Far Away Love is about a young American soldier sent to the trenches in France of the First World War. While there, he meets a lovely young French girl who lives in a farm near the battlefield. Together they fall in love but the war makes it difficult for them to live happily ever after. Hoping to protect her and her family's farm, the American soldier vows to fight and return in the trenches in hopes of keeping the enemies from nearing the French girl's farm. However, worried over his safety, the French girl follows the American into the trenches in hopes to protect him but gets caught up in the crossfire and from there the American must protect his one love during the worst possible situation. The style for this movie will focus on continuity editing with stable shots to get clear dialogue for the love story at least until the climax of the movie. The message will be a simple romantic moral showing that love has no boundaries.
The genre of the film will be a Romance/War/Drama. This is mostly because we don't have much technology to create full scale battle scenes along with the limits of the Hay's code, and so we the romance story will attract the audience. It especially will help with a war environment because it'll add suspense and it's a good reference that everyone is familiar with so it'll help a lot with this original story. As for our cast, the actors and actresses are most experienced in drama type movies.
The studio that would be best to produce this movie is the MGM. Because this movie will be a big scale and big budgeted film, we need a large studio like MGM to support the movie. Plus MGM has produced film in the drama genre which will definitely help us and all the actors we will use are from MGM.
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For our leading roles, we had Clark Gable as the American soldier, and Greta Garbo as the French girl. For our supporting roles, we used Joan Crawford, Fred Astair, and Robert Montgomery. All these actors are signed up already with MGM so it was very convenient to not have to trade for certain actors. Gable and Garbo have had clear acting experience in drama and would be perfect for the romantic couple. Our director of the movie is Victor Fleming who has directed several romance and drama films that would be very beneficial for our story. Because our actors are not in reasonable age for their specific roles, we will focus on make-up and costume. William J. Tuttle will be in charge of this focus since he is the leading make-up artist that MGM. He will be responsible to make the actors realistic for their characters' ages and appropriate for the settings of the film.
The Hay's Code affects our movie in terms of violence and sex. Therefore, we made our film to show no extreme violence from battle scenes but still show war-like environments like the trenches and other soldiers. We also decided that it should be okay to show minor shooting but no killing. For the romance part of the film, we could not include any kind of sexual content or nudity so we would focus more on the romantic aspect and their enduring relationship. For technology, we will be able to simulate a more realistic feel for war with the use of props and controlled blanks for gunfire along with the help of simple camera angles and shots.
If I had sole control over this film, I would probably change some of the actors to best fit their specific roles instead of trying to rely on a make-up artist to force a perspective. I would probably also use an actress for the leading role of the French girl who actually knows French and hopefully shoot the movie in a good area for landscape and warfare.
Good choices for changes. Garbo as a French girl is an interesting choice. This movie would probably work well--it seems sentimental, and it's a good escapist romance. But, I would have liked to hear a few more references to other films at the time. Overall, good job.
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