"Acting"

[gridlore]

I've just read yet another article praising Eminem's performance in 8 Mile.

OK. Let me see if I understand this. Eminem is a white rapper from a poor section of Detroit who has issues with his mother and women in general. He had to struggle for acceptence in the music world.

In the movie, he plays the exact same thing.

I will believe that Em is a good actor when he plays something other than himself.

Comments

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

Excellent point!!!

[todkaninchen.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm...

Like that Buck Owens song "They're gonna' put me in the movies."

[femakita.livejournal.com]

Even if you're playing yourself, it doesn't save you from being a block of wood onscreen/onstage. Acting is a many-faceted thing.

(So says the theatre major and rabid Eminem fan...)

[todkaninchen.livejournal.com]

Aaahh!

Audie Murphy...

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

I will not care if Mr. Mathers is a good actor. He's a homophobic jerk.

[aurictech.livejournal.com]

"I will believe that Em is a good actor when he plays something other than himself."

Ah, but if we insist on playing a role other than oneself as the mark of a good actor, where does that leave Ramen and Whipsnade? ;-)