Man at the end offering Becky a smoke was Josh Hartnett, the same guy at the beginning, a hired assassin. And Becky seems to realize that will be the last time she gets to talk to her mom. Hartnett is credited as "The Salesman" and the woman he kills in the opening (Marley Shelton) as "The Customer", because his line, "I'll never know what she was running from. I'll cash her check in the morning." implies she hired him to kill her, apparently in a way where she could out gently and imagining someone loved her.
This film is based on a series of graphic novels written and drawn by Frank Miller. All the dialogue is straight from the books, and the artwork served as storyboards for the photography, right down to the limited use of color. Robert Rodriguez insisted that Miller co-direct with him, which led to his resignation from the Directors Guild of America. Miller hugely influenced all modern interpretations of Batman with his graphic novel from 1986 The Dark Knight Returns. Great video.
@@painlord2k It's an adaption not an original comic-based movie like the MCU. So this shouldn't be used as a template for all comic movies. Speaking of adaptations, "woke enhancements" worked for _Watchmen_ as the show was better than the film.
Absolutely love the voice-over about Marv: He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. He'd a been right at home on some ancient battlefield swinging an axe into somebody's face." That's one fine coat you're wearing 🤣🤣 Marv is my spirit animal
Frank Miller, whose Sin City this is, played the priest that Marv killed in the confessional. Edit: You said it felt like you were watching a comic book - that's the idea. With a few minor exceptions, this movie pretty much takes the stories straight out of the comics and puts them on the screen.
The La Brea tar pits have displays w/ prehistoric creatures. Not sure if other tar pits around the world have such displays. Dinosaurs etc. have been associated w/ tar pits for a long time. That's probably why they have them in the movie and maybe the comic/graphic novels. The assassin from the first scene is also hire to kill the girl in the last scene. There is a sequel. (Not as good, but worth watching).
It wasn't just black and white either. If you just apply grayscale to a film, you get what you saw in those older black and white films. If I'm not mistaken, here they actually took into consideration that blue, red, and green contributes varying levels of light than other colors and adapted accordingly. The effect is that things don't look dulled down. Everything looks like it might have a sheen of mercury on it. That in combination with the colors they decide to show on film really makes it pop.
You ARE literally watching a comic book. Probably the best movie adaptation of a graphic novel ever made. It recreates the style of the drawings as good as you can make it in a real life movie, sometimes picture-perfect.
Robert Rodriguez is one of the godfathers of independent filmmaking, just like Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Steven Soderberg, John Singleton, Kevin Smith and Christopher Nolan. Robert Rodriguez is not only a Director, but he is the whole filmmaking occupation. He’s an editor, producer, cinematographer, and composer.
You are forgetting George Lucas for 1977's Star Wars film was an indie film. Just like how the first Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street were indie flicks as well.
The man who offers a cigarette before killing a person: He had two scenes, one appearance at the beginning of the story and the second in the elevator disguised as a doctor. He was a hit man. Offering a cigarette is the way to keep the target still long enough to be able to murder the person. That's what he meant when he did, "I'll cash her check in the morning." While holding her that night as she bled out. Hope this helps.
He'll cash her check because SHE was the one who paid to have herself killed. She was so afraid of the people after her and what they would do to her she chose the easy way out. Like he said, "I'll never know what she was running from."
@Patrick Mastrobuono But as far as I can remember, "cashing one's check" is a slang term/code talk for getting paid the second half of a "half now, half later, arrangement. Of course, it could also be a "I do the job, I get paid", deal. But however we interpret it, it's all hitman talk. So, . . . . 😊
The dinosaurs were there because Tar pits are a tourist attraction that are often billed as having existed since prehistoric tines. The dinosaurs add to the feel of the place.
The dinosaurs aren't real. They're just decorative. I think the idea is that he's dumping the body in a place like the La Brea Tar Pits. Which is a place in Los Angeles, that had been naturally formed tar pits where dinosaur fossils and stuff like that have been found, and I think it's still an active excavation site, as well as a museum. So, the dinosaurs are just like statues, or whatever, that are there as a recreation or display type of thing. They're not actual dinosaurs or figments of his imagination.
LOL, can't you see that the dinosaurs are statues 😂😂😂 The guy in the last scene was the assassin from the first scene, who killed the girl in the red dress. It was implied that the girl in the last scene will meet a similar fate. React to 'Desperado' (1995) and 'Planet Terror' (2007) for more Robert Rodriguez stuff. There's also 'From Dusk Till Dawn' (1996) if you haven't already. Good stuff 🤘
The stories are told in non-chronological order. So characters that are dead in one story are alive in another. It’s supposed to clue you in on when certain events take place.
The first swastika in Miho's (giant) shuriken is a manji, a symbol from Buddhism and commonly used in buddhist temples in Japan. This is also why we see it from the angle such that it's left-facing, contra the Nazi swastika. The second one tattooed on the forehead of mob boss Wallenquist's thug, Stuka, is probably a Nazi one. Wallenquist is German, and in the graphic novels, the organization is implied to be Neo-Nazi. or employ a lot of them as mercenaries. (Also, here and in the comics, Manute is black, yet this doesn't seem to be much of an obstacle to either of them that he's working for them.)
Didn't know the guy was named "Stuka". That's military jargon for STUrz-KAmpfflugzeug, meaning dive bomber, and usually refers to the Junkers Ju-87, a german one form WW2. His reaction to the first arrow has me in stitches every time though.
