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This is review #572....and so is there really any need to say more?!
"Whiplash" is a terrific picture...no doubt about that. Unremarkably, I'd spend several paragraphs talking about how great it is except that I am the 572nd review and many people have already gone on and on well-nigh what a terrific picture show it is....and so what can I add?! It'southward the 40th highest rated film on IMDb after all!
J.K. Simmons clearly deserved the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor because although he was no the star of the film, he dominated every moment he was on the screen. Was he a likable guy? No fashion..but he was mesmerizing. Kudos as well for the young actor in the lead and anybody else with this moving-picture show. It'southward amongst the best films of the year and one that impressed me and then much because it did not take a complicated script of mega-one thousand thousand dollar special effects--it just had terrific acting, writing and management. See this movie and see how a quality film is crafted. 'Nuff said...
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Blistering
Nominated for five Oscars, and winning three (editing, sound and Best Supporting Actor, with nominations for screenplay and Best pic), 'Whiplash' is positively blistering, with a darker and more realistic view on aspirations and done in a way that's tense and inspirational.
Visually, 'Whiplash' looks swell with grittily atmospheric photography with plenty of beautiful, gripping shots (similar close-ups of the drum playing) and some of the tightest, cleverest and about audacious editing of any film that year. The audio is as well thrilling in its intense authenticity, and really add to the impact of the pulse-racing Jazz soundtrack. In that location is in particular unbelievable drum playing that serves as a fond reminder of iconic pulsate players of the classic Jazz Historic period, the final pulsate solo is long only exhilaratingly played and a huge office of why the ending sends upwards a storm as much as it does.
The script is abrupt and cutting, sometimes uncompromising and at other points patient. The story is not new, but makes a betoken of aspirations and talent having its dark and less glamorous side, competitiveness and that there are always obstacles (including dictatorial bullies). While not quite as extreme in life as shown here situations and people like seen in the picture show exist. The story is at its most successful in its tension between Andrew and Fletcher, which is thrilling and nail-biting, and Andrew's very relatable and inspiring drive and passion, and much of information technology is very taut and rarely laborious in footstep.
Damian Chazelle directs with a clear beloved for moving-picture show and the jazz way and passion for the subject. 'Whiplash' has swell performances all round. The secondary cast practise much with little and Miles Teller more than holds his own in a telling atomic number 82 operation. This is JK Simmons' film however, proving that his Oscar win was one of that year'southward most deserved wins. He doesn't just dominate the motion-picture show with his ruthless manner as a terrifyingly dictatorial character, but actually IS substantially the motion-picture show, i'southward terrified of him but likewise understands his indicate of view.
'Whiplash' could have been slightly better this said. Near of the supporting cast, particularly Andrew's family unit (the film at least tries to say why the romance was rushed and dropped, in that it didn't mean anything to him like his playing of music did), are severely underwritten and underused. The auto crash scene and the aftermath likewise feels out-of-kilter and even the most committed musician wouldn't be in the right part to practice what happens after that scene.
Otherwise, this is a blisteringly great film with a huge amount to recommend. 9/x Bethany Cox
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Real depth
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Something very different out of Hollywood: a relationship drama of a very small scale, focusing about exclusively on the volatile mentor/student relationship between a drummer and his tutor. Plainly it's the J. Thousand. Simmons show here and he really shines in the office, relishing the dialogue he'south asked to bark, and nobody else really gets a look in. Merely in the second half it moves into unexpected territory and offers a lot more existent depth than I was expecting.
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Ane of the Best of 2014
Whiplash (2014)
**** (out of 4)
Hard-hitting drama plays out much like a thriller every bit Andrew (Miles Teller) dreams of becoming a great drummer no thing what the toll is. He ends upwardly attending the best music school in the country and information technology doesn't take long before he's hand picked by Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), the best instructor there who will stop at nothing to get the best out of his students.
WHIPLASH is a picture show that pretty much came out of nowhere and is leaving a major mark on those who encounter it. I will admit that I hadn't actually heard too much about the film but it seems with each passing day there was someone new singing information technology's praises. Well, having now seen the picture show I'm going to join the oversupply and tell anybody how wonderful it actually is. I retrieve 1 of the hardest things to do is take a familiar genre (teacher- student relationship) and trying to bring new life to it. Managing director-writer Damlen Chazelle manages to do simply that because nosotros've seen this type of moving-picture show several times before simply it'south done in such a style hither that you can't assistance only experience y'all're watching something fresh and original.
I call up one of the biggest reasons information technology feels fresh is due to the actual subject field of a drummer. Yous'd expect to see something about singers or guitar players just to ready this in the world of a drummer and Jazz music was something that works so well because of the wild, frantic manner of the jazz score works perfectly well with the work and corruption that the master character forces on himself. The scenes of Andrew working his hands to blood are simply so flawlessly edited with the score that you tin't help but feel every drop of blood that drips from his easily. Another major plus is the actual editing, which is incredibly fast-pace only falls well brusque of that MTV-fashion that has go so worn out the past two decades.
Of course, the picture's highlight is without question the operation of Simmons who is simply wonderful. Again, we've seen angry people countless times before and nosotros've seen caring teachers countless times before. What's so memorable about the performance hither is how chop-chop Simmons is able to alter emotions from caring to pure rage in the matter of seconds. Getting the eyes to tell y'all what you need to know from a scene is extremely difficult but just lookout Simmons' eyes throughout the picture.
