Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
Cinematography
Selective color in monochrome—digital rotoscoping pushed to art.
Practical Effects
Mickey Rourke's prosthetics: grotesque poetry in latex.
Direction
Miller and Rodriguez co-directed; Tarantino guest-directed one scene.
Director
Robert Rodriguez
Bruce Willis
Hartigan
Jessica Alba
Nancy
Clive Owen
Dwight
Mickey Rourke
Marv
Rutger Hauer
Cardinal Roark
Benicio del Toro
Jackie Boy
Alexis Bledel
Becky
Michael Madsen
Bob
Powers Boothe
Senator Roark
Nick Stahl
Roark Jr. / Yellow Bastard
Devon Aoki
Miho
Michael Clarke Duncan
Manute
Rosario Dawson
Gail
Carla Gugino
Lucille
Josh Hartnett
The Man
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rodriguez quit the Directors Guild to keep Miller's co-director credit—he literally paid a fine to honor the comic's god.
The film's hyper-stylized violence was designed to feel like memory, not reality—Miller's comics as traumatic recall.
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