It took Chazelle a few years to get Whiplash to screen, first by producing a short by the same name, which came away with the 2013 Sundance Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Music is all at once the craft, the soundtrack, and the narrative – it is at the center of a struggle between Andrew and Fletcher, who believes that to be truly great, a musician must be knocked down. This intimate knowledge of jazz drumming is not lost on the audience. Both Chazelle and Teller were previously drummers themselves – the conflict of the film was inspired by a particularly brutal high school jazz teacher of Chazelle’s, and Teller plays all his own solos (which he did practice until his hands bled). It becomes the score to Andrew’s late-night sessions, his hands bleeding onto the drum set, and Fletcher pushing him to play harder and faster until he reaches the edge of sanity. Not long into “Whiplash” you encounter its namesake – the sheet music placed in front of Andrew by Fletcher to test his worth. Simmons as Terence Fletcher, the volatile instructor whose pathological methods might just drive him there. The film stars Miles Teller as Andrew Neiman, a jazz drummer in his first year at the country’s most prestigious music conservatory who is hell bent on greatness, and J.K. This doesn’t show, in either writer and director Damien Chazelle’s sharp cinematography or the nuanced intensity of its lead actors. He plays the Terence Fletcher, the ruthless jazz band instructor, in both the 2013 short “Whiplash” and the 2014 feature-length “Whiplash.”įilmed in 19 days in Los Angeles and New York, “Whiplash” worked the cast and crew ragged as they rushed to wrap up in time for this year’s Sundance. He is known for his roles in “The Closer” (2005), “Spider-Man” (2002) and “Juno” (2007). Simmons was a Broadway actor and singer before a shift to film acting. Set in Los Angeles, the musical comedy/drama follows a jazz pianist as he falls for an aspiring actress.īorn in Detroit, Michigan, J.K. The film received the Dramatic Audience Award and the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.Īn upcoming feature film by writer and director Damien Chazelle, and starring Miles Teller, Emma Watson, and Daniel Lee. A young jazz drummer (played by Miles Teller) with dreams of professional renown enrolls at a music conservatory where an intense, devoted instructor (J.K. Sophomore effort from filmmaker Damien Chazelle, “Whiplash” is a full-length feature expanded from Chazelle’s 2013 short of the same name. He plays the lead role of Andrew, a driven young jazz drummer, in 2014’s “Whiplash.” Teller is known for his roles in “The Spectacular Now” (2013), “Divergent” (2014), and “21 & Over” (2013). He continued his career, on a whim, in the stage musical “Footloose,” a role he eventually transferred to the film adaptation of “Footloose” (2011). He lives and works in LA.īorn in Pennsylvania and raised in rural Florida, Miles Teller began his film acting career in “Rabbit Hole” (2010) opposite Nicole Kidman. Chazelle wrote and directed his first feature film, “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench” (2010), while an undergraduate at Harvard, and is currently working on his upcoming film, “La La Land” (2015). It is the feature-length version of Chazelle’s short of the same name, which premiered at Sundance 2013 to acclaim. Born in Rhode Island, Damien Chazelle is the writer and director of “Whiplash” (2014), which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Dramatic Audience Award and the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize.
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