# Someone brilliant contributed to the Wiki page for actor/director Alfonso Arau (Three Amigos) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2016, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-brilliant-contributed-to-the-wiki-page-for-actor-director-alfonso-arau-three-amigos/770098 "2016-10-30T09:35:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-brilliant-contributed-to-the-wiki-page-for-actor-director-alfonso-arau-three-amigos/770098/1 "2016-10-30T09:35:50Z")
A bit of trivia that came up in a bar conversation the other day: Alfonso Arau, the actor who plays El Guapo in the movie _¡Three Amigos!_ is actually a well established film director. I don’t just mean that he’s an actor who’s tried his hand at directing. He’s directed a film every few years since the early 70s, many of them to critical acclaim, including 1992’s _Like Water for Chocolate_. We found all this out when [we looked at his Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Arau). That’s a very impressive career but what _really_ impressed us was the brilliant son of a bitch who made this contribution to Arau’s Wikipedia bio: > [@](#): > > Among a plethora of roles in his career, Arau has played… I hope the Wiki contributor who wrote that knows what a plethora is. I would hate to think that someone would edit Wikipedia to note a plethora of something only to find out that that contributor has no idea what a plethora is. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-brilliant-contributed-to-the-wiki-page-for-actor-director-alfonso-arau-three-amigos/770098/2 "2016-10-30T10:18:50Z")
Ha! Nice catch. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-brilliant-contributed-to-the-wiki-page-for-actor-director-alfonso-arau-three-amigos/770098/3 "2016-10-30T11:44:59Z")
Help me out. Is this amusing because plethora actually means, more or less, ‘too much’? mmm ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-brilliant-contributed-to-the-wiki-page-for-actor-director-alfonso-arau-three-amigos/770098/4 "2016-10-30T11:48:29Z")
[What is a plethora](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxLgLcClE4M) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-brilliant-contributed-to-the-wiki-page-for-actor-director-alfonso-arau-three-amigos/770098/5 "2016-10-30T12:03:53Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I don’t just mean that he’s an actor who’s tried his hand at directing. He’s directed a film every few years since the early 70s, many of them to critical acclaim, including 1992’s _Like Water for Chocolate_. I liked _A Walk In The Clouds_ a heck of a lot more than I thought I would. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-brilliant-contributed-to-the-wiki-page-for-actor-director-alfonso-arau-three-amigos/770098/6 "2016-10-30T14:11:57Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > [What is a plethora](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxLgLcClE4M) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-brilliant-contributed-to-the-wiki-page-for-actor-director-alfonso-arau-three-amigos/770098/7 "2016-10-30T16:21:46Z")
Fantastic! ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-brilliant-contributed-to-the-wiki-page-for-actor-director-alfonso-arau-three-amigos/770098/8 "2016-10-30T20:51:59Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I hope the Wiki contributor who wrote that knows what a plethora is. I would hate to think that someone would edit Wikipedia to note a plethora of something only to find out that that contributor has no idea what a plethora is. Straight from the caballo’s mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-brilliant-contributed-to-the-wiki-page-for-actor-director-alfonso-arau-three-amigos/770098/9 "2016-10-31T01:59:52Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Help me out. > > Is this amusing because plethora actually means, more or less, ‘too much’? > mmm For some people, comedy is their El Guapo. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-brilliant-contributed-to-the-wiki-page-for-actor-director-alfonso-arau-three-amigos/770098/10 "2016-10-31T05:16:28Z")
I remember him from _Romancing the Stone_. When Our Hero & Our Heroine were in a bad spot in a scary dope-dealing village, he was the scary head honcho dope-dealer who was glad to come to Joan Wilder’s rescue.