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- The clash between different beliefs, traditions, and worldviews is a central theme in the film. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada raises important questions about immigration. Through its characters’ journeys, the film prompts viewers to reflect on the challenges faced by immigrants in border regions.
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Sep 24, 2012 · Tommy Lee Jones’ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada begins as a story of honour between close friends and quickly devolves into multiple perspectives of an archetypal quest for masculine redemption and second chances.
The film’s theme of death draws from narratives such as As I Lay Dying, in that it chronicles the pursuits of offering a proper committal to the deceased. As the title also suggests it is the attempt or rather the challenge at ensuring the proper burial of the titular character.
- Tommy Lee Jones
The The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
- Tommy Lee Jones
Melquiades Estrada, a Mexican undocumented worker working in Texas as a cowboy, shoots at a coyote which is menacing his small flock of goats. A nearby United States Border Patrol officer, Norton, thinks he is being attacked and shoots back, killing Melquiades. Norton quickly buries Melquiades and does not report anything.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada draws on two sources of influence. One being the real-life killing of an American teenager, Esequiel Hernandez Jr, during a military operation at the Texas/Mexico border. The other source is that of William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying.
- Tommy Lee Jones
Jul 21, 2012 · Tommy Lee Jones’ directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is about just such an effort. Set in the borderlands along the Rio Grande, it tells a story about death and redemption that resonates with the mythic power of the best Westerns.
Rancher Pete Perkins (Jones) forces Mike Norton (Pepper) to carry the body of Pete's friend Melquiades Estrada (Cedillo) from their dusty Texas border town to the dead man's home in Mexico for burial in his family cemetery.