The rage he shows isn't only mindless screaming and cussing considering you can still meet a certain emotion and caring in his eyes. Teller is likewise fantabulous in the part and manages to stand his own against Simmons. Both Paul Reiser and Melissa Benoist are also very good in their supporting parts.
What also makes WHIPLASH so memorable is the fact that it really plays out like a thriller. I'k not going to ruin anything that happens but we tin can see the main graphic symbol falling autonomously due to the abuse from the teacher and we know something is eventually going to happen to cause havoc. The film plays this suspense out equally if you're watching a thriller and it really pays off in the last twenty-minutes as there are a couple excellent twists. The pic certainly has everything you want from a movie and information technology's clearly one of the best of 2014.
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terrific performances
Andrew Neimann (Miles Teller) is a kickoff year student at the prestigious Shaffer Solarium. His father Jim (Paul Reiser) is a sweet loftier school teacher. He gets picked by Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) to be the backup drummer in his winning Studio band. He gets plenty confidence to enquire out Nicole (Melissa Benoist). Fletcher is a cruel manipulative dictatorial teacher.
J.K. Simmons gets a dandy juicy part to testify his skills that he has shown all these years. He fully deserves his Oscar win and it's not a surprise. He's certainly washed corking work in many TV and flick roles before over the years. Miles Teller take a nifty step up. He has done good work but this is something much more than. It'due south a compelling graphic symbol who develops and changes. He'south able to play through information technology all.
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Simulated, simulated, fake
lor_ 19 March 2015
My contrary reaction to the phony picture show WHIPLASH:
one. Fake jazz: Jazz is the vehicle to tell this story, but what nosotros become is not jazz but rather the bookish educational activity of big band/orchestral music, emphasizing arrangements and perfecting the technique of one'due south instrument. Same movie could have been better scripted about a classical symphony orchestra at a university. Jazz is about improvisation and the interplay between musicians, every bit seen in a small group context. Large bands equally seen here are more evident present at sporting events. The only solo was the hero's mediocre drum solo at film'southward terminate.
2. False theme/ending: Theme of the pic is the importance of motivation & rigor to promote excellence, in the context of a student, and the pitfalls of the martinet. In movies, for audition manipulation and dramatic purposes a theme is often betrayed at the finish, virtually famous case being Alec Guinness's sudden reversal at the climax of THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, because an audition expects the damn span to exist diddled up, even though his character spent the previous 2 hours with every fiber of his being symbolically building information technology. In WHIPLASH the finale contradicts everything previously in the script, not to be even-handed but to falsely convey a message that "maybe" true artistry and achievement stems from the horrible inspiration nosotros've witnessed. Totally bogus and phony.
three. Faux characters: Given jazz's history, the two major characters - protagonist and antagonist, should accept been Black. The filmmakers have every right to make them any they want, peradventure a female person instructor and a girl drummer would have been interesting, but that also would non have fit the use of jazz equally moving-picture show'due south central core. My reaction to the whitened-up story was the aforementioned reaction equally I would take to a '50s movie biography of Fats Domino played past Pat Boone, whose early career was essentially spurred by the industry (and specifically his record label) customarily ripping of a Blackness creative person (Fats) with a white artist (Pat) singing his songs for a general audience. Same crappy arroyo here.
4. Faux gimmicks: Many gimmick scenes in WHIPLASH would have been blue-penciled and not made information technology into the final script had this been a TV episode rather than an independent ("annihilation goes") feature motion picture -the writers' room would not take permitted them to slip through. Almost notable is the hero's car accident and arriving late and bloody to unsuccessfully try and perform at the big concert contest, when the ring's other drummer was perfectly capable of going on in his stead. Not but unbelievable but farcical equally directed hither. Concluding reel of him conned into appearing with no charts for songs he had never seen or heard before was an asinine gimmick, almost as stupid every bit him returning to of a sudden pb the orchestra himself, all for fake-dramatic purposes. And maybe fifty-fifty worse the scene that fabricated me want to leave the screening: his blow-off of his daughter friend telling her his need to practice and succeed would not leave enough time for their relationship to continue. That must accept looked bad on the page and it didn't play at all on the screen.
five. False functioning: I have praised J.K. Simmons many times, and you can read my rave review for him on IMDb for his role in the obscure one-act NEW IN TOWN. But his facile, surface operation here is simply the kind that wins awards (it surely did), but pales into comparison to many others playing essentially the same part. I volition simply cite Robert Duvall in THE Smashing SANTINI or Lou Gossett Jr. in AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN every bit the most bright in recent retentiveness. I found his playing closer to the psychotic of Humphrey Bogart in THE CAINE Mutiny than to what the role called for.
