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Sin City Trailer
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Trailer for Sin City available on Apple's preview site. The film is being co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller himself. The video is kinda small but I gotta say that I'm pretty blown away- it really looks like they somehow took Miller's comic style and made it into a movie. High contrast, sometimes looks like line art, cool sparse use of color. This is a must-see trailer for any fan of the comic. Hopefully a higher-res version will be available soon.
Some of the trailers on the apple site adapt their size and quality to your quicktime plugin's bandwidth setting. Just set it to LAN and you'll get bigger and higher quality video.
Sin City is a comic by Frank Miller, who is the autor of Dark City(Batman), Elektra assasin and Ronin and.. more..
Their scripts are normally really dark and interesting (in my opinion).
Oh yes.. like this is slashdot:
Sin City != Sim City
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There is a trailer in Windows Media format here that is slightly larger, however you need to install "AOL Music Player" which, honestly, is not worth it.
The trick above, to change your preferences to "LAN" in your Quicktime player settings, does work.
Or feel free to right-click and download the MOV file.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
It's based on a comic that (AFAIK) predates Max Payne by awhile.
From the Internet Movie Database's Sin City trivia page:Some of the other trivia on the page shows what a character Rodriguez is as well...such as the way he handled Miller's reluctance to allow an adaptation. And, like Sky Captain, this is one of the world's first "fully digital" pictures--digital cameras, digital backlot.
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If anything, Max Payne was inspired (in part) by the original Sin City comics. As many other cultural icons of the hard-boiled detective as Payne riffs on, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
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Just to add /.
Music theme from the trailer: The Servants: Cell
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He also wrote the best Daredevil stories. He created Elektra (which will probably be another horrible movie) and IIRC Bullseye as well. Some of the Robocop movie scripts (which I could have left out) were written by him as well.
Nope :( Ya, it's stupid...
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"Long story short, guys, Miller wanted her for the role, she liked the part but told them up front she wouldn't do nudity. Miller and Rodriguez said "no problem, we'll shoot around it", and BAM, there you go. "
Quoting from a thread on imdb.com
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I think you're wrong about Die Hard. The success of Die Hard made Bruce Willis' career, not the other way around.
Before Die Hard, Bruce Willis was known to the world as the quirky detecitve David Addison on the television show Moonlighting. That he had no 'tough guy' creds to his name is what made him such a compelling John McClain.
Rodriguez only got his ok by filming a scene without permission and showing it to him. I think his writing on DKR was fantastic.
Of course I'm a bit partial because I went to the same high-school as him, U-32 jr-sr high in central vermont. As recently as 1996-7 they still had some of his early comic narrative work in the Journalism classroom. Supposedly there was a lack of news writers at the time so he got a whole page for his strip. I believe it was called "The Shadow."(?) The inking was similar to Sin City. I remember a page with a brick wall that had a shadow cast across a diagonal section and the bricks that were covered in shadow were pure black with empty page to represent the cement lines.
and much longer: http://hal9000.ots.dk/~kurgan2/Public/sincity.mp4 [55MB]
Try Trailer Park Tycoon. Quite a lot of fun.
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