According to Chevy Chase, he was impressed by the original script's raunchy, R-rated, "over the top" tone (particularly a filmed, but ultimately cut, gag involving MacDonald and Lange delivering donuts that had been photographed around their genitals), and went so far as to tell MacDonald and Lange to not allow any changes. However, the studio insisted on a PG-13 rating, and re-scheduled the film's release from February to June, where it fared poorly against blockbusters like Godzilla (1998). Unfortunately, no alternate scenes had been shot, and the dialogue could only be changed with the actor's re-recording their lines. This may explain why some of the dialogue is dubbed in certain scenes.
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ashley Judd, Carrie-Anne Moss and Naomi Watts were considered to play Lucille before Carla Gugino was cast.
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Based on the graphic novels "The Hard Goodbye", "The Big Fat Kill", and "That Yellow Bastard", by Frank Miller. The opening footage with Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton was from the Sin City short story "The Customer is Always Right" from the "Babe Wore Red" collection. However, the epilogue featuring Hartnett and Alexis Bledel was an original scene written specifically for this movie.
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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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Michael Madsen was briefly considered for the role of Marv before Mickey Rourke was cast. He was eventually cast as Bob.
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When Marv (Mickey Rourke) visits Lucille's (Carla Gugino's) apartment for his medicine, he says, "this isn't some creep with a gas can trying to torch some wino!" This is a reference to the Sin City story "Just Another Saturday Night", in which Marv wreaks havoc on a group of preppy kids who were burning winos alive.
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The swords used by Miho (Devon Aoki) in this movie are the same ones used by some of the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). That movie's director, Quentin Tarantino, had been keeping them in the back of his garage.
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WILHELM SCREAM: When Marv throws a police officer out of the stolen cop car.
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This movie, and many of its effects and scoring, were all done in Robert Rodriguez's studio, which is immediately across the street from his house, because he refuses to work anywhere else, and shuns other Hollywood traditions. It took his friendship with Miramax Films honchos Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein to make the production of this movie possible, as no other studios would take a chance on either Rodriguez's methods or such a bizarre movie.
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While the three stories in this movie were based on "The Hard Goodbye", "The Big Fat Kill", and "That Yellow Bastard", as well as the short "The Customer is Always Right", there is a very brief scene taken from the story "A Dame to Kill For", in which Dwight (Clive Owen) thinks in a voice-over in Kadie's Bar how Marv "would have been okay if he'd been born a couple of centuries earlier."
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DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Robert Rodriguez (Chango Beer): When Hartigan (Bruce Willis) comes into Kadie's Bar, Shellie (Brittany Murphy) is carrying a bottle of "Chango Beer". This is the same fictional brand used in other Robert Rodriguez movies, including Desperado (1995) and From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).
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The song that was featured in Carla Gugino's earlier movie, Snake Eyes (1998) was "Sin City" by Meredith Brooks.
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When Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro) and his "troops" enter Shellie's (Brittany Murphy'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's) earrings). This is the symbol of "P.A.X.", the paramilitary peace force from Frank Miller's Martha Washington series of graphic novels, beginning with "Give Me Liberty".
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One of the guns used by Hartigan is a Beretta M93R, a gun modified and then used in the RoboCop film franchise. Frank Miller co-wrote the screenplays for RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993).
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Rutger Hauer's head is crushed at the end of the Marv story, much like he crushed his creator's head with his hands at the end of Blade Runner (1982). Incidentally, in Blade Runner (1982), he called his victim, Dr. Tyrell, "father" before crushing his head. In this movie, he is a "father" (a Priest).
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An obscene pun can be seen on the matchbook found by Hartigan: "Liquor in the front, poker in the rear".
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Rosario Dawson, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Jaime King, and Powers Boothe are the only cast members who returned for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014).
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Footage had been so coveted by fans before its release that when a twenty-seven-second behind-the-scenes clip appeared on Entertainment Tonight (1981) (on May 19, 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 greenscreen.
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Directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller planned each shot in the movie by using the panels from the original book as a storyboard.
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In the Sin City comic book, Marv is a seven foot giant, while Cardinal Roark is a dwarf. In this movie, Marv (Mickey Rourke) is two inches shorter, at 5'11" than Cardinal Roark (Rutger Hauer) at 6'1".
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sin City - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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