u/Toshi_us

Recently i rewatched the mexico trilogy ( el mariachi, desperado, once upon a time in mexico)

Really love the first movie, and kinda wish they kept gallardo as el mariachi

I love to think about this trilogy like:
The first and most ''realistic'' movie is the true story
After he got shot in the hand and it got mutilated (very important) Mariachi kills Moco and leaves. Moco's goons survive and start spreading the legend of EL MARIACHI carrying a guitar case full of guns...

So Desperado and Once upon a time in mexico for me are like someone is telling the adventures of El mariachi. Just like Steve Buchemi was telling his story in the opening of desperado.

His mutilated hand looks more or less better ( he lost some fingers in the first movie, but in desperado he only has a scar on his palm, and by the third movie he has no problem playing the guitar)

The first movie treated el mariachi as a ordinary man who got dragged in chaos, and in the second one he feels like a mexican john wick, and by the third movie he barely feels human and more like a urban legend....

And i personally think these ''inconsistencies'' are intentional

''History became legend. Legend became myth''

But hey, thats just a theory......