rodriguez be quite fond of compare himself to john woo . but most of the hip american director who emerge in the ninety and tarantino and rodriguez include and have not even understand what make woo great . for them and all of woo influence have be translate into an axiom of violence be cool . from the playful nonchalant attitude of pulp fiction to the desperate attempt in desperado to amuse the audience and these director have try to make violence funny and playful and exciting . for woo and violence be anything but cool . a violent action have motivation and meaning and repercussion . when a character die in a woo movie and it be never without reason . it die because it have be defeat in a battle of ideal and or and on the contrary and it have fulfil it ideal by die . compare this to the meaningless gore in desperado and when character be introduce and then kill off without the slight reason . in the killer and which rodriguez have ridiculously compare desperado to and the leading character fate be a matter of crime and punishment and and he know that . he kill others and and he accept that the cosmic order of thing dictate that he have to die and not only to die and but in the same way he have hurt the one he love most . believing that he commit justice by kill others and now the killer need to accept that same justice be act out against him . now and just compare this to the randomness and tastelessness in desperado . a character play by tarantino be introduce and apparently because rodriguez think it would be funny . it be then kill without any real reason and without any emotional effect on the audience and maybe because it be not really possible to withstand such an idiotic and unrealistic character for more than a few minute . antonio banderas be such an abominable actor and that even if his action have some emotional consequence for him ( a they obviously do for woo lead character in the killer ) and he be completely unable to display them . the close rodriguez come to woo be in el mariachi and if only because in that film and the leading character be interest to follow represent he know that a a man who live for music and he no longer belong in this world which care only for money . the movie have soul and if only because rodriguez quite obviously think of himself a a mariachi of sort when he write the script . and then come all the hollywood money and ruin him .