Singing in traffic

On the reasons for the grandiose success "La La Land"

On Russian screens - the film Damien Shazella, the Golden Globe triumph, a prize called Oscar's general rehearsals. La La Land is called the best comedy/musical in the category, awarded the original music (Justin Gurvich), the title composition (City of Stars), directing and script Damien Shazella. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling received awards for the best male and female role in the comedy. The viewers also supported the opinion of the professionals: the fees of the film almost three times surpassed the budget. We understand the secrets of rare success and universal recognition of the picture.

Author . Damien Shazell - 31 years old. He has two passions: music and cinema. To convince the producers to invest in the film "Obsession", I had to first remove the short film. The obsession won the Sandens Grand Prix, three Oscars, three BAFTA prizes. The director of the director is to shoot about what you know well. About personal: perseverance, music, chase for a dream. “Obsession” is the drama of the relationship of a novice talented jazz drummer and a tiran of the conductor. The main duel of the heroes occurs under the ten -minute track of the Caravan Duke Ellington. In the "Solemn ending" (Shazell - the author of the script), the pianist plays on the verge of death. He plays La La Land as a melancholic jazz composition, unhurried swing. He takes the simplest, hackneyed melodramatic theme - a love story of a musician and an beginning actress. This is a melody. In the film, it also exists in a sound incarnation: “City of Stars” enveloping, taking away love in the skies of love. And then on its basis using a combination of semantic chords, he builds magnificent visual improvisation. In the course of the plot, changing the pace, tonality and direction from the most anticipated to unpredictable permits.

Heroes . They must embody our dreams, climb without insurance on the stairs to the sky. Fall. And rise again. Mia is a barista in a coffee shop. Sells coffee and croissants without gluten to stars and losers. It is unsuccessfully dragging around the Castings samples: "Thank you, we will call you." In his free time, composes plays. The pianist and composer Sebastian instead of the Kristmasovskaya “Jingle Bells on duty” plays the restaurant with a hand -made jazz composition and ... flies out of work. They must meet to inspire each other to a "new turn."

Actors. Sniper hit. Ryan Gosling, the star of “Drive” and “Memory Diary”, “The most welcome man of America” with his face, as if frozen in the matter. For some reason, during the film, I recall that Gosling began in the popular children's TV show “Mickey Mouse Club”. That having matured, along with Zaku Shields founded a music group. For the role, he stubbornly engaged in playing the piano. He dilutes excessive seriousness with irony. Emma Stone is “excellent student of easy behavior”, a friend of the “new Spider-Man” and a young Sam in the legendary “Berdman” raging from resentment. Beautiful and ugly, focused and funny. In La La Lada, Stone laughs and cries at the same time. There is something clown in it. At times, he even resembles the brilliant and indomitable Shirley McLeen in her early years. Incidentally, a career in the musical. They themselves, without vocal and choreographic understudies and perform all musical compositions.

In the Russian dubbing, thank God, the distributors retained the original sound of the tracks, supplying them with the credits. And then it would have turned out, as in Chicago, where Richard Gir opened his mouth and sang a sweet voice of Kirkorov.

Conflict . The main secret of the film. Shazell turns the musical focal patterns from the rolled road. The authors say: their film is not instructions on how to succeed in the city of angels. He is not so much about uncompromising, but about the price that you have to pay not even for recognition. For vocation. When you give yourself to creativity completely, you sacrifice something very important, including fragile relations with loved ones. About the inner battle of idealism with cynicism. About the choice, which is not only a staircase in the sky, "love of space." But, for example, monetary work, or return to the parental house, or their own family. In each choice-the destructiveness of uncontrollable strength, the loss of something extremely valuable. A gap in the fate and bitterness of loss.

Style. Shazell - Kinodan, wise guy, finished Harvard. Having chosen the musical, he approached the case thoroughly. His film is Mikst Retro and innovations. Sebastian rides on an old convertible, listens to vinyl. Faithful to the good old jazz. Like Miles Davis, Kita Jareth, Bila Evans. Not only amstrong, Charlie Parker, but also Telonius Monka. Bibop, Modern and Fuzhn Ballads prefer.

Almost no Contemporary cacophony - music delights the hearing. “La La Land”-an explanation of love for old jazz, nostalgia for the golden age of cinema and kinuzik. Here they recall “bad glory”, “rebel for no reason” “Casablanca”. Lovers are found in the old cinema "Rialto", which is about to close. Musical numbers will recall the “singing under the decree”, the “Sherburg umbrellas”, the kind -hearted musicals of Vincent Minelli, Nicholas Ray. And the plot will make Knixen to the “artist” of Khazanavichus and the “secular life” of Woody Allen. Everything seems to be again ... but vaguely familiar. Like the Soundtrack Gurvitsa, who sets intonation.

Intonation - melancholy. The original and stylized by the classics of Justin Gurvitsa walks from swing and a big band to a waltz and a bibop. He is with Shazell

scrap from a student bench together, understand each other at a glance. This is not "music for the film." She was composed in parallel, along with the picture, breathing with her in unison.

The picture is a festive even in a moment of sadness. Musical numbers - an alloy of romance of the old musical, the French sensitivity of Legrand, the plastics of Fred Aster, Sid Chariss and Gina Kelly - when the heroes begin to sing and “dance until the morning” from crowded feelings. And nearby, modern eccentric choreography is like a brilliant multi -colored mass, dancing on the roofs of cars in a traffic jam.

Place of action . Not just LA-Los Angeles, the city of angels, dreams and stars. “La” - in a square, in Cuba. “La La Land”-Hollywood music. As if everything here serves his Majesty Cinema. Instead of lanterns - Sofites, instead of walls of houses - graffiti, from which Chaplin, Gaben, Monroe - look at passers -by. Snow is a New Year's serpentine. Palmas and buildings of Sanset Boulevard are similar to the decoration, it seems that now the mounters will analyze it and take away it. Multi -colored apartments, rainbow beach parties. Here, every step, every call, invitation is the hope for a “zigzag of good luck”, and this hope with a fluent tear brings up from the eyelashes by almost every waitress, an oldlet man, a beetter.

Opposite the coffee shop where the Mia works is the very window from which Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman looked in Kasablanca. There is not even a trifling border between cinema and life, between visible and valid.

Valting. Shazell and Gurvitz did not commit revolution in the musical. They simply recorded their melody on the old record, in which the XXI century admires the XX-th.

Just “La La Land” came in handy to our nervous, sprayed cataclysms, crises and wars of time. Like a well -chosen drug. We need a film - a pill.

The tranquilizer of the new generation, replenishing the lack of endorphins, vitamin of joy and serenity. So that we can calmly look at the starry sky, and see in it a whirling lovers.