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* CoolHat: See above, he seems to always be seen wearing that hat (or a similar one).
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Creator/DannyTrejo has been in numerous films of his and [[RealLifeRelative the two of them also happen to be cousins]]--but there's no {{Nepotism}} involved. In fact, the two of them didn't even learn that they were related until after the filming for ''Film/{{Desperado}}''[[note]]Which was released on August 25th of 1995[[/note]] had wrapped up.


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Fun fact: Creator/DannyTrejo (who's an actor) has been in a number of his films,
Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo (who's an actor) also happen to be second cousins--however, the two didn't
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** ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor''
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*** [[Recap/TheBookOfBobaFettS1E7InTheNameOfHonor Chapter 7: "In the Name of Honor"]]
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[[DescribeTopicHere Describe Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968 in San Antonio, Texas) here]].

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[[DescribeTopicHere [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968 in San Antonio, Texas) here]].
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*** [[Recap/TheBookOfBobaFettS1E3TheStreetsOfMosEspa Chapter 3: "The Streets of Mos Espa"]]
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The Book Of Boba Fett brings Pedro Pascal to the Rule Of Three, and provides an instance of Danny Trejo working with Rodriguez on something other than a movie


* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, Cheech Marin, and Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies. He also directed Creator/PedroPascal across multiple mediums, with their first two collaborations -- ''The Mandalorian'' Chapter 14 and ''We Can Be Heroes'' -- released less than a month apart.

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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, Cheech Marin, Creator/JessicaAlba, and Creator/JessicaAlba Creator/PedroPascal are in a few of his movies. He also directed Creator/PedroPascal across multiple mediums, with their first two collaborations -- ''The Mandalorian'' Chapter 14 movies and ''We Can Be Heroes'' -- released less than a month apart.shows.
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*** [[Recap/TheBookOfBobaFettS1E1StrangerInAStrangeLand Chapter 1: "Stranger in a Strange Land"]]
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** ''Series/TheMandalorian''



** [[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E6Chapter14TheTragedy Chapter 14]] of ''Series/TheMandalorian''
** Yet-to-be-announced chapters of ''The Book of Boba Fett'' (also executive producer on the whole show)

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** *** [[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E6Chapter14TheTragedy Chapter 14]] of ''Series/TheMandalorian''
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** Yet-to-be-announced chapters of ''The Book of Boba Fett'' ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' (also executive producer on the whole show)
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No, wait! He's that family-friendly guy who gave us the ''Film/SpyKids'' tetralogy, ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl'', and ''Film/{{Shorts}}''.

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No, wait! He's that family-friendly guy who gave us the ''Film/SpyKids'' tetralogy, ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl'', and ''Film/{{Shorts}}''.
''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''.

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* [[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E6Chapter14TheTragedy Chapter 14]] of ''Series/TheMandalorian''


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** [[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E6Chapter14TheTragedy Chapter 14]] of ''Series/TheMandalorian''
** Yet-to-be-announced chapters of ''The Book of Boba Fett'' (also executive producer on the whole show)
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** ''Film/WeCanBeHeroes2020'', a Creator/{{Netflix}} spin-off of ''The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl''



* ''We Can Be Heroes'', a spin-off of ''The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl''
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* ChromaKey: He is a huge advocate of CGI and digital effects, and it shows by the high amount of digitally-made backgrounds and sets in his films, at the expense of physically-made sets. This is mostly pragmatic on his part, given that it takes less time, though he employs this for stylistic purpose in Film/{{Sin City}} and Film/{{The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl}}.
* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Usually directs, writes, produces, and composes the score of his movies. He also mixes the sound, and has some input in special and visual effects and edits. Occasionally, he also manages to have a CreatorCameo. On Planet Terror he's also (half)jokingly credited as his own chef.

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* ChromaKey: He is a huge advocate of CGI and digital effects, and it shows by the high amount of digitally-made backgrounds and sets in his films, at the expense of physically-made sets. This is mostly pragmatic on his part, given that it takes less time, though he employs this for stylistic purpose in Film/{{Sin City}} ''Film/SinCity'' and Film/{{The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl}}.
''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl''.
* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Usually directs, writes, produces, and composes the score of his movies. He also mixes the sound, and has some input in special and visual effects and edits. Occasionally, he also manages to have a CreatorCameo. On Planet Terror ''Planet Terror'' he's also (half)jokingly credited as his own chef.



