¡Three Amigos! is a 1986 movie. A comedy western, the movie was produced by George Folsey, Jr., and Lorne Michaels, and executive-produced by Steve Martin. John Landis directed for HBO Studios. Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short took the title roles, each of them at the peak of his best form. Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman have cameos. The movie was written by Steve Martin and Lorne Michaels. Randy Newman wrote music for it. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ... Broncho Billy Anderson, from The Great Train Robbery The Western movie is one of the classic American film genres. ... Lorne Michael Lipowitz, aka Lorne Michaels (born November 17, 1944) is a television producer and writer, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Steve Martin (right) with Scooter, on The Muppet Show Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician and composer born in Waco, Texas and raised in Orange County, California. ... John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is a movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ... Cornelius Crane Chase, better known as Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American comedian, writer and television and film actor from Woodstock, New York. ... Steve Martin (right) with Scooter, on The Muppet Show Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician and composer born in Waco, Texas and raised in Orange County, California. ... Martin Hayter Short CM (born March 26, 1950) is an actor, writer, and producer best known for his comedy work. ... Jon Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is a comedic actor who has been in many roles on television and in movies, usually as a supporting character. ... Phil Hartman Philip Edward Hartmann (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a graphic artist, writer, actor and comedian born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. ... Randy Newman (born November 28, 1943, in Los Angeles, California) is an American songwriter, arranger, singer and pianist who is notable for his mordant, immaculately written pop songs and for his many film scores. ...

The Three Amigos, bumbling out-of-work silent film cowboy stars, are invited to come to a small Mexican town for what they believe is a show. The terrified townspeople, however, who have seen too many of the Tom Mix-style westerns starring the Three Amigos (and apparently have also been influenced by Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai), expect them to actually save them from the ravages of the local villains. Eventually, the Three Amigos find themselves trading in their jobs acting as bandit hunters for jobs being bandit hunters, after some misunderstandings. For instance, after the first "shootout", Lucky Day (Steve Martin) demands to see one of the bandidos' revolvers: There was also a fictional cowboy called Tom Mix in an early Western fiction scenario. ... Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢 明) (March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter of films, many of which are considered highly influential worldwide classics. ... The Seven Samurai (七人の侍 Shichinin no samurai, 1954) is a movie by Akira Kurosawa starring Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune. ...

Lucky Day: Wait a second, lemme see that, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. Oh, great! Real bullets. You're in a lotta trouble, Mister!

Especially memorable are the villainous characters of El Guapo, played by Mexican actor Alfonso Arau, who was already familiar as one of the main villains in The Wild Bunch (1969), and El Jefe, played by Tony Plana. The comedy is highly visual and physical, but characters are also very quotable: Alfonso Arau (born January 11, Mexican director of such films as Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico, 1992) and A Walk in the Clouds, which starred Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn. ... This article is about the movie. ... Tony Plana is an American actor. ...

El Guapo: Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you.

Jefe: So when do you think Carmen will "open up her flower" to you?

El Guapo: Tonight, or I will kill her!

El Guapo and Jefe have become a popular meme outside of the film. The term and concept of meme (pronounced in IPA; from the Greek word μνήμη for memory) is a neologism that first appeared in the 1976 book by Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene. ...

Ratings: Australia:PG, Finland:K-14, Sweden:15, UK:PG, USA:PG, West Germany:12

External link

• IMDB entry (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092086/combined)
• Three Amigos Quotes (http://www.mexicanbandits.com/3amigos.html)
• El Guapo aka Alfonso Arau (http://www.mexicanbandits.com/3amigos.html)