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8 Mile
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8 Mile is a 2002 American hip-hop drama film directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Eminem in his film debut, with Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer and Michael Shannon in supporting roles. Anthony Mackie also makes his film debut as Clarence / "Papa Doc".The film is a semi-autobiographical account of Eminem's early years in Detroit, struggling to make ends meet and get his career off the ground. As such, he stars as white rapper Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. (based upon a younger version of him) as he struggles for respect among his black peers in the underground Detroit hip hop scene in 1995.One of the film's main claims to fame is that "Lose Yourself", a song by Eminem that he recorded as the lead single for its soundtrack, is the first hip-hop song to receive an Academy Award for Best Original Song. (Em skipped the ceremony, believing so firmly that he wouldn't win that he decided to stay in and sleep instead.note This marked the first time in 14 years that the winner of the category did not perform at the ceremony. However, Em would eventually perform the song at the Oscars almost 17 years after his win in 2020, making a surprise appearance.)Not to be confused with 8 mm. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Jimmy and his mother may snark one and other, but in the end they genuinely care for each other. This is proven twice, when Jimmy fights Greg for hitting his mom and when near the end when his mom won bingo, the first thing she does is offer to make him pancakes. As well as support him when he says he plans to do his rap career on his own. | |
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Miles Gloriosus | |
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Miles Gloriosus: Papa Doc pretends to be a tough, street wise gangster who grew up in the same rough lifestyle as Rabbit. Then its revealed he is actually from a wealthy family and his entire persona is a facade that is smashed in front of everyone. | |
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Dirty Coward | |
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Dirty Coward: Wink for sending the Free World crew to jump Jimmy rather than fight his own battles. The Free World crew themselves for ganging up to jump him, especially Papa Doc, who even pulls out a gun whenever a physical altercation breaks loose. | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Stephanie becomes this to Jimmy when Wink and Alex drop by at his trailer. | |
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Model Scam | |
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Model Scam: Wink's MO seems to be a non-sexual version of this, as he uses the fact he has some unspecified role in a recording studio/radio station to get people to give him attention and respect. Future calls him out on it, but Jimmy buys it for some time and the Leaders of the Free World seem to let him hang out with them despite him being a nobody. It graduates to a typical version of this with Alex, as he tells her he can get her a photographer for her modelling, and next we see is the two having sex, in what's clearly a case of this. | |
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Staredown Faceoff: When it's time for their final rap battle (before they decide who goes first), Jimmy and Papa Doc do this onstage. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: "Papa Doc? You mean Clarence? He went to Cranbrook..." The bingo games Stephanie goes to end up working out when she finally wins just in time to save the family from eviction. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: As a kind of Book Ends, the film starts with B. Rabbit choking during a rap battle in front of a large crowd; not saying a single word. The film ends with Papa Doc being rendered speechless on his turn at a rap battle after Rabbit brilliantly disarms him of any disses he can point out about Rabbit and loses his street cred in the process. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: Jimmy discovering Wink having sex with Alex is a serious scene, but cutting away to seeing them fight through a window in the background as a rapper is casually being interviewed for a radio show is hilarious. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Jimmy's father left a while ago, leaving his mother stranded. | |
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Paralysis by Analysis | |
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Paralysis by Analysis: Rabbit chokes the first time he goes on stage. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: After Wink joins the Free World and they beat Jimmy up, Papa Doc pulls out a gun and points it to Jimmy's head. Wink immediately steps in and gets the guy to back off, though at the end, he still leaves with them. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Jimmy doesn't bat an eyelash when Papa Doc presses a presumably loaded pistol to his head. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Jimmy dishes one out to Papa Doc in the end, when he goes first in the battle and turns every humiliating experience and insult that the Free World is about to dish out to him into a freestyle, completely catching him off-guard. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Jimmy wins the battle but he goes back to his crappy life, compounded by the sad piano piece in "Lose Yourself" playing in the background. Though thanks to his mother winning at Bingo, at least he doesn't have to worry about being evicted for now and he has gained the confidence gto start working towards a better future. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: The film begins with Rabbit trying to battle against Papa Doc and getting tongue-tied and being unable to rap. It ends with another battle, where Papa Doc gets tongue-tied and being unable to rap. | |
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Loser Protagonist | |
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Loser Protagonist: Jimmy starts the film having to live at home in a trailer with his mother, has a dead-end job at a plant, has no girlfriend and is humiliated after choking during a rap battle. | |
