YMMV / El Mariachi

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The One-Shot-Wonder of the dog with giant sunglasses.
• Cult Classic: Has increasingly become this as one of Robert Rodriguez's first major works.
• Dancing Bear: While regarded as a great movie in its own right, most of the attention received was due to its extremely small budget of $7,000.
• Memetic Mutation: Anyone carrying two guitar cases full of firearms (Such as in Total Overdose) is likely going to be referencing this movie or its sequels.
• Misaimed Fandom: A harmless example. The film was hugely successful on the American indie circuit at least partially because it was in Spanish, which Americans took to mean that it was a chić foreign art film. Robert Rodriguez would later admit that it's actually a black comedy spoof of low-budget, Direct to Video Spanish-language action movies and that the only reason the title was in Spanish was because The Guitar Player wasn't a catchy title. It's safe to assume that he doesn't have many complaints otherwise.

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