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      • Damien Chazelle has taken a relatively staid subject like the relationship between a music student and his teacher and turned it into a thriller built on a brilliant undercurrent of social commentary about what it takes to make it in an increasingly competitive and cutthroat world.
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  2. Nov 3, 2023 · During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2014, director Damien Chazelle revealed that Whiplash is (technically) not based on a true story. Andrew Neiman and Terence Fletcher are not real people, and neither are the rest of the characters in the independent film.

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  3. Whiplash is a 2014 American psychological drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, starring Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, and Melissa Benoist. It focuses on an ambitious music student and aspiring jazz drummer (Teller), who is pushed to his limit by his abusive instructor (Simmons) at the fictional Shaffer Conservatory in ...

  4. Oct 10, 2014 · Damien Chazelle has taken a relatively staid subject like the relationship between a music student and his teacher and turned it into a thriller built on a brilliant undercurrent of social commentary about what it takes to make it in an increasingly competitive and cutthroat world. How far are you willing to push yourself to succeed?

  5. Sep 23, 2024 · There’s a reason “Whiplash” is often placed in the same canon of films as “Fight Club” or “Taxi Driver”: they are cinema’s equivalent of a gateway drug, effortlessly appealing to the average moviegoer while retaining its morally challenging nature.

  6. Oct 8, 2014 · Whiplash famously began as a short screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. A year later, the feature-length version opened the 2014 Festival. “The idea was that taking a scene and doing it as a short would hopefully convince people that the movie could play as a thriller,” Chazelle explains.

  7. Whiplash: Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist. A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

  8. Jun 9, 2021 · Whiplash, A Terrific Psychological Thriller And A Disturbing Character Study. After ninety minutes of our undivided attention, the film only wants to ask us an age-old question: till what point do the ends justify the means? Venkata Kailash. Updated on: 09 Jun 2021, 10:42 am. Neiman wanted to join Fletcher's band.

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