Rebel Without A Crew (Robert Rodriguez)

Rebel Without A Crew is Robert Rodriguez's own personal diary in the time that he was making his first full length, action movie "El Mariachi". The book starts with Rodriguez writing about when he was a boy growing up in Texas and how he made movies with a handheld super 8 camera and sticky tack figures or neighbourhood friends and would edit them together on his VCR. When he graduated high school he wanted to go to UT-Austin for film but his GPA was too low. Instead of taking another year of High school, Rodriguez entered one of his short films, "Austin Stories" into a film festival and won. He beat students of UT-Austin without ever taking a course in film making. As the book continues Rodriguez talks about using creativity instead of money on his film, "El Mariachi". He only spent $7000 dollars on the making of the film it self before editing.

Since the novel is non-fiction it’s hard to explain the authenticity of character development. I would say that the author learned the dificulties of making a film but that eventually turned into success.