Starting to Get Somewhere - Part 1

    I saw one of the movies from my blog posts earlier and...... it could have been better definitely. I got a bit context from my friend who told me that the movie, Sin City, was actually based off a comic run by the same name. The comic came out in the 90s which explains why the film is in black and white with certain colors popping out. If I am being completely honest, the movie is not very good. The comic isn't a new breach in the genre of noir as I am told, that it was more a very stereotypical noir comic run that was simply done incredibly well. 

    So what ends up happening is that the movie tries to keep some style that is transitioned into film so that ends up being completely computer generated settings and weird choices in cinematography, as seen above. I understand that they are trying to replicate certain images from the comic but it just doesn't work. On top of that the dialogue is just so poorly done. I understand what they are doing in relation to the comics but again it just doesn't work. HOWEVER, the dialogue was unintentionally funny and I was laughing a bit at the beginning before I got bored.

This scene at the beginning of the movie was particularly funny for me.

    The positives of this movie is more in relation to my project. The black and white mixed in with the overly serious dialogue is a great way in my opinion to add more comedy to the piece. I also forgot to mention this but I did have some changes to my piece and it became more self aware and more about poking fun at the noir/neo noir genre. One character is going to be a very stereotypical character that you would find in one of these films while the other is incredibly self aware but still nervous about what they are doing. He is still going to really freaked out by the body and I even had a recurring joke about a black and white filter on the camera that he gets rid of because it annoys him.

    So yeah to kind of recap this jumbled mess of a post, I saw Sin City and even though I didn't like it, I can still take elements of it into my piece, which has also changed and just so happens to nicely align with what I took from this movie.