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Sin City 2005 Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything... Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough the corrupt the brokenhearted. Some call it dark. Hard boiled. Then there are those who call it home. Crooked cops. Sexy dames. Desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge. Others lust after redemption. And then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care. Three stories shocking suspenseful and searing come to the fore in a new motion picture from co directors Frank Miller comics idol and author of the Sin City comics and Robert Rodriguez with special guest director Quentin Tarantino! Sin City was one of several films around the world to be shot on a completely digital backlot with all the acting shot in front of a green screen and the backgrounds added during post production. While the other movies Immortel ad vitam 2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004 and Casshern 2004 were shot first Rodriguez's use of High Definition digital cameras like 'Sky Captain' in addition to the 'backlot' method makes Sin City one of the world's first 'fully digital' live action motion pictures. Desperate to create Sin Cityas a translation rather than a 'Hollywood' adaptation Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller actually used the panels from the original comic books as storyboards for the movie. The visual style strongly echoes the comics throughout with the black and white footage broken up momentarily by splashes of colour in certain scenes a similar effect was used in Pleasantville. Needless to say this all contributes to make possibly the greatest most authentic comic book 'translation' yet... Kill Bill 2004 Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! In part 1 of Quentin Tarantino's delirious revenge movie Uma Thurman plays 'The Bride' a woman seeking vengeance on those who massacred her wedding party... Inspired by countless Japanese swordplay actionfests the classic Lady Snowblood among them yakuza gangster thrillers offering a cameo opportunity to genre icon Sonny Chiba and Chinese martial arts movies hence the knowing appearance of Jackie Chan contemporary Gordon Liu Quentin Tarantino borrows from the best in order to shape his deliciously over the top cinematographic style into a simple but effective plot. Look out too for Battle Royale alumni Chiaki Kuriyama as Lucy Lui's weapon wielding schoolgirl bodyguard and the gravel voiced Shun Sugata he of Ichi The Killer fame who also appeared alongside Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai. Homage Pastiche Kill Bill is not just for movie anoraks complete with all the super smooth tunes that you'd expect from a Tarantino soundtrack it's definitely the most outrageously entertaining film yet from cinema's king of cool! Kill Bill 2 2004 The second part of Quentin Tarantino's deliriously stylish movie as The Bride Thurman continues her typically blood soaked revenge quest... Having killed two of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad The Bride continues her mission to avenge the three remaining names on her death list that turned her El Paso wedding party into bloody carnage and left her for dead. Her attention turns to Budd Michael Madson Elle Driver Daryl Hannah and finally the corpse littered path leads to Bill David Carradine. However an unexpected survivor complicates matters...
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