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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.
This weekend I saw the trailer at the theatre and at first the style really threw me off, especially with all the big name stars in there, you just don't expect them to be in something so edgy and stylistic.
Does Jessica Alba take it all off? She is playing a stripper after all...
This is all fine and good, but when do we get to see the Hardboiled trailer?
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but is this film/director in anyway related to the making of the PC Game series "Max Payne" ? because i found a lot of resemblance...
I do have to admit that when I first saw the "black and white for everything but a few splashes of color" stile it reminded me of that cherry 7-UP commercial...
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..-Hollywood Stars putting themselves below the result of their combined effort. With "Die Hard" for instance one gets the impression of a movie built all around Bruce Willis. With Pulp fiction on the other hand you get the impression that he was born to play in it. Could be very much the same with this one. And some other artists involved.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
this actually has become the norm with many of the better directors. And the same is startingto happen with the better writers leaving their "union" or group.
it seems that the level of corruption in the film industry is making the best of their kind avoid their silly games and prove they can easily do it on their own.
Rodriguez is a great example of their best. He is certianly better than most, and certianly the most honest. I remember him talking to a large group of students at the NY film school and telling them to quit and demand their tuition back as film schools have nothing to teach you but how to copy everyone else.
There's a much longer, better trailer for this movie out on the net. I saw it a few months ago via the Ars Technica forums. Supposedly it was shown at a comic convention and subseequently leaked onto the net.
The story of the trailer goes like this: Miller refused for years to allow anybody to make a movie based on his graphic novels. Robert Rodriguez took it upon himself to make a very short (less than 5 minute) film based on a situation from the comic, and sent it to Miller. The film was very well done, and had Josh Hartnett in the leading role. Rodriguez sent this to Miller and said something like, "This is the kind of movie I want to make. If you like it, give me a call. If not, here's a nice gift to show your friends." Miller liked it, and the rest is history.
That five minute short is at the beginning of the leaked trailer. I'm sure anyone with some google skills could find it. Otherwise you could get a membership to the Ars Lounge and ask somebody in there.
Am I the only one who shuddered at the sight of those glassas?
Only one of the greatest and most violent while still holding a grand storyline comics ever written. I've had the entire set of Sin City's on Dark Horse comics for as long as I can remember, and When I heard Frank Miller was directing it, I was greatly content... I love how they use a comic book style CGI animation, and how the movie is black and white yet with certiant elements of color on things like lips, certiatn clothes, blood, some lights etc, just like in the comic...