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One, “the studio fucked over the director,” Frank Borzage, by insisting that the film have a happy ending even if it didn’t make sense.

This magical do-over, Chazelle said, made him think, and he came up with a couple of possibilities for how it came to be.

The last scene, he comes home, they kiss, swell of music, fade to black.” Charles Farrell is suddenly alive, inexplicably, and makes his way back home. She insists he’s coming back.” Then, as the film is about to end in that dark, depressing place, “there’s an abrupt cut back to the battlefield. Her friends, her family tell her she’s crazy, stop dreaming, be realistic, get on with your life. “Charles Farrell goes off to war, dies, Janet Gaynor is informed of his death and holds on to this irrational hope that he’s not dead. “It’s a love story about a man and a woman, Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor,” he explained. Apologizing in advance for spoiling the ending - which this post will also do, so watch out - Chazelle shared the plot of the 1927 film 7th Heaven. He shares all of this with her through his song, or she imagines it while hearing him play, or perhaps they share this bittersweet dream together, before they have to accept reality once again.Īs writer/director Damian Chazelle revealed when La La Land won Best Picture at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards Tuesday night at TAO Downtown, that moment, which can be interpreted in a number of ways, was actually inspired by a classic silent film with its own contradictory ending.

When Mia mounts her one-woman play, he shows up to applaud, instead of ditching her. When Mia goes abroad for her first major film, Sebastian is there by her side.

When Mia first walks into the restaurant where Sebastian’s playing , he notices her, instead of walking by in a distracted huff. The sequence grants them a magical do-over. La La Land is a very good movie, but it becomes a great one during its ending sequence - when two former lovers, Mia and Sebastian, see each other one last time and share a fantasy of the life they could have had, a wordless dream ballet that washes over them as Sebastian plays “their” song on the piano. This post discusses the ending of La La Land in detail. Damien Chazelle and the cast of La La Land during the filming of the “dream ballet.”