* GunPorn: Gun imagery dominates his action movies; one character in Film/{{Machete}} even drinks out of a gun-shaped bottle.

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* GunPorn: Gun imagery dominates his action movies; one character in Film/{{Machete}} in'' Film/{{Machete}}'' even drinks out of a gun-shaped bottle.
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* ''Series/TheMandalorian'' [[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E6Chapter14TheTragedy Chapter 14: "The Tragedy"]]

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* ''We Can Be Heroes'', an upcoming film for Creator/{{Netflix}} and stand-alone sequel to ''The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl''

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* ''100 Years'' - filmed in 2015 but won't be released until 2115. [[http://variety.com/2015/film/news/john-malkovich-robert-rodriguez-100-years-1201644846/ Yes, really.]]



* ''100 Years'' - which won't be released until 2115. [[http://variety.com/2015/film/news/john-malkovich-robert-rodriguez-100-years-1201644846/ Yes, really.]]

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* ''Series/TheMandalorian'' [[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E6Chapter14TheTragedy Chapter 14: "The Tragedy"]]



* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, Cheech Marin, and Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies. He also directed Creator/PedroPascal across multiple mediums, with their first two collaborations -- a chapter of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and ''We Can Be Heroes'' -- released less than a month apart.

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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, Cheech Marin, and Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies. He also directed Creator/PedroPascal across multiple mediums, with their first two collaborations -- a chapter of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' ''The Mandalorian'' Chapter 14 and ''We Can Be Heroes'' -- released less than a month apart.
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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, Cheech Marin, and Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies. He also directed Creator/PedroPascal across multiple mediums, with their first two collaborations -- a chapter of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and ''We Can Be Heroes'' -- released less than two months apart.

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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, Cheech Marin, and Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies. He also directed Creator/PedroPascal across multiple mediums, with their first two collaborations -- a chapter of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and ''We Can Be Heroes'' -- released less than two months a month apart.
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* BigNameFan: Of Creator/RoosterTeeth. Not only did Matt Hullum work with him on ''Film/TheFaculty'', but the company's current headquarters are where he did greenscreen work for some of his movies, which he points out during a visit to their podcast. ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' was also aired on Rodriguez's El Rey Network, the first time a Rooster Teeth production has aired on television.

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* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: Rodriguez suffers from this from time to time. After ''Film/SinCity'' came out, he began talking about a pair of sequels filmed back-to-back with new original material written by Creator/FrankMiller. After Miller failed to produce (mostly due to his new love of film directing) the sequels hit a major snag and even Creator/MickeyRourke publicly announced he wasn't waiting up. Then, after ''Grindhouse'' was released Rodriguez was not only attached to ''Sin City 2/3'' but a ''Film/{{Machete}}'' feature film (which happened years later) and a remake of ''Film/{{Barbarella}}''. The ''Sin City'' sequel only came out of DevelopmentHell in 2012. Nobody believes any news regarding future Rodriguez projects until the cameras start rolling.
** Just another thing him and his buddy Tarantino [[BirdsOfAFeather share in common.]]
* BigNameFan: Of Creator/RoosterTeeth. Not only did Matt Hullum work with him on ''Film/TheFaculty'', but the company's current headquarters are where he did greenscreen work for some of his movies, which he points out during a visit to their podcast. ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' was also aired on Rodriguez's El Rey Network, the first time a Rooster Teeth production has aired on television.



** His movies that make the most use of this drift into [[UncannyValley uncanny valley]] for some.

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** His movies that make * CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Usually directs, writes, produces, and composes the most use score of this drift into [[UncannyValley uncanny valley]] for some.his movies. He also mixes the sound, and has some input in special and visual effects and edits. Occasionally, he also manages to have a CreatorCameo. On Planet Terror he's also (half)jokingly credited as his own chef.