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At Least I Admit It | |
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At Least I Admit It: This is what wins Rabbit the battle against Papa Doc in the film's climax. He basically owns up to all his flaws before Papa Doc even has a chance to use it against him, something the latter didn't have the guts to do himself. | |
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Meaningful Background Event | |
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Meaningful Background Event: During the final rap battle, Alex can be seen far off in the room applauding and cheering for Jimmy. She is very easy to spot with the red shirt and blonde hair. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: Firstly, that you can succeed as long as you're smart about it and you're willing to give it your all even in the face of overwhelming odds. Secondly, that class is just as much an issue as race.note Jimmy might be white, but he's white trash, and as poor as the black folk he lives with, which contrasts Papa Doc being a wealthy black man who just pretends to be a cool tough gangster. | |
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin' | |
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Jimmy's supervisor at the auto plant won't tolerate him taking any time off from his work - even if it's because someone else has come by and started talking to him without his wanting it. | |
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Trashy Trailer Home | |
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Trashy Trailer Home: Rabbit is frequently mocked for his family living in a trailer. He manages to turn what would be a source of shame into a Pretender Diss by revealing that his final rap battle opponent lives affluently with his parents. | |
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My New Gift Is Lame | |
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My New Gift Is Lame: Stephanie gives Jimmy a new car for his birthday. But then the next day Jimmy tries driving it and his vehicle is too outdated to get him anywhere, serving as an inspiration for his next song. | |
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Where da White Women At? | |
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Where da White Women At?: Jimmy catches his about-to-be -former Black Best Friend Wink and his girlfriend Alex having sex at one point. | |
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Big Brother Instinct | |
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Big Brother Instinct: Jimmy loves his sister Lily, and his only thought when about to be confronted with the Free World is getting her out of harm's way. He even helps burn down an abandoned house where a girl was raped after one of his friends asks him to imagine if the same thing happened to her. | |
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Unstoppable Rage | |
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Unstoppable Rage: Rabbit gets really pissed off at a few points in the story. Just ask Greg for abusing his mom or Wink when he had sex with Jimmy's supposed girlfriend. | |
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Hard Work Fallacy | |
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Hard Work Fallacy: The main character (who is in no way an Author Avatar of Eminem himself) seeks to prove himself a great rapper, despite poverty, relationship troubles, and racial issues. | |
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Token White | |
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Token White: Jimmy himself, being basically the only white in an area full of black guys, and definitely the only white rapper. Cheddar serves as this among his friends, being the only other white guy around. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Cheddar Bob is always holding it. From yelling "Fuck the Free World" right in the crew's face to setting the abandoned house on fire while everyone was still in it. Oh, and he shot himself in the groin with his own handgun. | |
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Slumming It | |
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Slumming It: “Papa Doc� is actually a well-off private school student named Clarence who pretends to be a tough guy gangster for the thrill of it. Rabbit revealing this onstage in their climactic rap battle after raking himself over the coals is the final nail in the coffin for any street cred Papa Doc had. | |
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Kick Them While They Are Down | |
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Kick Them While They Are Down: Papa Doc was well close to this after he and the rest of the Free World members jumped Jimmy by pulling out a handgun to put the already-beatened protagonist out of his misery, which would have been accomplished had Wink not intervened and convinced him not to go for it. | |
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Reckless Gun Usage | |
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Reckless Gun Usage: Jimmy's friend, Cheddar Bob, shoots himself in the leg as he puts a gun in his waistband. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The rap battles in the movie are these but in musical form. In fact, the point of winning is that you need to give a better speech than your opponent. Jimmy then turns this on its head in the final rap battle and delivers a "Reason I Suck" speech toward Papa Doc, specifically so that he couldn't give one of these back at Jimmy. It worked. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Stephanie, Jimmy's mother. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: Even Wink cracks up when Jimmy drops the line "How can six dicks be pussies?" during his climactic freestyle. In turn, you can see Rabbit crack a smile at Lotto's Leave It to Beaver line. He even admits to Sol George that the line was so good it almost got him. | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The horrified look in Rabbit’s eyes says it all when Cheddar brings up the story behind the abandoned house. We don’t see him this shocked until when he’s held at gunpoint by Papa Doc when the latter’s gang jumps him. | |
