Just finished watching Whiplash. Great movie btw, but I can't understand why Fletcher was asking Niemann if he was Russian or dragon. I'm assuming these are drumming styles (where Russian is a little relaxed and dragon is a bit more aggressive) but I'm not entirely sure.
Thank you!
Fletcher just really hates Russians and he was trying to awaken the dragon within Niemann.
He was saying "rushing" not Russian, and "dragging" not dragon. He was saying he was going off tempo.
He was a virulent anti-communist.
Russian or Dragon (code for chinese)
he wasn't gonna let any pinkos bang the drums in his all american band.
Not OP but I don't think this was the case
what kind of dumbfuck would think this
Not.... not quite my tempo.
wrong
it was actually an ironic rhetorical question, because dragons are historically russian in literature and possibly in real life, if you believe the texts.
it was meant as an exam to test his power of will, and see if he was mentally strong enough to become mr. whiplash destroyer of drums
great meme
10/10 would click again
that literally makes no sense
how can you drag while drumming? dumbfuck
your clearly never had a drum stick in you're hand
this sounds plausable
>Russian
Consistently speeding up the tempo
>Dragon
Consistently slowing down the tempo
>Russian Dragon
Not having any idea where the time is
>gets into a car accident
>gets out unscathed
>as he's running, he stops
>wow, truly i have gotten whiplash
>winks at the camera
>flick proceeds as if nothing happened
stop this shit.
Why was he so angry that Whiplash was not "Mai Temple?"
Is this somehow related to the dragons?
>I knew it was you.
I don't really get how this was supposed to be a good trick. He's still the one that looks bad in front of the audience for having a disorganized band.
>He's still the one that looks bad in front of the audience for having a disorganized band.
He probably figured the humiliation inflicted on Whiplash would be worth it.
He wasn't saying russian or dragon. It's "rushing" and "dragging" as in speeding up or slowing down tempo.
The problem with this film was that I couldn't tell if Whiplash was a bad guy or a good guy. This should have been made clearer
man, fuck this film, the end ruined it for me
>le amazing drumming kid, overtakes the best drummer
>thrown on stage with an easy jazz standard playing and he cant even fucking play along without music
I don't even main drums and I could have chucked a basic open high hat groove and not made a fool of myself
Explain how a drummer can be "rushing" when he's literally sitting on his ass on a stool. They're not in a marching band.
Did you even watch this movie?
>i have never listened to jazz
good lord, user
Holy fuck, it's time to shut down Sup Forums for good.
he doesn't care, he did it to find a drummer
he only said that to see if he would step up again
the only stuff that made him look bad was when he broke up with his qtgf
desu i dont really know why they had that plotline
the trick is that the opening song didn't require drumming
to show his change from normie to obsessed with success thanks to Fletcher
because the population is half female
I think Whiplash was the name of the town they were in.
girls dont care about this movie anyways so i guess it was a waste of time
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