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When I was in high school, I used to carry around a binder with a picture of Robert Rodriguez taped to the cover. Not only did I fantasize about shooting rockets out of my trombone case El Mariachi style, when I bought my DVD player, The Faculty was the first disc I purchased. That is because Rodriguez, the mastermind of such blood-spattered action spectaculars as Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn, is, quite simply, one of the most extravagantly entertaining filmmakers working today. Crimson Arts recently caught up with the laid-back, low-budget icon at a college roundtable...
...know it's well-documented that you were able to make El Mariachi for only $7000, but how on earth did you pull off Spy Kids with a budget of just...
...kind of dazzling, turbo-charged vitality that is only enhanced by the flippant, let's-see-how-far-over-the-top-we-can-go nature of his work. Eight years after becoming an indelible symbol for the resourceful tactics of guerilla filmmaking with the taut, no-budget wonder El Mariachi, Rodriguez has become an eye-candy dynamo; a gleeful purveyor of pulp so jammed with spicy flavor that it seems ready to rupture on screen at any moment. With the propulsive mayhem of his neo-Spaghetti Western Desperado, Rodriguez established himself as a caffeine-saturated John Woo incarnate, filling...
...celebration started off festively for the nearly 20,000 supporters of Texas Gov. George W. Bush who flocked to the state capitol building on a frigid evening for an election night celebration. Food stands and beer taps lined the sectioned-off block of Congress Street, and a live mariachi band bellowed tunes as the crowd awaited the first state election returns...
...mariachi band, the protesters walked through the Yard to Holyoke Center...