mia reading sebastian her poem la la land

#MIA READING SEBASTIAN HER POEM LA LA LAND MOVIE#
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She rehearses lines from a script and doesn’t notice that traffic around her lets up and the car behind her honks. Native, who listens to a tape of Thelonious Monk’s “Japanese Folk Song” which he keeps stopping, over and over, rewinding to the same exact spot.įurther up ahead, in another car is MIA, 27, Nevada-raised who has experienced six years of ‘No’ in L.A, toughened but still a dreamer. 2–3 We are in the same traffic jam with SEBASTIAN, 32, L.A. This scene sets the tone and style of the movie.

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One female driver starts singing, exits her car and starts dancing down the lane. We drift past several cars and hear snippets of audio. 2 Morning rush hour on the 101 Freeway, cars are at a standstill. La La Land Scene By Scene Breakdown By Sharita Gopal IMDb plot summary: While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future. Today: La La Land, written by Damien Chazelle who was nominated by the Academy for Best Original Screenplay. Creates a foundation for an even deeper analysis of the story.Consciously explores the structure of the narrative.Pares down the story to its most constituent parts: Scenes.Try to watch the movies together for your own discoveries and interpretations.One of the best things screenwriters can do to elevate their understanding of the craft is to create a scene-by-scene breakdown of an existing movie. La la’s Sebastian does the same and you wonder if the ladies in both the films left their man for their own good. Moulin Rouge’s Christian refuses to compromise his love or art in the face of reality. I thought the la in the name stood for L.A. Also anyone familiar with the Orpheus and Eurydice story will know that Orpheus was a great musician, perhaps ahead of his time whose qualities are given to Christian who even in 1899 which is the period set for Moulin Rouge, sings and composes hits by David Bowie, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Nirvana, The Beetles and so on.Ĭoming back to La La Land, the film’s simplicity is laudable as it abstains from being extravagant even with L.A as its setting. You can almost play a guessing game. I read that the film uses so much popular music that it took Luhrmann almost two years to secure all the rights to the songs. The songs are culled out from different genres and even mash ups of several hit singles. If you remember Mia’s play was also set in Paris. Mixing history and drama and Indian musical influence, Baz Luhrmann’s musical sucks you in. Moulin Rouge is set with the backdrop of Paris. These lovers Satine (Nicole Kidman) and Christian (Ewan McGregor )are also heading towards a tragedy of love much like Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) of La La Land.

#MIA READING SEBASTIAN HER POEM LA LA LAND MOVIE#

For all those who has seen the Indian Hindi movie Utsav featuring Rekha as Vasantsena, the enticing courtesan and Shekher Suman as the hapless poet will find its echoes in Moulin Rouge. As usual, I found it as an overdose of music, romance, tragedy, drama and visuals. I watched Moulin Rouge by Baz Luhrmann right after. The movie failed to suck me in with its tragedy or portrayal of love and if I strip it of the music, then what really remains? The movie flows on to the ending where you know that people get lost from each other chasing their dreams. The songs are nice but as singers, the actors are very forgettable. The excess of drama is avoided in this movie where they do not show these people to be outstanding in terms of looks or talent. They break into song and dance in dream like sequences and Sebastian is dressed in suits most of the time. Sebastian and Mia bring together the world of drama and cinema and Jazz music and piano. While watching Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, I felt that it was a tribute to the old age musicals and simple love. Some of these musicals are based on love. Musicals tend to appeal to senses deeply just like songs do. The King and I, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Grease, Mamma Mia, Moulin Rouge, Les Miserables, Chicago, Nine and the list goes on and I have not even mentioned the wonderful animated musicals such as Alladin and Tangled. This is not a critical analysis though.įrom a young age, I have watched old musicals. So here I am talking about how I felt after watching each movie. I took up the musical challenge with a musician cum sound engineer friend and watched the movies La La Land and Moulin Rouge back to back.

Mia reading sebastian her poem la la land