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Battle Rapping | |
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Battle Rapping: The major driving force in the movie are the rap battles that take place. | |
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Mic Drop | |
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Mic Drop: Not actually, but the same idea - Rabbit nonchalantly tosses the microphone to Future after he's done raking Papa Doc over hot coals in the final battle. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Papa Doc spends the entire film humiliating Rabbit for being a white rapper. Then Rabbit reveals to the whole club that Papa Doc is really named Clarence, comes from a wealthy family and his tough persona is an act. Watching him as he realizes he has permanently lost any respect or fear he once inspired in people and that he can never regain it is a wonderful sight to behold. | |
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Black Dude Dies First | |
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Black Dude Dies First: This trope is referenced In-Universe by Lotto in his rap battle against Jimmy. | |
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Mooning | |
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Mooning: Jimmy does this during his last lines of his battle against Lyckety-Splyt. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Jimmy's initial reaction when he realized Lily was watching when he was fighting with their mom's boyfriend. It's definitely one of Jimmy's more heartwarming characteristics. | |
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Multiple-Choice Past | |
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Multiple-Choice Past: Two origin stories are given for Jimmy's nickname of "Rabbit." One is that his mother started calling him that because he had buck teeth as a baby. Another is that it's because "he's fast and he likes to fuck." Given the context in which both origins were told, the former is likely the true one. | |
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Autobiographical Role | |
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Autobiographical Role: This movie basically tells Eminem's life story... if he never got a record deal. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Jimmy and his friends' reaction to the police sounding their sirens right after Jimmy uses a paintball gun on a parked police car. Papa Doc when Rabbit starts shredding his credibility on-stage in the final rap battle. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: Inverted. Rabbit defeats Papa Doc by revealing every humiliating detail about himself and throwing the rap battle. | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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Face–Heel Turn: Wink. | |
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Real Is Brown | |
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Real Is Brown: Well, except that in this particular film, Real Is Green. | |
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Pretender Diss | |
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Pretender Diss: In the final rap battle, Jimmy reveals that Papa Doc is a well-off guy named Clarence from a stable family and went to a private school. Jimmy, despite being white trash, has far more in common with the poor black community in downtown Detroit because he's actually from there and went through the same things they did. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Never ever make fun of Jimmy when he freezes up at the chance to rap. | |
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No Romantic Resolution | |
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No Romantic Resolution: Jimmy doesn't talk with Alex again after their conversation before the rap battle, and she presumably leaves for New York shortly after. | |
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Corpsing | |
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Corpsing: invoked In-Universe — Lotto's Leave It To Beaver bars result in Rabbit struggling to keep a straight face (which would have potentially lost him the battle). He remarks to his friends later that the line 'almost got me'. | |
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Fake Pregnancy | |
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Fake Pregnancy: Near the beginning of the film Rabbit says his girlfriend might be pregnant. She later says she just said that in an effort to make him stay. | |
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20 Minutes into the Past | |
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20 Minutes into the Past: The film released in 2002 and is set in 1995, the year before Eminem released his debut album. | |
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Big Bad Wannabe | |
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Big Bad Wannabe: Despite his reputation and his icy, intimidating aura, Papa Doc is ultimately little more than a wealthy, privileged Entitled Bastard using the tough band he rolls with and his skill as a rapper for entirely undeserved cred. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: Alongside the subsequent pretender dis against Papa Doc, this is the main reason for Jimmy's win in the final rap battle. Employing tactics that Eminem himself used in real life, he pre-empts Papa Doc by acknowledging every possible diss he can use against him, but that despite all that he's still fighting on. The crowd admires his honesty, and Papa Doc is left without any material. | |
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Emasculated Cuckold | |
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Emasculated Cuckold: Subverted. Jimmy Smith (Eminem) walks in on his Love Interest (portrayed by the late Brittany Murphy), having sex with Wink, one of his friends. After Jimmy beats him up, Wink makes a Face–Heel Turn and joins the Leaders of the Free World, who later go on to beat up Jimmy. During the rap battle at the finale, the fact that he was cuckolded is used to attempt to humiliate Jimmy. Jimmy comes out on top, anyway. | |
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Mistaken for Romance | |
