BY THE TIME MACHETE GETS TO ARIZONA ...
May. 6th, 2010 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM [via Ain't It Cool News]: Danny Trejo has a message for Arizona: you just fucked with the wrong Mexican.
Of course there will be some who question the judgment of Robert Rodriguez to use Machete (which featured illegal immigration as the political backdrop for the film well before the AZ law was passed) as a comment on Arizona’s new law. If someone on the conservative blogscape hasn’t already written a rant about how Machete amounts to Liberal Pro-Illegal-Immigration Hollywood advocating a declaration of war on Whitey, they probably will soon. [EDIT: They did. –dF]
On the other hand, you can’t always judge a plot by the trailer. And anyway, judging how upset a lot of people are with Arizona, I think that anger is a legitimate topic for film, even a Mexploitation homage.
But then I’m a Rodriguez fan and I am SO going to see this, so I would say that, wouldn’t I?
We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us,
This is dF
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EDITED TO ADD [7 MAY 2010]: Not surprisingly, YouTube is deleting the trailer for copyright issues (even though Rodriguez himself made it available for posting in the first place). I've replaced it with one that hasn't been deleted yet, but you can click the Ain't It Cool link to see it as well (for now).
Oh, and yes, the backlash has begun.
Of course there will be some who question the judgment of Robert Rodriguez to use Machete (which featured illegal immigration as the political backdrop for the film well before the AZ law was passed) as a comment on Arizona’s new law. If someone on the conservative blogscape hasn’t already written a rant about how Machete amounts to Liberal Pro-Illegal-Immigration Hollywood advocating a declaration of war on Whitey, they probably will soon. [EDIT: They did. –dF]
On the other hand, you can’t always judge a plot by the trailer. And anyway, judging how upset a lot of people are with Arizona, I think that anger is a legitimate topic for film, even a Mexploitation homage.
But then I’m a Rodriguez fan and I am SO going to see this, so I would say that, wouldn’t I?
We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us,
This is dF
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EDITED TO ADD [7 MAY 2010]: Not surprisingly, YouTube is deleting the trailer for copyright issues (even though Rodriguez himself made it available for posting in the first place). I've replaced it with one that hasn't been deleted yet, but you can click the Ain't It Cool link to see it as well (for now).
Oh, and yes, the backlash has begun.
