8 MILE RESIDENTS

I didn’t make it…

Lennon_lad on ig made it!!!

i was taught about civil rights by a generation of punks and heroes that came before me.

"my father took me into the city to see the marching band, he said son when you grow up, will you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?" (and the rest of the intro) i definetly fight more than I need too, I go out of my way to preach against oppression and participate in protests, but the more I think about it, the more I know I'll never stop, because I need to do it. my place in society was this as soon as I was born.

"Im just a man, I'm not a hero. Im just a boy who had to sing this song"

"defiant to the end, we hear the call to carry on"

i will never be ashamed of what I do. but I am more than aware I realistically have no choice. and when it inevitably leads to my premature death, I know someone who loves me will take my place.

"and though your broken and defeated, your weary widow marches on"

i don't know if this is the intended meaning of the song, but its what it means to me. and I'll carry on as long as I can.

Florida is Truman and Gov is then Cristof who created the show

Instead of a 1950s suburban town it would be more like 80s Miami in style and the show would be called something ridiculous like “The Florida Man Show”

Florida’s legal name is probably Florida Miami

One major difference between Florida and Truman would be that Florida is much less predictable and the appeal of the show is how much trouble he can cause

Honestly, his view of reality is very skewed because every time he’s come across a hint he’s in a set, everyone just acted like that’s normal instead of pretending it didn’t happen

The actors have some serious workers comp benefits because of him btw

Gov lowkey hates Florida and is only keeping this going for the money

Louisiana (Louis) is Marlon and takes the role of Florida’s best friend/childhood neighbor

He keeps up the lie because he genuinely believes that life is better for Florida if he lives in the studio and people in the real world just wouldn’t understand him (he would also probably get arrested ten seconds after leaving)

(But Louis is also kind of brainwashed by being on the show since he was five years old)

California (Cal) is then Lauren Garland/Sylvia (minus the love interest part), but his intentions are much less honest than hers

He pops up during the college years and is secretly an activist working to get Florida out (mainly for the fame of it all) but considers not going through with it when Florida keeps annoying him

Florida is drawn to him because he is the one person who doesn’t think his “pranks” are funny (because all of the actors are forced to pretend) and becomes determined to find out how he ticks

Louis and Cal have many arguments behind Florida’s back about the ethics of the TV show

Louis starts to question if he’s hurting Florida by keeping him in this fake reality while Cal slowly sees Florida as a real person instead of just a “cause” he wants the credit for

Throughout all of this, Gov keeps trying to figure out ways to kill off Cal’s character but Florida and sometimes Louis get in the way

Highlights include:

Cal gets eaten by a shark (animatronic) and Florida tears a hole through it, not realizing that shark anatomy doesn’t include plywood and screws

And

Gov trying to drop a piano on Cal’s head, but Florida hijacked the crane it was on right before the scene and injured a random extra instead by accident

This is anti religion.

My ramblings and version without simon under the cut