Big Daddy of the Big Easy
“For most of the 20th century, the Little Man loomed large in Louisiana.
His empire stretched from the brackish backwaters and byzantine swamps near the mouth of the mighty Mississippi to the dive bars and seedy motels along forgotten highways of the Cajun prairies to the city of a million dreams, New Orleans, a place that looks ancient in the daylight but technicolor and electric by nightfall.
Carlos Marcello was a Sicilian immigrant, born in an African country during French colonial rule, a man whose earliest memories occurred in an old city at the bottom of a new world.
During his prime, some believed that it was Carlos, not the governor, who pulled the levers behind the curtain of state government. But outside of Louisiana, if he is remembered at all, it is as a minor character in a conspiracy theory.
I’ve spent more than a year researching the life and the legacy of Carlos Marcello, and the story I’ve discovered—the real story as told by those who knew him best— is more riveting, more colorful, and more consequential than I ever imagined. For the first time, his only son Joe speaks on the record, sharing his memories of the man behind the myth.
King Carlos of the Town and Country, Champion of the Fifth Amendment, Immigration Law Pioneer, Villain of Camelot, Representado Officiale, Big Daddy of the Big Easy, Deportable, Just As Much of An American As Levi Strauss or Alexander Hamilton.” - Lamar White, Author of Big Daddy of the Big Easy
Lamar White needed a sizzle reel to convey the characters and feel of the story behind his upcoming book, “Big Daddy of the Big Easy”
Taking a script written and performed by Lamar, we created a full sizzle reel for the project. Including creating designs and assets for further releases of story updates and eventual promotion of the finished book.
