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The audition scene, where the casting director interrupts Mia's emotional performance to take a phone call, was actually inspired by one of Ryan Gosling's auditions in real life. Sebastian's tip about amplifying a car fob's range by holding it under your chin does work, but is not expected to cause cancer. Most fobs use a frequency that resonates well with water, and the human brain is mostly water. Emma Watson turned down the role of Mia due to scheduling conflicts with Beauty and the Beast (2017), while Ryan Gosling turned down the role of the Beast in that film to appear in this one. Coincidentally, both are musicals. Ironically, Emma Stone would later drop out of the role of Meg March in Little Women (2019) due to scheduling conflicts with promoting The Favourite (2018) and Watson was cast to replace her in the part. Tom Hanks was so impressed by the film that, during a press conference for his film Sully, he told all the reporters to go see the film whenever they could. Damien Chazelle is known for using long, uninterrupted takes in the film, but he also uses at least one sequence spooled backwards. In the last scene at the planetarium Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone fall out of the air and perfectly into their seats, then kiss, and the camera zooms in for a closeup before the fade. The sequence was shot backwards: starting in black, zoom out to the kiss, telescope out to the two-shot, then wide shot, then Stone and Gosling are lifted out of their chairs, and then the entire sequence is run in reverse. That's how they land so perfectly and effortlessly in their seats: they don't "land" at all. They are already sitting, the zoom in is actually a zoom out, and so on. Prior to filming, Damien Chazelle, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone visited Gene Kelly's widow and were able to look through many of Kelly's film memorabilia, including his leather-bound copy of the script for Singin' in the Rain (1952). At the end of the visit, Kelly's widow's dog escaped and Chazelle and Gosling ended up running through traffic to rescue the dog, with Chazelle affirming to Gosling, "We will not kill Gene Kelly's widow's dog." They were successful in rescuing the dog. In the film, Ryan Gosling plays a pianist and John Legend a guitarist. In real life, Legend is a classically trained pianist and Gosling a guitarist, both had to take training to play their new instruments. It was Gosling's idea to have Sebastian want to own his own club rather than just be a successful jazz musician. Chazelle also was taken by the concept that you meet someone in your life who transforms you. That sets you on a path toward being who you dreamed you could be. And yet you must travel that path alone. Chazelle finds that concept beautiful and heartbreaking and ultimately that's what he wanted the movie to be about. Damien Chazelle and Justin Hurwitz came up with the idea of the film during their senior year at Harvard University in 2010 with Hurwitz writing the musical tracks and Chazelle on dialogue. Initially they found two financial backers and a producer for a budget of $1 million. However, the demand for a lot of script changes made them to drop the project off. After Whiplash (2014) found critical success, the project was resurrected with the studio increasing the budget to $30 million; this allowed the filmmakers to rent the Griffith Observatory for filming (a full day rental there costs $10 thousand). Director Chazelle says of actress Emma Stone, "Just the level of her acting in the song and dance scenes and the way that she expresses such gradations of emotion is amazing. I think she's one of the great actresses of our time and can create something without any dialogue, purely through her face, her mannerisms and body language." Producer Marc Platt told a story that on the last day of filming the sun was setting and Damien Chazelle delayed announcing the wrap, instead grabbing a handheld camera to start filming the sunset. Platt realized that Chazelle did not want production to end. As darkness fell, Platt walked over to Chazelle to tell him they had nothing left to film without light, upon which Chazelle sadly agreed to call it a day. The express lane freeway ramp used for the opening number, Another Day Of Sun, is the same stretch of freeway as used for the iconic "bus jump" sequence from Speed (1994), where a 50-foot section of the ramp was digitally removed using CGI to create the gap the bus must jump over. Neither Gosling nor Stone were professionally trained dancers. Moore trained both of them herself in her own personal boot camp prior to filming. It was after having seen Emma Stone as Sally Bowles in the 2014/15 Broadway production of "Cabaret" that Damien Chazelle decided to cast her in his film. The location on the Warner Bros. lot where Mia tells Sebastian that she hates jazz, is the precise shooting location for the album cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. The plot has strong ties to Emma Stone's real-life history. The movie is based in LA, and Mia is discovered as a college dropout actress pursuing her dreams. Stone is a school dropout herself, having moved to LA at the age of 15 in pursuit of an acting career. Actor Ryan Gosling on Emma Stone: "She's one of a kind and brings that same quality to Mia. You feel for Mia as someone who has been working in trying to catch a break, because you see how special and unique she is." Director Chazelle says about Stone, "Emma's very modern, but there's a timelessness about her too." The first movie shot entirely on film to earn an Academy Award for Best Cinematography since Inception (2010) won six years prior. The sequence which Moore dubs 'the gravity free dance' was one in which "we wanted the audience to feel Sebastian and Mia fall into the this beautiful waltz because they have no other choice but to dance in that moment." According to Chazelle, the coupling of Stone and Gosling was alchemical. He says, "there's a shorthand between Ryan and Emma, not just in person but on screen." Emma Stone calls this finale an exploration of what might have been, "using the tools that only a musical can use to flesh it out and run with it." Chazelle says, "Let's give them the old fashioned musical version of their story where there's no real conflict and we can be left to reflect, is that actually better than what happened? That's the question the audience can be left with." Chazelle continues, "It's a movie where people are growing up and part of growing up is realizing life has its way." For John Legend, the chance to work with Ryan Gosling was a thrill. "Ryan is one of the best actors working right now, so I came into it with a real humility", he said. Legend says "Gosling was very helpful and supportive. He really encouraged me to feel 'OK I can do this.'" When the film won best picture at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Chazelle revealed that this ending sequence was partially inspired by the 1927 film 7th Heaven starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. In that film, Farrell goes off to war and dies but Gaynor, informed of his death, holds onto the irrational hope that he is still alive. The studio made the director shoot a happy ending in which Farrell returns alive. This gave Chazelle the idea that both realities can exist simultaneously because the woman's love for her man is strong enough to make it so. In this case, the laws of time and physics cease to exist. So one way to interpret the ending of La La Land, is that the Epilogue is equally as 'true' as the narrative of which it is a part. Emma Stone proposed the plot line that her character would create the logo for Seb's club. After one of the auditions Emma Stone attends, she mentions the film has a plot similar to Rebel Without a Cause (1955). One of the most iconic things from "Rebel" is James Dean's red jacket, Emma wears a similar jacket to both the audition and the call back. The song, "City of Stars" by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul won the Academy AwardĂÂź for Best Original Song at the 89th awards ceremony in 2017. Director Damien Chazelle said about La La Land, 'it was important to make a movie about dreamers, about two people who have these giant dreams that drive them, that bring them together but also tear them apart." Chazelle says La La Land deals with how you balance your relationship to your art with your relationships with other people. Legend says Chazielle's main instruction for the song, "Start a Fire" was to make it a fun song that you can see as a single but still has some jazz influence. Legend says "writing the song was like threading the needle because you don't want it to be so bad that its embarrassing but you want it to be something that Sebastian wouldn't want to make. Something he wouldn't be proud of." With the exception of the opening song sequence ("Another Day of Sun"), Mia and Sebastian appear in every scene of this movie. This was also notable in director Damien Chazelle's previous film Whiplash (2014). Miles Teller's character, Andrew, is also in every scene of Whiplash. Many of Mia's dresses have a vintage appeal in keeping with the tone of the film. Costume designer Zophres found some of the dresses Mia wears in the film in vintage clothing stores in the area. When the time came to present Best Picture at The Oscars (2017) (the last award of the ceremony), presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were mistakenly handed the wrong envelope backstage. Beatty held a duplicate envelope for the category Best Actress in a Leading Role (which was announced just minutes before and was won by Emma Stone for La La Land (2016)) in his hands while presenting the nominees for Best Picture. When Beatty opened the envelope, apparently becoming aware of the mistake, he hesitated to announce a winner. He then handed the card to Dunaway who announced the heavily favored La La Land (2016) as the winner for Best Picture. As the TV cameras cut to the cheering audience, Beatty could be heard telling Dunaway "It says 'Emma Stone'" to which Dunaway replied "What?". The three nominated producers Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt and Fred Berger as well as the whole cast and crew of the