My husband, not being the most considerate of blokes, put on the TV at 5 o’clock in the morning and was watching this movie. I woke up in the part where the cop was driving around and talking with the dead cop (I don’t know any of the character’s names-- except for Nancy).
Any ways. . . the final scene has Rory from the Gilmore girls talking to her mom after getting her shot arm fixed. She gets into the elevator and James Franco is in it. Rory appears frightened and the movie ends.
Here is an excerpt from the plot as found in Wikipedia.
“An injured Becky departs from a hospital, talking on a cell phone with her mother. In the elevator she encounters The Salesman, dressed as a doctor. He offers her a cigarette, calling her by name, and she abruptly ends the call with her mother.”
I cannot guarantee you this is correct since I never saw the movie. But, I have found the plot summaries for movies on Wikipedia are generally very accurate and I have never found any reason to doubt them.
Strangely enough, IMDB does not give very good plot summaries. It is the one area in which Wikipedia seems to do a better job than IMDB.
At the beginning of the movie, Josh Hartnett (not James Franco), who is a hitman, kills a woman. She might be frightened because she knows he’s a hitman, and she recently betrayed a group of powerful and vengeful prostitutes (IIRC).
Very long story short, there is an area of town run by hookers called Old Town. Through some wacky shenanigans, the hookers accidentally kill a cop (Jackie Boy - Benicio Del Torro). The elevator guy helps them get rid of the body. A whole lot of other shit happens, involving ninjas, talking corpses, an Irish hit squad, and an exploding severed head. They find out that Becky (Rory from the Gilmore Girls) had betrayed them. The end scene is the non-James Franco guy in the elevator ready to take her out for the betrayal.
I wasn’t sure if Not Franco was a bad guy because there was no splash of color on him. I noticed all the really terrible guys had color-slashed. Becky and her blue eyes, the prosecutor’s son was yellow. Big Black Dude has an orange eye. . …
Not a bad guy when he is getting rid of a traitor. And in Sin City’s universe, just being an assassin (or prostitute, or some other illegal profession) is not considered “bad”. It’s how they behave towards others that determines their guilt.
Dwight’s (Clive Owen) character had a red splash of color on his sneakers. While bad-ass and possibly a bit unbalanced, he was actually a good guy.
The scene with “The Man” (Josh Hartnett ) would make more sense if you saw the beginning. He book-ends the film with the opening scene **iiandyiiii **described. IIRC, the woman at the beginning hired him to kill her rather than endure a more…creative…death.
Not to get too spoiler-y, but the Sin City basically consists of several intertwining vignettes:
Marv vs the Roark family of politically connected psychos seeking revenge for the death of Goldie, an Old Town prostitute.
Hartigan (Willis) vs the Yellow Bastard (Stahl) to protect Nancy (Alba) from the Roark family.
Dwight (Owen) and the Old Town prostitutes vs the mob trying to prevent a war with the cops over the death of Jackie Boy, a corrupt “hero cop”.
The Salesman who serves as a prologue and epilogue to the film.
I thought they missed out on a good commercial tie-in when they didn’t make the Sin City Jackie Boy Pez dispenser. It’s be all grey and black, and would have a pistol slide in the forehead.
It’s go great with the John Cleese Harry Potter Nearly Headless Nick Pez Dispenser. They could’ve done an entire line of these, if they could come up with a few more.