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MARGARET POMERANZ PRESENTS WHIPLASH Wednesday 8 July at 8.30pm on Foxtel Movies Masterpiece [402] One of the break-out films of 2014, Whiplash features amazing performances and garnered J.K Simmons an Oscar. The story pivots around the explosive relationship between driven jazz drummer Andrew (Miles Teller) and his exacting maestro Fletcher (Simmons). Host Margaret Pomeranz talks to us about this special movie... What are your favourite scenes in Whiplash? The opening shot – that slow creep along the corridor to that kid. It says everything about the film, that manic thing in him that separates him from the rest of us. The first time Fletcher loses it in rehearsal, his sadism is jaw-dropping. No wonder he won best supporting actor at the Oscars. YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS WINTER MOVIES MOVIES Whiplash has been described as a thriller and a horror movie. Surprising given it’s a story about a jazz drummer! I think both terms are actually applicable depending on your point of view. What I took out of it was the price you pay for being great and what you have to give up and what you want to give up. It’s an insight into that obsession, that determination, that avarice for fame and to be great. There are scenes where Andrew’s hands are actually bleeding on to the drums… [Writer/Director] Damien Chazelle was a drummer in his early life. He was inspired by his own band days. It’s an amazing central relationship, isn’t it? Like they’re playing a cat-and-mouse game… They’re co-dependant in a way. I loved the tone. With Andrew, you feel sorry for him for so long being dealt with by this monster. You get the feeling that both of them have won at various points, but at such great cost. What did you think of the performances? In a way, Simmons’ performance is so dynamic, so mesmerising, that you almost forget how good Miles Teller is up against him. Fletcher is so unbelievably mean but he really is trying to forge greatness from his students, isn’t he? I don’t think it’s any surprise that Simmons won so many awards for that performance. He must have just been absolutely thrilled to get that role. He’s not generally a leading man, but, boy, is he a leading man in this. He sort of eats that character, he relished him. With this bumper collection of movies, there’s something for everyone to warm to 103 FOXTEL July 2015
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MARGARET POMERANZ PRESENTS WHIPLASHWednesday 8 July at 8.30pm on Foxtel Movies Masterpiece [402]
One of the break-out films of 2014, Whiplash features amazing performances and garnered J.K Simmons an Oscar. The story pivots around the explosive relationship between driven jazz drummer Andrew (Miles Teller) and his exacting maestro Fletcher (Simmons). Host Margaret
Pomeranz talks to us about this special movie...
What are your favourite scenes in Whiplash?The opening shot – that slow creep along the corridor to that kid. It says everything about the
film, that manic thing in him that separates him from the rest of us. The first time Fletcher loses it in rehearsal, his sadism is jaw-dropping. No wonder
he won best supporting actor at the Oscars.
YOU NEED TO WATCH
THIS WINTERMOVIESMOVIES
Whiplash has been described as a thriller and a horror movie. Surprising given it’s a story about a jazz drummer!I think both terms are actually applicable depending on your point of view. What I took out of it was the price you pay for being great and what you have to give up and what you want to give up. It’s an insight into that obsession, that determination, that avarice for fame and to be great.
There are scenes where Andrew’s hands are actually bleeding on to the drums…[Writer/Director] Damien Chazelle was a drummer in his early life. He was inspired by his own band days.
It’s an amazing central relationship, isn’t it? Like they’re playing a cat-and-mouse game…They’re co-dependant in a way. I loved the tone.
With Andrew, you feel sorry for him for so long being dealt with by this monster. You get the feeling that both of them have won at various points, but at such great cost.
What did you think of the performances?In a way, Simmons’ performance is so dynamic, so mesmerising, that you almost forget how good Miles Teller is up against him.
Fletcher is so unbelievably mean but he really is trying to forge greatness from his students, isn’t he?I don’t think it’s any surprise that Simmons won so many awards for that performance. He must have just been absolutely thrilled to get that role. He’s not generally a leading man, but, boy, is he a leading man in this. He sort of eats that character, he relished him.
With this bumper collection of movies, there’s something for everyone to warm to
103FOXTEL July 2015
