La La
Land 10/10
I got
to see La La Land with Cam at the Arclight over on Sunset and I have
to say that this movie made me all kinds of happy! Just pure happy!
This is why movies are made and why I go to see them. I love when a
movie makes me feel something strongly whether its joy, excitement,
or laughter. I'm not into being sad. I know. Weird, right? Cam says
she would for sure call this movie a musical while I think its just
the way older films were made where all of a sudden people would just
start dancing and singing to express how they feel. Hell, I do it
with Cam and my cousin Jasmine. I'll just make up songs or dance like
an ass because I am excited or on a food high which strikes just
before getting the “itis.” If this movie doesn't cheer you up
maybe you shouldn't have come right after a funeral.
If you
are not on board with this movie after the opening dancing and
singing number Cam and I both agreed that you should probably leave.
I am glad no one was looking at me during this scene because I was
smiling very hard. We are introduced to Mia played by Emma Stone
stuck in this traffic. She works as a barista on a studio lot and
wants to be an actress. That old tale. She is lost in her script and
gets honked at by a guy we later learn is Sebastian played by Ryan Gosling. She gives him the finger as he passes her by shaking his
head. She goes to an audition and does not get the role. Having a
huge coffee stain on her shirt didn't help. Later that night her
roommates drag her out for a night out and she ends up having her car
towed.
At
home Sebastian gets chewed out by his sister for not paying his bills
and wasting time saving up money for his own jazz club. Later while
playing Christmas songs he does not want to play his boss Bill played
by J.K Simmons warns him not to play whatever he wants and to follow
the set list. While playing he goes off and does what he wants and
gets fired. At that moment Mia is passing by and sees him. Just as
she is telling him how great he plays he shoves past her and leaves.
She later sees him playing for an 80's cover band at a party and
mocks him. He walks her to her car and they both sing about how much
they are not right for one another. Its pretty damned cool. Like I
said, there is music and dancing in this.
One
day Sebastian shows up to her job and gets her to leave. He takes her
to a jazz club and she confesses that she hates jazz music. He
explains to her why it is so great and where it came from, trying to
get her to understand that it is not elevator music. They plan to
meet for a date and she agrees forgetting that she has a date with a
guy she has been seeing for the past month. While out to a boring ass
dinner Sebastian is in the theater looking sad hoping she will come.
She does after excusing herself from that late as dinner. They end up
leaving after the film breaks and go dancing at the Griffith
Observatory.
I
think I am not gonna talk about what else happens because I don't
want to spoil it. I thought at a few points that I knew where this
movie was going and it turned out that I was wrong. This movie had
great acting, music, dancing, story, and writing. One thing I noticed
was how the scenes were not super edited and cut up. They would sit
and talk for minutes at a time without the camera jumping over each
of their shoulders. This was also written and directed by the guy
that did Whiplash. See this movie if you want to feel good.
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