September 2003 Box Office Recap

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Learn more at intuit dot com slash ERP This Father's Day, do more with dad and spend less with low prices guaranteed at the Home Depot. Get him fired up with a new grill and accessories, like the next grill five burner for just two hundred ninety nine dollars , so you can spend more time together while he becomes the grill master he was always meant to be. Or build memories with savings on top brand power tools so you can tackle projects side by side. Gift more and do more together this father's day with help from the Home Depot. Exclusive supplies at home . com fort price max for details What is the good word my good people of Hollywoodland? My name is Zeth Lundy, writer, showrunner and good doctor here at Double Elvis, and I'd like to welcome you to another installment of a little thing we like to call the screening room. This is our weekly episode of the Hollywood Land podcast in which I take you on a deep dive into one movie that connects with our subject this week . This week we've been talking about the inimitable Danny Trejo , architect of one of the greatest redemption stories in Hollywood history . Back on Wednesday in the rap party, I talked about Redemption songs and redemption movies with my guy Jake Brennan from Disgraceland . And today I want to talk about a really fun, really wild action film from two thousand three called Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Now perhaps you're listening right now thinking wait, if it's Danny Trejo Week here in the pod, why aren't you talking about Machete, which is the film where he leveled up to the lead role after years of B movie deaths and drug dealer number three billings . Well, there are a number of reasons why this film interests me more than that film, but I think to a certain degree I wanted to be talking about Daniel Trejo from this perspective of the character that he often played, the one he played for years, you know, which is the lead thug or the bad bad man, the guy who's not in the entire movie. But when he is, you sit up and you notice because he's there to collect a debt or settle a score and you know he's not going to be taking any shit from anybody . It was super exciting to see this guy pop up on the screen back in the day, whether it was from dusk d tillawn or Con Air or Anchor Man , because you knew Danny Trejo by his face even if you didn't know him by his name and I probably didn't know him by his name for a very, very long time. There's so much that interests me about this film, not least of all being the Johnny Depp performance, which I think was heralded at the time, but has since been a bit forgotten and remains very underrated , I would argue. He's incredible in this movie. He's like this disaffected, jaded comic relief walking around this otherwise incredibly violent and corrupt environment. But I'm getting ahead of myself here. Okay, so once upon a time in Mexico stars Johnny Depp, along with Antonio Banderas, Samah ak, Rubin Blades, Willem Defoe, Mickey Rok, Chech Marin, Eva Mendes, and Enrique Iglacius, yes, that Enrique Iglacius . It was made by Robert Rodriguez . I didn't say directed by because made by is a better way to put it. This is a major studio film, Columbia Pictures that was written , directed , shot , edited , and scored by Robert Rodriguez . Now he didn't do all the songs in the film , less we forget one of the film's theme songs, which was co written by Johnny Depp and is credited to a group called Tanto's Giant Nuts , which is an all time band name. I want to hear more about this band Tonto's Giant Nuts . But still, damn, Rodriguez man, doing it all. And he did it all while basically experimenting with the form. This is the first big budget studio film to be shot using high dev digital video . And you know what ? It looks pretty fucking great. It still does. Believe it or not, George Lucas was the one who got Rodriguez hip to this digital digital video . When he showed him some of the digital footage he was shooting for Star Wars episode two Attack of the Clones at the time And I know that this will come as a shock, he said sarcastically , but Rodriguez's digital shots look way better than George Lucas' digital shots, sorry, George. But to understand this film , once upon a time in Mexico, first you gotta understand Robert Rodriguez . This guy is DIY to his core . He shot his first film El Mariachi in nineteen ninety two at the age of twenty three for seven thousand dollars . Seven thousand dollars . Most of that money he raised himself by participating in like drug testing studies in Austin, Texas . But still, seven grand is shocking . Once he made it , he sent video cassette copies to major studios. And when Columbia picked it up , they gave him a lot more money to clean it up, to add in some better sound effects, some smooth theirediting including a hundred thousand dollars alone just to blow up the film to a thirty five millimeter print Rodriguez later said that getting the Columbia logo for El Mariachi cost him more than making his entire film , which is an understatement . A hundred thousand dollars to blow up a seven thousand dollars movie just unbelievable. Rodriguez also literally wrote the book this kind of scrappy guerrilla American DIY filmmaking in nineteen ninety five , you know, back in the day when it was happening, this isn't like looking back like a memoir at the end of your career. This was like in the thick of it, right ? He published this book called Rebel Without A Crew , which is all about making El Mariachi and kind of like a how to for aspiring filmmakers looking to make something out of nothing just like he had done. I read this when it came out . I remember being super formative on the way I thought about movies and the way I thought about, you know, subverting the system . And I'm really thankful to Robert Rodriguez for writing it because there was so much innovation happening in independent film in the nineteen nineties, so many brilliant creators making something out of nothing, you know? And I'm just so thankful that one of them documented the process at the moment. You know, not only for inspiration, but so that we can study that process and the thinking and just really contemplate the ways in which you can make something that is completely outside the lane that you've been told for years is the only possible lane in which you can get it done. So this seven thousand dollars film El Mariachi is about this musician who is mistaken for a vengeful criminal who has got this beef with a drug cartel in Mexico. It's the first in what has now been dubbed Rodriguez's Mexico trilogy and for his second film after he worked on four rooms , the collaborative movie that Rodriguez made with Quentin Tarantino, Alison Anders, and Alexander Rockwell , Rodriguez made Desperado, that was ninety five, which is the sequel of sorts to El Mariachi. I mean, put an asterisk next to sequel. Much like, you know, The Evil Dead and the Evil Dead two, Desperado is not only a sequel, but it's kind of a redo of the first film with a bigger budget. Like this is this is how I would have made this had I had this incredible platform that is only now is available to me . So the actor who played El Mariachi in the first film was replaced this time by Antonio Banderis. And in this movie , he's out to get revenge on the drug lord who killed the woman that he loved. And during this journey, he meets a woman named Carolina, played by Sam Hayek, and the two fall in love. When we get to Once Upon a Time in Mexic o , some time has passed . We find out right away through a story delivered by Chech Marin's one eyed character that Carolina's ex, the evil General Marquez , was wounded in a gunfight with Carolina and El Mariachi, and Marquez took his revenge by murdering Carolina and the daughter that she had had with El Mariachi. Chief Marin is telling the story to CIA agent Jeffrey Sans played with Gusto by Johnny Depp in this small Mexican bar. Sands is in Mexico to help overthrow the government to assist in a little coup d' tape and this information about El Mariachi's backstory is very much relevant to his interest because he needs General Marques murdered as part of this bigger plot, and who better to do it than the one guy in the world who wants Marques dead more than anyone else . So before I go any further , let me give you the lay of the land here with this plot in this movie. The plot is super complicated and at times very hard to follow, but I don't know, I think that's kind of the point, you know, coup detas, cover ups, backstabbings . I think it's supposed to be confusing and not make sense at times because even the characters are confused and surprised by how some things go down. But I'll try to make sense of this the best that I can. All right, so there's this new president in Mexico. He wants to shut down the cartel that is run by Armando Barrio played also with Gusto by Willem Defoe. Defoe is in full tiny mustache mode here, by the way, very bobby Peru, wild at heart territory . Barrio is obviously a very powerful guy. And his point man, his right hand man is this guy Billy Chambers, an American who is living on the lamb and working for Burrio, though it's obvious that he's not the cold blooded killer that Burio wants him to be. Billy Chambers is played by Mickey Roke, by the way . This is Pre Mickey Roarke's rebound with the wrestler , I believe . This is right before Rodriguez did Sin City with Frank Miller and Roke was in that as well, right? Anyways, I'm getting