1935 blog post "The Struggle"

The Struggle
1.The Struggle is based on an italian immigrant Dom Perri played by Henry Fonda.  Dom Perri Moves his family, wife and 3 kids (2 boys, 1 girl) to New York City in 1928.  He moves in hope of finding work and a chance for his kids to have a better life.  Perri originally finds work in a factory working for a salary just enough to pay the rent and put food on the table.  His 3 kids Jackie Searle, Jane Whithers, and Billy Mahn have a hard time adjusting to the american lifestyle and an even harder time learning english, but they get by.  Once the great depression hits it cause Dom to lose his job.  their family is put into a bind not having money to pay the bills, being evicted from apartment after another.  Doms oldest son Emillo is forced to drop out of school anf go to work for the family.  after a couple months of the struggle Dom toughs it out and finds work as a construction worker and is able to move his family to a house in Long Island.  The message is that hard work will get you through anything as long as you keep going and never give up no matter how bad it gets,

2.are genre we chose was drama and our story really fit the era that was currently going on in the united states so drama offered us the best way to connect with our viewers.

3.  We chose to work with 20th century fox, this was the best studio for us to pick for this movie because like Dom Perri 20th century fox faced a struggles too.  In may of 1935 there was a merger between 20th century and fox because fox was going under due to the great depression, so they joined 20th century.  So the attitude that we wanted are characters to portray was already instilled in our studio due to the depression also they owned the contract of henry fond who was a great drama actor.

4. We were limited to only choosing 20th century fox actors and actresses because in 1935 the studios held their contracts and they couldn't act for anyone other then their studios.  so we picked the best and most suitable 20th century fox actors and actresses.  for the main character we chose henry fonda because he was in good drama movies before and had that appearance of a tough hard working character that we were looking for.  for his kids we chose Jackie Searle, Billy Mahn , and Jane Withers.   we were limited to children actors and these kids were the best options.  Henry King was our director and we chose him because he was one of the 20th century fox directors and worked with dramas before.  our focus was cinematography so that our audience could really feel how bad life really got for them and to focus on their situation up close.

5. for the hayes code the biggest thing was we couldn't show children being abused or beaten so we couldn't show the struggle they were actually going through that was the biggest problem. and we couldn't show dom relying on alcohol or drugs because that wasn't allowed so he couldn't rely on that but we weren't going to make it a big part any way so it didn't effect us that much

6. i wouldn't have had the family aspect.  just him moving here with a friend or a girlfriend kind of like tony montana in scarface that was the only disagreement. i like how scarface was set up how he came here alone and made it illegally but he did.