(Re-posted from Indiewire.com)
NOTE: The video below was removed from YouTube by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIl-TagNRiE]by Oktay Ege Kozak
Writer/Director Damien Chazelle must be enjoying his well-deserved recent success after his excellent debut feature Whiplash was nominated for five Academy Awards and took home the gold for Editing, Sound Mixing, and Best Supporting Actor. However, there was a time when Chazelle’s original feature screenplay about the sado-masochistic relationship between an ambitious jazz drummer and his abusive instructor wasn’t necessarily a hot commodity in Hollywood.
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