off track here. Mickey Rook is never not seen holding a little chihuahua by the way in this movie. No doubt one of his own dogs, since in real life, I know he's all about those chihuahuas. All right, so the President of Mexico wants Barrio gone, right? So Barrio has hired General Marquez, El Mariachi's mortal enemy, the guy that murdered his his lover and his daughter to st age this coup d'etat with his unchecked military might backing him up. But here's the twist to this plot as we soon learn . Agent Sans, the Johnny Depp character, is having a fling with a member of the federal police played by Eva Mendez . And as Sans tell her , his plan is to have El Mariachi get in there and assassinate Marquez, right ? And he's also going to have Berrio assassinated because he's convinced this retired FBI guy Ramirez played by Ruben Blades to help him knock off the drug lord because years earlier Barrio tortured and murdered the FBI man's partner . And then once Marquez and Berillo are both wiped out during this chaotic coup d'etat , Agent Sans is going to take the eighty million pesos that Berrio put up to hire Marques and escape to Parad ise with Ebimendes by his side. Okay , got all that . Now you're saying, Dr. Lundy, what about Danny Trejo? Don't worry, I have not forgotten about Danny Trejo. Danny Trejo is El Kukui and he's been hired by Agent Sans to locate El Mariachi in the first place and then help keep an eye on him, make sure he's doing what he's supposed to be doing. And you know, Kuuki ain't fucking around, Jack. When he tracks down El Mariachi for Sans , he kills one old man for not giving up Mariachi's location, and he's about to kill another when Mariachi turns himself in. This movie is part Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western, it's part revenge film. It's part Rockam Soccum action film. It's part horror film. It's part Jen X slacker sarcastic disaffected comedy , it nods to everything from the good the bad and the ugly to Johnny Guitar, to the banjo character and the Italian spaghetti western Sabata. It's a film about backstabbers, eye patches, fake arms, little dogs, l mustittlerach es, guns that shoot and Mariachi's out for revenge. 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That name would come back later first in the fake trailer for the fake movie called Machet e, one of the phony trailers that ran before the Grindhouse double feature that Rodriguez made with Tarantino. And then again in the real movie called Machete , which was those guys going, hey, what if this fake machete mo vie was actually a movie, right ? And Danny Trejo is great in this film. You get the sense that he's just being himself or a version of himself that he used to be. He's so tough , he's so serious, even when Johnny Depp is asking him a ridiculous but hilarious question like, are you a Mexican or a Mexican ? El Kakui takes that shit so seriously . Antonio Banderis' character, El Mariachi, he also takes this shit seriously. He is in a straight up revenge film, a straight up action film like some of the most over the top yet exhilarating action film this year. Dudes are literally flying through the air and being blasted across the floor when they're shot. Oh, it's almost cartoonish . You know, they're flying through the air, they're blown up, they're falling from great heights. An entire church is shot to pieces while this old woman sits in the pew and prays as like, you know, wood splinters all around her. In one flashback , Banderas and Samah ak are chained to each other's hands and they execute this daring escape scaling down something like four floors, one dangling from the other . It's all completely improbable, but that's the charm of this film. And the subversion that's happening, here, the thing that makes you buy all this unbelievable action and the serpentine plot twists, is Johnny Depp . He's the CIA man, who's seen it all before, he's the guy who thinks he's the puppet master controlling all these people to do his dirty work for him. But one by one they all turn and do what they need to do, which eventually leaves Johnny Depp, Agent Sands with no eyes. His eyes have actually been gouged out by the people he was using and suddenly he finds himself in the action film that he was sort of scoffing at all along . He reminds me of Michael Keaton and both out of sight and Jackie Brown as that FBI guy who is not as smooth as he thinks he is, you know, and just like Michael Keaton's character, Johnny Depp's walking around with a t shirt that reads CIA and giant letters. He's got his fanny back or his fake mustache or his fake arm which he uses so he can hold a loaded gun under the table and keep it trained on whoever he's talking to. He's got this collection of hats like this, entire wardrobe of disguises that