6. Fake icon: Buddy Rich is elevated to god-like status in WHIPLASH, a reactionary and outdated concept that I reject entirely. In testify biz history I would nominate Rich for iconic status as a jerk, non a musical artist. In jazz history, the logical icon and role model here would be Art Blakey, since not only is his importance in modern (post-WWII) jazz secure but more than to the point he became the archetypal leader and inspiration to hundreds of musicians who graduated from his band, ranging from formative stints for Wayne Shorter and the Marsalis Bros. to little-known connections with artists as varied as Chick Corea and Chuck Mangione, both of whom I saw announced with Blakey's Jazz Messengers in Boston in 1966.. Different the instructor posited in WHIPLASH as a Dick Cheney-similar nut, Blakey motivated rather than tortured his young acolytes. Buddy Rich and his mediocre '60s large bands yielded aught, and as a drummer he was all technique and null jazz.
seven. Faux porn: Categorically WHIPLASH (the championship is perhaps the key hint) is a blazon of soft-core pornography, among other things. It'southward another picture show example of the trends in recent years to substitute sadomasochism for traditional sexual porn - namely the thousands of horror films about torture and sadism appealing to the audience to alternately identify with then hiss the sadist as protagonist, or more than recently the oncoming tendency that will be inspired by the success of fifty SHADES OF Grayness. The picture'south domination theme is obvious, simply the submission attribute is way more than subtle -masked by the hero's natural rebelliousness. Looking beyond him we accept a score of submissives -his fellow band mates who are humiliated (a central element of BDSM cinema) throughout the motion-picture show. This every bit entertainment is the definition of pseudo-porn, adequate to the masses because it does non involve "money shots" and explicit penetration making it soft-core rather than hardcore. The absence of sex activity in WHIPLASH is no different than the absence of actual sex activity in nigh BDSM exercises.
8. Fake setting: L.A. substituting for NYC = cypher atmosphere.
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A Barbarous Character
A previous reviewer mention Total Metallic Jacket, the Kubrick film near the vicious Drill Sergeant who dehumanizes his men, only i of those men in detail. However, in that moving picture, the young Marine probably had no business being where he was. Here, a young human wants to exist a drummer who will be remembered, like Cistron Krupa or Buddy Rich. He has awesome ability which is recognized by Fletcher (University Award winner J. K. Simmons). His method involves brutalizing and horrifying his charges and humiliating them in front of their peers. People know he's the best at that place is, but what a price to pay. He justifies his intensity past repeating some incident where another band member threw cymbal at Charlie Parker's head. While this is good entertainment, if we were to look into the successes of many great performers, most of them were never terrorized. The drumwork is astounding, but all the haemorrhage is pretty far fetched. Inquire some drummers yous know. The final scene is all Hollywood as near reality goes out the window. Nevertheless, if y'all buy into the possibility that such a psychotic can command these musicians, it'southward very entertaining. The drumming is beyond belief, although I'm sure there were some strategic cuts along the way.
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Mindblowing, our generation's "Amadeus"
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And it does not even need a Best Picture win for this description. Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash" was ane of the big players this awards season mounting in 3 Academy Award wins. J.K. Simmons basically dominated the supporting actor (and then happy for him, he is such a likable guy, but was he really supporting?) category from start to stop and Chazelle himself managed a writing nomination with the Academy. Given he just turned 30 and has a bright futurity ahead of him, I am sure he can live without the director nomination. "Whiplash" is a keen film. Information technology starts off good, but quickly has you on the edge of your seat for the residue of the film. They kept it at clearly under 2 hours, which helped a lot equally it would take sucked if they had filled the film with unnecessary scenes. This way now, it'southward really all essential from commencement to finish.
There were a few scenes I struggled with initially, similar the protagonist breaking upwardly, but in retrospective I accept to say it all makes sense now. His cocky-confidence grows with his dedication for his art mounting in the explosion of his acrimony when he physically attacks Fletcher (Simmons). Fletcher is perchance this twelvemonth'south most interesting graphic symbol. No blackness-and-white as he walks the fine line between genius and insanity in every single scene. Ane great example would exist how he talks to a little girl and asks her gently if she wants to join his ring one day and in the next scene he talks to his band the way he always does. The monster shows again. The catastrophe was great too. I was a scrap unsure as they missed a proficient ending scene when Fletcher asked Teller'due south character if he wants to fill up in in his new band, but the actual catastrophe was at to the lowest degree equally skillful. Fletcher really gets his Bird in the end. By the mode, I wondered if he could shoot the young homo on stage (overnice "Birdman" reference). Everything seemed possible, but the path of the wrong sheet was a brilliant one equally well.
No dubiousness that Teller is a real competitor for best actor under 30 right now after his functioning here. He would take deserved a pb actor Oscar nomination also, over Cumberbatch for example. The new "Fantastic Four" makers seem to agree. And Simmons is just a forcefulness of nature in this motion-picture show. He too appeared in Chazelle'due south short film that this is based on, so slap-up choice for him back then and practiced chore on Chazelle for not giving the part to anybody else. Not many out at that place who would have been every bit good. And with said brusque story background, this project was a true success story that goes way dorsum to a stroke of genius by Chazelle.
Now, if y'all are interested in drumming, let me suggest you Richard Jenkins' "The Company", a more silent arroyo on the event. Or you could maybe as well call "Whiplash" a "Black Swan" for males. Or Fletcher could be categorized as a more radical Dr. Business firm. Anyway, dorsum to this 1 here. It'south my number i or 2 of the year correct at present (confronting Cotillard's Oscar-nominated film) and I cannot recommend enough watching it. Yous will non be disappointed. It's been a while since I had a theater that applauded after the finish of the picture, but this one did and information technology was oh so deserving. Each scene a winner and this motion-picture show is the perfect example of how a corking script is much much more important than a cast that includes the all-time actors on the planet.
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I like to teach the globe to play
Good Job are the key words for Whiplash. J K Simmons psycho jazz instructor, Terence Fletcher recounts a story most Charlie Parker and how doing a good job was not enough to uncover a genius. At that place are no ii words in the English language more than harmful than 'good job' co-ordinate to Fletcher.
