What if the Academy Award-nominated romantic musical "La La Land" were filmed in New York, not Los Angeles?
A parody video of the movie that waltzed away with 14 Oscar nominations Tuesday morning, including one for best picture and another for best original screenplay, re-imagines Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling's characters' encounter in a piano bar as happening in a New York City subway station.
The video written and directed by New York City-based comedian Tyler Fischer stars Fischer as the jazz pianist Sebastian and actress Julienne Jones as the aspiring thespian Mia.
Mia approaches Sebastian, a piano-playing busker, on the platform of the Metropolitan Avenue station on the G line with the intention of asking him out for a coffee — only to be interrupted by a train zooming past, a man begging for change and social media followers, a woman drunkenly stumbling between them, and other obstacles to love in the big city.
What's the biggest impediment to their budding romance? Watch the parody released Wednesday below to find out:
