“They just fucked with the wrong Mexican”
Robert Rodriguez is one of Hollywood’s most distinctive directors-come-producers. His unique visual flare and his often outrageous content (machine gun legs, assassin musicians, Mexican vampires) within films that aim to be pure entertainment makes his movie catalog one of the most original out of any director of his generation. Learning from Quentin Tarantino, and in my opinion besting anything he has brought the screen in the last ten years, is no small claim.
As a filmmaker I am but a little intimidated by his understanding of style and whether you like his films or hate them you can’t help but deny his originally – And that’s something Hollywood is in desperate need of.
In 2007 Machete was nothing but a spoof trailer featured in Grindhouse that followed the disappointing Death Proof and preludes the very fun Planet Terror. Audiences loved it and...
Robert Rodriguez is one of Hollywood’s most distinctive directors-come-producers. His unique visual flare and his often outrageous content (machine gun legs, assassin musicians, Mexican vampires) within films that aim to be pure entertainment makes his movie catalog one of the most original out of any director of his generation. Learning from Quentin Tarantino, and in my opinion besting anything he has brought the screen in the last ten years, is no small claim.
As a filmmaker I am but a little intimidated by his understanding of style and whether you like his films or hate them you can’t help but deny his originally – And that’s something Hollywood is in desperate need of.
In 2007 Machete was nothing but a spoof trailer featured in Grindhouse that followed the disappointing Death Proof and preludes the very fun Planet Terror. Audiences loved it and...
- 8/27/2010
- by Michael Brooks
- FilmShaft.com
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