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The document provides a summary of the 2014 film Whiplash. It describes how the movie follows a young drummer named Andrew as he attends a prestigious music conservatory and joins the top jazz band led by the intense instructor Terence Fletcher. Throughout the film, Andrew becomes obsessed with perfecting his skills to live up to Fletcher's demanding standards, which pushes Andrew to the breaking point both mentally and in his personal relationships. The summary analyzes several communication theories that are demonstrated through scenes in the film, such as politeness theory, conflict styles, and self-disclosure.

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Whiplash Project

The document provides a summary of the 2014 film Whiplash. It describes how the movie follows a young drummer named Andrew as he attends a prestigious music conservatory and joins the top jazz band led by the intense instructor Terence Fletcher. Throughout the film, Andrew becomes obsessed with perfecting his skills to live up to Fletcher's demanding standards, which pushes Andrew to the breaking point both mentally and in his personal relationships. The summary analyzes several communication theories that are demonstrated through scenes in the film, such as politeness theory, conflict styles, and self-disclosure.

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Whiplash 2014

Matthew Garrison, Angelique Landry, Madeline Miranda, Geoffrey Poisson


Summary of Whiplash
The movie Whiplash is about a drummer named
Andrew Neiman who is attending one of the best
music conservatories in the country. His goal is to
become one of the greats. Once he is discovered by
Terence Fletcher he joins the conversitories top jazz
band. Andrew quickly becomes obsessed with
perfecting his skill after being brutally pushed by
Fletcher. By the end of the movie he has almost
completely destroyed all his relationships and his
sanity.
● Politeness Theory

● Relationship Uncertainty

● Personal Frame of Identity

Theories ● Conflict Styles

Found throughout the film ● Negative reciprocity

● Self-disclosure
Scene 1 - First Jazz Studio Practice
Theory: Politeness theory (Positive Face)

Definition: Positive face is the image that


people display and want to be validated by
others.

In this scene every time Andrew does


something wrong Fletcher slaps him across
the face.

A dedicated musician is the image Andrew


wants to display so he is willing to take the
abuse.
Scene 2 - Dinner Table Scene
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Politeness Theory - Negative Face Various Conflict Styles:

Negative face reflects one's desire to be free from ● Avoiding


an imposition or restraint. ○ Andrew’s Father and Aunt
● Competitive Fighting
This scene showed negative face because it was ○ Andrew, His uncle and cousins
Andrews way of showing how he wants to be
free of his families impositions on his lifestyle and Negative Reciprocity:
restraints on his career choice.
● A pattern whereby aggression begets more
aggression
○ Andrew begins to get upset and his
competitive fighting conflict style escalates
Scene 2 - Dinner Table Scene
Theory: Personal Frame of Identity Examples

Definition: Image that we construct He makes sure to mention he is the


within ourselves about us youngest person in school history to
be let in the band
Andrew is now apart of a world class
band, and he lets the prestige of that He belittles Travis’s football accolades
impact his ego by stating that he plays on a division
three high school football team
He views himself as better or more
achieved than others He says he never saw the use for
friends
Conflict Styles in “Out of Tune” Scene 3
Indirect Fighting Style

● Fletcher initially starts the conflict by being


indirect about who is out of tune.

Direct Fighting Style

● He then switches to direct fighting style by


demanding the student admit he is out of tune

Avoiding Conflict Style

● Student is hesitant to admit he is out of tune.

Yielding Conflict Style

● Ultimately the student yields to fletcher and


admits he is out of tune (even though he is not.)
Scene 4 - Coffee shop scene
Social Penetration Theory - Self Disclosure
● As the movie progresses, Nicole and Andrew develop a close relationship, however
after Andrew self-discloses to her, their relationship falls apart.

● Veracity is an element of self-disclosure which is concerned with whether or not


what you are saying is honest or truthful.

● There is reason to believe that Andrew is being serious when he says that Nicole
would just get in the way of his potential band career, however it seemed like he
could have been more understanding and considerate.
Theory: Relationship Uncertainty Examples

Definition: occurs when people He says that she will inhibit him from
question the state of their relationship being great

Andrew jumps to many conclusions He also says that she will want him to
about the future that he and Nicole spend more time with her, and he
will have won’t spend quality time with her
because he’ll be thinking about
He questioned and then concluded that drumming
the relationship won’t last because of
his efforts put towards his drumming
career
The End

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