Whiplash · written by Damien Chazelle · 2014

The players leave at 3:30 a.m.; Andrew watches Fletcher go, hollowed out by the ordeal.

Scene 68 of 117 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 1:08 into a 1:54 film

The story so farBefore scene 68

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.
Scenes 7–13
Shaffer's hierarchy makes Andrew doubt his prospects, while he wants a chance to become an exceptional drummer.
Scenes 14–17
Fletcher draws Andrew back from transferring, and Andrew enters Studio Band while beginning a relationship with Nicole.
Scenes 18–48
Andrew learns Fletcher's brutal rules, competes for status, and tries to survive the first rehearsals.
Scenes 49–50
Andrew plays Whiplash from memory and helps Shaffer win the competition, gaining the core position he wanted.
Just before
Scene 65
Andrew plays until his hands bleed as Fletcher insults him and cycles the exhausted drummers through the part.
Scene 66
Players wash up and check the late hour during Fletcher's relentless rehearsal.
Scene 67
Andrew outlasts Ryan and Carl, holds the tempo through Fletcher's assault, and earns the Caravan part.
Scene 68
This scene

68EXT. GEHRING HALL - SIDE DOOR - NIGHT

It’s 3:30am. The PLAYERS stagger out of the building. Zombies.

Andrew appears, red-eyed, past exhaustion. Fletcher emerges last.

Pink (9/10/2013)

FLETCHER

5pm call tomorrow. Leave at least two

hours from New York this time. Save your

travel receipts. Or don’t, I don’t give a

fuck.

He then walks off. Andrew watches him leave. And, as we zero in on Andrew’s eyes...

...we see that something fundamental has changed.

He looks like a completely different person now. 100% hollowed out.

BUS DRIVER (PRE-LAP)

Next stop Dunellen. Two hours.

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