Whiplash (2014)

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Movie
German title Whiplash
Original title Whiplash
Whiplash movie logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Damien Chazelle
script Damien Chazelle
production Jason Blum ,
Helen Estabrook ,
Michel Litvak ,
David Lancaster
music Justin Hurwitz
camera Sharone Meir
cut Tom Cross
occupation

Whiplash ( English for whiplash , whiplash ) is an American music film drama from 2014 by director and screenwriter Damien Chazelle with Miles Teller and JK Simmons . The film premiered on January 16, 2014 at the Sundance Film Festival . The cinema release in Germany was February 19, 2015. Director Chazelle had a budget of 3.3 million dollars. The film grossed nearly $ 49 million in theaters worldwide.

The feature film is a remake of Chazelle's short film Whiplash from 2013, in which Simmons also plays the music teacher.

Whiplash was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won three, including JK Simmons for Best Supporting Actor.

action

Andrew Neiman is a talented 19-year-old drummer attending the (fictional) Shaffer Conservatory of Music in New York City. One day the head of the studio band, Terence Fletcher, discovered him. The band leader tries to spur his students on to top performance through sadistic severity and verbal humiliation. Andrew is facing increasing levels of “carrot and stick” psychological violence. Increasingly, he sees through the methods, but gets involved with them. He even separates from his girlfriend Nicole so that he can concentrate exclusively on his music career.

Due to Fletcher's enormous pressure to be on time, Andrew causes a car accident and comes to a performance injured. He cannot play in his condition and Fletcher throws him out of the band. Andrew freaks out, throws himself at Fletcher and hits him, whereupon he is expelled from the conservatory. Meanwhile, after the suicide of a former student, the supervisor learns of Fletcher's degrading methods. Reluctantly, Andrew is persuaded to testify anonymously against his teacher. Fletcher then loses his job.

Several months later, Andrew gave up his dream of a music career, his drum set packed away and his buddy Rich Posters thrown in the trash. By chance he meets Fletcher, who is a pianist in a bar. Fletcher tells Andrew about his eviction. He justifies his inhuman methods with the fact that he caused the musicians to go beyond their limits and become better than one would have ever expected of them. He's looking for the next Louis Armstrong or Charlie Parker , who didn't let themselves be discouraged by harsh reviews, but became music legends. Fletcher persuades Andrew to take over the drums in his band at a concert that will be attended by many talent scouts. Andrew agrees and starts practicing again.

At the beginning of the concert, Fletcher told Andrew that he knew very well who testified against him. To Andrew's surprise, Fletcher begins the concert with a piece that Andrew does not know and for which he is the only member of the band who has no marks. Andrew tries to save himself through improvisation , but he still embarrasses himself in front of the band and the audience, which Fletcher notes with satisfaction. After the play, Andrew runs off the stage and seeks comfort in his father's arms. But then he returns to the stage, sits down at the drum set and begins the next track, Caravan, as Fletcher says . The initially stunned Fletcher lets him go and gives the rest of the band the job. When Andrew independently extends the end of the piece with a masterful solo, Fletcher finally seems convinced of Andrew's musical genius and encourages him to a furious finale.

reception

Awards

Whiplash received over 100 nominations for film and critic awards, of which he won 41. Already at its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival , it won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award . JK Simmons in particular received many awards, such as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor , the Screen Actors Guild Award , the Oscar and BAFTA Award, as well as the Boston Society of Film Critics Award , New York Film Critics Circle Award , Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and Critics' Choice Movie Award in the same category. He has also received nominations for the Satellite Award and the Independent Spirit Award .

selection

criticism

On Metacritic the average rating of Whiplash is 88%, on Rotten Tomatoes 96%. In the IMDb , over 300,000 users gave it an average rating of 8.5 (as of November 2015). This puts him in the top 50 of the IMDb.

Tobias Kniebe from the Süddeutsche Zeitung judges that "Director Damien Chazelle presents the questions about the price of the dream of belonging to the best of the best, exciting and clever".

Anke Sterneborg from epd Film was enthusiastic about this "music thriller" and awarded 5 stars out of 5. In addition to the acting achievements of Simmons and Teller, she praised Chazelle's "economic power of narration", which betrays his "feeling for the absolute precision that he learned in the endless hours when he drummed his fingers bloody on the drums".

Others

The title Whiplash refers to the composition of the same name by the American jazz musician Hank Levy , which the film repeatedly addresses in rehearsals. The piece was published in 1973 on the album Soaring by Don Ellis . The caravan jazz standard also plays a key role .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Whiplash . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 270 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Whiplash . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Whiplash grossing results on BoxOfficeMojo.com, accessed on November 25, 2016
  4. ^ Whiplash (2013) in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 20, 2014
  5. ↑ Whiplash Awards . In: IMDb.com . Retrieved January 12, 2015.
  6. ^ Metascore Whiplash on Metacritic , accessed January 14, 2015
  7. ↑ Whiplash Tomatometer on RottenTomatoes , accessed January 14, 2015
  8. ↑ Tobias Kniebe: Review in the section New in the cinema . Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 19, 2015, p. 10
  9. ^ Whiplash on epd Film , accessed April 17, 2015