Our film The Beautiful Disaster, has the cast consisting of some very famous actors/actress who were known for being in screwball comedy, and Jean Arthur and the Three Stooges were the perfect lead and supporting roles for the film. Its starts off with Jean Arthur who is this young and very attractive supermodel who is getting all the attention and popularity that any person would want. The only problem is even though she is relatively successful, she does not like the outcomes of being a model and having people crowd up and take pictures of her all the time, which freaks her out a bit. She is a bachelorette and all she wants for her at this point is a lover who can help with her issues of having so much popularity. She lives in a penthouse in the middle of Manhattan and she has so much room but no one to share it with. That is when the Stooges come in as three brothers who are all known to be a bunch of knuckleheads that do construction work for the apartment building that Arthur lives in and they own property on the bottom floor. The part where the three meet Jean is when they are window washing near the top by the penthouse and they find out who this women is that they see all alone, and then they fight over who gets to meet her first. Throughout the whole movie the 3 stooges fall in love with her and so they do what they do best, and that is knocking each other around until one wins the love of Jean Arthur. The message I am trying to get across is that this is an escapist entertainment that is meant to entertain those that need something to get their mind off what is happening with the struggle from the depression. This film tries to get people to laugh out loud and also to bring more attention to screwball comedy.
The reason we chose screwball comedy is because of the depression that the country is going through. No genre is better to use during this time then comedy itself. Especially with the cast we used for this film, it makes sense to use these people because of their skills as comedians and bringing into the movie, these four are known best for making people laugh, so no one else seemed like better candidates. When you have three guys known for knocking each other around and you put that in a movie where they fight over a girl, then it makes the perfect screwball comedy.
Columbia was the best studio for this since it had Frank Capra involved in a lot of their films, plus we chose him for the director. Columbia says that their trademark is screwball comedy, so there is with no doubt that they work best for this type of genre. The movie itself will be one of the big time budget films even though they are a smaller studio, they have these four playing in this movie, so it should be relatively popular. Comedy is big around this time and making this a big budget movie should get the attention of a lot of people too.
The cast and crew is perfect for this film and Frank Capra our director, had a movie the year before called It Happened One Night and the genre was screwball comedy and also the first movie to win the five major Oscar awards( best director, best picture, screenplay, best leading role, supporting role). Jean Arthur and the Stooges were up and coming in comedy films. The Three Stooges who are playing the supporting roles came out with their show a year ago and became big time stars right away. Jean Arthur playing the lead role is said to be the face of women in comedy, without her screwball comedy is not the same. The focus of the film is on the editing, to make the characters lines as funny as possible and no one does it better than Gene Havlick who worked along with Capra in the screwball comedy that one the five major awards for the Oscars. So it made perfect sense to make him the editor.
The Hays code only affected a few of the scenes in the movie. The kissing scenes are only supposed to be going on for a few seconds, and not too much violence especially between the Stooges. The technology involved in this film is the black and white color and we chose this to be a sound film and not a silent, since the silent film era was at the end of its time and the sound era was starting to become very popular.
I disagreed with some of the actors that the other group members wanted to use since the story I was creating did not have a good connection with the people they brought up. If I was to work alone, I would have came up with a different title of the movie and also add a little more color to the poster.
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