Projects » Sin City

Production Year: 2005
Directed by: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Genre: Action / Crime / Thrilleri
Tagline: Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything.
Rating: 8.4/10 (133,898 votes)
Runtime: 124 min
Country: USA/Canada
Language: English
Certification: Australia:MA / Canada:16+ (Quebec) / Canada:18A (British Columbia/Ontario) / Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) / Canada:R (Alberta/Manitoba/Prince Edward Island) / Czech Republic:15 / Denmark:15 / France:-12 / Germany:18 / Hong Kong:III / Ireland:18 / Israel:18 / Italy:VM14 / Japan:R-15 / Malaysia:(Banned) / Netherlands:16 / Philippines:R-13 (cut) / Portugal:M/18 / South Korea:18 / Spain:18 / Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) / Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) / UK:18 / USA:R / Canada:R (Ontario DVD version) / Finland:K-15 (re-rating) / Norway:15 / Sweden:15 / Mexico:C / Poland:18 / Brazil:16 / Singapore:R21

Plot Outline: An adaptation of Frank Miller's stories based in the fictional town of Sin City. Chief amongst the town's residents is Marv, who trawls the darkest areas of town looking for the person who killed his one true love, Goldie.

Awards

Sin City won 2 awards and received 4 nominations

BMI Film & TV Awards 2005 - WON
Cannes Film Festival 2005 - WON + 1 Nomination
Won Technical Grand Prize, Robert Rodriguez
Nominated, Golden Palm, Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Teen Choice Awards 2005 - Nominated
Choice Movie Actress: Action/Adventure/Thriller, Jessica Alba
Choice Movie Bad Guy, Elijah Wood
Choice Movie: Action/Adventure

Cast

Jessica Alba .... Nancy Callahan
Devon Aoki .... Miho
Alexis Bledel .... Becky
Powers Boothe .... Senator Roark
Rosario Dawson .... Gail
Benicio Del Toro .... Jackie Boy
Michael Clarke Duncan .... Manute
Carla Gugino .... Lucille
Josh Hartnett .... The Man
Rutger Hauer .... Cardinal Roark
Jaime King .... Goldie/Wendy
Michael Madsen .... Bob
Brittany Murphy .... Shellie
Clive Owen .... Dwight
Mickey Rourke .... Marv
Elijah Wood ... Kevin

Trivia

As each sequence of this film was shot separately, new cast members were added and incorporated in the stories all the time. Often separate footage was composited in post-production to look as if it was all shot the same day. For example: Marv (Mickey Rourke) takes Wendy ('Jamie King' ) to Nancy's (Jessica Alba) home. Alba had not been cast yet when Rourke and King shot the scene, her footage was added in later. The same is true of the scene between Marv and Cardinal Roark (Rutger Hauer), as Rutger Hauer was the last person in the film to be cast.
The scene when Marv climbs out of the manhole and staggers up against a wall was acted out in reverse, then shown forwards, to give an otherworldly appearance to Marv.
All the semi-automatic hand guns carried by actors in the movie bear the stamp of Springfield Armory.
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 (2003). That film's director, Quentin Tarantino, had been keeping them in the back of his garage.
Robert Rodriguez originally envisioned Johnny Depp in the role of Jackie Boy. Due to prior commitments, Depp could not play the part. While at the Academy Awards, Rodriguez saw Benicio Del Toro with long hair ("Wolf Man" hair, as he describes it) and said that he "was looking at Jackie Boy". He told Del Toro not to cut his hair and mailed him the comic book and a copy of the short, "The Customer is Always Right." Del Toro immediately signed on.
Jessica Alba wanted a choreographer to assist her in her dances but the director insisted that she just feel the music and dance to it instead..
Jessica Alba went to strip clubs as a part of her research for her character. However, she said that it didn't help because all the pro-strippers were doing "is trying to get tips".
Christopher Walken,' Willem Dafoe' , Steve Buscemi, and Michael Douglas were all originally offered roles.
Director Robert Rodriguez added the music Jessica Alba danced to later. She was actually listening to different music while performing in front of the blue screen.
Leonardo DiCaprio was originally up for the role of Junior but eventually declined the role, which later went to Nick Stahl..
Kate Bosworth was the first choice for the role of Gail.
According to an interview with Robert Rodriguez, most of the actors have never met each other in real life despite many scenes of them together. The actors were filmed separately in different days. Example: Mickey Rourke never met Elijah Wood.

Goofs

Continuity: The blood on Marv's chin appears and disappears when he's being interrogated by Wendy and the girls.
Continuity: When Dwight dunks Jackie Boy's head in the toilet at Shelly's, Jackie Boy is smoking a cigarette with a white filter. But when Dwight decides to take a cigarette off of Jackie Boy's corpse while driving to the tar pits, the cigarette he takes has a normal colored filter.
Continuity: Flipped shot: A brief shot of Marv after he has been scratched by Kevin is flipped, the scratches run from bottom right to top left, instead of bottom left to top right as they do when he received them.
Revealing mistakes: Gail's earrings, although supposedly the same pair through the entire movie, are two different pairs. One pair is a clip-on which she wears backwards, with the ear pad in the front instead of the back. These are worn high on her earlobes so you can see her pierced hole beneath them. Later, after she is kidnapped by Manute, the earrings are pierced with fishhook posts. After the girls take down the mob, she is back to wearing the reverse clip-on pair. The earrings were very long and dangly and would have been a potential hazard in an action scene. To avoid tearing the actress's lobes the two pairs were used.
Continuity: In the distance shot of Marv and Wendy driving to the Farm to take out Goldie's killer, we see Marv smoking a cigarette. When the camera cuts up close to Marv and Wendy's faces, the cigarette is instantly out of Marv's mouth, and in his hand.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: While Hartigan is in hospital, we hear the sounds of a mechanical respirator. However, he is not intubated and is only receiving oxygen through a nasal cannula.
Continuity: When Marv is in the bathroom with Lucille, he has a cigarette in his right hand. In the wider shot, when he takes the pills, it is in his left. In the next shot, it is in his right again.
Continuity: After Marv steals a police car and drives it into a river, he pulls himself out of the river completely dry.
Continuity: When Yellow Bastard is holding Nancy inside the farm, squaring off with Hartigan, the arm holding the knife keeps changing its distance from Nancy from shot to shot.
Continuity: Dwight is tossed into the tar pits and submerged. His head is back above the tar in the next shot, and his face is fairly clean.
Factual errors: Slide of the Colt's 1911 model pistol cannot fly backwards from the frame, it's not technically possible. Even if it could there should be remnants of barrel, recoil spring, spring guide and bushing left on the slide.