Movie Idea Research

After sharing our movie ideas with our class and getting feedback we found that they thought a British Gangster movie could be very unimaginative and boring, but they liked the idea of a Teenage Comedy. Despite these thoughts, we felt confident that we could produce an original and new movie in the British Gangster genre. The way we wanted to do this was by taking some elements from a Teenage Comedy and incorporateing it into our final piece.
  To help us get ideas for the storyline of our own movie we decided to look at other similar movies in the same genres and maybe some other films that involved teenagers (such as 'Kids' and 'Kidulthood'). An obvious starting point for this would be Guy Ritchie's 'Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels' which really pushed this kind of film into mainstream cinema.
  'Lock, Stock' is the story of four cockney lads who find themselves heavily in debt to an East End hard man. By a massive stroke of luck, they over hear the men in the flat next door planning to rob a group of out-of-their-depth marijuana growers and decide to then steal the money off of them afterwards. While all of this is going on, a porn-baron named 'Hatchet' Harry is madly searching for a pair of antique shotguns which were stolen by a pair of Scouse thieves. All of this results in absolute chaos in which the body count continues to rise throughout the movie.
  Something being stolen is useually the main story line in the British Gangster genre and also alot of Guy Ritchie's films. For example the movie 'Snatch' is about some expensive diamonds being stolen and his newest film of this type, 'Rock n Rolla', is about a powerful Russian buisnessman's favourite painting being unlawfully taken. This is something we are going to take into account but not focus on as, taking the advice of our class, may make our film abit typical and cliche.
  Another strong part of these kinds of films is when a relatively simple plan goes horribly wrong in very unexpected ways, usually leaving a long line of bullet riddled bodies. One of the only other films I can think of, that is not about gangsters, is David Green's 'Pineapple Express'. This fits in very nicely with the other kind of film we wanted to mix our ideas with.
  This stoner, teenage comedy (a modern offspring of the classic 'Cheech and Chong' movies) involves a couple of clueless drug addled friends who get themselves involved in something that leaves them completely out of their depth. This again results in high octane, but much funnier, consequences. This involvment of humor is something we would like to use but may find hard to fit into our relatively short time space in which our introduction needs to be filmed.