Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has said that plans for a film adaptation of American Idiot have been ‘pretty much scrapped’.
Bugsy Malone is an idea that never should have worked on film: would we really sit and indulge in a cast of children playing pretend cops and gangsters? Yet, under Alan Parker’s direction, and thanks to Paul Williams’s riotous lineup of songs, the film is not only a delight, but feels oddly subversive in the way its cast so gamely fill the roles of wisecracking ne'er-do-wells – a smart way to parody the cultural obsession with the machismo of the gangster genre.
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