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Can someone explain something to me. I'm a die hard Mariachi fan and love all 3 movies.
I know that Rodriguez was forced to make some cuts to ensure an R rating.
In the end he took out the entire final shootout, because it needed to much trimming.

From IMDB:

Reportedly, Desperado suffered severe cuts when initially submitted for an R-rating. The end sequence originally involved a large scale shootout between El Mariachi, Carolina, Bucho & his thugs. After seeing the amount of footage that needed to be trimmed, the director opted to delete the entire scene which currently ends in a slow-mo of Banderas blasting away. 2 additional scenes were also removed featuring the "crotch-gun" (seen in the guitar case) used during 2nd bar shootout and the same gun going off accidentally when Banderas is in bed with Hayek. This gun was later used for a scene in From Dusk Till Dawn.

For most of the killings they used a gun that essentially fired fake blood at the characters instead of squibs. This unfortunately created too realistic of an effect resulting in them having to edit out much of the deaths for the censors.

The MPAA originally gave the movie an NC-17 rating. Many deaths and action scenes had to be cut to get the R rating. These include the death scenes of Pick-Up guy and his friend at the bar, and the death of Danny Trejo's character. The biggest excision came at the end of the film, which originally contained a large-scale shootout at Bucho's mansion between El Mariachi, Carolina, Bucho, and his thugs. However, owing to the amount of footage the MPAA demanded be removed from the scene, Rodriguez elected to remove the sequence entirely, giving the film its final fade-out ending. Two additional scenes were also deleted featuring the "crotch gun" (seen in the guitar case). Originally, the gun was used by El Mariachi during the second bar shootout, when he uses it to shoot the pony-tailed thug in the balls before whipping out his pistols from his sleeves and finishing him off. In a second deleted scene, the crotch gun goes off accidentally while Carolina and El Mariachi are in bed, blowing a hole through the guitar.

Who owns this movie? I know Columbia pictures and Los Hooligans Production financed the movie. The latter is an older production company owned by Robert Rodriguez.
I'm just curious who has the negatives. That end shootout seems like a simple insert to do, right?
I asked him once on Twitter, but I doubt he has seen my tweet let alone say something about it.

Would just be cool to see his original version.

Or just to see the deleted scenes would be fine by me.