Machete: Difference between revisions

Rodriguez has released that the script for the sequel has recently been finished. Trejo, Alba, and Lohan are all slated to return.

 

* [[Above the Influence]]: Machete, with a drunk Jessica Alba no less. {{spoiler|Mind you, it works out for him.}}

* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Machete's... machetes, and the scalpels he later uses.

** [[Michelle Rodriguez]] as an [[Exaggerated Trope|over-the-top version]] of her [[Typecasting|usual]] [[Spicy Latina|sexy]], [[Badass Spaniard|badass Latina]] roles. [[Vasquez Always Dies|Her death doesn't even merit a spoiler.]] {{spoiler|Her [[Not Quite Dead|surviving and]] [[Meta Casting|largely subverting her typecasting]] makes her reveal at the end serious, ultimate badass.}}

** Felix Sabates as essentially the same doctor he played in ''[[Planet Terror]]'', and, in fact, who he actually is in real life: when Sabates isn't appearing Rodriguez' movies, he's the Rodriguez' family doctor.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Yes. Yes they do. {{spoiler|And their moms too.}}

* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Luz runs a food stand. Machete gets along as a laborer and poses as an actual janitor and a gardener later.

* [[Bad Habits]] - {{spoiler|April wears this for the final battle, shortly after she finds that her father had been killed.}}

* [[Badass]]: Considering it's an action movie directed by Robert Rodriguez, [[World of Badass|pretty much the entire cast]]. Especially Machete himself. One villain says he's "CIA, FBI, DEA, all rolled up into one mean fucking burrito."

* [[Beat Panel]]: A hilarious one from the guards:

{{quote| [[Lampshade Hanging|You know, any Mexican comes in here with garden tools, we let him in.]] -beat- -beat- -[[Oh Crap]]-}}

* [[Big Bad]]: Torres. {{spoiler|1=Working with McLaughlin, Von Johnson, and Booth.}}

** {{spoiler|[[Evil Former Friend]]}}

** See the [[What Could Have Been|what could have been]] trope below.

* [[Determinator]]: Machete has a bullet in his head and got shot in his shoulder. This won't stop him from [[Badass|kicking ass.]]

** The nonfatal assassination itself has been to compared to the shooting of former Taiwan president Chen Shubian, complete with "magic bullet" accusations (it grazed his belly).

** Also, a political assassination involving a man named Booth? [[Abraham Lincoln|Hmmmm...]]

"My machete." }}

* [[The Dragon]]: Booth, Jackson, and Torres each have one, [[Dragon Their Feet|but neither seems particularly good at their job]].

** Sartana with her [[Improvised Weapon|stiletto heels!]]

* [[Dueling Movies]]: Went up against [[The Expendables]] for title of "Most Action-Packed Movie of 2010", and also the most [[Rated M for Manly|manliest]] movie of 2010. It grossed less (37 mil for [[The Expendables]], Machete got 10 mil - it was a slow movie weekend, apparently), but gained better critical reaction.

** [[Fridge Brilliance|Luz says outright that "Shé" is now just an icon to the Mexicans.]]

* [[Inspector Javert]]: Rivera, at first.

** And, of course, he actually IS dressed as a janitor earlier in the movie to get to his sniper perch.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Torres' weapon of choice. Leads to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|a swordfight between katana-wielder and machete-wielder.]]

{{quote| [[Lampshade Hanging|"I can feel your eyeballs reaching my uterus..."]]}}

* [[Masked Luchador]]: One of the assassins attacking Machete and Sartana wears a Lucha mask {{spoiler|to conceal the fact the Feds are now after Sartana}}.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]: "If not us, then who?"

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Machete, Booth...

** The trailer originally had Machete taking aim at the senator as he coasted town the street in a convertible, full on JFK style.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: McLaughlin is a far right-wing politician out of Texas, {{spoiler|[[George W Bush|who isn't even from Texas originally]].}}

* [[Noodle Incident]]: All those newspaper headlines that <s>Luz</s> "She" was responsible for...

* [[No One Should Survive That]]: {{spoiler|Luz}} was shot through the ''eye'' at not much more than point blank range, and except for the obvious loss of vision in that eye survives without lasting ill effects, even though such a wound (if survivable at all) would likely result in massive brain damage.

** And when the bad guys' plan for immigration begins falling apart...

** When MacLaughlin realizes the nun he's talking to is April.

* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]

{{quote| '''Machete:''' "I wasn't going to kill McLaughlin. I was only going to shoot him in the neck, to stop him from saying those stupid things."}}

* [[Recycled in Space]]!: As of Comic Con 2011, the sequel Machete Kills Again has been retitled Machete Kills Again IN SPACE!

