Basically the whole story is Humphrey Bogart, Da Boss is a huge mafia guy in Chicago and as soon as the movie starts, he dies and his daughter Shirley Temple, Crystal takes the throne of his large Mafia. She takes control of some parks and such. whatever a 7 year old gangster would do. Then the rival gang, with leader Edward G Robinson, Frankie Joyce decided to retire to compete against the competition properly and puts his son Norman Chubby Chaney, Chubs, competes against Crystal. At first, Chubs follows his father footsteps and rules his gang as a mean mobster, but when he found out he was competing against the cute little Crystal. Crystal and Chubs have a friendly get together at the neutral ground, Grant Park, and Crystal changes Chubs for good. Over some time, Crystal and Chubs get in a relationship and the become great friends. Through their relationship, the gangs dissipate and they work together to make chicago a better place.
For the Genre we chose Gangster and Comedy. We chose this combination because we thought that the two are so contrasting that they would make a unique movie. Also, the two were the biggest genres in the movie business at the time. With them together we figured that it would be able to gather a large audience for the movie.
When choosing a studio, the best choice was clearly Warner Bros. because at the time they were known for specializing in both Gangster Films and Comedy Films. This would mean that we would be able to get the personnel for our movie and the best support. Also, since they were a bigger studio, they would be able to fund our movie if it became expensive. All around Warner Bros. was the best fit for our group.
We chose Humphrey Bogart for our movie because he was a big actor known for his roles in Gangster Films and felt he would bring in a serious gangster vibe to the movie to appease the Gangster movie fans.We chose Shirley Temple because she was a rising star and would help make our film the crazy mashup that we wanted. Then finally, we chose Norman Chaney to star opposite Shirley Temple because he was another up and coming star who we felt could add to the movie with his own comedy style. We chose to specialize in sound and editing because we felt that the movie would benefit from being the two. The gangster parts of the film especially since there will be action and the sound of Tommy Guns and laughter. Also Warner Bros. was very inventive and pushed a lot of the industry in these aspects of movie making.
I think that our movie would be mostly unaffected by the Hays code since the gangster elements of the film would have been more playful for example with something like candy trafficking instead of drug trafficking. With this I believe that our movie would stay within the same direction that we intended to send it.
If I had complete control over the movie then I would have only a few changes because overall I was very pleased with what we decided. The main change I would have would be the plot point of the rival gang appointing the young son to the head of the Gang. I thought that it would have been better for our movie to keep the rival gang head an adult for most of the show at least. By doing that then we would keep a more gangster feel to our film and also I think it would have been funnier seeing a gang of immature kids beating a vicious rival gang. It would have given the movie an almost Home Alone vibe to the movie. All in all though I was pleased with how the movie came out.
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