Sin City is a highly stylised adaptation of the comic book characters of Frank Miller. Basin City resembles Gotham City crossed with the 'Blade Runner' version of Los Angeles, a dark and brooding environment where low-lifes and violent characters are commonplace. The film brings the look and feel of the action comic book world with a combination of live action, graphics, spot colours, 'pulp' crime novels, and the visual style and motifs of film noir. The look of the film is also clearly comic book with its mix of classic and modern clothing, landscapes, vehicles, and lifestyles. Sin City is shot in high contrast black and white, in homage to classic noir, but with the modern touch of spot colour in a number of scenes.
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasise cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression.
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