1935 Trading Bases

1935 Trading Bases

            Our film tells the story of a newly engaged couple. They are ecstatic about their plans to be together for the rest of their lives but the next day the husband and main character played by Tyrone Power gets his draft papers for WW1. Devastated, the couple has to postpone their wedding but after time in the war he cant stand being apart from his wife anymore. He fakes his death in order to return home and see his wife, Janet Gaynor. The twist Is that Gaynors character is also love struck and in an attempt to go see her fiancée she fakes being a boy to go see Tyrone. The movie tells the tale of their struggle to find each others love once again in the midst of a great war. We thought this war film would be appropriate because we would show very mild battles with mild blood and mild sexual scenes. Our main aspect of the movie is the couples struggle to find each other love. 

            We chose 20^th Century Fox for our label because they have a lot of money to put out and a wide selection of contract actors that fit our selection well. Also, other labels have come out with war films but this would be 20ths first. 20^th was the perfect choice to make a large scale blockbuster that we were looking for. We chose Tyrone Power as our main actor mainly because of his age and classy style. He was in his early twenties when the movie came out which is essentially the age in which you would get drafted, also a contracted Fox actor, he was an easy choice. Janet Gaynor was our choice for the main actress because of her age, her look and her great contract with 20^th Century Fox. Lastly, as our main supporting actor we have Raymond Griffith, an elder man who plays the squad colonel or leader. He was a defined, hardened looking man perfect for the role. We chose John Ford for director because of his future success in War Films. His contract with 20^th Century made him an obvious choice. Our cinematographer, James Howe, was hard to choose. He specialized in deep focus shots which are vital for battlefield scenes. He could capture a detailed focus with outstanding camera angles and entertain with his camera smarts. If we could do this project again I definitely would have done two things different: 1. I would have spent time in class more wisely, we spent a lot of time chatting and putting off certain tasks which really did not help our ease of work on the last day. Secondly I would have made a definitive ending to our plotline so that I wasn’t guessing what to say about the ending to the class.