The trouble is Fletcher would not recognise a genius if it crashed into him head on. Simmons creates a monster of a teacher which to be truthful is not unknown in coaching circles in sports and the arts. However a good educator he is not, something his prestigious school seems non to have noticed.
Miles Teller plays Andrew Neiman the put upon jazz drummer in the Shaffer Solarium in New York. Eager to impress Fletcher and confounded that cipher he does can satisfy Fletcher. Neiman literally is driven to the edge.
However in that location is only ever going to exist i winner, Fletcher does non give an inch. J M Simmons won a all-time supporting actor Oscar for his hateful and blustering performance. In that location was very footling shade to his performance and even in his subdued moments his character was calculating. A man with niggling ethical cadre.
It is left to Teller to bring soul to the film. The immature educatee whose zest and passion for learning and comeback is fast fading away every bit he becomes the victim of intense bullying.
The film never addresses the bullying past Fletcher. There is a sub plot nearly this later in the movie but detect how the other students merely stay quiet and permit the abuse unfurl. Given that cooperating with each other in music is and so important, these students inappreciably talked to each other. They were reaaly a dysfunctional band who certainly did not requite a shoulder to lean on which came across as unrealistic. Surely the students would mutter to each other in the canteen every bit to how horrible Fletcher was?
Equally to the competition which causes Neiman problems as he has trouble getting there. Again you would have thought the Conservatory would had provided transport rather than rely on the students to make their own way.
I did not call up the film succeeded. The performances were intense just the screenplay had issues considering the I never could buy into the band members as functioning students.
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Skilful Job
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Andrew (Miles Teller) wants to be a drummer. Not merely any drummer, but the best. One that volition be remembered. He attends a music solarium which features an instructor (J.Grand. Simmons) that makes most drill sergeants look like a wet-nurse. Andrew worships this man and wants to play for him. At home he has successful brothers at college and must compete for attending at the dinner tabular array in spite of any accomplishment doing the "drumming thing."
Information technology is an odd film where the instructor is the adversary. It takes an hour and ten minutes to build graphic symbol and take usa to the indicate where the plot all of a sudden turns into what seems to be a different moving picture.
The picture has a great climax which supplies united states with no closure. The interim jobs were neat which took a story about a kid who wants to slap sticks against mylar into an Oscar winner.
Guide: F-bomb. No sexual activity or nudity.
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Carrot and stick
What a performance or ameliorate performances. It was almost the fourth dimension JK Simmons got recognized (read won an award)! And it couldn't have been a more rewarding role than this. If you are used to your typical musician against all odds film, be aware that this is anything only this blueprint you are used to.
Nosotros're talking about a power functioning (no pun intended) that has been already spoofed a lot, only to show the love for the passion this project had. It is so draining watching some of the stuff, you tin only begin to imagine how stressful it must have been for those involved. There is not much calorie-free in this, but at that place doesn't demand to be - it's perfect just the way it is (or is it?)
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"You're done."
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With this picture coming out about a year ago as I write this, and the concluding few months demonstrating how more and more than college campuses are clamoring for 'safety zones' and students finding even the slightest uncomfortable situation offensive, I accept to wonder how someone like Fletcher would survive as an instructor today. Every bit Fletcher, J.1000. Simmons manages to demonstrate all the worst characteristics of, forget about teachers, but of man beings birthday, on a par with someone like North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, and he had family members executed when they couldn't keep a beat.
Seriously, even though I don't have a musical ear per se, how can 1 tell if a drummer is drumming too fast or too deadening afterward two seconds, perchance less? That poor schmuck in the orchestra who got tossed when the other guy was the culprit probably went and committed suicide too if the story had followed him out the door. Fletcher'southward rants nearly perfection went beyond summoning inspiration and degenerated into nil less than physical and emotional corruption. That Andrew put upwards with information technology and devised his ain revenge may not accept been the best manner to deal with a monster like Fletcher, just at least he came away with a shred of dignity.
This is an intense picture and if you're not expecting the drama that goes with the story you'll be taken aback past the characters, situations and language that emanates from the players. I think it'due south a worthwhile movie to run across if ane can keep a perspective on what information technology takes to accomplish mastery of a subject without falling victim to abuse and risking 1's health and sanity to do information technology. Both of the principal players are dynamic and excellent in their roles, and I couldn't help noticing that in certain scenes, Miles Teller had just the right expect for the lead office in a movie about the Elvis Presley story.
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music and obsession
J. Thousand. Simmons has played a number of stern, demanding characters during his career. Simply he gets the role of a lifetime in Damien Chazelle'south "Whiplash". He plays the brutal instructor of a college jazz band. This man resorts to methods that lapse into abuse. In showing these overly ambitious instruction methods, the motion-picture show poses the question of what is the right thing to do when encouraging students to succeed. Brutality is understood to be the simply selection when readying cadets for a war zone, just when teaching higher students how to play jazz? Simmons won a well deserved Oscar for his performance. Although information technology was for Best Supporting Histrion, the moving-picture show belongs to him. Miles Teller'south functioning as the student is truly secondary to Simmons. His character is 1 of only a few pic characters in history who fabricated me experience every bit if I was walking on eggshells.
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An Emotional Punch to the Gut
A promising young drummer (Miles Teller) enrolls at a cutting-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor (J. K. Simmons) who will stop at nada to realize a student's potential.
