"Sin City"

I just want to say thanks to the anonymous poster for his/her comments on my journalism post.

Now I can move on to something else. I recently caught a screen shot of the Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller 2005 project "Sin City." It popped up in the most recent issue of Premier (I think Keanu is on the cover) and I discussed the possibilities with my friend Joe, who is a huge comic book fan and is probably the guy that got me hooked on reading the original comics in the first place. Since I've been collected the trade-paperbacks (because I generally don't have the patience to wait for each individual comic to come out and would rather read the giant story arcs as a whole). This may or may not be more expensive, but I would rather have the collection rather than multitudes of smaller comic books laying around. Besides, the TPBs are easier to shelf.

I love the Sin City books. It's that ultimate merging of noir and writing that got me into movies and books and writing. The art is phenominal -- Miller writes, illustrates (proper terminology, Joe?) and inks the entire series. The black inkyness of the page just oozes bad-ass, when Marv is standing in the middle of a giant rainstorm and the city lights glisten off his shoulders. The book is dark (both aethestically and mentally), violent -- probably a Tarantino wet-dream.

And to find out that Rodriguez is directing (or should I say co-directing) the film version of the series makes me ecstatic. The anticipation is killing me and I can almost claim right now that "Sin City" is going to be the best comic book-to-film adaptation out there. Screw Batman, Superman and even Spider-Man. No one is taking the feel and look of a comic book more seriously and allowing the series to speak for itself in the film. The monochromatic shots are in the movie with just the subtle colorations, originally established in Miller's books. The Yellow Bastard is really Yellow.

No film has ever made me this excited. And then I saw the trailer.

As Joe (and anyone that reads Joe's blog comments) knows that I LOVE the trailer. I'm a big fan of trailers, but this one is like taking the whole stack of Sin City TPBs and flipping through them getting a glimpse at the overall storyline and quick snapshots, which is a fabulous concept just proving that Rodriguez has painstakingly produced one of the most anticipated movies of 2005 and a film that's already my No. 1 pick for the year.

Cheers to Rodriguez and MIller.