Review film 8 mile

8 MILE

8 Mile is  American semi-biographycal drama written by Scot Silver directed by Curtis, and stars Eminem as B rabbit, Mekhi Prefier  as David, Brittany Murphy as Alex Michael shannon as greg and Kim Basinger as his mother. The premier of this film is in 2002. 8 mile won so much awards there are :

·         MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance

2003 · Eminem

·         MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance – Male

2003 · Eminem

·         Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Drama

2003 · Eminem

·         Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Breakout Star – Male

2003 · Eminem

·         BMI Film Music Award

2003 · Eminem

·         ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for Most Performed Songs From Motion Pictures

2004 · Eminem, Jeff Bass, Lresto

·         BMI Film & TV Award for Most Performed Song from a Film

2003 · Eminem, Jeff Bass

 Summary

8 mile is the story about a young man who had a goal to be a famous rapper. His name is B-rabbit played by Eminem. He join with rapper club. Actually he is a good rapper he is the genius one, but he has no confident to show his rap in the stage. One day he goes onstage, where he has 45 seconds to out-rap his competitor in a showdown. And then he freezes. The seconds creep by in total silence, until Rabbit flees the stage and the Shelter. The genius of Rabbit is to admit his own weaknesses. This is also the approach of Eminem, who acknowledges in his lyrics that he's a white man playing in a black man's field. In the climax performance scene in "8 Mile". At one point, devastatingly, he even calls another rapper "too generic." They must read rock critics in the inner city. B-rabbit’s life is very hard, he broke up with his girlfriend because his girlfriend was pregnant and he gave his car to her. He lost his place for sleep so he come back to his mom’s house.

 It has been revealed that he has moved back north 8 mile road to the rundown trailer home in Warren of his alcoholic mother Stephanie played by Kim Basinger, his little sister Lily played by Chloe Greenfield, and Stephanie's indolent Semi live in boyfriend Greg played by Michael Shannon After the battle he comes home, unintentionally walking in on his mother and Greg having sex. Afterwards the fight between him and Greg makes Lily wake up, whose presence makes B rabbit's anger calm down. B rabbit puts her back to bed and sings her a lullaby. In their culture if someone who has grown up as a man living in his parent house is very ashame His mom’s boyfriend is a friend of B- Rabbit they are such as a rival. He has a very poor family, her mom was living in the truck house. B rabbit actually fire from his job before so he was work in an automotive factory.

B rabbit's friend Wink played by Eugne Byred a radio station employee with ties to a record label prompter, offers to use his connections to help B rabbit record his demo. B rabbit works at an automotive factory, but when he asks for extra shifts, his supervisor is not allowing him to do.  Then B rabbit meets a woman named Alex  played by Britanny Murphy B rabbit interest to her and they meet again one night at a club where she flirts with him and the two talk about their pasts and what they are aspiring to. Alex expresses her confidence in B rabbit's abilities throughout the film, telling him that she can feel that his talent and passion will lead him to be a successful rapper.

B rabbit interest with Alex and they have a dating but because Alex wants to be a popular model she is having a sex with someone who will help her to be on top but, B rabbit saw that and finally he broke up. B rabbit feels so disappointed and he drinks a lot of alcohol and fight with a guy who had sex with her.

Throughout the course of the film B rabbit takes more responsibility for the direction of his life. When he exhibits an improved attitude and performance at work, his supervisor grants him the extra shifts he requested. However B rabbit's late-night shift conflicts with the next battle tournament. But a goodbye visit from Alex, who is moving to new york because she want to be a model, changes his mind about competing. Paul, the co-worker whom B rabbit had stood up for, agrees to cover for him at work, and B rabbit enters the battle. The rap battle is so hot, B rabbit win the battle against a different member of Tha Free World and finally he knows the direction of his life.

 This film is such semi biographical story from Eminem, as we know Eminem is the popular white skin rapper, his rap is so genius. This film is tell everything about A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap, harder than it may seem. Rap is a type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over a prerecorded, typically electronic instrumental backing usually rap is to strike with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention. Rap lyrics are usually using a harsh word. In this film rap is makes to be competition by the club. The competitions using rap for mocking the rivals and the rivals reply back. Rapping first gained popularity in the U.S. in the 1970s as a kind of street art, especially among African American teenagers. But it wasn’t until 1979, when the Sugarhill Gang released their breakaway hit, ‘Rapper’s Delight, that record producers took notice of this emerging musical genre.

Commonly rapper is comes from black skin race, Thousands of years ago in Africa “griots”, where village story tellers who played basic handmade instruments while they told stories of their family and local current events. This style of talking while music is playing is rap music as we know it at its root form. The griot is still a major form of communication in Africa still to this day. This griot tradition carried over when Africans were captured against their will, transported to America & forced into slavery. One way they would cope with the tremendous amount of pain & heartbreak of slavery would be to sing. While they were working in the fields they would often sing using “call to answer”. One leader would call out a certain part of a song and the rest of the slaves would answer with the next line. In modern times performing artists call this crowd participation. In the past, there is discrimination between white skin and black skin. People who had a black skin considered as the lower level economy class and they use rap as their media for curse and moan. So, the writer thinks that is the reason why rap is using vulgar and harsh language.

The word which they use in rap lyric maybe it represent symbol of their culture. Because culture is complex thing which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits as a member of society. But when we  speak of society we refer to the pattern of social interactions and relationships between individuals and group, rap battle show how they interaction between one and others.

