Article: Sinfully good: bringing Sin City's graphic violence to the screen required rewriting the rules of VFX filmmaking--and not using film.(COVER STORY)

AUSTIN, TX -- When Robert Rodriguez likes you, he really likes you, as Frank Miller, the creator of the Sin City graphic novels will attest. It will likely become the stuff of legend that Rodriguez virtually stalked Miller (in the nicest possible way) to get the quirky writer/artist to agree to have his work transformed into a motion picture.

Rodriguez's courtship involved some highly unusual steps. One was initially filming a Sin City vignette as a demo to convince Miller that the camera could capture his unique look and style; another was lifting Miller's dialogue directly from his book(s) to the script. And another was Rodriquez's eventual resignation from the ...

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