I can't think of a crazier cast: Bruce Willis Mickey Rourke Clive Owen Benicio Del Toro Elijah Wood Rosario Dawson Jessica Alba Michael Madsen Michael Clarke Duncan Brittany Murphy Josh Hartnett Nick Stahl Carla Gugino Rutger Hauer Powers Boothe Jaime King Even Tommy Flannigan just for good measure. lol Wtf
Heheheh...that scene with the dinos at the tar pits...nobody I know even flinched at that scene. That place exists...La Brea Tar Pits in L.A. It's actually a well-known tourist attraction?
I can honestly overlook the MASSIVE age gap between Nancy and Willis (because it is legal, it makes me uncomfortable, but it is legal) if it weren't for the fact that he literally knew her when she was a child, and he literally saved her life when she was a child meaning she is most likely only in 'love' with him because Traumatic Childhood Imprinting. I get this is based on a comic book. However, it is a frank miller comic book unfortunately which speaks for itself in the worst way possible. However, from both a technical and tone perspective this movie is a very very well crafted and I do love it despite all the issues listed above.
The dinosaurs were statues, around a tar pit. Because fibreglass dinosaurs are what you put around a tar pit in places like Sin City. That yellow bastard was yellow (and stunk) due to side effects of the treatments his father used to regrow the bits Hartigan had shot off (they probably messed up his liver, which would explain the colour). The guy at the end was the hitman from the first scene, doing another job, and nicely bookending the film (or live action comic book). And it's called Frank Miller's Sin City because it's an adaptation of Miller's acclaimed comic book series of the same name. He's also known for his character defining Daredevil run, Batman: The Dark Knight returns, and graphic novels like Ronin and 300, the later of which was adapted to film in a similar live action comic book style as this one (and which I believe you've already reacted to).
23:55 There are dinosaurs because it is a tar pit, a great deposit of asphalt, a form of petroleum that come from fossilized materials such as dinosaur corpses. So, this is like a depiction of some thematic parks with tar pits in it as Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles.
About the dinosaurs at the "Pits" - Look up The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, that is the inspiration for The Pits. It's an ancient lake of tar that caught a lot of prehistoric animals (but not dinosaurs, I think) who went in thinking it was water, got stuck, died and became fossils.
There are 7 Sin City graphic novels and the one with Marv is from the 1st novel The Hard Goodbye, the one with Dwight is from the 3rd novel The Big Fat Kill and the one with Hartigan is from the 4th novel That Yellow Bastard. And the one with Josh Hartnett is from a short story called The Customer is Always Right from the 6th novel Booze, Broads and Bullets (which contains a lot of short stories). Every scene in this movie is literally taken from the comic panels and Robert Rodriguez did such a great job with that! This is one of my favorite movies! There is a sequel, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, which is based on the 2nd novel of the same name and it's a prequel to The Big Fat Kill. It also has one short story from the 6th novel called Just Another Saturday Night and the other stories where written for the movie. It took 9 years for it to be finally made and I've waited for the sequel since after the 1st movie came out, but after 2008 I stopped waiting. The sequel was ok, but it was honestly disappointing. There was gonna be a 3rd movie based on the 7th novel To Hell and Back, but it got cancelled because the 2nd movie didn't go so well at the box office. Had the 2nd movie come out earlier and Rodriguez had the same passion for it like with the 1st movie (he did not have the same passion for the 2nd movie and it was around that time he started to lose his touch), we might have gotten the 3rd movie. Johnny Depp was considered to play the main character for the 3rd movie and he was even considered to play Jackie Boy before Benicio Del Toro got cast.
@@perawow That was only Frank Miller who did the directing and The Spirit is created by Will Eisner. Miller did his own interpretation of it, the movie and the comics are very different in style and tone.
Johnny Depp would be a fantastic Wallace. But yeah, the second Sin City film was a disappointment because of the new stories. Of course by that point Miller had just completely gone off the deep end between All-Star Batman and Holy Terror, so it makes sense that his new stories weren't to the level of the older ones.
@@HobGungan Yep, I agree. It was mostly a disappointment because it didn't have the same effort & caring like in the 1st movie. When it comes to the new stories, the one with Joseph Gordon-Levitt was actually pretty good, the writing is something that could have been in the comics. However the one with Jessica Alba's Nancy was really bad & the worst part of the whole movie! Alba is really not good at playing a badass role, it didn't work in Machete & her performance in A Dame To Kill For was so bad that it deserves a Razzie nomination! Yeah, I know all about Frank Miller going bonkers since he made The Dark Knight Strikes Back.
38:40 This movie isn't that weird. If you want weird, you need to see "The Holy Mountain", by Jodorowsky. You could try "Repo Man", or "Sorry to Bother You" to.
*Blue, looking up the poster:* "This doesn't look like the kind of movie I would like" *Blue, 2 minutes into the movie:* "OMG I LOVE THIS MOVIE!" 🤣🤣🤣👍👍
Have to say wasn't Anthony Hopkins...the priest killed was Rutger Hauer an 80's actor who was in Bladerunner among other classics. If you really want to see something good he starred in watch "LadyHawke". understandable mistake just wanted you to know
Every time she posts a new video, she starts with "Hey guys, I'm blue..." and I immediately go "Oh no, what happened?" This has been going for a while now XD
I was kicked out of an art school whose founder absolutely hated Frank Miller and everything he has ever done. This is what I have to say about my relationship with these stories and characters, and what it means to the comics books and movies that are failing nowadays.
