The Gun Shot Scene

[ThomasJ]

I think you may be right.

A simple Google search of "Joseph Kahn Fight Club" linked me to this site:

http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=99179

According to Director-File's Q&A with Kahn, he was inspired by David Fincher to look at music videos as a serious medium. Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) began making classic music videos such as Madonna's "Vogue" and George Michael's "Freedom 90."

So if Kahn was inspired by Fincher's music videos, then this quite possibly could be a homage.

Great catch, EmBase.

[Revtone]

Negga please, who cares about your fuckin conspiracy?

[Banks]

will it be censored for tv?

[BigBangBazinga]

will it be censored for tv?

According to some people (DA) this is the censored version.

[Banks]

will it be censored for tv?

According to some people (DA) this is the censored version.

And I'm superman

[EminemBase]

Negga please, who cares about your fuckin conspiracy?

It's hardly a conspiracy you fucking asswipe.

It's just an observation of something that looks to be a homage. And considering...

- Fight Club is about a guy with an imaginary alter-ego.
- The director of "Space Bound" was inspired by Fincher (Fight Club director).
- Em shoots himself and the shot is almost the exact same as the one in Fight Club.
- Both alter-egos also get shot as that happens.

I'd say a lot fucking points to it. Dick face.

[iain08]

The video was great until that part. it seemed so out of sync with the song and it disrupts the entire 'flow' of the video.

and @ that guy who posted that gay gif, fuck you you're not funny.

[EminemBase]

The video was great until that part. it seemed so out of sync with the song and it disrupts the entire 'flow' of the video.

and @ that guy who posted that gay gif, fuck you you're not funny.

Why do you think it disrupts the flow?

I think it's the peak of the video, it's what it's leading to. Looks great to me.

[christalgurl]

I love that scene too. It's definitely possible that it's a homage. Fight Club is an awesome movie, btw. I watched it about six months ago for the first time, and it was really great.

[iain08]

Why do you think it disrupts the flow?

I think it's the peak of the video, it's what it's leading to. Looks great to me.

The way he shoots himself in the chin instead of the temple. The synchronization between the video and song is perfect until this part, then, like you said, it ruins it. It would have been the perfect ending to it, but to me it just seems like an amateur mistake to not have the gun to his temple.

When I hear that line, I get such a vivid image of a gun to Eminem's temple so I was looking forward to seeing how the video would portray it. But seeing the gun to his chin throws the whole line/ending off for me.

[EminemBase]

Why do you think it disrupts the flow?

I think it's the peak of the video, it's what it's leading to. Looks great to me.

The way he shoots himself in the chin instead of the temple. The synchronization between the video and song is perfect until this part, then, like you said, it ruins it. It would have been the perfect ending to it, but to me it just seems like an amateur mistake to not have the gun to his temple.

When I hear that line, I get such a vivid image of a gun to Eminem's temple so I was looking forward to seeing how the video would portray it. But seeing the gun to his chin throws the whole line/ending off for me.

Oh, yeah that ruins it (thought you meant it was like badly shot or just didn't fit). Completely. And once again, it's so annoying as Em has SLIGHTLY tarnished an almost perfect piece.

He did it with Relapse with a few songs, Recovery with the production, the EP with one song and now this video with that. So irritating because he gets it literally almost perfect but then he just splats a bit of doo doo on it.

And I'm not talking about arbitrary perfection, as, you can always improve but I mean... mistakes rather. Yeah, they're more-so mistakes than imperfections.

Even though this is still a great video for me though, that part will forever ruin it for me lmao. I don't understand how they can't see it either, or why they didn't go "hangon... he said temple guys" or why Em himself didn't go "hey, I say temple by the way"... I mean, it's hardly subtle, it's the climax of the song and the part it's building to. It's so crucial. Grrrr.

But Em puts his 'gun hand' to his temple when he raps it... which suggests to me they are or Em is aware of it and there was a reason the gun was under his chin. Maybe some kind of special-effects reason like it was easier to achieve or to have him fall backwards maybe. As if he shot himself in the side of the temple he'd collapse one way probably.

<< If that was the reason or, some kind of reason like that, no way if I was Em would I allow that. That would forever annoy me. As, there's no second chance in this, you make the video once and it's done and... he's an iconic artist so everything he does gets magnified and studied and remembered. So I couldn't bare there being such a blatantly visual blunder.

[S.T.A.N.]

Him dont give a DAM about BEAVER, do him?

[EminemBase]

^ Lmao, what's that from. That weird beaver stare... I remember it distinctly, immediately, but can't remember from where. Was it just an Internet phenom on YT or something?

[Fa-Q]

It had to be an homage to Fight Club (Gawd I love that movie.) I thought of it as soon as I saw it

[Blake]

Him dont give a DAM about BEAVER, do him?

I do..