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The Last Song (film)

The Last Song   is a 2010 American   coming of age

teen romantic drama film developed alongside Nicholas

Sparks' 2009   novel of the same name. The film was

directed by   Julie Anne Robinson  in her feature film

directorial debut and co-written by Sparks and Jeff Van

Wie.  The Last Song stars Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth,

and Greg Kinnear and follows a troubled teenager as she

reconnects with her estranged father and falls in love dur-

ing a summer in a quiet Southern United States beach

town.

Sparks was approached to write both the film’s screen-play and the novel. Sparks completed the screenplay in

January 2009, prior to the completion of the novel, mak-

ing The Last Song his first script to be optioned for film.

The setting, originally in  North Carolina like the novel,

relocated to Georgia after the states had campaigned for

months to host production. Upon beginning production

in Tybee Island, Georgia and nearby Savannah, The Last 

Song became the first movie to be both filmed and set in

Tybee Island. Filming lasted from June 15 to August 18,

2009 with much of it occurring on the island’s beach and

pier.  The Last Song was released by Touchstone Pictures

on March 31, 2010.Upon release, the film received mildly positive responses

from audiences; it was panned, however, by critics, many

of whom found its screenplay and casting incoherent.

1 Plot

At seventeen, Veronica “Ronnie” Miller (Miley Cyrus)

remains as rebellious as she was the day her parents di-

vorced and her father moved to North Carolina three

years prior. Once a classical piano child prodigy underthe tutelage of her father, Steve Miller (Greg Kinnear),

Ronnie now ignores the instrument and has not spoken

with her father since he left. While Juilliard School has

been interested in her since she was young, Ronnie re-

fuses to attend.

Steve now has the chance to reconnect with his estranged

daughter when her mother, Kim Miller (Kelly Preston)

sends the rebellious teen and her younger brother, Jonah

(Bobby Coleman), to spend the summer with him. Steve,

a former Juilliard School professor and concert pianist,

lives a quiet life in Wrightsville Beach, the small beach

town in North Carolina where he grew up, working on astained glass window for the local church to replace the

one the church lost in a fire. According to the locals, it

was Steve who had (accidentally) set fire to the church

one night.

After arrival, Ronnie becomes miserable, defiant, and

defensive toward all those around her, including hand-

some, popular Will Blakelee (Liam Hemsworth) whose

introduction involved crashing into her during a volley-

ball match, and accidentally spilling Ronnie’s strawberry

shake on her. She shrugs him off and meets Blaze, an

outcast who lives with her boyfriend Marcus. While at a

beach campfire, Marcus hits on Ronnie and Blaze mis-

takes this for Ronnie flirting with him. Angered by this,Blaze later frames Ronnie for shoplifting, causing her ar-

rest. Later on, Ronnie discovers a Loggerhead Sea Turtle

nest at the beach by her house and while protecting it, she

meets Will again on his volunteer work for the aquarium.

After a night of staying up to defend the turtle eggs from

predators with Will, she discovers he is deeper than she

expected, and begins to develop feelings for him.

The next day, Will takes Ronnie to where he works to

show her the aquarium. After they leave to the beach,

Ashley shows up and tells Ronnie about Will’s past rela-

tionships and how taking them to see the aquarium was

routine of his, making Ronnie doubtful of her feelings to-ward him. Will finds her at the turtle’s nest and they have

an argument about his past relationships. When Ronnie

suggests she does not want to be another girl on the list

and that they should end their relationship for good, Will

embraces her and they kiss passionately, proving his feel-

ings for her as akin to him quoting she’s “not like the other

girls.”

Will, knowing that it was Scott playing around and setting

fire to the church, goes to Steve to apologize. When Ron-

nie comes in hearing this, she walks out and Will follows

where they have an argument and break up. Will leaves.

Fall arrives and Jonah returns to New York for the schoolyear, but Ronnie stays behind to take care of her father.

Leading a slow life, she tries to make up for the time with

her father that she’s lost. She continues work on a com-

position he had been writing (titled “For Ronnie”), after

losing the steadiness of his hands due to his illness. He

dies just as she finishes it.

At his funeral she stands to make a speech but declares

that no words could ever be able to show how wonderful

her father really was. Instead, she decides to share with

them the song she helped finish. Before she sits down

to play, sunlight shines through the stained glass window.