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Mistaken for Romance: Jimmy sees Alex acting overly familiar with a guy at the club and feels hurt. She follows him and explains that it was her brother whose car she's borrowing. | |
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Co-Dragons | |
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Co-Dragons: Lotto and Lyckety-Splyt to Papa Doc. | |
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Mrs. Robinson | |
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Mrs. Robinson: Jimmy's mother is dating a guy who went to school with her son, though it's mostly so she can benefit from his settlement money. Unsurprisingly, he ends up dumping her when it actually rolls in. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
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"Eureka!" Moment: Right before the final battle, Rabbit is visibly nervous about taking on Papa Doc, wondering what he's going to say to beat him. Cheddar Bob asks Rabbit if he's worried about all the things Papa Doc is going to use against him, especially since they're all true. You can see the gears working in Rabbit's head as he realizes that's exactly what he needs to do- admit all these things about himself up front, while stressing their irrelevance, giving Papa Doc literally no ammunition against him. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: In the final rap battle, Papa Doc lets B-Rabbit go first. With all the ammunition he had against B, it seemed logical to let Rabbit go first and get his round out of the way so Doc could drop the bombs. However, B-Rabbit used this as an opportunity to bring up and counter EVERYTHING Doc was going to use against him. He loses in the worst way (choking) as a result. Had Papa gone first, B-Rabbit trying the same stuff might have been seen as flailing. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Moderately early in the film, Jimmy defends his gay co-worker Paul from a homophobic asshole. Much later in the film, Jimmy is given extra shifts to work the night of the rap battle. After realizing he does want to battle, Jimmy gets Paul to cover for him at the factory so he can go. Before, after, and between these scenes, Paul is basically completely absent. | |
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Audience Participation | |
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Audience Participation: Lil' Tic battling Rabbit in the intro: Rabbit pulls it off twice in the final battle, spurring the crowd to raise their hands, and getting a response with this line from the chorus of Shook Ones, Pt. II: | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: The only way Jimmy can calm down whenever he goes on berserk mode is when Lilly pops up and observes his behavior. He doesn't want to be an anti-role model for her, which is why whenever he catches eye of Lilly watching what he does he regains his composure. | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: Lily Smith seems to be a composite of Eminem's younger brother Nathan and his daughter Hailie. | |
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Secretly Wealthy | |
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Secretly Wealthy: Papa Doc is really a well-off suburban kid named Clarence from an affluent background and with happily married parents. Jimmy revealing this to everyone destroys his image and leaves him speechless. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Greg, Stephanie's live-in boyfriend, and, of course, the members of the Free World rap group. | |
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Too Much Information | |
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Too Much Information: Rabbit's mom tells him things he doesn't want to know, such as that her boyfriend won't go down on her. | |
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Bruiser with a Soft Center | |
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Bruiser with a Soft Center: All of Jimmy's anger and aggression melts away whenever he's with his little sister. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: The film starts out with Jimmy puking all over his clothes, nearly getting kicked out of The Shelter by a bouncer, and choking during his rap battle with Lil Tic, leading him to gaining a reputation as a choke artist. | |
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Ad Hominem | |
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Ad Hominem: A powerful tactic among rappers. This is how Jimmy wins the rap duel at the end, preempting Papa Doc's Ad Hominem rap by acknowledging he's white trash before revealing that Papa Doc is actually Clarence, a well-off lad from the upscale suburbs with a good education at Cranbrook and happily-married parents — a total alien from such a neighborhood as downtown Detroit. | |
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Mighty Whitey | |
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Mighty Whitey: This is a common criticism of the film, in that the white rapper Rabbit is a uniquely gifted rapper whose friends are virtually all black, and that the climax of the movie shows him beating a succession of black rappers. However, the movie addresses this by making Rabbit reluctant to battle out of anxiety that he is seen as a tourist or appropriator. The final battle also ends with Rabbit winning against a violent black bully by pointing out that his opponent comes from a middle class family, goes to a private school, and likes to slum it in the hood to feel like a gangster - indicating that despite Rabbit's race, he is still part of an oppressed working class through which he can authentically connect with hip-hop culture. Also, Rabbit is played by Eminem, who is a uniquely gifted battle rapper, and the film is inspired by his own background. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The film feels as authentically Detroit as its protagonist is. Scenery Gorn, WJLB, The Shelter (a real music venue in Detroit, though different from the venue shown in the film), Gratiot Avenue, and the fact that Jimmy is one of the few white characters in the whole film. | |
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