- The musical has won seven Golden Globes and is set for a big night at BAFTA.
La La Land has been blazing hot at the box office and already set an awards record since it premiered in December 2016.
It got seven Golden Globe Awards and has the highest nominations for BAFTA this year with 11 nods.
It might make you wonder, what exactly makes this musical, not an action or horror film, a musical; so damn great.
Well, here are 14 facts about the movie you probably did not know:
The set juxtaposes with the plot
The plot movie is supposed to be set for many years ago, yet the scenes were actually set in modern day L.A, juxtaposing the fact that the storyline is relatively ‘old-school’.
The film’s budget had humble beginnings
The movie started with a budget of about $977,000 but ended up at over $30m after it got financial backing.
The financial backing came after a jazz movie the director had worked on before got five Oscar nominations.
Damien Chazelle however lost out in the Best Writing Adapted Screenplay category toGraham Moore for The Imitation Game.
It took the movie six years to hit the big screens
It was first written in 2010.
But a lot of changes were to be made to the movie when the director got his first financial backing so he dropped the movie.
It was resuscitated in 2014 after he got the second financial backing as a fall out fromWhiplash that was quite successful.
The main character would have been a rock star
The main character in the movie was a jazz pianist but if the movie was produced with the first financial backing it got, the main character would have a rock star.
Thankfully, that did not happen and they stuck to the original music path from the original script.
Gosling had to learn playing the piano
Ryan Gosling learned how to play the piano in three months for the movie.
He had classes for two hours, six days a week for the period.
Ryan and Emma weren’t the first choice for the lead roles
They had planned to have have different lead actors than the one they ended up filming with.
In the end, Emma and Ryan have gone on to win awards and get nominated for their roles.
One Emma had turned down the lead female role that Stone played
Emma Watson was first selected to play the role of Mia but gave up the role in La La Land so as to focus on her role in Beauty and the Beast.
Emma Stone was cast by Damien Chazelle after he saw her dancing on Broadway in 2014.
Why Miles Teller made way for Gosling
Miles Teller was first cast for the role of Seb before Ryan Gosling.
But he allegedly turned it down because he wanted more than the $4m he was offered for the role.
The opening dance scene
It was shot on a secluded highway in Los Angeles and had 100 dancers participate in it.
Before the real shoot, the dancers rehearsed their routine in the car park of the production office.
The cost of a couple of Emma’s costumes
This coral dress that Emma Stone wore was only $6.9 from H&M but it just showed the diversity of the costumes used in the movie.
While that was one of the cheapest costumes, she also wore a $1,826 navy dress by Canadian designer Jason Wu, so they had a mix of high fashion and high-street fashion.
Ryan’s wardrobe
Ryan Gosling wore only five shirts, two trousers, and three coats in different combinations throughout the film.
The twilight in the background of the scene used for the promo pictures was completely natural
Emma and Ryan managed five takes a night, over two nights, with the resulting footage spliced together to make the finished scene.
A lot of dance lessons happened before they pulled their roles off
The actors both had to have two months of solo practice learning to dance ballet, tap and ballroom styles before they started rehearsing together.
John Legend’s role in the film
John Legend was an executive producer for the movie and he also played Keith in the movie.
Keith started the jazz band that Seb eventually worked with as a pianist.
He believed that in order to revolutionise the music industry, you had to do better than the traditional. It was also his first experience as an actor.
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