film went up on stage. Horowitz gave his thanks first, up next was Platt during whose speech the mistake became known when the ceremony's producers ran through the crowd on stage looking for the faulty as well as correct envelopes. It became clear that Horowitz was handed the wrong envelope by Beatty, which stated "Emma Stone, La La Land, Best Actress in a Leading Role", upon accepting the award, while the right envelope announcing Moonlight (2016) as the actual Best Picture winner had to be brought on-stage from backstage and was finally handed to Beatty. The crowd on stage became slowly aware of the mistake and, despite being already aware of the not winning, Berger still gave a speech thanking his family and ending his speech by stating "We lost by the way, but, you know." Horowitz, also being told about the mistake, stepped up to the microphone again and finally revealed to the public that Moonlight (2016) actually had won, showing the correct Best Picture card to the audience as well as the camera. Beatty additionally cleared up that he was handed the wrong envelope and also announced Moonlight (2016) as winner of Best Picture. After this announcement, the cast and crew of La La Land (2016) slowly left the stage, while the three producers handed their awards over to the team from Moonlight (2016), which was able to finally give their speeches. While there already was an mix-up of winners at the Oscars in 1964, when Sammy Davis Jr. announced the winners for the two categories Scoring of Music (adaptation or treatment) and Music Score (substantially original) and was handed the envelopes for the two categories interchanged (eventually announcing John Addison as the winner for Best Scoring of Music when he wasn't even nominated in that category (AndrĂ© Previn was the actual winner, while Addison was the winner in the Music Score category)), Beatty and Dunaway's snafu remains the only time in Oscar history that a person or film was announced as a winner, when they actually weren't. The opening scene (including the CinemaScope logo) goes on with no noticeable cuts for about 6 minutes. It's actually three shots connected via quick pans. When Damien Chazelle was first talking to investors about financing La La Land, someone asked that the Sebastian character be changed from a jazz pianist to a rock musician. This same financier also asked that the bittersweet ending of the story be dropped. Chazelle refused to change these elements and moved on. On their way through Downtown LA, Mia and Sebastian visit the food stalls of the Grand Central Market (317 S. Broadway), and among all the food places they choose Sarita's Pupuseria. This is an actual Salvadorean food stall. The scene, which only last 3 seconds, has brought international attention to the little place, now recognized in El Salvador, as a memorable place. This dinner/argument scene was reportedly the one that was most rewritten. Gosling and Stone also helped to craft the dialogue to create one of the most realistic scenes in a movie filled with fantasy sequences. Stone reveals that perfection wasn't the goal when it came to dance moves. "Our characters are struggling artists, so were never asked to be incredibly brilliant dancers and singers." Damien Chazelle wanted Mia and Sebastian's relationship to feel alive and raw in a certain way, even though they were part of these cinematic dance numbers. He welcomed the little flaws and flubs as a way to make it more real. Shot in 70 different locations in Los Angeles, mostly on location rather than on lots. [Variety 2017] Chazelle says that some of the challenges of filming the opening sequence included, the choreography which brought the dancers very close to the edge of the freeway ramp, the curved nature of the freeway was different from their opening sequence rehearsals in a flat parking lot and camera cranes almost colliding with dancers. Chazelle wanted to explore in this movie how the use of color, sets, costumes and all the expressionistic elements of Old School movie making could tell a story that takes place in our times. For the song "Audition" Emma Stone sang live on camera in a single take. It was the last song Justin Hurwitz composed from the score. He was playing piano in the next room linked up to the actress via an earpiece. He let Emma lead the song, so he was reacting to her and oftentimes the piano is a little bit behind the vocal. He says he was nervous playing the piano as it was a pivotal moment for Emma and he knew she only had so many takes where her voice would last. Hurwitz said he wanted to understand the rest of the score before tackling this song as it was so pivotal narratively. In the opening dance sequence on the freeway, they took both directions of the westbound carpool lane of the 105 to 110 freeway. Half of the cars are facing backwards in the scene. The futuristic keyboard Gosling uses during the Messengers performances is a Seaboard Grand synthesizer, invented in 2013 by Roland Lamb, founder of ROLI, a music technology company in the UK. The Seaborad Grand allows the pianist to play between the keys or notes on a regular piano, simulating the increased palette that a wind or string instrument might have. Instead of keys, the surface is silicon and by pressing harder, the musician can deepen the sound and bend the pitch. La La Land's Executive Music producer Marius De Vries knew of the instrument and suggested it for Sebastian to use in the Messengers performances. Ryan Gosling is a fan of movie musicals from the Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Gene Kelly era. Gosling says of his character Sebastian, "His heroes were born 70 years ago, and in this day and age, a great piano player playing real jazz is destined to work in bars where people don't even stop their conversations to listen to you. So how much do you compromise to be the artist you want to be? Gosling continues, I think Sebastian is struggling with the difference between being a purist and being a snob." "Ultimately", Gosling continues, "Sebastian faces the question lots of creative people are faced with: do I keep pursuing this work that actually nourishes me or do I have to accept that this is just a job and I have to pay the bills?" When Mia comes to see Sebastian play with "The Messengers", bandleader Keith is wearing a red leather jacket that, together with the red guitar strap over his shoulder, calls back the '80s-style red leather George Michael jacket Sebastian wears at his earlier party gig. In both bands, Sebastian is forced to juggle a kitschy second keyboard (key-tar at the party, synthesizer with The Messengers), rather than concentrating on his beloved piano. The implication is that the flashy stage band is just a better-paying pick-up gig, distracting him from his dreams. While Mia is writing her one woman play, the protagonist's name, Genevieve, is seen in the script. This is likely a reference to Catherine Deneuve's character in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), which was a great source of inspiration for this film. Hurwitz composed "City of Stars" from an emotional place. He says it goes back and forth between cadencing in major and cadencing in minor because he thinks that is what the song is about. You have these great moments and then you have these less great moments in life. Chazelle wanted to make Los Angeles one of the leading characters in the film. In its film history, Los Angeles has been a noir backdrop, a beach and bikini paradise and a dystopian setting...Chazelle however wanted to explore as a Muse, an in motion canvas of fateful encounters, endless traffic and endless striving where everyone chases their dreams at times futiley and at others transformationally. Given all of these qualities, Chazelle calls a widescreen city. That is why he chose to shoot wide screen and make the city as big and spectacular as a classic Hollywood musical. Director Damien Chazelle said of the inspiration for this opening number, "I always wanted to do a shot where you go from car to car with each radio playing a radically different kind of music. I wanted it to feel like a city bustling with music." and that he wanted to use the soundscape to "build an opening musical number and having a fantastical musical number arise out of a bunch of realistic city sounds." Costume designer Mary Zophres said that her favorite piece of clothing worn by Emma Stone was the white dress seen toward the end of the film. The version of the Summit logo was created specifically for the film La La Land. It echoes those from the golden age of Hollywood. The origins of the title is because of two reasons. Firstly the city the film is set in is Los Angeles, or in short form: LA. Hence the city is evident in the title 'La La Land' Secondly the film challenges the stereotypical view of Hollywood by labeling it a dream. This is also seen through the abstract cinematography. "La-La Land" is also a long-standing nickname for Hollywood/ because of the faux-reality feeling of a city filled with so many films & shows being made (constantly creating faux-realities), and because it is populated by so many actors and actresses there for the same reason: to fulfill a dream. It is often used to differentiattem=tr3217932" class="interesting-count-text" > 360 of 429 found this interesting Interesting? | Share this Emma Stone studied dancing as a child as well as a year of ballet. Stone moved to Hollywood from Arizona at age 15 with her mother and struggled to get an audition, often being dismissed after saying just a line or two. She reportedly drew on these experiences for her character Mia in the film. Choreographer Mandy Moore calls the planetarium scene 'the heart of the film'. Moore said the sequence was originally intended to take place underwater before it was decided to move it into the sky. Damien Chazelle rehearsed the opening number with the dancers by personally filming the sequence on his iPhone. In the scene where Mia and Sebastian are walking through Warner Bros studio, they are stopped by an assistant director. This person was played by the real second assistant director Brett Robinson. The "City of Stars" scene on the Hermosa pier was almost spoiled as, having a limited time to shoot at sunset, a large US battleship suddenly sailed right into the camera line. Producer