Roark Junior
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Roark Junior is a fictional character in Frank Miller's Sin City yarns, and the primary villain of That Yellow Bastard. In Robert Rodriguez's 2005 film adaptation, he was portrayed by Nick Stahl.
[edit] History
Roark Junior is the son of Senator Roark, and the scion of the powerful Roark family; his father has aspirations for his son to be the first Roark to become President. He is a handsome and wealthy young man, but is also a sadistic pedophile who rapes and murders pre-pubescent girls. These crimes are covered up by his father and the corrupt Basin City Police Department.
Junior is the villain of That Yellow Bastard, having already claimed three victims prior to the story's beginning. After kidnapping 11-year-old Nancy Callahan, he takes her to the local docks to rape and kill her, but Detective John Hartigan comes to her aid.
Hartigan kills and incapacitates several of Junior's henchmen and chases him to the end of a boardwalk, where Hartigan shoots off Junior's ear, hand and genitals. Before he is able to kill him, however, Hartigan is shot by his partner Bob, who is on the Roark family's payroll. Junior lapses into a coma, and Hartigan is framed for Junior's crimes, sending him to prison for eight years. Senator Roark then turns his attentions to his maimed progeny, spending millions not only on conventional treatments, but even on experimental alternatives such as gene therapy and voodoo. Junior recovers (and even regains his lost body parts), but not without severe side effects. Most noticeably, his body can no longer process wastes properly. Junior is now a grotesque mutant with bright yellow skin who smells of rotting garbage. Over the next eight years, he claims dozens of victims, speculating that the total might in fact be 100.
In order to get out of jail and protect Nancy, Hartigan admits to raping the girls and is freed. Junior follows him when he goes to visit Nancy, who has now become a stripper at Kadie's Bar. Hartigan sees him and flees with Nancy, with Junior in hot pursuit. In the ensuing car chase, Hartigan shoots him in the neck and momentarily loses him. Junior nevertheless arrives at their motel room, reveals his true identity, and ties Hartigan in a hangman's noose. Junior leaves Hartigan to die and takes Nancy to the Roark Family Farm, well-known for the "bad things" that occur there.
Junior violently whips Nancy, but flies into a frustrated rage when she refuses to scream. Nancy discovers that Junior is impotent unless his victims are screaming in pain, and mocks him. As Junior is about to kill her, he is surprised by Hartigan, who has escaped and killed all of the local guards. Hartigan stabs him in the chest, castrates him again (this time with his bare hands), and smashes his head into a mess of blood and bone.
[edit] Adaptation
Junior was portrayed by Nick Stahl in the 2005 film adaptation. Other actors considered for the role included Steve Buscemi and Leonardo DiCaprio, but both of them were unable to play the role. An original concept was for two different actors to play Junior at the stages before and after his mutation, but Stahl offered to perform both roles.
As a result, the make-up required was the most extensive of the entire cast, as a full body and facial prosthetic, stubble and pattern bald hair and full-body paint and highlight were needed, among other things. However, yellow paint has a negative reaction with green-screen, and as a result, blue body paint was used. Thusly, Stahl was known on the set as "The Blue Bastard."
Sin City | |
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| Yarns | The Hard Goodbye · A Dame to Kill For · The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories · Silent Night · The Big Fat Kill · That Yellow Bastard · Daddy's Little Girl · Lost, Lonely, & Lethal · Sex & Violence · Just Another Saturday Night · Family Values · Hell and Back (A Sin City Love Story) |
| Films | Sin City · Sin City 2 (in production) |
| Characters | Marv · Jack Rafferty · Nancy Callahan · John Hartigan · Dwight McCarthy · Wallace · Miho · Kevin · Cardinal Roark · Ava Lord · Junior/That Yellow Bastard · Senator Roark · The Girls of Old Town · Wallenquist Organisation · Magliozzi Crime Family · List of characters from Sin City |
| People | Frank Miller · Robert Rodriguez |
