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High-school inspiration; drumming preparation; Rich; Parker correction; perspective; tempo
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- Chazelle's Princeton High School instructor reportedly inspired a greatly exaggerated Fletcher.
- Teller had drummed since fifteen and trained four hours a day, three days a week for the film.
- Buddy Rich is described as famously abusive.
- The Charlie Parker cymbal story is corrected: the cymbal reportedly hit the floor rather than Parker.
- Reitman reportedly persuaded Chazelle to remove a scene of Fletcher alone because the film must stay with Andrew's perspective.
- Andrew reportedly counts the specified tempo correctly despite Fletcher's criticism, raising doubt over whether the teacher's supposed perfection is a psychological tactic.