Robert Rodriguez
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Nov
Robert Rodriguez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Go tell your friends now so you all spend money on our movie. Well, where's your cut of that? So I want them to be successful. So if any of the movies in the slate do well, they make money off that one and then sequels or anything. But they're all going to do well because everyone needs an action movie or we're going to keep the cost down.
It comes down to the character. You know, like if you think about what are the best action films? What are your favorite films? Like Die Hard. He's a cop, so he's still capable, but he's not Superman. The fact that he's like in over his head and you're rooting for him, that's a great character.
You know, John Wick, he is Superman, but he's retired and now he's pissed off and he's going back into a job. You know, so it comes down to the character really being very important because the action will then have a character to it. I think Leon the Professional. That's a character. I mean, that's all about character.
Now that, when I say we're going to do action movies, I mean movies that are really action first. Like there's some movies that are more dramas that have action. Where's the boundary? So John Wick is action. That's more action, but it has character in it, but it's action driven. What about like Predator? Predator is a sci-fi action film.
So that's kind of a hybrid, which I like, but sometimes it's hard for the audience to know what they're buying into. Like they focused a lot on the action in the trailer, you know, and then they felt there was some other worldly thing, but you didn't really know, but it's a great movie. So Die Hard is a good example.
It was a good example where I could think of right off where there's a character that really made the difference. And then everyone repeated that, you know, for a while. It was like under siege. I was like a regular guy who's really actually has some training on a ship now. And then on the bus, you got a cop. He's a cop, but he's not super cop. So that's why you root for him.
You know, that became an element that people repeated a lot. What about Taken? That's a great one. That's a great character who is superhuman, who's also retired. There's a superhero type character in an extraordinary circumstance. That's now his daughter's taken. And then there's ordinary people like the Terminator. That's a great character. Not the Terminator. He's a villain.
But Sarah Connor, who is a waitress, doesn't think her life's going anywhere. And she finds out she's the mother of the guy who's going to save the human race. And she's got to train him. You know, suddenly she has to become someone else. Those are cool movies because it's a genesis of a character. And you see a character go from waitress to revolutionary. They step up, yeah.
Not an action movie.
Right.
That's really a character type piece. Great. Freaking amazing. And it feels like action by the way he does it. It's just like that. It's like fast pace, fast talking, fast moving. Like Escape from New York is one of my favorites since I was a kid. Because every movie, you'll notice this now that I tell you, even like a romantic comedy, there's a timeline.
Every movie has to have like a ticking clock. So the audience knows the story's not just going to take over a period of years. Though suddenly someone in the movie around 20 or 30 minutes in will say, We've got to go find the groom before the wedding this weekend. You know, it'll be just like that.
Skate for New York has the best example of a ticking time clock because he's literally got bombs in his neck and he's got a watch that shows him. He's constantly clocking it, how little time he has. And he gets you so like, oh my God, is he going to make it? That's like the best use of that. No one's ever topped that clock.
ticking time clock all the other ones seem artificial in comparison you know aliens you know we got to get off this planet now because this whole thing's going to blow up You know, like there's a timeline. It's already urgent, but now there's an extra timeline on it. This is what happens.
Yeah. In fact, like The Terminator. The original Terminator just came out in 4K. I've been watching it again. It looks like better than most movies look today. And that's a $4 million movie. It looks incredible. You can see every bead of sweat in this movie.
I was watching it again with somebody, a female, and there's always a point when you're watching that movie where she'll turn and say, I love this movie. You know what point that is? It's the point where Michael Biehn tells her, I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you, which is, you know, I always have.
And you're just like, oh my God, there's like a real emotional love story there that he put into Titanic, that he put into Avatar. He figured out that thing. that makes those movies work.
Yeah, there was a love story.
I was like heartbroken that she's dead. I got heartbroken twice. Let me tell you the second time it happened. One, you're making that and you go, okay, this is how it has to go. But then now you're invested in this person. You go, oh man, she has to die. It's going to be really sad. In fact, the studio even, When they said they were going to remake it, good thing I put that ending on.
That's the only reason they showed it to an audience. We were going to remake it. They weren't going to put that movie out. They showed it and said, we need to show this movie to an audience because they might not like the fact that we killed a girl before we remake it. All right. They showed it to an audience. The audience liked it the way it was.
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