Sin City Seminar Reflection

I thought that the seminar our group did on Sin City was very good. I think that we reached the expectations for the different parts of the assignment. One thing that we needed to work on was getting all the information necessary because we forgot to make a slide and talk about the Elements of style. I think that we needed to have more information on the book and not so much about the author and movie. Most of our group did not seem excited by the topic when they were talking, we all sounded uninterested. I think that I did well on the presentation when it came to knowing my information and researching the topic and finding relevant things to talk about. I think that one of the things I did wrong during my part of the presentation was that I did not talk long enough compared to the other people in my group. When I was presenting I thought that the class seemed uninterested by what I was saying, which is something that I should work on for future presentations because it is important to make seminars interesting so that the class learns about your topic. For future presentations I need to work on getting the class interested and getting more information to talk about.

Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets - Comparison to Sin City

The graphic novel Sin City: Booze Broads and Bullets was one of the novels used to write the movie Sin City. Booze, Broads and Bullets only has one story of the eleven that was put into the movie, "The Customer is Always Right." Some of the stories that are represented in the movie are not exactly the same as the one in the books. Some of them are not the same because they did not relate well to the other stories, content or there too many of the main characters are in the story.

The colour style in the movie was the same style as in the novel. The majority of the movie and the majority of the book are in black and white, but there are some colours on a few of the characters. In the movie there were more colours than in our graphic novel. More of the blood in the movie was red than in the books. The stories that were in the movie were very similar to the ones that were in the novels. Some of the people who have reviewed the movie say that some of the scenes were too similar to the novels. Some of the scenes in the book had voice over to tell the readers what the characters were thinking without the characters actually talking. Those scenes in the movie did not transfer to the movie very well because some think that there were too many voice overs in the movie.

The stories are meant to be happening around the same time, but some of the characters were not in the scenes that they were in the books because they were somewhere else for the movie. Some of the scenes were altered for the movie because they were not important to the stories represented in the movie. Since only some of the stories were shown in the movie, those stories are meant to be the beginning of the story not the beginnings from the books. There were scenes that were added to the movie that were not in the books. The ending of the extended cut where Becky gets into the elevator at the hospital and the man from the first scene is in there with her. Another scene that was altered was the gunfight in the alley, in the book Becky was killed in the ally and did not make it to the hospital. There were five scenes that were in the novels that were not transferred to the movie.

Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets - Characters

There were not many characters in the geaphic novel Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets did not have many characters. The main characters in the books were Marv, Blue eyes, the man, the customer, Douglas Klump, Burt Shlumbb Dwight and the women with the red dress. Some of the characters where not in the book as much as others. The characters were not really develop at all in the book because they were only in it for a short time. Most of the other characters were introduced in other books, so they were not introduced properly in the novel. The characters that were in the movie that were from our book were Marv, the man, the customer and Dwight. The most prominent character in the book was Marv.The characters that were in all of the books and in all the movies were Nancy, Hartigan, Marv, The Man, The Customer, Shellie, Dwight and Gail.

Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets - Writing Style

The writing style of the graphic novel Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets is not very good. This book is very picture based and there are not a lot of words. There was a chapter in the book, Silent Night, that was all pictures and there was no words at all in this chapter. The actual text in the book would take up about 17-20 pages if it was all on consecutive pages. The text in this book does not tell the story in the different chapters. The story is told through the pictures and the text is used to tell the audience what the characters are thinking. There is barely any dialogue and there is no narration.

I think that the writing style of this book would have been better if there was more dialogue. The stories would have been easier to understand and follow with the other books if there was more dialogue to tell the reader what happened before, or in the other books. The pictures in this book are very detailed and graphic so that they fill the need for words. i think that the book would have been better if there was more text and less picture based story-telling. Overall I think that the writing style in the graphic novel Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets was not very creative.

Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets - Visual Style

The graphic novel Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets, like other graphic novels is very image based.The stories in the novel would not have the same effect without the pictures. The pictures are the main focus in the book. The pictures in this graphic novel are very “graphic”, they are full of death, blood, and sex. By the end of the story most of the characters die, in every chapter at least one character dies or is murdered.

The pictures in this graphic novel are different than other novels because they are more based around little colour and shadows. The pictures are mainly black and white, except for the few characters or materials that are in colour to make it stand out. There is one character that has blue eyes, so in every panel that she is in everything is black or white except for her bright blue eyes because it makes them stand out. Most of the time throughout the book the blood is white because there is so much of it in the books so it would make the book very red. There are not many colours used in the book, the only colours used are blue, red, pink and a little bit of yellow.

The main characters in the novel are all very different looking, some are big some are small, fat or skinny, strong or weak. The women in the book stand out from the men because most of the women in the novel are in colour or have a lot of colour on them. The pictures of the characters really let the reader figure out what the character is like because the men in the novel look like their personality. The women on the other hand look harmless at the beginning, they look fragile or distressed, but then they turn out to be worse then the men. The women are killing machines in this novel, one of them is an assassin and another one lures men to her parents’ house so that her father can kill them. The visual style of Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets is very good and goes very well with the stories and the text.

Sin City: Booze Broads and Bullets - Plot

The graphic novel Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets does not have the traditional plot structure as other books or other graphic novels. There are many different plots to follow in this graphic novel. Some of the characters are in more than one part of the book but for the most part most characters have their own part of the book. It seemed that the novel had so many different stories going on at once because they were all to be happening at the same time. Some of the stories do not follow this rule because some of the stories start in one chapter and finish in another chapter. There are eleven chapters in this book and they are mostly all different stories with different characters.

The plot is untradtional in this graphic novel compared to others. Most graphic novel and test novels are mainly focussed on one central plot and may have side plots that involved other characters. The plot that has the largest section of the book is the story where one of the characters is trying to figure out why he has lost parts of his memory and cannot remember what happened that night. Many of the stories in this graphic novel are taken to the movie Sin City. I think that the style of having different plots in the same novel that are not related is not an effective method.

I think that every novel should have one prominent story line and then side stories that are happening to different characters instead of staring different stories and not finishing them or finishing stories that where not started in the novel. Since Booze, Broads and Bullets is the sixth book in the Sin City series some stories that started in previous novels so you did not know the back-story to it, or stories started in this book and would finish in the next one. Overall I think that the plot of this book was not traditional and that it would have been better if it only had one main storyline.