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LA LA LAND (Dir: Damien Chazelle, 2016).
I am writing this almost a week after watching so apologise in advance for a review which is light on insight and heavy on vague observations (when are they ever anything but?).
This widely acclaimed homage to the golden age of Hollywood musicals was a first watch for me. It’s somewhat simple plot concerns the rollercoaster romantic and professional trials of aspiring actress Emma Stone and struggling jazz pianist Ryan Gosling. While proudly declaring its love of classic Hollywood, this often low-key film feels much closer in spirit to Jacques Demy’s French language classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) than any actual Hollywood musical.
Where La La Land most strongly recalls the Hollywood musical is in it’s lovely saturated colour palette which would befit a 1940’s MGM Technicolor extravaganza and in the staging of musical numbers, A Lovely Night in particular and in its climax, a clever ode to those extended modern ballet numbers popular in 1950’s musicals, most famously An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951). For me it also strongly recalled the finale of The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979), but that might just be me!
The score is strong, notably the beautifully melancholic recurring theme City of Dreams. The dancing skills of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone was rightly acclaimed. Neither are singers, but their pleasant vocals recalls the non-singer casting of Jean Simmons and Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls and works fine in context.
For all its vintage Hollywood flourish, La La Land has a slightly melancholy almost anti-Hollywood musical narrative and feels less like a traditional musical than its more pop music oriented contemporary The Greatest Showman (Michael Gracey, 2017). Whether it will be as fondly remembered in 65 years time as the musicals of 65+ years ago to which it pays homage, I am not sure but I did enjoy it. It’s a good movie, nicely performed and beautifully made.
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GANGSTER SQUAD: (Dir: Ruben Fleischer, 2013).
Don’t be fooled into thinking that this movie is the first film in the ‘La La Land’ franchise! In spite of featuring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in leading roles against a backdrop of Los Angeles, Gangster Squad is, as its title would imply, a pretty violent yet kinda glossy mob movie.
Josh Brolin heads up a fabulous cast including Gosling, Stone, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi and Michael Peña in a fictionalised account of the LAPD’s attempts to wrest control of the city from Mob boss Mickey Cohen, a heavily made-up Sean Penn seemingly channelling Al Pacino’s Big Boy Caprice from Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990). The cast cannot be faulted. Neither can cinematographer Dion Beebe who utilises every conceivable shade of brown in a stylish recreation of 1949 LA.
However, as terrific as the cast is and as lovely as it looks, Gangster Squad is perhaps not quite the movie it may have been. With its dark, noir-ish themes and its vintage Los Angeles setting it kind of gives the impression of wanting to be LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997). While it is undoubtedly a quality production, it just isn’t as good as that masterpiece.
I love a 1930s gangster movie almost as much as I love a 1940s crime thriller, so I guess Gangster Squad had a lot of built-in appeal for me and I did enjoy it. It’s just that I have seen this sort of thing done better. As noir homage LA Confidential can’t be beat. If it’s a lovingly recreated 1930s era gangster flick you want, check out Joel and Ethan Coen’s superior Miller’s Crossing (1990).
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I'm always gonna love you. I'm always gonna love you, too. LA LA LAND | 2016 dir. Damien Chazelle
Not whump related but
I haven’t seen La La Land but heard the ending scene was sad. Had no interest in the movie but decided to watch the ending just cause.
Oops now I’m sad and after reading the comments I’m crying
GOOD MORNING 💙🌈
♫ Listen to “Audition (The Fools Who Dream) (From "La La Land" Soundtrack)” by Emma Stone on Anghami https://play.anghami.com/song/18717850?bid=/aB1b/XJPGzlXRZF
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When I first watched La La Land, I was mad. I thought it had a crappy ending and I just wanted it to be different.
Now almost a year later listening to the soundtrack (the best part of that movie) I can’t help but think. I think I was mad because that is the exact fear most people have will happen with their love. And that movie grasped that fear and love and general romance so beautifullly and painfully that the only rational way I could think to compute my emotions about it was to be mad.
Mad that they had this beautiful love.
Mad that it crashed and burned.
Mad they didn’t get back together.
Mad she moved on.
Mad that he named the damn jazz bar the name they planned together.
Mad that he could have ruined her whole world so easily that night he saw her again and he did exactly what I would hope I would do in that position and that is love them enough to let them live on their life.
La La Land makes me passionate I guess...
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Film suggestions??
hiii! I can't choose so here a bunch of my favorites films!
La la land
musical/romance
Fight Club
thriller/drama
Knives Out
mystery/comedy
Interstellar
sci-fi/adventure
Dune
sci-fi/adventure
Snowpiercer
sci-fi
V for Vendetta
action/thriller
The Green Knight
adventure/drama
The Dark Knigth
action/adventure
Zodiac
mystery
Pride and Prejudice
romance/drama
Tick, tick ...boom
drama/biography
Memento
mystery/thriller
Crisom Peak
horror/fantasy
Shutter Island
thriller/mystery
and so many more but I can't put it all! Hope you like it!
Would someone like to read a story with Tom Holland's Spider-man/Peter Parker having a Gwen in his universe and then that Gwen also happens to be Tony Starks daughter but she's Gwen "Stacy" so that her identity can be protected???