Marc Platt disappeared for 10 minutes and when he returned, the battleship had moved in time for cast and crew to film the scene. Chazelle thinks that, "the musical as a genre is a great vehicle for expressing that balancing act between dreams and reality." The only film that year to be nominated for both Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars. Gosling brought some of his personal experience as an aspiring artist to the film. While Gosling was performing a crying scene for an audition on another film, the casting director took a phone call. This bit was used for the Mia character in the film. Emma Stone's Best Actress Oscar winning performance was the only nominee in the category in a Best Picture nominee that year. The 1,200 seat Rialto theater was built with a stage that was 30 feet deep in order to accommodate live Vaudeville acts. Other movies that have shot in the Rialto theater include, The Rocketeer, The Player, Nightmare on Elm Street, part 4 and Scream 2. Stone's rendition of "City of Stars" was performed live on set in order to keep her completely present and in the moment. Stone says, 'it was challenging but it was also something I felt really strongly about." The actress says she had just done Caberet on Broadway and saw the way a live performance adds something. Even if your voice breaks or you're a bit out of tune, something irreplaceable is lent to the performance. The phrase "pis y caca", that Ryan Gosling says twice, is Spanish for pee and feces, meaning that it is not important. Ryan Gosling's girlfriend, Eva Mendes, is a Spanish speaker. Linus Sandgren is the first Swedish cinematographer to win the Academy iv class="sodatext"> The black sci-fi-ish keyboard that Sebastian plays on The Messengers' gig is in fact quite pricey. It's Roli Seaboard which costs about $5,000. One of Emma Stone's favorite numbers in the film is "Duet". She says this is where their characters connect in a real way for the first time. Stone says that she, Ryan and Chazelle felt it was important that you feel the joyous moment when the pair literally fall into step with one another. Chazell and editor Tom Cross spent nearly a year editing the film. They were primarily concerned with nailing the tone of the film. Influences for this movie include the films of French New Wave director Jaques Demy. Demy broke the hyper-serious mold of 1960's movie making with candy colored musicals such as Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort and A Room In Town. According to Chazelle, " Jaques Demy is probably the single biggest influence not just on this movie but on everything I've done or wanted to do. There is no more formative movie for me than The Umbrellas of Cherbourg." For Ryan's costumes, nearly all of the clothing he wears in the film was made to order. In the film, Ryan Gosling's character is referred to by other characters twice as a famous but deceased celebrity of 2016. Early in the film his sister calls him Ali, a reference to Muhammad Ali who died earlier June, 2016. Later, Mia yells out to him, calling him George Michael who died shortly after the film's release, on Christmas Day 2016. The very large pendulum seen in the observatory scene is called a Foucault pendulum, or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist LĂ©on Foucault. It is a simple device conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. While it had long been known that the Earth rotates, the introduction of the Foucault pendulum in 1851 was the first simple proof of the rotation in an easy-to-see experiment. Today, Foucault pendulums are popular displays in science museums and universities. The murals on the ceiling of the observatory were painted by muralist, film producer and novelist Hugo Ballin. The ceiling mural depicts the various stories that people have used to explain what we see in the sky from the zodiac, to ancient Greek and Roman legends to a woman holding the Star of Bethlehem. Other murals show how science and engineering changed through history including aeronautics, navigation, metallurgy, time, geology and biology among others. On the first day, Zophres and Chazelle went through the movie scene by scene discussing color palettes. For Sebastian, Zophres wanted to emphasize the elegant with a shot of the offbeat for his costumes. Zophres continues, "His look is not necessarily trendy. It's a look you feel he has developed and curated. Sebastian isn't a guy you see wearing a t-shirt. Instead he has a very specific kind of slim silhouette that speaks to a respect for tradition and formality." Emma Stone's character mentions the fact that there is a radio station named KJAZZ back home where she grew up. Emma Stone grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona. KJZZ (pronounced K-Jazz) is a radio station in the Phoenix market. KJAZZ is also the Los Angeles jazz and blues station. Producer Marc Platt says of Emma Stone's performance, "Not everyone has the dream of being an actress but the way Emma plays Mia transcends that. You feel Mia's dreams could be anybody's dream, whatever you want in life." Jordan Horowitz said on Stone: "She made everything about her character feel like it had been tailored to her." Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. Second 2016 film release featuring a cover version of a-ha's tune "Take On Me". The first: Sing Street (2016). The same street lamps are seen in multiple scenes including the road Emma and Ryan walk up to in their first dance sequence; the Pier at Hermosa Beach; outside the sound stage when Mia and Seb walk the movie lot (where they are stored outside the building showing they are merely props); and again when Mia runs out of the restaurant where she was dining with Greg, brother and wife and runs up the street to the Rialto. The same light also features prominently in the movie poster. Right before the freeway interchange opened to the public in 1993, a key scene for the movie "Speed" with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves was filmed there. The E-Z pass over-ramp section of the freeway was shut down on Saturday and Sunday in August of 2015 to film the opening number entitled, "Traffic". Producer Marc Platt says, "La La Land is absolutely a love letter to the city. The way the film mixes two people leading very hip, modern lives with all these iconic Hollywood locales is unique. You get a feeling both of the romantic fantasy of the city and its grounding in real lives." Zophres saw Emma Stone wearing a yellow dress during a red carpet appearance and thought she looked stunning. This led to her dressing Mia in yellow for the film's signature "Duet" dance sequence. When the camera focuses on the traffic scene before the opening number "Another Day of Sun" begins, one of the radio stations in the background plays a short snippet of a song from Damien Chazelle's directorial debut Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009) called "It Happened at Dawn." At Griffith Observatory, Mia is thrown a roll of paper pretending it's an Academy Award. Emma Stone actually won the Acadamy Award for her role in La La Land. Justin Hurwitz comments that "City of Stars" was Mia and Sabatian's first duet. (You get) "the giggling and all other nuances when you record vocals that way. You pick up all the little smacks of the lips and things like that, that you don't get when you record vocals in a music studio months earlier and then have them lip sync on set." Regarding his dancing, Ryan Gosling told the director he felt like, 'a gangly monkey'. "My extremities are everywhere; it's hard for me to control my body." Chazelle wanted the film's musical numbers to be filmed 'head to toe' and shot in a single take like the famous musicals he admired from the 1930's. The costume Sebastian wears while playing "I Ran (So Far Away)" is a very close copy of the one worn by Flock of Seagulls lead singer, keyboardist and guitarist Mike Score. Ryan Gosling on Emma Stone: "She's one-of-a-kind, and brings the same quality to Mia. But you also see that Mia's a bit different and not necessarily what these people in the entertainment world are looking for - where they often want people who are interchangeable with one another. She's just not that." Executive music producer Marius de Vries says of the song "City of Stars", it had many permutations prior to filming from duet, female lead, male lead until it locked into its current position. The whistling in the song was done by Justin Hurwitz as Ryan Gosling is unable to whistle. Ryan Gosling's character, Sebastian, teases his sister in the movie that he should set her up with a man that has a face tattoo. Coincidentally, in his role in The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) his character has a face tattoo. He chose this tattoo for his character in TPBtP. After the first day of shooting, he asked to remove the tattoo because of his embarrassment in choice he made for his character, in which case the director told him "absolutely not." This scene was filmed on the Hermosa Beach pier which is a few hundred feet from the Lighthouse CafĂ©. The streetlights were added by the film's production design team to the pier for filming. Due to the popularity of the film, the City of Hermosa Beach is reviewing a plan to add the lights as a permanent fixture to the pier. Stone says of her character, "Mia's driven by something that maybe she doesn't completely understand. She wants to be an artist in a city of so many people who seem to be just like her." Stone continues: "Mia feels that there's something special inside her but she doesn't quite know what it is. I could relate to her being an actress and going on auditions but even more so, there was something so exciting about taking her into this musical world where you can suddenly spin down the street or burst into song. That was a wonderful challenge." Lyricist Benj Pasek says the difference between a pop song and a theater song is that a pop song is about how it makes you feel while a theater song is a verb about what's going to change. In "Audition" their goal was to make it a verb, not just about a feeling but about how once Mia sings it, things will change for her. The song was filmed in one shot. There are no picture edits. The perfect take had to happen in that single take. And fortunately