Post by Lesa on Apr 19, 2005 0:00:04 GMT -6
Imagine, filming an entire movie in one room, without an actual set. I was already interested in watching this, but now I'm anxious to see it.
"He sounded so weary when I called him," says Rodriguez. "The, you know, ah, but we’re gonna have to write a script. Then we’re gonna send that to the studio. And then they’re gonna say it’s too violent or it’s too … I said, 'Frank, there ain’t no script. We’re gonna shoot right out of the book.'"
Rodriguez is the rare filmmaker who can keep a promise like that. He’s a one-man studio, working on film’s digital frontier. "Sin City" was shot in front of an empty green screen with almost no sets at all. The digital background and special effects were created later and super-imposed in editing. Rodriguez went so far as to make Miller co-director on the film — in order to faithfully recreate the look of “Sin City.”
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The actors’ biggest challenge was working on Rodriguez's green-screen set. "We shot it in one room, one green-walled room," says Rodriguez. "Just the way you would shoot a weatherman in front of the weather chart and put in the map later. That’s how we shot the whole movie."
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Not only is it amazing, it's efficient. Since few sets were physically constructed, and so much of the detail work was done in post-production, the actors finished in just days, instead of weeks, as is in a typical Hollywood film.
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Not only did the actors spend very few days on the set, thanks to the computer imagery, they didn’t even have to be there at the same time. One fight between Mickey Rourke and Elijah Wood was completely fake: the two never even met until they were introduced at the movie’s premiere.
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True to his formula, Rodriguez made “Sin City” on a tight budget: just over $40 million. In less than two weeks, it’s already made more than it cost to shoot. By contrast, last week’s release, “Sahara,” cost an estimated $130 million to create and grossed $18 million its first weekend.
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Rodriguez and Miller are already talking about a “Sin City” sequel and they aren't planning to change a thing.
Rodriguez is the rare filmmaker who can keep a promise like that. He’s a one-man studio, working on film’s digital frontier. "Sin City" was shot in front of an empty green screen with almost no sets at all. The digital background and special effects were created later and super-imposed in editing. Rodriguez went so far as to make Miller co-director on the film — in order to faithfully recreate the look of “Sin City.”
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The actors’ biggest challenge was working on Rodriguez's green-screen set. "We shot it in one room, one green-walled room," says Rodriguez. "Just the way you would shoot a weatherman in front of the weather chart and put in the map later. That’s how we shot the whole movie."
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Not only is it amazing, it's efficient. Since few sets were physically constructed, and so much of the detail work was done in post-production, the actors finished in just days, instead of weeks, as is in a typical Hollywood film.
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Not only did the actors spend very few days on the set, thanks to the computer imagery, they didn’t even have to be there at the same time. One fight between Mickey Rourke and Elijah Wood was completely fake: the two never even met until they were introduced at the movie’s premiere.
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True to his formula, Rodriguez made “Sin City” on a tight budget: just over $40 million. In less than two weeks, it’s already made more than it cost to shoot. By contrast, last week’s release, “Sahara,” cost an estimated $130 million to create and grossed $18 million its first weekend.
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Rodriguez and Miller are already talking about a “Sin City” sequel and they aren't planning to change a thing.
Read the full story at CBSNews.com
Based on the Sin City comic book series by Frank Miller
Co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, with special guest director Quentin Tarantino
Bruce Willis
Jessica Alba
Benicio del Toro
Clive Owen
Mickey Rourke
Elijah Wood
Nick Stahl
Powers Boothe
Rutger Hauer
I've been wanting to watch it for Jessica Alba, but when I do finally see it I'll also be watching closely at the fight scene between Mickey Rourke and Elijah Wood.