I loved Blue's reaction at the beginning when she thought she was about to watch a love story, only to see Marley Shelton's character get shot by Josh Hartnett's character.
Re Hartigan and Nancy: When consenting adults, you are attracted to who you are. I was 19 and 2nd year in University and dated a 26 year old grad student. When I was in my late 20's had a thing with a woman in her 50's. Have dated women 5 or ten years younger than me as well in my late 30's early 40's. When it hits you, it does., If you're turned off, it won't happen, but if it does, then go with it.
The girl at the end meets the contract killer from the girl in red at the beginning, that is her end!
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"WHAT IS THIS!?! WHAT THE FFF.... WHY ARE THERE DINOSAURS THERE?!?" That is the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angles. It is an actual place you can visit and the film probably got permission from the Museum to be filming all over their dinosaurs, because there was probably a bit of damage from the filming. You can probably go see exactly where all those scenes were still to this day. I don't imagine they'd change the dinosaurs in just 20 years since this was filmed.
Blast from the past. thank you :) I wrote my dissertation based around this film back many moons ago. It's always great seeing everyone reaction on this film :)
That's far more universally appealing than what I'll probably do my dissertation on. Good on ya. Feel free to share details if you'd like, as I'd be keen to hear more.
Frank Miller is well known for his comic books and graphic novels. The movie 300 (2006) is also based on his comic books, you can see it in the way the movie is shot.
The guy at the end is the Colonel (Josh Hartnett) who's the same guy in the beginning. He's a hired hitman. Thats why Becky knew she was about to die in the elevator.
About the Dinosaurs - Its a variation on the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown L.A. Its a place with a lot of paleontological research from all the dead animals from a very long, long time ago.
Great reaction to this! This and Alita were directed by Robert Rodriguez. He also directed Sin City 2 and Dusk Till Dawn. Sin City and Alita were filmed in Austin, Texas (home of Robert Rodriguez), most on studio soundstage and green screen. Being from Austin saw many of the actors around town during the filming. He also filmed Machete and Planet Terror here.
DeepCut, Blue. One of the coolest films ever with a stacked cast. FYI Tarantino guest directed the scene w/Clive Owen 'talking' with Benicio Del Toro in the car. Mickey Rourke is iconic as Marv. Um 'this man' at the end is the dude in the opening scene so it book ends the anthology.
Hey Hey there Trixy Blue. Yup, lots of moving parts in this. Had to watch it a couple times. Love your reaction. Marv is my favorite character: "There isn't anything Nancy wouldn't do for me. A frat boy roughed her up and I straightened him out but good".🤣🤣
The dinosaurs are in LeBrea Tar pits in Los Angeles. Last scene is the people from the first scene. This is one of those movies that's easy to get lost in. So watch it several times to get the whole picture.
This is a comic, literally 1 to 1 recreation. Frank Miller is the creator, and he also was a cameo as the priest who got shot in the confessional. According to the writer, Kevin an Miho are demons, they don't talk to anyone except their owners. The priest for kevin, and the twins for Miho.
The answer to your Dinosaur question is that this site is called the La Brea Tar Pits. It's in Los Angeles. There's a pit full of tar the scientists found a who bunch of preserved dinosaurs so they turned it into a bit of a tourist trap. They made sculptures of dinosaurs to display their wares. That's all.
Eh, not really. But there from what I know, Yellow Bastard, Blue Eyes Side-Stories, Daddy’s Little Girl, and Hell and Back are about the only stories that have any Color addressed in the panels.
Frank Miller is a comic book legend best known for Daredevil, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, 300 and of course Sin City. This film was made as directly used the original comics as it's possible - and it shows in the style. Watching this film in a movie theater was fantastic.
@@fannybuster Good for him. That is still a method of execution that is conceived to be a show, to be extremely impressive for witnesses and that sometimes is, as the execution are sometimes still open to people outside of what is strictly necessary. That can be compared to the guillotine in that way: when there was no problem (and there sometimes were, for both!) it was made to be fast and almost painless, and yet still very... how to say... "visual" for a potential outside audience.
*Not true.* Execution by electric chair has been declared "cruel and unusual" punishment in several states because it inflicts pain. Just read up on what happened to Allen Lee Davis (and look at the pics if you can stomach them). Keep in mind that Davis was executed in '99 when they should've had the procedure mastered.
Sin City (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City)[3] is a 2005 American neo-noir crime anthology film produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. It is based on Miller's graphic novel of the same name.
You have a good selection of videos. I have one thing to say about your reaction to Gran Torino, which was a great reaction, in which you said OLD people in thier 40s and above have a hard time changing. I am 72 and still learning. I am fascinated by YOUNG people and the perspective
It's the "La Brea tar pits" ... Where dinosaurs were discovered trapped in "tar pits" ... They have dinosaur statues around this tourist attraction in California... (😂) ...
Frank Miller is the guy who wrote RoboCop. (Although, iirc, he wasn't that happy with how it was adapted in the movie.) Miller has a brief cameo here as the priest Marv kills in the confession booth after revealing he's in on the Rourke conspiracy. Miller explained both Kevin and Miho are demons, with Kevin being the Bad Demon and Miho being the Good Demon. This is why they seem supernatural. Because, in some sense-whether literal or just metaphorical-they are.
