Anger is easy but you can't have a movie where you don't like the main character. The hardest part about Ronnie's character, and it was quite a challenge, was not the female part but the anger part. Also, my kids have friends that age, and I coach high school track so I see girls that age. I felt I understood them very well, in fact.
I remember when I was a 17-year-old boy, I loved those 17-year-old girls. Sparks : That wasn't as challenging as you would think. You wrote this specifically with Miley Cyrus in mind, so how did you get in touch with your inner 17-year-old girl? It's like handing off part of your workload. "She comes inside still angry from her confrontation." You can't write that in a novel! That's what you do in a screenplay because you know that the performer is going to show it for you. But once you understand the structure of the screenplay, you are allowed to "tell" and you don't have to "show" like you do in a novel. You do have to know the structure and you have to know timing insofar as what has to happen on page 22 versus page 25 versus page 28. But were you nervous about the screenplay format at all since you're so familiar with how novels are structured? Since we're so A-D-D as a society, it has to be snapshots so you can get it going and move it along.
It's a different medium, and you have to do different things. The novel is a story told with words, and film is a story told in pictures. I enjoy going and watching the movie for the first time.ĭo you find yourself being critical at all with a little notebook in your head, jotting down things and seeing what they missed once The Last Song was on the big screen? It's always a thrill because you never know which ones are going to be made, and it's always fun to see how the vision differs slightly from the novel and what the performances are like. You know it's going to be really exciting when you get out there, but it's not your first rodeo.
It's kind of like being a professional bull rider. Nicholas Sparks: I'm always excited about it, but I'm used to it. You've had so many of your stories made into movies, has it become old hat or is it still exciting? His stories of love and loss have connected with millions, but what inspires him? In a one-on-one interview with, author Nicholas Sparks talks about faith, hope and love and how that figures into his latest novel-turned-movie, The Last Song.
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