Product Description

In Rebel Without a Crew, screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film, El Mariachi, on a shoestring budget. This is both one man's remarkable story and an essential guide for anyone who has a celluloid story to tell and the dreams and determination to see it through.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5049 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

Excelent
This book is amazing. If you are interested in starting a career in film making, this book will give you all the confidence youll need to do so.

An Entertaining Look at a *LOW* Budget Film Production
Robert Rodriguez's "Rebel without a Crew" is an often amusing and highly entertaining look at how the author shot the indie sensation "El Mariachi" for a reported $7000 (some $3000 of which he earned by selling blood and taking part in medical experiments).

The writing is diary like and flows nicely from beginning to the end. Rodriquez gives very interesting insight on how he tackled huge problems and came up with inexpensive solutions to mimic big budget movie look and feel.

Definitely not a step by step guide on making and editing your own movies, this book is actually more of guide to a mind-set or philosophy on getting out and actually pursuing a dream.

"The Ten-Minute Film School" included as Appendix 1 is a great addition and is worth reading by itself.

Recommended!

intresting
i have been in the motion picture world for a very long time, i also know alot about low budget filmmaking and i love the way how he got into the industry, i think he tells his story in a very intresting way but i do not like the fact how he makes it seems like film school is completly useless, i understand where he was coming from but do not diss film school as if you cannot learn anything from it, i myself did not attend film school but for 15 years of my life i read about cinema. i must have read so many books on film directing and it did help me out alot, i think he also forgot that he went to film school himself, he had to know the rules in order to break them properly. this book had me laughing alot, robert has a great sense of humor and his ten min film school can be very useful to alot of us independant filmmakers, he's right film school does show you how to work on a huge set that cost alot of money but thats because they hope one day you make it big, they show you how to work as a team with other crew members just like robert is doing now. i've seen him on several film sets and his crew consists of more then 75 people, way more then he worked with the first time, so when reading this book don't take things literally.