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from OUaTiM production notes...
On Music:
On El Mariachi
On Music:
"One aspect of the score that I’m most excited about was the fact that I asked several of the actors (musicians in their own right) to come up with musical ideas that best represented the characters they were playing.On Agent Sands:
Rubén Blades supplied me with a bass line for his character, Antonio Banderas wrote a Mariachi song that he sings, and he also embellished his character’s main theme.
Johnny Depp went out and wrote a whole piece for his character, which I use in the movie. I created new orchestral versions of it for whenever his character is on screen.
Finally, I had Salma Hayek sing the end title song, because I was always a fan of her singing voice, which I had heard often between takes during the various movies we’ve shot together."
~Rodriguez
"[Sands] wasn’t someone who was clichéd or who I felt I had seen before. It was an interesting idea for Robert to create a man who’s in the CIA, but stationed somewhere he doesn’t want to be because no one likes him. Sands is a man who has no regard for human life. I’ve never played someone like that before -- who’s not a good guy in any way."[edited to add:]
"It’s truly poetic and beautiful that Sands becomes a blind gunfighter, someone with no eyes, who knows he’s going to die but still feels compelled to defend himself. Robert decided to put Sands’ fate in the hands of a young innocent boy, who turns out to be his only friend and the only person Sands is concerned about saving."
~Depp
On El Mariachi
"Robert has boiled everything down to pure action in this film. The character of El Mariachi comes to life through action and movement rather than through dialogue. He is basically a classic hero in that sense. He speaks very little and he moves like a bullfighter or a flamenco dancer. When he shoots a gun it’s like he’s playing a guitar. They are the same thing to him. There’s the same music behind it. The movie almost plays like rock ‘n roll. The violence is all choreographed."
-Banderas