Love love love.
I loved Sin City a lot. I am pleased I had read the comics that I have read before I saw the movie. It meant I could appreciate how extremely faithful to the Marv story the movie was. It meant I could look forward to seeing Elijah Wood's Kevin, creepy and beautiful....
The other story I've read is Dwight's first one, so I knew the character and loved him but I didn't know that adventure.
Sin City is violent. The violence is so stylised by the black and white colour scheme that it's unreal. Sin City is a strange world where men are all tough guy heroes with a personal honour code and no aversion to killing. The women are all prostitutes with hearts of gold and incredible bodies.
Men protect women and the women pay them with their beauty and their bodies.
It's all so damned cool.
I want to take a bunch of high resolution stills from the movie and blow them up poster size and frame them and have them up on my wall. Marv and Goldie in bed. Marv in the driving rain on the bridge. Kevin in the doorway, his glasses reflecting the light. Nancy dancing. Becky walking down the road with a car keeping pace, her necklaces glowing white.
My only sadness? Carnivale's Ben plays That Yellow Bastard. He's an amazing actor but I want to think of him as a good guy!
Posted by jenni at August 15, 2005 09:33 PM