Good job will make the world lose better

Marcelle 2022-04-22 07:01:02

After procrastinating for several days, I finally finished it.

I have been learning drums since I was a child, and there is no one in my family who is engaged in the music industry. I am not a paranoid person like Andrew, so I am studying in the university like many others, and I do not know what the future will look like.

But after all, I had such a dream, so my feelings are very deep.

Almost everyone who has learned an instrument knows that it is a difficult process from interest to proficiency, and Andrew is a person who is willing to fight hard during this difficult time. And the image of the director choosing the drummer is not without reason. In a complete piece of music, it's hard for a layman to pay attention to how perfectly the drums are struck, just as no one can live there, no matter how strong the foundations of a house are. Like Andrew's uncles in the movie, they would rather watch the games of third-tier rugby players they can understand, and they would like to praise the drummers who were admitted to the top music schools in the country. It is in this situation that Andrew can still pursue his dream unremittingly. Coincidentally, he met a music mentor who was just as paranoid as he was.

The evaluation of Fletcher's teaching methods has been controversial, and the director does not express his inclination clearly in the film. Although the smile at the end is a nod to Fletcher, the director also arranges Sean Casey's passage in the middle. I don't think it's necessary to characterize such a teaching method, it's good or it's bad. If you can't accept it - like Tanner, it's natural to take a different path, maybe it's better? If you can stand it -- like Andrew, you might be the next Charlie Parker.

Today's music market is not what it used to be. The "drum kit" transliterated from the English word "Jazz" of "jazz" has fully served music such as rock metal. Jazz is about to become a history, and people who really understand jazz Very few. Although I don't dare to speak out nonsense, I have learned to play drums and understand some knowledge and culture in this area. Drummers who play jazz are much better than those who play rock. Jazz is exquisite, not only speed, but also technology to throw rock several streets. But fashion doesn't care about your difficulty, and jazz is indeed on the road to elimination. So I can't agree with Fletcher's line: "Now everyone just wants 'That was alright, good job.' And they're asking why the Jazz is dying." It's the trend of the times. But I am quite sure of his last sentence: "There are no two words in English language more harmful than 'good job' "because the world is like this, people are only willing to evaluate the results.

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  • Dina 2021-10-20 18:59:31

    Jk Simmons should be able to win the male match! The rhythm of this film is really great. The jazz music and editing are simply blended together. There is also the vicious lines of the Simmons machine gun version. The dirty characters are as dense and intense as drums. The highlights of the several drumming scenes are all odd and weird. , Relying on editing to give the whole play a one-stop and accelerating rhythm, it is a pity that the whole movie is still broken, otherwise it will really become David Fincher. ★★★★

  • Edd 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    The film itself has nothing to say, the audio-visual language gave way to the theme and the story, always the champion. Back to the story itself, this is basically my fucking college story, and it almost drove me crazy, but I finally left early and didn't have to struggle with paranoia. This kind of devil teacher seems to be quite great, but in fact it is really no different from the devil. They are not people who really love a certain art, but just want to control and destroy souls.

Whiplash quotes

  • Terence Fletcher: 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're 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. Cries himself to sleep that night, but the next morning, what does he do? He practices. And he practices and he practices with one goal in mind, never to be laughed at again. And a year later, he goes back to the Reno and he steps up on that stage, and plays the best motherfucking solo the world has ever heard. So imagine if Jones had just said, "Well, that's okay, Charlie. That was all right. Good job." And 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.

  • Terence Fletcher: Everybody remember, Lincoln Center and its ilk use these competitions to decide who they are interested in and who they are not. And I am not gonna have my reputation in that department tarnished by a bunch of fucking limp-dick, sour-note, flatter-than-their-girlfriends, flexible-tempo dipshits. Got it?