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Sin City Trailer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the knock-your-socks-off dept.

FrankMillerFan wrote in to tell us that there is a 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.

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  1. The burning question on every lonely geeks mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does Jessica Alba take it all off? She is playing a stripper after all...

  2. Shoot me for my ignorance... by testednegative · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...

    1. Re:Shoot me for my ignorance... by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Likely the other way around.

      Robert Rodriguez has been kind to bring us the Mariachi trilogy (El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) as well as Spy Kids and The Faculty (I almost did not name those).

      Frank Miller should be on anyone's top ten list for Important People in Comics. He has done an awesome job with Sin City, and an amazing job with Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, one of the top graphic novels of the past 20 years.

      If anything, Max Payne is influenced by both these two.

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  3. Love the style by gaijin99 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The semi-black and white style really works well. It looks a lot like Miller's art, as does the makeup on Mickey Rourke. At first Elijah Wood as Kevin surprised me, but he's a damn good actor and he is pretty. Of course, unless they change the plot he won't have any lines. I wonder if Wood's presence means we'll have scores of Wood obsessed girls flocking to see Sin City?

    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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  4. MMV and MMVI = The Miller Years ? by mirko · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Funny how many movies made by Miller or inspired from his works are about to come in 2005/6 :
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  5. There's a MUCH better trailer floating around... by jerkychew · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  6. Re:Dumb question. by ninji · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...