Where to watch Sin City (2005)

Trivia & production notes

• Principal photography started on March 29, 2004, with several scenes shot before any actors were cast, requiring stand-ins who were later digitally replaced during post-production.
• Rodriguez treated the film as a translation rather than an adaptation of Frank Miller's source material, resulting in no screenwriting credit—only 'Based on the graphic novels by Frank Miller.'
• Quentin Tarantino directed the drive-to-the-pits scene and was paid one dollar for his work.
• Rodriguez resigned from the Directors Guild of America to preserve the joint directorial credit with Frank Miller, as the guild initially refused to allow two non-established directors to share credit.
• The film was shot using Sony CineAlta F950 cameras on HD-CAM SR format.
• Three separate composers scored the film's three main stories individually: Graeme Revell scored 'The Hard Goodbye,' John Debney scored 'The Big Fat Kill,' and Robert Rodriguez scored 'That Yellow Bastard.'
• The instrumental version of 'Cells' by The Servant was heavily featured in promotional materials and on the film's DVD menus.
• Deleted scenes from the theatrical release were restored and included in the Sin City Collectors DVD, which split the stories into four separate narratives.
• Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, calling it 'a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant.'
• A 2017 Metacritic analysis by Gizmodo UK identified Sin City as the third most critically divisive film of recent years.

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