Far Away Love is a story about an American soldier fighting in World War I in France. He meets a French girl on a farm, and they fall in love. The soldier then has to return to battle, but the girl secretly follows him. She ends up in a dangerous situation in the middle of the war zone and he has to save her life.
This is a romance/war film and I think it would greatly interest the public in 1935 because romance was a very popular genre at the time. One message behind this movie is that "love has no boundaries." We went with this genre because or studio, MGM, made a lot of romance successful romance films. Most of the actors and actresses that we chose had been in MGM romance movies in the past as well.
We chose MGM Studios because this is a very large scale film and MGM has the money to fund and support everything that would be needed to make the film. MGM has also created several other romance films. MGM also has a number of good actors and actresses including Gretta Garbo, Clark Gable, and more.
For the cast we have Clark Gable, Gretta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Fred Astaire. Gable and Garbo are the lead actor and actress, with Gable playing the soldier and Garbo playing the French girl he falls in love with. Crawford, Montgomery, and Astaire will play the supporting roles, with Crawford and Montgomery as the parents of the French girl and Astaire as another soldier. These actors and actresses were very prominent during this time and were some of the best. William J. Tuttle will be our make-up artist which is very important for this film because the actors and actresses that we chose are all around the same age, so we need a good make-up artist to make them look older or younger based on their part in the film.
Due to the fact that this is a war film, the Hays Code will prevent us from showing explicit violence. To avoid this we will only show people firing guns, but we will never actually show people getting hit by bullets. We will also not show any sexual interaction between the soldier and the French girl. This film will be in black and white so we don't need a technicolor camera, but there will be sound so we need microphones, and we need lights.
If I was working alone I would have changed the plot of the story a little bit, but other than that I was satisfied with everything else that we did. The plot we created I thought was pretty good, I just would have added something else to create more of a controversy and then add a surprise ending, for example: the parents of the french girl are rich, but they do not like that their daughter is spending time with an American soldier because they think it is too dangerous and they do not particularly like Americans, but at the end of the movie the soldier gets shot and he needs money for an operation in order to save himself from dying, and the parents of the French girl realize how much their daughter loves this soldier and they pay for the operation and the soldier is saved.
I think this movie would probably play pretty well to a 1935 audience; you're right, the romance aspect would work well. But, I'd like to hear a little more about the other movies and specifics that hold the cast and crew together. What are previous films? More details would help. Interesting changes at the end.
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