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Young Star contemplates future of Hannah Montana
The Last Song, or, Hannah Montana vs. Human Mortality
Miley Cyrus is a phenomenon and a superstar and a notable icon of North American Have It Your Way-ism, but she is not an especially talented thespian. As star of The Last Song, a melodrama written by Nicholas Sparks, the scribe behind The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, she does okay with surly teenaged charm and even with the weepy scenes, but scenes of dramatic confession and confrontation have an uncomfortable deadness.
Its not Cyruss fault, of course, that Sparkss dialogue is so lifeless, so full of icky nonsense platitudes. The writing is so unrepentantly tossed-off that whenever characters reveal an intense emotional event from their past, they seem to speak in outline form. A kid makes a dramatic confession about accidentally starting a fire, Well, we were behind the church, just playin around, and, and drinkin, and then we started... Pause.
Authority figure, Playing with fire?
'Tween television shows teach their young stars bad habits: they're shot quickly, in blocky group shots that forego close-ups, and the cast learns to bully their lines because the laugh track will always deliver a gag for them; it's a safety net that disappears on a film set.
In her coming-out performance after several lucrative years as Hannah Montana, 17-year-old Miley Cyrus does her best in The Last Song, but the romantic melodrama ultimately doesn't give her a great deal to work with and what remains is bludgeoned by overt sentiment.
Cut from the usual cloth of a Nicholas Sparks novel (Sparks also co-wrote the screen adaptation), where the guy and the girl meet on a southern beach, a building is restored and love is an endurance test culminating in the slow death of a supporting character, The Last Song casts Cyrus as Veronica ''Ronnie'' Miller, the rebellious daughter of divorced parents sent to Georgia to spend the summer with her pianist father, Steve (Greg Kinnear). The shirtless boy who must gaze adoringly at her and earnestly declare, ''You're not like the other girls'', is played by Neighbours graduate (and Cyrus' boyfriend) Liam Hemsworth.
Mood montages ... Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth.
The movies used to make teen stars, such as Molly Ringwald, but now they're a finishing school whose students aren't ready. Cyrus pushes out her lower lip and snaps at everyone until her character, a piano prodigy, is ready to grow up, and even then Kinnear, an understated actor who must do much of the heavy lifting as the repentant father with a terminal illness, struggles to find anything genuine in their scenes together.
Oddly enough, Cyrus is at her best playing sarcasm, and with her grating voice and natural instinct for kvetching, she has a future ahead of her playing the nutty best friend in romantic comedies. But she won't be starring in them.
THE LAST SONG
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Young Star contemplates future of Hannah Montana
The Last Song, or, Hannah Montana vs. Human Mortality
Miley Cyrus is a phenomenon and a superstar and a notable icon of North American Have It Your Way-ism, but she is not an especially talented thespian. As star of The Last Song, a melodrama written by Nicholas Sparks, the scribe behind The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, she does okay with surly teenaged charm and even with the weepy scenes, but scenes of dramatic confession and confrontation have an uncomfortable deadness.
Its not Cyruss fault, of course, that Sparkss dialogue is so lifeless, so full of icky nonsense platitudes. The writing is so unrepentantly tossed-off that whenever characters reveal an intense emotional event from their past, they seem to speak in outline form. A kid makes a dramatic confession about accidentally starting a fire, Well, we were behind the church, just playin around, and, and drinkin, and then we started... Pause.
Authority figure, Playing with fire?
'Tween television shows teach their young stars bad habits: they're shot quickly, in blocky group shots that forego close-ups, and the cast learns to bully their lines because the laugh track will always deliver a gag for them; it's a safety net that disappears on a film set.
In her coming-out performance after several lucrative years as Hannah Montana, 17-year-old Miley Cyrus does her best in The Last Song, but the romantic melodrama ultimately doesn't give her a great deal to work with and what remains is bludgeoned by overt sentiment.
Cut from the usual cloth of a Nicholas Sparks novel (Sparks also co-wrote the screen adaptation), where the guy and the girl meet on a southern beach, a building is restored and love is an endurance test culminating in the slow death of a supporting character, The Last Song casts Cyrus as Veronica ''Ronnie'' Miller, the rebellious daughter of divorced parents sent to Georgia to spend the summer with her pianist father, Steve (Greg Kinnear). The shirtless boy who must gaze adoringly at her and earnestly declare, ''You're not like the other girls'', is played by Neighbours graduate (and Cyrus' boyfriend) Liam Hemsworth.
Mood montages ... Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth.
The movies used to make teen stars, such as Molly Ringwald, but now they're a finishing school whose students aren't ready. Cyrus pushes out her lower lip and snaps at everyone until her character, a piano prodigy, is ready to grow up, and even then Kinnear, an understated actor who must do much of the heavy lifting as the repentant father with a terminal illness, struggles to find anything genuine in their scenes together.
Oddly enough, Cyrus is at her best playing sarcasm, and with her grating voice and natural instinct for kvetching, she has a future ahead of her playing the nutty best friend in romantic comedies. But she won't be starring in them.
THE LAST SONG
http://www.blacktree.tv A BlackTree Media Production Thank you for watching! Blacktree is at all the hottest events on the planet (award shows, movie premieres and press junkets, fashion shows, etc.) and now BLACKTREE ON TV brings stars to YOU on Soul of the South! Watch Full episodes below, and tune in!
WEEKDAYS | 5:30 – 6:00pm, 1-1:30am WEEKENDS | 5 – 6:00pm Sat & Sun (CST) _________________________
BlackTree Media Production
Subscribe to our channel http://goo.gl/lVN14
Log onto our stream at http://goo.gl/74Ama
Follow us on twitter @BlackTreeTV Click here to see more unique video at Comcast Xfinity 'Celebrate BlackTV' click here: http://xfin.tv/1sgUqKk Click here to see more unique video at Comcast Xfinity 'Celebrate BlackTV' click here: http://xfin.tv/1sgUqKk
Blacktree is at all the hottest events on the planet (award shows, movie premieres and press junkets, fashion shows, etc.) and now BLACKTREE ON TV brings stars to YOU on Soul of the South! Watch Full episodes below, and tune in!
WEEKDAYS | 5:30 – 6:00pm, 1-1:30am WEEKENDS | 5 – 6:00pm Sat & Sun (CST)
A BlackTree Media Production
Subscribe to our channel http://goo.gl/lVN14
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