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Whiplash (2014)
In writer/director Damien Chazelle's musical drama
about a psychological battle of wits and talent:
- the growing tension between talented and determined
young jazz student Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) and his perfectionist,
relentless and abusive Terence Fletcher (Oscar-winning J.K. Simmons),
a notoriously tyrannical jazz music instructor at New York City's
prestigious Shaffer Conservatory
- the final confrontation between Fletcher and Andrew
(pushed past his breaking point) at the JVC Jazz Festival, when Andrew
asserted himself and performed a magnificent drum solo of "Caravan" to
defy Fletcher and force his teacher (and the band) to follow his
lead
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