Loosely based upon a story by children’s author William Steig.DreamWorks/PDI""s subversive, revisionist fairy tale was a biting satire and irreverent spoof of classic Disney animated films, with fairy-tale in-jokes and lots of flatulence and subtle sexual humor.Martha: And do you know what happened? He just stayed under his bed for days and wouldn""t be anybody.However, the protagonist (a cold-blooded, tough-as-nails racketeer and "public enemy") begins his life, not as a hardened criminal, but as a young mischievous boy in pre-Prohibition city streets, whose early environment clearly contributes to the evolving development of his life of adult crime and his inevitable gruesome death.After a brief shot of a dance hall party for the factory employees - "a diversion of the mill workers," the Judean Story""s tablets fade in with a quote from Ecclesiastes iii: "To everything there is a season.In flashback, she tells of her own great tragic love affair, sadly dreaming of her lost love.Trained by a skillful mentor and voice teacher, Nicolai Nazaroff (John Barrymore), he guides her to operatic success in Paris.