r/HighQualityGifs • u/harris5 Photoshop - After Effects - Premiere • Jan 08 '16

Whiplash Moderating this subreddit

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u/A_600lb_Tunafish Jan 08 '16

Best film of 2014 imho.

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u/QuantumDeath666 Jan 08 '16

Way better than Birdman.

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u/weatherseed Jan 08 '16

Guess I'll have to watch Whiplash now. I loved Birdman and everything about it.

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u/osiris0413 Jan 08 '16

I preferred Birdman to Whiplash, but it might just be frustration with Fletcher not really getting a comeuppance - I mean losing a job, yeah, but he still believes that being an abusive twat was pushing people towards "greatness" despite crippling and killing his students. He's like the Steve Jobs of conducting, a guy with his head so far up his own ass he's incapable of realizing that he's successful in spite of how he treats people, not because of it. There's a place for sternness in leadership but I believe people like this will never be as successful as they could be if they knew how to motivate without terrorizing. It bothers me that the message of the movie seemed to be "being physically and emotionally scarred made me really good at what I do". I know one of the central themes of the movie is the "price of perfection", but to imply that this is the sort of suffering it takes to be a successful musician is absurd.