La La Land (2016)

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Wikidata Q20856802, film, IMDb tt3783958, TMDB 313369: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Damien Chazelle as director (The 2022 Movie Draft); 3 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

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The Big Picture

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Babylon: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. craft (score reuse): La La Land ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The Babylon score is said to reappropriate music from La La Land's dream ballet.
    “This is like very much from the dream ballet of La Land, this music and the score.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:57:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Connected to

Babylon: 4 lines career ×2 contrast ×1 craft ×1

  1. career (career arc): Babylon → La La Land. Sean, who loved Whiplash and First Man but not La La Land, reads Babylon as Chazelle realizing La La Land was a mistake.
    “This feels like him realizing that La La Land was a mistake, which I thought I think is like a magnificent thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:44:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Emma Stone: 2 lines craft ×1 verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Emma Stone → La La Land. Not Easy A but La La Land is Stone's Apex Mountain, once she wins the Oscar.
    “It's got to be La La Land, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:27:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Jennifer Lawrence: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Jennifer Lawrence → La La Land. Lawrence could not have done La La Land because of its performative singing and dancing.
    “Do you think, I'm trying to think, do you think that Jennifer Lawrence could have been in La La Land?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:06:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

Justin Hurwitz: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Justin Hurwitz → La La Land. Hurwitz's pretty score is credited with carrying La La Land's weaker songs, City of Stars included, over the line.
    “I think Justin Hurwick is a really great composer and his music is very pretty and so that sort of carried those songs over the line.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:26:37 · unclear (Griffin Newman, David Sims or Richard Lawson) (0.30 sure it was them)

Marisa Tomei: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Marisa Tomei → La La Land. Her surprise win was doubted as something that would never happen, then Moonlight/La La Land happened 25 years later.
    “And then it fucking happens 25 years later.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:16:22 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)

Ryan Gosling: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Ryan Gosling → La La Land. Gosling had The Nice Guys and La La Land in the same year, an MVP-year argument.
    “And Gosling was in that and La La Land same year”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:09:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Something's Gotta Give: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → La La Land. Keaton's character's play, with its mirror staging, recalls Emma Stone's one-woman show in La La Land.
    “it reminds me a lot of Emma Stone's one woman show in La La Land.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:30:19 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Trolls: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Trolls → La La Land. City of Stars beat Can't Stop the Feeling and the speaker resents it as the La La Land song; the opening numbers are the film's best.
    “I still am so resentful that that's the La La Land song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:24:30 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Ryan Gosling → La La Land. Gosling had The Nice Guys and La La Land in the same year, an MVP-year argument.
    “And Gosling was in that and La La Land same year”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:09:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (fusion of filmography): Babylon → La La Land. The Lee Jung Lee party sequence is said to blend La La Land and Whiplash.
    “that this is kind of La La Land and whiplash blending together.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:19:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career arc): Babylon → La La Land. Sean, who loved Whiplash and First Man but not La La Land, reads Babylon as Chazelle realizing La La Land was a mistake.
    “This feels like him realizing that La La Land was a mistake, which I thought I think is like a magnificent thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:44:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (marketing contrast): Babylon → La La Land. The hosts imagine Babylon being sold as from the director of La La Land, while Barbie's release sat nearby.
    “This is from the man who brought you Laland and the woman who brought you Barbie.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:11:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Trolls → La La Land. City of Stars beat Can't Stop the Feeling and the speaker resents it as the La La Land song; the opening numbers are the film's best.
    “I still am so resentful that that's the La La Land song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:24:30 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (4)

  1. craft (craft): Emma Stone → La La Land. Stone's performative quality works in Easy A's numbers and webcam and also in La La Land.
    “I mean, it also works in La La Land.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:07:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (score reuse): Babylon → La La Land. The Babylon score is said to reappropriate music from La La Land's dream ballet.
    “This is like very much from the dream ballet of La Land, this music and the score.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:57:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Justin Hurwitz → La La Land. Hurwitz's pretty score is credited with carrying La La Land's weaker songs, City of Stars included, over the line.
    “I think Justin Hurwick is a really great composer and his music is very pretty and so that sort of carried those songs over the line.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:26:37 · unclear (Griffin Newman, David Sims or Richard Lawson) (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → La La Land. Keaton's character's play, with its mirror staging, recalls Emma Stone's one-woman show in La La Land.
    “it reminds me a lot of Emma Stone's one woman show in La La Land.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:30:19 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Marisa Tomei → La La Land. Her surprise win was doubted as something that would never happen, then Moonlight/La La Land happened 25 years later.
    “And then it fucking happens 25 years later.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:16:22 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Emma Stone → La La Land. Not Easy A but La La Land is Stone's Apex Mountain, once she wins the Oscar.
    “It's got to be La La Land, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:27:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): La La Land → La La Land. Its two opening songs are the best two, and the middle 45 minutes is not a musical.
    “The two opening songs are the best 2 songs in the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:26:01 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Jennifer Lawrence → La La Land. Lawrence could not have done La La Land because of its performative singing and dancing.
    “Do you think, I'm trying to think, do you think that Jennifer Lawrence could have been in La La Land?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:06:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

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