That’s a Very Japanese though idea I didn’t even realize. But it’s Clear Marv was the better Killer in the end. Still, Miho is still a great killer herself. But I think what makes Marv and Her superior to Kevin, is that they never truly lose their humanity. They Kill not because they can, but more out of a purpose. Either to protect, or to right the many injustices they see in their Area. Their not good people, but they are better than the typical and crooked scum of Basin City.
Also, Cardinal Roark is Rutger Hauer, not Anthony Hopkins. But I could also have imagined Hopkins in that role too =) I think it's a theme park with the dinosaurs and the tar pit, they never explain it in the graphic novel either. Kevin is alive because the story takes place before he dies. The "doctor" is Josh Hartnett's hitman character from the beginning of the movie, he was hired to kill Becky because she was a traitor.
I'm pretty sure she mentioned Hopkins because she was making a Hannibal Lecter reference and not because she was mistaking Hauer for him. Roark was admitting he took part in the cannibalism during that scene. Tar pits as attractions often have dinosaur displays and exhibits because they have produced some of the most well preserved specimens of prehistoric life. LA has a notable example with its La Brea Tar Pits. I remember it featuring in Last Action Hero. It surprises me that people often don't notice that this isn't ordered chronologically. I guess maybe my love for Pulp Fiction prepared me. I do love the way they bookend the movie with Hartnett. I think my favourite piece of trivia for the movie is that Rodriguez enlisted the help of Hartnett and Shelton to shoot and edit that opening scene in a single day with Miller present in order to win him over. The fact that it's such an impactful scene and made it into the final cut is a testament to how good Rodriguez can be.
@@stephen-macdonald True, but just in case 😉 I did have a feeling it was based on an actual attraction/theme park, but I wasn't sure at first. That is true, and having Hartnett there at the end was a perfect touch to fit all the connections in the stories 🙂
Man at the end offering Becky a smoke was Josh Hartnett, the same guy at the beginning, a hired assassin. And Becky seems to realize that will be the last time she gets to talk to her mom.
Hartnett is credited as "The Salesman" and the woman he kills in the opening (Marley Shelton) as "The Customer", because his line, "I'll never know what she was running from. I'll cash her check in the morning." implies she hired him to kill her, apparently in a way where she could out gently and imagining someone loved her.
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And this is why OnlyFools Models should never be film critics.
Nope she wronged someone who hired him to assasinate her
"It's all you've got, you pansies?"
Has to be the best pre mortem one liner.
This film is based on a series of graphic novels written and drawn by Frank Miller. All the dialogue is straight from the books, and the artwork served as storyboards for the photography, right down to the limited use of color. Robert Rodriguez insisted that Miller co-direct with him, which led to his resignation from the Directors Guild of America. Miller hugely influenced all modern interpretations of Batman with his graphic novel from 1986 The Dark Knight Returns. Great video.
Yep! I loved this movie when it came out in 2005! 😊I rented it all the time when it came out on DVD
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This movie show HOW you do COMIC movies without shitty woke "enhancements" and modernization.
crazy to think it's almost 20 years old. I wish we could have seen all GN's but they dropped the ball with A Dame To Kill For :(
@@painlord2k It's an adaption not an original comic-based movie like the MCU. So this shouldn't be used as a template for all comic movies. Speaking of adaptations, "woke enhancements" worked for _Watchmen_ as the show was better than the film.
He's got a heart condition, not indigestion. "Bum ticker" translates to bad heart. Angina, if you want to look it up
no, only girls have anginas
Marv is one of the best characters I have ever seen. His desire to protect the ones he loves above all else is why I like him.
Absolutely love the voice-over about Marv: He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century.
He'd a been right at home on some ancient battlefield swinging an axe into somebody's face."
That's one fine coat you're wearing 🤣🤣 Marv is my spirit animal
My favorite line is: "I love hitmen, no matter what you do to them you don't feel bad."
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Frank Miller, whose Sin City this is, played the priest that Marv killed in the confessional.
Edit: You said it felt like you were watching a comic book - that's the idea. With a few minor exceptions, this movie pretty much takes the stories straight out of the comics and puts them on the screen.
The La Brea tar pits have displays w/ prehistoric creatures. Not sure if other tar pits around the world have such displays. Dinosaurs etc. have been associated w/ tar pits for a long time. That's probably why they have them in the movie and maybe the comic/graphic novels. The assassin from the first scene is also hire to kill the girl in the last scene.
There is a sequel. (Not as good, but worth watching).
Kinda, but not all of them :)
A prequel/sequel technically - prequel to Marv and Dwight's stories and sequel to Hartigan's
@@AmberSmith-zx2rp True. Point was there was another movie made after the original, but ok.
You beat me to a really nice explanation about tar pits. Nice!
I was about to say about the reason for the dinosaurs at the tar pits, but you did it first! 🙂
This looked awesome in the theater. The sharp contrast black and white with the pops of color. It was a unique experience.
It wasn't just black and white either. If you just apply grayscale to a film, you get what you saw in those older black and white films. If I'm not mistaken, here they actually took into consideration that blue, red, and green contributes varying levels of light than other colors and adapted accordingly. The effect is that things don't look dulled down. Everything looks like it might have a sheen of mercury on it. That in combination with the colors they decide to show on film really makes it pop.