he thinks are keeping him on the down low, but he sticks out like a sore thumb. That doesn't mean that he doesn't mean business . There's this incredible scene when he first meets Antonio Bendairs' character, El Mariachi at one of the small local watering holes that he frequents . Sans orders food and a drink as he always does. He's got some pork, a tequila with lime, and as he's sitting there talking to El Mariachi eating , he says, You gotta try this this food that I'm eating. It's incredible, right? So he pushes his plate over to El Mariachi. And this is what he says. It's a slow roasted pork, nothing fancy. It just happens to be my favorite and I order it with a tequila and lime in every dive I go to in this country. And honestly, that is the best it's ever been anywhere. In fact, it's too good. It's so good that when I'm finished, I'll pay my che ck, walk straight into the kitchen, and shoot the cook , because that's what I do. I restore the balance to this country, and that is what I would like from you right now help keep the balance by pulling the trigger. And as soon as this conversation ends and El Mariachi goes on his way, Sands gets up from the table, walks into the kitchen out back and yes, he shoots the cook. Sands can be the guy he thinks he is . But I guess his downfall is that too many other people think that he's something else . It's just one of my favorite Johnny Depp performances, like I said earlier. He's as comfortable as Danny Trejo in this , like , you know, I think Johnny Depp could do this all day long . If I was to make a top five Johnny Depp performances list, this would certainly be on it . That list would look something like this . Number five , Edward Scissorhands, where he plays the title character. Number four , Edwood , where he also plays the title character, two Tim Burton movies, two of his numerous collaborations with Tim Burton . Number three is once upon a time in Mexico where he plays Agent Sans . Number two , Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas. Of course, he plays Hunter S Thompson in that movie. And then number one for me on my top five Johnny Depp performances list would be Dead Man , the Jim Jarmish film in which he plays William Blake , a guy who's been shot and is slowly dying throughout the course of the film. There you go. Edward scissor hands, Edwood, once upon a time in Mexico, fear and looting in Las Vegas and dead man. And that was reverse order so dead man's number one. Do you have a top five Johnny Depp performances list? Get at me and let me know six one seven nine zero six six six three eight leave me a voicemail , send me a text. I'm gonna take a quick break here guys. But when I return, we're gonna make a mixtape inspired by Once Upon a Time in Mexico. So don't go anywhere. Hear it back . Okay , not so fun fact . Autoimmune skin conditions are actually on the rise . Cases are climbing nearly twenty percent every year . I know terrible opener for a podcast ad. But here's the thing. 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My Alright everybody, we are back in the screening room here in Hollywood Land and we are at the part of the show where I'm going to make a hypothetical theoretical, metaphorical, potentially possible mix tape here inspired by the two thousand three Robert Rodriguez film once upon a time in Mexico . Um my mind immediately goes to Guitars Guitar Men Guitar Man The Jerry Reed song Guitar man from nineteen sixty seven . It was Elvis Presley's version that went to number one on the Hot Country singles chart , but Jerry Reeds is the OG . This is the song that you know any touring musician can relate to hustling, working it, playing for whoever's going to pay you that night. And I got to say I think it's really clever here that El Mariachi is a working musician but is also , you know , a gun for hire, a contract killer . Like as any, you know, working musician who's eating it out knows that, you know, sometimes you need a side hustle to pay the bills and, you know, playing a gig a couple times a week or whatever , you know, doesn't cover it all. Sometimes you gotta you gotta pick up a contract to help with a coup d' tale and kill some dudes, I guess, you know? So it's just it's very funny. I love that. Guitar man though, this song, I love Jerry Reed's version. It's so wiry, it's scrappy. The guitars are twangy in the best possible way. There's as thin as shoe string french fries . Jerry Reeds just chewing the scenery with his vocal delivery. This is country music for people who don't like country music, you know what I mean? It's a gateway country music song . I don't think Elvis performs this in that recent Baz Lehman documentary epic, the Elvis Presley in concert movie? I don't think he does. Doesn't did he in the comeback special? I