Sin City..

In Frank Miller's "Sin City: The Big Fat Kill"; Miller gives a mixed representation of the female gender. This can be seen on page 72 after the ladies are done killing everyone. Gail finds something in Jack-boy's pocket and starts swearing. Then it shows the faces in each panel of everyone else. However, right after that panel is a close up on someone's butt with Dwight and Gail off to the left and the curly blond off to the right, walking towards them. The butt is in the foreground of the panel and is just from the waist down. Miller leaves out everything except the belt, with a set of keys. This creates the idea that the ladies are slutty. However, the keys represent power. The keys are power, because they are from the dead cops pockets, whom the girls just massacred. The importance of this panel, is to emphasis the gravity of their mistake. The keys represent power, yet its not the power they wanted. These keys will be the down fall of these provocative powerful women. Since they ended up killing a cop, which means they lose their control over their area, which gives the power back to the pimps and gangs instead of the prostitutes (the girls). Miller portrays the women and slutty but at the same time makes them powerful. This leads me to believe that Miller finds that there is nothing sexier than a woman who knows she looks good, and has power and strength. Though, this could be seen as a bash on women, I find it more empowering. Women should not be looked down on for wanting to flaunt their curves. And I feel that Miller depicts this quite well.