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Man at the end offering Becky a smoke was Josh Hartnett, the same guy at the beginning, a hired assassin. And Becky seems to realize that will be the last time she gets to talk to her mom. Hartnett is credited as "The Salesman" and the woman he kills in the opening (Marley Shelton) as "The Customer", because his line, "I'll never know what she was running from. I'll cash her check in the morning." implies she hired him to kill her, apparently in a way where she could out gently and imagining someone loved her.
Absolutely love the voice-over about Marv: He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. He'd a been right at home on some ancient battlefield swinging an axe into somebody's face." That's one fine coat you're wearing 🤣🤣 Marv is my spirit animal
This film is based on a series of graphic novels written and drawn by Frank Miller. All the dialogue is straight from the books, and the artwork served as storyboards for the photography, right down to the limited use of color. Robert Rodriguez insisted that Miller co-direct with him, which led to his resignation from the Directors Guild of America. Miller hugely influenced all modern interpretations of Batman with his graphic novel from 1986 The Dark Knight Returns. Great video.
@@painlord2k It's an adaption not an original comic-based movie like the MCU. So this shouldn't be used as a template for all comic movies. Speaking of adaptations, "woke enhancements" worked for _Watchmen_ as the show was better than the film.
It wasn't just black and white either. If you just apply grayscale to a film, you get what you saw in those older black and white films. If I'm not mistaken, here they actually took into consideration that blue, red, and green contributes varying levels of light than other colors and adapted accordingly. The effect is that things don't look dulled down. Everything looks like it might have a sheen of mercury on it. That in combination with the colors they decide to show on film really makes it pop.
Frank Miller, whose Sin City this is, played the priest that Marv killed in the confessional. Edit: You said it felt like you were watching a comic book - that's the idea. With a few minor exceptions, this movie pretty much takes the stories straight out of the comics and puts them on the screen.
The La Brea tar pits have displays w/ prehistoric creatures. Not sure if other tar pits around the world have such displays. Dinosaurs etc. have been associated w/ tar pits for a long time. That's probably why they have them in the movie and maybe the comic/graphic novels. The assassin from the first scene is also hire to kill the girl in the last scene. There is a sequel. (Not as good, but worth watching).
The man who offers a cigarette before killing a person: He had two scenes, one appearance at the beginning of the story and the second in the elevator disguised as a doctor. He was a hit man. Offering a cigarette is the way to keep the target still long enough to be able to murder the person. That's what he meant when he did, "I'll cash her check in the morning." While holding her that night as she bled out. Hope this helps.
He'll cash her check because SHE was the one who paid to have herself killed. She was so afraid of the people after her and what they would do to her she chose the easy way out. Like he said, "I'll never know what she was running from."
@Patrick Mastrobuono But as far as I can remember, "cashing one's check" is a slang term/code talk for getting paid the second half of a "half now, half later, arrangement. Of course, it could also be a "I do the job, I get paid", deal. But however we interpret it, it's all hitman talk. So, . . . . 😊
Robert Rodriguez is one of the godfathers of independent filmmaking, just like Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Steven Soderberg, John Singleton, Kevin Smith and Christopher Nolan. Robert Rodriguez is not only a Director, but he is the whole filmmaking occupation. He’s an editor, producer, cinematographer, and composer.
You are forgetting George Lucas for 1977's Star Wars film was an indie film. Just like how the first Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street were indie flicks as well.
You ARE literally watching a comic book. Probably the best movie adaptation of a graphic novel ever made. It recreates the style of the drawings as good as you can make it in a real life movie, sometimes picture-perfect.
The dinosaurs were there because Tar pits are a tourist attraction that are often billed as having existed since prehistoric tines. The dinosaurs add to the feel of the place.
LOL, can't you see that the dinosaurs are statues 😂😂😂 The guy in the last scene was the assassin from the first scene, who killed the girl in the red dress. It was implied that the girl in the last scene will meet a similar fate. React to 'Desperado' (1995) and 'Planet Terror' (2007) for more Robert Rodriguez stuff. There's also 'From Dusk Till Dawn' (1996) if you haven't already. Good stuff 🤘
The dinosaurs were statues, around a tar pit. Because fibreglass dinosaurs are what you put around a tar pit in places like Sin City. That yellow bastard was yellow (and stunk) due to side effects of the treatments his father used to regrow the bits Hartigan had shot off (they probably messed up his liver, which would explain the colour). The guy at the end was the hitman from the first scene, doing another job, and nicely bookending the film (or live action comic book). And it's called Frank Miller's Sin City because it's an adaptation of Miller's acclaimed comic book series of the same name. He's also known for his character defining Daredevil run, Batman: The Dark Knight returns, and graphic novels like Ronin and 300, the later of which was adapted to film in a similar live action comic book style as this one (and which I believe you've already reacted to).
The stories are told in non-chronological order. So characters that are dead in one story are alive in another. It’s supposed to clue you in on when certain events take place.
