Sin City | Film Inspiration

After deciding I want to look into doing a  film and being very interested in the filming style of film noir, and similarly the style of Sin City directed by Frank Miller, I wanted to have a closer look at the way the film is shot and how this is perhaps shown to the viewers. Sin City itself was taken from a Graphic Novel so for this reason it's imagery is very similar to that of the novels being very dark with stark points of colour running through the entire film this makes the film very cinematic and atmospheric much like that of Film Noir, for this reason I feel they run hand in hand with each other and work well with my idea of creating something similar, from watching this film more recently again it has given me inspiration to work in black and white perhaps starting to shoot in colour to see how they might compare.

The opening scene of Sin City is one of my favourites 'The customer is always right' I find this to be very dramatic and running with the theme of a melodrama, putting characters in danger and leaving the viewer in suspense of what might happen next. The tense atmosphere of this scene is something I would like to duplicate in my own work with the vulnerability of a female and a strong male character by her side perhaps completely contradicting her character and clashing with tension in perhaps a highly sexualised manor? This for me is coming from watching film noirs which have a surprising twist either at the end or maybe only having it suggested throughout.

To carry on my research I will look into silent films, and watch some more Film Noirs for inspiration I recently purchased 'Kiss me Deadly' an old film noir which I would like to take inspiration from.