"WHIPLASH" - A must watch!

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David Sutkin

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#1
Hey all,

I wanted to share this movie with any of you who haven't seen it .... It's an extremely well written story about a young drummer who eats, drinks, and breathes the desire to become world class and a psychopathic music professor who drives his students over the edge trying to get them to that level...



"There are no 2 words in the English language more harmful to an aspiring musician than "good Job"

I can't recommend this movie highly enough for any musician ....

J.K. Simmons won an Oscar for his role in it and Miles Teller is equally as brilliant as the up and coming drummer (and he's completely self taught too)

If you've seen it, I'd love to know what you all thought of it.

Discuss :)
 
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HATED IT. HATED HATED HATED. It was like a movie watching a horse getting beaten and beaten and you wait for the big dramatic twist where they stop beating the horse... but nope. Still beating. Right till the end.

NO one EVER picked up an exact tempo from a two-count.

Charlie Parker was inspired to improve as a player after getting "gonged" off the stage by a cymbal (thrown at his feet, not his head...). He then went and woodshedded under the mentorship of another musician. He did NOT have the cymbal thrown at him over and over and over and over again with absolutely zero constructive instruction.

This is a movie about the worst psycho instructor conceivable, and a painful travesty of how music education actually works.

Sorry.
 
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No need to apologize bro, different strokes ..... still thought it was an amazing movie.

To me it says a tremendous amount about the human spirit and how much one will endure to achieve their goal.

A couple other people obviously liked it too :-)

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My wife and daughter liked it and recommended it to me. I hated it. It gives the impression that being a human metronome is the most important quality in a drummer. I'm not a drummer, but it think it's more complicated than that. Since seeing the movie, I hear more positive reviews from non-musicians than I hear from musicians.
 
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#7
Changed my approach to studying electric bass. Even wrote a whole post on it. Excellent movie.

How "Whiplash" changed my life.
BK bassist said:
Hey all,

I wanted to share this movie with any of you who haven't seen it .... It's an extremely well written story about a young drummer who eats, drinks, and breathes the desire to become world class and a psychopathic music professor who drives his students over the edge trying to get them to that level...



"There are no 2 words in the English language more harmful to an aspiring musician than "good Job"

I can't recommend this movie highly enough for any musician ....

J.K. Simmons won an Oscar for his role in it and Miles Teller is equally as brilliant as the up and coming drummer (and he's completely self taught too)

If you've seen it, I'd love to know what you all thought of it.

Discuss :)
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gln1955 said:
I thought the acting was suberb, both JK Simmoms and Miles Teller. The writing and directing were also excellent.
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If the film turns my maternal grandmother into a shrieking harridan that destroys lives, I don't really care how well done it is. The guy that did the actual drumming in the film, Peter Erskine, had some pretty interesting and quite cogent things to say about the film.
 
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#11
I thought it was worth watching too. But my buddy who is a drummer and BL for decades hated it. I say it needed a hot chick bassist... :)
 
#12
It's one of my favorite movies but it is definitely an acquired taste. i believe it makes everyone either focus in on their hate for that motivational method or admiration for the spirit to be great despite the barriers. For me, I like that the whole thing builds to a make or break point and the drummer doesn't let it defeat him.
 
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ddnidd1 said:
its very difficult to believe that people would tolerate that level of insane abuse.
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i don't think anyone does...if they are fairly well-adjusted. but it's drums and drummers, right?

KBD's post is useful: in any one of the schools i attended = the guy would have been humbled by his students: and that was in the 60's and 70's!
 
#16
I liked the movie, but the same storyline has been used in many movies before, usually in a sports context or with other performing arts like dance. The writers slightly tweaked the formula by making the protagonist a drummer instead of a wrestler, football player, or dancer.
 
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