SALMA HAYEK: ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO & THE MALDONADO MIRACLE
Salma Hayek is a justifiably iconic actress, personality, celebrity and turned it all into getting hitched to a soulless billionaire. Good for her! But there was a time where she was an up and coming hyphenate pursuing passion projects like Frieda and balancing those with commercial films.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO (2003) is not exactly a passion project nor a commercial film. She is barely in it! This is the nominally third part of Robert Rodriguez' El Mariachi films. If the barely legible plot sounds like something made up as they went along, incorrect! But it sure shambles along like it. Hayek has been loyal to Rodriguez, maybe to a fault, but that is a valued thing to have in modern moviemaking. We think.
Around this time Hayek also dabbled in directing, making the Maldonado Miracle (2003). A small fable of a film with a few pleasant performances by Peter Fonda, Mare Winngingham and podcast fave Reubén Blades, it's about an illegal child who hides out in a church and bleeds on a statue of Christ so the small town, the titular Maldonado, goes nuts for the miracle. It has some surprisingly good character bits and gentle satire while providing a slice of down-on-their-luck lifestyles not normally given much screen time in modern movies. Hayek does well with the slight story and actors. Should she have continued as director instead of marrying someone so entrenched in a class that has essentially made towns like Maldonado exist? Thomas and Ken discuss at length along with the rest of her career.
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SALMA HAYEK: ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO & THE MALDONADO MIRACLE
Salma Hayek is a justifiably iconic actress, personality, celebrity and turned it all into getting hitched to a soulless billionaire. Good for her! But there was a time where she was an up and coming hyphenate pursuing passion projects like Frieda and balancing those with commercial films.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO (2003) is not exactly a passion project nor a commercial film. She is barely in it! This is the nominally third part of Robert Rodriguez' El Mariachi films. If the barely legible plot sounds like something made up as they went along, incorrect! But it sure shambles along like it. Hayek has been loyal to Rodriguez, maybe to a fault, but that is a valued thing to have in modern moviemaking. We think.
Around this time Hayek also dabbled in directing, making the Maldonado Miracle (2003). A small fable of a film with a few pleasant performances by Peter Fonda, Mare Winngingham and podcast fave Reubén Blades, it's about an illegal child who hides out in a church and bleeds on a statue of Christ so the small town, the titular Maldonado, goes nuts for the miracle. It has some surprisingly good character bits and gentle satire while providing a slice of down-on-their-luck lifestyles not normally given much screen time in modern movies. Hayek does well with the slight story and actors. Should she have continued as director instead of marrying someone so entrenched in a class that has essentially made towns like Maldonado exist? Thomas and Ken discuss at length along with the rest of her career.
PROGRAMMING NOTE: Our editing issues have been resolved and our bank of multiple episodes we've recorded will commence being released weekly.
THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.
Email: thegoodthepodandtheugly@gmail.com
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/TGTPTU
Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegoodthepodandtheugly?igshid=um92md09kjg0
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6mI2plrgJu-TB95bbJCW-g
Buzzsprout: https://thegoodthepodandtheugly.buzzsprout.com/
Letterboxd (follow us!):
Ken: Ken Koral
Jack: jackk1096