Ronnie smiles and says “Hi, Daddy,” remembering whatshe overheard her father tell Jonah earlier in the movie;

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that whenever light shines through the window, it’s him.

Blaze and other townsfolk offer Ronnie sympathy and

kind words after the funeral outside. Later on, while talk-

ing to the attendants, she runs into Will. He says that he

liked the song she played and that he knows her dad did

too and Ronnie thanks him for coming. Having decidedto attend Juilliard, Ronnie is packing up to return to New

York when she sees Will standing outside. She goes out-

side to see him and Will apologizes to her for everything

that had happened and Ronnie forgives him. Will sur-

prises Ronnie by revealing that he will be transferring to

Columbia in order to be with her and they passionately

kiss.

The end credits show Ronnie driving away in her car and

smiling to herself.

2 Cast

From left to right, cast members Adam Barnett, Nick Lashaway,

and Carly Chaikin make their way to the filming of the bonfire

scene under the Tybee Island pavilion on July 30, 2009.

•   Miley Cyrus as Veronica “Ronnie” L. Miller, an an-

gry, rebellious 17-year-old forced to spend a sum-

mer with her estranged father. She later falls in love

with Will.[2]

•   Greg Kinnear as Steve Miller,[3] Ronnie and Jonah’s

father and former Juilliard School professor and

concert pianist who moved to Georgia after his di-

vorce. During the summer, Steve reconnects with

Ronnie through their mutual love of music. With

Jonah’s help, Steve also works to reconstruct the cen-

terpiece of the local church, a stained glass window,

after the original was destroyed in a fire. He later

dies of cancer.[4][5]

•  Kelly Preston   as Kim Miller, Ronnie and Jonah’smother who raised her children in New York City

after her divorce.[3][5]

•   Liam Hemsworth as Will Blakelee,[6] a popular and

skilled  beach volleyball  player, Will aspires to at-

tend a top university and volunteers at the Georgia

Aquarium. He is Ronnie’s love interest.[5]

•   Bobby Coleman   as Jonah Miller,[7][8] Ronnie’s

younger brother sent along with his elder sister toTybee Island.[9]

•   Nick Lashaway   as Marcus, Blaze’s abusive

boyfriend who breaks up with her because he wants

Ronnie which lead him and Will to fight at Megan’s

wedding party and the leader of a gang of thugs who

hustle money from beach carnival crowds through

spectacular fire juggling performances.[7]

•   Carly Chaikin   as Blaze, a rebel[10] who befriends

Ronnie when she is sent to Georgia. Blaze betrays

Ronnie when she frames Ronnie for shoplifting a

watch, but they eventually became friends again.[11]

•   Adam Barnett as Teddy, a young thug adept at hacky

sack and juggling, skills he uses as part of Marcus’

crew to hustle money.[12]

•   Nick Searcy as Tom Blakelee,[13] Will’s father.

•   Melissa Ordway   as Ashley, Will’s snobby ex-

girlfriend.[8]

•  Carrie Malabre as Cassie, Ashley’s best friend who

aids Ashley in antagonizing Ronnie.[14]

•  Rhoda Griffis as a Doctor[8]

•  Lance E. Nichols as Pastor Charlie Harris,[8][9] the

kind, devout Pastor of the local church. He was

Steve’s first piano teacher, parental figure, and best

friend while Steve was growing up.[9]

•  Hallock Beals as Scott, Will’s best friend who ends

up creating trouble between Will and Ronnie.[15][16]

•   Stephanie Leigh Schlund   as Megan Blakelee,[8]

Will’s elder sister who is engaged to be married.[9]

3 Production

3.1 Development

The Last Song began when Disney executive Jason Reed

met with Miley Cyrus to discuss her future career

plans.[17] At the time, Cyrus had been known mainly

for starring as a pop star  on Disney Channel’s  Hannah

Montana, a children’s television series that had expanded

into a globally successful media franchise.[18] As the se-

ries neared its end, Disney hoped to create a star ve-

hicle to help Cyrus  break out   of the pop persona shehad developed through the franchise and to introduce

Cyrus to older audiences.[17][19] During her meeting with

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Actress Miley Cyrus sits in make-up on set.

