The filmmaker that I admire the most has not won any Oscars, is not celebrated on the festival circuit, and very rarely shouts from the rooftops about just how great he is. Robert Rodriguez has been pumping films out since the very early nineties, starting with the acclaimed EL MARIACHI, a film shot in bordertown Mexico for just $7000 in 1992, but picked up by Columbia Pictures to go on to take north of $2 million at the box-office. Since then he’s gone on to write, produce, direct, shoot, edit, compose the music, and probably make the tea on such films as DESPERADO, FROM DUSK ‘TIL DAWN, THE FACULTY, SPY KIDS, MACHETE and SIN CITY. He has also set up his own studio in Troublemaker Studios, and even owns his own TV channel, the El Rey network, a station that produces the From Dusk ‘Til Dawn spin-off TV series..
This week, Rodriguez’s new film SIN CITY 2: A DAME TO KILL FOR hits cinemas, and I for one cannot wait to see his newest collaboration with the quite brilliant comic book legend Frank Miller. We’ll have a full review of the film on Thursday even, but for now, see why I dig this guy so much in a brilliant two-minute feature made by Red Bull ahead of their interview with him in the next issue of their BULLetin magazine. See why this pioneer, and one man movie-making machine, inspires me and millions of others around the globe. This is quite brilliant.
Source: Red Bull
