The Lucky One - yours forever

Movie
German title	The Lucky One - yours forever
Original title	The Lucky One
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2012
length	100 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 ; JMK 10
Rod
Director	Scott Hicks
script	Will Fetters
production	Kevin McCormick , ; Denise Di Novi
music	Hal Lindes
camera	Alar Kivilo
cut	Scott Gray
occupation
	Zac Efron : Logan Thibault; Taylor Schilling : Beth Clayton; Blythe Danner : Nana; Jay R. Ferguson : Keith Clayton;
synchronization

The Lucky One (Original title: The Lucky One ) is an American drama from 2012 . It is the literary film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Nicholas Sparks with Zac Efron in the leading role.

action

US Marines Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his assignment in Iraq. He is convinced that the portrait of a woman he does not know saved his life. He finds out that the woman's name is Beth and that she runs a kennel with her grandmother Charlotte. There he takes a job as a laborer without telling Beth the real reason for his coming. Beth distrusts him at first and has her problems with him. But it doesn't take long and they fall in love.

But love is threatened by Logan's secret and Beth's unstable ex-husband, who works as a policeman in the small town. He never misses an opportunity to demonstrate his power to Beth. So he asks her to send Logan away, because otherwise he would ensure that he gets sole custody of their son Ben due to his relationships. She accepts this threat and separates from Logan. Charlotte, on the other hand, who is on Beth's side and immediately noticed that Logan is good for her, tells her to fight and not to put up with everything. She does, stands up to her ex-husband and brings Logan back. Since her son gets along well with Logan, her luck seems perfect.

Beth and Logan enjoy being in love, but when Keith finds out that Logan was specifically looking for Beth, he denounces Logan to his ex-wife, who now thinks he is a stalker . However, she also gives him the chance to justify himself, and so he talks to her about his experiences in the war: After an attack, he would have found Beth's photo by chance, this portrait of the young woman looked like an angel in hell. So he survived situations that seemed hopeless, and so he vowed to thank the woman for unwittingly saving his life. Beth's brother, who had not returned from the Iraq war, lost the photo. Despite this explanation, Beth breaks up with Logan. In addition, he is provoked by Keith, who insults him badly and even threatens him with his service weapon. Instead of defending himself, Logan confidently takes the challenge. Keith, on the other hand, does not endure this humiliation and threatens Beth at the next opportunity. Her son Ben can't see it and runs out of the house. Since a storm is raging, his life is in danger. Logan, who joins them, can rescue the boy from the river he fell into. Keith, however, who also wanted to help his son, perishes in the floods. Beth makes up with Logan and asks him to stay with her forever.

background

Pre-production

In April 2009 it was announced that Nicolas Sparks novel Forever Yours will be filmed for the cinema. A year and a half later, Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling were cast for the lead roles. While the script was being written, there were plans to assign the role of Logan Thibault to Ryan Gosling . Abbie Cornish and Katie Cassidy were discussed as alternative occupations for the female lead .

Filming

Filming began on October 13, 2010 and ended on December 21, 2010. The film was recorded in New Orleans . The budget was about $ 25 million.

publication

Before the film was shown in US cinemas, test screenings were shown in military facilities. The film was released in the United States on April 20, 2012. The day before he was seen in various other countries. The film was released in Germany and Austria on April 26, 2012 and entered the German cinema charts at number 3 behind American Pie: Das Klassentreffen and Marvel's The Avengers . On August 31, 2012, Warner Home Video released the film in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with an FSK-12 rating.

On the opening weekend, the film grossed over $ 22.5 million in US cinemas. Worldwide revenues amounted to the equivalent of almost 60.5 million US dollars.

German dubbed version

The German synchronized editing was done at RC Production in Berlin .

actor	German speaker	role
Zac Efron	Daniel hose	Logan
Taylor Schilling	Sonja Spuhl	Beth
Douglas M. Griffin	Matthias Rimpler	barkeeper
Riley Thomas Stewart	David Kunze	Ben
Ann Mckenzie	Marianne Gross	Charlotte Clayton
Joe Chrest	Frank Röth	Deputy Moore
Blythe Danner	Judy Winter	Ellie
Jay R. Ferguson	Martin Kautz	Keith Clayton
Ritchie Montgomery	Hans Hohlbein	Country house landlord
Courtney J. Clark	Victoria Storm	Logan's sister
Reverend Dustin Bergene	Matthias Klages	pastor
Sharon Conley	Peggy Sander	Rector Miller
Adam LeFevre	Frank-Otto Schenk	Judge Clayton
Russell Durham Comegys	Nicolas Boell	Roger Lyle

Soundtrack

No.	title	Interpreter
1.	You know it's true	Jules Larson
2.	All The World (I Tell Myself)	Correatown
3.	You Got What I Need	Joshua Radin
4th	Count Me In	Early Winters
5.	If I run	Voxhaul Broadcast
6th	What I wouldn't do	A fine frenzy
7th	Wasted generation	Mayfield
8th.	Hold on you	Ponderosa
9.	When I feel	Mayfield
10.	Dance Everyday	Terrance Simien
11.	Over the bend	Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
12.	The story	Brandi Carlile

criticism

Kino.de came to the conclusion: “This latest film adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks bestseller is a moving, bittersweet drama and love story, which has alreadyprovided the templates for ' Message in a Bottle ' and ' The Shine of Silence '. Here the Oscar-nominated director Scott Hicks staged the girl crush Zac Efron as the attractive leading actor for “Shine - The Way to Light”. A promising combination. "

cineman.ch judged: “With Shine or Snow Falling on Cedars, director Taylor Hicks has demonstrated a talent for drama, but even he cannot turn this shallow model into a profound masterpiece. The Lucky One is immersed in the great atmosphere of rural Lousiana. But all the visual poetry doesn't hide the strange cast. "

Lena Kettner from Kinozeit.de said: "On the way to the predictable Hollywood happy ending, this film leaves no cliché."

In the Wessels film review , Antje Wessels wrote : “Let's not kid ourselves: basically,“ The Lucky One - Forever Yours ”is the Hollywood version of any Rosamunde Pilcher film. Every week a look at the television newspaper proves that this genre is booming ”. “The story works according to the scheme F, which all Sparks films follow” and “in all of us there is more or less a thirst for kitsch and thus entertains in a really cheap and predictable way. Because the difference between Sparks' romances and other romantic fare from Hollywood is simple: his films, including the one discussed here, try to instill in the viewer the feelings that the protagonist couple feels in the respective scenery. With the help of precisely applied music and intrusive play of colors and light, even the less romantic-loving viewer understands when and how to find which scenery. "