Reed, Cyrus expressed a desire to film a movie sim-

ilar to   A Walk to Remember , a 2002 film based on   a

novel   by Nicholas Sparks.[17][20] A Walk to Remember 

helped  Mandy Moore, then a teen pop star much like

Cyrus, launch an acting career.[17] Disney called Adam

Shankman, director of   A Walk to Remember ,[20] who

signed on to produce the potential Cyrus film along

with his sister and Offspring Entertainment production

company partner,  Jennifer Gibgot. Tish Cyrus, Cyrus’

mother and co-manager, became the film’s executive

producer.[21] Cyrus’ acting representation, United Talent

Agency, then contacted Sparks, also a UTA client, to ask

if he had plans for a novel appropriate for a film adapta-

tion starring Cyrus.[22][23]

At the time, Sparks had been wrapping up The Lucky One

and beginning to ponder an original plot for his next book.

The author told himself he could “either go younger than

20 or older than 50”, having recently written about ev-

ery age in between. Wary of venturing above 50 again

after his best-seller   The Notebook , Sparks had already

been leaning toward writing a teenage story when he re-

ceived a phone call from Gibgot on behalf of the film

in August 2008.[3][22] Sparks recalled, “Jennifer asked

if I had anything laying around? I said no, but funny

you should say that…" Sparks returned with a premise

by the end of July 2008.[3] Once the proposal had been

agreed upon by Cyrus, her family, and Offspring Enter-

tainment, Sparks, with the aid of co-screenplay writer Jeff

Van Wie, completed the screenplay before starting the

book.[17][24] Sparks explained that such an arrangement

was necessary in order to accommodate filming in sum-

mer 2009, as Disney had scheduled,[22] but that “this issimilar to the way it’s gone with movies based on my nov-

els; it’s just out of order.”[17] Sparks and Van Wie com-

pleted the first draft of the screenplay in December 2008,

the first rewrite later that month, and the second and fi-

nal rewrite in January 2009.[22][25] Both rewrites took ap-

proximately one or two days, and Sparks found them rel-

atively simple.[25] The finished screenplay was approxi-

mately 100 pages long.[26] While   The Last Song   is not

the first screenplay Sparks has written, it is his first tobe optioned for film.[26] The novel was completed in June

2009, the same time shooting for the film began,[22] and

was published on September 8, 2009 by  Grand Central

Publishing.[27][28] The plot of the film and novel remained

secret throughout development.[17]

Director Julie Anne Robinsontalks to stunt coordinator Cal John-

son while Liam Hemsworth is coached on beach volleyball.

Julie Anne Robinson signed on to direct the film in May

2009, attracted by the emotion present in the story.[29]

The Last Song is Robinson’s first feature film, although she

is a veteran of television and theater. Robinson previously

helmed episodes of American series such as  Weeds  and

Grey’s Anatomy and earned a Golden Globe nomination

and a BAFTA award for her work on the BBC series Viva

Blackpool .[21]

In a June 2009 blog entry, Cyrus said she had “always

been a fan of Nicholas Sparks” and that she had been

waiting to do a production separate from the   Hannah

Montana  franchise “for a long time”, but had not found

the time to do so due to her TV show, music, tours, and

Hannah Montana: The Movie.[30] In order to film   The

Last Song, Cyrus’ contract for season four of   Hannah

Montana included an extra long hiatus.[31]

3.2 Writing and title

Recognizing the popularity of  A Walk to Remember  as

both a novel and film, Sparks “put all [his] thoughts into

that, trying to make the story as different from  A Walk 

to Remember  as [he could], but try to capture the same

feelings.”[3] Sparks’ experiences as a father and as a high

school track and field  coach also helped shape the plot,

and characters Jonah Miller and Will Blakelee are respec-

tively based on Sparks’ sons Landon and Miles. Sparks

felt Ronnie was the hardest character to write for because

he had “never been a 17-year-old, angry teenage girl”.[32]

Ronnie became a composite character inspired by severalyoung women Sparks has known, such as his nieces.[33]

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singing career did inspire the musical elements of the

story.[32] Ronnie plays only the piano andCyrus only sings

a small amount in the film,[17] though she does contribute

to its soundtrack.[34]

