Ok, so you know that Sin City is opening on Friday and it’s got more big names in it than a Will and Grace episode. You know the trailer looks kick ass and you know that a lot of it looks like it’s in black and white. But after that you know NOTHING about it other than it was a comic book (or “graphic novel”).
Well, the good folks over at CulturePulp have posted up a brief overview and history of Sin City to get you up to speed. Here’s a little taste:
A thug named Marv kills his way up a ladder of corruption as he tries to find out who murdered a hooker named Goldie. But the style? That was a jaw-dropper.
Historically, comic books and pulp fiction are crazy traveling companions: Sci-fi pulp deity Alfred Bester cut his teeth writing “Green Lantern,” for example. But “Sin City” mashed crime and comics together in ways no one had quite seen before. Miller was tapping into some long-repressed id, and he wasn’t censoring a single word or image that spilled from his brain to the page. “Sin City” was pure bloodlust, albeit smartly rendered bloodlust — mixing the larger-than-life iconography of his superhero work with film-noir dialogue and a brutality straight out of a men’s-adventure magazine from the ’50s.
Marv ran afoul of cannibal priests and a well-armed band of gorgeous prostitutes, all while narrating his story with a ferocity that verged on parody: “When I find out who did it, it won’t be quick or quiet like it was with you,” he promises the dead Goldie. “No, it’ll be loud and nasty, my kind of kill. I’ll stare the bastard in the face and laugh as he screams to God and I’ll laugh harder when he whimpers like a baby. And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like Heaven after what I’ve done to him. I love you, Goldie.”
Oh man this is gonna be so cool. Go take a look at the whole article… it’s worth the read.
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Ok, so I bought the Sin City DVD, and I found to my surprise that there is an extra .VOB file on the disk that has episode 4 – Dancing Head from “Requiem from the darkness” (a graphic anime series). Anyone else notice this? the file is called VTS_02_0.VOB. It just strikes me as being kinda odd. I wonder if someone snuck that in there as a gag or something? Any thoughts/comments/confirmations would be greatly appreciated.
I get more anxious by the day to see this flick.
Film review quote making the rounds:
“LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – “Sin City” is film noir amped like nobody’s business.”
Fucking-eh!
Saw a pre-release screening of “Sin City” this weekend… really cool flick! Very faithful to the graphic novel. And great visual effects. Tarantino’s segment is awesome.
I’m going to try and go on opening day. I’ve been waiting all year for this movie. I just gotta get rid of this pesky thing call an exam first.
Whoo! The boy’s brother and SIL live up there. We were over for Easter dinner. Did you see the price of gas down that way? In Oakville, it stays steady in the late 80s, but in Hamilton and Cayuga, it was in the late 70s. For the first time, I actually didn’t mind the long drive out there and back.
Holy crap!!! Really?!?!? I live like 5 minutes away from Cayuga! I actually had to go there earlier today to get some milk :P
John, I thought of you when we drove down to and back from Cayuga tonight. :-)
I’m thinking of putting up a timer to count down to Friday’s release of this movie. Joe and I watched a behind the scenes primer after last Thursday’s CSI, and although it didn’t get into much detail, it did show more clips. O-M-G, this is going to be a really fucking cool movie!!