The Mexican is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, with a plot that is a mixture of romantic comedy, adventure and road movie.
The script was originally intended to be filmed as an independent production without major motion picture stars, but Roberts and Pitt, who had for some time been looking for a project they could do together, learned about it and decided to make it. The movie was then advertised as a typical romantic comedy star vehicle, somewhat misleadingly, as the script does not focus solely on the Pitt/Roberts relationship and the two share relatively little screen time together. Ultimately, the film earned $66.8 million at the U.S. box office.
The story follows Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt) as he travels through Mexico to find a valuable antique gun, The Mexican, and smuggle it into the United States. Five years earlier, Welbach had caused a traffic accident in which he hit the car of local mobster Arnold Margolese (Gene Hackman), who was jailed for five years after the police searched his car following the crash, finding someone tied up in his trunk. In compensation for the jail time, Welbach has been sent on various errands by Margolese's second-in-command, Bernie Nayman (Bob Balaban). Retrieving the gun will be his final errand. Welbach has a girlfriend, Samantha (Julia Roberts), whom he argues with constantly and who leaves Jerry prior to the trip over his lack of commitment to their relationship.
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"The Mexican" is a 1911 short story by American author Jack London. It was filmed in 1952 as The Fighter starring Richard Conte and Lee J. Cobb.
Written during the Mexican Revolution, while London was in El Paso, Texas, "The Mexican" was first published in the Saturday Evening Post. In 1913 it was republished by Grosset & Dunlap in the collection of short stories The Night Born. The protagonist is based on the real-life "Joe Rivers," the pseudonym of a Mexican revolutionary whose boxing winnings supported the Junta Revolucionaria Mexicana, a group of revolutionaries-in-exile. Joe Rivers eventually retired from boxing and became an ice deliveryperson in El Paso.
The story centers around Felipe Rivera, the son of a Mexican printer who had published articles favorable to striking workers in the hydraulic power plants of Río Blanco, Veracruz. The workers are locked out, and the federal troops are sent against them. Rivera escapes the massacre by climbing over the bodies of the deceased—including those of his mother and father. He makes his way to El Paso, Texas where he comes into contact with the Junta Revolucionaria Mexicana. He volunteers to serve the Revolution at the office of the Junta, who, suspicious, put him to work doing menial labor.
I am going to the Zoo
To see the monkey,
I just wonder if he's really
Singing funky.
I am going to the Zoo
To see the elephant,
I just wanna listen to him
Playing through his trunk.
All my friends are at the Zoo,
There's a giraffe, lion, monkey too,
Rhino and hippo are looking for you,
They are all waiting at the Zoo.
Let's go, let's go to the Zoo.
Let's go, let's go to the Zoo.
I am going to the Zoo
To give giraffe her lunch,
I just want to watch her do the
Munch, munch, munch...
I am going to the Zoo
To see the lioness,
I just want to roar with her
Yes, yes, yes - yes, yes, yes.
All my friends are at the Zoo,
There's a giraffe, lion, monkey too,
Rhino and hippo are looking for you,
They are all waiting at the Zoo.
Let's go, let's go to the Zoo.
Let's go, let's go to the Zoo.
I am going to the Zoo
To see the hyena,
I just want to laugh with her
Ha, ha, ha - ha, ha, ha.
I am going to the Zoo
I'll see the wolf soon,
I just want to sit together,
Howling to the moon.
All my friends are at the Zoo,
There's a giraffe, lion, monkey too,
Rhino and hippo are looking for you,
They are all waiting at the Zoo.
Let's go, let's go to the Zoo.
Let's go, let's go to the Zoo.