Nov. 12 movie: Once Upon a Time in Mexico. The "Mariachi" trilogy wraps up with a very fun flick. Quite a bit gorier than Desperado, which I think was due to Rodriguez getting into digital film, which made the special effects much less expensive. Or so he said in a DVD extra called "Ten Minute Film School," which was actually a ten minute ad for digital over traditional film.
Rodriguez compared the three principles (Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp and Willem Dafoe) to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But Georg and I agreed that they got two of them wrong: Banderas is "the good" of course, but they identified Depp as "the bad" and Dafoe as "the ugly" due to that whole "face messed up" thing. It seemed to us that Depp's character was much more like Tuco ("known as The Rat"), a bad guy but basically comic relief. Dafoe, like Lee Van Cleef, was the real villain.
Georg has already mentioned the cooking lesson on the DVD, so I'll just add that the recipe, for puerco pibil, sounded fantastic and I really want to make it. And I think every DVD should have a cooking lesson in the features.
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