The first documentary film Eminem becomes the camera on his fans

Stans, Eminem’s first documentary, arrives at paramount + 26. August, focusing on the culture of fans, not just another traditional biography. Inglewood, California – 13. February: Eminem is performing during the half of Pepsi Super Bowl LVI at the Sofia Stadium 13. February 2022. in Inglevud, California. (Photo by Kevin C. Cock / Getty Images)

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At this point, when almost every major music artist saw that their life turned into a documentary, Eminem was recently recently. Despite years of bids, Hip-Hop Superstar consistently refused to participate in a traditional retrospect. But that string ends StopThe first first documentaries in full length.

What finally got Eminem on the ship was not recounting their past or even cash progress. It was a shift in focus, from artists to the audience.

Eminem’s documentary: years under construction

According to a Paul Rosenberg manager, the idea of ​​Eminem documentary film has become countless times over the years. “We have been very approached from different platforms, studies, creatives, what do you have,” he says. But the look back didn’t complain. “He feels like the kinds of documentary films that people do when they are or at the end of their careers, or it’s the thing that’s done on you when you’re not here anymore.”

Eminem does not correspond to any of these descriptions, because great hits are still drawn and release albums that become fastening in charts. He was open to the concept that did not try to finish his story and instead he went with an idea that explores culture that still revolves around her. Genesis about what has become his first major documentary bonds back to Tuloba decades “Apartment”.

“Flat” and what does that mean today

“Through the history of evolution and cultural influence of the song, it was just never left,” Rosenberg explains. “And the phenomenon of the ideas about the apartment only grew constantly.”

For those who don’t know, Eminem posted his Singles “Apartment” 2000. years of his Marshall Mathers LP. The trail, which uses the Dida – and deserves it – it is not one of his greatest hits, because it was only reached no. 51 On the hot 100. Melody, who speaks the story of an obsessive fan that takes things and becomes violent and becoming violently and becomes violently, in the last few years. These days, the apartment is simply a zealous fan, although negative connotations continue to persevere.

Since Eminem Coined The Phrase, Which is now used Liberally in Music, He and His Team Decided to Make a Film Centered AS Angle To Essentially Create Content Anchored to One Of The Most Successful Musicians Of All Time. Stop It is not a typical documentaries and present days and is not entirely related to the base of the fan. It is something between a new way of enjoying stories about music on the big screen.

Beginning Eminem Stop

Rosenberg and his team shot early shots and cut the corruption of the reel to show what what Stop It can be, years before any formal plans are made. This eventually led to cooperation with Antoin Fuku and director Steven LeCCAC.

Leckart says it has become clear from the beginning. This will not be standard BIO-Doc. Eminem fan since 1999. years, he approached Stop Like he would be a narrative film. “It was very clear what the doctor didn’t want to be from the beginning,” he said, adding it while some of the parameters would limit, he “just occasion”.

Making Stop theatrical experience

Inspired by the structure and intensity of “Apartment” Same, Leckart proposed a visual style that played with reality. “I think we should shoot with a red curtain,” said early, suggesting a superior, reinforced approach taken by spectators in Eminem’s built world and far from what is real. “We gave it extra cinematographic element … to really pull you into this world and wonder what was real and what it was not.”

Once Leckart learned that however, who was still referred to theaters, he and his associates decided: “Let’s make a fucking movie.”

Deep in Eminem’s archives

Stop Includes unprecedented shots, which will complain about the long-standing fans of the superstar. Leckart had access to Eminem’s archive – which is “not as a neatly organized vault”, “Rosenberg was joking – and worked with long-term co-workers to recover old reels, including original recordings”, including original recordings. “

“We basically wondered, if you could find something, what would you like?” He explained Leckart. “And then let’s try to find him.” It previously included an indisputed recordings from the original music video, which plays a major role in Lore “Stans” and helped its meaning defined before defined.

Fans – or are the apartments?

What makes Stop So interesting are fans. The documentary is characterized by the number of the most common Eminem supporters who shares his connections with him and his work and what his songs meant. They come from all walking of life and represent different fractions of Rapered Massive Tracking – but whether they are actually apartments or not, even they are discussing.

“It was very important to me to treat cases, which are big fans, with a huge amount of respect,” says Rosenberg. “And I think the thing Steven did so well to find people who weren’t just incredibly touching stories, but they were also very releveral and very cute.”

Reframing What does be flat

In time, “Apartment” became an abbreviation – usually negative – for an obsessive fanda. Stop pushes against it. “It would be playable for (Eminem’s) art and fans to make a movie that didn’t feel as massive thanks,” Leckart says. “This movie is big thank you.”

Instead of holding in the dark song, a film instead of focusing on the identity and how pop culture shapes social ties. “The idea of ​​an apartment for me is just someone who is a great fan of something – anything,” Rosenberg said. “You can be an apartment from Cheeseburger, whatever it is. And I don’t think it must be negative.” It is not necessarily the Internet uses the word, but this is Eminem’s film and he can try to convert a word, but it likes.

Eminem: Item and producer

Although Eminem is also attributed to the entity and manufacturer, Leckart says that the cooperation was smooth and that no part of it was overlying. “It’s the best interview I’ve ever done,” he says about the time he spent with the tail asked him about some most difficult moments of his life and career. “They’ve never been moments we stopped and talked about” What are we talking about and why are we doing? ” “”

There are cases when Stop It feels like to help re-determine the controversial statements from the past, when Elton John claimed that he was not homophobic, which was invited to showing it or in the end, it shows that it will be ultimately. It’s really where the ideas of the apartment becomes real.

After a short run in AMC Theaters, Stop Comes to Paramount + 26. August.