Gotta Be The Shoes
One thing I forgot to mention that struck me while watching Sin City was a certain bit of product placement. There were two character in the large cast who wore Converse Chuck Taylor high tops, one good and one evil. I was a bit surprised a shoe company would be willing to be associated with a homicidal cannibal like Kevin, but there were three factors that made this bit of product placement make sense.
1) There was an emphasis on how fast and silent Kevin moved. Obviously this was because of his excellent footwear.
2) At one point, Kevin gets his legs chopped off. He misused the power of Converse and thus had them taken away by force.
3) Dwight, the Converse-wearing hero, had a red pair, one of the few colored elements in the film. Thus, they stood out much more than the black pair worn by Kevin.
I probably only noticed this because I got a pair myself recently and read up on the history of Converse, but it is interesting in any case (at least to me, but I’ve always been fascinated by this sort of thing.)