To what extent are your chosen texts typical of their genre? (30 marks)

For this question I have chose the movie Sin City as my text. I believe that this film's genre is a hybrid of Film Noir and Comic Book. Some conventions of these that are shown in this text are certain characters and high contrast colours. Common characters in these genres are damaged protagonists and main characters, femme fatales, villains, and thugs and henchmen. The high contrast colours are a big part of the visual effects due to the nature of them. The very dark blacks and very bright whites make a big impact on the film as a visual text. Another convention is the weather; it is nearly always raining or damp, and there is sometimes storms involving thunder and lightning. Fighting and blood is also common in these genres.

One scene that I know which contains all these conventions is set in a deserted farm. Marv (the damaged protagonist) comes to avenge his lover called Goldie (his femme fatale) by killing Kevin (the twisted villain). In this scene is heavy rain and when the camera points to the sky, you can see and hear the flashes and sounds of thunder and lightning.