The first twenty-five years of 21st century cinema were largely dominated at the box office by comic book films. While superheroes eclipse almost everything else that leaves the medium in comics, Frank Miller‘s Sin City is a rare example of a non-superhero title entering the dominant current.
Miller has made his mark in the comic book industry with his seminars in Marvel Daredevil And its transformative point of view DC Batman In The black knight returns And Batman: First year. In 1991, Miller started telling his own stories Sin CityA black black and white comic strip that attracted older players, including the director Robert Rodriguez.
Rodriguez was such an ardent fan of comics that he obtained the rights to adapt Sin City For the big screen, and he invited Miller to play a direct role in creating the film. April 1, 2005, Sin City Open in theaters and briefly diverted Hollywood attention from superheroes with its $ 158.7 million worldwide against a budget of $ 40 million.
Twenty years later, Sin City is more an aberration than a warning sign of things to come. However, while Hollywood obsession for comics focused mainly on superpowers and spandex, the film presented all the creative possibilities of the genre and how it can appeal to more than adolescents.
Welcome to the big city
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Like the comic strip that generated it, Sin City Take place in a fictitious location called Basin City, a city mired in darkness and corruption. In this city, most of the cops are dirty and criminals play for the outfits. The only justice that anyone who obtains in Sin City is the punishment he takes for himself. And there is rarely a happy ending in this world.
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The film was divided into multiple adaptations of Miller’s autonomous stories, with an incredible overall distribution of which Bruce Willis,, Jessica Alba,, Mickey Rourke,, Benicio Del Toro,, Brittany Murphy,, Clive Owen,, Alexis Bledel And Elijah Wood. These artists have thrown themselves into this world, and some even let the make-up department transform them into their comic strips as closely as possible, even when it meant adding uncomfortable prosthetic makeup to their face.
The visuals are incredible
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Aside from the actors and their performances, the biggest draw in this film is its incredible visuals. Many scenes seem to have been lifted directly outside the Sin City comic. The film has also kept the black and white aesthetics of comics with limited color uses everywhere. Without giving special spoilers, when you see the color in this film, it generally means something important.
Most superhero movies directors seem determined to train the world of comics to our dull reality. Sin City Make the exaggerated nature of Miller’s visuals seem to him in the film without losing the appearance of the medium that inspired the film. If Sin City were tried only on looks alone, this film would be considered a work of art.
He brought together three very different artists
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Rodriguez made sure that Miller had a constant presence on the set and that he had his say on how his creation was presented. However, when Sin City was about to be released with Miller and Rodriguez presented as co -directors, Directors Guild of America refused to let them share the credit because of its archaic rules.
Miller would have refused Rodriguez’s offer to take the total credit, and they did not want to take all the credit himself. In the end, Rodriguez resigned from the DGA, so he did not have to be bound by his rules. He and Miller were billed as co -directors, and Quentin Tarantino Even obtained a special credit from the guest director for the wild scene he has directed. The scene in question featured Dwight McCarthy (Owen) having a conversation with a dead cop, Jack Frofferty (Del Toro), while the first tried to have the latter’s corpse.
The previous films of Tarantino as pulp Fiction And Tank dogS probably inspired the tone for Sin CityIt was therefore normal for a small piece of the film to be credited with him.
The actors bring a human touch to their exaggerated roles
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Due to the nature of the stories told in the film, none of the characters presented is what anyone would call “normal”. But the actors brought an innate humanity to their roles, the detective by Bruce Willis, John Hartigan, being an excellent example of this essential human touch. Most Willis’ action roles were behind him at this stage, and it made him a great choice to embody Hartigan’s mistrust and his resolute will to protect Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba) at all costs.
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Lightning does not strike twice
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Thanks to the success of Sin CityMiller was offered more opportunities to lead. The biggest solo project on which Miller landed was the live adaptation of 2008 of The spirita classic comic strip of Will Eisner. Miller Cast Future Costumes star Gabriel Macht in the title role and surrounded him with larger stars, including Samuel L. Jackson,, Eva Mendes And Scarlett Johansson.
Miller also tried to recreate the appearance of The spirit comics like him and Rodriguez had for Sin CityBut his efforts fell flat and the film was a critical failure and a flop at the box office. Rodriguez and Miller met in 2014 for Sin City: a lady to kill for And while most of the actors returned for the future, he simply couldn’t resume lightning in a bottle that the first Sin City had.
Twenty years later, Sin CityThe impact was somewhat reduced by the passage of time. But the original film remains one of the best examples of comic strip cinema to date. Few of comics adaptations dared to stay so close to the source material, and the film was better for that.
Sin City is available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime video.
