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Dream Sequence

posted 19 years ago by phillip_fort
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I've just seen this film and first of all - great film.

But one bit I didn't understand was the dream sequences. What was the reason for it?

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[–] neztnerol 19 years ago

I've seen the film 4-5 times, and I still don't get them.

[–] RedStarProductions 19 years ago

Read Rebel Without a Crew. Robert talks about the dream sequence in there and how meaningless it is. Two main reasons why he shot it:

1) He and Carlos found all of this cool scenery in Acuna, so they wanted it to be in the movie somehow.

2) And I quote from The Man himself, "When in doubt, have dream sequences!"

[–] psylence 19 years ago

El Es Di, senor.

[–] dfv78-1 19 years ago

Premonition that something bad was going to happen when he arrived in town maybe

[–] hillacinth 12 years ago

Here I thought he was making some artsy reference to the ending of Antonioni's *The Passenger*. Just goes to show.

[–] guitarmanars 18 years ago

Actually, what happened was that the movie was originally only sixty minutes or so in length, but marketers or whoever wanted it to be a bit longer, so they just put in the dream sequences as filler ;)

[–] robbevl 18 years ago

So the kid with the head has no actual meaning?

[–] kingyodaman 18 years ago

Also the camera they were using had a faulty counter. It didnt register the last 50 feet of film. Rodriguez did not want to use that last 50 feet on anything important so he filmed the dream sequences.

[–] 18 years ago

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[–] sebastianalberdi 11 years ago

In the directors commentary to the film, Rodriguez says that its also supposed to give a warning to El Mariachi, about hows hes going to end up.

[–] kowloonzai 9 years ago

The dog sleeping next to him.