Friday, 16 November 2012

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

Sin City is a hybrid genre of Comic Book, Film Noir and Horror.
This makes the film post modern because it is a mixture of three different genres.
Film Noir is a very stylish genre; it's very cynical and it's always black and white. Film Noir style films are always set at night with rain drenched streets and men in trench coats. In Sin City, all the main characters, especially Marv, wear trench coats. The characters will always be seen out in the rain. Usually the characters will we unfazed by the bad weather but with the rain, there will be strong winds and usually thunder and lightning. For example, in Sin City when Dwight is pushing the car up the rain soaked hill, there is thunder and lightning and Dwight is wearing a trench coat.
Voice over is also a regular convention of Film Noir. Throughout Sin City, the main male protagonist will always provide a voice over. Throughout Sin City, the male protagonist changes, and with the changing of the Protagonist, the voice over and the content of the voice over changes too.
Comic Book is also a genre within Sin City. All the male protagonists have super human strength, and they will be referred to as different super hero figures. For example Dwight is referred to as Superman and he is also referred to as Lancelot. When the men are running around and jumping off buildings, their trench coats will float around them like a cape and they'll resemble super heroes.

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