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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 New York City.
Whiplash is a 2013 American drama short film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It depicts the relationship between an impassioned and gifted jazz drummer ( Johnny Simmons ) and an abusive bandleader ( J. K. Simmons ; no relation to Johnny).
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Damien Sayre Chazelle (/ ʃ ə ˈ z ɛ l /; born January 19, 1985) [2] is a French-American filmmaker. [3] He directed the psychological drama Whiplash (2014), the musical romantic drama La La Land (2016), the Moon landing drama First Man (2018), and the period film Babylon (2022).
Directed by Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors), this bloated, whiplash-toned film has its moments (namely Halle Berry’s Jinx emerging from the surf in Cuba). But the villain (Toby Stephens’s ...
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the ...
Alfred Molina played Whiplash in the 1999 live-action film version Dudley Do-Right. [1] Whiplash is the stereotypical villain in the style of stock characters found in silent films and earlier stage melodrama, wearing black clothing and a top hat and with a handlebar moustache. Whiplash's henchman, Homer, usually wears a tuque. [2]
The New York Times film critic, Thomas M. Pryor, gave the film a negative review. He wrote, "Good sense and dramatic construction went by the wayside in the filming of Whiplash and what is left on the screen is a pointless exposition of brutality, nicely demonstrated, however, by Mr. Clark and Zachary Scott, with Miss Smith providing suitable decoration.