- Post
- #100679
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- Sin City
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/100679/action/topic#100679
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no, no, no.... but I did have a *friend* who once saw a *friend's* copy of a movie that happened to still be in theatres...I heard an interview with Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez today on NPR, which made an interesting point: Because three of the stand-alone 'Sin City' stories were strung together into one movie, Robert Rodriguez acknowledged that the situations/gore/violence might seem a bit disproportional. And I think he's right. All the 'Sin City' tales are violent, but each has a sort of pinnacle that it leads up to to set its tone. So when they're overlapped it plays a bit oddly. Interestingly still, I had read in another interview that the few things from the comic that didn't make the final cut had in fact been filmed (Peter Jackson anyone) and that upon release on DVD the viewer would have the option of watching any one of the three tales by itself. I think I'd like that better really.
I'll assume (not in a bad way) that you've probably not read any novels by Daschell Hammet or Raymond Chandler, Chaltab. These are the hard-boiled crime tales that Miller set out to pay homage to, if even to possibly parody at times. The 'bullet logic' is no different than most film/novels/etc- the villains usually can't aim worth a damn and couldn't hit the broad side of a barn (stormtroopers, John Woo villains, many video game villains) but the hero is a crack shot or can take a bullet like it doesn't even phase them. There's no more realism to be had in the world of 'Sin City' than there is in most crime fiction. Characters are meant to invoke emotion through their dedication and raw intent, and Miller chooses to portray the two most basic human drives... sex and violence. There's even a salvation/morality play (of sorts) in each of the tales. That said, though no one has 'super powers' in his universe, the character of Marv is not so much human as 'human instinct'; Marv is all that is ugly in humans but can still find that silve lining... a thing that touches his shrivelled heart and makes him want to do one redemptive thing before his inevitable demise. He can do 'super human' things because his humanity is all but lost.
Plus violence is just fun!
(just kidding)As for the character of Kevin being a cannibal, I go back to the 'read it seperately' thing. Kevin is the big reveal in the Marv tale. He's the one that switches your mind from thinking Marv is just psycho to thinking- Marv lives in a pretty messed up world and is actually pretty decent compared to the things that lurk out there. Plus, I like Miller's juxtaposition of have the 'normal' looking calm guy be the really crazy mutha! And one scene I missed in the Marv story is a bit where he goes home and crashes at his mother's house and you see another layer of his hidden niceness. I imagine that'll be on the DVD as well.
Boy, I'm rambling today... must not have had enough caffeine!
