In article <1112837181.522969.280130@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 "Nick Macpherson" <NMacphe421@AOL.com> wrote:

> Warchild wrote:
> 
> > 'Sin City' is not film noir.  Being a black and white crime drama
> does not
> > automatically qualify a film as 'film noir'.  'Sin City' has comic
> book
> > style action and is set in a city that has no real world counterpart.
>  'Film
> > Noir' takes as it's underlying assumption that the film is set in the
> real
> > world.
> >
> 
> Basin City has a clear real world counterpart--Los Angeles.  And two of
> the stories, no matter how narrowly or broadly you define "film noir",
> qualify as noir--the Mickey Rourke segment and the Bruce Willis
> segment.  The Owen story is more of a nerd comic book fantasy in the
> "wow, wouldn't it be cool if I looked that good and got to hang out
> with hookers with machine guns?" realm.

The fact that the church is built in the image of the bishop pretty much 
indicates that this is not 'the real world'.  The fact that there is 
nothing 'normal' occurring in the background of this city, and that no 
one lives 'normal' lives in Basin City indicates that it is not 'the 
real world'.  I like 'Sin City' on its own terms, but I am not going to 
make the mistake of trying to shoe horn it into a genre into which it 
doesn't fit.   People who think 'Sin City' is 'film noir' have only ever 
watched 'Blade Runner' and 'Batman'.