¡Three Amigos! is a 1986 comedy western film, 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. Joe Mantegna, Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman have cameos. The movie was written by Steve Martin and Lorne Michaels. Randy Newman wrote music for it. John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is a movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ... Lorne Michaels Lorne Michaels CM , LL.D (born November 17, 1944 in Toronto, Ontario) is a television producer and writer best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it. ... Lorne Michaels Lorne Michaels CM , LL.D (born November 17, 1944 in Toronto, Ontario) is a television producer and writer best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it. ... 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. ... Randy Newman Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American songwriter, arranger, singer and pianist who is notable for his mordant, immaculately written pop songs and for his many film scores. ... Chevy Chase Chevy Chase (born Cornelius Crane Chase on October 8, 1943 in Woodstock, New York) is an American comedian, writer and television and film actor. ... 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. ... Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is an actor, writer, and producer best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live. ... Randy Newman Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American songwriter, arranger, singer and pianist who is notable for his mordant, immaculately written pop songs and for his many film scores. ... Sir Malcolm Campbell (born March 11, 1885 in Chislehurst, Kent, England - died December 31, 1948) was a racing motorist and motoring journalist. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Gos Belinda Carlisle Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver. ... Airplane! is considered by some critics to be one of the funniest movies of all time. ... The Western is an American genre in literature and film. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... Lorne Michaels Lorne Michaels CM , LL.D (born November 17, 1944 in Toronto, Ontario) is a television producer and writer best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it. ... 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. ... John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is a movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ... Chevy Chase Chevy Chase (born Cornelius Crane Chase on October 8, 1943 in Woodstock, New York) is an American comedian, writer and television and film actor. ... 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. ... Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is an actor, writer, and producer best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live. ... Joe Mantegna as Detective Will Girardi in Joan of Arcadia Joe Mantegnas character, Fat Tony in The Simpsons Joseph Anthony Mantegna, Jr. ... Jon Lovitz Jon Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is an actor best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990. ... Phil Hartman (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-born American graphic artist, writer, actor and comedian. ... Randy Newman Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American songwriter, arranger, singer and pianist who is notable for his mordant, immaculately written pop songs and for his many film scores. ...

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"The Three Amigos" are bumbling, out-of-work silent film cowboy stars in 1916. They are invited to a small Mexican town (they presume) to perform their act. However, the townspeople have actually invited the trio to defend them from a terrifying band of outlaws. The townspeople, having 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 the trio to save them from the ravages of the local villains. After some misunderstandings, the Three Amigos eventually find themselves trading in their jobs acting as bandit hunters for jobs being bandit hunters. The comedy is highly visual and physical, but characters are also very quotable. A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... A cowboy (Spanish vaquero) tends cattle and horses on cattle ranches in North and South America. ... Thomas E. Mix (January 6, 1880 – October 11, 1940) was an American film actor, the star of many early Western movies. ... Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also é»’æ²¢ 明 in Shinjitai, 23 March 1910 – 6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. ... The Seven Samurai (七人の侍 Shichinin no samurai, 1954) is a movie by Akira Kurosawa starring Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune. ...

For instance, after the first "shootout", Lucky Day (Steve Martin) demands to see one of the bandidos' revolvers: The Colt Single Action Army, one of the most popular revolvers of all time A revolver is a multishot firearm, usually a handgun, in which the rounds are held in a revolving cylinder that rotates to fire them through a single barrel. ...

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!

Also memorable are the villainous characters of El Guapo, played by Mexican actor Alfonso Arau (perhaps familiar as one of the main villains in 1969's The Wild Bunch) and El Jefe, played by Tony Plana. El Guapo and Jefe have become a popular meme outside of the film. Alfonso Arau (born January 11, 1932) is a Mexican director of such films as Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico, 1992) (the novel of which was, somewhat ironically, written by his wife, Laura Esquivel), and A Walk in the Clouds, which starred Keanu Reeves and... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... The Wild Bunch is a 1969 western film in which an aging group of outlaws hope to have one more score while the West is turning into a modern society. ... Tony Plana publicity photo Tony Plana is a Cuban American actor, born in 1954. ... The term meme (IPA: ) labels a theoretical concept introduced in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, and refers to any unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice, idea or concept, which one mind transmits (verbally or by demonstration) to another mind. ...

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!

Though likely not intentionally, this film was essentially remade in 1999 and called "Galaxy Quest". The plots are practically identical, only the time and places have changed. Both films are about actors who are mistakenly identified as real heroes by an oppressed group of people. Through terrible miscommunication in both films, the actors think they are being brought in to perform their usual act, only to learn that the situations they find themselves in are all too real and they have to actually save the people who brought them in. Galaxy Quest is a 1999 motion picture written by Robert Gordon and David Howard and directed by Dean Parisot, starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, and Tony Shalhoub. ...

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

Trvia

Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman both had small cameos in the beginning of the film as Harry Flugleman's two assisstants. Lovitz would later succeded Hartman on the TV series NewsRadio following Hartman's murder in 1998 Jon Lovitz Jon Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is an actor best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990. ... Phil Hartman (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-born American graphic artist, writer, actor and comedian. ... NewsRadio was an American sitcom, originally broadcast from 1995 to 1999 on NBC. It was created and executive produced by Paul Simms. ...

Derivative presence

WWE's Eddie Guerrero (1967-2005), the Mexican professional wrestler, also performed three consecutive vertical suplexes, which he nicknamed "The Three Amigos". World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE, is a professional wrestling promotion, currently the largest in North America. ... Eduardo Gory Guerrero Llanes (October 9, 1967 – November 13, 2005), better known by his ring name, Eddie Guerrero, was a Mexican American professional wrestler. ... Professional wrestling is generally any form of wrestling in which the wrestlers receive payment for participating. ... A suplex is an offensive move used in wrestling, both in competitive sport wrestling, including Olympic and collegiate wrestling, and professional wrestling. ...

External links

• ¡Three Amigos! at The Internet Movie Database
• El Guapo a.k.a. Alfonso Arau