1935 Film Project

We chose to do Bonnie and Clyde for our project because Bonnie and Clyde were just killed in 1934 so it would still be fresh in everyone's mind. We then chose Warner Brothers for our studio because they made a lot of gangster movies at the time. James Cagney was chosen as Clyde because he and Jean Harlow (who we chose for Bonnie) had worked well together in a movie called Public Enemy. The director, William A. Wellman was reputable director at the time so we decided to use him as well. We decided go with black and white because it was popular at the time, awards were still given for black and white movies only and 1 color movie because color was still considered experimental at the time. In conclusion, all of the choices we chose were for a reason and had something to do with the time period, nothing was random.