Still, Sebastian joins against his better judgement. It isn’t the authentic jazz he yearns for. He offers Sebastian a job in a new jazz band, but it isn’t until Sebastian goes to play with them that he realizes it is pop-infused jazz. An ex-friend of Sebastian’s, Keith, also comes back into the picture trying to alter his Romantic view of the world. His sister is hounding him to get a “real job,” his jobs are confining him to be or look a certain way, and ultimately society is disregarding his dreams. He risks his job to do the thing he loves. He goes into a beautiful original piece, which gets him fired. His boss wants him to play corny Christmas music, but Sebastian can’t help himself.
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In the beginning of the movie he plays piano at a restaurant. Sebastian hates the impurity of the music world today. Sebastian drives an old car, wears old style suits, and surrounds himself with old music. He passes one of the famous old jazz bars that is now a “Samaba and Tapas” place, which he despises. Sebastian loves jazz music, especially where it comes from and he doesn’t like where it is heading. The character of Sebastian represents the Romantic worldview. Now that our hearts are ripped out of our chests, let’s get into it: They lock eyes again and smile at each other. Mia leaves but turns back to look at Sebastian one more time. He finishes and they are back in reality. The movie plays a montage of scenes from earlier in the film, but if they had gone perfectly, and if Sebastian and Mia ended up together in the end instead. Sebastian takes to the piano and plays the piece he played throughout the movie for Mia. It isn’t until Mia sees the name and Sebastian at the stage that she understands she is in his club. On a night out, Mia and her husband happen upon Seb’s without realizing. Sebastian bought his own space and opened “Seb’s” a popular jazz club. Mia is a successful actress with a husband and a toddler. The movie flashes five years into the future. Her and Sebastian share a beautiful moment after the audition about their relationship. She begrudgingly comes back to audition and nails the role. Sebastian drives to Arizona to convince Mia to audition.
Sebastian receives a call from a casting director who attended Mia’s play, looking to contact her to audition for a role in a major movie. They break up and Mia moves back home to Arizona, giving up on her acting career. Sebastian is so distracted by the fame and the busy lifestyle of the tour that he misses Mia’s play, which was a flop anyway. Sebastian’s career takes a turn for the best and Mia begins preparing for her performance. Sebastian feels the pressure of his music career and reunites with an old friend who gives him a job in a pop-jazz band. Mia quits her job as a barista and writes a one-woman play.
They fall in love and inspire each other to keep chasing their dreams. (I could literally watch this scene a million times and not get tired of it, but more on that later.) Mia has a straight-laced, business minded boyfriend whom she breaks up with and runs to her date with Sebastian. He ends up walking Mia to her car after the party and they hit it off engaging in a beautiful tap routine, trying to deny their chemistry. They meet again at a party where he is playing a Key-tar in an 80’s cover band. He bumps into Mia, a struggling actress, after getting fired from his job for not playing what his boss told him to. Sebastian is a jazz pianist playing in restaurants, dreaming about opening his own place one day. This story centers around the lives of characters Sebastian and Mia. Chazelle uses these two themes and blends them together to make an otherwise typical love story, an extraordinary one. Whereas Realism focuses on representing subject matter truthfully, attempting to avoid artistic convention. Writer/Director Damien Chazelle uses film style, dance technique, design, music, and a strong narrative to blend the Romantic worldview with the Realistic worldview and showcase the progression of the musical in the modern world.Ĭapital “R” Romanticism puts an emphasis on the individual, inspiration, and subjectivity. Most people see this movie as a love story with some singing and dancing and bright costume design, but it is so much more. It made noise during the 2017 awards season, standing out in acting and music categories-with a big mishap over best picture, which they did not stop referencing at the 2018 Oscars (* eye roll*). If you haven’t heard of this 2016 piece of magic, then please go see it before reading this.
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