Whiplash the Movie

I've seen the actor playing the drums, and I doubt that he is playing these songs, I mean studio versions. It is believed that it is played by Antonio Sanchez actually. But I can't find official info about it.((
 
Reading that article again, and judging from Teller's stick handling, I think you're right. It is most likely another drummer who did the actual playing. Teller 'merely' did the actual mimicking.
 
They didn't give the editing guy an Oscar for nothing. I'm pretty sure Teller's audio is on nothing but the horrible-sounding parts-- the "double time swing" contest, the place where he forgets how to play the drums in the concert because he doesn't have a chart, maybe the "not my tempo" scene. I don't know how they did that opening solo-- I think Teller learned to play it for the shot, but they had a real drummer on the soundtrack.
 
HATED this movie.

Playing in a jazz band growing up, none of the band leaders treated musicians like that. And why the completely irrational fixation on the drummer? For the movie's sake? Doesn't this guy have an entire band to worry about? He would have been fired within 5 minutes if this was real life.

The end of the flick was nothing but an elaborate revenge plot that NOBODY would go though the time to execute.

I had a lot of people tell me that I need to suspend my disbelief and this should not be compared to my real-life band experiences, but this is NOT Mad Max. This is a drama.

J.K. Simmons is a great actor, but this movie blows. I think it was basically the writer venting about some jerk professor he had in the past.
 
And why the completely irrational fixation on the drummer? For the movie's sake? Doesn't this guy have an entire band to worry about?

There's a whole scene where Fletcher persecutes the horn section, and eventually, one guy in particular. Beyond that, you see the focus on the drummer, becuz, the movie Is about Andrew and Fletcher.

The end of the flick was nothing but an elaborate revenge plot that NOBODY would go though the time to execute.

I find there are plenty of bad people in the world who would gladly go through the time to execute that.
 
They didn't give the editing guy an Oscar for nothing.

While I love this movie, that's one thing that I wouldn't agree with.

I don't think the editing in this movie is Oscar worthy. There are a few very bad bits that were never fixed. Definitely not award worthy in my book.

Still a great, entertaining, touching movie.
 
There's a whole scene where Fletcher persecutes the horn section, and eventually, one guy in particular. Beyond that, you see the focus on the drummer, becuz, the movie Is about Andrew and Fletcher.

So yeah, for the movie's sake. The should have just opted to not make the movie.
 
While I love this movie, that's one thing that I wouldn't agree with.

I don't think the editing in this movie is Oscar worthy. There are a few very bad bits that were never fixed. Definitely not award worthy in my book.

Still a great, entertaining, touching movie.

Are you in film? Am curious how does one critique editing?
Ok I can see when maybe a cut is 'bad' - a quick, awkward, sudden cut maybe.
But how do you judge when editing is 'good'? Or do you mean editing for content?
 
Are you in film? Am curious how does one critique editing?
Ok I can see when maybe a cut is 'bad' - a quick, awkward, sudden cut maybe.
But how do you judge when editing is 'good'? Or do you mean editing for content?

I'm not in film. But a movie of this type that then wins an edit award should have seen and removed the mistakes where what the drummer is playing is blatantly not what is happening in the audio. Like when the audio has a crash, the drummer needs to crash, and when the audio has toms, the drummer needs to be at the toms. There were a few blatant misses with that. Again, nothing to spoil fun in the movie, but for me, enough to say the edit was not award worthy.
 
HATED this movie.

Playing in a jazz band growing up, none of the band leaders treated musicians like that. And why the completely irrational fixation on the drummer? For the movie's sake? Doesn't this guy have an entire band to worry about? He would have been fired within 5 minutes if this was real life.

The end of the flick was nothing but an elaborate revenge plot that NOBODY would go though the time to execute.

I had a lot of people tell me that I need to suspend my disbelief and this should not be compared to my real-life band experiences, but this is NOT Mad Max. This is a drama.

J.K. Simmons is a great actor, but this movie blows. I think it was basically the writer venting about some jerk professor he had in the past.

I agree, the movie sucks. Yeah Simmons did a great job acting, but his character is why bullets were invented. Anyone who'd put up with that kind of abuse is an idiot.
BTW....I'd say at least 90 percent of "drummers" are no more musicians than the guy taking your order at McDonalds. Instead they're mathematical technicians concentrating on speed as though that's what music is about. Uh....Excuse me a moment while I put my high horse back in the corral.
 
There's another thread on here about this movie as well. One of the things I find interesting on both of these threads is how so many people say the movie sucks because they dislike the Fletcher character so much. If it wasn't a good movie, people wouldn't be reacting so emotionally to that character. The fact that JK Simmons could bring out such a reaction just shows how good of performance it was.
 
can you share a torrent link for this movie, I can't find it in the internet. (if this is allow here) Thanks in advance.
 
can you share a torrent link for this movie, I can't find it in the internet. (if this is allow here) Thanks in advance.

If you are in the US, and demand that you see it for free, I would recommend you reserve it at your local library.
 
I dug the movie. Pretty easy to make out the overdubbed parts vs the parts the kid was actually playing.

It was an extreme example, but completely reminded me of the percussion specialist we had for my first two years of school band. The guy would smash our knuckles with the flip side of his mallets if we screwed up charts and constantly berated us. No face slapping though.

He got on one kid so bad one day that he started crying, threw his sticks on the floor and said "I quit" He starts putting stuff in his backpack. The old mans walking up to him fishing through his pockets and says "do you have a quarter?" The kid and all of us were completely puzzled. The kids squinting and frowning at him and goes "why do you want a quarter?" He goes "So I can call your mother and tell her a little pussy is about to walk in the front door"

We wanted to laugh, but didn't. The kid also didn't quit.

To this day, 25+ years later, I still think in fear about how pissed he'd be if he heard how I've let my rudiments sag.
 
From movie pink panther:

partner: We found Bizu dead, got shot in the locker room
Steve martin: Was it fatal?
partner: yes
Steve martin: How fatal?
partner: completely
Steve martin: I want to talk to him now
partner: Hes dead.
 
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