not because it's impossible to have both a relationship and a successful artistic career.

In the script she had more dialogue with her parents, and she wasn't as dumb about jazz. There was even a scene with Seb's sister and Mia talking. Not sure what happened that those got cut.

The script was pretty sparse on this point, reading only:

Well he divorced his first wife from college around the time of Whiplash.

Whatever it was, her parents probably paid her debts off. This film snapshots the millennial zeitgeist pretty well so there is that cultural value.

I mean, maybe it's just a stylistic change that is at play. City of Stars duet and John Legend's performance were both in the second act, but not in the vein of the three opening numbers that were in the more traditionally operatic style.

I didn't get any sense of arrogance. Youthful naïveté in some measures, idealistic foolishness in some others, or just insecurity and hurt.

It seemed from some reports that the script changed a lot when Gosling and Stone came on board. It used to be targeted towards a younger outlook and had Mia be kind of an irresponsible drunken slutty girl. Or possibly the director's own outlook changed from the years during which the script sat unused.

Well, maybe realism was the wrong word in this context, but certainly it was a conscious decision to have the music stop when the "music of the relationship" stopped. During the argument the record ended when the relationship broke down.

Don't you realize that is by design? The second act is primarily realism for a very good reason, and when the fantasy picks up again, it completes the musical starting from exactly the point we left it.

That poster attachment must be post-production since no email program will let you paste it at that location unless you make an invisible table or something.

Seb's multiple "compositions"? What are you talking about? There was only ever one, and it wasn't clear it was "his" composition since it played over the loudspeakers at Mia's dinner with Greg. And being the theme, it was as much his as it was Mia's, especially given her consonance with it. In fact, Seb played very…