SIN CITY week-of jitters
Mar. 26th, 2005 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerThey just released some clips of SIN CITY, so of course I had to see them. And now I'm starting to worry if I hyped myself up too much. I mean, for one thing, Jessica Alba, from all I've seen, just seems wrong wrong wrong for Nancy. Aside from the "I didn't get naked like she was in the comics because, like, I thought she was sexy enough already, and besides my Dad would have totally killed me!"-ness of Alba's comments, she just seems to damn... sorority girl for a Sin City gal, especially Nancy.
I also fear that in his zeal to preserve the faithfulness to the comics that Rodriguez might have sacrificed the quality of the film itself. Pacing in comics and movies are two very, very different beasts. I mean, how many times have we seen panels where a character is delivering whole lines of dialogue as he punches a guy out, an action that takes less than a second?
And speaking of dialogue, that's another huge fear. The dialogue in Sin City is not bad, just extremely stylized. And that's the real trick for the movie, will those lines be delivered in such a way that they sound believeable, or utterly, eye-rollingly laughable? The clips didn't exactly fill me with confidence.
Come on, Friday. Prove me wrong. I know these comics inside and out by now. Bring them to life and do them justice, I pray you.
I also fear that in his zeal to preserve the faithfulness to the comics that Rodriguez might have sacrificed the quality of the film itself. Pacing in comics and movies are two very, very different beasts. I mean, how many times have we seen panels where a character is delivering whole lines of dialogue as he punches a guy out, an action that takes less than a second?
And speaking of dialogue, that's another huge fear. The dialogue in Sin City is not bad, just extremely stylized. And that's the real trick for the movie, will those lines be delivered in such a way that they sound believeable, or utterly, eye-rollingly laughable? The clips didn't exactly fill me with confidence.
Come on, Friday. Prove me wrong. I know these comics inside and out by now. Bring them to life and do them justice, I pray you.
