Sin City (2005)
Black-white with red accents. Sin City is Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's 2005 American neo-noir adapting three Frank Miller graphic novels from his Sin City series.
Actor: Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis came from television comedy in Moonlighting and was an unlikely action lead, which is precisely why Die Hard worked. John McClane is frightened, outmatched and barefoot, and the film established a template the genre used for twenty years.
The range is wider than the persona. Pulp Fiction, Twelve Monkeys, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable are all performances built on restraint, and the last two are almost entirely still.
He spent his final working years in a large number of low-budget films, which drew criticism at the time.
He was diagnosed with aphasia in 2022 and subsequently with frontotemporal dementia, and retired. The late output has been reassessed considerably in that light.
