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Sin City is a 2005 neo-noir portmanteau film based on the graphic novels of the same name, directed by Robert Rodriguez.

Rodriguez also gave Sin City
creator Frank Miller a directing credit on the film, crediting his visual style and its influence on the resulting film. However, the Director's Guild of America refused to recognize Rodriguez and Miller as being a bona-fide team. To avoid compromise, Rodriguez resigned from the Guild, and the joint credit remained.

Quentin Tarantino is credited as "Special Guest Director" for his role in helping to direct one scene in the movie.

The movie was released in cinemas across the U.S. on April 1, 2005 by Dimension Films.

Originally, creator Frank Miller did not want to release the movie rights of Sin City, because of a poor Hollywood experience in the early 1990s -- namely, the second and third RoboCop movies. However, director Robert Rodriguez shot a 'proof of concept' short movie of the Sin City story The Customer is Always Right (starring Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton, who did this for Rodriguez as a favor) and Frank Miller approved of the footage, and the movie was underway. Supposedly, Rodriguez also used the short film to convince the actors he wanted for parts to play them and reportedly, most were quite impressed. The short film was used as the opening of the finished film.

The movie is primarily based on four Sin City stories:

The Customer is Always Right

The Hard Goodbye

The Big Fat Kill
That Yellow Bastard

The movie also includes a short epilogue written exclusively for the movie by Rodriguez and Miller.

Sin City was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in competition. While some felt having an American film based on a violent comic book being screened for competition was inappropriate, the film was well-received at the festival and won Robert Rodriguez the Technical Grand Prize for the film's "visual shaping."

Movie structure

The movie is constructed around five loosely connected stand-alone stories that are not necessarily presented in chronological order. All of the stories take place in Basin City (Appropriately nicknamed Sin City), a place overrun by filth, rain and corruption. The film opens with "The Customer is Always Right," a brief story about a woman who meets The Salesman (Josh Hartnett).

From this point on, we are introduced to Hartigan (Bruce Willis), a dying cop whose last mission is to protect young Nancy Callahan from a vicious child molester (Nick Stahl) in a story based on "That Yellow Bastard." After a brief part of this story, we move on to "The Hard Goodbye," a tale of how street hulk Marv (Mickey Rourke) spends a hot night with angelic hooker Goldie (Jaime King)... then she's murdered by a cannibalistic hitman named Kevin (Elijah Wood). Marv becomes dangerously vengeful to avenge her death.

After the entirity of "Goodbye," we move on to "The Big Fat Kill," a story of Dwight (Clive Owen), a thug whose actions with dirty cop Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro) spark a catastrophic war between the police department and the hookers of Old Town (Including Rosario Dawson, Alexis Bledel, and Devon Aoki).

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