Goofs for
El mariachi (1992) More at IMDbPro »

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Azule says he has killed only six men when he actually kills seven (three at the jail and four at the bar).
  
  
• Continuity: In the jail, the female guard's hair is up one shot and down in the next.
  
  
• Continuity: When Azule first goes into Domino's bar he orders a beer and takes a big gulp of it. In the next shot his beer is completely full.
  
  

• Continuity: The keyboard player at the bar disappears moments after playing when Azul kills the men inside.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Just before Mariachi jumps on a truck for the third time, he's checking out the window of a guitar shop. On the right-hand side, the camera on a tripod is visible, with the operator (Rodriguez) moving back and forth from the sun to the shade and checking the viewfinder.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the piano player finishes his song, he slides his hand from the viewer's left to the viewer's right, which would in actuality produce a glissando that descends in pitch, rather than the ascending one that appears on the soundtrack (it would be from the high end of the keyboard to the low end).
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After the Mariachi uses the zip-line to get to the bus, you can see Robert Rodriguez and his camera in the rear-view mirror.
  
  
• Continuity: When Azul enters his hideout with the guitar, his vest has gone, even though it was in the last few shots.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: As El Mariachi pulls away after kissing the dead Domino on the cheek, her lip twitches.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Mariachi picks up the first gun and makes his first kill (at thirty minutes into the movie), the gun type changes. In the first shot of that sequence, it is a Mac-10. In the next shots where the Mariachi is firing at the camera, it changes to something resembling a Tec-9. Finally, it switches back to a Mac-10.
  
  
• Continuity: The Playboy bunny poster in Azul's hideout disappears after Azul's lady friends first emerge with their guns to scare off one of Azul's henchmen. Director Robert Rodriguez explains this goof in the commentary, stating that he felt the poster was too "American" for the film.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): There are two guitar cases at the bar, Azul's (filled with weapons) and El Mariachi's (with a guitar inside). When he leaves, Azul mistakenly takes El Mariachi's with him and leaves his own at the bar. But it should have been easy to notice the difference in weight between the two cases.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When people get shot, numerous times the weightlifting belt that is used to house the squib is visible underneath the person's shirt.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mariachi enters Moco's hacienda, he sees dead Azul lying face down on the ground with a revolver in his right hand. Later, when Mariachi is about to shoot Moco, the revolver appears lying on the ground separately.
  
  
• Continuity: When Moco's men enter the prison looking for Azul, one of them gets shot several times in chest. Later, when he is dragged into a cell, his white shirt shows no signs of blood.
  
  

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