My dog's name is Frodo Waggins and every time you yelled "Frodo" he ran to the TV
You ARE literally watching a comic book. Probably the best movie adaptation of a graphic novel ever made. It recreates the style of the drawings as good as you can make it in a real life movie, sometimes picture-perfect.
Robert Rodriguez is one of the godfathers of independent filmmaking, just like Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Steven Soderberg, John Singleton, Kevin Smith and Christopher Nolan.
Robert Rodriguez is not only a Director, but he is the whole filmmaking occupation. He’s an editor, producer, cinematographer, and composer.
You are forgetting George Lucas for 1977's Star Wars film was an indie film. Just like how the first Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street were indie flicks as well.
The man who offers a cigarette before killing a person: He had two scenes, one appearance at the beginning of the story and the second in the elevator disguised as a doctor. He was a hit man. Offering a cigarette is the way to keep the target still long enough to be able to murder the person.
That's what he meant when he did, "I'll cash her check in the morning." While holding her that night as she bled out.
Hope this helps.
He'll cash her check because SHE was the one who paid to have herself killed. She was so afraid of the people after her and what they would do to her she chose the easy way out. Like he said, "I'll never know what she was running from."
I always took it as the woman at the beginning paid Hartnet's character to kill her.
@@patrickmastrobuono310 could be.
@Patrick Mastrobuono But as far as I can remember, "cashing one's check" is a slang term/code talk for getting paid the second half of a "half now, half later, arrangement.
Of course, it could also be a "I do the job, I get paid", deal.
But however we interpret it, it's all hitman talk. So, . . . . 😊
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There’s dinosaur models because dinosaur fossils are found well preserved in tar pits.
The dinosaurs were there because Tar pits are a tourist attraction that are often billed as having existed since prehistoric tines. The dinosaurs add to the feel of the place.
The heavy, naturalistically stylized exposition is an old trope of the film noir genre, as well as perfectly fitting the comic book medium.
15:42 It's Rutger Hauer. He looks a bit like Anthony Hopkins here. ))
The Special Edition cut has all the stories separated and chronological order. It does make the stories easier to follow.
Yes, and it's more accurate to the comic books. They had to cut a lot of material to make it all fit into a 2 hour movie.
chronological is worse, i loved the order of the original movie
The dinosaurs aren't real. They're just decorative. I think the idea is that he's dumping the body in a place like the La Brea Tar Pits. Which is a place in Los Angeles, that had been naturally formed tar pits where dinosaur fossils and stuff like that have been found, and I think it's still an active excavation site, as well as a museum. So, the dinosaurs are just like statues, or whatever, that are there as a recreation or display type of thing. They're not actual dinosaurs or figments of his imagination.
Our girl was trippin' 😂😂😂
LOL, can't you see that the dinosaurs are statues 😂😂😂
The guy in the last scene was the assassin from the first scene, who killed the girl in the red dress. It was implied that the girl in the last scene will meet a similar fate.
React to 'Desperado' (1995) and 'Planet Terror' (2007) for more Robert Rodriguez stuff. There's also 'From Dusk Till Dawn' (1996) if you haven't already. Good stuff 🤘
The stories are told in non-chronological order. So characters that are dead in one story are alive in another. It’s supposed to clue you in on when certain events take place.
The first swastika in Miho's (giant) shuriken is a manji, a symbol from Buddhism and commonly used in buddhist temples in Japan. This is also why we see it from the angle such that it's left-facing, contra the Nazi swastika.
The second one tattooed on the forehead of mob boss Wallenquist's thug, Stuka, is probably a Nazi one. Wallenquist is German, and in the graphic novels, the organization is implied to be Neo-Nazi. or employ a lot of them as mercenaries. (Also, here and in the comics, Manute is black, yet this doesn't seem to be much of an obstacle to either of them that he's working for them.)
Didn't know the guy was named "Stuka". That's military jargon for STUrz-KAmpfflugzeug, meaning dive bomber, and usually refers to the Junkers Ju-87, a german one form WW2. His reaction to the first arrow has me in stitches every time though.
@@PortCharmers The characters' name is slightly more prominent in the comics, as is Wallenquist's (neo-)nazi inclinations.
38:11 This was the same guy as in the beginning of the movie. The assassin that's being paid to eliminate "targets".
I can't think of a crazier cast:
Bruce Willis
Mickey Rourke
Clive Owen
Benicio Del Toro
Elijah Wood
Rosario Dawson
Jessica Alba
Michael Madsen
Michael Clarke Duncan
Brittany Murphy
Josh Hartnett
Nick Stahl
Carla Gugino
Rutger Hauer
Powers Boothe
Jaime King
Even Tommy Flannigan just for good measure. lol Wtf
Heheheh...that scene with the dinos at the tar pits...nobody I know even flinched at that scene. That place exists...La Brea Tar Pits in L.A. It's actually a well-known tourist attraction?
I don't think Miho's using swatiskas, they're more likely manjis. It's the buddist symbol of good fortune that Hitler altered and co-opted.
I can honestly overlook the MASSIVE age gap between Nancy and Willis (because it is legal, it makes me uncomfortable, but it is legal) if it weren't for the fact that he literally knew her when she was a child, and he literally saved her life when she was a child meaning she is most likely only in 'love' with him because Traumatic Childhood Imprinting. I get this is based on a comic book. However, it is a frank miller comic book unfortunately which speaks for itself in the worst way possible. However, from both a technical and tone perspective this movie is a very very well crafted and I do love it despite all the issues listed above.
