Klonor
17-04-2005, 19:53
Frank Millers first installment in the Sin City series of Graphic novels, it is also the primary of three storylines followed in the Sin City movie currently in theatres. It is the story of Marv, a Gentle Giant who's not quite so gentle. In the words of Dwight: "He doesn't meany any harm, but he causes plenty of it." They guy doesn't start the fights he gets into, but he ends them and he ends them fast (if you catch my drift). He also, believe it or not, is rather chivalrous and refuses to put up with anything negative towards women (I'm not sure he killed the guy, but in A Dame to Kill For he came pretty close when a tourist to Sin City called the bartender a cow). Anyway, the story of The Hard Goodbye goes like this:
Marv is getting drunk, as usual, and watching Nancy dance at the bar, also like usual, when he hooks up with Goldie. Goldie is, in his words, perfect. She "smells like angels aught to smell" and gives him the one thing he's never really had in his life: Kindness and warmth. They sleep together that night and when Marv wakes up the next morning Goldie is stone dead without a single mark on her. The Police show up a few seconds later, obviously aware of the murder in advance since nobody but Marv and the murderer could even know about it yet, and Marv barrels his way past them, No cops dead, but "They sure know they've been in a fight." The rest of the movie follows Marv on his rampage to find out who killed Goldie and his urge to get revenge. He hooks up with Wendy, Goldies twin sister, and the two of them work their way up the ladder to the top man: Cardinal Roark. Marv kills Roark rather gruesomly, the Police who stumble upon and shoot Marv as soon as he's done with Roark utter such horrified phrases as "Oh My God!" once they see what he's done. In Marvs own words, "The hell I sent him to must seem like heaven after what I've done to him."
Well, I only picked up and read the novel yesterday and haven't spent a lot of time studying it (As I'm sure some fans have), but I think the movie did a pretty damn good job in lifting the story from the pages to the screen. I see dialogue going word-for-word and action following directly from the pictures. This movie is good right down to the facial expresssions. The scenes they cut out (And yes, they did have to cut out some stuff) I approve of them cutting out, they either wouldn't have fit with the movie are made the movie twice the length it already was. I think they really did a good job.
I haven't yet read That Yellow Bastard or The Big Fat Kill, the other two stories you follow in the movie, but I have every reason to assume that the film did just as good a job with them.
Kudos to the director and production team!
Marv is getting drunk, as usual, and watching Nancy dance at the bar, also like usual, when he hooks up with Goldie. Goldie is, in his words, perfect. She "smells like angels aught to smell" and gives him the one thing he's never really had in his life: Kindness and warmth. They sleep together that night and when Marv wakes up the next morning Goldie is stone dead without a single mark on her. The Police show up a few seconds later, obviously aware of the murder in advance since nobody but Marv and the murderer could even know about it yet, and Marv barrels his way past them, No cops dead, but "They sure know they've been in a fight." The rest of the movie follows Marv on his rampage to find out who killed Goldie and his urge to get revenge. He hooks up with Wendy, Goldies twin sister, and the two of them work their way up the ladder to the top man: Cardinal Roark. Marv kills Roark rather gruesomly, the Police who stumble upon and shoot Marv as soon as he's done with Roark utter such horrified phrases as "Oh My God!" once they see what he's done. In Marvs own words, "The hell I sent him to must seem like heaven after what I've done to him."
Well, I only picked up and read the novel yesterday and haven't spent a lot of time studying it (As I'm sure some fans have), but I think the movie did a pretty damn good job in lifting the story from the pages to the screen. I see dialogue going word-for-word and action following directly from the pictures. This movie is good right down to the facial expresssions. The scenes they cut out (And yes, they did have to cut out some stuff) I approve of them cutting out, they either wouldn't have fit with the movie are made the movie twice the length it already was. I think they really did a good job.
I haven't yet read That Yellow Bastard or The Big Fat Kill, the other two stories you follow in the movie, but I have every reason to assume that the film did just as good a job with them.
Kudos to the director and production team!