Art Goblin - by nikhil - Splash

There’s a scene in La La Land that I think about a lot. Sebastian (played by Ryan Gosling) sits down at his piano with a cup of coffee and reaches over to put on a record of the song “Japanese Folk Song” by Thelonious Monk. He plays a few of the first notes as he listens, takes the needle off the record, practices the measures a few times, before taking a sip of coffee and putting the record on again. This time, he nails the section of the piece as he listens, and the scene transitions to the next. It’s only about thirty seconds in the whole movie, but it sticks in my mind — a beat where the jazz-obsessed Sebastian shows, for a moment, the nature of his practice that makes him a quality jazz pianist. He’s shown to be a talented performer with a zeal for the music, but in this moment we see behind the scenes where the talent came from, what built up to get him there. There’s a beauty to a movie version of the artistic obsession, and there’s the prosaic reality of it as well. I found mys

There’s a scene in La La Land that I think about a lot. Sebastian (played by Ryan Gosling) sits down at his piano with a cup of coffee and reaches over to put on a record of the song “Japanese Folk Song” by Thelonious Monk. He plays a few of the first notes as he listens, takes the needle off the record, practices the measures a few times, before taking a sip of coffee and putting the record on again. This time, he nails the section of the piece as he listens, and the scene transitions to the next. It’s only about thirty seconds in the whole movie, but it sticks in my mind — a beat where the j