 Bound was shot in thirty @-@ eight days in Santa Monica , California . The Wachowskis ' original director of photography resigned on the grounds that he could not do the film with the limited budget he had available , nor did he know anyone he believed could . Subsequently cinematographer Bill Pope was hired , who knew " a bunch of cheap guys " . Pope became heavily involved in creating the visual noir style of the film . He and the Wachowskis drew from their love of comics and were influenced by Frank Miller 's neo @-@ noir Sin City series in particular . Pope 's sound counterpart was sound director Dane Davis . One of his ideas was to give Corky a cat @-@ like quality by making a " swishing " sound every time she walks past the camera in the scene where she and Violet plan the theft . 
