Robert Rodriguez
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first heard Apr 2025
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And out of 250 movies that he's been in, Machete is his most famous one. So for five years... Five years, people would come up to us and say, where's Machete? When's that movie coming out? We're like, it's not a real movie. When it looks real, we want to see that movie. So we finally made the movie because people just asked for it. And I was adamant about being resourceful again.
All the shots that are in the trailer are really great. I got to reverse engineer the trailer into a movie so that I can use that shot that's in the trailer. Like this girl in the waterfall. Why would this girl be in the waterfall? Don't have a really clever way that he gets the bad guy. Her hair's kind of, her face is kind of covered by this hair.
We'll cast Lindsay Lohan there or the Senator will switch it out for Robert De Niro. Well, I just reversed engineer it. So every time there's a shot in the trailer, it's in the movie, but I shot all the footage around to lead up to it. That's another fun creative exercise is to reverse engineer something you just did like this on the day.
You just threw a bunch of cards out basically with that trailer. And now you got to go make a movie using all those cards. That's like a creative exercise that I thought so satisfying, so fun.
I'm the editor. I'm the cameraman. I'm the DP. And so when I call him and say, I've got you as the villain in this whole movie, but I swear I'm going to shoot you out in four days. You come down in four days. In fact, there's a scene where he's in the hospital. He's just smiling. He's having such a good time because he couldn't believe it. I said, guess what?
When you wake up from your hotel room at the Stephen F. Austin, you just crossed the hallway. That's the set. The room next to yours, we turned into the hospital set. So you're just going to come laying there in your pajamas.
Yeah, we had to save time. We only have four days. So everything had to be very thought out to be like, boom, boom, boom. Let's shoot the money. Get him out of this. We don't have to spend a lot of money on him.
Yeah. That's their scent. And it's real. You don't have to dress it. And it's just right there. All you do is put like a little tube there, you know, like a, for his IV. And then you have a couple of nurses and it looks like. Genius. Resorts full, resourceful.
But I said, you're going to think about me when you're on your next meet the fuckers movie and you're on there for six months where they have you sitting in a trailer. I don't like to do that. So, you know, I gave Lady Gaga her first two movies. because after Machete, she said, publicly, she said, I saw Machete in my song, Americano, should have been in Machete. I thought, she saw Machete?
So I called her up and I said, hey, I'm making a sequel, and I would certainly use your music, but have you ever thought about acting? Because you're an amazing performer. I've worked with a lot of actors who are also musicians, and they're always great, because I already know how to be a persona, be on stage, be in front of a bunch of people, which most actors can't do.
And she said, actually, I studied acting before I became a singer. I said, well... You'll never be able to be in a movie because you know what? They don't know how to shoot people out. They want six months of your time and you're always on tour. But if you come be here, I have a part for you. I can shoot you out in half a day. This whole section of a movie and I'll shoot you a movie poster.
She's like, okay. So she shows up. I had all the sets, like a conveyor belt right next to each other. Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. She's in the car. That's why she had me do her music video for Rain On Me later. She said, we should just go to Austin. Robert, put me on a grease. I was throughout that whole movie. I don't know how we did that. It was half a day. She was there half a day.
I did the same for Sin City 2. I was like, I have a set here waiting for you. If you're on tour in Houston, just drive into Austin. I'll shoot you out in half a day. You get to be in a scene with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Sure.
You have to edit your own movie. I have this analogy. A food analogy that works really well. Script is like your grocery list. Filming is like grocery shopping. Getting the best performance is getting the best beat, getting the best ingredients, right?
editing is like the cooking too much of this and not enough that you fuck the whole thing up so so many filmmakers do not edit yeah and they give it to some other guy who might look at all your ingredients and go this is all great but i'm gonna go make a fucking souffle and he makes something else so by doing that job i mean like i've worked on some big stuff and i realized finally after many years because i've always edited i realized this is why movies cost so much
There could be 150, 200 people on the crew, but I swear not one of them knows how to edit. Not one. So they're getting the wrong stuff. They're having to reshoot shit. The editor is in a room somewhere, useless, calling after the fact. We still need to get this close-up. Or you got to reshoot that because it doesn't match. Because no one knows editing.
So if you just know that, you're already miles ahead of 99% of Hollywood. But that's just how I learned by accident. So I kind of stumbled upon it. And I realized that's what the problem is because across the board, I'm watching them going, that's not going to match. You guys are just spending money, sending crews out, shooting stuff for this. It's just, it's a clusterfuck. Let me show you.
And that's how Sin City, Bruce Willis, nine days. Brittany Murphy's in all three stories, one day. Benicio Del Toro, three days. It's just like, you're just shooting this stuff. Mickey Rourke is in a sequence with Rudger Hauer. We shot eight months apart. I didn't have Rudger Hauer until I was doing Sharkboy and Lavagirl.
So I just shot Mickey acting with me and then I shot Rudger acting with me and then I just cut them together. What's weird is like editing exercises are like, I used to do these editing exercises where I would do my VCRs together and I would cut my movies, but sometimes I would just cut a music video.
And I cut a music video once because I was a big fan of Rudger Hauer and a big fan of Mickey Rourke. So I said, I want to make it look like they're in a movie together. So I cut this music video together. And so it shows like lightning on Rudger and the Hitcher and then lightning on Mickey from Rumblefish. But Rumblefish is black and white. So I made the whole thing black and white. I was like 19.
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