| Sin City | ||
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| Directed by: | Frank Miller Robert Rodriguez Guest: Quentin Tarantino | |
| Written by: | Frank Miller | |
| Produced by: | Elizabeth Avellan Frank Miller Robert Rodriguez | |
| Based on: | The Hard Goodbye The Big Fat Kill That Yellow Bastard | |
| Music by: | Robert Rodriguez | |
| Studio: | Troublemaker Studios | |
| Distributed by: | Dimension Films | |
| Release date: | April 1, 2005 | |
Sin City, also known as Frank Miller's Sin City, is a 2005 American crime thriller film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. It is a neo-noir based on Miller's graphic novel series of the same name.
A sequel to the film, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, is released in 2014.
Based On
The movie is based on 4 stories from the Sin City universe including:
Cast
- Bruce Willis as John Hartigan
- Jessica Alba as Nancy Callahan
- Clive Owen as Dwight McCarthy
- Mickey Rourke as Marv
- Nick Stahl as Roark Junior
- Josh Hartnett as The Salesman
- Benicio del Toro as Jack Rafferty
- Elijah Wood as Kevin
- Michael Madsen as Bob
- Devon Aoki as Miho
- Alexis Bledel as Becky
- Powers Boothe as Senator Roark
- Jude Ciccolella as Liebowitz
- Michael Clarke Duncan as Manute
- Rosario Dawson as Gail
- Jason Douglas as Hitman
- Tommy Flanagan as Brian
- Rick Gomez as Douglas Klump
- Carla Gugino as Lucille
- Rutger Hauer as Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark
- Nicky Katt as Stuka
- Jaime King as Goldie/Wendy
- Frank Miller as Padre
- Brittany Murphy as Shellie
- Nick Offerman as Schlubb
- Marley Shelton as Customer
- Makenzie Vega as young Nancy Callahan
- Patricia Vonne as Dallas
Plot
Hartigan heads into the warehouse where Roark Junior is holding Nancy, fighting off the pain caused by his bad heart, as well as several henchmen. Junior shoots Hartigan in the shoulder and tries to escape. Hartigan catches up and shoots off Junior's ear, hand, and genitals. Bob, now recovered, shoots Hartigan in the back. As police backup approaches, Bob leaves and Nancy lies down in Hartigan's lap. Hartigan passes out, reasoning his death is a fair trade for the girl's life. Hartigan is recovering in a hospital when Senator Roark informs him that Junior is in a coma and the Roark legacy is in serious jeopardy. Hartigan will be framed for Junior's crimes; if he tells anyone the truth, they will die. A grateful Nancy promises to write letters every week while he is in prison.
Hartigan goes to jail, though he refuses to confess. He receives a weekly letter from Nancy, as promised. After eight years, the letters stop and he receives a severed finger instead. Hartigan confesses to all charges leading to his parole and searches for an adult Nancy (Jessica Alba), not knowing he is being followed by a deformed, yellow man. He eventually finds her at Kadie's Bar, where she has become an exotic dancer.
He realizes he was set up to lead the yellow man to Nancy and the two escape in Nancy's car. Hiding at a hotel, the deformed man returns, revealing himself as Junior Roark, disfigured by years of surgery to regenerate his body parts. Junior attacks Hartigan and takes Nancy to the Roark farm to finish what he started eight years before. Hartigan follows and fakes a heart attack, giving him a chance to kill Junior. Knowing that Senator Roark will never stop hunting them, Hartigan commits suicide to ensure Nancy's safety. Again, he justifies his life for Nancy's as a fair trade. Hartigan dies realizing that others will continue to kill off Roark family. And when they are all dead, Sin City will change.
Marv goes to the Roark family farm and is subdued by the silent stalker who killed Goldie. He awakens in the basement to find Lucille has been captured after looking into his story. She tells Marv that the killer is a cannibal and that Goldie was a prostitute. He learns that the killer's name is Kevin (Elijah Wood) and escapes with Lucille. Lucille is gunned down by the leader of an arriving squad of corrupt cops, who are then killed by Marv, except for the leader, who he interrogates first. Marv finds out that Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark (Rutger Hauer) arranged for Goldie's murder.
Marv goes to Old Town, Sin City's prostitute-run red-light district, to learn more about Goldie and is captured by her twin sister, Wendy, who had been stalking him. He eventually convinces her that he is not the killer. She and Marv return to the farm where Marv kills Kevin. He confronts Cardinal Roark, who confesses his part in the murders. Kevin was the cardinal's ward; the two men ate the prostitutes to 'consume their souls'. Marv kills the cardinal but is then shot and captured by his police guards.
Marv is taken to a hospital where cops threaten to kill his mother to get him to confess to killing Roark, Kevin, and their victims. He is sentenced to death in the electric chair. Wendy visits him on death row and thanks him for avenging her sister. Marv is then executed.
Soundtrack
Main article: Sin City (soundtrack).
Trivia
- The cover of the Sin City book "Booze, Broads, and Bullets", can be seen periodically throughout the movie. Its most notable appearance is on the cover of the matchbook that Hartigan picks up to locate Nancy; it is also seen in the background of the strip club in the very next scene as Hartigan first enters (to the right as a poster).
- The swords used by Miho (Devon Aoki) in this film are the same ones used by some of the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill: Vol. 1. That film's director, Quentin Tarantino, had been keeping them in the back of his garage.
- Originally the film was going to include the story featured in the "Sin City" maxi-series "Hell And Back", with Johnny Depp in the lead role as Wallace. This was scrapped before production began but will most likely be filmed for a sequel, as Robert Rodriguez plans to film all of Miller's stories at some point.
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