{"id":4106,"date":"2015-03-06T06:43:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T11:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2015-03-19T08:26:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T12:26:29","slug":"whiplash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4106","title":{"rendered":"Whiplash"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"J.K.Simmons,

J.K.Simmons and Miles Teller in Whiplash<\/p><\/div>\n

Another Oscar movie (trailer<\/a>) with a Princeton connection. Director Damien Chazelle was \u201cinspired by\u201d his musical experience at Princeton High School to explore how the drive to excel can become all-consuming. Not that the character Fletcher, superbly played by Oscar-winner J. K. Simmons, the tightly wound and sadistic studio band leader, mirrored Chazelle\u2019s own band leader (\u201cfear inspires greatness\u201d), he is at pains to say, but still . . . Chazelle wanted the film to explore the line between a healthy passion and an obsession, and, boy, did he do that, garnering five Oscar nominations in the process.<\/p>\n

Miles Teller is terrific as the young drummer pushed to the limits of his skills and endurance\u2014and beyond\u2014by teacher Fletcher, \u201csworn enemy of the merely O.K.,\u201d says Anthony Lane in The New Yorker<\/a><\/em>. Characteristically, Fletcher says, \u201cThere are no two words in the English language more harmful than \u2018good job.\u2019\u201d The Hank Levy tune \u201cWhiplash\u201d is the rack of a tune upon which the drummers in Fletcher\u2019s jazz band are broken.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a movie where I really felt the tension\u2014it made me clench my fists to the point where my hands, too, were almost bleeding. The playing of the drums enters your skull, and your heart must keep time. If you missed it in theaters, Netflix has it!<\/p>\n

Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics rating 95%; viewers, 96%. \u201cBring a welder\u2019s mask to ward off sparks,\u201d advised critic Donald Clarke in the Irish Times.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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