1935 Movie: From Ordniary to Gone

Studio:

director Irving Thalberg

I am choosing 20th Century Fox for their adventure films. I'm also choosing Warner Brothers for their films on social realism.

Cast/Crew:
Director: Irving Thalberg
A very talented young director who made prestigious, best picture-winning films also some very popular films such as the Grand hotel and Mutiny on the Bounty. He also was also known for the extravagant silent films with Erich von Stroheim.
 
Cinematographer: Sol Polito
An Oscar-nominated cinematographer who helped create visual characters for Warner Brothers. Sol will do anything to achieve efficiency and perfection even if that means having additional expenses.

James Cagney

 
Actors: Leslie Howard, James Cagney
Leslie would play in movies where he played the character that's associated with him. he served in World War 1.
James was known as a preeminent male star who was known as the tough guy and was also very accomplished.

Genre:
Drama/ Action. A result and affects of WW 1. The life of two soldiers who are also who are friends and how they both are impacted by the war and the losses they endure.

Synopsis:



Leslie Howard

The movie will began when a an 18 teenage boy named Mark (James Cagney) is about to finish high school and he has fun with his friends and has a good time. While in high school, he starts to have plans on where to go and what to do with his life. While thinking about his life, He discusses with his friends on if they're going to live with each other and if where they're going to live. Mark is a guy who wants to chill and who also loves his friends and wants to live a peaceful live without violence. In approximately one month after finishing high school, he gets enlisted to a WW 1 draft all of a sudden knowing very little why and being confused and scared because he is just starting his life with his friends and with what he wants to do in life which becoming a middle school teacher. After being drafted and put directly to the war front, he encounters another soldier named Alexander (Leslie Howard). When meeting Alexander he finds out that Alexander is a guy is was very poor and lived below the poverty living between different alleys and was exited to join the army because at least he got served food and was put with other soldiers in which where he came from didn't matter but where they're in in that very moment. On the other side, Mark came from a wealthy family where he was treated well and had money for his education and was afraid and scared to go war. Days after the joining the army, Mark and Alexander become best friends because they feel that they can learn from each other with Alexander helps Mark on how to keep calm during the war and telling Mark his stories of him being poor and how it affects the way he lives while Mark tells him his stories and promising to Alexander that he will help after the war is over. From day to day, Mark and Alexander have a very good friendship where they feel as if they're brothers to each other. When they go to the battlefield, they witness a lot of their comrades being shot and injured. After they whiteness it, they are filled with fear and sadness from all their fellow comrades being killed and no one honoring them. While experiencing seeing comrades dying one after the other, they start having nightmares about the war and bullets traveling through their flesh and out the other end and seeing people all around them dying. With fear filling them , they start to go to each other because all they could trust is them. After six months and having two months left, they go to the battle front. In the battle front, Alexander gets shot his right breast. Being in much agony and miles away from the battle front, there's nothing they could do to save Alexander besides him having his last few breaths. Upon having his last few breaths, he tells to Mark to promise him that he'll help him after the war to survive the teal world, being in denial that he is dying. Mark replies with see home buddy while being in tears. Minutes later, Alexander is struggling breathing from a pulmonary embolism and later dies. Mark gets emotionally damaged by the fact that his closest friend ever and his brother died, Alexander. After two months when the war is over, Alexander comes home but develops PTSD and struggles to live normal. Mark starts to get disconnected with his closest friends back at home and from his family. Mark starts to develop depression as his closest friend is dead and that he has nobody else to relate to. Suffering from having images of seeing soldiers dying and Alexander's death, Mark goes into the kitchen writes an "I'm sorry" note to his parents. Afterwards while he's crying, he's going to the center of his kitchen, under his fan and he hangs himself.

Hays Code:
considering the movie has soldiers dying on the battle front and a suicide, this movie will be a challenge to pass through the administration and being put out in public. However, this movies is portrayed as someone who is affected by war and how their behavior can change dramatically from the loss of their fellow comrades friends. For a majority of audiences, this movie isn't relatable in any way but it is relatable to those who served in the army and who have gone though similar obstacles. This movie will show audiences on how much they should honor the soldiers in the battle and to respect them as well.

Technology:
Black and white. Shows the two individuals going through a rough time in the war and how one is affected. receives award for the best drama movie of the year.

Why this is a good film:
This would a good for 1935 because even though World War 1 ended in 1918, I feel like people don't know what it was like in the battle front and don't know how much of impact it can have on a soldier if they join the army and fight. This film is universal because it shows the affect from all the soldiers from any country serving, not just in America.