for fans of the film, it did. The dream sequence was filmed in short bits throughout the eight weeks of shooting. Director Damien Chazelle's first film was Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench. The film was a romance told through song and dance, a re-envisioning of the retro MGM musical. Chazelle made this film as his Harvard senior thesis in 2009. The composer of this film was Harvard classmate Justin Hurwitz who also did the score for La La Land. Hurwitz wrote the music for Whiplash as well and Chazelle says, he hopes Justin writes the music for everything that he does. The exterior used for Mia's parents Nevada house is actually located in Santa Clarita, California 34 miles from Los Angeles. The Retro Dairy Mart was originally an Alta Dena drive through grocery store popular in the 1950's. Van Beek's Tapas and Tunes is in reality the original modern style Magnolia Theater in Burbank. It later became Evergreen Recording Studios whose clients included Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond and Frank Sinatra. Principal photography on the film began on August 10, 2015. Filming took place in more than 60 locations in and near Los Angeles. It took 40 days to complete shooting, with the production wrapping in mid-September 2015. According to costume designer Mary Zophres, Mia and Sebastian have over fifty costume changes apiece. Zophres coordinated closely with cinematographer Linus Sandgren and production designer David Wasco among others to create a world in which the costumes harmonize with the overall design of the film. Damien also wanted everything to happen in camera and not by adding effects in post production. This took a lot of planning. In terms of the aspect ratio, the size of the frame, Chazelle was going for something extremely anamorphic to give the film the extra scope of the classic older films. Sundgren had to have Panavision build new lenses for the film which he felt really added to the spirit of the film. Sundgren also used colored lights to enhance the film's palette of cool blues, greens and pinks. The "Epilogue" was shot on Hollywood Center Studios where Hollywood luminaries such as Shirley Temple, Mae West and the Marx Brothers once worked. In the 1960's the following TV shows were shot there; The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and The Addams Family. Sebastian drives a 1982 Buick Riviera convertible. Mia drives a Toyota Prius. Emma Stone spent two months prior to production rehearsing every day with choreographer Mandy Moore. Chazelle felt there had to be a naturalism to the dancing. He told choreographer Mandy Moore that in this movie dancing, singing and acting are all just one thing. Chazelle told Moore "he wanted the audience to feel that Sebastian and Mia are real people who, for just a moment, transcend the confines of everyday life." Mia walks past a mural called "You Are the Star" in this scene. In it, vintage Hollywood celebrities sit in a movie theater appearing to watch passersbys as if they are the stars of a film. The mural was painted in 1983 by Thomas Suriya. Executive music producer Marius de Vries says of the engagement party song that they wanted to make use of their song melodies as underscore and this scene features a reimagining of the room-mates song from earlier in the film performed by Ryan. He notes of Mia and Sebastian's Theme that, in order to bring this to life, Ryan Gosling had to start working with piano teacher Liz Kinnon four months prior to the shoot as he was essentially a beginner. When they went to shoot the scene where the piano version was first played, everyone was tense. But, Marius says, " after Ryan's first take, there was at least 10 seconds of astonished silence then much deserved applause." Gosling notes that the costumes Zophres dressed him in helped him to walk the line between a 1940's and contemporary sensibility. For the big dance numbers, Zophres focused on form but also function dressing her leads in clothing that swings, swirls and looks even more striking amidst the high-flying performances. Zophres notes that when she was researching for the film and watching Gene Kelly musicals, she would notice that, when they went into dance routines, you can see the lining in the clothes change to something lighter, less heavy. Zophres referenced her huge collection of magazines including Life and Vogue from the 1930's onward to get ideas for the lead character's costumes. The interiors and exteriors of Seb's club were shot at an existing club in Long Beach. Chazelle says that the dance movement in the opening sequence was influenced by the opening of Jaques Demy's, The Young Girls of Rochefort and the athleticism of the opening dance number was inspired by Michael Kidd's choreography in the classic MGM musical, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. There were over 100 cars and 90 singers and dancers in the opening scene. The sky was cloudy for the first half day of the prologue shoot and the crew had to wait until the sun finally came out to shoot. Chazelle and choreographer Mandy Moore wanted to build the choreography into the storytelling by breaking the fourth wall to draw the audience in but without disrupting the dream-like flow of the story. Mandy Moore is a two-time EmmyĂÂź Award winner for her groundbreaking work on the reality TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance." La La Land was shot on celluloid film with Panavision equipment in the widescreen format but not actual CinemaScope as that technology is no longer available. Emma Stone first met director Chazelle in 2014 while she was performing on Broadway in Cabaret. The actress had a cold the night they met when the director outlined his idea for the film to her. Stone had confidence from performing in Cabaret so that she felt she could handle the film's dance numbers. Stone accepted Chazelle's offer to play Mia because he was so passionate about the project. A song called "La La Land" was cut from the final film but Pasek says it had a lot of road metaphors in it. You don't know where you're going to go, but follow every turn and will lead you..." Pasek points out the line in "Audition" that picks up this metaphor of "Who knows where it will lead us, and that's why they need us'. The opening scene of La La Land was shot in Los Angeles on the 105/110 cloverleaf freeway interchange. It is also known as the Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange and is 130 feet tall. When it was built, this freeway was the first to combine three differeent type of transportation movement. A level for cars, a level for buses and a level for light rail trains. Dancers, choreographers and crew rehearsed the opening sequence for three months prior to filming and many of the cars needed to be reinforced to support the dancers. Gosling had no prior experience playing the piano before this film. He had to learn how to play all of the piano pieces in the film as no hand models were used. Of Gosling's character Sebastian, producer Fred Berger notes: "Ryan portrays Sebastian as a man of real determination. That's what feeds his stubbornness to stay in and to say I'm going to make it here as the jazz performer that I am on my terms. Sebastian's stubbornness is not born out of ego or any abrasive quality. It's borne out of real conviction and passion which Ryan infuses into the character so beautifully." April 25, 2017 was officially designated "La La Land" day in Los Angeles. A historic location plaque with the date and details of the movie's filming was installed next to the Hermosa Beach pier. For 2 minutes and 23 seconds, during the chaos that was the climax of the 2017 Academy Awards ceremony, " La La Land" was , very briefly, the Best Picture Oscar winner of 2016. In creating La La Land, director Chazelle wanted to see if he could make a film that channels the magic and energy of the most poignantly romantic French and American musicals of filmmaking's Golden Age into our more complicated and jaded age. La La Land premiered at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2016. The film tied the record for most Academy AwardĂÂź nominations with 14. The only other films that have received 14 nominations include All About Eve (1950) and Titanic (1997). La La Land won six Academy Awards including Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Original Song ("City of Stars") and Best Production Design. Emma Stone on the relationship between Mia and Sebastian: "I think Mia and Sebastian inspire each other to do things differently. They are both in a rut when they meet and feeling creatively stalled. But the beautiful thing Sebastian does for her is ask, 'why don't you create your own stories to tell as an actress?' I think Mia needs that because she's forgotten she even has that ability. Mia opens Sebastian up to the idea that maybe he can expand and pursue his art in previously unexplored ways." To help his cast and crew get inspired, Chazelle held screenings every Friday night during production of classical films that had inspired him for La La Land. The films he screened included; The Umbrellas of Chergourg, Singin' In the Rain, Top Hat and Boogie Nights. The location where Mia performs her one woman show was shot in The Hayworth Theatre on Wilshire boulevard in Los Angeles. It opened in 1925 as the Masque theater and was designed by the same architect who designed the El Capitan and Mayan theaters in Los Angeles. By 1950 the Hayworth was known as The Vagabond Theater, an art house and revival theater that screened many of the m a studio backlot. Chazelle's main influence is clearly The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), in both style and music, with additional production nods ( a parapluie shop stationed across from the coffee shop on the movie lot, and a cast of non-singers in the leading roles). Another, more covert influence is MGM's Oscar-winning An American in Paris (1951), particularly in Chazelle's decision to cap his film with an extended, surrealistic ballet that encapsulates everything that has come before in impressionistic terms, moving in and out of multiple sets, and projecting a happy end in lieu of what has actually transpired between the characters. While the ballet from An American in Paris (1951) lasted an unprecedented seventeen