Disney did not give Sparks limitations on the topics fea-

tured in The Last Song, which include underage drinking,infidelity, and terminal illness[3][9][32] but Sparks says that

Disney desired to work with him in part because “they’ve

read my novels. My teenagers… don't do bad things. I

just don’t write that. I don’t write about adultery, I don’t

write profanity ... I’ll certainly have love scenes in my

novels, but they’re always between consenting adults.”[3]

Still, Sparks acknowledges that elements of the screen-

play may have been toned down by the director or the

studio after he finished. As dictated by the Writers Guild

of America, Sparks receives full credit for his work al-

though the amount of his original screenplay retained in

the film is uncertain. For example, Sparks says the char-

acter of Marcus, leader of the gang of thugs, was likelyaltered for the film.[3]

The project remained nameless for several months af-

ter Sparks’ initial meeting with Disney in July 2008.[3]

Sparks wrote in a September 2008 online chat that “I have

the idea completed, but no title. That’s common for me

though. Titles come last.”[35] The film was referred to

by the working title “Untitled Miley Cyrus Project”[36] In

March 2009, Variety magazine called “The Last Song” a

“tentative” title.[37]

3.3 Casting

Cyrus chose thename “Ronnie” for her character in honor

of her grandfather,   Ron Cyrus, who died in 2006.[32]

Unknown to many the character had first been named

"Kirby" by Sparks and later changed to “Hilary”. New in-

terviews with Sparks reveal he imagined Cyrus in the role

“only a little” during the writing process. The completion

of the screenplay, concerned Sparks that Cyrus would not

be able to successfully execute the role: “The first thing I

thought when I finished the screenplay was, wow, I hope

she can do this, this is a tough role because I'm bringing

you through a whole gamut of emotion and you're just a16-year-old girl who’s done the Disney Channel. Are you

able to do this as an actress?",[26] After visiting the set and

watching Cyrus film, Sparks’ worries abated.[26] To play

the New York teen, Cyrus worked with a   dialect coach

to lose her Southern accent[38] and learned to play clas-

sical piano.[39] After she completed filming, Cyrus said

that in a case of life imitating art,[40] she had matured and

“changed a lot” over the course of her summer in Georgia,

similar to the way Ronnie does in the film. “Showing this

movie, I feel like I'm really showing a part of my growth

as a person as well. So I'm really excited for people to see

it.”

[41]

In April 2009, Disney officials chose Rafi Gavron for the

part of Will Blakelee, but switched to Australian actor

Liam Hemsworth by May.[42] On May 18, 2009, the de-

cision to cast Greg Kinnear as Steve Miller was made

final.[42] Kelly Preston’s part as Kim is the first role she

has accepted since the death of her son,  Jett Travolta.[43]

After being introduced to  Cal Johnson, the film’s  stunt

coordinator, Adam Barnett landed the role of Teddy in

May 2009 due to his pre-developed talent in juggling andhackey sack.[44]

3.4 Filming

3.4.1 Move to Georgia

Nobody knows what’s going to happen [...] Georgia wants

them badly, and we want them badly, and by Monday,

there'll be four or five other states that want them badly.

—Bev Perdue, Governor of North Carolina[45]

The Last Song   had originally been set in   Wrightsville

Beach and  Wilmington in North Carolina. Though they

wished to shoot on location, filmmakers also examined

three other states and identified Georgia as the next best

filming site.[29] Georgia’s housing prices were higher, but

the state’s filming incentive package refunded 30% of

production costs such as gasoline, pencils, and salaries.

North Carolina’s   package   refunded 15% and excluded

salaries of over $1 million.[46] Still, Disney remained in-

terested in North Carolina and offered to film there if

the state would reduce the amount the company wouldsave in Georgia, approximately $1 million, in half. North