This film will take people by surprise. Few viewers likely intendance about drumming or jazz music today. And they may recollect this film, therefore, will have no bearing on them. Only it is so much more than that, an emotional punch to the gut that hits difficult.
Holding this together is the interaction of Miles Teller (who seems to exist getting less credit than he deserves) and J. G. Simmons (who is getting the praise he ought to be). So intense, and quite the power struggle.
Some have disliked the film for its message. Just do they really know what its bulletin is?
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Whiplash
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I saw the trailer for this motion picture and thought it looked expert and unusually night, I liked the fact that the supporting star of Spider-Human being was getting a bigger role also, and with accolade nominations and high praise from critics for it, I knew it was a must encounter. Basically nineteen-year-quondam Andrew Neiman (Rabbit Hole's Miles Teller) attends the prestigious Shaffer Solarium music school every bit a first-year jazz student, his skill is drumming, he inspires to be a great drummer like Buddy Rich, and ane day he gains the attention of respected professor and usher Terrence Fletcher (Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning J.K. Simmons), only for him exit the room with no give-and-take. Andrew elsewhere olives with his father Jim (Aliens' Paul Reiser) and they often go to the movie house, it is at that place he is oftentimes served by college pupil Nicole (Melissa Benoist), and he asks her out and they commencement dating, and not long later Andrew is approached past Fletcher, he is accepted into his ring as an alternative for core drummer Carl Tanner (Nate Lang). Andrew arrives early to his kickoff session, Fletcher arrives and the class practise the Hank Levy piece "Whiplash", it is during this that Andrew sees what he is getting himself, equally Fletcher is abusive towards the students, mocking and insulting, and when he hears instruments off tune or rhythm off tempo he will bung a chair, slap and berate. Andrew is determined to impress Fletcher, so he practises constantly at abode with his drum kit, to the indicate where his easily drain due to sores from the drumsticks, and he breaks up with Nicole thinking she will distract him, and adjacent Andrew attends a local jazz competition, with a misplaced music sheet he claims he tin play "Whiplash" from retentiveness and he is promoted to primary drummer, all the same core drummer Ryan (Austin Stowell) from a quondam class replaces him and he is demoted to alternative. In a following class session Fletcher tearfully talks well-nigh talented former student Sean Casey who has died in a car accident, afterward this the band rehearses Juan Tizol piece "Caravan", but Carl struggles with tempo, so Fletcher keeps him, Andrew and Ryan in the classroom for several hours until they tin perfect their playing, Fletcher finally gives core drummer position to Andrew. Andrew makes his way to a competition, but problems ascend as first the bus he is on breaks down, so he rents a car determined to make the performance, arriving late he is kicked out by Fletcher for forgetting his drumsticks, Andrew drives back to the car rental part to retrieve them, speeding back his car is hit by a truck, he survives the blow and crawls from the wreckage badly injured covered in spots of blood, he arrives on phase but is unable to play properly, Fletcher tells him he is "done", and Andre attacks him in front of the audience. Andrew is expelled from Shaffer Solarium music school, a lawyer representing the parents of Sean Casey contacts and explains that Sean hanged himself subsequently suffering severe anxiety and depression, Fletcher'southward calumniating methods are being blamed, Sean's parents want to terminate him education, Andrew testifies and Fletcher is fired. Months afterwards Andrew sees Fletcher performing in a club, they drink together and Fletcher explains his behaviour, he wants to achieve greatness which is why he pushes his students beyond expectations, he invites Andrew to bring together his band to perform at a festival concert, Andrew agrees and wants to invite Nicole, but she reveals she has a new fellow and cannot come. On phase earlier the operation, Fletcher tells Andrew he knows he testified against him, the band and then begin playing a piece Andrew does not accept the music canvass of, leaving him humiliated on phase as he tries to keep up with the tempo. But as Fletcher makes a speech Andrew interrupts with his drumming and he begins playing "Caravan", he cues the balance of the band to play forth and Fletcher follows suit, Andrew continues an extravagant pulsate solo, playing not-cease, Fletcher is first angry, but during the play slowly supports him. Equally the solo ends, they share a smile and Fletcher cues the the finale. Also starring Chris Mulkey as Uncle Frank and Damon Gupton as Mr. Kramer. Teller proves a fantastic newcomer as the educatee who will non give up on his dreams of becoming a "peachy" and making an impression to his instructor, only the film absolutely belongs to Simmons who is a sensational tour de force as the foul-mouthed maestro who thinks cypher of bringing his students to literal bloodshed to make perfect music. I agree Reiser perhaps could accept had a bit more to do, but he cannot stand up against the storming performances of Teller and Simmons. This gives the oft fabricated "inspirational teacher" plot a good kick in the face, it'southward similar a cross between School of Rock and Full Metal Jacket, with a drillmaster-similar composer getting the head of the hero drummer, it is a neat combination of terrific music pieces, bad linguistic communication and blistering mind games, with a marvellous script, it will keep you gripped all the fashion to the showy catastrophe, I cannot say enough how much I loved this film, an exceptional music drama. It won the Oscars for Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing, and it was nominated for Best Move Picture of the Year and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Damien Chazelle, and it won the BAFTA for All-time Editing and All-time Audio, and it was nominated for All-time Original Screenplay and the David Lean Award for Management for Damien Chazelle. Outstanding!
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Drum Boogie.