minutes, Chazelle's lasts eight. The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Song (2 nominations), and Best Costume Design. Chazelle commented that the opening number was inspired by, "living in and being in traffic all the time, thinking about wanting to shoot myself or dance." and one of the inspirations for the opening sequence is the single seven and a half minute shot of traffic in Jean Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Costume desinger Mary Zophres revealed that Emma's blue dress was inspired by an Atelier Versace gown the actress wore to promote Amazing Spider-Man 2. Rebel Without a Cause was released in 1955 and was the movie that made a star out of James Dean. The movie has a famous set piece at the Griffith Observatory which Mia and Sebastian visit later in the film. James Dean starred in just three feature films before dying in a car accident on September 30, 1955 at age 24. Rebel Without a Cause was directed by Nicholas Ray who also directed the film, In a Lonely Place starring Humphrey Bogart as a struggling screenwriter chasing his dreams in Hollywood. Keith is portrayed by ten-time GRAMMYĂÂź winner and Academy AwardĂÂź winning singer songwriter John Legend. Legend jumped at the chance to appear in the film saying, "I thought this would be a great opportunity to transition into doing more acting in a role that feels pretty familiar to what I already do for a living, which is make music." Also fascinating to Legend was the conflict between Keith and Sebastian which is how one adapts to a rapidly changing culture. Legend also said "Keith's philosophy is let's not try and preserve something that happened 50 years ago; let's take what we've learned and make something for these times." Chazelle wanted to explore the idea of this alternate reality with no dialogue and purely through image, score and dance. Chazelle says this sequence was inspired by An American in Paris and Singin' in the Rain. He wanted to resurrect a tradition you used to see in musicals but don't see at all anymore. Lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's prior theatrical credits include, A Christmas Story, Dogfight, James and the Giant Peach. La La Land was their first chance to create a full-scale lyrical book for the screen. In most cases the melodies for the songs were set prior to Pasek and Paul's creation of the lyrics. Their goal was to weave Sebastian and Mia's personas into their songs. The Jazz Club sequence was filmed at The Lighthouse CafĂ© in Hermosa Beach, California. The cast and crew filmed there for four days in the summer of 2015. The Lighthouse has been a home for jazz since it opened in 1949. Famous Jazz musicians who've performed there include; Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and Cannonball Adderley. Howard Rumsey owned The Lighthouse CafĂ© and brought jazz there from 1949 through 1960 led by Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars. The set designers didn't change much of the interior. They added a stained glass on the front window and the circular stained glass lighthouse image behind the piano. The Angels Flight funicular railway in downtown Los Angeles opened in 1901 but closed in 1969. It reopened briefly in the early 2000's but closed again soon after. The city opened it up for one day so the film's producers could shoot there. The Messengers performance was shot inside the El Rey Theater on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. It was built in 1936 and designed in a style known as Zig Zag Moderne. During the 1940's the El Rey was part of the Fox west coast theater chain. In the 1970's the Chippendales Dancers took up residence there. The El Rey is currently a live music and special events venue. Nedra Wheeler who plays Seb's bassist has performed not only jazz but pop and R&B and has performed with musicians as diverse as Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald and Bob Dylan. Clifton "Fou Fou" Eddie plays Seb's drummer also performed in Chazelle's film Whiplash. Khirye Tyler plays Seb's pianist. CinemaScope was the first anamorphic format used in principlal photography and movie projection beginning in 1953. It was created by Spyros P. Skouras president of 20th Century Fox. For Hurwitz the push and pull between the characters of Sebastian and Mia was the driving force of his score. Hurwitz wove the exhilaration of romantic love and the haunting heartbreak of life in the creative field into the music for the score. The locations in the film switch between 'of the moment' and bygone eras in the film. Chazelle's notion was to capitalize on the timelessness inherent in the city itself. Production designer David Wasco said they wanted to look at the city of Los Angeles anew with a visually inventive director. Damien Chazelle collaborated intently with cinematographer Linus Sandgren for the movie. Sandgren is known for his work with David O. Russell on American Hustle and Joy. Jordan Hurwitz comments: "The camera had to have a very specific energy in this film...and we knew Linus had the skills to bring that." Sundgren notes: "Damien wanted to make an old-fashioned film in a very modern way where the camera is more fluid." There were many technical challenges. They shot on 4-perf anamorphic 35mm film. This meant the camera had to be reloaded with film every ten minutes. On top of that Chazelle wanted to shoot big production numbers in single takes, what Sundgren calls "Unbroken reality". The film's executive music producer, Marius de Vries, has been involved in some of the most culture defining recordings and soundtracks of the last 20 years. Marius music directed Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge which resulted in a GRAMMYĂÂź. Marius also composed the score for Stephan Elliott's Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Marius de Vries reflects on the openening number; "It was the only fully ensemble song in the movie and it was also the most complex in terms of vocal arrangement, staging and logistics. It was really difficult to establish just exactly what the song should be about but Benj and Justin eventually found the perfect balance between poetry and naturalism...in this hymn to the daily routine." Director Chazelle says, "Musicals are a genre...where you can't really go into it with a protective shield. What's scary about the genre is what's exhilarating, which is that it forces you to wear your heart on your sleeve. One of the greatest pleasures of watching this movie was watching (Emma) go somewhere deeper and darker than we're used to." Composer Justin Hurwitz characterizes the opening song as a way to set up the personality of Los Angeles itself, a city of dreamers going for a shot at a future, "that may or may not happen." "Another Day of Sun" Lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul describe director Chazelle wanting them to capture the difference between and New York with the song. The coffee shop Mia works in is located on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. The Observatory was built in 1935 and named after Griffith Jenkins Griffith. Griffith came to Los Angeles from Wales in 1881 and, with riches from silver mining and real estate and donated the land and money to fulfill his dream of making astronomy available to all. The art deco style building was overseen by architects John Austin and Frederick Ashley. Chazelle: "There are very few people who can be as in the moment while still feeling like big, movie stars in the way the film needed." This is the Chateau Marmont on Sunset boulevard in Los Angeles. All of the exteriors and interiors of Mia's new apartment were shot there. Built in 1929, the Marmont has been a well known celebrity gathering place through the years with guests including; Rita Hayworth, Howard Hughes, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Most of the early casting sessions for the film Rebel Without a Cause were held in a bungalow there where director Nicholas Ray was living at the time. The film makes visual allusions to classic films such as Broadway Melody of 1940, Singin' in the Rain and An American in Paris. Director Chazelle considers An American in Paris as an example of how daring vintage musicals were and used it as a standard by which he made his film. Emma Watson was set to star as Mia but dropped out because of a commitment to the musical adaption of Beauty and the Beast. A demo of "Audition" is the first thing Emma Stone heard at her initial meeting with Chazelle about the project. The director thinks part of the reason she agreed to do the movie was to play that moment. Hurwitz comments, "This song is really special for me and I'm just so proud of it. I think it's exactly what we envision this scene and this song to be. According to costume designer Mary Zophres, Mia's barista blouse is based on a photo of Ingrid Bergman from the 1940's in which she wears something similar. She has collaborated with the Cohen Brothers on thirteen of their films, including The Big Lebowski, Fargo, and No Country for Old Men. The interiors of Mia's apartment were shot at The Langham Apartments in Los Angeles. The Langham, a 180 room apartment building, opened in 1927 offering a restaurant, beauty salon, barber shop, billiard room and commissary. The showstopper at the Langham in 1927 was the country's first rooftop swimming pool. Director Damien Chazelle envisioned the production numbers in the film as echoing the imagination and narrative freedom associated with the mid century movie musicals but with the energy and pace that speaks to the iPhone and YouTube generation. Charlie Parker (1920-1955) invented along with Dizzie Gillespie, a musical style called bop or bebop. Legend has it that Charlie Parker got the nickname "Bird" because it was short for "Yardbird" and a) he was free as a bird or b) he hit a chicken (aka Yardbird) by accident while driving on tour with his band. The Birdland club in New York was named in honor of Charlie Parker. This is where he made his last public performance in 1955 a week before he died. Marius notes about the upcoming musical number "Audition" that Emma's song happens "after a long musical silence in terms of production numbers." He notes how it's interesting that La La Land breaks with convention in this respect - in La La Land sung/performed