The dinosaurs aren't real. They're just decorative. I think the idea is that he's dumping the body in a place like the La Brea Tar Pits. Which is a place in Los Angeles, that had been naturally formed tar pits where dinosaur fossils and stuff like that have been found, and I think it's still an active excavation site, as well as a museum. So, the dinosaurs are just like statues, or whatever, that are there as a recreation or display type of thing. They're not actual dinosaurs or figments of his imagination.
About the dinosaurs at the "Pits" - Look up The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, that is the inspiration for The Pits. It's an ancient lake of tar that caught a lot of prehistoric animals (but not dinosaurs, I think) who went in thinking it was water, got stuck, died and became fossils.
The first swastika in Miho's (giant) shuriken is a manji, a symbol from Buddhism and commonly used in buddhist temples in Japan. This is also why we see it from the angle such that it's left-facing, contra the Nazi swastika. The second one tattooed on the forehead of mob boss Wallenquist's thug, Stuka, is probably a Nazi one. Wallenquist is German, and in the graphic novels, the organization is implied to be Neo-Nazi. or employ a lot of them as mercenaries. (Also, here and in the comics, Manute is black, yet this doesn't seem to be much of an obstacle to either of them that he's working for them.)
Didn't know the guy was named "Stuka". That's military jargon for STUrz-KAmpfflugzeug, meaning dive bomber, and usually refers to the Junkers Ju-87, a german one form WW2. His reaction to the first arrow has me in stitches every time though.
There are 7 Sin City graphic novels and the one with Marv is from the 1st novel The Hard Goodbye, the one with Dwight is from the 3rd novel The Big Fat Kill and the one with Hartigan is from the 4th novel That Yellow Bastard. And the one with Josh Hartnett is from a short story called The Customer is Always Right from the 6th novel Booze, Broads and Bullets (which contains a lot of short stories). Every scene in this movie is literally taken from the comic panels and Robert Rodriguez did such a great job with that! This is one of my favorite movies! There is a sequel, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, which is based on the 2nd novel of the same name and it's a prequel to The Big Fat Kill. It also has one short story from the 6th novel called Just Another Saturday Night and the other stories where written for the movie. It took 9 years for it to be finally made and I've waited for the sequel since after the 1st movie came out, but after 2008 I stopped waiting. The sequel was ok, but it was honestly disappointing. There was gonna be a 3rd movie based on the 7th novel To Hell and Back, but it got cancelled because the 2nd movie didn't go so well at the box office. Had the 2nd movie come out earlier and Rodriguez had the same passion for it like with the 1st movie (he did not have the same passion for the 2nd movie and it was around that time he started to lose his touch), we might have gotten the 3rd movie. Johnny Depp was considered to play the main character for the 3rd movie and he was even considered to play Jackie Boy before Benicio Del Toro got cast.
@@perawow That was only Frank Miller who did the directing and The Spirit is created by Will Eisner. Miller did his own interpretation of it, the movie and the comics are very different in style and tone.
Johnny Depp would be a fantastic Wallace. But yeah, the second Sin City film was a disappointment because of the new stories. Of course by that point Miller had just completely gone off the deep end between All-Star Batman and Holy Terror, so it makes sense that his new stories weren't to the level of the older ones.
@@HobGungan Yep, I agree. It was mostly a disappointment because it didn't have the same effort & caring like in the 1st movie. When it comes to the new stories, the one with Joseph Gordon-Levitt was actually pretty good, the writing is something that could have been in the comics. However the one with Jessica Alba's Nancy was really bad & the worst part of the whole movie! Alba is really not good at playing a badass role, it didn't work in Machete & her performance in A Dame To Kill For was so bad that it deserves a Razzie nomination! Yeah, I know all about Frank Miller going bonkers since he made The Dark Knight Strikes Back.
I can't think of a crazier cast: Bruce Willis Mickey Rourke Clive Owen Benicio Del Toro Elijah Wood Rosario Dawson Jessica Alba Michael Madsen Michael Clarke Duncan Brittany Murphy Josh Hartnett Nick Stahl Carla Gugino Rutger Hauer Powers Boothe Jaime King Even Tommy Flannigan just for good measure. lol Wtf
Heheheh...that scene with the dinos at the tar pits...nobody I know even flinched at that scene. That place exists...La Brea Tar Pits in L.A. It's actually a well-known tourist attraction?
23:55 There are dinosaurs because it is a tar pit, a great deposit of asphalt, a form of petroleum that come from fossilized materials such as dinosaur corpses. So, this is like a depiction of some thematic parks with tar pits in it as Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles.
The guy in the moment at the last scene was the same guy at the moment of the very first scene who killed the woman he seemed to be in a relationship with. He is an assassin because he tells us he will collect the payment for it. Maybe people hire him specifically to have the target feel betrayal from someone they love in the end... Or maybe he just enjoys his job... I havent ready anything to know more about the character. He is played by Josh Hartnet, who you have or should see in Black Hawk Down. Great reaction😁👍
Have to say wasn't Anthony Hopkins...the priest killed was Rutger Hauer an 80's actor who was in Bladerunner among other classics. If you really want to see something good he starred in watch "LadyHawke". understandable mistake just wanted you to know
I loved Blue's reaction at the beginning when she thought she was about to watch a love story, only to see Marley Shelton's character get shot by Josh Hartnett's character.