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Damien Chazelle directed this story of a talented young drummer (Miles Teller) at an elite music school in New York who is beaten mercilessly by his instructor (Dr. Emil Skoda, I hateful J. K. Simmons). As unpromising as the material sounds, and as autobiographical, it's meliorate than I'd expected.
In the third act, Hamlet has this to say:
"So again skilful night. I must exist vicious just to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind."
Information technology applies, not just here but in all preparation camp films, whether it's the Marine Corps, the Ground forces, the Coast Baby-sit, Navy Flying Schoolhouse, or Harvard Police force School. Information technology answers the question: What torture did you go through in guild to exist successful.
Information technology's not frequently we run into a drummer male child put through the wringer. And, human, does Simmons put Teller through the wringer, one organ at a fourth dimension. Teller practices until he bleeds over the snare drum. And THAT'S not good plenty.
The typical arc of a story like this has the resentful tyro becoming more than mature, tempered similar steel, proud and manly, winding upwardly with both the admiration of his mentor and the pretty girl he's been diddling on the side. Sometimes the mentor must die, as John Wayne did in "Sands of Iwo Jima."
Non here, though. It'southward the Big Night, the finale, at Carnegie Hall or the Hippodrome or La Scale or someplace. Teller proves his worth -- MORE than proves it -- and Simmons finally gives him the okay, a large French buss on the lips. No, no, simply kidding. Simmons simply smiles at Teller later on the drummer'south stunning performance.
One of the best things virtually the movie is Teller's relationship with his girl, the hostage and sweet Melissa Benoist, a student at Fordham. They get along quite well, but then Teller calls it off considering in his pursuit of perfection in that location is no room in his life for a woman's demands. What an ass. Yet it'south an original touch, because when he'due south accomplished success (or given up) he calls her to renew the relationship just she has to cheque with her fellow.
Teller'south default position is "put upon." He looks doubtful, sad, mournful fifty-fifty, without a existent ability to project anger -- and the script gives him plenty of opportunity.
J. G. Simmons makes the picture show. He seems to have taken lessons from R. Lee Ermey in "Full Metal Jacket." He'due south abrasive throughout, foul mouthed and in your face. Cipher you practise satisfied him. "That's non my tempo!" Afterwards he's booted out of Julliard or whatsoever it's chosen here, he bumps into Teller and explains why he was and then nasty.
He claims he was always looking for the next Charlie Parker, a legendary alto saxophonist, somebody who could absorb insults and humiliation and keep on charging alee, merely like Bird did when he started out. You tin can be pushed beyond your limits and become a genius or yous can settle for having done satisfactory work, says Simmons over drinks. "The worst words in the earth are 'Adept job.'" The climax proves him right.
Nevertheless, what a dumb perspective, a hubristic paean to Narcissus. As the proverb says, the perfect is the enemy of the expert enough. How much should be sacrificed in the search for perfection? Charlie Parker died of drink and drugs at an early age, and for every Charlie Parker at that place are one hundred thousand guys who are good enough at their jobs.
The music we hear isn't classical or pop. Otherwise nosotros'd constantly exist hearing "O, Fortuna" (Ka-smash). Since drums are the featured instrument information technology must exist jazz. And the jazz isn't really inspired either, I hate to say. It's certainly fast and LOUD enough but it's as if every member of the schoolhouse band were aiming for Maynard Ferguson's backlog. I don't merits to know much about music. I'thousand less familiar with diminished sevenths than I am with macerated fifths, but I know what I like.
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Blood, sweat and jazz
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Protagonist Andrew Neiman is a student at New York's prestigious Shaffer Conservatory. He plays the drums and dreams of being one of the great jazz drummers. The adjacent step to greatness is getting into conductor Terence Fletcher's studio band; Fletcher invites him to attend only when Neiman has difficulty with the tempo of 'Whiplash', Fletcher tears into him… at i point he even hurls a chair at him! Information technology is articulate that Fletcher expects perfection and will groovy and cajole his students to get information technology. Neiman refuses to back down and practises till his easily bleed… will this be enough to print Fletcher though? Every pupil knows that they are replaceable every bit despite his reputation everybody wants to be in Fletcher's band.
Earlier watching this motion picture I'd seen a few clips and idea I probably wouldn't savour it every bit Fletcher appeared to be such an overbearing grapheme… who wants to sentinel somebody being bullied for an hr and a half? Thankfully when I watched it I realised it was far more than that; Fletcher exist 1 of the almost intense teachers depicted on movie but cheers to J. K. Simmons'due south brilliant operation he isn't unlikable… his methods may be questionable simply it is articulate that he wants to help his students detect their inner greatness even if merely a few volition have what it takes. Miles Teller is also bully as the equally intense Neiman… the student who will do what it takes to be the number 1 drummer… even playing minutes after a car crash that leaves him battered and bloody! The intensity of the music matched that of the situation. The residuum of the cast are impressive enough but information technology is these 2 that the viewers will remember. Overall I'd highly recommend this although it is an intense experience and won't be for everybody.
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All-time Moving-picture show nominee, features a immature college drummer with ambitions of greatness.
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The movie starts with a drummer in action in a ring room at the end of a long, dark hallway. It is the beginning encounter between pupil Miles Teller as Andrew and teacher J.K. Simmons as Fletcher. Andrew is a student of great drummers, in a pizza joint with a girl he names the 1930s song playing and the drummer in the band. Attending this prestigious private music school in NYC is to exist his springboard to greatness.