music is generally absent from Act 3 until this point. But Marius concludes, "it works because it tracks the curve of Sebastian and Mia's relationship, disappearing for awhile as things get dark." Marius credits not only Emma Stone for outstanding vocal performances throughout but also her vocal coach Eric Vetro for keeping Emma 'match fit' amidst the competing demands of all the choreography and a few head colds which Emma suffered during production. This section of the Mia-Sebastian fantasy sequence was shot at the Orcutt Ranch Park built in 1919 by William Orcutt as a country estate for his family. A small grouping of Oak trees on the property are over 700 years old and it was branches from these trees that were burned with limestone in a kiln to produce the mortar used to construct Los Angeles' first Spanish settlement in 1797. A skate boarder and parkour jumper were hired for the opening sequence. Chazelle: "They do a very difficult thing in this movie, which is to ground the most undgrounded of genres." Composer Justin Hurwitz wrote the music and collaborated with lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul to create the song for the opening sequence. The exteriors of Mia's apartment were shot at the Rose Tower Apartments in Long Beach. The Rose Tower opened in 1928 as the El Cordova designed by architect George D. Riddle in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. In 2007 the homeowners of the Rose Tower completely restored it to its 1920's heyday. In the montage of neon signs several from classic Hollywood's glamour era establishments can be seen including the Formosa CafĂ©, which was patronized by Humphry Bogart and Clark Gable as it was across the street from a Warner Bros. lot. Musso & Frank Grill which opened in 1919 and is the oldest restaurant in Hollywood. The Knickerbocker Hotel which dates back to 1929 but is where, in 1968, Graham Nash was living when Cass Elliot introduced him to Stephen Stills and David Crosby. The Roxy Theater in West Hollywood which is where Paul Reubens introduced his Pee-Wee Herman character in 1981. The Interiors of "Lipton's" were shot at The Smokehouse restaurant in Burbank. The Smokehouse was originally a restaurant owned by actor Danny Kaye called The Red Coach Inn directly across from the Warner Bros. studio lot. In 1955 it was purchased by William Wagner and Wayne McAllister and rebuilt to reflect the rustic timber style in which it appears today. In 1956, Jack Paar broadcast the Tonight Show from the restaurant and celebrity client George Clooney has a plaque on his favorite booth. While it references many films, La La Land also is influenced by painters such as Ed Ruscha and David Hockney who also explored the mythology of The French Fauvist painter Raoul Duffy, known for his ecstatic washes of color, is also cited as a visual influence on the film. The Warner Bros, backlot has been the setting for many a classic movie and TV show. Including the exterior of the Central Perk on the TV show Friends. It was also where scenes were shot from National Lampoon's Vacation, Blade Runner and Batman. West Coast Jazz was represented at The Lighthouse in the 1950's when Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Shelly Manne and Max Roache all played in the club. Several jazz greats also made live recordings in The Lighthouse including Art Pepper, Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones. Mose Allison. The process of writing "Start a Fire" furthered Legend's understanding of the characters. "What was fun is that we get to see the song morph as Sebastian and Keith figure out what kind of music they want to make." Legend says "it presents Sebastian with a quandry of how 'pop' he's willing to get and how far he's willing to go from the music that he feels moved to play." The song was regulatory for Gosling. He said, "For John to bring in his contemporary take was really a hard thing to do. Sonically and energetically it could have really clashed with the kind of music the movie is celebrating. Instead, what John brought was so good that it just makes my character's dilemma that much more complicated." Chazelle's original screenplay for La La Land was set in Boston in which the iconic Griffith Observatory scene was set in Boston's Museum of Science. The service station in the back of the set was inspired by an Ed Ruscha painting. As Sebastian and Mia walk through the studio lot, they pass by two actors shooting a romantic scene, those actors are actually Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's body doubles. Emma Stone won the Academy AwardĂÂź for Best Actress for her portrayal of Mia in La La Land. Stone was previously nominated for an Academy Award ĂÂź as Best Supporting actress for her performance in the film, Birdman. She was six years old when she gave her first public performance at school in a Thanksgiving-themed musical entitled, No Turkey for Perky. She is a native of Arizona. Los Angeles as a city has many nicknames including the title of this film, La La Land. The phrase "La-La Land" connotes a dreamy disconnection from reality. The phrase "La La Land" dates back to 1979. Other nicknames for the city include; 'Tinseltown', 'City of Angels' as well as 'The Entertainment Capital of the World'. Scott of the New York Times wrote, the film "succeeds both as a fizzy fantasy and a hard-headed fable, a romantic comedy and a showbiz melodrama, a work of sublime artifice and touching authenticity." Tom Charity of Sight & Sound wrote, "Chazelle has crafted a rare thing, a genuinely romantic comedy as well, a rhapsody in blue, red, yellow and green." Peter Bradshaw writing for The Guardian said La La Land is, "a sun-drenched masterpiece".
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Take this La La Land quiz to find out which character from La La Land you are. Answer these quick questions to find out. Play it now! Musicals have made me a romantic person. She told me that some emotions are so strong that they cannot be placed in ordinary words, they had to be sung. Thereâs so much love you just must move your feet. I remember being impressed by Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire in a household that liked classic films and that they were as cool as anyone else in film history. Characters in music not only interpreted love differently from traditional cinema but turned it into art, into the dance, the singing, and the transcending of simple language, into a higher, purer, closer romantic thing. Since Rogers & Astaireâs times, weâve seen musical musicals, but few who strove, maybe even more so, to re-enact the sensation of fluid, magical thinking in which characters speak with their own bodies. The intensity and attention it devotes to movement and music, not simply to lyrics, is among the many astounding things about Damien Chazelleâs âLa Land.â Modern musicals based so often on Broadway shows have concentrated on tunes that are more intriguing. Chazelleâs views have more impact than a line in dancing and a simple piano refrain. This is a lovely film about love and dreams, and how both influence one another. Los Angeles is full of dreamers, and a partner sometimes needs to fulfill your dreams. Also, you must try to play this La La Land quiz. Editorâs Picks Lawrence Of Arabia Quiz â Which Character Are You? Trainspotting Quiz â Which Character Are You? There Will Be Blood Quiz â Which Character Are You? Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Quiz La La Land quiz At the end of the film, Sebastian has his own jazz club. Mia has a leading role in a project filmed in Paris which starts her acting career. Mia and Sebastian go their separate ways and never rekindle their romance while making their aspirations come true. When Mia comes back to now married to somebody else, she meets Seb (The Jazz Club of Sebastian). Stop in for a minute, while considering what your life together would have been like Mia smiles at Sebastian. Viewers are watching onscreen the imaginary installation. But back at the club Mia exits and shares a last look on her way out with Sebastian. The film closes with Sebastian and Mia as two people who have fallen in love. However, their work prevails above any effort to keep their connection between them. In his speech to the Hollywood Reporter, Fred Berger claims that the plan was for the two methods, which he considered as a more realistic result, to go their own way. They did not wish to distract themselves from their idea by rebelling against the template for Hollywood fairy tales, but a means to deliver a more realistic story. âWe felt confident, but what was pushed for change was what would get it connected and felt fresh and innovative. Berger added. Our open mind was to calibrate it in an honest fashion.â About the quiz The picture starts on a LA highway with traffic gridlock. We watch the barista, aspiring actress Mia, going on the lines of her car after the opening extravaganza (âAnother Day of the Sunâ). She doesnât focus on the journey, so Sebastianâa jazz artist that dreams of establishing a jazz clubâholds up. As he drives past, he blows his horn loudly on her. Miaâs hearing is deceit and she goes back home to her co-workers who persuade her to participate in a party (âSomeone in the Crowdâ). The party is equally deceptive and Mia walks on foot and stops at the Lipton restaurant after discovering her car hauled away at the end of the night. Which La La Land character are you? We listen to the horn tingling, and only from Sebastianâs point of view does the film play this piece this time. Sebastian has just left the traffic gridlock to visit the samba-tapas bar of Van Beek. We discover afterward, not to go inside but only to look at it, that there were once excellent jazz musicians at the venue, and Sebastian dreams of establishing his own jazz club in that historic setting. But he plays the piano at Liptonâs restaurant right now. And we see him with his boss, who reminds him to adhere to the Christmas list (and specifically to cut out the jazz). But he turns off course, playing his own jazz (âMia & Sebastianâs Topicâ). After a few weihnachts melodies, Mia looks out. Sheâs hyped, and just like heâs been fired, she compliments him. Without a second look, he brushes by her. For more personality quizzes check this: Vertigo Movie Quiz.