The dinosaurs were statues, around a tar pit. Because fibreglass dinosaurs are what you put around a tar pit in places like Sin City.
That yellow bastard was yellow (and stunk) due to side effects of the treatments his father used to regrow the bits Hartigan had shot off (they probably messed up his liver, which would explain the colour).
The guy at the end was the hitman from the first scene, doing another job, and nicely bookending the film (or live action comic book).
And it's called Frank Miller's Sin City because it's an adaptation of Miller's acclaimed comic book series of the same name. He's also known for his character defining Daredevil run, Batman: The Dark Knight returns, and graphic novels like Ronin and 300, the later of which was adapted to film in a similar live action comic book style as this one (and which I believe you've already reacted to).
The stories are not chronological, that’s why Kevin’s still alive in the last one. Also the last guy is the same hit man from the beginning.
23:55 There are dinosaurs because it is a tar pit, a great deposit of asphalt, a form of petroleum that come from fossilized materials such as dinosaur corpses. So, this is like a depiction of some thematic parks with tar pits in it as Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles.
That wasn't a Nazi swasktika. The symbol originated from Sanskrit and can be seen in a lot of buddhist imagery as well.
About the dinosaurs at the "Pits" - Look up The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, that is the inspiration for The Pits. It's an ancient lake of tar that caught a lot of prehistoric animals (but not dinosaurs, I think) who went in thinking it was water, got stuck, died and became fossils.
There are 7 Sin City graphic novels and the one with Marv is from the 1st novel The Hard Goodbye, the one with Dwight is from the 3rd novel The Big Fat Kill and the one with Hartigan is from the 4th novel That Yellow Bastard. And the one with Josh Hartnett is from a short story called The Customer is Always Right from the 6th novel Booze, Broads and Bullets (which contains a lot of short stories).
Every scene in this movie is literally taken from the comic panels and Robert Rodriguez did such a great job with that! This is one of my favorite movies!
There is a sequel, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, which is based on the 2nd novel of the same name and it's a prequel to The Big Fat Kill. It also has one short story from the 6th novel called Just Another Saturday Night and the other stories where written for the movie. It took 9 years for it to be finally made and I've waited for the sequel since after the 1st movie came out, but after 2008 I stopped waiting. The sequel was ok, but it was honestly disappointing.
There was gonna be a 3rd movie based on the 7th novel To Hell and Back, but it got cancelled because the 2nd movie didn't go so well at the box office. Had the 2nd movie come out earlier and Rodriguez had the same passion for it like with the 1st movie (he did not have the same passion for the 2nd movie and it was around that time he started to lose his touch), we might have gotten the 3rd movie. Johnny Depp was considered to play the main character for the 3rd movie and he was even considered to play Jackie Boy before Benicio Del Toro got cast.
you forgot they did "the spirit"
@@perawow That was only Frank Miller who did the directing and The Spirit is created by Will Eisner. Miller did his own interpretation of it, the movie and the comics are very different in style and tone.
@@JW666 oh ok, was not that good either, sin city cant be overtaken its just a masterpiece
Johnny Depp would be a fantastic Wallace. But yeah, the second Sin City film was a disappointment because of the new stories. Of course by that point Miller had just completely gone off the deep end between All-Star Batman and Holy Terror, so it makes sense that his new stories weren't to the level of the older ones.
@@HobGungan Yep, I agree. It was mostly a disappointment because it didn't have the same effort & caring like in the 1st movie.
When it comes to the new stories, the one with Joseph Gordon-Levitt was actually pretty good, the writing is something that could have been in the comics.
However the one with Jessica Alba's Nancy was really bad & the worst part of the whole movie! Alba is really not good at playing a badass role, it didn't work in Machete & her performance in A Dame To Kill For was so bad that it deserves a Razzie nomination!
Yeah, I know all about Frank Miller going bonkers since he made The Dark Knight Strikes Back.
This is like my favorite movie and a damn near page for page shot for shot adaptation of the graphic novels
For your information, Sin City is a comic by Frank Miller, same artist who make 300's comics.
38:40 This movie isn't that weird. If you want weird, you need to see "The Holy Mountain", by Jodorowsky. You could try "Repo Man", or "Sorry to Bother You" to.
Sometimes, standing up for your friends means having to kill a whole lot of people.
That's a quote from a promo for the Sin City comic, by the way.
The dinosaurs are there because this is a parody of the La Brea Tar Pits [or some such tar pit] where one can find dino bones.
It's not a swastika, it's a manji. An old japanese good luck symbol.
Dinosaurs like hanging out around tar pits. Its just what they did for fun back then
Why are are the police on the other side? There is a reason it's called Sin City. Dark, corrupt, beautiful.
*Blue, looking up the poster:* "This doesn't look like the kind of movie I would like"
*Blue, 2 minutes into the movie:* "OMG I LOVE THIS MOVIE!" 🤣🤣🤣👍👍
Have to say wasn't Anthony Hopkins...the priest killed was Rutger Hauer an 80's actor who was in Bladerunner among other classics. If you really want to see something good he starred in watch "LadyHawke". understandable mistake just wanted you to know
Every time she posts a new video, she starts with "Hey guys, I'm blue..." and I immediately go "Oh no, what happened?"
