The film that my group made was Far Away Love. This is a romance film for the whole family. This film is set in france during WWI. It is about a young american soldier who when on leave finds him self at the house of a french farmer. He soon falls in love with the farmers daughter. When he must leave to go back to the front lines the daughter follows him without him knowing. She soon finds herself bought in the middle of a battle in no mans land. Our young soldier sees her and steals a white stallion and rides out of the smoke and gunfire to save her. They then ride off into the sunset and live happily ever after.
We chose romance because romance films are very popular at this time and they are a film for the whole family to enjoy. We went with MGM because they are known for there big budget romance films. Also they had many of the stars and director that we need to make this movie so we would not have to buy actors from other studios.
We chose Victor Fleming for our director because he has directed many successful romance films and he was a good fit for ours. Our lead actor and actress are Clark Gable and Greta Garbo. Altho they are a little older for their roles we are focusing on makeup with William Tuttle, one of the best, to make them appear a younger age. They also fit because they are huge stars at this time and are both from MGM.
The hays code works with our film because we will not show or suggest any explicit romance and violence. We will however show some kissing and you will hear gunfire and see guns but you will not see any one get shot.
I don't think that I would have done anything differently. I liked the way our group worked together and found the best fit for everything in our production of this movie.
Interesting idea, but just exploring and explaining more details would probably help here. Plus, the white stallion thing seems a bit more "fantasy" or even a silent/early film motif that audiences might find cheesy. But, maybe it would be an interesting reminder of the past.
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