Five years later and Mia is a successful actress and is married, but not to Sebastian. She has a daughter and a happy home. On a night out with her husband, the pair get stuck in traffic on the freeway, so they detourâto a jazz club, called Sebâs. Sebastian and Mia meet again, and he plays their love theme ("Epilogue").
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10 Questions | By Tanya | Last updated: Mar 21, 2022 | Total Attempts: 145 Settings Feedback During the Quiz End of Quiz Difficulty Sequential Easy First Hard First La La Land is a popular American musical comedy. The film features lots of musical numbers that topped the music charts. The film follows the story of Mia and Sebastian and their struggle to make it to Hollywood. They eventually fall in love but struggle to maintain their relationship due to the pressure of maintaining their respective careers. Have you the movie? Play this entertaining "La La Land Movie Quiz" for a fun time! Pick the correct option from the four options given in the quiz. 1. Who did Mia marry in the end? A. Sebastian B. Clyde C. David D. Greg 2. Where did Mia work as a barista? A. Universal Pictures B. Warner Bros C. Paramount Pictures D. 20th Century Studios 3. Where did Mia go after her breakup with Seb? A. Goodsprings B. Sparks C. Henderson D. Boulder City 4. Who plays Sebastian Wilder in the movie? A. Ryan Gosling B. Ryan Reynolds C. Jake Gyllenhaal D. Chris Evans 5. What was the name of Seb's classmate who invited him to be a member of his jazz fusion and? A. John B. Keith C. Clyde D. Josh 6. Who inspired Mia to become an actress? A. Her father B. Her mother C. Her sister D. Her aunt 7. Who plays Mia Dolan in the film? A. Jennifer Lawrence B. Emma Stone C. Margot Robbie D. Emma Roberts 8. How did Mia's aunt die? A. She was killed in an accident B. She died due to alcoholism C. She died due to cancer D. She died of old age 9. Where did Seb invite Mia for their date? A. He invited her to the screening of Rebel Without a Cause B. He invited her to a lavish party Hollywood Hills C. He invited her to a fancy restaurant in Hollywood D. He invited her for skydiving 10. Who played Laura Wilder in the movie? A. Erin Moriarty B. Odessa Young C. Saxon Sharbino D. Rosemarie DeWitt Are you confused about deciding 'What movie I should watch?' right now? Are you ready to play a quiz to get the answer? With so many options available, it is evident to feel confused. Should you watch an adventure or... Questions: 10 | Attempts: 302882 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2022 Sample Question What kind of movie do you feel like watching? Adventure Action Comedy Do you love watching movies? There have been a lot of movies lately with very amazing characters. These characters may sometimes have real-life people who are just like them. Do you wonder which movie character are... Questions: 10 | Attempts: 182504 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2022 Sample Question If your friend is in trouble on the battlefield, what would you do? I will run to save them! Get angry and attack the person. Scream Attack the one that is hurting them while still fighting your own opponent. Laugh. I don't care. If you love movies, then find out which movie is your favorite of all time, the one that relates to you personally. Take this quiz to see which movie tells to and is actually about you in terms of situations and... Questions: 10 | Attempts: 81484 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2022 Sample Question What makes you happiest? Taking care of the ones I love Being popular and having friends Living out my dreams More Movie Quizzes Amusement Park Quizzes Circus Quizzes Comedy Quizzes Disney Quizzes Drama Quizzes Film Quizzes Game Quizzes Magic Quizzes Marvel Quizzes Museum Quizzes Television Quizzes Theatre Quizzes + Show more Back to top
A 27-page Extensive Viewing guide to the Oscar-winning film La La Land starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling for English language students who want to learn English through watching films. The guide will help students improve their English vocabulary, listening comprehension, pronunciation and speaking. The viewing guide includes: âą Viewing
Ătats-Unis : 2016 Titre original : â RĂ©alisateur : Damien Chazelle ScĂ©nario : Damien Chazelle Acteurs : Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend Ăditeur : M6 VidĂ©o DurĂ©e : 2h02 Genre : ComĂ©die musicale Date de sortie : 25 janvier 2017 Date de sortie DVD/BR : 25 mai 2017 Au coeur de Los Angeles, une actrice en devenir prĂ©nommĂ©e Mia sert des cafĂ©s entre deux auditions. De son cĂŽtĂ©, Sebastian, passionnĂ© de jazz, joue du piano dans des clubs miteux pour assurer sa subsistance. Tous deux sont bien loin de la vie rĂȘvĂ©e Ă laquelle ils aspirent⊠Le destin va rĂ©unir ces doux rĂȘveurs, mais leur coup de foudre rĂ©sistera-t-il aux tentations, aux dĂ©ceptions, et Ă la vie trĂ©pidante dâHollywood ? Le film [3/5] « La La Land est lâantithĂšse de Whiplash. PlutĂŽt que de prĂ©senter la musique sous son cĂŽtĂ© brutal comme dans le film qui le rĂ©vĂ©la, Damien Chazelle signe un hommage aux comĂ©dies musicales Ă succĂšs des annĂ©es 1950-1960, vĂ©ritable Ăąge dâor du genre Ă Hollywood. Il en reprend certains clichĂ©s pour rendre un vĂ©ritable hommage Ă ce genre souvent joyeux. Les couleurs, les dĂ©cors, certaines situations, et mĂȘme son gĂ©nĂ©rique dâouverture et de fin, suggĂšrent un retour vers cette Ăšre lointaine. MĂȘme les Ćuvres dont parlent les protagonistes, comme La Fureur de Vivre ou les artistes tels que le jazzman Charlie Parker, permettent ce retour dans un passĂ© lointain. Damien Chazelle pose son dĂ©cor avec soin et permet au spectateur de revivre un temps presque oubliĂ© dâHollywood, un temps oĂč les scĂ©naristes et les cinĂ©astes produisaient du rĂȘve, un La La Land pur et inspirĂ©, un peu, parfois, Ă la maniĂšre de Ave, CĂ©sar ! le dernier film des frĂšres Coen. Damien Chazelle appuie ce choix par un montage un peu vieillot assumĂ©. Pour autant le rĂ©alisateur ne sâenferme pas dans lâhommage simple et applique sa propre identitĂ© Ă son long mĂ©trage. FilmĂ© avec beaucoup de talent, La La Land parvient Ă mĂ©langer deux Ă©poques en un seul film. Damien Chazelle crĂ©e un dĂ©calage entre les annĂ©es 50-60 et aujourdâhui, mĂ©langeant les styles de deux pĂ©riodes distantes. Cela crĂ©e ainsi un dĂ©calage drĂŽle et agrĂ©able au sein du film. Exemple flagrant : Emma Stone et Ryan Gosling exĂ©cutent une sĂ©quence de danse et de claquettes qui se conclue sur la sonnerie dâun tĂ©lĂ©phone, dĂ©calage important entre une sĂ©quence sortie dâun hier lointain et une simple sonnerie de tĂ©lĂ©phone qui nous ramĂšne directement Ă lâĂšre contemporaine. Damien Chazelle utilise ce procĂ©dĂ© de nombreuses maniĂšres et Ă de nombreuses reprises pour crĂ©er ce dĂ©calage temporel qui apparaĂźt Ă©galement dans lâune des thĂ©matiques du film : la disparition lente du jazz, style musical parfois considĂ©rĂ© obsolĂšte au sein du paysage musical actuel. » Retrouvez lâintĂ©gralitĂ© de la critique dâAubin BouillĂ© en cliquant sur ce lien. Le DVD [4/5] CĂŽtĂ© DVD, la galette Ă©ditĂ©e par M6 VidĂ©o fait le boulot sans le moindre problĂšme. Lâimage respecte pleinement la photographie du film, qui est bien sĂ»r proposĂ© dans son format dâorigine respectĂ©, et la dĂ©finition est exemplaire, sans le moindre problĂšme de compression ou autre pĂ©touille technique. LâĂ©diteur, rĂŽdĂ© au support DVD depuis quelques annĂ©es maintenant, compose de maniĂšre trĂšs habile avec les qualitĂ©s et les dĂ©fauts dâun support en dĂ©finition standard. CĂŽtĂ© son, lâĂ©diteur nous propose soit le film Ă la fois en VF ou en VO au choix en Dolby Digital nous proposant un mixage bien enveloppant et dynamique, en particulier sur les sĂ©quences chantĂ©es et dansĂ©es naturellement. Du cĂŽtĂ© des supplĂ©ments, lâĂ©diteur nous propose, outre les traditionnelles bandes-annonces ainsi quâun commentaire audio de Damien Chazelle et Justin Hurwitz (VOST), deux modules dâentretiens avec lâĂ©quipe du film, rĂ©alisĂ©s Ă Paris et ailleurs, et dĂ©veloppant un ton trĂšs « promo », un trĂšs court making of rĂ©sumant le film dans les grandes lignes, une featurette âdĂ©jĂ un peu plus substantielleâ sur la musique, et on terminera avec une sympathique galerie dâaffiches.
