good adaptation of graphic novels

Rating: 9/10 (20 August 2005)

SIN CITY
Frank Miller holding the credits for the story and co-direction for the movie actually is graphic novel ( a rather more honored term for comic books ) writer since past 20 years or so. His novels portray characters in black and white with some splashes of color on the paper. The movie SIN CITY is actually an adaptation of three of such novels/comic book by Miller , namely "The Hard Goodbye" Marv-Mickey Rourkey and Goldie's-Jamie King story, "The Big Fat Kill" ,Dwight-Clive Owen and other ladies, and "That Yellow Bastard", Hardigan-Bruce Willis and Nancy's-Jessica Alba story).
the movie has just brought together these three stories together , all three having no relevance with each other only for the BAR scene where three heroes of the three separate stories come to have a drink . Marv comes there to have a drink after he runs from the police, hardigan comes there in search of Nancy and Dwight is there just to have a drink n meet Shelly . otherwise the movie goes separately for the three stories.
however in these stories each hero has a severe problem and he has to fight both his personal problem and attain his objective of killing others. in case of Bruce Willis , it was his heart , which pounds and pains when he is in excitement or whenever he has a rush of adrenalin in his veins. he has to overcome his age problem and fight with the fat yellow bastard. Marv or mickey Rourke has a problem with reality , he sometimes fails to understand whether whatever happening with him is real or it is just his dream, he can't make decision whether he should kill people or not because he is not able to judge if the reason for which he is killing people is genuine or just dream generated , if its not real then his acts will eventually make him a psycho killer going and killing people for no good reason . he fights his problem and tries to overcome them throughout the movie . Clive oven / Dwight on the other hand has a grotesque feeling that he can talk to corpses , what actually happens is he is so afraid of dead bodies that he himself talks to himself , a case of portraying himself as a talking corpse.
The entertainment ability of the movie lies in the direction and screenplay of the movie , how it has been adapted from a B/W paper work to a 32mm projection material. If you might have noticed,throughout the movie no object in the background is in the motion , its only the characters and the objects they are involved with , not even a single leaf moves in the whole movie . this is because the whole movie was done indoor and the background implanted using the technology after wards. the movie has been directed so that it seems it is an adaptation of a comic book , the action used in the movie is cartoon style , people flying on explosions or car hits etc. the whole movie has been kept B/W and only some object have been shown in color just it is in the case with the comic book.
the whole movie is cold,violent,raw,rough and grotesque, the way nowadays US guys enjoy the entertainment to be. a proof of the fact is huge number of fans of the movies like PULP FICTION, NATURAL BORN KILLERS, KILL BILL etc. this new revolution in the movie making can be attributed to Tarantino , whose PULP FICTION came to be a great hit in US.he was invited as a guest director in the movie as well , where he directed the scene where Goldie's sister rushes the car over Marv.
direction and screenplay wise movie is good . people seem to enjoy such movies nowadays , its ranking of 91 on IMDb says a lot about that.