   Often a society will occupy a territory, be capable of reproducing itself and share a culture. But for many large-scale, modern societies it may make more sense to say that several cultures coexist (not always harmoniously) within the society. Culture emphasises the way that social roles and relationships shape the way we see and give meaning to the world, whereas cultural relativism stresses the way that habitual, taken-for-granted ways of thought, as expressed in speech and language, direct our understandings. All cultures are reproduced in specific circumstances; ideas and values are interpreted and understood in the light of local condition. The writer think that rap lyric such their media to have a communication, they know how to interpret the lyric and the know how to convey the meaning because language has been used in relation to class, race and ethnicity and gender. How we speak is very impportant because it shows who we are. For example like the differences between how the UK people using RP ( Receive Pronouciation )  speak and how the black skin race speak using BEV (Black English Vernacular) as a poor language.

This is example of rap lyric from 8 mile by B rabbit in final competition:

[Rabbit]
Now everybody from the 313
Put your muthafuckin' hands up and follow me
Everybody from the 313, put your muthafuckin' hands up
Look Look

Now while he stands tough
Notice that this man did not have his hands up
This Free World got you gassed up
Now who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
1, 2, 3 and to the 4
1 Pac, 2 Pac, 3 Pac, 4
4 Pac, 3 Pac, 2 Pac, 1
You're Pac, he's Pac, no Pac, none
This guy ain't no muthafuckin MC
I know everything he's bout to say against me
I am white, I am a fuckin' bum
I do live in a trailer with my mom
My boy Future is an Uncle Tom
I do got a dumb friend named Cheddar Bob
Who shoots himself in the leg with his own gun
I did get jumped by all six of you chumps
And Wink did fuck my girl
I'm still standin' here screamin', "fuck the Free World"
Don't ever try to judge me dude
You don't know what the fuck I've been through
But I know something about you
You went to Cranbrook, that's a private school
What's the matter Doc, you embarrassed
This guy's a gangsta, his real name's Clarence
And Clarence lives at home with both parents
And Clarence parents have a real good marriage
This guy doesn't wanna battle he shook
Cause ain't no such thing as half-way crooks
He's scared to death, he's scared to look in his fuckin' yearbook
Fuck Cranbrook

Fuck the beat, I go acapella
Fuck a Papa Doc, fuck a clock, fuck a trailer, fuck everybody
Fuck y'all if you doubt me
I'm a piece of fuckin' white trash, I'll say it proudly
And fuck this battle, I don't wanna win, I'm outtie
Here, tell these people something they dont know about me

{lotto}
I'll spit a racial slur honky sew me
this shit is a Horror flick but a black guy doesn't die in this movie.
fucking with lotto dawg you gotta be kiddin'
that makes me believe you really don't have an interest in livin'.
you think these bitches gonna feel the shit you say
i got a better chance joining the kkk
on some real shit though i like you
thats why i didn't wanna have to be the one you commit suicide to
fuck lotto call me your leader
i feel bad that i gotta murder that dude from leave it to beaver
i used to like that show now you got me in fight back mode
but oh well if you gotta go then you gotta go
i hate to do this i would love for this shit to
last so i'll
take pictures of my rear end so you wont forget my ass
and all's well that ends okay
so i'll end this shit with a fuck you and have a nice day

{B Rabbit}
Ward, I Think you were a little hard on the beaver
so was Eddie Hasko, Wally, and Ms. Cleaver
This Guy keeps screaming he's paranoid
quick someone get his ass another steroid
blah badi boo blah bah badi bloo blah
I ain't hear a word you said
Hipidi hoo bla
Is that a tank top or a new bra
look snoop dogg just got a fuckin' boob job
didn't you listen to the last round meat head
pay attention, you're sayin the same shit that he said
matter fact dogg heres a pencil
go home write some shit make it suspensful
and don't come back until something dope hits you
fuck it you can take the mic home with you
looking like a cyclone hit you
tank top screaming lotto i dont fit you
you see how far these white jokes get you
Boy's like how vanilla ice gonna diss you
my motto fuck lotto
i'll get the seven digits from your mother for a dollar tomorrow(ohhhhhhhhh)

As we can see there are so much mocking word such as : fuck, motherfucker, shit, bitches, etc. That word is always being a part of rap lyric. From that lyric is proven that rap lyric is using a harsh and slang word, and the writer assume that rap is such the media for them to complain about his life because the lyric tell the story about what he is going through his live. Black skin race think if the lyric of rap must comes from the experience of the rapper to make the lyric original. Moreover, there is a jargon which is said “the lyric must be real”.

Mostly lyric of rap just come naturally (autodidact), i think just genius people who can do rap because they have to string up the word which is match with the music and have the same rhyme. Furthermore, rap lyric tell about the simple thing using slang languages. The rap lyrics are using slang and harsh language it shows the lower caste of someone, because language shows the spoken attitude. Rapping is very competitive, you will most likely be brutally insulted by those who you are competing against, as well as the masses if you show any sign of vulnerability or lack of effort within your music.

Actually rap battle is insulted your competing against. The rappers goal is to make memorable lyric, so that when someone listens to the song they will want to go back and listen to it again later. As a result the rapper Tell a story with their song, this keeps the listener engaged. It is easy to for one to lose interest in a song if it is focused on a bunch of random generic topics. Culture shapes rap because rap comes from and grown in black skin race so the language using BEV as a poor language because so many slang and harsh word in it.

In the film shows that there are a scene when the actor mocking someone by shows their middle finger. The setting of place in 8 mile is in the dirty city which is so many vandalism at the building. And this sign represent their culture to communicate.

Source : wikipedia and others ( sorry I forgot the link )