{"id":1696,"date":"2004-11-11T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-11T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2017-09-19T17:52:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T22:52:55","slug":"1696","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/11\/1696\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from Psuedo Bachelorhood IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DVDs III and IV: <i><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0104815\/\" target=\"_new\">El Mariachi<\/a><\/i> and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0112851\/\" target=\"_new\">Desperado<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, with <i>El Mariachi<\/i>, I felt sophisticated since it was a foreign film with subtitles.  It didn&#8217;t hurt that I could recognize or improve upon the English subtitles with my on-the-spot translation&#8230;.  Perhaps students who want to learn Spanish should watch more videos with subtitles as part of immersion learning.  This film certainly had a Western feel to it.<\/p>\n<p><i>Desperado<\/i>, on the other hand, does diminish the experience somewhat.  Of course, watching them back-to-back, one immediately recognizes the casting of the original Mariachi, Carlos Gallardo, as Campo.  Still, the moviereminds me of watching a third person shooter video game.  And although Selma Hayek&#8217;s navel is nice, come on: the hair looks a little coarser than the vibrant, auburn locks that make a man&#8217;s heart race.<\/p>\n<p>Also, is it just me, or are the villains in both movies kinda gringoesque?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m just sensitive.  Or perhaps Robert Rodriguez is demonstrating his anti-Anglo bigotry.  But since I could empathize with the universal nature of his hero, I forgive him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DVDs III and IV: El Mariachi and Desperado. Wow, with El Mariachi, I felt sophisticated since it was a foreign film with subtitles. It didn&#8217;t hurt that I could recognize or improve upon the English subtitles with my on-the-spot translation&#8230;. Perhaps students who want to learn Spanish should watch more videos with subtitles as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16931,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/16931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}