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Easily the best young director out there.

posted 8 years ago by armalite1016
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First we got Whiplash, an absolutely electrifying film with one of the most magnificently exciting endings ever.

Then we get La La Land, a beautiful film about dreams and a love letter to LA, with one of the most gut wrenchingly bittersweet endings ever. My mom saw this and literally SOBBED the entire drive home.

Chazelle has knocked it out of the park twice, and seems to excel at NAILING endings. In terms of new directors, he seems to be the most promising. A last light--a fiery, shining light--in the gasping, moldy sack that Hollywood has become.

Let's just hope he doesn't pull an M Night Shyamalan lol.

[–] wpan100 8 years ago

You can't compare Nolan and Shyamalan .. If you compare there filmography it's incomparable. Nolan is way more accomplished in every way. As for Nolan not being able to direct comedy your right he hasn't. That's not to say he can't though. Nolan does use music and he uses it very well, Hans Zimmer scores his films most of the time and inception's soundtrack in particular is very good and untillsed very well in the film even if parts of it seem a bit cliche now. As for colour Nolan usually goes for realism, which is why his use of colour isn't as noticeable as Chazelle obviously La La Land is very stylised. ultimately Nolan has shown that he is every bit derserving of the respect as a filmmaker he is shown and to say otherwise is just pure ignorance.