Carolina officials searched for ways to accomplish this,

including applying unsuccessfully for state and   Golden

LEAF Foundation grants.[47] They also introduced leg-

islation to improve the state’s refund to 25%,[46] which

eventually passed on August 27, 2009.[48] Disney de-

cided to work within existing incentive laws and agreed

to film in North Carolina as long as the film rights they

had bought from Sparks counted as a production cost,

thereby saving the company an additional $125,000 to

$225,000. Then-North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue

set up a press conference on April 1, 2009 to announce

N.C.’s victory. North Carolina tax collectors refused to

consider the film rights, forcing Perdue to cancel the con-

ference at the last second.[47] “I was hopeful to say that

it was coming and now I don't know that I'll get to say

that,” Perdue said. “Nobody knows what’s going to hap-

pen [...] I don't know what figures they got from Geor-

gia, but Georgia wants them badly, and we want them

badly, and by Monday [April 6, 2009], there'll be four or

five other states that want them badly.”[45] Johnny Griffin,

director of the Wilmington Regional Film Commission,

explains: “Disney makes feature films. They also make

television series; they make individual movies for the Dis-

ney Channel. By losing this one project, in essence, we'velost all of those opportunities.”[47] He also notes the loss

of jobs and tourism filming would have created. [47]

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On April 9, 2009, after three months of deliberation,

the decision to relocate to Georgia was made final.[47]

To determine the specific town, location scouts scoured

the state for an aged, isolated, oceanfront property to use

as the Miller family’s home in the film. After another

three months and the discovery of the “Adams Cottage”

on the southern tip of Tybee Island, Tybee and neighbor-ing locations became the sites of filming in late March,[49]

with the intention of masquerading the area as Wilm-

ington and Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.,[50] The

locale proved too unique to disguise. “We had a hard

time trying to hide the fact that this was Tybee and Sa-

vannah was Savannah,” said Bass Hampton, the film’s

location director.[50] Filmmakers convinced the screen-

writers to change the setting of the film and to Ty-

bee Island, thus allowing them to incorporate landmarks

such as the Tybee Island Light Station and the Savannah

Historic District.[50][51] The setting of Sparks’ novel re-

mained in North Carolina.[3]

Though other movies havebeen filmed in Tybee Island,  The Last Song is the first to

be both filmed and set in Tybee Island.[49] With the city’s

name plastered on everything from police cars to busi-

nesses, Georgia officials predict a lasting effect on the

economy.[50] In addition,  The Last Song   is estimated to

have brought up to 500 summer jobs[47] to Georgia, $8

million to local businesses,[52] and $17.5 million to state

businesses.[47]

3.4.2 Sets

The Last Song crew members install propane pipes and gas lines 

to create a controlled burn for the bonfire scene.

Nelson Coates   is the production designer for   The Last 

Song, responsible for all visual aspects of the movie.

Coates, who was nominated for an   Emmy Award   for

his work on the Stephen King  television miniseries  The

Stand , arrived 11 weeks prior to the start of filming to do

prep work.[53] While most of the filming took place on

the natural Tybee Island beach or on pre-constructed pri-

vate property,

[54]

Coates oversaw the re-painting of thepier and the construction of the carnival and church.[53]

Location scouts had searched the entirety of Georgia for

an aged, isolated oceanfront property to use as a home

for the Millers for nearly three months before scout Andy

Young came across the “Adams Cottage” on the south-

ern end of Tybee Island. “It was getting down to zero

hour,” said Young. “Often, it’s about the house. It can be

a character itself in the movie.”[49] The house’s owner,

Sam Adams, welcomed filming as “an opportunity tosort of immortalize the house,” in case it is destroyed

by storms.[55] The two-story, six bedroom house was

built by Adams’ great-grandfather in 1918 and was made

entirely out of hard   pine wood  with very few painted

surfaces.[49][55] According to   Savannah Morning News 

reporter Lesley Conn, it “was built in classic rambling

beach style [... designed] to allow ocean breezes to sweep

through wide, wraparound porches into cool, heart-pine

rooms.”[49]

The church set was built over a six-week period in a va-

cant lot on the corner of 13th Street and Sixth Avenue,[56]

near residential homes.[49] The one-room, 2,000-square-foot (190 m2) building seats approximately 80 people

and is estimated to be worth $250,000 to $350,000.[56]

Special-effects coordinator Will Purcell subdued con-

cerns about the church burning scene by stating that the

building would not actually be set on fire. The intended

menacing effect is “all camera angles. It is a safe environ-

ment for actors to do their work.” Several techniques were

used to simulate the fire, including the use of  propane

pipes to shoot flames through the church windows.[57] At

the end of filming, Cyrus hoped to fly the church set back

to her family’s estate in Tennessee. Disney agreed to do-

nate the building to the island after Tybee officials lob-bied to keep it, with the condition that its connection to

The Last Song not be advertised.[56] The set will be moved

to a new location and brought up to code for use as a non-

denominational  chapel for island weddings; renovations

are expected to cost approximately $600,000.[58]

3.4.3 Shooting schedule

Remnants of the carnival set, such as these flags and light strings,

were re-established to create the illusion that the beach scenes  filmed in late July had taken place during the festival filmed in

June.

