This is a not a Bette Middler concert; we won't be serving Baked Alaska or cosmopolitans, so can you play faster than you give fucking hand jobs PLEASE!?
I know this vid is couple years old, but my freshmen year in high school, my percussion teacher did a fundraiser to help raise money for the percussion did a drum a thon. Where we spent 12 hours and did all drum and percussion classes. One in particular is a drumset class. I brought my set up to the school and after drumming with it for several hours, I did got a bad blister that cause it to bleed.
Dont know why, but i liked nate lang more than miles teller in this movie. He is a good player and he acted very well. Hope we see him in another movies about music!
Kerem Vatan He was kind of prick to Andrew tho. He called him a dumb fuck, even though he was at some parts of the movie. Fletcher is the kind of person who you listen to when they give pointers, but not when they're yelling negative things in your face to lower your self esteem. The real antagonist of Whiplash was Andrew's self esteem- or maybe himself. He believed he couldn't impress his director even though what Fletcher was saying wasn't what he felt and thought. he made sacrifices like breaking up with his girlfriend only to be too hard on himself. People say the ending was not happy since Andrew was really hard on himself in the events leading up to the end, but I believe it was--it resolved since all of the things in Andrew's way were gone: Tanner and Connolly were cut. Maybe the more abstract things are the things that attempt to stop someone, and that is the true antagonist of this flick. I'm a fourteen year old multi musician, I started out on percussion in middle school beginner band, which I'm now in the top band. I see what Fletcher was trying to say about "good job" being harmful. He was saying that you can never be your best all the time, you are constantly becoming better. I think the reason people say good job is because it's a statement meant that it was good, but not great, so you should practice harder. What's harmful about it is people make it out to be harmful by slacking off every time they're told they did a "good enough" job. I like this film not only because I am a percussionist, but I can relate to how I felt in my beginner year of music. Hopefully this evaluation is found useful, peace! (and no, my band director didn't yell at me. it was my first year of music ever and it was just difficult)
Back when I was in 10th grade, I was in the wrestling class. I was only approximately 120 Ibs at the time and underweight. One day early in the season, my collarbone and ribcage became misaligned. My arms horizontal movement became restricted due to the pain. I asked everyone; my coach, my teachers, my parents to help me see a Chiropractor. No one took me seriously. Because of this injury which I was forced to wrestle with or fail the class, I never won a single match. I felt absolutely devastated. I refuse to see this movie because I am afraid of reliving my own trauma. It’s because of this trauma I fail to understand how so many people including Chris Stuckmann can praise a work like this, and because I fail to understand I feel weak, incompetent, and outcast. Sometimes I feel like all the critics are begging me to see it else I’m missing out on something great; the performance of a lifetime. Is it okay to feel deathly afraid of a film such as this?
The movie itself is more of a criticism of the long term traumatic effects that are caused by this coaching style, one of the characters even committing suicide over it. It sort of exposes the dangerous cycle that our society perpetuates because we are under the false impression that abusive coaching is the best way to achieve great results. It's a great movie with an important message, but it's totally understandable if it's something you can't sit through. I just didn't want you to think that this movie encouraged the same awful coaching that you went through.
As a jazz drummer, there is no need to bleed when performing. Miles clearly over plays. This film misses the mark in many ways, but most clearly could use a reality check.
Liam Burke Yeah like the idea that Miles could even come close to performing in a festival band at the end without having a rehearsal first. That chart fake out is completely unrealistic.but ya know, movie magix
+Liam Burke Liam, you kinda missed the point there, buddy. The movie isn't saying all jazz drummers have to, or do, bleed... The movie is about one specific jazz drummer under the tutelage of an overbearing, sadistic taskmaster who throws chairs at his students. You can't "not" bleed in his class, one way or another (symbollcally).
