Daily Dialogue — October 13, 2012

“I don’t know why you died, Goldie. I don’t know why and I don’t know how, I never even met you before tonight. But you were a friend and more when I needed one. And when I find out who did it, it won’t be quick and quiet like it was with you. It’ll be loud and nasty. My kind of kill. And when his eyes go dead the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I’ve done to him. I love you, Goldie.”

— Marv (Mickey Rourke), Sin City (2005), Frank Miller (graphic novels)

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is Anti-Heroe / Villain Protagonist, suggested by Shaula Evans. Today’s suggestion by Vic Tional.

Trivia: As each sequence of this film was shot separately, new cast members were added and incorporated in the stories throughout the production. In many cases separate footage was composited in post-production to look as if it were all shot the same day. For example: Marv (Mickey Rourke) takes Wendy (Jaime King) to Nancy’s (Jessica Alba) home. Alba had not been cast yet when Rourke and King shot the scene; her footage was added in later. The same is true of the scenes between Marv and Cardinal Roark (Rutger Hauer) and Kevin (Elijah Wood), as Hauer and Wood were cast after Rourke had shot his scenes.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Vic: “Marv is definitely my kind of anti-hero. I’ll cite Scott’s definition (with some minor editing) as an illustration of why: ‘Qualities normally belonging to villains (violent tendencies) that may be tempered with more human, identifiable traits (love, self-hatred, gratitude); noble motives pursued by bending or breaking the law in the belief that “the ends justify the means.”’

Oh yeah, that last part is Marv all over.”