Frank Miller's Sin City (the movie)

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Glad I misunderstood your inital post then. Thanks for clarifying.

As for the books this movie is based on, they're less bloated because they're serial, and not forced into a 2 hour film. I enjoyed the frenzied energy, which is what made the transition from panel to film work for me, as it allows the movie to be its own thing. They used the books as the movie's storyboard, but the film still managed to move beyond the panels to become its own thing. I understand why others would find it to be more is more, and more ain't better. But I've found myself a fan of this filmmaking style, loving both parts of Kill Bill as well.

I stand by <i>Sin City</i> as being Noir, though certainly a different brand of. It's punk rock, for sure. And though the violence and sexualization of the characters were more pornographic than, let's say, <i>The Big Sleep</i>, older noir films certainly were violent and the type of woman Bacall played certainly was classy, but she was also a man's idea of what classy and sexy are. Not that I'm complaining. But I like Bacall's dames *and* the brand of mad bitch dame realized by Rosario Dawson. That, and I also think Miller's dialogue is very clever pulp fiction writing.