The MPAA originally gave the movie an NC-17 rating. Many deaths and action scenes had to be cut to get the R rating. These include the death scenes of Pick-Up guy and his friend at the bar, and the death of Danny Trejo's character. The biggest excision came at the end of the film, which originally contained a large-scale shootout at Bucho's mansion between El Mariachi, Carolina, Bucho, and his thugs. However, owing to the amount of footage the MPAA demanded be removed from the scene, Rodriguez elected to remove the sequence entirely, giving the film its final fade-out ending. Two additional scenes were also deleted featuring the "crotch gun" (seen in the guitar case). Originally, the gun was used by El Mariachi during the second bar shootout, when he uses it to shoot the pony-tailed thug in the balls before whipping out his pistols from his sleeves and finishing him off. In a second deleted scene, the crotch gun goes off accidentally while Carolina and El Mariachi are in bed, blowing a hole through the guitar.
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