After a long period of accumulation, this is what Miller really wants to paint. To put it in extreme terms, Miller has actually only drawn one comic, and that is this sin city. Whether it is Daredevil or Batman, it is just a superhero version of Sin City.
At the beginning, the story of Sin City only had 13 chapters, and the plot couldn't be simpler: After spending the night with a prostitute, a typical tough policeman, Ma Fu, was wronged and killed the prostitute. This segment is not new, and Marvel's actions are even more not new: to find the person who wronged him. But this is not revenge for myself, but for the dead prostitute. Muffle is a rough man, and his investigative method is of course only one. Is a dead prostitute worthy of your death? It's worth dying. It's worth killing. It's worth going to hell. Fists, blood, women, blades and bullets. What is the aesthetics of violence? This is the aesthetics of violence. Instead of putting pigeons in the room, you shot you violently, and then walked out without looking back.
Although Miller had worked as a screenwriter, but because he was dissatisfied with Hollywood's deletion and modification of his "Robocop" script, he claimed that he would never cooperate with Hollywood anymore, so when he created "Sin City", he deliberately Draw it as an "anti-movie" comic: The lines of "Sin City" are rugged and eclectic, and sometimes the frame itself is part of the story. The black and white painting style, the highlight outlines the outline of the characters, and the white space narrates a thousand words. It seems that this world has no intermediate colors at all, only black and white, crime and punishment, killing or being killed. Lao Mi forces readers to focus on his strongest brushstrokes, pursuing his philosophy in a violent black and white world.
After drawing this story, Miller certainly won't let it go, and then drew several sequels:
"SILENT NIGHT" (SILENT NIGHT) is also the story of Marvel, about him looking for a kidnapped little girl. The story is not long, twenty pages, and the strong point is that there is almost no dialogue in the whole story-although this is not particularly surprising in the comics world, but this is an old beauty, famous for the vernacular, his comics The middle is always full of monologues, and the characters are muttering to himself almost every minute; this cartoon is a new attempt for him.
When it’s "A DAME TO KILL FOR", Dwight, who is part of the film, is on the stage. This guy is bad enough and specializes in eating women’s losses. He was beaten by the previous woman and got shot. But this guy has an immortality. Xiaoqiang's potential actually survived. And not only survived, but also recovered with the help of ex-girlfriend Gail and female ninja Miho. Then of course revenge. But this is not important, the important thing is Miho who appears in this story. She and Dwight reappeared in the next "FAMILY VALUES". This time Miller swiftly swayed even more. The horizontal line drawing contrasted with those print-style paintings. The contrast of light and shadow was N times more exaggerated than usual, and the blockbuster was black and white. Color blocks can only be described as vividly and vividly.
Although this series is black and white comics, color is occasionally used (such as "THAT YELLOW BASTARD")-I believe many people will remember the little Lori in Schindler's list, a role-but there are exceptions to everything. There is such a scene in "TO HELL AND BACK": The
story is about a veteran named Wallace who gets into trouble for a woman who wants to commit suicide (women in the sin city are outright disasters). There is nothing to say about the story itself, it is worth mentioning that it takes a whole sentence to talk about Wallace's illusion-full color! Because it is a dream caused by drugs, there is no logic in the vision in this sentence, from the Japanese samurai to Rambo, even Captain America and Wonder Woman... When everything returns to reality, the world becomes black and white again, and Back to the closed sin city.
Violence, torture, despair, discrimination, persecution, everything is allowed in this closed system, except for kindness. This is a world without hope, dignity, and faith, and there is no way to escape. Hartigan committed suicide for Nancy. This does not mean that Nancy will be rescued. She may still be raped and humiliated in the end; people cannot resist and can only survive until the worst comes.
---Special manuscript for the 8th issue of "Fantasy Art" magazine in 2006
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