Once you accepted the idea, it worked, and so does "Brick." The crucial decision by writer-director Rian Johnson is to play it straight this isn't a put-on, and the characters don't act as if they think their behavior is funny.
Alan Parker's " Bugsy Malone" (1976) was a 1930s gangster movie cast with pre-teen kids (including Jodie Foster). This mixing of styles and ages has been done before. They're generally familiar with b&w classics on cable, and will understand the strategy: The students inhabit personal styles from an earlier time. Are teenage moviegoers familiar with movies like " The Maltese Falcon"? Do they know who Humphrey Bogart was? Maybe it doesn't matter.
What is the audience for this movie? It is carrying on in its own lifetime a style of film that was dead before it was born.
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