Mia La Land Character Analysis

When we think of Old Hollywood musicals, what comes to mind? One of the best musical classics is the 1952 Singin’ in the Rain movie which showcase characters in a transitional environment. Now, La La Land brings us two main characters, Mia and Sebastian, on the verge of a drastic transition. Both characters go through a transformation that at the end brings them a bittersweet joy to their lives. We will examine the writer’s decisions for the dialogue used while taking note of specific leading scenes. Mia’s relationship with her family seems a bit unconventional, non-supportive of her acting career. The writer makes it clear by showing us, at the beginning, Mia’s pressing the ignore button while her Mom calls. However, the writer later on

He is the hidden character that direct and guide us towards the romance of Mia and Sebastian. In page 12 of the screenplay, we are introduced to Mia and Sebastian’s song, yet the writer tells us that “it will prove crucial to our movie”. If one listens to it, this song has by its a rhythm that takes on the life of a character with its own hope and dreams, but the end describes us how high hopes can just tumble down to nothing. One of the writer’s objectives initially is to make us fall in love with Mia’s persistency towards her acting career, and Sebastian’s hopes of becoming a famous jazz musician. In page 46 of the screenplay, the writer describes the scene with a confused Sebastian after his stage performance. Here we can see how the writer’s hand becomes a magic wand for the main characters. Also, in this instance, the screenplay forgets to hide the fact that the whole movie was a daydream. In page 32 of the screenplay, the writer explains “this is a daydream of a song, simple and unaffected”. The following scene after that “dream of a song” is in fact reality. The character’s struggles and dreams are real throughout the screenplay. However, the musical on its own its a fantasy, a dream of hopes, and a dream of a Hollywood romance. We can interpret that both characters didn’t choose to daydream about the other, yet it was purely efficient due to their physical

In all most every dialogue between Mia and Sebastian there is a conflict, a misunderstanding between them. Therefore, the writer plays with our emotions by giving us pretty musical relationship and then cold-hearted miscommunication between them. The screenplay’s main objective is to see how both, Mia and Sebastian, believe in reaching their dreams. The writer wants us to connect with them through romance, yet that’s not the point the screenplay is trying to address. In page 94 of the screenplay, we can see a montage of their lives together. We can interpret that scene as when we see someone pretty walking down the street, besides us, we glance at them and then think/dream of our lives with that person. The reader did not expected the ending because the writer wanted us to cheer for their “fake-dreamlike” romance. In page 82 of the screenplay, we can interpret that indeed the main character is Mia because Sebastian is taken away of the screen without any drama from Mia. The writer wants to write about Mia’s pursuit of her dreams that’s why the last scene is focused on Mia and then her longing of that daydream. In this scene, we can see an homage to the movie Midnight in Paris in which the main character walks the streets of Paris in search for his dreams and then he meets a beautiful lady which he sort of has an affair with. Moreover, in page 82 of the screenplay, Mia “opens