Sin City (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sin City (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City)[3] is a 2. American neo- noircrimeanthology film written, produced, and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. It is based on Miller's graphic novelof the same name.[4]Much of the film is based on the first, third and fourth books in Miller's original comic series. The Hard Goodbye is about a man who embarks on a brutal rampage in search of his one- time sweetheart's killer, killing anyone, even the police, that gets in his way of finding and killing her murderer. The Big Fat Kill focuses on an everyman getting caught in a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police and the mob. That Yellow Bastard follows an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer. The intro and outro of the film are based on the short story "The Customer is Always Right", which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the sixth book in the comic series. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Benicio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy, and Elijah Wood, and featuring Alexis Bledel, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosario Dawson, Carla Gugino, Rutger Hauer, Jaime King, Michael Madsen, and Nick Stahl, among others. Sin City opened to wide critical and commercial success, gathering particular recognition for the film's unique color processing, which rendered most of the film in black and white but retained or added coloring for selected objects. The film was screened at the 2. Cannes Film Festival in competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film's "visual shaping".[5][6]"The Customer Is Always Right (Part I)"[edit]The Salesman steps out of an elevator and walks onto a balcony overlooking Basin City, where The Customer awaits. He comforts her, the two talk and share a kiss, and he shoots her. After she dies, he ponders what she was running from before mentioning that he will cash her check in the morning."That Yellow Bastard (Part I)"[edit]On the docks of Sin City, aging police officer John Hartigan tries to stop serial child- killer Roark Junior from raping and killing his fourth victim, eleven- year- old Nancy Callahan. Junior is the son of Senator Roark, who bribes the police to cover up his son's crimes. Hartigan's partner, Bob, tries to convince Hartigan to walk away, but Hartigan knocks him out. Fighting off the pain caused by his bad heart, Hartigan confronts Junior, and shoots off his ear, right hand and genitals. Bob then arrives and shoots Hartigan in the back, revealing himself to be on Senator Roark's payroll. As sirens approach, Nancy comforts Hartigan as he passes out, as he reasons that the death of an old man is a fair trade for a young girl's life."The Hard Goodbye"[edit]After a one- night stand, Marv awakens to find that Goldie, the woman he slept with, has been murdered. Realizing he has been set up, he escapes the police that have arrived to arrest him, vowing to avenge her death. Marv interrogates several informants, working his way up to a corrupt priest who reveals that the Roark family was behind the murder. After killing the priest, Marv is attacked by a woman who looks like Goldie. Marv goes to the Roark farm where he is subdued by silent stalker Kevin and imprisoned. Marv awakens to find his parole officer, Lucille, has also been captured after looking into his story, and she tells him that Kevin is a cannibal and that his victims, including Goldie, are prostitutes. Sin City is a series of neo-noir comics by Frank Miller. The first story originally appeared in 'Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special' (April, 1991), and continued in Dark Horse Presents #51–62 from May 1991 to June. Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories. Sin City SinnersMarv and Lucille escape their holding cell, but she is shot by the leader of a squad of corrupt cops. Marv kills the squad, interrogates the leader, and finds out that Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark arranged for Goldie's murder. Marv goes to Old Town, Sin City's prostitute- run red- light district, to learn more about Goldie, and is captured and tortured by her twin sister, Wendy, whom Marv previously dismissed as a hallucination. He convinces her that he is not the killer and she resolves to help him avenge Goldie.
