One can note the rapid fluidity of the editing style early on in Little Caesar (1931). Having seen this style in many more modern Warner Bros. productions it is hardly a surprise to see why this style of film gained so much initial traction. additionally we can note as viewers the constant necessity to highlight the harshness of growing up in less than lavish environments and the desire to reach out for richer economic prosperity. This relatable aspect, moreover, depicting a “classical glamour” aesthetic has shown, in an extreme case with the central figure that Warner Bros. were keen to attract the masses via compelling visual storytelling, subsequently, keeping Warner Bros. current within the present landscape of cinema
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