How does Sin City portray genre conventions?
Sin City is a neo-noir action crime thriller targeted at a wide audience, and is designed to entertain he audience through its unique hybridity of the superhero genre and the film noir genre. Both genres have their own conventions and features respectively and they are blended together to create a film based strongly around action and crime, but also with a strong influence of film noir.
Film Noir Conventions
- Displayed thoughout the film are prominet Film Noir elements which help shape the viewers perception and thoughts, and add a depth and style to the film. Film noir is strongly based around lighting, props and character conventions. In Sin City, particularly the scene involving Shellies new boyfriend, there are various genre conventions displayed. The running common lighting technique throughout is the Black and White theme and lack of colour. This is the most well known convention of all, and applied to Sin City, represents the gritiness and crime revolving around the films plot, the black and white also alludes to the whole Good (cop)/Bad (cop) theme running through the story line. This scene also presents a few of the accepted character roles featured in film noir. There is clear protagonist, Dwight, who portrays cynical and violent tendencies, and Jackie Boy, who we later discover is the generic Corrupt Cop. The undercurrent of mistrust and hostility is also important to notice as this is an overwhelming atmosphere convention that is common in film noir.
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