The Last Song

Yes, that Liam Hemsworth.

This was before his breakthrough in The Last Song, and before he became Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games franchise.

And here's something interesting about the financial performance of this movie.

Triangle was reportedly produced for approximately $12 million.

11.

We are talking about cultural touchstones that defined a decade of cinema, movies like A Walk to Remember, Dear John, and The Last Song.

He created an entire subgenre of cinema single-handedly, and the machine shows zero signs of slowing down, does it?

Nope.

It becomes a story about promises made in peacetime and how the brutal reality of the world forces you to revise them.

We see a parallel bait-and-switch in The Last Song from 2010 to-

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth.

Yes.

It's such a warm message.

It echoes The Notebook's obsession with capturing and holding onto the best days of your life, but it offers a profoundly warmer conclusion.

So we have these intense connections, whether romantic or familial, and they are constantly threatened by separation, war in Dear John, death in About Time, estrangement in The Last Song.

Right.

And I loved him in that.

Is it The Last Kiss or something? Or maybe that's not right.

The

Last Something.

That's a very sad movie, isn't it? The

Last Song.

The Last Song.

Yeah, it's a sad movie.

And to mask the repetition, they started subtly splicing the romance with other darker genres.

Let's look at The Last Song from 2010.

The Last Song is the textbook execution of this launchpad strategy.

Yeah.

This film was explicitly designed to serve as Miley Cyrus's first real adult live action role.

That's really smart.

And there is a crucial business mechanism highlighted in our source regarding this film.

The Last Song was the first time a Sparks script was optioned.

Great movie.

And the other one, I'm sorry to, guys, I'm sorry to say this, Hannah, I don't know how you're gonna react, but he also plays Miley Cyrus's dad in The Last Song.

The Last Song, mm-hmm.

The movie that her and what's-his-name get together, and, like, an entire genre of pop music is born out of their love affair.

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth.

Everyone's like, "Oh, my God, that guy? I love that guy." 'Cause not everyone is like us.

Like, if you're, you're not a pop culture person, you don't know Greg Kinnear's name.

You see him and you go, "Oh, I love that guy from The Last Song." So now he's in the zeitgeist.

but the second one is obviously at the lake house yes with the like feud between the other family the murtogs or whatever i can't remember okay one movie that i so

much watched i can't actually tell you how much i watched a movie i think i was a little bit older already but still young was the last song Armani.

Have you ever watched it? I have.

She's gnarly, but I was obsessed with that movie.