![]() ![]() You want a nuclear submarine, you make one out of thin air and put your characters into it. You want a light over here, you grab a light and put it over here. This is the future! You don't wait six hours for a scene to be lighted. I remember him leaping out of his chair and bouncing around a hotel room, pantomiming himself filming "Spy Kids 2" with a digital camera and editing it on a computer. Rodriguez has been aiming toward "Sin City" for years. And there's a narration that plays like the captions at the top of the frame, setting the stage and expressing a stark existential world view. Some of the stills from the film look so much like frames of the comic book as to make no difference. On the movie's website, there's a slide show juxtaposing the original drawings of Frank Miller with the actors playing the characters, and then with the actors transported by effects into the visual world of graphic novels. We get not so much their presence as their essence the movie is not about what the characters say or what they do, but about who they are in our wildest dreams. The actors are mined for the archetypes they contain Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Clive Owen and the others are rotated into a hyperdimension. It internalizes the harsh world of the Frank Miller "Sin City" comic books and processes it through computer effects, grotesque makeup, lurid costumes and dialogue that chops at the language of noir. The movie is not about narrative but about style. It contains characters who occupy stories, but to describe the characters and summarize the stories would be like replacing the weather with a weather map. but it will do you no good.īut there's nothing like having your friends show up.This isn't an adaptation of a comic book, it's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids. No! It isn't right! There wasn't no tape over his mouth! How come there's tape over his mouth?Ĭute trick, McCarthy. Now, if you'll explain to me why we shouldn't blow both of you to pieces?Įxactly what I had to. Hey, wait a minute, something's not right. Sometimes you can beat the odds with a careful choice of where to fight. But the alley is crooked, dark, and very narrow. My hand moves all on its own, sliding on of my guns to my lap and thumbing back the hammer. ![]() ![]() Working stiff with a mortgage, a wife and a pile of kids. For all I know, he's an honest cop, regular guy. The only question left is whether I'm gonna kill him or not. I don't have a chance in hell of outrunning this cop. None of that stops the bastard from being absolutely right. Sure I'm just imagining that he's talking. This time I can't bring myself to tell him to shut up. Not unless you keep your eyess on the road, sshugar-pie.Īhh this is grrreatt, s'just like being in a buddy movie. You ain't even gonna make itt to The Pitss. What're you gonna do when ya run outta gas? Call Triple A? You ssucker for the babes, you. Will ya look at thaat! Oooooh, those hookers let ya dowwnn hehehehe. Smoker's a smoker when the chips're downn and your chips're down, pretty much You know it's truuuuuuue nobody ever really quitsss. Ss'got you hearin things'got yer nerves shot. Hntells you somethin 'bout your sstate a' mind don't it?. I'm just imagining this, so shut the hell up. ![]()
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