This has been going for a while now XD
I was kicked out of an art school whose founder absolutely hated Frank Miller and everything he has ever done. This is what I have to say about my relationship with these stories and characters, and what it means to the comics books and movies that are failing nowadays.
the priest was not Anthony Hopkins at all.
The tar pits are probably the La Brea tar pits, they have statues of prehistoric animals there.
"I feel like I'm watching a comic book." That was the point.
The beginning . He is a hitman
Josh Hartnett 😉
I loved Blue's reaction at the beginning when she thought she was about to watch a love story, only to see Marley Shelton's character get shot by Josh Hartnett's character.
Re Hartigan and Nancy: When consenting adults, you are attracted to who you are. I was 19 and 2nd year in University and dated a 26 year old grad student. When I was in my late 20's had a thing with a woman in her 50's. Have dated women 5 or ten years younger than me as well in my late 30's early 40's. When it hits you, it does., If you're turned off, it won't happen, but if it does, then go with it.
"Thats a damn fine coat you're wearing" has been a motto of mine for every RPG
27:21
Funniest. Death. Of. All. Time. 😂😂😂
I repeat this scene a dozen times, every time I watch this movie.
Josh Hartnett the guy at the end was the same guy from the opening that murdered the lady. He's a hitman. The Girls of Old Town don't fuck around.
One of my favorite comic book films
The girl at the end meets the contract killer from the girl in red at the beginning, that is her end!
"WHAT IS THIS!?! WHAT THE FFF.... WHY ARE THERE DINOSAURS THERE?!?"
That is the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angles. It is an actual place you can visit and the film probably got permission from the Museum to be filming all over their dinosaurs, because there was probably a bit of damage from the filming. You can probably go see exactly where all those scenes were still to this day. I don't imagine they'd change the dinosaurs in just 20 years since this was filmed.
Fun fact: The Priest that gets killed in the confessional, was played by Frank Miller; the creator of the Sin City comics.
Blast from the past. thank you :) I wrote my dissertation based around this film back many moons ago. It's always great seeing everyone reaction on this film :)
That's far more universally appealing than what I'll probably do my dissertation on. Good on ya. Feel free to share details if you'd like, as I'd be keen to hear more.
It's a Dinosaurs park with Tar pits. He's trying to sink the car in the tar pit so no diver can get in there.
The actress playing nancy had a t.v. show called Dark Angel that was ended way too soon.
Ummm, that’s Jessica Alba. She’s had a lot more than that.
Frank Miller is well known for his comic books and graphic novels. The movie 300 (2006) is also based on his comic books, you can see it in the way the movie is shot.
"I feel like I'm watching a comic book." Nailed it!
Mickey Rourke is amazing as Marv in Sin City 2005 a great performance
THIS GIRL IS WATCHING THIS MOVIE BUT IS NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO IT.
The guy at the end is the Colonel (Josh Hartnett) who's the same guy in the beginning. He's a hired hitman. Thats why Becky knew she was about to die in the elevator.
About the Dinosaurs - Its a variation on the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown L.A. Its a place with a lot of paleontological research from all the dead animals from a very long, long time ago.
Great reaction to this! This and Alita were directed by Robert Rodriguez. He also directed Sin City 2 and Dusk Till Dawn. Sin City and Alita were filmed in Austin, Texas (home of Robert Rodriguez), most on studio soundstage and green screen. Being from Austin saw many of the actors around town during the filming. He also filmed Machete and Planet Terror here.
DeepCut, Blue. One of the coolest films ever with a stacked cast. FYI Tarantino guest directed the scene w/Clive Owen 'talking' with Benicio Del Toro in the car. Mickey Rourke is iconic as Marv. Um 'this man' at the end is the dude in the opening scene so it book ends the anthology.
Did you recognize Michael Clarke Duncan? This was probably his biggest role after _The Green Mile._
Hey Hey there Trixy Blue. Yup, lots of moving parts in this. Had to watch it a couple times. Love your reaction. Marv is my favorite character: "There isn't anything Nancy wouldn't do for me. A frat boy roughed her up and I straightened him out but good".🤣🤣
My favorite phrase is now "A bunch of bad decisions holding hands"
The dinosaurs are in LeBrea Tar pits in Los Angeles. Last scene is the people from the first scene. This is one of those movies that's easy to get lost in. So watch it several times to get the whole picture.
This is a comic, literally 1 to 1 recreation. Frank Miller is the creator, and he also was a cameo as the priest who got shot in the confessional.
According to the writer, Kevin an Miho are demons, they don't talk to anyone except their owners. The priest for kevin, and the twins for Miho.
The answer to your Dinosaur question is that this site is called the La Brea Tar Pits. It's in Los Angeles. There's a pit full of tar the scientists found a who bunch of preserved dinosaurs so they turned it into a bit of a tourist trap. They made sculptures of dinosaurs to display their wares.
That's all.
It's based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller. I bet they colored it after the novel =)
Eh, not really. But there from what I know, Yellow Bastard, Blue Eyes Side-Stories, Daddy’s Little Girl, and Hell and Back are about the only stories that have any Color addressed in the panels.
Frank Miller is a comic book legend best known for Daredevil, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, 300 and of course Sin City. This film was made as directly used the original comics as it's possible - and it shows in the style. Watching this film in a movie theater was fantastic.
Dinosaurs?
La brea tar pits.
There is no pain to the convicted when using the Electric Chair ,The voltage to the brain knocks you out, Then your body organs just stops working..
