Robert Rodriguez Book?(His Point Was?)

[Actor]

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he would of made it with a hi-8 camcorder
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He made it in 1991. Did they have Hi8 back then?

[Keviano]

Chancey boy, you pay ?4.99 for your gaffer tape? Man you getting ripped off! Go in those pound stretcher type stores, get it for 99p, and it's exactly the same stuff. You can often get the black rolls too, which is better for filming than the silver one, as many of y'all will know.

Regards
Keviano
ReelRaine Films

[This bloody weather]

You forget that both Blair Witch and Mariachi were winners of the Sundance Film Festival..

You people spend too much time talking about format. It's all about the script!!

[Chance1234]

bollocks,

its about everything,

Script, Format, Cast, Crew, Director etc etc

the right combination of these igredients make a good film

Chance

[This bloody weather]

Script more than anything!! How can any director or actor make a GOOD film without one?

What is the point in making a film without a good story?

[LAmind]

You know guys I gotta tell you, I really enjoyed "Rebel Without a Crew". It was a very inspirational book. It made me think that you can be a director without having a lot of money or equipment. But let's be serious. How many of us have friends that have cameras they can lend us and how many of us are going to go to a medical research center and earn $7,000 and make a movie that acctually gets sold. And I personally don't know any public access station where they will let you use film editing equipment for free for how ever long you want.

The book was great in the sense that it realy makes you feel you can become a director. But it's just too unrealistic for me. Robert's story was mainly based on luck in my opinion. Throughout the book, Robert just bumps into luck everywhere. I doubt too many other directors found fame as easily as him, and those who did have to work harder than him, probably hate him for over exhagerating how easy the procces of becoming a film maker is.

-Ivan

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"A place for everything and everything in it's place".

[This bloody weather]

But what I admire about Rob Rodriguez is that he really is a rebel.

He is completely in control of his films and even operates the camera and edits entirely on his own. What other commercial filmmakers do that?


His lucky meeting with that agent obviously got him where he is. Any of you submitted your tapes to an agent? if not, why not?

[zlebret]

A note to whoever wanted to know why he chose film instead of hi8. Upon reading the book, one learns that El-mariachi was the first in what was intended to be a trilogy of "practice" films for him to master the format so he could be prepared to make better films for wide distribution. Whether or not he had access to hi8 equipment, that wasn't the reason he set out to make that particular film.

[N. Foster Tyler]

He shot 16mm so he could sell it for a lot more money to the Mexican video people, making them think that it cost a lot more than it did. If he shot with a camcorder, they would have known that he probably did it all by himself for peanuts AND would have paid him a lot less for it. That's how things work. By shooting on film, he could make them think that he spent hundreds of thousands on the film with a large crew, HENCE, they would have to pay him a lot more money for it.

-N. Foster Tyler

[Chance1234]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, helvetica, sans serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by This bloody weather:
[B]But what I admire about Rob Rodriguez is that he really is a rebel.

He is completely in control of his films and even operates the camera and edits entirely on his own. What other commercial filmmakers do that?

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What ????? k hammer samwhich mr faulty ?

When he made el-mariachi of course he was in bloody control of it, the same way everyone else on this board who makes their own films and in control of that, he wasnt a comercial director when he shot el-mariachi.

Now hes in with the studio system well and proper, hes no way in total control of his own films. also look at all the stuidio politics he's got himself entwined with think Quentin Tarantino and dusk till dawn as well and all the crapuluence there.


If everyone replaced the words rodriguez with gaffer tape the world would be a better place.

Chance