History Trivia / Desperado

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/RobertRodriguez only had Creator/AntonioBanderas in mind for the Mariachi.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Rodriguez wryly noted that the day Salma Hayek filmed her sex scene with Antonio Banders was also the same day every male crew member reported for work on the call sheet. In the end though it was all for naught, because the only people on set to film it were the script supervisor and Rodriguez himself.

* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: Los Lobos' entire score was comprised of jam sessions. Towards the middle of production, Robert Rodriguez asked them to start recording everything they'd jam on just in case they'd create something perfect spontaneously but forget it later.
* NoBudget: Just as ''Film/ElMariachi'' was Robert Rodriguez's attempt to "make $7,000 look like $1,000,000," this was his attempt to "make $7,000,000 look like $10,000,000." He did so by only using two stunt doubles, filming all of the big name actors in a single day and heavy storyboarding so as to keep a tight schedule.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: If not for his untimely death in 1994, Creator/RaulJulia would have played Bucho.

** Creator/JenniferLopez tried out for the part of Carolina.

* DistractedByTheSexy: SalmaHayek wryly noted that the day she filmed her sex scene was also the same day every male crew member reported for work on the call sheet. In the end though it was all for naught, because the only people on set were the script supervisor and Rodriguez himself.

* NoBudget: Just as ''Film/ElMariachi'' was Robert Rodriguez's attempt to "make $,7000 look like $1,000,000," this was his attempt to "make $7,000,000 look like $10,000,000." He did so by only using two stunt doubles, filming all of the big name actors in a single day and heavy storyboarding so as to keep a tight schedule.

* TheCastShowoff: That's really Creator/AntonioBanderas playing and singing with Music/LosLobos in the dream sequence.

* TheCastShowoff: That's really Antonio Banderas playing and singing with Music/LosLobos in the dream sequence.

* FakeNationality: In a case of {{Spexico}}, Spaniard Antonio Banderas as Mexican El Mariachi. Creator/JoaquimDeAlmeida (Bucho) is from Portugal.

* TheOtherDarrin: AntonioBanderas replaces Carlos Gallardo in the role of El Mariachi, including editing him into [[FlashBackWithTheOtherDarrin flashback]] scenes from [[Film/ElMariachi the first movie]].

* DeletedScene: Creator/RobertRodriguez was forced to make a massive number of cuts to the film's action scenes due to the unconventional usage of inverted squibs and guns that fired fake blood. The biggest cut was the ''entire final gunfight'' which had the MPAA demand so many cuts to it that he opted to replace it with a FadeToWhite. To this day, none of these deleted scenes have been included in any of the home video releases.

* FakeNationality: In a case of {{Spexico}}, Spaniard Antonio Banderas as Mexican El Mariachi. Joaquim De Almeida (Bucho) is from Portugal.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: If not for his untimely death in 1994, RaulJulia would have played Bucho.

* TheOtherDarrin: AntonioBanderas replaces Carlos Gallardo in the role of El Mariachi, including editing him into [[FlashBackWithTheOtherDarrin flashback]] scenes from [[ElMariachi the first movie]].

** Hello world, we'd like to introduce you to AntonioBanderas.
** And SalmaHayek for that matter.