The Wait is Over, 'Sin City 2' is Finally Here!
After nearly ten years since the first installment, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez just granted your darkest wish with their new film “Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.” The sequel is based on four strorylines, two of the stories are from existing narratives, “Just Another Saturday Night” and “The Long, Bad Night,” and the other two are completely new, “A Dame To Kill For” and “Nancy’s Last Dance.”
The co-directors brought back some of their favorites from the graphic novel’s first time on the big screen: Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Rosario Dawson, plus tapped into the talent of Eva Green, Josh Brolin and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, to name a few.
Rodriguez insisted on shooting the film in 3D, instead of converting it in post-production, so the entire film was shot against a green screen. The virtual Sin City world is all digital. For everybody involved it was a totally new and different experience, but specially for the actors. “You have to find the cadence, and the cadence doesn’t come to you. It’s the kind of movie you really have to dive into. You can’t really manipulate the movie, and you can’t manipulate Frank Miller’s mind. It’s impossible,” said Brolin in a recent press conference. To what Miller said between laughs, “many have tried.” Gordon-Levitt added, “you kind of get to become a cartoon. I loved acting in the green environment and fully embracing an abandonment of reality.”
The women have a pivotal role in “Sin City’s” stories, and what for some seems controversial, for others seems empowering. “It was cool to be able to take someone from this sweet, innocent, naive victim to this very powerful warrior who takes life in her own hands and gets revenge,” Alba said. For Green the most challenging part was playing all the characters within her character of femme fatale and “still be believable and lie all the time.” She added, “she’s so bad. No conscience. No sense of right or wrong. She’s pretty evil.”
Alba is not new to Rodriguez’ world and joins in whenever he calls because she finds it so inspiring. Gordon-Levitt couldn’t hide his admiration towards Rodriguez. “He manages to approach in the medium of filmmaking what an artist like Frank Miller is able to do by himself with just his own tools, writing and drawing,” he said.
Miller and Rodriguez don’t deny the option of more films with Nancy (Alba’s role) as a main character. “I already have her next chapter planned,” Miller said. But when asked if fans have to wait another nine years for the next movie, he says with a straight face, “it’ll be out Tuesday.”
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, and at least for now, you can go get your film noir fix with “Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For,” a gory game of lust, love, and greed between murderers, prostitutes, cops and politicians.
“Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For” in theaters August 22.