World Cinema - Sin City (2005)

Director - Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarintino

It is a film noir based on Frank Miller's graphic novel series by the same name.

After the third RoboCop film bombed at the box office Miller was adamant about letting anyone direct a movie based on his stories without his assistance,fearing a similar result.

So Rodriguez eager to direct it filmed a test scene which later became the opening scene as well.He even gave credit to others directors for direction.

Movie shows three of Miller's Sin City adaptations:

• The Hard Goodbye: About an ugly brute(Mickey Rourke) out to avenge death of his one night stand love.
• The Big Fat Kill: Which focuses on a street war and treaty between a group of prostitutes and police.
• That Yellow Bastard: Shows Bruce Willis as an aging police officer who protects a young woman Nancy Callaghan from a pedophile,serial killer(Nick Stahl) and later saves adult Nancy(Alba)from Yellow Bastard.
• The movie stars Bruce Willis, Alexis Bledel, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosario Dawson, Benicio del Toro, Michael Madsen, Nick Stahl, Powers Boothe, Josh Hartnett, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Elijah Wood and Rutger Hauer.

Cinematography is classy, unique and retains the dark look of the original novel.Most of the film is in black and white with coloring for select objects.Film was digitally treated for heightened contrast so as to more clearly separate blacks and whites (as is the case in film noir tradition). This was done not only to give a more film noir look, but also to make it appear more like the original comic.

A genius movie with an awesomely huge star cast-A rare combination. Good thing that writer was also director here.That is the reason every fictional character can be felt-in so deep by viewers.

Especially Marv (Mickey Rourke) as a bit insane but morally sound brute on payroll and medication under drop dead gorgeous lesbian payroll officer Lucille(Carla Gugino).

Kudos to other directors Robert Rodriguez and master Tarantino for getting the hang of the graphic novel so artistically well.

Tarantino was "Special Guest Director" for directing the car sequence between Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro.

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