"Thats a damn fine coat you're wearing" has been a motto of mine for every RPG
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"WHAT IS THIS!?! WHAT THE FFF.... WHY ARE THERE DINOSAURS THERE?!?" That is the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angles. It is an actual place you can visit and the film probably got permission from the Museum to be filming all over their dinosaurs, because there was probably a bit of damage from the filming. You can probably go see exactly where all those scenes were still to this day. I don't imagine they'd change the dinosaurs in just 20 years since this was filmed.
Re Hartigan and Nancy: When consenting adults, you are attracted to who you are. I was 19 and 2nd year in University and dated a 26 year old grad student. When I was in my late 20's had a thing with a woman in her 50's. Have dated women 5 or ten years younger than me as well in my late 30's early 40's. When it hits you, it does., If you're turned off, it won't happen, but if it does, then go with it.
38:40 This movie isn't that weird. If you want weird, you need to see "The Holy Mountain", by Jodorowsky. You could try "Repo Man", or "Sorry to Bother You" to.
About the Dinosaurs - Its a variation on the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown L.A. Its a place with a lot of paleontological research from all the dead animals from a very long, long time ago.
The guy at the end is the Colonel (Josh Hartnett) who's the same guy in the beginning. He's a hired hitman. Thats why Becky knew she was about to die in the elevator.
Blast from the past. thank you :) I wrote my dissertation based around this film back many moons ago. It's always great seeing everyone reaction on this film :)
That's far more universally appealing than what I'll probably do my dissertation on. Good on ya. Feel free to share details if you'd like, as I'd be keen to hear more.
The answer to your Dinosaur question is that this site is called the La Brea Tar Pits. It's in Los Angeles. There's a pit full of tar the scientists found a who bunch of preserved dinosaurs so they turned it into a bit of a tourist trap. They made sculptures of dinosaurs to display their wares. That's all.
*Blue, looking up the poster:* "This doesn't look like the kind of movie I would like" *Blue, 2 minutes into the movie:* "OMG I LOVE THIS MOVIE!" 🤣🤣🤣👍👍
The dinosaurs are in LeBrea Tar pits in Los Angeles. Last scene is the people from the first scene. This is one of those movies that's easy to get lost in. So watch it several times to get the whole picture.
DeepCut, Blue. One of the coolest films ever with a stacked cast. FYI Tarantino guest directed the scene w/Clive Owen 'talking' with Benicio Del Toro in the car. Mickey Rourke is iconic as Marv. Um 'this man' at the end is the dude in the opening scene so it book ends the anthology.
This is a comic, literally 1 to 1 recreation. Frank Miller is the creator, and he also was a cameo as the priest who got shot in the confessional. According to the writer, Kevin an Miho are demons, they don't talk to anyone except their owners. The priest for kevin, and the twins for Miho.
I was kicked out of an art school whose founder absolutely hated Frank Miller and everything he has ever done. This is what I have to say about my relationship with these stories and characters, and what it means to the comics books and movies that are failing nowadays.
Eh, not really. But there from what I know, Yellow Bastard, Blue Eyes Side-Stories, Daddy’s Little Girl, and Hell and Back are about the only stories that have any Color addressed in the panels.
Great reaction to this! This and Alita were directed by Robert Rodriguez. He also directed Sin City 2 and Dusk Till Dawn. Sin City and Alita were filmed in Austin, Texas (home of Robert Rodriguez), most on studio soundstage and green screen. Being from Austin saw many of the actors around town during the filming. He also filmed Machete and Planet Terror here.
Hey Hey there Trixy Blue. Yup, lots of moving parts in this. Had to watch it a couple times. Love your reaction. Marv is my favorite character: "There isn't anything Nancy wouldn't do for me. A frat boy roughed her up and I straightened him out but good".🤣🤣
I can honestly overlook the MASSIVE age gap between Nancy and Willis (because it is legal, it makes me uncomfortable, but it is legal) if it weren't for the fact that he literally knew her when she was a child, and he literally saved her life when she was a child meaning she is most likely only in 'love' with him because Traumatic Childhood Imprinting. I get this is based on a comic book. However, it is a frank miller comic book unfortunately which speaks for itself in the worst way possible. However, from both a technical and tone perspective this movie is a very very well crafted and I do love it despite all the issues listed above.
Frank Miller is a comic book legend best known for Daredevil, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, 300 and of course Sin City. This film was made as directly used the original comics as it's possible - and it shows in the style. Watching this film in a movie theater was fantastic.
Sin City (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City)[3] is a 2005 American neo-noir crime anthology film produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. It is based on Miller's graphic novel of the same name.
the guy at the end is a jiggalo (or gigolo... both are correct) assassin. we say at the beginning. he sot the woman in the red dress. his shtick: to get close to his target he gets them to fall in love with him. then at an opportune moment he introduces his "lady love" to the silencer.
