{"id":11706,"date":"2017-01-13T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11706"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:35:46","slug":"la-la-land-2016-damien-chazelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11706","title":{"rendered":"La La Land (2016, Damien Chazelle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t thinking of anything when I rewatched <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11703\">Mulholland Dr.<\/a><\/em> the same week we saw <em>La La Land<\/em>, another movie with great songs in which a girl follows her dreams to Hollywood.  Emma Stone&#8217;s Mia eventually becomes the star that Betty only dreams of being, after a casting agent sees her one-woman show.  Her man Ryan Gosling sets aside his own dreams of running a jazz club to tour with his friend John Legend&#8217;s band Jazzhammer.  Everyone acts like this is a tragic move on Ryan&#8217;s part, but he was broke, so how was he gonna afford his own club without building up cash from those lucrative Jazzhammer tours?  Either way, Emma thinks he&#8217;s selling out his dreams, and their jobs mean they have to spend months apart, and there&#8217;s a fight, and suddenly it&#8217;s five years later and Emma and her husband duck into Ryan&#8217;s successful new club for a bittersweet <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/46\">Umbrellas of Cherbourg<\/a><\/em>-style ending (noticed a suspicious Parapluies shop on the studio backlot, too), but not before indulging in a (shared?) musical fantasy of how their relationship might have worked out.<\/p>\n<p>Nice to see a strong musical with dancing and singing and <em>Rebel Without a Cause<\/em> references on the big scope-letterboxed cinema screen.  Katy thinks all couples should always end up together at the end of movies, but otherwise she liked it.<\/p>\n<p>J. Rosenbaum:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the movie&#8217;s opening and closing production numbers are by far the most impressive and powerful, this is because they&#8217;re both responses to realities perceived as unbearable \u2014 which becomes all the more unbearable in the latter case by being disguised as a phony happy ending &#8230; <em>La La Land<\/em> is far more about the death of cinema and the death of jazz than it is about their rebirth or survival.  It&#8217;s about boarded-up movie houses, antiquated analog recordings, and artistic aspirations that can only be fulfilled (as well as fueled) by fantasy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t thinking of anything when I rewatched Mulholland Dr. the same week we saw La La Land, another movie with great songs in which a girl follows her dreams to Hollywood. Emma Stone&#8217;s Mia eventually becomes the star that Betty only dreams of being, after a casting agent sees her one-woman show. Her man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2197,2198,91,1491,80,372],"class_list":["post-11706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-damien-chazelle","tag-emma-stone","tag-filmmaking","tag-jazz","tag-musical","tag-ryan-gosling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11739,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions\/11739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}