* CreatorsOddball:
** ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'' has a much larger budget than any of his other movies and deviates from their OffTheShelfFX look with state of the art production values.
** While his [[Film/SpyKids3DGameOver previous]] [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkBoyAndLavaGirl kids movies]] were partially CG animated, ''WesternAnimation/UglyDolls'' marks his first movie to be entirely CG animated and has been noted by viewers like [[WebVideo/RebelTaxi Pan Pizza]] for being more down to earth compared to his previous kids movies in his [[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=%23&ved=2ahUKEwiu1r3jxs7jAhXhv1QKHRQTBmUQwqsBMAB6BAgIEAU&usg=AOvVaw0VTJzWxrN8ZFOD4xbU2nov review]].



* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: After making ''Film/MacheteKills'', Robert took a break from filmmaking to expand his production company towards television with the El Ray Network for a few years. Even when he returned to the big screen he directed a [[CreatorsOddball high budget Hollywood epic]] and produced an animated feature that's considered by critics as [[SoOkayItsAverage the most normal entry]] in his family movie lineup.

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* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: After making ''Film/MacheteKills'', Robert took a break from filmmaking to expand his production company towards television with the El Ray Network for a few years. Even when he returned to the big screen he directed a [[CreatorsOddball high budget Hollywood epic]] and produced an animated feature that's considered by critics as [[SoOkayItsAverage the most normal entry]] entry in his family movie lineup.lineup.
* NoBudget: Rodriguez first made a name for himself by making mainstream movies as cheaply as possibly while hiding their budget by sticking to tight schedules, shooting around cheap props, reusing stunt doubles and keeping resources to whatever was readily available. As documented in his book ''Rebel Without A Crew'', his first film ''Film/ElMariachi'' was a personal challenge to make $7,000 look like $1,000,000. ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', similarly, was an attempt to make $7,000,000 look like $10,000,000.
* [[PlayingAgainstType Directing Against Type]]: When ''Film/SpyKids'' first came out, his name on the posters provoked numerous [[DoubleTake DoubleTakes]]. By now, his family-friendly films may represent an alternative type.
* DoingItForTheArt: Rodriguez left the Director's Guild of America so that Frank Miller could work and be credited as the co-director of ''Film/SinCity.'' It is against the Guilds policy for non-members to be credited as co-directors, and Rodriguez decided to leave rather than compromise his principles.
* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, Cheech Marin, and Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies. He also directed Creator/PedroPascal across multiple mediums, with their first two collaborations -- a chapter of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and ''We Can Be Heroes'' -- released less than two months apart.



* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, Cheech Marin, and Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies. He also directed Creator/PedroPascal across multiple mediums, with their first two collaborations -- a chapter of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and ''We Can Be Heroes'' -- released less than two months apart.



* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Why he directed ''Film/SpyKids'' and all that lot.



* StylisticSuck: His exploitation film pastiches are made like this, consisting of continuity errors, deliberately bad acting, [[SpecialEffectsFailure cheap-looking VFX]], and digitally added film grain[=/=]damaged footage.

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* AlliterativeName: Himself. Taken UpToEleven with his children.



* BerserkButton: Rodriguez ''hates'' shooting movies on film, and can launch into some pretty epic rants about how expensive and inconvenient it is, especially if you're trying to work on a low budget. Since 2003 all of his movies have been shot and edited digitally. (This is in sharp contrast to his friend Creator/QuentinTarantino, who vastly prefers shooting on film.)



* GoodParents: He deeply loves his kids and he has made numerous films out of their own ideas.



* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Creator/QuentinTarantino.



* NiceGuy: He is an easygoing guy who many others enjoy working with, a hard-working multi-tasker who does all he does to make other peoples jobs easier, [[GoodParents is a loving father]] and an all around friendly guy.



* ThemeNaming: His children are called Rocket, Racer, Rebel, Rogue, and Rhiannon.



* WhoNamesTheirKidDude[=/=]ThemeNaming: His children are called Rocket, Racer, Rebel, Rogue, and Rhiannon.
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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, Cheech Marin, and Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies.

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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, Cheech Marin, and Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies. He also directed Creator/PedroPascal across multiple mediums, with their first two collaborations -- a chapter of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and ''We Can Be Heroes'' -- released less than two months apart.

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* ActionGirl: Most, if not all, of his movies feature as many badass women as there are badass men, including protagonists, supporting characters, mooks, or villains.



