tarantino) because they believe he betrayed them. El proceeds to kill all the men except the bartender and tries to question him, but he is accidentally shot by a man from the hidden room. They attempt to shoot each other but run out of bullets and try to use the fallen men’s guns but find that they are all empty. Finally the man finds one and tries to shoot El with it, but El snaps his neck. Read more

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