Whiplash · written by Damien Chazelle · 2014

Andrew pushes his double-time swing faster until a stick snaps and his blistered hand gives out.

Scene 11 of 117 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 9 min into a 1:54 film

The story so farBefore scene 11

A young jazz drummer pursues a place among the country’s best, pushing himself toward greatness under the control of a brilliant, abusive instructor.

Scenes 1–6
Andrew lives inside solitary practice, family movie nights, and an ideal of greatness learned from jazz legends.
Just before
Scene 8
Andrew asks Kramer about his progress and learns the teacher doubts he can reach the professional tier.
Scene 9
Carrying his transfer application, Andrew hears students mock another musician and approaches Studio Band.
Scene 10
Andrew watches Fletcher command the full Studio Band and hurries away when Fletcher catches his eye.
Scene 11
This scene

11INT. ANDREW’S PRACTICE ROOM - A FEW HOURS LATER

Andrew practices like mad, trying to nail a double-time swing. To his left a digital METRONOME blinks. The time set: 380. Andrew stops. Resets the metronome. 390. Resumes playing. Tries to keep up. Resets the metronome to 400. Can’t keep up at all now. Struggling, sweating, hands blistering, when --

CRAAACK. Andrew’s right drumstick SNAPS IN HALF.

He stops. Spent. Looks at his hand, sweating and throbbing from the blisters.

Looks back at the metronome. Still beeping away. He turns it off.

Glances up ahead at a poster -- of BUDDY RICH hunched over a drum

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kit, mid-solo -- tacked to the wall.

Stares at the image. Then looks down -- at the PAPERWORK we saw earlier. The heading: “APPLICATION TO TRANSFER”...

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