dudemacgee-630-700788 — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 08:08 AM)

Fans of 'That Thing You Do!' will get a kick out of the ending of 'La La Land'.
SPOILERS for 'La La Land'
Ryan Gosling's character in 'La La Land' is a huge jazz aficionado. The whole movie, he is pursuing his dream of opening a jazz club. At the end of the movie, Tom Everett Scott (Shades from TTYD!) plays Emma Stone's lover, who drags her into a jazz bar (which turns out to be Ryan Gosling's characters' bar). In case you don't remember, Shades was a huge jazz fan, and even ended up playing as a jazz studio musician at the end of that film. There's no doubt that the 'La La Land' director cast Tom Everett Scott as a reference to 'That Thing You Do!' He even talked about his love for TTYD! in an interview recently.
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