{"id":42999,"date":"2026-10-18T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42999"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:59:00","slug":"42999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42999","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Desperado&#8221; (1995) written &amp; directed by Robert Rodriguez, starring Antonio Banderas, Joaquim de Almeida &amp; Salma Hayek \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z101826review_desperado.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"743\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Desperado <\/i>(1995)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Robert Rodriguez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Robert Rodriguez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Antonio Banderas, Joaquim de Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin, Carlos G\u00f3mez, Carlos Gallardo, Danny Trejo<\/strong> and <strong>Quentin Tarantino<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>He came back to settle the score with someone. Anyone. EVERYONE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A man known as El Mariachi arrives in a small Mexican border town. He&#8217;s come to kill the drug cartel crime lord Bucho.\u00a0 As Mariachi works us way up the chain of command, it becomes clear, he&#8217;ll kill anyone and EVERYONE who gets in his way.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the taglines says, <em>&#8220;When the smoke clears, it just means he&#8217;s reloading.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Antonio Banderas directed the bathroom scene that takes place before the second tavern shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo are second cousins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Desperado<\/em> is a remake of Robert Rodriguez&#8217;s earlier film <em>El Mariachi<\/em>.\u00a0 Rodriguez self-financed <em>El Mariachi<\/em> using credit cards and his personal finances.\u00a0 The budget was just $7,000.00.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carlos Gallardo played the title role in <em>El Mariachi<\/em> and also plays one of the two musicians who comes to assist El Mariachi in <em>Desperado<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Desperado <\/i>(1995)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z101826review_desperado2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desperado (1995) Director: Robert Rodriguez Screenplay: \u00a0Robert Rodriguez Stars:\u00a0 Antonio Banderas, Joaquim de Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43071,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42999\/revisions\/43071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}