La La Land. 2016 | Maturity Rating: U/A 13+ | 2h 7m | Musicals. Career aspirations run up against bittersweet romance in modern-day Los Angeles, as two artists face a heartbreaking dilemma. Starring: Ryan Gosling,Emma Stone,John Legend.
Film âLa La Landâ w reĆŒyserii damiena Chazelle'a z 2016 roku otrzymaĆ 6 OscarĂłw, 7 ZĆotych GlobĂłw i 5 nagrĂłd Brytyjskiej Akademii Filmowej. JesteĆ jego fanem? SprawdĆș swojÄ
wiedzÄ w quizie! âą âą âą âą âą âą âą âą âą âą 1 / 10 Co robi Sebastian, gdy widzimy go po raz pierwszy na ekranie? Ćpiewa w samochodzie taĆczy na ulicy trÄ
bi na MiÄ puszcza ciÄ
gle ten sam utwĂłr muzyczny w swoim samochodzie 2 / 10 Co robi Mia, gdy widzimy jÄ
po raz pierwszy na ekranie? jest na przesĆuchaniu serwuje kawÄ jest w samochodzie i jedzie na przesĆuchanie 3 / 10 Kogo jako pierwszego obsĆuguje Mia w swojej pracy w kawiarni? swojÄ
znajomÄ
Sebastiana nienazwanÄ
sĆawnÄ
aktorkÄ klientkÄ, ktĂłra chce zwrotu pieniÄdzy 4 / 10 Co siÄ dzieje na pierwszym przesĆuchaniu Mii do filmu? kamera filmujÄ
ca jÄ
eksploduje Mia zapomina swojej kwestii Mia odgrywa emocjonalnÄ
scenÄ i zaczyna pĆakaÄ, gdy nagle ktoĆ wchodzi do pokoju Mia mĂłwi tylko kilka sĆĂłw i jest proszona, by przerwaÄ 5 / 10 Po imprezie przy basenie, gdy Mia i Sebastian razem idÄ
do samochodu, majÄ
swĂłj pierwszy muzyczny duet. Jaki? "Lovely night" "Mia and Sebastian theme" "Planetarium" "Take on me" 6 / 10 Mia przyznaje siÄ Sebastianowi, ĆŒe nie lubi jazzu. Jak on stara siÄ jÄ
przekonaÄ do tego gatunku muzyki? ĆpiewajÄ
c jej zabierajÄ
c jÄ
do swojego mieszkania, aby zagraÄ jej coĆ zabierajÄ
c jÄ
do klubu jazzowego wykupujÄ
c jej lekcje gry na pianinie 7 / 10 Co oglÄ
dajÄ
wspĂłlnie w kinie Mia i Sebastian? "Singing in the rain" "CasablankÄ" "Buntownika bez powodu" "Whiplash" 8 / 10 Jak nazywa siÄ zespĂłĆ Sebastiana i Keitha? The Dreamers The Messengers Jazz Of Our Time Swing Time 9 / 10 Sebastian proponuje Mii, aby wyjechaĆa z nim w trasÄ. Do jakiego miasta? Bostonu Boise Seattle Baltimore 10 / 10 Ile dzieci ma Mia pod koniec filmu? 1 2 0 5 Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz
Posted: Dec 2, 2016 10:52 am. La La Land is a joyous filmgoing experience, a musical brimming with optimism that never becomes treacly, ably directed by Whiplash's Damien Chazelle and featuring
Upgrade to remove adsOnly $ in this set (19)who directed the film and when was it released?Damien Chazelle - wrote the film as well2016what was the budget and how much did it make in the box officeBudget - 30 millionbox office - million USDwhat awards did the film win?seven at the golden globeswho produced the film?Jordan Horowitz and Fred Bergername two key cast and charactersryan gosling - Sebasiten Emma Stone - mianame some key creative personnelDir of cinematography - Linus SandgrenEditor - Tom Cross Production design - David Wascocomposer - Justin Hurwitzgive three points on the representation of women?Perssimistic represents traditional rolesshe appears passivegive three points on the representation of men?postive and aspirational becomes the breadwinnerstubborngive one point on the overall representationsmainly represents one race and sexuality. there is little diversity. this will therefore influence the spectators two points on the aesthetics of the filmvibrant colours almost always shot in real locations rather than on sound stages or using green was Jacques Demy - umbrella's of cherbourg. and other hollywood classics like singin in the raingive two points on spectatorshipmade for a variety of audiences. he wanted to share his love of musicals with a younger audiencethe film offers a sense of nostagia for an audienceapply stuart hall's reception theorypreffered reading - chezelle's love letter to hollywoodoppisitonal - feature outdated gender representations negotiated - classic hollywood. however it fetures outdated representationsgive a point on social, cutural and political contextit has been argued that la la land was released at a time where america needed escapism. elections of trump in 2016give three points on the mise-en-scene of the end sequenceflowers and cards in the mise-en-scene of her suite suggests she has had succsess - femenisim his costume is brighter in the alternative reality which could suggest he would have been happier with Miaaesthetics of classic Jazz and there is also a red light on her face in the car scene which suggest danger, warning or lovegive two points on the sound of the end sequencemagical and happy sound in the end sequence which suggests the ideolgy that seb would have been happier with mia towards the end the music comes in the moment he smiles to tell the spectator how to feelgive two points on the cinemphotography of the end sequencePacing of the editing holds the shot on her - makes the spectator think of what she has seen or what has happened when she first walks in360 pan - dizzy - moment of bliss for the spectator when seb and mia kiss at the start of the alternative realityShot reaction shot editing on close up face shots. Eyes glassy and watery - like seb has teared up. Spectator wants closure - Choose the right moment to cutgive two points on the performance of the end sequencetowards the end of the scene which is simlar to the one of Mia and her Husband there Body language is intwined. whereas in the shot of mia and her husband they are apart and not showing any affectionThe nod could be saying that it is okay and giving her reassurance that she did the right thing. He made it okay by smilinggive 3 points on the end sequenceFinal seq Says regret, memory and acceptanceThis has been building up to this. Important that the spectator feels something. Dependent on performance, editing and music. Ghost of a music theme. What is left of there relationshipNostalgia for something that never was (ie. Mia and seb) intertwined with love and nostalgia for great films plus the highly emotive power of music. Basic narrative of ending is inspired by "The Umbrella's of Cherbourg"need to analyse opening sequence and points about ideolgy and spectatorship...Sets with similar termsDeath of a Salesman53 termsJoseph_BelosoRomeo and Juliet quiz act 1 Moses13 termsAugust0204LĂ©amhthuiscint - Ceisteanna coitianta25 termssheerinaTEACHERShakespeare Sonnets48 termsmarisa_bishop7Sets found in the same folderWINTER'S BONE18 termsannawalker31Sightseers6 termslwest236film studies spectatorship and ideology in la la lâŠ16 termsjezzahawleyLA LA LAND3 termsfifasifaOther sets by this creatorLife on Mars29 termsannawalker31I Dainel Blake14 termsannawalker31The Daily Mirror22 termsannawalker31I Dainel Blake3 termsannawalker31Other Quizlet setsYouth development exam 2103 termsrmcdowell8Ch 7 Building construction28 termscatagonzalezz188 Midterm Exam Study Guide72 termsLogan_StonesTema 7-ObtenciĂłn de Energia ii70 termsathzlxPLUSRelated questionsQUESTIONT/F: Slow motion is achieved by speeding up the rate of filming7 answersQUESTIONDescribe the place of film music in the music industry and the place of music in the film industry (and/or film in the music industry) in the 1960s-1980s?3 answersQUESTIONWhich are examples of artistic decisions in filmmaking?5 answersQUESTIONWhen planning a shot that will use chromakey, which considerations are important?8 answers
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