A highlight of American independent cinema, “Whiplash” won both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Fest (in January) and played to great acclaim in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes Fest (in May).
It screened in the Special Presentations section at the Toronto International Film Fest and will open in theaters on Octpber 10.
Sony Classics has unveiled the first official trailer for “Whiplash,” starring Miles Teller as a young drummer and J.K. Simmons as his abusive instructor.
In a breakthrough performance that maight make him a bona fide star, Miles Teller who made an impression in “Divergent,” plays Andrew Neiman, a drumming prodigy who comes under the tutelage of the fearsome and tyrannical conductor (Simmons) at a top music conservatory.
Intense, the student-teacher dynamic relastionship get to the point in which chairs are hurled and face is brutally slapped.
As direced by Damien Chazelle, the film offers a deeply riveting and authentic look at the world oc competitive jazz band.
The trailer includes Simmons punishing Teller verbally — “If you deliberately sabotage my band, I will gut you like a pig” — and giving him a loud unseen slap.
Shot in only 20 days, “Whiplash” delivers geuine excitement, based on the approach of Chazelle, who wanted the music sequences to “feel like thrilling action scenes.”
To shoot the virtuostic drum riffs, Teller had to train for months, to the point of actually bleeding from his hands. Teller, who had played in garage bands in high school, immersed himself so deeply in the process, resulting in sharp imagery of sweath, blisters, and bloody sticks.
