Whiplash et al

[handful_ofdust]

So...I finally got the first section of "Always Tried To Be A Good Girl" into postable shape and put it up at AO3, over here (http://archiveofourown.org/works/10268510/chapters/22741202). Up to 21 hits thus far, with one kudos; I personally put that down to a

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[sovay]

Damien Chazelle's genuine talent as a filmmaker. I haven't seen La La Land yet, but I gotta say, to everyone who thinks he thinks talentless white boys are the only one who understand jazz? I don't actually think he thinks that at ALL, because Whiplash makes both Neiman and Fletcher look equally, stupidly proprietary and hell-bent on misinterpreting the genre for their own fucked-up sadomasochistic reasons.

I hadn't realized it was the same filmmaker! I bet if Whiplash and La La Land had come out in reverse order, nobody would be making those claims: La La Land would have looked like the starry-eyed homage and Whiplash the skeptical deconstruction, whereas for some reason the idea that you deconstruct first and then play around with the parts seems to confuse critics.

[handful_ofdust]

Well, the super-weird part is that Chazelle actually developed La La Land first, then made Whiplash in order to get the money to make La La Land. So I don't know, maybe the reason it isn't that great is that he wrote it when he was younger, and he's already pretty freakin' young? Hard to tell.

[sovay]

Chazelle actually developed La La Land first, then made Whiplash in order to get the money to make La La Land.

Okay, that's hilarious.