think he may have. Anyways, guitar man, Jerry Reed, that's my first track. My next song here is a song called Western Star by Frank Black and the Catholics . This is from a nineteen ninety nine album called Pistolaro and this is where my mind went the pistol arrow thing. There's a line in the song Yos hiistum Polero, I am a gunslinger and that's why my mind connected it with this film. So Frank Black and the Catholics. Okay, so Frank Black, AKA Black Francis, AKA Charles Thompson. He left the Pixies in the nineteen nineties . When he did so, he made three solo albums under the Frank Black name, which was the inversion of Black Francis, which is what he called himself in the Pixies, right? Those first two Frank black solo records, the self titled one and teenager of the year are two of my favorite records ever, ever. I probably listened to those two more than anything else, honestly. And a quick plug actually, I wrote an essay for the self titled Frank Black album for a book called The Besides , which is a collection of essays by writers who wrote books in the thirty three and a third series and we were given the task of if you could if you, could write another book in the series, what record would it be about and then just submit, you know, just write an essay instead of a book on that. So the B sides kind of a cool little book if you guys dig reading, writing about albums. So then after those solo records he made, he made some albums with an outfit he called Franklact and the Catholics. And the first two records were made so, I believe, by recording live to a two track in the studio. So there's this like raw intensity to these performances that kind of stands out from anything in the Frank Black slash Black Francis catalog . So again, this song Western Star from the album Pistol Arrow by Frank Black and the Catholics. Next song here , there's a lot of backstabbing that goes on in this movie, lots of double crossing. So of course I thought of the song Backstabers by the OJ's from nineteen seventy two classic Philly Soul recorded at Sigma Sound in Philadelphia , written by the team of Leon Huff , G McFadden and John Whitehead, released on the Philadelphia International Label, number one on the soul chart , number three on the pop chart in the fall of seventy two . Though this feels like a summer song to me, not a fall song, right? It's definitely a summer song . First time I ever heard this and I'm being completely honest. So the first time I ever it really registered with me and really like I was aware of it was at the mighty mighty Boston's annual hometown throwdown. This was like a week long run of shows that the Boston would put on every December, close to Christmas, downstairs at the Middle East Club in Cambridge, and every night they did it they would have a different band that opened. The night that I went , the straight edge hardcore group H two O opened and my friend wanted to be down in front, so we got down in front. And if you're not familiar with the Middle East, there's an upstairs and there's a downstairs. Downstairs space is bigger, but it's narrow and it's like kind of it's longer than it is wide, right? So the room kind of goes back and the ceiling is low and you're kind of, you know, you're kind of like sardines in a tan in there . And so we're up front, like right up front and H two O took the stage and like all hell broke loose and it was my first time in a moshit p, my only time in Amosh pit, I thought I was going to die like literally my life flashed before my eyes and I got the hell out of there as quickly as I could and move to the back. I think I went way like way, way, way, to the back. Like I don't want I didn't want to be near anything like that. Then the Mighty Mighty Boss Tones come out to backstabbers. That was like their walkup music. It just like slapped me in the face. I was like f,uck I now, have a brand new song and I've loved that song ever since. It was just such a moment that song to be playing and for the Bosstones in their like impeccable suits to like walk out on stage to this. It was just that's a memory that stuck with me for years. Okay, the next song here on the mixtape for obvious reasons is a song called Stone Cold Coup des Ta , which is by They might be giants from their twenty thirteen album Nanobot s their sixteenth album. Wow . I will say in all transparency here, I kind of fell off the TMBG wagon a while back and I've tried. I've tried to stay with it because the first four albums are just incredible. You know, the self titled Lincoln, Flood , Apollo eighteen , just like unfuck withable albums . And then they became an actual band for their John Henry album. Like they were no longer just the two Johns Flansburg and Lenau doing everything themselves . And I don't know, something