Quentin Tarantino Secretly Directed The Best Scene In This Noir Thriller Now On Paramount+
Comic book movies are a dime a dozen nowadays, which has led to many of us feeling burnt out from the subgenre. But if you’re tired of superheroes, there’s one comic book adaptation you need to check out that’s recently come to SHOWTIME via Paramount+. Co-directed and co-written by Robert Rodriguez and the original comic author Frank Miller, Sin City is a violent and stylized neo-noir thriller waiting to whet your comic-loving appetites. And we have another reason to check it out: Quentin Tarantino directed the film’s best scene.
First, per IMDb, Sin City is “an exploration of the dark and miserable Basin City and three of its residents, all of whom are caught up in violent corruption.”
The scene in question takes place in the segment “The Big Fat Kill”. Here, Clive Owen‘s Dwight is driving through the rain with the dead Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro) in his passenger seat. In Dwight’s imagination, Jackie Boy’s mutilated corpse wakes up, complete with a slit throat and a gun barrel jammed into his forehead. The two argue back and forth as a cop tries to pull Dwight over. It’s brief but tense, and fits perfectly into Rodriguez’s film.
You can watch the scene here:
This didn’t mark the first time Rodriguez collaborated with Tarantino. The two had previously worked together Desperado where Tarantino had a cameo role. Then, just a year later, Tarantino wrote and starred in From Dusk Till Dawn, which Rodriguez directed. With several projects already under their belts, and with Tarantino’s love of Miller’s source material, Rodriguez knew he could eventually convince Tarantino to come on board. But why any hesitation?
According to a featurette about this scene, Rodriguez knew Tarantino wouldn’t touch Sin City because it was being shot digitally. Tarantino notoriously only works in film, as he says in the below featurette, but Rodriguez wanted to give him a taste for digital and what it was like “working with actors in a digital realm.”
The featurette also shows the two directors sharing how this sequence was meant to stand out anyway, and having Tarantino direct it just made sense. It was Tarantino’s first time working Owen and Del Toro, too, and he admits how nervous he was coming to set that day.
Sin City is streaming now on Paramount+.
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