Whiplash

Entering the Manhattan Conservatory, Andrew knows exactly what he wants to become. His dream is to be a great jazz drummer. However, it is not so easy, because everyone is given a chance, but not everyone is able to see things through. The winding and difficult path for the boy begins immediately when Terence Fletcher becomes his mentor. The teacher turns out to be not just demanding and straightforward, but a real dictator. In his hands, Andrew was a real plasticine, a clay figurine that, before finding its shape, passed all the tests of a professional temper. After all, a strong fire of confrontation and hatred broke out between the teacher and the student. Read more The premiere of the film took place on January 16, 2014 as part of the Sundance International Independent Film Festival. The story itself is not a completely realistic reflection of the situation that happened to the director in the past, but he still borrowed something from his soul. The fact is that in high school, Damien Chazelle himself was quite a competitive student of jazz music. And he had to experience what, in the end, he carried on the shoulders of the hero Miles Teller, the performer of the main role in "Obsession". The actor himself played to exhaustion in some scenes, as Chazelle specifically sought to reflect the emotions of the character of Miles and did not say "Taken!" to the last When the drama was still at the level of an idea and some script development, there was no money for creation. The story was included in the "black list of scripts", which no one took up. The director found the financing himself - he simply shot a short film, which, winning a prize at the same Sundance, provided him with the attention of producers and some money. For a short meter, he took 15 pages of the upcoming film "Obsession", and the role of the teacher was played by the same J.K. Simmons, who moved and in a full meter. As a result, 3,300,000 million dollars was allocated for the feature film.