a. The name of the score (composer is Hank Levy)
b. Describe the drumming
c. The impact of the car accident on the male protagonist's neck before the game
d. The commander's whip-like abuse
e. Someone on IMDB also suggested that the homophonic "crazy" in Thai (maybe a Thai netizen)...
2. Director + screenwriter Damien Chazelle
was born in Rhode Island in 1985 and graduated from Harvard, majoring in Visual & Environmental Studies.
The director himself can play the drums, and sometimes the male lead, Miles Teller, will consult him on technical issues. For the drumsticks stained with blood in the film, MT brother felt too exaggerated, but the director told him that this was his own experience, and he kept pushing the male protagonist on the set. it is true. The director once read the script to a jazz drummer at Lincoln Center, but the other party said that the film is far less exaggerated than reality... In addition, the director was particularly afraid of the band director at that time in high school, which is also the source of inspiration for this film.
The appearance of blood is an important feature that distinguishes this film from other music films. The director believes that musical instrument performance is not weak, but also physical labor. Since he was a musical instrument in elementary school, he found that those who play the piano are more likely to be considered real men than those who play rugby, so the film was made like a boxing film to show that playing musical instruments is also a man's sport.
Although the director is born in the 1985s, the male protagonist in his film is like a man from the 1970s. The photos on the wall, his taste, and the way he holds the mallet are all more traditional, symbolizing that he lives in a world that is out of tune with modern times. In "Art Bubble", outside the bubble is the exact opposite of his passion in reality, just like the indifference and incomprehension at the dinner table in the male protagonist's house.
As for the ending, the director said that the script written on paper looks like a tragedy, because the male protagonist has returned to the SM-like teacher-student relationship; but under the background of the movie's bgm and atmosphere, the ending is wonderfully surging and intense. It feels, so the ending is more open, it's hard to tell if it's a comedy or a tragedy, and it can make people think: how much practice is enough? Is it worth it to practice so hard? The director said that he didn't want to face such a perverted teacher, and of course he had to live well with such a beautiful girlfriend.
3. The budget
script was listed on the Blacklist in 2012, but the budget was very tight. At first, the money could not be raised, so he made a short film with the same theme in 2013, submitted it to the Sundance Film Festival, and finally won the Short Film Jury Award, and the investment that comes with it. But the actors in the short film are different. Miles Teller is not available, and finds an actor who is also surnamed Johnny Simmons to star in the lead role, although he is not related to the male supporting JK Simmons. So this film was nominated for "Best Adapted Screenplay" at the Oscars that year, because it was used once in the 2013 short film.
Although it's a story in New York, in order to save money to shoot in California, I ended up spending a day in New York to shoot on location. According to the director, the suburbs of Los Angeles are more likely to create a New York feel in the 1990s.
The time was also very tight, and they had no time to rehearse and practice. In order to improve efficiency, the director personally made three storyboards to remind the progress of the task. In the last two days of filming, JK Simmons accidentally broke two ribs, but he still insisted on finishing the filming.
The final shoot took 19 days, and the editing took 10 weeks, all in order to catch up with the deadline of the Sundance Film Festival that year.
The final total budget was 3.3 million US dollars, the box office of the premiere was only 135,000, and the final total box office was 13.092 million. Possibly the lowest-grossing film among the Oscar nominations...
4. Male supporting JK Simmons
JK Simmons won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor that year for this film, as well as 46 other awards!
There is a line in the line "I will f*ck you like a pig!" JKS refused to speak. This line is cut from a 13-year-old short film and pays homage to the classic woods rape scene in Deliverance (1972).
When the director kept forcing the male protagonist to play drums, JKS kindly reminded them to take it easy...
JKS' mother is a music teacher, his father is the director of the university's music department, and he also has a music degree, which he accepted before filming. Special training in conductor and piano.
5. The male protagonist, director Miles Teller
, fell in love with him in the MT screen debut "Rabbit Hole" (2010), and later found that MT can also play drums, which made him even more certain. I also looked for Dane DeHaan before.
Brother MT learned the piano since he was a child, but later his sister played better than him, so he turned to drums and guitar... The original sound in the film is from his own performance, but there are stand-ins in the performance.
MT brother was 26 years old at the time of filming, and played a 19-year-old boy in this film. But he played an 18-year-old in his previous film, The Spectacular Now (2013).
6. The car accident
is not only in the movie, the male protagonist MT had a very serious car accident in reality. The director also had a car accident while filming the film.
7. In the Buddy Rich
film, Fletcher praised the male lead as Buddy Rich. One of the greatest drummers and a notoriously explosive drummer. He often abuses the rest of the band, just like Fletcher's venomous tongue in the film. But he said he never practiced or had formal training and was a talented drummer.
The male protagonist in the film listens to one of his CDs, which may have hinted at the direction of the plot.
8. Charlie Yardbird Parker
Charlie Parker (1920-1955), the great jazz saxophonist and founder of Bebop, who joined the band of legendary jazz drummer Jo Jones when he was young, is said to have been thrown a cymbal in the face of the latter due to his poor performance. This rumor is very similar The relationship between the male protagonist and male supporting role in this film. But Jo Jones denies that.
Charlie Parker went bankrupt at 34 and died of drunkenness.
9. The heroine Supergirl
Melissa Benoist, although she is the heroine, played for less than ten minutes in total. The film was shot from the perspective of the male protagonist, and all scenes have male protagonists. Some JK Simmons footage was also deleted for this purpose.
In addition, the female protagonist is the DC TV version of Supergirl; while the male protagonist and the male supporting role have both acted in Marvel characters: the male protagonist played Mr. Fantastic in the 2015 "Fantastic Four", which received rave reviews, and the male supporting role played in 2002. J Jonah Jameson from the classic Spider-Man, a character said to have been created by Stan Lee after himself.
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