They return to the farm, where Marv attacks and slowly dismembers Kevin, before feeding him to his own pet wolf. He brings Kevin's head to Cardinal Roark, who confesses to his part in the murders, before Marv brutally murders him too and is immediately captured by Roark's guards. Marv is blackmailed into confessing to the murder of Cardinal Roark and the women Kevin killed, and sentenced to be executed. Wendy visits him the night before and pretends to be Goldie as a way of thanking him for avenging her sister and the next day, Marv is executed via electric chair."The Big Fat Kill"[edit]Dwight Mc. Carthy is with his waitress girlfriend Shellie, when her drunken ex- boyfriend, Jackie Boy, and his friends show up at her apartment. After Jackie Boy hits Shellie and goes to the bathroom, Dwight ambushes him and threatens to kill him if he doesn't leave Shellie alone. Angry and embarrassed, Jackie leaves Shellie's flat, with Dwight following them to make sure he does not take his anger out on another girl. Dwight follows them into Old Town, where he reunites with his former lover, Gail, and tries to warn her of what may happen. When Jackie Boy threatens a young prostitute, Becky, with a gun, Miho, Old Town's enforcer, single- handedly kills the entire group. As Dwight checks Jackie Boy's corpse, he realizes that he is Detective Lieutenant Jack Rafferty, a hero cop of Basin City Police. If the police learn how he died, their truce with the prostitutes will end and the mob will be free to wage war on Old Town. Dwight takes the bodies to a tar pit to dispose of them, but is attacked by mercenaries who want to retrieve Jackie's head as proof that he has been murdered. After Miho saves Dwight from drowning in one of the tar pits, the pair kill the remaining mercenaries, retrieve the head, and return to Old Town. However, they find out that Manute, an enforcer for mob boss Wallenquist, has kidnapped Gail to force Old Town to surrender, and that Becky has betrayed them. Dwight offers to trade Jackie Boy’s head for Gail's life, and meets Manute's group in an alley. After handing the head over, Dwight detonates a grenade hidden inside of it, while the prostitutes of Old Town gun down Manute and his gang and injure Becky."That Yellow Bastard (Part II)"[edit]As Hartigan recovers in hospital, he learns from Senator Roark that Junior is alive but in a coma, and that Hartigan will be framed for his crimes, although he refuses to confess. Nancy promises to write Hartigan a letter every week while he is in prison, which she does for the next eight years. After the letters abruptly stop arriving and a severed finger is sent instead, Hartigan worries that Nancy has been found, so he confesses to the crimes so that he can be paroled. Bob meets Hartigan at the prison gate and drives him to the city. Hartigan locates Nancy's apartment, which has been ransacked. A pack of matches leads Hartigan to Kadie's Bar, where he finds that Nancy has become an exotic dancer. Hartigan realizes that everything was a set- up for him to reveal Nancy's location, he tries to discreetly leave, but is recognized by Nancy. As they leave, they are pursued by a disfigured yellow man whom Hartigan is able to wound, causing him to crash. As they retreat to a motel, Nancy confesses her love for Hartigan, who rebuffs her advances, citing their age difference. The yellow man, who is revealed to be Roark Junior, disfigured from surgeries after Hartigan shot him, overpowers Hartigan and takes Nancy to the Roark farm to torture her. Hartigan is left for dead, but manages to escape and tracks them down to the farm where he emasculates Junior with his bare hands and then beats him to death. Knowing that Senator Roark will never stop hunting him for killing his son, he sends Nancy away and commits suicide, once again reasoning that the death of an old man is a fair trade for a young girl's life."The Customer Is Always Right (Part II)"[edit]Becky, wounded from the shootout in the alley, is leaving the hospital and talking to her mother on a cell phone. In the elevator, she encounters The Salesman, dressed as a doctor, who offers her a cigarette, and refers to her by name. Realizing The Salesman is preparing to kill her, Becky tells her mother she loves her before hanging up. Frank Miller makes a cameo appearance as a priest, while Robert Rodriguez makes a cameo appearance as a member of the SWAT team. Production[edit]Proof of concept[edit]After his negative personal experience working in Hollywood on Robo. Cop 2 and 3, Miller was reluctant to release the film rights to his comic books, fearing a similar result. Rodriguez, a long- time fan of the graphic novels, was eager to adapt Sin City for the screen. His plan was to make a fully faithful adaptation, follow the source material closely, and make a "translation, not an adaptation".[7] In hopes of convincing Miller to give the project his blessing, Rodriguez shot a "proof of concept" adaptation of the Sin City story "The Customer Is Always Right" (starring Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton). Rodriguez flew Miller into Austin to be present at this test shooting, and Miller was very happy with the results. This footage was later used as the opening scene for the completed project, and (according to Rodriguez in the DVD extras)[citation needed] to recruit Bruce Willis and others to the project. Digital backlot[edit]This is one of the first films along with Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Casshern, and Immortel (Ad Vitam) to be shot primarily on a digital backlot. The film employed the Sony HDC- 9. Three sets were constructed by hand: Kadie's Bar, where all of the major characters make an appearance at least once and also the only location in which all objects are in color. Shellie's apartment. The front door and kitchen are real, while bathroom and corridors are artificial. The hospital corridor in the epilogue. Facebook. Entfernen. Wir verwenden Cookies, um Inhalte zu personalisieren, Werbeanzeigen maßzuschneidern und zu messen sowie die Sicherheit unserer Nutzer zu erhöhen. Wenn du auf unsere Webseite klickst oder hier navigierst, stimmst du der Erfassung von Informationen durch Cookies auf und außerhalb von Facebook zu. Weitere Informationen zu unseren Cookies und dazu, wie du die Kontrolle darüber behältst, findest du hier: Cookie- Richtlinie.
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