Whiplash is based on an outdated premise.those guys simply don't exist any more, because students have options. These days, if you're an asshole people won't want to work with you. The romanticized ideal of the hardcore asshole genius musician is still around, and there are some of them, but the world has changed from when this was accepted. ![]() The main reason is that guys like that get kicked to the curb because no one wants to work with an asshole. In the literal sense that his story about Charlie Parker is more of a myth than reality, but the figurative sense of trying to induce 'greatness' through torment is so far from what music education is about or what the teacher-student relationship is about that it's hardly worth mentioning except in condemnation.Ĭould get into it further, but you may as well watch Neely's video if you care to hear more insights on it. So, from a musician perspective, the big point of it is that a 'teacher' like Fletcher isn't just an asshole, he's also deeply wrong about everything he has to say about music. He has a lot of good to say about it as a movie but points out the flaws it has as a 'music movie' or a movie about music and I think he does a good job summarizing many of the arguments why.īut if you want a TL DW, it is because it is basically a sports movie about jazz instead of sport, but one layer deeper, it's actually a movie about an abusive relationship, obsession and addiction. ![]() Check out Adam Neely's youtube video about it.
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