Dec 8, 2016 4:45 AM PT. Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” took almost six years to get to the screen and found the filmmaker sidetracked into making the short and feature-length versions of LaLa Land’s “City of Stars” sounds like an imitation of something classic without really being it, falling out of your mind like sand through your fingers after first listen; The Greatest DamienChazelle: [song] The song "When I Wake" by Justin Hurwitz was first featured in the movie Whiplash (2014), with the two main characters listening to the song while out on a date. The same thing happens in La La Land as the song is featured in the background while Sebastian and Mia are talking about jazz - exactly the same topic the two
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