‘Sin City A Dame To Kill For’ Cast: Jessica Alba Claims Sex Is The Ultimate Selling Point Of The Film! Frank Miller Confesses Why He Chose This Movie In His Return To Filmmaking!
Jessica Alba heats up the big screen once more as she reprises her Nancy Callahan role. But in "Sin City: A Dame to Kill for" she has a very different image. Still, she believes that her character's allure is the main selling point, but film creator Frank Miller would like to elaborate.
The interview is from Playboy.com (link is SFW):
"PLAYBOY: Jessica Alba, who plays the stripper Nancy Callahan in the Sin City films, recently said, "Sex is absolutely what helps sell this movie, which is fine by me." What role does sex have in A Dame to Kill For?
MILLER: [Laughs] That sounds like Jessica. The predominant story is about a man whose lifelong obsession with a woman leads him to do horrible things. That's a new wrinkle for me. Generally the romantic impulse has led my characters to be more noble. There are two primary impulses in people's lives: sex and violence. It's like Hitchcock's wonderful quote when he said melodrama was reality with all the boring parts taken out. It's not possible to tell a good story without conflict, and the best forms of conflict are sex and violence. I make no apologies for the kind of work I do. You'll find plenty of violence and sex in grand opera and epic poetry too."
Frank Miller has sweared off movies for quite some time, but he was totally immersed in both Sin City installments. Director Robert Rodriguez made an awful impression on him as he narrates:
"The irony here is that I designed Sin City so it could not be adapted to film. I wanted to show people what comics could do that movies couldn't. When Rodriguez showed up, I was so ornery. I ignored his first three phone calls. I wouldn't even meet him in my home. I met him at a Hell's Kitchen bar, and he was the only one there with a cowboy hat on who was straight. He showed me some rough work he'd done, and it was impressive. I thanked him and told him the answer was no. He went back to Texas. Then he said maybe we could shoot a scene just to see what it was like. It's not the sort of offer you turn down. So I went to Texas, where he had built a fully functional set, and at one point Marley Shelton looked at me with her beautiful big eyes and said, 'Why did my character hire somebody to kill her?' Marley grasped it all and went out and gave three times the performance she had before. I walked over to Robert, kicked him in the shins and said, 'I'm in.'"
Interesting way to get a legend involved. Robert Rodriguez has always been the man to get it done.
"Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" opens on August 22, 2014.