Episode 94: Whiplash

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses Damien Chazelle's stunning debut film: the central theme of the obsessed artist, why the cinematography and editing is so visceral, and how the finale plays out more like a battle than a jazz concert.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:09.4	The podcast, each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.8	Today we are talking about Whiplash, the 2014 film written and directed by Damien Chazelle,
0:19.4	the youngest person to win best director,
0:21.1	a fact that I am not at all jealous of.
0:22.8	I'm joined today by the Beyond Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:26.0	Hello, everyone.
0:27.1	Brian Bittner.
0:27.6	Hello.
0:27.7	Hello.
0:28.3	Oh, sorry, I was rushing.
0:31.9	And Alex Cajanos.
0:34.2	Hi.
0:35.1	Dragging.
0:37.2	Okay, so this movie is, I have a really interesting relationship with it.
0:42.2	So we're talking about Whiplash, and next week we're going to be talking about Black Swan
0:46.5	because way back when I did a video comparing Black Swan and Whiplash.
0:53.1	And it was a really fun video to make when people ask me
0:57.2	what of the lessons from the screenplay videos is my favorite.
1:00.7	That's usually my answer because it was a lot of fun to put together.
1:05.3	It was inspired by, like, fans of the channel because I'd seen whiplash once and was sort of like,
1:12.2	ne about it. But early on in the channel, people kept demanding like, you got to do
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