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Cyrus’ busy schedule necessitated that filming take place

over the summer. Sparks noted, “She’s got a fall music

tour and then she’s back filming  Hannah Montana in the

spring again. So the only time she had free in her schedule

was over the summer.”[32] Principal photography began

on June 15, 2009 and finished on August 18, 2009.[59]

Filming did not take place during weekends.[54]

On the first day of production, Cyrus and Hemsworth

filmed a kiss in the ocean.[60] Other scenes which took

place in June included the carnival and volleyball tour-

nament, both of which were filmed on the beach near

the Tybee Island pier.[61] Filming at the pier wrapped up

on June 23, 2009 after shooting the scene in which Kim

drops off Ronnie and Jonah to live with Steve.[62] Scenes

of the church fire were shot on July 10, 2009.[57][63]

Filming at the Georgia Tech Savannah campus began on

July 16.[64] Kinnear finished taping on July 17, 2009.[65]

Wedding scenes and a key driving scene were filmed at

the Wormsloe Historic Site between July 20[66] and July23[67] for twelve hours each day.[66] Driving scenes in Isle

of Hope, Georgia  continued to the 28.[68] By July 30,

the movie had returned to Tybee Island for more beach

scenes.[69] Chaikin’s character framed Cyrus’ for steal-

ing a watch on August 6.[11] On August 10, Hemsworth

performed an oil change and Cyrus browsed an upscale

boutique in downtown Savannahfor the movie.[70][71] The

funeral was filmed from August 11, 2009 to August 13,

2009 at the church set in Tybee Island.[71][72] On Au-

gust 15, further church burning scenes took place.[72] The

wrap party was held on the 16,[73] and the cast and crew

arrived in Atlanta, Georgia the following day to spend thelast days of filming at the Georgia Aquarium.[72][74] After

analyzing the area on the 17th, the movie began shoot-

ing in public areas at dawn on the 18th to avoid crowds.

Once the aquarium opened to the public at 10:00, filming

shifted to behind-the-scenes areas.[74]

3.4.4 Loggerhead sea turtles

Due to the conflicting personalities of his protagonist cou-

ple, Sparks faced difficulty in finding a vehicle that would

draw Will and Ronnie to spend time together. “It had

to be during the summer, she [Ronnie] had to be new

in town, and whatever happened had to start in June and

end in August. Because you always want a conclusion,”

said Sparks of his requirements.[3] He mentioned summer

camp or a summer job as typical vehicles used in books,

but dismissed them as unoriginal and boring. “So it’s got

to be original, it’s got to be interesting, and at the same

time it’s got to be universal, that you feel like it could

happen to anybody.”[3] Sparks eventually chose to have

Will and Ronnie bond over a loggerhead sea turtle nest,

knowing that Loggerhead eggs often hatch in August.[3]

The scene of the hatching nest took place during the first

week of August and involved 26 live loggerhead sea tur-tle hatchlings. Sea turtle hatchlings have an innate sense

to head toward the ocean water as soon as they are born,

The   loggerhead sea turtle  hatchlings featured in the film were

stragglers collected from nests on Tybee and  Sapelo Island .[75]

so scenes of the nest hatching had to be taken swiftly. [3]

Said Mike Dodd of the Georgia Department of Natural

Resources, the biologist who supervised the scene, the

hatchlings “did all they know how to do: They crawled

down to the water and swam off.”[75] Sparks told an inter-

viewer he suspected filmmakers would digitally add more

turtles to the scene.[3] At the time of filming, the logger-

head sea turtle was listed as a threatened species.[76] The

environmentally friendly theme was an added bonus to

Tybee Island, which was then promoting ecotourism.[49]

