Although in a sequence when Mia and Davin run into Sebastian’s Jazz club randomly, Mia is forced to imagine her life with Sebastian as she thinks of how their lives could’ve turned up if they were to be together. We see Mia having a flashback of her time with Sebastian from the beginning, but only this time around, she has an alternate Similarly, the song playing at the jazz club when Mia and her husband walked into it is from Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Chazelle's first directorial debut and scored by Hurwitz. A song from Guy and Madeline was also used in Whiplash in a trailer when Andrew and his dad went to the movie theater. The song in the 2016 film “La La Land” is the reason Mia and Sebastian meet and it is a continued theme throughout the movie. Mia Hates Jazz. 9. Herman’s Habit. 10. Rialto at Ten. 11 Even before “ La La Land ” unspooled at festivals and in theaters, people were humming the tune “ City of Stars ” thanks to early teasers. The melancholy theme appears twice in the film La La Land contains other more explicitly problematic politics—in fact, Gosling’s “white jazz savior” narrative has been unpacked well by MTV’s Ira Madison III. John Legend’s Keith is Get ready to strap on your dancing shoes, fans of La La Land. The hit awards season film is slated for a home release on April 25, says Entertainment Weekly, and in conjunction with the roll-out “La La Land” is a modern romance between a jazz musician played by Ryan Gosling and an actress played by Emma Stone. Chazelle calls it a love letter to the kind of dreams society often mocks. Both La La Land and Demy’s film connect utopian moments with jazz, and push the boundaries of the classical Hollywood musical in order to celebrate the music. D amien Chazelle, a serious jazz aficionado since childhood, has made the music central to both the plot and the score of his film La La Land (2016). If gqwA.