Robert Rodriguez, 45, creator of the Mexico trilogy and Spy Kids films, arguably sired the Mexploitation genre in 1992 with the campy vengeance film El Mariachi.

He from thick films ſhall purge the viſual ray, / And on the ſightleſs eye-ball pour the day: […]

Smiling proudly, he glanced outward at the country, which was still invisible except as a dark movement in the darkness; then upwards at the sky, where the stars of the sprawling Scorpion had begun to pale.

He 'le tug and tew, and strive and stoope to ought.