Grandmaster Richard M. Guerra was involved in the motion picture industry as early as 1976, when he was cast as an extra in the movie "Small Town in Texas", starring, Timothy Bottoms and Bo Hopkins.  Guerra would hang around movie sets learning hands on how movies were made.  In 1988 he set out to write a screenplay.  He was obsessed at writing stories, but wrote his first script in the wrong  format, wrong fonts, etc.  This was when Austin was unknown as a movie friendly city.  His friends and students thought of him as crazy.  "Movies are made only in Hollywood.", they would tell him.  But the stubborn Guerra persisted until one day his student Murillo Cappello, who was the evening hotel manager at The Sheraton, told Guerra that a movie producer was staying at The Sheraton.  This was Mr. Goldstein, who would receive fax messages from a movie studio executive by the name Max E. Youngstein.  This is how Youngstein and Guerra Sensei were introduced via Mr. Cappello and Mr. Goldstein.  Max Youngstein had been in the industry about 50 years and had an extensive curriculum vitae.  Max took the rough and tough Guerra and groomed him into a Hollywood style screenwriter and educated him  what to what makes a script a viable property for the film industry.  In 1988 Guerra flew to Los Angeles and met Max in person.  He later met Max's wife, also a movie studio executive, and developed a long lasting friendship with the Youngsteins, until Max passed away in June 1997.  This hurt Guerra Sensei.  He had lost a great friend and his mentor.  Youngstien had  planned on having Guerra study hands on under Richard Condon the author of "The Manchurian Candidate", starring Laurence Harvey, so Guerra could hone his writing skills further, but Mr. Condon had died a year later when Guerra was about to make the relocation to Dallas where Mr. Condon was based to study under  him.
  
    Earlier in 1980 Guerra had written his first screenplay "Tne Bamboo Cross" a Vietnam war epic which was to star Curtis Blow,the father of rap music.  He later starred in the movie "Crush Groove".  The production company was based in Houston, Texas and had 3 million dollars for Guerra for the production of "The Bamboo Cross".  But Guerra threw a tantrum and was not happy with the preproduction planning of the finances and threw the production staff out of his office and lost the 3 million dollar investment.  Later a Hollywood writer tried to steal the story line and script but Guerra, who could get pretty mean, made a surprise visit to Hollywood where this so-called well educated writer lived.  Guerra was about to sue for damages and 5 million dollars if this writer did not cease with his plagiarism of Guerra's  screenplay.  Also he had planned placing a full page ad in the "Hollywood Reporter" and in the industry paper "Variety" so everyone in Hollywood would know how much of a scumbag this smart alec writer was. The writer begged Guerra not to sue and the writer never did anything again against Guerra's agreement.  Spencer Aldridge, a casting director of the Other Place Talent Agency, thought of Guerra as crazy   for his unorthodox methods in dealing with production companies in this manner, yet Guerra never flinched in his determination that no one was going to steal his work, or cheat him out of his fair share in anything.

Aldridge threw his arms up and wept, "But Richard, you threw away 3 million dollars!! Are you crazy??" 

"Yes", replied Guerra, "I wont make a pact with those devils!"

    Aldridge then finally knew Guerra was a shrewed businessman, and very intelligent.  He once was  kicked  out  10  u.t. film  students  off  the  set  of " THE  BAMBOO  CROSS " TRAILER  HE   WAS  PRODUCING  AND  DIRECTING Starring  JIMMY STAMPS  As  U.S. NAVY  S.E.A.L   James  BRAVO   And   Veronica   Espadas  as  Caramela   Torres  , The  u.t   students  were  telling  him  that  he  was  breaking  the  rules  of  movie  making  that  it  could not  be  done  his  way  -  But  Guerra  sent  them  packing   immediatly  -so  he  finished  the  trailer  with  friends  and  some  of  his  students ,  he  had  been offered   195,000.00  dollars  for  the  rights  straight  to  the  spanish  speacking  market  from  a  video  distributor  based  in  Los  Angeles Ca,   But  Guerra  decided   to  wait-  maybe  he  could  raise  the  production  money  himself, but  it  was  too  stressful for  him  to  follow  through  on  raising  capital  for  the   production,  he  finally  show cased  the  trailer  at  the  u.t  film  school-  those  who  saw  it  were  impressed  they  thought  the  quality  was  great  that  it  had  been  shot  on  16 mm film-  but  Guerra   told  them  no  -it  was  all  on  hi-  8 video-  A MAZING ! WAS  THEIR  RESPONSE.   GUERRA  decided to   MOVE  AWAY  FROM  THE  VIETNAM  story  due  to  nightmares  he  began  experiancing  and  later  wrote  the  script  'EL  TIGRE'   Instead    it  was  a  more  fun  story  for  him  to  write  and  is  based  on  mexican  illegal immigration  and  discrimination of  Mexicans  in   the  United  States  Which  introduces   THE  MEXICAN  MARTIAL  ART  OF " YAO  MACHTIA  '  FROM  THE  ANCIENT  AZTECA CULTURE