Group Project post

In our movie, The Three Little Pigs and the Big, Bad Banker, we took a spin on a classic story, The Three Little Pigs. The movie is about three brothers living during the Great Depression.  They all live in the same town, and each one of them is a bit wealthier than the other.  As the story progresses, the main protagonist of the film, a local banker, begins to try to foreclose their houses, and ultimately succeeds right up until the last brother who lives in the biggest house (this is the wolf blowing down their houses reference).  There is also a substory which follows the love between one of the brothers and a young female.  The twist is that the girl ends up being the daughter of the banker, which ultimately resolves the issue between the two parties when the two announce their love for each other.  

We thought this film would do well in 1935 because the Great Depression theme and portrayal of those very real issues would likely really strike home for people watching at the time as whether or not the same thing has happened to them, it likely has happened to a friend or family member.  We planned on the film being a high budget movie as it would likely have a large draw for those reasons.  With this in mind, we went with MGM and picked a cast of their most well known actors at the time, who also bore some resemblance to each other to pull off the whole brother thing, and also had played in similar movies to this.  It is a romance drama as the movie has the elements of a drama, but also has the romantic substory.

The Hays Code affects our movie because we had to edit down the scenes involving the relationship between the brother and the bankers daughter, making it more of a 'read between the lines' portion of the movie. Other than that, this movie was intended to be pretty clean cut so we didn't run into many issues with the Hays Code.  

If I wasn't working with a group on this, I would have made it less of a family friendly film (within the restrictions of the Hays Code, of course).  With this in mind, I would have made it a lower budget film and chosen less known actors.  The movie would be so good, that this would have been their breakthrough film for sure.  Everyone in this movie would be a legend.