A Mexploitation Film
Have you watched Grindhouse anthology by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino? You should; they are awesome. Before Planet Terror, there are some faux trailers for movies that will never hit the big screen (or at least never intended to); although Machete will. Nobody looks better throwing knives than our hero Danny Trejo, who plays a Mexican assassin hired by the US. The trailer looks hilarious; and I enjoy Rodriguez's work, so I'll be seeing this one. There are immigrants, politicians, assassins, victims, Mexicans and Americans. You will eiter love it, or hate it.
"I've got a direct-to-video in the States Machete movie, and internationally it could go out as a feature," revealed Rodriguez. "We've got a script already and Danny Trejo says, 'I'm in the best shape of my life, bro. I am so ready to do this movie!' So it's really cool. I'm going to direct some other sequences in it for sure, and maybe the whole thing. I don't know if I should do it like El Mariachi, but I want it to look really good. That trailer came out fantastic. Danny is really great in it and there's some other surprise actors that show up in this trailer. And it just looks fantastic."Since Danny Trejo is a Mexican-American actor, the Mexploitatation bid is a knokoff from Exploitation films, which are basically films made inexpensively on purpose, sometimes full of societal taboos or other forbidden extravagances like sex, violence, nudity, gore, etcetera. Enjoy.
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"It's an idea I came up with back during Desporado," said Rodriguez. "When I met Danny, I said, 'This guy should be like the Mexican Jean-Claude Van Damme or Charles Bronson, putting out a movie every year and his name should be Machete.' So I decided to do that way back when, never got around to it until finally now. So now, of course, I want to keep going and do a feature."
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