- Even when the director called cut on the set, Miles Teller often played the drums and didn't let himself stop until he was exhausted.
- The filming cycle of the film is only 19 days, and the entire production cycle is ten weeks (days), so hastily to be able to catch up with the registration deadline of the Sundance Film Festival.
- Dane De Haan dropped the role of Andrew in the film and was later replaced by Miles Teller.
- Miles Teller has been playing drums since he was 15 years old. During the filming process, the calluses on both hands were worn out, and the drumsticks and skeleton were stained with blood.
- In the slapped scene, J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller were doing things in the rehearsal process, but they slapped them firmly in the last shot.
- At first, Damien Chazele could not find the funds, so he could only make the film story into a short film. In 2013, the short film won the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Jury Award before receiving investment.
- The film was adapted in part based on Damien Chazerley’s real experience of joining the band in high school. He was afraid of their band teacher at the time.
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Extended Reading
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Allan 2021-10-20 18:59:39
Many friends around me hate "Burst Drummer". But I like it very much. Maybe because I didn't think it was talking about music. It is too desperate, a man who is destined to be not a genius, hopes to be close to immortality even if it is a little bit more. It is precisely because his pursuit of immortality is so exhausting and so violent, it seems like self-destructive, so serious that it is comical, that I think I can communicate with him. I was very sad to watch this film, excited and sad.
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Patsy 2022-03-25 09:01:05
A middle-class white male narcissistic autobiographical inspirational film is very bloody (the story is not a car accident, and many soap operas do this; the blood does not flow on the drums, it seems that a good scholar cannot be made on a computer screen without vomiting blood). Not only do you have to work hard if you want to succeed, but you have only oneself in your mind, and you can use whatever means to grab it (the ideology of American elite education). Sundance has become a little Hollywood, becoming more conservative and boring, regardless of its formal style or consciousness.
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Terence Fletcher: [in calm,soothing manner to Andrew] Listen, the key is to just relax. Don't worry about the numbers. Don't worry about what the other guys are thinking. You're here for a reason. You believe that, right?
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Terence Fletcher: Truth is, I don't think people... understood what it was I was doing at Shaffer. I wasn't there to conduct. Any fucking moron can wave his arms and keep people in tempo. I was there to push people beyond what's expected of them. I believe that is an absolute necessity. Otherwise, we are depriving the world of the next Louis Armstrong, the next Charlie Parker. I told you that story about how Charlie Parker became Charlie Parker, right?
Andrew: Jo Jones threw a cymbal at his head.
Terence Fletcher: Exactly. Parker's a young kid, pretty good on the sax, gets up to play at a cutting session, and he fucks it up. And Jones nearly decapitates him for it. And he's laughed off stage. But the next morning, what does he do? He practices. And he practices, and he practices with one goal in mind: Never too be laughed at again. And a year later he goes back to the Reno and he steps up on that stage and he plays the best motherfucking solo the world has ever heard. So imagine if Jones just said "Well, that's okay Charlie. That was alright. Good job." Then Charlie thinks to himself "Well, shit. I did do a pretty good job." End of story. No Bird. That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I'll tell you, man - and every Starbucks "jazz" album just proves my point, really - there are no two words in the English language more harmful than "good job".
Andrew: But is there a line? You know, maybe you go too far and you discourage the next Charlie Parker from ever becoming Charlie Parker?
Terence Fletcher: No, man, no. Because the next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged.
Andrew: Yeah.
Terence Fletcher: The truth is, Andrew, I never really had a Charlie Parker. But I tried. I actually fucking tried, and that's more than most people ever do. And I will never apologize for how I tried.