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Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

by Robert Rodriguez

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Robert Rodriguez threw down seven thousand dollars on his debut film El Mariachi, but you only need to spend a fraction of that to get all the insights that he learned. Anybody who's seen his later films (Spy Kids, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) will know that the tricks of the trade revealed in his "10 minute film school" classes have served him well. How many other writer/director/editors have two successful franchises going simultaneously?
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Robert Rodriguez threw down seven thousand dollars on his debut film El Mariachi, but you only need to spend a fraction of that to get all the insights that he learned. Anybody who's seen his later films (Spy Kids, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) will know that the tricks of the trade revealed in his "10 minute film school" classes have served him well. How many other writer/director/editors have two successful franchises going simultaneously?
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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

In his own witty and straight-shooting style, Robert Rodriguez discloses all the strategies and innovative techniques he used to make El Mariachi on the cheap — including filming before noon so he wouldn't have to buy the actors lunch. You'll witness Rodriguez's whirlwind, "Mariachi-style" filmmaking, where creativity — not money — is used to solve problems. Culminating in his "Ten-Minute Film School," this book may render conventional film-school programs obsolete.

Rodriguez also offers an insider's view of the amazing courtship he enjoyed with Hollywood's A-list. It's an entertaining tour of Hollywood's deal-making machine as he navigates you through studio meetings, pitch sessions, and power lunches. Candidly divulging all the tactics and tempting lures the warring studios used to win him over, he admits that he barely escaped with his movie and his soul intact. Exploding the conventional wisdom that you need at least a million dollars to make a feature film, this nuts-and-bolts account features the full El Mariachi shooting script, postproduction tips, film festival anecdotes, and publicity blitz secrets. He demonstrates the countless ways to do for free what the pros spend thousands (or more) on without a second thought.

Synopsis:

Rebel Without a Crew is both one man's remarkable story and the essential guide for anyone who has a celluloid story to tell and the determination to see it through.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780452271876
Subtitle:
Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Author:
Rodriguez, Robert
Publisher:
Plume Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Entertainment & Performing Arts - Movie Directors
Subject:
Film - General
Subject:
Screen, radio and tv
Subject:
Motion picture producers and directors
Subject:
Mariachi.
Subject:
Film & Video - General
Subject:
Entertainment & Performing Arts
Subject:
Rodriguez, Robert
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Plume
Series Volume:
R-141
Publication Date:
September 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
812x542x81 57

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