* [[Refuge in Cool]], [[Refuge in Audacity]], [[Rule of Cool]]: Take your pick.

* [[Retired Badass]]: Played straight with Padre. {{spoiler|Heavily implied with Luz.}}

{{quote| "I don't kill anymore." "You don't kill any ''less'', either."}}

** Torres saying "puñeta" every time he shows up. It's, sadly, a practically untranslatable Spanish curse word (the closest it can be translated to is "jerking off" used as an exclamation or adjective), [[Bilingual Bonus|but to any person familiar with Spanish, it's rolling-on-the-floor funny.]]

* [[The Savage South]]: insane Mexican mercenary runs amok in Texas.

{{quote| "Well, [[To Be Lawful or Good|there's the law and there's what's right]]. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I'm gonna do what's right]]."}}

* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|"Machete... Will Return in... ''Machete Kills!'' And... ''Machete Kills Again!''"}}

* [[The Siege]]: The climax of the film. Rather appropriately, given the film's pro-immigration themes, the heroes are the ones trying to break into the fort.

** Another [[Shout Out]] to ''[[Once Upon a Time In Mexico]]:'' The shadowy freedom fighter is called "She". El Mariachi is also known as simply "El," which is Spanish for "He" (or possibly "the").

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: "She," as well as Machete by the end.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The use of Ave Maria and Vicente Fernandez's "El Rey" during scenes of slaughter.

* [[South of the Border]]: Parodied.

* [[Spicy Latina]]: Not just [[Michelle Rodriguez]], the poster girl for this trope but also [[Jessica Alba]] who rarely plays this role, as well as several more. The nude woman in the opening scene also counts.

* [[Split Screen]]: Fight scene at Jessica Alba's house.

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: You'll notice a difference between Luz in the opening credits and Luz in the movie. {{spoiler|The one in the credits has an eyepatch...}}

* [[Theme Naming]]: April and June.

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Such as lowriders smashing people or strangling people with someone elses' guts.

* [[Third Person Person]]: Machete sometimes refers to himself as this. "Machete don't text. Machete improvises."

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Booth's security guards and the two dishwashers.

* [[Throw It In]]: Apparently the awesome line "Machete don't text" arose from a real-life communication between [[Danny Trejo]] and [[Robert Rodriguez]]

* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|Throwing Your Machete Always Works]]: In this movie, ''it does.''

** Machete actually survived two. The first bullet saved his life by stopping the second bullet's advance.

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: Anyone who's seen the trailer (or even just the opening credits) will know that Luz survives losing her eye and gets a patch.

** She also appears with the eyepatch on the cover of the DVD.

* [[Troperrific]]: No exploitation movie trope was left untouched!

* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. [[Michelle Rodriguez]], the poster girl of the trope, gets a bullet in the eye... but returns later in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. And to top it off, she survives after that as well. Of course, there's always the sequel(s) to play this trope straight.}}

* [[The Verse]]: Apparently, takes place in the same universe as ''[[Spy Kids]]'', albeit a ''much'' [[Darker and Edgier]] version of it.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Booth.

* [[The Voiceless]]: One Mexican only communicates with a sketchpad.

* [[What Could Have Been]]:

** The deleted scenes contain several. Sartana had a slutty twin sister constantly whacked out on Ny Quil that also lived with her, and they also greatly disliked each other - {{spoiler|she is later murdered by one of Osiris' partners who also didn't make it into the film, followed up by a scene of Sartana finding her body and showing she really did care about her}}; Osiris had another female partner named Boots McCoy (complete with her own title card introduction), who seemed to be quite crazy {{spoiler|originally she was the one to shoot Luz in the eye (by using a live cat as a silencer no less) instead of Von Jackson, and she also kills Sartana's twin sister by slitting her throat with a razor blade in her mouth}}; Osiris' fate, detailed below; Sartana questions Senator McLaughlin and Booth in the hospital about the assassination attempt; and scene of the Senator being interviewed by the latina reporter at the station. There's always Machete Kills...

** Chris Cooper was the first choice for the Senator McLaughlin role. He turned it down as he thought the script was too weird.

* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: the white kid's buddy is an artist who draws perfect portraits of Sartana and Machete. What does he do in the final fight, when the nurses, Wrench Wenches and dishwashers are all packing heat? Just... run around sketching like mad, apparently.

* [[Wilhelm Scream]]: One of the border vigilantes emits one in the climax before [[Car Fu|being squashed by a hydraulics-hopping lowrider]].