Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Exam question practice- Sin City


“To what extent are your chosen texts typical of their genre?”

The main genres of the film ‘Sin City’ are film noir and comic book. The film follows the conventions of the film noir genre precisely. For example, Marv is a cynical protagonist who risks his life for the safety of Goldie/Wendy, his femme fatal. Marv follows and kills Kevin, the dark son of the villain Roark, who is a priest. This shows the corrupt nature of the genre. A specific scene which shows Goldie as the femme fatal is when her and Marv have made love, which he realises she chose him to protect her as she couldn’t protect herself and needed a man to do this as Kevin was coming after her. She is also beautiful, seductive and promiscuous which is why in the film, we later learn she was a prostitute. 

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