I watched this at the cinema without knowing anything about it and its been a favourite of mine since 😊. Also the guy at the end was the guy from the first seen hes an hitman
Trixy you have to pay close attention sometimes. The guy in the elevator was the same hitman from the first scene. And the dinosaurs didn't move so they were obviously statues. The LaBrea Tar pits in California have these.
Frank Miller is the guy who wrote RoboCop. (Although, iirc, he wasn't that happy with how it was adapted in the movie.) Miller has a brief cameo here as the priest Marv kills in the confession booth after revealing he's in on the Rourke conspiracy. Miller explained both Kevin and Miho are demons, with Kevin being the Bad Demon and Miho being the Good Demon. This is why they seem supernatural. Because, in some sense-whether literal or just metaphorical-they are.
That’s a Very Japanese though idea I didn’t even realize. But it’s Clear Marv was the better Killer in the end. Still, Miho is still a great killer herself. But I think what makes Marv and Her superior to Kevin, is that they never truly lose their humanity. They Kill not because they can, but more out of a purpose. Either to protect, or to right the many injustices they see in their Area. Their not good people, but they are better than the typical and crooked scum of Basin City.
My favorite dark r rated comic book movies are Sin City (2005) The Crow(1994) Blade(1998) Blade 2(2002) Watchmen Director's Cut(2009) V For Vendetta (2006) 300(2006) Deadpool (2016) Deadpool 2(2018) Dredd(2012) Logan (2017) The Suicide Squad (2021) A History Of Violence (2005) Road To Perdition (2000) The Punisher(2004) Ghost World (2001) Anerican Splendor(2003) Conab The Barbarian (1982)
After watching this movie a million times my only criticism was that they should have made Goldie be strangled and Wendy’s appearances seem more suspect. Leading the audiences to question whether Marv was actually fully insane and that his revenge plot may have all been in his head and just a psychotic episode
Man at the end offering Becky a smoke was Josh Hartnett, the same guy at the beginning, a hired assassin. And Becky seems to realize that will be the last time she gets to talk to her mom.
Hartnett is credited as "The Salesman" and the woman he kills in the opening (Marley Shelton) as "The Customer", because his line, "I'll never know what she was running from. I'll cash her check in the morning." implies she hired him to kill her, apparently in a way where she could out gently and imagining someone loved her.
at 14:09 bla bla bla
and then at 14:32 the big jaw drop
And this is why OnlyFools Models should never be film critics.
Marv is one of the best characters I have ever seen. His desire to protect the ones he loves above all else is why I like him.
Absolutely love the voice-over about Marv: He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century.
He'd a been right at home on some ancient battlefield swinging an axe into somebody's face."
That's one fine coat you're wearing 🤣🤣 Marv is my spirit animal
My favorite line is: "I love hitmen, no matter what you do to them you don't feel bad."
at 14:09 bla bla bla
and then at 14:32 the big jaw drop
This film is based on a series of graphic novels written and drawn by Frank Miller. All the dialogue is straight from the books, and the artwork served as storyboards for the photography, right down to the limited use of color. Robert Rodriguez insisted that Miller co-direct with him, which led to his resignation from the Directors Guild of America. Miller hugely influenced all modern interpretations of Batman with his graphic novel from 1986 The Dark Knight Returns. Great video.
Yep! I loved this movie when it came out in 2005! 😊I rented it all the time when it came out on DVD
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This movie show HOW you do COMIC movies without shitty woke "enhancements" and modernization.
crazy to think it's almost 20 years old. I wish we could have seen all GN's but they dropped the ball with A Dame To Kill For :(
@@painlord2k It's an adaption not an original comic-based movie like the MCU. So this shouldn't be used as a template for all comic movies. Speaking of adaptations, "woke enhancements" worked for _Watchmen_ as the show was better than the film.
"It's all you've got, you pansies?"
Has to be the best pre mortem one liner.
He's got a heart condition, not indigestion. "Bum ticker" translates to bad heart. Angina, if you want to look it up
no, only girls have anginas
This looked awesome in the theater. The sharp contrast black and white with the pops of color. It was a unique experience.
It wasn't just black and white either. If you just apply grayscale to a film, you get what you saw in those older black and white films. If I'm not mistaken, here they actually took into consideration that blue, red, and green contributes varying levels of light than other colors and adapted accordingly. The effect is that things don't look dulled down. Everything looks like it might have a sheen of mercury on it. That in combination with the colors they decide to show on film really makes it pop.
Frank Miller, whose Sin City this is, played the priest that Marv killed in the confessional.
Edit: You said it felt like you were watching a comic book - that's the idea. With a few minor exceptions, this movie pretty much takes the stories straight out of the comics and puts them on the screen.
The La Brea tar pits have displays w/ prehistoric creatures. Not sure if other tar pits around the world have such displays. Dinosaurs etc. have been associated w/ tar pits for a long time. That's probably why they have them in the movie and maybe the comic/graphic novels. The assassin from the first scene is also hire to kill the girl in the last scene.
There is a sequel. (Not as good, but worth watching).
Kinda, but not all of them :)
A prequel/sequel technically - prequel to Marv and Dwight's stories and sequel to Hartigan's
@@AmberSmith-zx2rp True. Point was there was another movie made after the original, but ok.
You beat me to a really nice explanation about tar pits. Nice!
I was about to say about the reason for the dinosaurs at the tar pits, but you did it first! 🙂
The man who offers a cigarette before killing a person: He had two scenes, one appearance at the beginning of the story and the second in the elevator disguised as a doctor. He was a hit man. Offering a cigarette is the way to keep the target still long enough to be able to murder the person.
That's what he meant when he did, "I'll cash her check in the morning." While holding her that night as she bled out.
Hope this helps.
He'll cash her check because SHE was the one who paid to have herself killed. She was so afraid of the people after her and what they would do to her she chose the easy way out. Like he said, "I'll never know what she was running from."
he had a scene right at the end too, where he offers the girl that betrayed the Old Town whores a cig
I always took it as the woman at the beginning paid Hartnet's character to kill her.
@@patrickmastrobuono310 could be.
@Patrick Mastrobuono But as far as I can remember, "cashing one's check" is a slang term/code talk for getting paid the second half of a "half now, half later, arrangement.
Of course, it could also be a "I do the job, I get paid", deal.
But however we interpret it, it's all hitman talk. So, . . . . 😊
Robert Rodriguez is one of the godfathers of independent filmmaking, just like Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Steven Soderberg, John Singleton, Kevin Smith and Christopher Nolan.
Robert Rodriguez is not only a Director, but he is the whole filmmaking occupation. He’s an editor, producer, cinematographer, and composer.
You are forgetting George Lucas for 1977's Star Wars film was an indie film. Just like how the first Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street were indie flicks as well.
My dog's name is Frodo Waggins and every time you yelled "Frodo" he ran to the TV
You ARE literally watching a comic book. Probably the best movie adaptation of a graphic novel ever made. It recreates the style of the drawings as good as you can make it in a real life movie, sometimes picture-perfect.
The Special Edition cut has all the stories separated and chronological order. It does make the stories easier to follow.
Yes, and it's more accurate to the comic books. They had to cut a lot of material to make it all fit into a 2 hour movie.
chronological is worse, i loved the order of the original movie
The dinosaurs were there because Tar pits are a tourist attraction that are often billed as having existed since prehistoric tines. The dinosaurs add to the feel of the place.
There’s dinosaur models because dinosaur fossils are found well preserved in tar pits.
The heavy, naturalistically stylized exposition is an old trope of the film noir genre, as well as perfectly fitting the comic book medium.
LOL, can't you see that the dinosaurs are statues 😂😂😂
The guy in the last scene was the assassin from the first scene, who killed the girl in the red dress. It was implied that the girl in the last scene will meet a similar fate.
React to 'Desperado' (1995) and 'Planet Terror' (2007) for more Robert Rodriguez stuff. There's also 'From Dusk Till Dawn' (1996) if you haven't already. Good stuff 🤘
The dinosaurs were statues, around a tar pit. Because fibreglass dinosaurs are what you put around a tar pit in places like Sin City.
That yellow bastard was yellow (and stunk) due to side effects of the treatments his father used to regrow the bits Hartigan had shot off (they probably messed up his liver, which would explain the colour).
The guy at the end was the hitman from the first scene, doing another job, and nicely bookending the film (or live action comic book).
And it's called Frank Miller's Sin City because it's an adaptation of Miller's acclaimed comic book series of the same name. He's also known for his character defining Daredevil run, Batman: The Dark Knight returns, and graphic novels like Ronin and 300, the later of which was adapted to film in a similar live action comic book style as this one (and which I believe you've already reacted to).
The stories are told in non-chronological order. So characters that are dead in one story are alive in another. It’s supposed to clue you in on when certain events take place.
The dinosaurs aren't real. They're just decorative. I think the idea is that he's dumping the body in a place like the La Brea Tar Pits. Which is a place in Los Angeles, that had been naturally formed tar pits where dinosaur fossils and stuff like that have been found, and I think it's still an active excavation site, as well as a museum. So, the dinosaurs are just like statues, or whatever, that are there as a recreation or display type of thing. They're not actual dinosaurs or figments of his imagination.
Our girl was trippin' 😂😂😂
About the dinosaurs at the "Pits" - Look up The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, that is the inspiration for The Pits. It's an ancient lake of tar that caught a lot of prehistoric animals (but not dinosaurs, I think) who went in thinking it was water, got stuck, died and became fossils.
The stories are not chronological, that’s why Kevin’s still alive in the last one. Also the last guy is the same hit man from the beginning.
This is like my favorite movie and a damn near page for page shot for shot adaptation of the graphic novels
The first swastika in Miho's (giant) shuriken is a manji, a symbol from Buddhism and commonly used in buddhist temples in Japan. This is also why we see it from the angle such that it's left-facing, contra the Nazi swastika.
The second one tattooed on the forehead of mob boss Wallenquist's thug, Stuka, is probably a Nazi one. Wallenquist is German, and in the graphic novels, the organization is implied to be Neo-Nazi. or employ a lot of them as mercenaries. (Also, here and in the comics, Manute is black, yet this doesn't seem to be much of an obstacle to either of them that he's working for them.)
Didn't know the guy was named "Stuka". That's military jargon for STUrz-KAmpfflugzeug, meaning dive bomber, and usually refers to the Junkers Ju-87, a german one form WW2. His reaction to the first arrow has me in stitches every time though.
@@PortCharmers The characters' name is slightly more prominent in the comics, as is Wallenquist's (neo-)nazi inclinations.
There are 7 Sin City graphic novels and the one with Marv is from the 1st novel The Hard Goodbye, the one with Dwight is from the 3rd novel The Big Fat Kill and the one with Hartigan is from the 4th novel That Yellow Bastard. And the one with Josh Hartnett is from a short story called The Customer is Always Right from the 6th novel Booze, Broads and Bullets (which contains a lot of short stories).
Every scene in this movie is literally taken from the comic panels and Robert Rodriguez did such a great job with that! This is one of my favorite movies!
There is a sequel, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, which is based on the 2nd novel of the same name and it's a prequel to The Big Fat Kill. It also has one short story from the 6th novel called Just Another Saturday Night and the other stories where written for the movie. It took 9 years for it to be finally made and I've waited for the sequel since after the 1st movie came out, but after 2008 I stopped waiting. The sequel was ok, but it was honestly disappointing.
There was gonna be a 3rd movie based on the 7th novel To Hell and Back, but it got cancelled because the 2nd movie didn't go so well at the box office. Had the 2nd movie come out earlier and Rodriguez had the same passion for it like with the 1st movie (he did not have the same passion for the 2nd movie and it was around that time he started to lose his touch), we might have gotten the 3rd movie. Johnny Depp was considered to play the main character for the 3rd movie and he was even considered to play Jackie Boy before Benicio Del Toro got cast.
you forgot they did "the spirit"
@@perawow That was only Frank Miller who did the directing and The Spirit is created by Will Eisner. Miller did his own interpretation of it, the movie and the comics are very different in style and tone.
@@JW666 oh ok, was not that good either, sin city cant be overtaken its just a masterpiece
Johnny Depp would be a fantastic Wallace. But yeah, the second Sin City film was a disappointment because of the new stories. Of course by that point Miller had just completely gone off the deep end between All-Star Batman and Holy Terror, so it makes sense that his new stories weren't to the level of the older ones.
@@HobGungan Yep, I agree. It was mostly a disappointment because it didn't have the same effort & caring like in the 1st movie.
When it comes to the new stories, the one with Joseph Gordon-Levitt was actually pretty good, the writing is something that could have been in the comics.
However the one with Jessica Alba's Nancy was really bad & the worst part of the whole movie! Alba is really not good at playing a badass role, it didn't work in Machete & her performance in A Dame To Kill For was so bad that it deserves a Razzie nomination!
Yeah, I know all about Frank Miller going bonkers since he made The Dark Knight Strikes Back.
I can't think of a crazier cast:
Bruce Willis
Mickey Rourke
Clive Owen
Benicio Del Toro
Elijah Wood
Rosario Dawson
Jessica Alba
Michael Madsen
Michael Clarke Duncan
Brittany Murphy
Josh Hartnett
Nick Stahl
Carla Gugino
Rutger Hauer
Powers Boothe
Jaime King
Even Tommy Flannigan just for good measure. lol Wtf
Heheheh...that scene with the dinos at the tar pits...nobody I know even flinched at that scene. That place exists...La Brea Tar Pits in L.A. It's actually a well-known tourist attraction?
23:55 There are dinosaurs because it is a tar pit, a great deposit of asphalt, a form of petroleum that come from fossilized materials such as dinosaur corpses. So, this is like a depiction of some thematic parks with tar pits in it as Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles.
The guy in the moment at the last scene was the same guy at the moment of the very first scene who killed the woman he seemed to be in a relationship with.
He is an assassin because he tells us he will collect the payment for it.
Maybe people hire him specifically to have the target feel betrayal from someone they love in the end...
Or maybe he just enjoys his job...
I havent ready anything to know more about the character. He is played by Josh Hartnet, who you have or should see in Black Hawk Down.
Great reaction😁👍
The tar pits are probably the La Brea tar pits, they have statues of prehistoric animals there.
38:11 This was the same guy as in the beginning of the movie. The assassin that's being paid to eliminate "targets".
The beginning . He is a hitman
Josh Hartnett 😉
Have to say wasn't Anthony Hopkins...the priest killed was Rutger Hauer an 80's actor who was in Bladerunner among other classics. If you really want to see something good he starred in watch "LadyHawke". understandable mistake just wanted you to know
I loved Blue's reaction at the beginning when she thought she was about to watch a love story, only to see Marley Shelton's character get shot by Josh Hartnett's character.
One of my favorite comic book films
Dinosaurs like hanging out around tar pits. Its just what they did for fun back then
Sometimes, standing up for your friends means having to kill a whole lot of people.
That's a quote from a promo for the Sin City comic, by the way.
For your information, Sin City is a comic by Frank Miller, same artist who make 300's comics.
The actress playing nancy had a t.v. show called Dark Angel that was ended way too soon.
Ummm, that’s Jessica Alba. She’s had a lot more than that.
Fun fact: The Priest that gets killed in the confessional, was played by Frank Miller; the creator of the Sin City comics.
"Thats a damn fine coat you're wearing" has been a motto of mine for every RPG
"WHAT IS THIS!?! WHAT THE FFF.... WHY ARE THERE DINOSAURS THERE?!?"
That is the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angles. It is an actual place you can visit and the film probably got permission from the Museum to be filming all over their dinosaurs, because there was probably a bit of damage from the filming. You can probably go see exactly where all those scenes were still to this day. I don't imagine they'd change the dinosaurs in just 20 years since this was filmed.
Mickey Rourke is amazing as Marv in Sin City 2005 a great performance
Re Hartigan and Nancy: When consenting adults, you are attracted to who you are. I was 19 and 2nd year in University and dated a 26 year old grad student. When I was in my late 20's had a thing with a woman in her 50's. Have dated women 5 or ten years younger than me as well in my late 30's early 40's. When it hits you, it does., If you're turned off, it won't happen, but if it does, then go with it.
Why are are the police on the other side? There is a reason it's called Sin City. Dark, corrupt, beautiful.
The girl at the end meets the contract killer from the girl in red at the beginning, that is her end!
The dinosaurs are there because this is a parody of the La Brea Tar Pits [or some such tar pit] where one can find dino bones.
38:40 This movie isn't that weird. If you want weird, you need to see "The Holy Mountain", by Jodorowsky. You could try "Repo Man", or "Sorry to Bother You" to.
About the Dinosaurs - Its a variation on the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown L.A. Its a place with a lot of paleontological research from all the dead animals from a very long, long time ago.
Josh Hartnett the guy at the end was the same guy from the opening that murdered the lady. He's a hitman. The Girls of Old Town don't fuck around.
The guy at the end is the Colonel (Josh Hartnett) who's the same guy in the beginning. He's a hired hitman. Thats why Becky knew she was about to die in the elevator.
Blast from the past. thank you :) I wrote my dissertation based around this film back many moons ago. It's always great seeing everyone reaction on this film :)
That's far more universally appealing than what I'll probably do my dissertation on. Good on ya. Feel free to share details if you'd like, as I'd be keen to hear more.
It's a Dinosaurs park with Tar pits. He's trying to sink the car in the tar pit so no diver can get in there.
The answer to your Dinosaur question is that this site is called the La Brea Tar Pits. It's in Los Angeles. There's a pit full of tar the scientists found a who bunch of preserved dinosaurs so they turned it into a bit of a tourist trap. They made sculptures of dinosaurs to display their wares.
That's all.
*Blue, looking up the poster:* "This doesn't look like the kind of movie I would like"
*Blue, 2 minutes into the movie:* "OMG I LOVE THIS MOVIE!" 🤣🤣🤣👍👍
The dinosaurs are in LeBrea Tar pits in Los Angeles. Last scene is the people from the first scene. This is one of those movies that's easy to get lost in. So watch it several times to get the whole picture.
DeepCut, Blue. One of the coolest films ever with a stacked cast. FYI Tarantino guest directed the scene w/Clive Owen 'talking' with Benicio Del Toro in the car. Mickey Rourke is iconic as Marv. Um 'this man' at the end is the dude in the opening scene so it book ends the anthology.
This is a comic, literally 1 to 1 recreation. Frank Miller is the creator, and he also was a cameo as the priest who got shot in the confessional.
According to the writer, Kevin an Miho are demons, they don't talk to anyone except their owners. The priest for kevin, and the twins for Miho.
15:42 It's Rutger Hauer. He looks a bit like Anthony Hopkins here. ))
I was kicked out of an art school whose founder absolutely hated Frank Miller and everything he has ever done. This is what I have to say about my relationship with these stories and characters, and what it means to the comics books and movies that are failing nowadays.
That wasn't a Nazi swasktika. The symbol originated from Sanskrit and can be seen in a lot of buddhist imagery as well.
The guy that "looks like a Marvel character" actually is. He's Mickey Rourke, who played Anton Vanko in 'Iron Man 2'.
It's not a swastika, it's a manji. An old japanese good luck symbol.
the priest was not Anthony Hopkins at all.
It's based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller. I bet they colored it after the novel =)
Eh, not really. But there from what I know, Yellow Bastard, Blue Eyes Side-Stories, Daddy’s Little Girl, and Hell and Back are about the only stories that have any Color addressed in the panels.
Great reaction to this! This and Alita were directed by Robert Rodriguez. He also directed Sin City 2 and Dusk Till Dawn. Sin City and Alita were filmed in Austin, Texas (home of Robert Rodriguez), most on studio soundstage and green screen. Being from Austin saw many of the actors around town during the filming. He also filmed Machete and Planet Terror here.
My favorite phrase is now "A bunch of bad decisions holding hands"
Your reaction to the limbless Kevin reveal was perfect
Hey Hey there Trixy Blue. Yup, lots of moving parts in this. Had to watch it a couple times. Love your reaction. Marv is my favorite character: "There isn't anything Nancy wouldn't do for me. A frat boy roughed her up and I straightened him out but good".🤣🤣
Blue, the yellow dude was the guy who took Nancy hostage at the beginning of the movie when she was a kid
I can honestly overlook the MASSIVE age gap between Nancy and Willis (because it is legal, it makes me uncomfortable, but it is legal) if it weren't for the fact that he literally knew her when she was a child, and he literally saved her life when she was a child meaning she is most likely only in 'love' with him because Traumatic Childhood Imprinting. I get this is based on a comic book. However, it is a frank miller comic book unfortunately which speaks for itself in the worst way possible. However, from both a technical and tone perspective this movie is a very very well crafted and I do love it despite all the issues listed above.
Dinosaurs are decorating the tar pits because dinosaur bones are often found in tar pits.
Dinosaurs?
La brea tar pits.
Did you recognize Michael Clarke Duncan? This was probably his biggest role after _The Green Mile._
I don't think Miho's using swatiskas, they're more likely manjis. It's the buddist symbol of good fortune that Hitler altered and co-opted.
Frank Miller is a comic book legend best known for Daredevil, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, 300 and of course Sin City. This film was made as directly used the original comics as it's possible - and it shows in the style. Watching this film in a movie theater was fantastic.
The Pits is a tar pit area that was developed into a theme park that failed.
Trixy Blue is a good name for a Sin City character.
The guy at the end was the guy at the beginning who shot the woman with the silencer as they kissed. He's a bit of a Grim Reaper character.
27:21
Funniest. Death. Of. All. Time. 😂😂😂
I repeat this scene a dozen times, every time I watch this movie.
The actor you were referencing as "Anthony Hopkins" was Rutger Hauer, a Dutch born american actor that was really popular in the 80s
Sin City (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City)[3] is a 2005 American neo-noir crime anthology film produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. It is based on Miller's graphic novel of the same name.
Well there is Frank Miller’s and there is Las Vegas, Nevada 😉
the guy at the end is a jiggalo (or gigolo... both are correct) assassin. we say at the beginning. he sot the woman in the red dress. his shtick: to get close to his target he gets them to fall in love with him. then at an opportune moment he introduces his "lady love" to the silencer.
You got the sequel "sin city,a dame to kill for."
haven't seen this in ages but remember Frodo as Charlie Brown
4:53 yep, that's the idea!
The doctor at the end is the hitman from the beginning
I watched this at the cinema without knowing anything about it and its been a favourite of mine since 😊.
Also the guy at the end was the guy from the first seen hes an hitman
I was in sin city and sin city:a dame to kill for.
Was fun being a part of those projects.
Josh harnett character is a hitman. Hired to kill his target. So he begins and ends the movie
"I feel like I'm watching a comic book." Nailed it!
Trixy you have to pay close attention sometimes. The guy in the elevator was the same hitman from the first scene. And the dinosaurs didn't move so they were obviously statues. The LaBrea Tar pits in California have these.
Blue: "Why is he yellow?"
15:40 Not Anthony Hopkins, its Rutger Haurer 😛
She was referring to the cannibalism
Frank Miller is the guy who wrote RoboCop. (Although, iirc, he wasn't that happy with how it was adapted in the movie.) Miller has a brief cameo here as the priest Marv kills in the confession booth after revealing he's in on the Rourke conspiracy.
Miller explained both Kevin and Miho are demons, with Kevin being the Bad Demon and Miho being the Good Demon. This is why they seem supernatural. Because, in some sense-whether literal or just metaphorical-they are.
That’s a Very Japanese though idea I didn’t even realize. But it’s Clear Marv was the better Killer in the end. Still, Miho is still a great killer herself.
But I think what makes Marv and Her superior to Kevin, is that they never truly lose their humanity. They Kill not because they can, but more out of a purpose. Either to protect, or to right the many injustices they see in their Area. Their not good people, but they are better than the typical and crooked scum of Basin City.
Miller worked on Robocop 2 and 3, not the original film. Ed Neumeier wrote Robocop.
My favorite dark r rated comic book movies are
Sin City (2005)
The Crow(1994)
Blade(1998)
Blade 2(2002)
Watchmen Director's Cut(2009)
V For Vendetta (2006)
300(2006)
Deadpool (2016)
Deadpool 2(2018)
Dredd(2012)
Logan (2017)
The Suicide Squad (2021)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Road To Perdition (2000)
The Punisher(2004)
Ghost World (2001)
Anerican Splendor(2003)
Conab The Barbarian (1982)
I loved this movie when it came out in 2005! I rented it all the time from Blockbuster and Hollywood video when it came out on DVD too
Who knew he could play such a villain eh?
After watching this movie a million times my only criticism was that they should have made Goldie be strangled and Wendy’s appearances seem more suspect. Leading the audiences to question whether Marv was actually fully insane and that his revenge plot may have all been in his head and just a psychotic episode