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© DR -SIN CITY de Robert Rodriguez (2005) p 39
12/12/2011 12:41
Trivia (fin)
Although the grand majority of the movie was shot against green-screen, there were four practical (i.e. hand-built) sets created:
- Kadie's bar
- Shellie's apartment
- Hatigan's prison cell
- the hospital in the epilogue.
Counting only blows to the head or face, Marv is struck 21 times through the course of the movie.
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Originally the film was going to include the story featured in the "Sin City" maxi-series "Hell And Back", with Johnny Depp in the lead role as Wallace. This was scrapped before production began but will most likely be filmed for a sequel, as Robert Rodriguez plans to film all of Miller's stories at some point.
As each sequence of this film was shot separately, new cast members were added and incorporated in the stories throughout the production. In many cases separate footage was composited in post-production to look as if it were all shot the same day. For example: Marv ( Mickey Rourke) takes Wendy ( Jaime King) to Nancy's ( Jessica Alba) home. Alba had not been cast yet when Rourke and King shot the scene; her footage was added in later. The same is true of the scenes between Marv and Cardinal Roark ( Rutger Hauer) and Kevin ( Elijah Wood), as Hauer and Wood were cast after Rourke had shot his scenes. *
The signature white blood proved hard to achieve on screen. Regular movie blood couldn't provide the stark look. The crew had to use fluorescent red liquid and bathe it in black light. In post-production, the liquid was turned white.
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At one point, Hartigan resists Nancy's advances saying, "I'm old enough to be your grandfather." While Hartigan (age 68) is old enough to be the grandfather of Nancy (age 19), in real life Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba are only 26 years apart in age. *
The punchline to an obscene joke can be seen on the matchbook found by Hartigan: *Liquor in the front poker in the rear*.
This was one of several films around the world to be shot on a completely "digital backlot" (i.e. 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), Capitaine Sky et le monde de demain (2004), and Casshern (2004) - two of which were shot on film) were shot first, this movie'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. *
In the graphic novel, the Yellow Bastard's ( Nick Stahl) car is an Atlantic '57C Bugatti. However, it was changed to a 1936 Cadillac Limo for the film because it would've cost over $230,000 to use the Bugatti for four shooting days. Also, the Yellow Bastard's license plate is "TYB 069." The first half is TYB, the initials for the story "That Yellow Bastard." *
The cool detective that Nancy Calahan refers to when she says she would sign her letters as "Cordelia" is Cordelia Gray.
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The opening credits were made with some of Robert Rodriguez's choices for the characters before any were cast. *
In the Sin City comic book Marv is a 7 foot giant while Cardinal Roark is a dwarf. In the Sin City movie the actor playing Marv ( Mickey Rourke) is two inches shorter than the actor playing Cardinal Roark ( Rutger Hauer). *
Robert Rodriguez, who credits Frank Miller's visual style in the comic as being as relevant as his own in the film, insisted that Miller receive a "co-director" credit with him. The Directors' Guild of America would not allow it. As a result, Rodriguez resigned from the DGA, saying, "It was easier for me to quietly resign before shooting because otherwise I'd be forced to make compromises I was unwilling to make or set a precedent that might hurt the guild later on." Unfortunately, by resigning from the DGA, Rodriguez was also forced to relinquish his director's seat on the film John Carter (2012) (at the time "A Princess of Mars" after the book on which it was based) for Paramount. Rodriguez had already signed on and been announced as director of that film when the DGA situation took place, and had been planning to begin shooting soon after wrapping this film.
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The cover of the Sin City book "Booze, Broads, and Bullets", can be seen periodically throughout the movie. Its most notable appearance is on the cover of the matchbook that Hartigan picks up to locate Nancy; it is also seen in the background of the strip club in the very next scene as Hartigan first enters (to the right as a poster).
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One of the hookers in Old Town is dressed like Wonder Woman. She is seen from the back, wearing a set of star-spangled hot pants and with a golden lasso at her side. She also appears in the original comic, in a nearly identical shot (when Marv is asking about Goldie, just before Wendy takes him down).
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Both Nancy ( Jessica Alba) and Wendy ( Jaime King) drive cars with the license plates "LEV 311". Frank Miller often puts this in his various stories for "favourite girl" character in that story. The number is a nod to his wife and frequent collaborator Lynn Varley, whose birthday is March 11th. *
One of the guns used by Hartigan is a Beretta M93R, a gun modified and then used in in the RoboCop movies. Frank Miller wrote RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993). *
WILHELM SCREAM: when Marv throws a police officer out of the stolen cop car.
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With the exception of "The Customer is Always Right," at some point during each segment the narrator says the name of the story as part of the dialog.
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When Jackie Boy and his "troops" enter Shellie's apartment, one of them is wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign embedded with a star and flag (the symbol also appears as one of Becky's ( Alexis Bledel) earrings). This is the symbol of PAX, the paramilitary peace force from Frank Miller's Martha Washington series of graphic novels, beginning with "Give Me Liberty." *
Although the action happens in the fictional Basin City, a replica of New York's Chrysler Building can be seen in the background when Marv is running by the rooftops.
The text of the newspaper shown during "The Hard Goodbye" has a written transcript of the opening scene and "The Hard Goodbye". The author of the article is F. Miller. Accoring to the paper, the story either takes place in 1993 or 1999.
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Body Count: 41 (Extended Edition Included) This *does not* include deaths which occurred "offscreen", but resulted in on screen corpses.
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The "razor-wire handling" gloves are actually lacrosse gloves called Gladiators made by STX.
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Footage had been so coveted by fans before its release that when a 27-second behind-the-scenes clip appeared on Entertainment Tonight (1981) (airdate: 19 May 2004), it was quickly (though not officially by the show) placed on the Internet and downloaded over one million times. The raw footage featured only quick shots of Bruce Willis and a scantily-clad Jessica Alba performing in front of green-screen. *
Marley Shelton also starred in the 1998 Gary Ross film Pleasantville (1998) which, much like this, employed the same visual technique of showing everything in black and white with only the occasional person, object or scene shown in color.
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