We’re here at the Sundance Film Festival with more video coverage of one of the most buzzworthy films of the year, Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, starring Miles Teller as an obsessed jazz drummer and J.K. Simmons as the abusive instructor who just might inspire him to greatness… but at what cost? It’s an impressive film, exciting and potentially disturbing, so we had to get Damien Chazelle on camera to talk about the film’s complex themes along with Whiplash co-star Austin Stowell, who plays another of Simmons’ long-suffering students, and one of Teller’s competitors in the movie.
We pulled Damien Chazelle and Austin Stowell into a spooky corner of the Acura SkyLodge to talk about mentor movies, taking the plot to the extreme to make the message more complex, buzz, the film’s inspiration from Damiean Chazelle’s on personal experience, and why Austin Stowell is a faker (he couldn’t play drums when he was cast in the film).
Read CraveOnline’s Sundance 2014 Review of Whiplash.
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William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and co-host of The B-Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.