* AuthorAppeal: Westerns, crime films, grindhouse and exploitation movies, and Latin-American culture. He also has a more technical liking for digital film-making and 3D.



* BlackAndGreyMorality / GreyAndGrayMorality: His more adult films. His kids films are either BlackAndWhiteMorality or WhiteAndGreyMorality.

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* BlackAndGreyMorality / GreyAndGrayMorality: {{BFG}}[=/=]{{BFS}}: There's almost always at least one character who's carrying some ridiculously large weapon.
* BlackAndGreyMorality[=/=]GreyAndGrayMorality:
His more adult films. His kids films are either BlackAndWhiteMorality or WhiteAndGreyMorality. WhiteAndGreyMorality.
* BlackComedy: Death and violence are constantly played for laughs in his adult films. Special mention goes to Film/{{Machete}}, where the titular character disembowels a man and then uses his intestines as an escape rope.
* ChromaKey: He is a huge advocate of CGI and digital effects, and it shows by the high amount of digitally-made backgrounds and sets in his films, at the expense of physically-made sets. This is mostly pragmatic on his part, given that it takes less time, though he employs this for stylistic purpose in Film/{{Sin City}} and Film/{{The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl}}.
** His movies that make the most use of this drift into [[UncannyValley uncanny valley]] for some.



* {{Gorn}}: There's a ''lot'' of violence in his movies. It's mostly over-the-top and cartoonish though.
* GunPorn: Gun imagery dominates his action movies; one character in Film/{{Machete}} even drinks out of a gun-shaped bottle.



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* RuleOfCoolRuleOfCool: Taken UpToEleven on occasion, to the point of parody; gratuitous violence, [[MoreDakka guns galore]], a lot of [[StuffBlowingUp stuff blowing up]], [[SmokingIsCool cool smoking]] and dialogue rife with [[OneLiner one-liners]], among other things.



* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: His family films are incredibly idealistic. His more adult films can be in the middle or a tad closer to the cynical end.



* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: His family films are incredibly idealistic. His more adult films can be in the middle or a tad closer to the cynical end.
* WhiteAndGreyMorality / BlackAndWhiteMorality: The morality in his kids films.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude / ThemeNaming: His children are called Rocket, Racer, Rebel, Rogue, and Rhiannon.

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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: StylisticSuck: His family films exploitation film pastiches are incredibly idealistic. His more adult films can be in the middle or a tad closer to the cynical end.
made like this, consisting of continuity errors, deliberately bad acting, [[SpecialEffectsFailure cheap-looking VFX]], and digitally added film grain[=/=]damaged footage.
* WhiteAndGreyMorality / BlackAndWhiteMorality: WhiteAndGreyMorality[=/=]BlackAndWhiteMorality: The morality in his kids films.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude / ThemeNaming: WhoNamesTheirKidDude[=/=]ThemeNaming: His children are called Rocket, Racer, Rebel, Rogue, and Rhiannon.

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* The ''[[ShowWithinAShow Stab]]'' segment in ''Film/{{Scream 2}}''.
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* ''We Can Be Heroes'', an upcoming film for Creator/{{Netflix}} and stand-alone sequel to ''The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl''




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[[DescribeTopicHere Describe Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) here]].

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[[DescribeTopicHere Describe Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) 1968 in San Antonio, Texas) here]].
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* NiceGuy: He is a easygoing guy who many others enjoy working with, a hard-working multi-tasker who does all he does to make other peoples jobs easier, [[GoodParents is a loving father]] and an all around friendly guy.

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* NiceGuy: He is a an easygoing guy who many others enjoy working with, a hard-working multi-tasker who does all he does to make other peoples jobs easier, [[GoodParents is a loving father]] and an all around friendly guy.
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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, and Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies.

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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, Cheech Marin, and Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies.
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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, and Creator/ElijahWood are in a few of his movies.

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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/GeorgeClooney, and Creator/ElijahWood Creator/JessicaAlba are in a few of his movies.
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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, and Creator/RobertPatrick are in a few of his movies.

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* ProductionPosse: Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/RobertPatrick, and Creator/RobertPatrick Creator/ElijahWood are in a few of his movies.

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