Still barbaric.
@@leovk5779 I heard a warden say he would rather ride the spark than getting the lethal injection .
@@fannybuster Good for him. That is still a method of execution that is conceived to be a show, to be extremely impressive for witnesses and that sometimes is, as the execution are sometimes still open to people outside of what is strictly necessary. That can be compared to the guillotine in that way: when there was no problem (and there sometimes were, for both!) it was made to be fast and almost painless, and yet still very... how to say... "visual" for a potential outside audience.
@@leovk5779 I’d rather just have a couple grenades strapped to my head & ignited. Boom, no head. Simple, painless & very, very quick.
*Not true.* Execution by electric chair has been declared "cruel and unusual" punishment in several states because it inflicts pain.
Just read up on what happened to Allen Lee Davis (and look at the pics if you can stomach them). Keep in mind that Davis was executed in '99 when they should've had the procedure mastered.
Sin City (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City)[3] is a 2005 American neo-noir crime anthology film produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. It is based on Miller's graphic novel of the same name.
The guy that "looks like a Marvel character" actually is. He's Mickey Rourke, who played Anton Vanko in 'Iron Man 2'.
You have a good selection of videos. I have one thing to say about your reaction to Gran Torino, which was a great reaction, in which you said OLD people in thier 40s and above have a hard time changing. I am 72 and still learning. I am fascinated by YOUNG people and the perspective
11:21 he just wasnt the same after the ring😂😂
The priest in the confessional booth,is frank Miller,creator of"sin city".
15:40 Not Anthony Hopkins, its Rutger Haurer 😛
She was referring to the cannibalism
You got the sequel "sin city,a dame to kill for."
Who knew he could play such a villain eh?
I loved this movie when it came out in 2005! I rented it all the time from Blockbuster and Hollywood video when it came out on DVD too
Your reaction to the limbless Kevin reveal was perfect
It's the "La Brea tar pits" ... Where dinosaurs were discovered trapped in "tar pits" ... They have dinosaur statues around this tourist attraction in California... (😂) ...
Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For
I don’t know why, but I never saw A Dame to Kill For 🤷♂️
It just didn’t appeal to me
@@nsasupporter7557 I read that comic and I liked it, and the first movie too, so...
Frank Miller is the guy who wrote RoboCop. (Although, iirc, he wasn't that happy with how it was adapted in the movie.) Miller has a brief cameo here as the priest Marv kills in the confession booth after revealing he's in on the Rourke conspiracy.
Miller explained both Kevin and Miho are demons, with Kevin being the Bad Demon and Miho being the Good Demon. This is why they seem supernatural. Because, in some sense-whether literal or just metaphorical-they are.
That’s a Very Japanese though idea I didn’t even realize. But it’s Clear Marv was the better Killer in the end. Still, Miho is still a great killer herself.
But I think what makes Marv and Her superior to Kevin, is that they never truly lose their humanity. They Kill not because they can, but more out of a purpose. Either to protect, or to right the many injustices they see in their Area. Their not good people, but they are better than the typical and crooked scum of Basin City.
Miller worked on Robocop 2 and 3, not the original film. Ed Neumeier wrote Robocop.
4:53 yep, that's the idea!
R.I.P To Some Of The Actor's Who We're In This Movie,Are No Longer With Us, Still Miss You All
Also, Cardinal Roark is Rutger Hauer, not Anthony Hopkins. But I could also have imagined Hopkins in that role too =)
I think it's a theme park with the dinosaurs and the tar pit, they never explain it in the graphic novel either. Kevin is alive because the story takes place before he dies.
The "doctor" is Josh Hartnett's hitman character from the beginning of the movie, he was hired to kill Becky because she was a traitor.
I'm pretty sure she mentioned Hopkins because she was making a Hannibal Lecter reference and not because she was mistaking Hauer for him. Roark was admitting he took part in the cannibalism during that scene.
Tar pits as attractions often have dinosaur displays and exhibits because they have produced some of the most well preserved specimens of prehistoric life. LA has a notable example with its La Brea Tar Pits. I remember it featuring in Last Action Hero.
It surprises me that people often don't notice that this isn't ordered chronologically. I guess maybe my love for Pulp Fiction prepared me.
I do love the way they bookend the movie with Hartnett. I think my favourite piece of trivia for the movie is that Rodriguez enlisted the help of Hartnett and Shelton to shoot and edit that opening scene in a single day with Miller present in order to win him over. The fact that it's such an impactful scene and made it into the final cut is a testament to how good Rodriguez can be.
@@stephen-macdonald True, but just in case 😉
I did have a feeling it was based on an actual attraction/theme park, but I wasn't sure at first.
That is true, and having Hartnett there at the end was a perfect touch to fit all the connections in the stories 🙂
The subtitles on your copy called it "Old Town", but it's supposed to be O Town.
Had to check your reaction the second I saw this pop up, had no doubt you'd enjoy the hell out of it. Not disappointed.
Well there is Frank Miller’s and there is Las Vegas, Nevada 😉
The dinosaurs at the tar pits:
Scientists literally summized, at one point in time, that tar was the residue of dinosaurs corpses. Why? I don't know.
The guy at the end was the guy at the beginning who shot the woman with the silencer as they kissed. He's a bit of a Grim Reaper character.
Josh harnett character is a hitman. Hired to kill his target. So he begins and ends the movie