changed. I saw them on that tour, by the way, the John Henry tour in Boston and incidentally Frank Black opened for them solo, acoustic. It was funny when the giants came on stage it was just the two Johns doing their usual thing. I forget what song they were playing. Then like they were like in front of this curtain and then at some point the curtain like opens and there's their full band and it was sort of like this big reveal of like look now we have a band which is cool. I'm stoked that they have a band and they've I like a lot of John Henry and I do like some later stuff, like some of the stuff on the Else and Join us . And I was super stoked when I saw that their their newest single was titled simply Wu Tang. I was like , holy shit, this is gonna rule. And I was just kind of disappointed by it. They kind of sound like and I hate to say it. They sound like a TMBG cover band doing TMBG now. And anyways Stone called coup detas is one of the good ones from the last decade plus and again including it here for obvious reasons for that coup detas that is central to the plot of this film. Okay, next song here, a song called Chained by Marvin Gay . This is a nineteen sixty eight single written and produced by Frank Wilson for Motown. This is around the time Marvin did, I heard it through the grapevine . It might have been on the same album as that song as well. This is a hard drive in four on the floor R and Barn burner . And it comes during this incredible run of singles. It comes immediately after ain't nothing like the real thing and you're all I need to get by two of his classic duets with Tammy Tore ll. And then right after this is, you know, grapevine and then too busy thinking about my baby. That's the way love is. I love seventies, Marvin. I love what's going on and let's get it on and here my dear and all that. But man, the mot own factory system era, the Funk Brothers, these airtight, aerodynamic songs and Marvin's passionate life or death vocals, this just might be my favorite Marvin era, the late sixties. He just's cooking and more than any other artist at Motown at this time . He's just unstoppable, man. I'm sure there are more modern digital collections out there in the world. I just don't care to find them because I have this great old three LP compilation of Marvin Gay stuff. It's one of those compilations that Motown put out back in the seventies, they did these for a lot of their artists and so the cover art is very similar for each of them. There's a three LP set that comes with a huge booklet on the inside . And it's just a really nicely curated compilation that goes from the beginning up through, I think, Trouble Man. And it's just the best, man. This song is on our mixtape here because of that one improbable but great scene where Antonio Banderis and Samah ak are chained to each other and have to make that daring escape. I can hear this song playing in the scene when that's happen ing. That would have been cool. Okay, next on this mixtape here. And I got to give you some context for this. There's a moment in this movie. I didn't talk about this where Willem Defoe's character has facial reconstruction surgery to sort of hide themself, right? And they also like find this look alike that they kill on the operating table to make it look like Willem Defoe's character died during the procedures , anyways , just so you have that context of that happening in the film. This next song I'm choosing is called Change My Head by Otol Lux Pussies Dead, which is their third album. Came out like ten years ago twenty sixteen and it's been the last thing that Autolux has put out they had some issues as of late. Their bass player and one of their singers Eugene Gorster. I think that's how you pronounce his last name. G orster, Gorster. Anyways , he was busted a few years back for trying to smuggle cocaine over the border from Mexico and I'm pretty sure that the others in the band have cut ties with him since. But this great trio when they were around also included Greg Edwards on guitar. He used to be in failure before this and the badass, badass Carla Azar on drums . She's just incredible. She's played with Jack White a bunch, she's done a lot of other session work. She has this very organic style of playing that is at once extremely technically precise , but at the same time is very like suy generous in like ex ecution and feel. Like there's really especially watching her play in the way the way she positions herself around the drum kit. It's cool. She's one of the most exciting drummers to watch . In this album , Pussy's dead, kind of like the new geese album Getting Killed, how that was produced by a hip hop producer, I believe. This record was produced by Boots, the dude who worked on some Beyonce records, crazy in love, I think