Professional, and yeah, stock filmmaking, but also compelling narrative, told in a storyteller's way. You have to say, off the top, that $54 mil on the opening weekend cannot all be laid at theĭoor of good marketing, A&P, and racial ID'ing - what John Avildsen called "simple dramaturgy to help the audience identify," when he directed "Rocky III." Something more's here. "Rocky" whether that many people can relate to it, on that level, we'll soon see. Now the boundary may be 16 Mile, or farther out,īut the boundary is really our own minds. I half-expected to see the Kronk gym as a location.įor years, 8 Mile Road was the dividing line between inner city Detroit and I kept waiting for Tommy "Hit Man" Hearns or Emanuel Steward to do a Rap, as personified by Eminem in "8 Mile," is pure singleĬombat. Why boxing, though? That's the metaphor director Curtis Hanson encourages.Ĭan't blame him. Not the original, but a hell of a duplicate.Īn upset special, a new thing, his own thing, sweet as sugar, coming fresh, full, from an ugly, forgotten space.Įminem, personifying the inextinguishable human spirit? Light-heavy of world-class speed and boxing abilities, who'd outpoint Joe Not the greatest heavyweight, but a scientific Of curiosity seekers who became converts, is a combination Sugar Ray Leonard,īilly Conn and Rocky. Eminem's got that James Dean thing going in "8 Mile."īest answer I could come up with, while watching "8 Mile" with a theater full
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