3.5 Post-production

The Last Song entered post-production following the end

of filming on August 18, 2009.[59] Automated dialogue

replacement   took place in mid-September; Beals and

Chaikin stated they had gone in to record on Septem-

ber 11[77] and September 18[78] respectively. Chaikin

said she had worked for five and a half hours.[78] The

director’s cut was presented to the studio on October 1,

2009.[79] The Motion Picture Association of America re-

viewed the film and issued it a PG rating  for “thematicmaterial, some violence, sensuality and mild language”

three weeks later.[80]

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4 Score and soundtrack

"When I Look at You", song by Miley Cyrus, was origi-

nally from her EP The Time of Our Lives  released August

31, 2009, but was included on the soundtrack because it

fit the movie well. The song is used in the background of

the film’s trailer.

At the launch of his album  Cradlesong on June 30, 2009,

Rob Thomas told the New York Daily News , “My buddy

Adam Shankman, who just directed Miley’s movie, called

me on the phone the other day and was like, 'You have to

write a song for this movie.'... I would definitely write a

song for her [Cyrus].”[81] In the end, however, Thomas

was unable to contribute music to  The Last Song, citing

“scheduling problems” as the reason.[82]

The soundtrack features a track by  Casey McPherson,

frontman of the band Alpha Rev which signed with Dis-

ney’s Hollywood Records in August 2008.  Variety maga-zine’s Anthony D'Alessandro notes that the use of sound-

tracks as “launch pads” for new Disney artists is a com-

mon practice. “A Different Side of Me” by Allstar Week-

end  was also included on the soundtrack. They are a

group newly signed to Hollywood Records after winning

the N.B.T. Competition through the Disney Channel.

The soundtrack was released in the U.S. on March 23,

2010.[83][84] Though not featured on soundtrack,   Snow

Patrol's 2006 single "Shut Your Eyes" and Feist's “I Feel

It All” also appear in the film . The soundtrack had a ma-

jor increase in sales in the week of the DVD release. The

soundtrack peaked at #104 on the   Billboard  200  albums

chart.

4.1 Track listing

4.2 Charts

4.3 Singles

•   "When I Look at You" was released as a single on

February 16, 2010. It has peaked at #16 on the US

Hot 100 and #24 on the Canadian Hot 100.[86]

•   "I Hope You Find It" is a track from the album. It

received a large amount of digital downloads after

the album was made available for online purchase.

It debuted at #8 on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles

chart in the week ending April 10, 2010 and peaked

at #5 a week later before it dropped out in the week

ending April 24, 2010. In September 2013, the song

received media attention for being covered by Cher

for her 26th studio album Closer to the Truth.

5 Release

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures originally scheduled

Cyrussings“When I Look at You”during her Wonder World Tour 

while facing a screen playing a film clip of Will and Ronnie.

The Last Song  for wide release on January 8, 2010, butwas delayed to March 31, 2010.

5.1 Marketing

Upon the release of the novel on September 8, Sparks be-

gan a book tour reaching around 13 cities and gave sev-

eral interviews. During these events, he discussed writ-

ing both the novel and the screenplay.[32] Cyrus and Walt

Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook discussed the film

on September 11, 2009 at the first  D23 Expo.[87] The

first clips from the film appeared online on September

11, 2009, interspersed within one version of the “When I

Look at You” music video. The film’s first trailer was in-

tegrated into Cyrus’ Wonder World Tour and premiered

during the tour’s opening night on September 14, 2009

in Portland, Oregon. Midway through each concert, the

trailer was shown on large video screens surrounding the

stage.[34][88] After it finished, Cyrus played a white piano

and sang “When I Look at You” while film clips contin-

ued to play on the screens behind her.[34][40] On Novem-

ber 16, 2009, the first three film stills were released via

the film’s Facebook page.[89] The following day, the film’s

trailer premiered online.[18] The film’s premiere was held

in Los Angeles on March 25, 2010.[90] Cyrus was orig-inally planned to go to the UK premiere of the film,

but due to the April 14, 2010 eruption of the volcano

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Eyjafjallajökullthat blanketed Europe in volcanic ash and

grounded all flights to and from the continent, she was un-

able to attend.

