224 - Whiplash on Paper and on Screen
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig take an in-depth look at two scenes in Damien Chazelle’s WHIPLASH to see how conflicts were structured and what changed from script to shooting.
We also discuss the myth vs. reality of Zola, and what we mean by a character having agency.
In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Megana discuss the seemingly sudden rise of artificial intelligence tools in creative industries.
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- Buy tickets to the livestream to our live show at Dynasty Typewriter on Wednesday October 19, 2022
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- The true story behind ‘Zola,’ the epic Twitter story too crazy to be real
- The movie Zola directed by Janicza Bravo
- Whiplash on Wikipedia
- Damien Chazelle
- Whiplash, family dinner scene, and the PDF
- Whiplash, jazz club scene, Script vs Screen, and the PDF
- Sunnybrook doctor first to perform blood-brain barrier procedure using focused ultrasound waves
- what3words
- Why the Future of AI Should Terrify and Thrill You – Plain English Podcast Derek Thompson with Kevin Roose
- Dall-E 2 and Sudowrite
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- Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao (this episode was originally produced by Stuart Friedel) and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John. |
| 0:03.2 | Today's episode dates back to 2014. |
| 0:05.2 | And it's crazy that we're talking about Dave Manchitz-L's Whiplash. |
| 0:08.6 | So a great movie if we talk a lot about it. |
| 0:10.6 | But we also talk about the Epic Twitter thread for Zola, which has since become a movie, |
| 0:15.0 | also called Zola, which I loved. |
| 0:16.0 | It's talked about at Jineska Bravo in 2021. |
| 0:18.3 | So if you haven't checked out Zola, listen to our conversation about it and check out the |
| 0:22.3 | movie. |
| 0:23.3 | We also reference a holiday live show, USB drives, script notes app, all these things that |
| 0:28.1 | don't exist anymore. |
| 0:29.1 | We also have my script notes app. |
| 0:30.4 | But we do have three live shows coming up. |
| 0:32.7 | First our live show at Dynasty Typewriter with special guests that we'll air next week. |
| 0:36.1 | And then we'll be heading to the Austin Film Festival to do two shows, which will come out |
| 0:39.8 | in subsequent weeks. |
| 0:40.8 | So stick around for those. |
| 0:42.4 | I think we'll probably be talking about our live shows. |
| 0:44.2 | It's the potential changes to Warner's Fellowship Programs, their mentorship programs. |
| 0:48.4 | A lot of our listeners have written in talking about how these things were incredibly important |
| 0:52.4 | to them in terms of getting their career started. |
| 0:54.3 | So we'll talk about the back and forth on whether they're Warner's going to keep these programs, |
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