Merely while he knew of Fletcher he didn't know what a wild man Fletcher was. Seemingly out of control in his over-the-top criticism of musicians who may be off but a trivial. And using ethnic and gender slurs to berate them. Such beliefs probably would never be tolerated in a existent school but it is necessary for the resolution of this story.
Paul Reiser is good every bit the dad, Jim Neimann and cute Melissa Benoist (of Glee and the next Supergirl on TV) is Nicole, a girl Andrew starts dating but stops because he says it volition not be compatible with his drive to be the best.
JK Simmons won the Oscar for Best Supporting actor and the flick itself was in the running for All-time Moving picture. Many fans think information technology should take won over "Birdman." The picture show is hard to lookout at times simply it all pays off in the final couple of scenes.
SPOILERS: Afterwards weeks of on-once again, off-again exact corruption Andrew snaps after declining to perform well after an auto accident right before the operation. He rushes Fletcher on stage, tackles him, both are bloody, Andrew is kicked out of schoolhouse. But a family representative of a former educatee who hanged himself convinced Andrew to witness to Fletcher'due south behavior, and he was terminated. But in an adventitious meeting Fletcher asks Andrew to play drums for a gig, actually setting him up for failure by opening with a number Andrew did not know and didn't have the music for. All the same next Andrew began to play a hot number, stood up to Fletcher, had the other musicians come in, maybe Fletcher finally had his star.
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who knew
Many of usa have watched J.K. Simmons sail through film and tv for years. And to think, all this time he had this kind of power. It reminds me of Melvyn Douglas, second assistant in dozens and dozens of films, playing similar roles, and and so suddenly becoming ane of the greatest actors of our time with Hud and I Never Sang for My Begetter.
Miles Teller and Simmons star in "Whiplash," from 2014 and, no surprise to anyone, Simmons took home the Best Supporting Role player Oscar. He plays Fletcher, a sociopathic, manipulative instructor in a music conservatory who abuses his students psychologically.
Teller plays a fellow. Andrew, who wants to be a great percussionist, amend than whatever of them, including Buddy Rich and Charlie Parker. He tolerates the corruption and becomes arrogant with success, but to be humiliated by Fletcher. It is a deep psychological boxing of wills.
If you haven't seen the film, you volition not believe the lengths that Andrew goes to in order to be on stage as kickoff drummer.
There's a nice plough here by Paul Reiser as Andrew's father.
Having been a musician myself and having been psychologically driveling by several teachers, I tin tell you that this kind of torture is terribly destructive. The only survivors are people who are driven and willing to requite everything they accept to their music at the expense of everything and everybody else. Is Andrew one of them? You'll accept to determine for yourself.
Cracking soundtrack, powerful acting from Teller and Simmons -- this low- grossing film proved to be a real winner.
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J.K. Simmons deserved his Oscar for his performance in Whiplash
Just watched this on Netflix disc with my mom. She was perhaps puzzled by many scenes peculiarly the catastrophe. She certainly wasn't in love with J.Thou. Simmons' pretty sadistic music teacher character. Simmons' Oscar-winning role does testify quite the range of emotions concerning his wanting his students showing how much excellence-according to him-he wants to become from them. His recounting the story of Charlie Parker and of a former student who died-which he says happened ane way simply we find out later it was in a much dissimilar way-does humanize him in a way that one would feel for him. And Miles Teller is nifty every bit the 1 student who seems obsessed with this teacher in trying to achieve greatness. I also liked his scenes with Paul Reiser as his father. The ane question i should probably ask is if the ends of the mode the movie goes on justify the means that it achieved when it got at that place. So on that annotation, I highly recommend Whiplash.
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Neat music, but the plot angers me
This film tells the story of a young drummer who u.s. accepted into the most prestigious music school in New York. The teacher in that location is very strict, fifty-fifty calumniating physically and psychologically. The story then tells how the enmeshed human relationship between the two evolve.
The music in "Whiplash" is not bad. It's like going to a jazz concert, specially the finale performance at the end. For the plot itself, notwithstanding, I did not like it at all. The teacher is very abusive, and dies everything he could to stir upward rivalry and hatred amongst his students. The worst thing is that the moving-picture show gives him time to justify his abuse. Corruption is not right, and the film allows abusers to give twisted reasons to justify something wrong. That really angers me. Coupled with the fact that his students proceed on receiving the abuse, it evoked a lot of anger in me.
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Intense But The Hype And Awards Perhaps Work Confronting It
Do you know who I am ? " asks the film's protagonist as the audience are introduced to him
Yeah y'all're that Nazi dude who enjoys raping all the new arrivals at the Oswald Country penitentiary . Yeah JK Simmons is dorsum playing an Oscar winning role which isn't all that different from the office OZ fans know him for . Information technology'south nice to encounter that this years Oscar nominations were heavily in favour of indie movie theatre . It's fifty-fifty nicer to know that this is the flick my beau members of this site was the pick of the ingather from 2014 film releases so sabbatum back hoping to get blown away by information technology
So is it any proficient ? Yes but I should quickly qualify this past stating it's non really the masterwork some people might claim it to exist . One criticism THE HURT LOCKER received was that you could hands rework the story as someone who has get addicted to adrenaline . Instead of a bomb disposal man you could take the story involve a fireman who takes more and more risks and so it's the same with WHIPLASH . How about a brutal drill instructor trying to turn weak civvies in to efficient killing machines ? That's already been done a hundred times earlier and so here we've a reworking of a familiar story in a slightly unfamiliar setting of a music schoolhouse . It'south a slightly predictable story and in gild for it non to be then predictable at that place's a few plot turns involving situations that go rather contrived and unlikely to say the least
What stops it all falling apart is director Damien Chazelle using all the tools at his disposal involving editing , audio mix and cinematography to disguise the flaws in the story telling . Certainly many directors present think editing revolves around taking every bit much cocaine as possible while mutilating any coherent on screen activity . The editing style of WHIPLASH is some what showy only is genuinely admirable at the same fourth dimension . Information technology'due south nice to really watch a picture and notice the editing while never beingness irritated by it WHIPLASH is one of the better films of 2014 but it'south probably a film that'southward easier to admire than to like . I did like it but didn't love it and I'grand not in a great hurray to watch it once again
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The Suffering Artist
Anarchistic for a Film about Musicians, but Not Uncommon for a Sports or Military Movie, this is a Unique Accept on the Disciplined Disciples of an American Fine art-Class.
Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons Play a Student and Instructor Relationship that is the Stuff of Legend just more often than not Mythological Methods of Honing Raw Talent into Greatness.
The Film is Ripe with Overstated but Eloquent Dialog and Snazzy Musical Accompaniment (when things finally conclude). It is a Rather Rich Display of Impromptu Talent as the Student Drummer has His well Deserved Moment in the Spotlight and makes the well-nigh of it.
The Film's Detractors are desire to Point Out that it is a Dehumanizing Display of a Sadistic Fascist Overlord. But what makes the Film Work is its Off Toned Setting in the Elite Musical Didactics School that is on the Surface Less than Believable. But what does Surface is the Existent Competitive World among Artists and the Sacrifices Needed to Excel.
The Movie Never displays Verisimilitude concerning the Methods of Fell Beliefs by the Instructor or wants them to be Authentic but more of a Surreal Statement on the Reality. It is Hyper-Fiction and its Disguise is Evident throughout and Non to be taken Literally.
It'southward a Fresh Film Experience that is Idea-Provoking Inspiring Conversations and Debate. Overall, Information technology's Better than just a "Good Chore".
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Sticks And Stones ...
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I'm going to aim for a piddling perspective here. If you click on my user proper name you'll run into that this, when posted, will be the 2650 th movie that I've reviewed on IMDb; a petty over 2 and a half thousand movies may seem a fair amount but it's really a driblet in the ocean. I joined IMDb in 2003 and became active more or less immediately then now we can cistron in another effigy, two and a half grand films in xi years. but we're still miles off because I was already an adult when I joined IMDb. I was probably carried into my offset movie house by one or both of my parents effectually the age of three and by age five I was able to distinguish genres, actors, etc. By ten I had - for a layman - a pretty skillful working knowledge of how the things worked. I watched most stuff and good distinguish between Warners, Play a trick on, Metro, Columbia, Paramount, RKO etc, with the all-time of them. I had piffling taste for horror, sci-fi. didn't mind the occasional Western just was more at home with mellers, directly drama, comedies, musicals, bio-pics if they dealt with songwriters (Night And Twenty-four hours), performers, (The Jolson Story) or , peripherally, jazz (The Benny Goodman Story, High Order). By the time I penned my starting time review for IMDb in 2003 I had seen, conservatively, some five,000 films; and all the same I've nevertheless only reviewed barely half that number. That's because of a self-imposed dominion: I don't trust my retentiveness then any and all films I say PRIOR to 2003 are off limits UNLESS they plough upwardly on goggle box, on DVD, or at a Revival Firm. Here's where perspective comes in: Whiplash is, no contest, the All-time moving picture with Jazz as a groundwork I have ever seen! Immediately, I sense, I am in trouble with some of y'all; you, in the second row, the lady with the green scarf. You are, I feel, itching to set me straight and cry "Merely Whiplash isn't nearly Jazz, it' s about Ability, information technology'south nigh Control, it'southward about Will Success Spoil Stone Hunter ... Stop correct there, did I really say that Whiplash was Well-nigh Jazz? No, I did not. I was careful Not to say then: What I said was 'the best film with jazz as a groundwork'. And I'm happy to stand past that. What we have here are two exceptional acting performances, one just vivid and one - in the words of Duke Ellington - beyond excellence, praise, category, any and ev'rything (Okay, Knuckles, you didn't actually say that dorsum in the day, only you lot WOULDDA if you'd see Mr. J.K. Simmons, you wouldda, believe me. Come across, what we accept here is a young, sullen-looking Elvis lookalike locking horns with a Col Tom Parker mentor/controller and all we take to do is stand well back. Seems those naysayers were right after all, it'due south not about jazz.
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Enthralling story
An enthralling story, gear up against the backdrop of a prestigious music school. It covers one fellow's attempts to reach the top of the musical manufacture, and the band leader who may be his ticket, or his nemesis.
A securely psychological drama, it explores bug like ambition, obsession and ability.
Has a few interesting twists too, specially towards the terminate.
Not perfect: some of the twists aren't consistent, character-wise. The final scene overplays the conclusion and is also neat in some ways. Despite this, it missed having a final word on one or ii of the themes, leaving these equally secondary considerations in favour of a more Hollywoodesque catastrophe.
Decent performance by Miles Teller in the lead role. Superb performance by JK Simmons as Fletcher, the ring leader. He well deserved his Best Supporting Thespian Oscar for a performance that is searingly intense and perfect for the character.
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