5.2 Home media

The Last Song was released on DVD and Blu-ray on Au-

gust 17, 2010, and on September 6, 2010 in the UK. It

was released in Australia on August 4. As of February 4,

2011, The Last Song  DVD has sold 1,584,502 copies in

the US, making $29,016,169. More than the 20 million

budget.

6 Reception

6.1 Critical response

The Last Song was panned by critics. Review aggregation

website Rotten Tomatoes, gives the film an average of

4/10 and a rating of 20% based on 116 reviews.[91] The

critical consensus is summarized: “As shamelessly ma-

nipulative as any Nicholas Sparks production,  The Last 

Song   is done no favors by its miscast and over matched

star, Miley Cyrus.”[91] Metacritic, which assigns normal-

ized ratings to films, The Last Song holds a “generally un-

favorable” score of 33% based on 27 reviews.[92]

Reviewers were critical of Sparks’ and Van Wie’s screen-

play and formulaic storyline.   Mick LaSalle  of the  San

Francisco Chronicle  says the screenplay’s faults include

several “scenes that make no emotional sense” and claims,

“The plot construction is weak. Incidents don't flow one

into the next.”[93] When reviewing Cyrus’s performance,

critics acknowledged her stage presence, but were fre-

quently critical of her acting abilities. Jay Stone of  The

Ottawa Citizen   says Cyrus’s portrayal of angry Ronnie

“consist[s] of pouting and sneering [...] Cyrus doesn't

have a lot of range, but she does have presence.”[94] Rob

Nelson of Variety writes, “Cyrus, alas, hasn't yet learned

not to act [...] But she does show off her consider-

able chops as a pianist and remains reasonably likable

throughout.”[95] A. O. Scott of  The New York Times  be-lieves that although “her Hannah Montana persona has a

certain aggressive charm”, in  The Last Song   she “play-

act[s] rather than exploring the motives and feelings of

her character.”[96] Roger Ebert   gave the film a mixed

2.5/4. He praised the acting and directing, but derided

the plot and Sparks’s writing.[97]

Kinnear’s performance has been widely praised.   A. O.

Scott  writes, “it’s nice to see Mr. Kinnear play an en-

tirely sympathetic character for a change [but] his slyness

and subtlety seem wasted in a project that has no interest

in either.”[96] Michael Phillips  of   The Chicago Tribune

writes, “Reliably honest and affecting, [Kinnear] fightsoff the waves of corn in much the same way that Tibetan

monk defied the tsunami in   2012.”[98] Glen Whipp of

the Associated Press  writes, “Kinnear lends the movie a

dignity it doesn't deserve”.[99] Stone advises, “I'd watch

out for Liam Hemsworth”.[94] Stephen Witty of The Star-

Ledger  commends “newcomer Carly Chaikin [who] plays

the “bad girl” [...] with an exciting mixture of wildness

and vulnerability. Halfway in, I began wishing desper-

ately that Chaikin was playing the lead.”[100] Receptionfor Coleman was mixed; Jeff Vice of "Deseret News"

calls him a “hammy irritant”[101] while Jon Bream of the

Star Tribune  writes, “The most memorable acting is by

Coleman, 12 [... who] gets a lot of great lines and deliv-

ers them with aplomb”.[102] Despite the negative reviews

from critics, the movie was well received from fans and

audiences with a 66% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes

and with an average of a 7/10.

6.2 Box office

The Last Song   was released on Wednesday, March 31,

2010.[103] The film performed well[104] for a Wednes-

day release, garnering $5,125,103[105] on approximately

3,300 screens at 2,673 theaters, for an average of $1,917

per theater,[106] and topping the daily box office.[104] It

placed fourth at the weekend box office, making $16

million behind   How to Train Your Dragon,   Why Did I 

Get Married Too?    and   Clash of the Titans . Over the

course of its five-day opening, the film earned $25.6 mil-

lion. As of July 15, 2010 the film had made $89,041,656

worldwide.[107]

6.3 Awards and nominations

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[107]  “The Last Song (2010)". Box Office Mojo. March 31,

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[108]   Awards for The Last Song

8 External links

•  The Last Song  at the Internet Movie Database

•  The Last Song at AllMovie

•  The Last Song at Rotten Tomatoes

•  The Last Song at Metacritic

•  The Last Song at Box Office Mojo

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