Story Dynamics 8 of the 12 essential questions Main Character Resolve: Change Main Character Growth: Start Main Character Approach: Do-er Main Character Mental Sex: Male Story Driver: Decision Story Limit: Optionlock Story Outcome: Success Story Judgment: Good Overall Story Throughline Making it in the Los Angeles entertainment Protagonists: Mia and Sebastian Major Conflict For the majority of the film, the major conflict for both characters is their inability to realise their respective dreams. By the end of the film, Mia is a successful actress, as she'd always hoped she'd be, and Sebastian has set up his own jazz club. With no little audacity, La La Land seeks its own place somewhere on a continuum between Singin' in the Rain and Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, with a hint of Alan Parker's Fame for La La Land is probably the most critically acclaimed film of this year. It won in every category it was nominated for at the Golden Globe's and broke a record with 7 Golden Globe awards. La La Land is now competing with the classics at the upcoming Academy Award's ceremony. The film has been nominated for a record-tying 14 Academy Awards 87ma0Ln.