Structure Breakdown: La La Land

Script Genius
5 min readSep 29, 2020

After Moonlight, the only movie we could look at next could be La La Land. When Director Damien Chazelle first pitched this idea around town, there wasn’t much excitement. The film initially started as a Sundance Film Festival short and later become the “almost Best Film” at that year’s Oscars. This movie is a lovely, lovely gem. But as a musical, it doesn’t easily fit into the tradition film structure. The exception which proves the…

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