Movies - Rebel Without a Crew

Home > Listing Index > Movies > Rebel Without a Crew

	Movies - Rebel Without a Crew

Rebel Without a Crew (subtitle: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player) is a 1995 nonfiction book by Robert Rodriguez. Presented in a diary format, Rebel details Rodriguez's beginnings as a young filmmaker; his stint at a medical testing facility to raise money for a feature film; the making of that film (El Mariachi
) for $7,000, and his subsequent experiences in Hollywood selling the film and going to film festivals promoting it.

Later editions of the book also feature one of Rodriguez's tutorials on low-budget filmmaking: "Ten Minute Film School," and the screenplay to El Mariachi.

Influence and Controversy

Rodriguez's rags-to-riches story, detailed in Rebel, as well as his vociferous support of low-budget techniques (such as digital filmmaking) to allow anyone to make a movie cheaply, have made him an icon of modern independent filmmaking.

However, the book (and Rodriguez) does have detractors, most notably of the statement that El Mariachi was made for $7,000. While that was indeed the budget for the film when it was produced for the Mexican direct to video market, critics point out that when the film was turned into a theatrical-release film, it had to be converted to 35mm with subtitles added and sound remixed, greatly increasing its production cost.

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Rebel Without a Crew ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Rebel Without a Crew; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay