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Sin City (2005)-Retrospective Film Review

A Ground Breaking Piece Of Film-Noir Fantasy

The film Sin City cost 45 million dollars to shot. Sin Citywas shot in Austin Texas, at co-director Robert Rodriguez's sound stage. The actors were shot in front of a green screen, creating an artificial enviroment that gives Sin City that Black and white noirish feel. The film was based on a novel by Frank Miller. Sin City has a pulp-Fiction type story line that is crude but very effective. The film was shot in black and white, with specific objects and features in color, which really brings your focus to the colored object. Alot of people try to compare Sin City with Sky Captin And The World of Tomorrow, Both movies were shot in HD with digital cameras, and used CGI to create background settings.


The Ultimate Filmmakers Guide To Film Noir

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This film review is more about film noir than Sin City, film noir which means black film. When you hear film noir you usualy think about private eyes and femme fatales, shadows and smokey night clubs, urban crime and corruption. The film noir era is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. There has been many attempts at defining film noir, but cinema historian Mark Bould says "film noir remains an elusive phenomenon... always just out of reach". A French critic Nino Frank is credited with coining the term film noir(French for "black film"), in 1946. The question of wether film noir qualifies as a distinct genre is still in debate.


U.S. Intellectual History

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This review talks about film noir and neo noir, and how these elements makes the film Sin City fit into the genre of neo noir. Sin City reflects America circa 2005, desensitized to horror by the war in Iraq and revelations of torture and abuse at Abu Graib, torture sactioned by the upper rungs of the chain of command. Torture, death, and violence is some of the elements that are not lacking in this film. Alot of people say, "Sin City with its tough guys and femme fatales feels uninhabited, and the social anxiety and psychological unease of the old film noirs has been digitally swept away. Instead, "Sin City" offfers sensation without feeling, death without grief, sin without guilt, and ultimately novelty without suprise". but there is something missing- something human. But everybody seems to miss the larger point. The brilliance of Sin City and it is brillant, lies not in its ability to connect to its audience in some human capacity, but rather, in the ways it expresses how America was feeling at the time the film was released.


SIn City, Film Noir, and the animation Fascination

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