Sin City Trailer

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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high res

[Kman_xth]

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 Trailer

[vasqzr]

When I first read this, I thought Maxis was making a white trash Sim game. Get your cousin pregnant, work at Wal-Mart, buy a 1985 Trans Am...

Re:Sin City Trailer

[jbarket]

Trust me, that's not Sin City. That's Sim Arkansas.

And before anybody starts getting defensive and modding me down for talking shit about their home state, I only say this as I roll out of bed with my sister/niece/third wife.

Re:Dumb question.

[bje2]

here's the plot summary from the IMDB page

A collection of interweaving stories all based in the corrupt, crime infested hell-hole that is Basin City. Heavily influenced by film-noir, the main storylines concern a hulking brute called Marv (Mickey Rourke), who is seeking the murderer of a beautiful woman who was killed while asleep in bed with him; an ex-photographer called Dwight (Clive Owen) who accidentally kills a hero cop and has to cover it up; and a soon-to-be-retiring policeman called Hartigan (Bruce Willis) who is incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. All based on the brilliant graphic novels "Sin City", "The Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard", written and illustrated by Frank Miller.

Shoot me for my ignorance...

[testednegative]

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...

Re:Shoot me for my ignorance...

[The-Bus]

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.

Re:Slightly larger...

[The-Bus]

That's what I get for not checking my links.

Click on this link to get the larger version MOV. (About 14MB).

(Oh, and if you want to see the art from Sin City, Amazon has some of it available).

Love the style

[gaijin99]

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...

"Technically" not directed by Miller...

[Robotech_Master]

...at least, not in the strictest sense of the word.

From the Internet Movie Database's Sin City trivia page:

Rodriguez, who credits Miller's visual style in the comic as relevant as his own in the film, insisted that Miller receive a "co-director" credit with him. The Directors' Guild of America would not allow it. As a result, Rodriguez resigned from the DGA, saying "It was easier for me to quietly resign before shooting because otherwise I'd be forced to make compromises I was unwilling to make or set a precedent that might hurt the guild later on." Unfortunately, by resigning from the DGA, Rodriguez was also forced to relinquish his director's seat on the film John Carter of Mars (2006) (at the time "A Princess of Mars" after the book on which it was based) for Paramount. Rodriguez had already signed-on and been announced as director of that film when the DGA situation took place, planning to begin filming soon after wrapping this film.

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.

Re:Ummm...

[Graemee]

If Ron Jeremey is not in it, I don't watch it.

I think Mickey was the closest they could get on the budget. He's never looked better BTW.

Jessica Alba...

[Dharkfiber]

Pole dancing ... they have my $10.50 already.

Re:The burning question on every lonely geeks mind

[John_Allen_Mohammed]

Nope :( Ya, it's stupid...

"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 :(

another trailer

[Zatic]

and much longer: http://hal9000.ots.dk/~kurgan2/Public/sincity.mp4 [55MB]

Re:Yet another shoot-em-up

[darkitecture]

Wow. Congratulations on a completely naive and ignorant post.

If you'd ever actually done any homework on the Sin City graphic novels the film is based on (Sin City renamed recently to The Hard Goodbye, A Dame To Kill For, The Big Fat Kill, That Yellow Bastard and The Customer Is Always Right), then you'd realize this is probably one of the best and detailed plots ever conceived in comics to be translated onto the big screen.

Frank Miller single-handedly turned around the comic Daredevil when he took over and has been won countless awards and prizes for both his art and his writing. Not to mention he's one of the most respected artists in his field.

They used a digital backlot because of Frank Miller's extremely stylized artwork, which was never intended to mimic reality. It's meant to create a specific 'film noir' atmosphere which is intensely more gritty than real life. Frank Miller's Sin City has always been drastically drawn for deliberate effect and it's unlikely that one could achieve that with conventional filming. Personally, I think this is the one film in a very long time that actually can *justify* the use of CGI and the digital backlot process.

So either take back your words, see the film and realize it's not what you think it is, or sit down, shut up and don't see the fucking film. I guarantee it will survive just fine without your ten dollars.

Re:Dumb question.

[ninji]

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...