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Whiplash scene 2: EXT. NEW YORK STREET - SHAFFER CONSERVATORY - NIGHT · The Reading Room

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Whiplash
Scene 2

Whiplash · written by Damien Chazelle · 2014

Andrew leaves Shaffer beneath the city's imposing buildings, his drummer heroes displayed on his backpack.

Scene 2 of 117 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 2 min into a 1:54 film

The story so farBefore scene 2

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

Just before
Scene 1
Fletcher finds Andrew practicing, tests his tempo, and leaves him alone after a brief, humiliating audition.
Scene 2
This scene

2EXT. NEW YORK STREET - SHAFFER CONSERVATORY - NIGHT

Andrew exits, hurries off. Pasted onto his overloaded back- pack are patches, buttons, names: Krupa. Roach. Buddy Rich...

The buildings of midtown New York loom over him like giants -- immense, forbidding...

← Scene 1INT. NASSAU BAND REHEARSAL STUDIO - GEHRING HALL - NIGHT Read the screenplay from here Scene 3 →INT. MOVIE THEATER - LOBBY - NIGHT