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\u201cIt must have been so simple for him to prepare for that role! He\u2019s been living like that his entire life! He grew straight into the character, perfected it on stage, and then brought it straight to screen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chances are, quite a few people walked out of\u00a08 Mile\u00a0<\/em>making those or similar statements about Eminem. After all, it\u2019s the story of a young rapper from the mean streets of Detroit, much more intellectual from the streets than the classroom. With no steady home life, no car, no father, he\u2019s trying to break into the world of hip-hop, where being white has never been an asset to something that\u2019s always been a crapshoot for anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds a bit like the man in the lead role, doesn\u2019t it? But the fellow himself claims that the story that turned into a visualized version of the song it shoved into soundtrack history isn\u2019t a biopic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe movie is not my life,\u201d insists the man who started out as Marshall Mathers and spent time as Slim Shady. \u201cIt\u2019s not my life story.\u201d Well, not\u00a0quite<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEver since\u00a0The Marshall Mathers LP<\/em>\u00a0came out (in 2000), I\u2019d wanted to do a movie showing something similar to how I came up, something loosely based on that part of my life,\u201d he explains. \u201cI always believed that a lot of kids would be able to relate to my story, the story of the underdog.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be fair, Eminem has always spoken against children listening to his music. \u201cMy music is not for younger kids to hear,\u201d he asserts. \u201cThat\u2019s why there\u2019s an advisory sticker on it\u2026 I\u2019m not a role model and I don\u2019t claim to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, the underdog story, the common man who pulls out the uncommon accomplishment through skill and maybe a tad of luck, has always been pretty safe territory in the film world. But\u00a08 Mile<\/em>\u00a0had a bit more to work with, or against, than most such everyman flicks. As popular as the rapper was amongst his selective crowd \u2013 the\u00a0Mathers LP<\/em>\u00a0sold nearly two million albums its first week \u2013 he\u2019d been under fire for lyrics laced with profanity, gay slurs, and advocation of violence, especially against women. His duet with Elton John at the 2001 Grammys may have helped Eminem\u2019s image in the gay community, but he\u2019d still arrived on the music scene with more controversy than most have in their careers, and the level went up over the first few years of his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Eminem and the rest of the crew had to get audiences to buy tickets to a pseudo-biographical film, and the controversy might not have been their friend. This also illustrates a bit of a contradiction in the film world: the tendency of audiences to believe that making a biopic of someone is equivalent to glorifying them, and the stereotype that these films only show the good side of their subjects. That\u2019s the attitude that probably kept\u00a0The People vs. Larry Flynt<\/em>\u00a0from being a box-office smash, and Eminem\u2019s story was at least witnessing the same territory, if not entering it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat kept me interested was that I knew I wanted to do something authentic,\u201d Eminem recalls, \u201cand something that had a reason for being out there \u2013 I didn\u2019t want to just bank my success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had a meeting that included longtime producer Brian Grazer to discuss the film, still in the writing stages. Then Eminem checked out the first version of the script, and read it like his life story. He and his best friend and longtime rapping partner Proof sat down with another screenwriter, and recalled their past years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSure, I was worried about the acting part of it,\u201d Eminem says. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t my world. But Ice Cube (who himself jumped from rapping to acting, best known for the\u00a0Friday<\/em>\u00a0films) dropped some science on me once. He told me that anybody who raps should be able to act\u2026. If something that you\u2019re acting out mirrors something you went through in real life, you have to reenact that experience in a way that can make it believable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly thereafter, the final script came back to them, and the line between reality and drama was blurred like crazy, the rapper says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe took some things that happened in my life and maybe twisted them a little,\u201d he says, \u201cand added some things and took out some things. If it was based on my life, it would be very limited as to I could do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film title, which Eminem takes credit for, refers to Detroit\u2019s invisible societal equator, a real spot in the Motor City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBoth side of 8 Mile Road are poor, but there\u2019s a definite dividing line between the black and white sides,\u201d he explains. \u201c(8 Mile Road) separates the city from the suburbs. It\u2019s not really separate the rich and poor, but more the color line.