Sin City Research: Character 6 - Dwight

Dwight

Dwight is one of the main characters in Sin City headlining 3 titles: A Dame to Kill For, The Big Fat Kill and Family Values.

Dwight's storyline is slightly more complex than most characters in Sin City, as he appears so often. At the beginning of his story, he is bald and middle aged, after falling in love and being repeatedly tricked and lied too by femme fatale Ava lord, eventually he enlists the help of Marv and breaks into her house to help her but is yet again been lied to and killed her 'abusive' husband, a plot she made to to to gain her rich husbands money. Having been shot in the face, the girls of Old Town give his reconstructive surgery that makes him look better, younger and allowed his hair to regrow.

 He appears next in the Big Fat Kill, where after being at barmaid Shellie's place, follows a bunch of drunken blood thirsty thugs to Old Town where he tries to protect the girls from them. It turns out, though Miho deals with them, one was a cop and he must dispose  of the bodies in the tar pits before the cops find them.

He later is in Family Values, here after getting involved with hit men and turf war, he teams up with Miho to get revenge for the death of a Old Town hooker.


Personally, I fight Dwight the dullest character, despite him appearing often. I find is personality fairly ordinary and forgettable, and in comparison to characters like Marv, Nancy, Hartigan, The Yellow Bastard and even the silent Miho show better personalities and more memorable physical qualities than him. I don't feel I would take much inspiration from this character as as much I love most characters, I find this one fairly unenjoyable and found his section of the Sin City movie the weakest by far. I even find the combination of a T-shirt, jeans very average with a classic leather Sin City to make him fit. the only aspect I enjoyed were his red shoes, but still think red was better fitting blood and passion (such as Goldie's hotel bed.)

"Ultimately the character I identify most with is Dwight. because he's the one that gets in most trouble, and he doesn't have the super human abilities of someone like Marv. The world is a confusing place to him, and he just kind of tries to middle along. So I guess that's the closest I've come to my hero."

- Frank Miller - Sin City: The Making of the Movie - P122