FROM BOOKS #10
[Jodorowsky] not only wrote, directed, and scored EL TOPO, but also appeared on screen in virtually every scene as a character none too subtly identified with Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and the Magnificent Seven. Later, the filmmaker revealed that EL TOPO had been shot in sequence and that he'd worn throughout special under shorts with holes for his testicles and a green circle stiched around his anus "to make sure I wouldn't act like John Wayne".
- from THE DREAM LIFE: MOVIES, MEDIA AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE SIXTIES by J. Hoberman (2003)
- from THE DREAM LIFE: MOVIES, MEDIA AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE SIXTIES by J. Hoberman (2003)