\u201d 8 Mile Road plays a large part in the role, as the movie was taped in Detroit, like many of Eminem\u2019s videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the script, casting, and everything else came together, Eminem would have the lead, playing Jimmy \u201cB-Rabbit\u201d Smith. And as tough as the lead can be in one\u2019s first major role, Eminem would have some serious onscreen competition: Oscar-winner Kim Basinger, in a character light-years away from anything she\u2019d done before, played his alcoholic mother. The late great Brittany Murphy, with over a dozen films under her belt, would play Alex, Jimmy\u2019s love interest. Proof would also take the screen in the form of character David \u201cFuture\u201d Porter, except that he\u2019d be portrayed by Mekhi Phifer, in the midst of his own successful acting career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With an acting coach at his side, Eminem roared down to his basement and took a crash course in performing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe simplest way to describe my \u2018theatrical\u2019 education,\u201d he says, \u201cis (that) I was taught how to say the same thing in lots of different ways. Simple, but it really worked. At the same time, a lot of this role was so close to me as a person that it felt natural\u2026 It really took me back to the time before I was famous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As filming commenced, Eminem spent what little free time he had in a trailer writing \u201cLose Yourself,\u201d which would become the film\u2019s centerpiece tune. But he also took a few steps back to the rap battle scenes that populate the film. In these wars, two people go face to face on stage and go toe to toe in insult contests, with rhyming lyrics punctuating the word melees, along with the cheers and boos of hundreds of audience members. Many a wannabe rapper has attempted to use these \u201cOpen Mic-type\u201d contests as a springboard to stardom, but many fewer have succeeded. Fortunately, Eminem had one of the chosen, and this was where he truly was able to look back at his own memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Battling, he said, \u201cwas like a sport, like life. If I lost a battle, my entire world felt like it was crumbling. Some people might say, \u2018You lost, so get over it. Go back and try again!\u2019 You don\u2019t understand: I just lost a battle, my whole life is over. When you step up on that stage in front of a crowd, if there\u2019s 20 people, if there\u2019s 200 people, your rep is on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back when he actually engaged in the rap-offs, Eminem admits, \u201cI was never really thinking about theatrics. But looking back, rap battles were always very visual\u2026 It\u2019s like being a conductor, only the orchestra you\u2019re conducting is your own stupid ass.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These scenes absolutely set the stage for the main points of the film, demonstrating Jimmy\u2019s absent self-confidence at the start, the fortitude that rap instills in him as things move forward, and his way of defeating those that wronged (and jumped and physically assaulted) him near the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But some other scenes were a bit easier on Eminem and everyone else, like the unplanned high-speed tryst that he and Murphy share in the back room of Jimmy\u2019s workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe lovemaking scene probably took about a minute and a half to film,\u201d he exaggerates. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t fun \u2013 being basically naked in front of other men and women you don\u2019t know \u2013 but luckily I don\u2019t have too much of a problem showing my ass to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s all well and good for him, and for many others. But beyond that, throughout the film, audiences hear and feel snippets of \u201cLose Yourself,\u201d the song that we won\u2019t hear in its entirety until the closing credits.\"C\u00f3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the film had its tragic elements. In April 2006, Proof (who\u2019d actually had a small role in\u00a08 Mile<\/em>\u00a0as a battle rapper) was shot to death on 8 Mile Road itself. Murphy suddenly died just before Christmas 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have never felt so much pain in my life,\u201d Eminem says of the day he learned of Proof\u2019s death. \u201cIt\u2019s a pain that is with me to this day, a pain that has become a part of who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s just my opinion, but the film marked the first time that we, the general public, got to see the man behind the lyrics. We were all familiar (if not impressed or enthralled) by Eminem\u2019s voice, rhymes, and tunes, and the persona he used in public gave the impression that there wasn\u2019t much space between on the stage and off it. But\u00a08 Mile<\/em>\u00a0not only gave him a shot at showing his ability as an actor, it allowed us to see where he (in a slightly dramatically altered form) came from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 Mile<\/em>\u00a0may not have changed the public perception of Eminem\u2019s music, and chances are he certainly wasn\u2019t trying to fix something that was hardly broken, but we now could\u00a0understand<\/em>\u00a0him a bit more. Biopics are especially good at showing the human side, complete with fear, uncertainty, and determination of celebrities, and\u00a08 Mile<\/em>\u00a0did precisely that. Words like \u201cscared\u201d and \u201csensitive\u201d were rarely used to describe the Eminem we saw before the film came out, but watching his life story (or \u201clife story\u201d) might have expanded our vocabulary a bit. Until his own biopic came out in 1997, many people couldn\u2019t see beyond the sex-crazed misogynistic loudmouth that Howard Stern displayed on his daily radio show;\u00a0Private Parts<\/em>\u00a0changed quite a few opinions about him; Eminem\u2019s flick had the same effect.
As I watched\u00a08 Mile<\/em>\u00a0for the first time here in May 2011, I looked back to the time I\u2019d first heard the song \u201cLose Yourself.\u201d I\u2019d always considered it something of a \u201cfire-up\u201d song (i.e., the type of tune you listen to to get your adrenaline pumping for a workout or marathon), but there\u2019s more to this song than meets the ear. There\u2019s a reason, not only why it helped sell so many albums, but why it earned an Oscar at the next ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sends a message to anyone with a dream and a passion, anyone who\u2019s trying to make it in the tough worlds of movies and music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLose yourself in the music, the moment, you own it, you better never let it go. You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many people, it doesn\u2019t even come once. But to make it all the way, to go as far as Eminem and others like him have, we indeed need to lose ourselves in the music, or the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt must have been so simple for him to prepare for that role! 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