Inside Details Of What Went Into Making The Marvel La La Land
Updated : December 20, 2016 06:49 PM IST
Whiplash director Damien Chazelle's La La Land had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival 2016, and the rest we know is history. Countless awards and stars pouring over from audience and critics.
While the reviews of La La Land have declared it a cinematic masterpiece, most fans are eagerly waiting for its entry to the Academy Awards.
We've got a few interesting facts about the film which we bet you didn't know.
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The opening scene wasn't a cake walk for Chazelle. In an interview to Inverse, he said, "There were no helicopters. We mapped that out as we did most of the movie, as a one-camera shoot. We just wanted it to feel like a single take, so it’s three shots stitched together to look like one shot. We rehearsed that a ton. It was pre-vized and storyboarded and everything. And then we got on this freeway ramp that we shut down for a weekend and shot it. I think what made it possible at the end of the day was that it’s just this one elevated ramp. It’s an easy pass ramp [connecting the 110 and 105 freeways]."
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The song sequence was an absolute nightmare for the team. Chazelle explains, "
In some ways, Ryan and Emma’s hilltop dance [overlooking L.A.] was the most difficult. We wanted to shoot that practically. We did it at real magic hour, which means we only had a half hour window to shoot it. That’s a six-minute unbroken shot that involved singing, dancing, really complicated camera movement. All of that had to be sort of intricately choreographed, pre-designed, and planned. And yet feel completely effortless and spontaneous, and sort of charming, and almost easy on screen. There was a lot of stress behind the camera, and yet if you felt that stress in front of the camera, the scene would never work.
That was a tough one to pull off, but we wound up getting two nights to shoot it. It’s about five takes each night. We wound up using the third take, I think, of the second night. I was thrilled with what Ryan, Emma, Mandy Moore our choreographer, and DP Linus Sandgren and his team — his camera operators, who are kind of the dancers you don’t see — what they were able to do."
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Hatrick for Emma and Ryan
La La Land is Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling’s third film together.
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Ryan and Emma weren't the original choices
Miles Stuart and Emma Watson were the original choices for the film.
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Double Meaning Title
The city of Los Angeles is originally referred to as La La Land, and according to webster dictionary, La La Land means "A euphoric dreamlike mental state detached from the harsher realities of life." It shows the magic of movies and brutal nature of show business.
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La La Land was shot using Cinemascope
It’s an ode to 1950s movie musicals. The first song sequence at the beginning is inspired from The Young Girls Of Rochefort (1967).
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Chazelle’s Master Plan
John Legend who plays guitarist in the movie, is actually an incredible piano player in real life. On the contrary Ryan had to learn the piano for the movie.
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Chazelle's fate and fortune.
He wrote the film in 2010 but no one was willing to invest in a musical. The film which was made on a budget of 1Million Dollars, has crossed more than 16 Million Dollars worldwide.
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Are you also humming City of Stars, are you shining just for me?