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Mar 23, 2017 · Whiplash is considered a great film, but listed below are four reasons why it is a modern classic. 1. Career-Making Performances. Before Whiplash, J.K. Simmons was more or less a character actor, never fully reaching his dramatic potential.
Feb 9, 2015 · You don’t think of jazz drumming as a rigorous academic discipline - but that is how it is portrayed in writer-director Damien Chazelle’s riveting Oedipal drama Whiplash.
- Geoffrey Macnab
Oct 17, 2014 · Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash stormed its way into theaters last weekend with a militaristic take on jazz musicians, their mentors, collaborators, and ambitions. Although Chazelle has said much of...
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Feb 10, 2024 · The film was about a drummer named Andrew (Miles Teller) who will do anything to be a great musician, and the teacher who can get him there, Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), even if his methods include...
- Rafa Boladeras
Jun 9, 2021 · To him, he was a loser who could neither become a famous writer nor have a loving wife. The conversation is followed by the famous chair flinging scene. Fletcher moves his face deep inside Neiman's comfort zone, after almost throwing a chair at his face, and breaks him down mentally and emotionally with his words.
Whiplash is an extraordinarily taut, accomplished piece of work for a debut feature. It’s also unusual in having such a definite point to make — albeit perhaps a pretty objectionable one.
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Nov 15, 2014 · We have a serious problem if the only choice in responding to covert sexism is to ignore it or face accusations of hysteria if we call it out. Check out Scott Mendelson's Whiplash review here.
