Set in a lab where paid subjects are used to test drugs for pharmaceutical companies. Director Robert Rodriguez was a human test subject in one of these places to make the $7,000 to produce his first feature, El Mariachi, in 1993.
Rodriguez made this movie, Red 11, to show that you can still make a movie for $7,000. It tells the story of a guy who tried and failed to make a movie for $7,000 and now has a Mexican cartel after him for not paying back the $7,000 he and his partner borrowed from them.
So there are two important lessons here.
Combines elements of El Mariachi and Rodriguez's student film, "Bedhead".
As I understood it, El Mariachi was made for $7,500, $7,100 of which went for 16mm film and lab costs. Since Red 11 was filmed on a camcorder, he should have made it for $400 if he wanted to recreate the feat of making the first movie, about $800 adjusting for inflation.
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