Text | Love cat novelist
Spring is in full bloom, and it is the season of music festivals.
A few days ago, I saw that the band that had been following for a long time began to resume performances, and I was excited and thought that when Beijing could hold a performance, maybe the summer that belonged to the 'band' would come.
In high school, I liked to listen to folk songs, singing the pains of life during the period, and pretending to understand it at a young age.
When I was in college, I began to release the pressure by watching the band scene, and I always poured out some sour taste by rock heavy metal.
The band I know, there is a kind of magic, let people forget their troubles for a while, wave their hands, and only care about the excitement of the time.
Their vocal range is very wide, and the tunes of the instruments colliding with each other can solve a thousand worries.
The movie I want to share today is related to the band, and its high score evaluation is mostly from this real band, which makes many people boil with blood and talk after watching it.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is the song that best represents Freddie's musical style and personal characteristics among Queen's many classics.
"Bohemian" originally referred to the Czech Republic, and later to a group of antisocial, art-oriented people, and a romantic and free art style; "Rhapsody" comes from a musical term, specifically referring to a piece of music composed of different chapters, with different styles and genres, and the changing rhythm of emotions; it is also used to describe the explosion of emotions. 】
Presumably, friends in the 80s should know this band in particular, I have learned more about the band when I chased the band before, but their music is now, and when it is played, everyone will hum along.
So this movie is a 'youth echo' work around the theme of this band.
Bohemian Rhapsody is a tribute to Queen, legendary lead singer Freddie Mercury and their music, a journey of love, pain, acceptance and music.
Freddie Mercury, a former regular porter at Heathrow Airport, was passionate about music and formed Queen with Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon. The hall-of-the-art band's journey from scratch, from alienation to reunion, from trough to peak, seems to be the epitome of Freddie's life. In her final days, Freddie made the most important decision of her life – to put all her blood into singing at the greatest "Save Lives" rock concert in music history.
The title of the song is a good illustration of the art form of contemporary rock and roll: the maverick like a bohemian artist, and the stirring expression of emotions.
There is a little story:
In 1990, Freddie Mercury was so weak that he could barely walk, and he was recording his last album. While recording the last song on the album, guitarist Brian worried that Mercury was too weak to sing the high notes in the song. In the studio, Mercury replied with only one sentence, "I'll fucking do it, darling," and then dried a large glass of vodka through her teeth to complete one of the most perfect recordings in the band's history.
Coincidentally, the song is called "The Show Must Go On." Mercury, who knew that time was running out, never wanted to put an end to her and the band's music.
A year later, the lead singer died, but the band continues to perform to this day.
So after the mainland introduced this movie in 19 years, I still went to the cinema to see it.
I can't say that the film was made perfectly, but it is worth mentioning that I completely indulged in the concert in this movie, singing and singing classics with Freddie.
Queen, a British rock band, was formed in 1971 in London, England, consisting of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon.
In 1973, he released his first studio album Queen. The 1975 album A Night at the Opera gave the band a commercial breakthrough. The 1977 single "Bohemian Rhapsody" won Best British Single at the 1st Brit Awards. In 1980, the singles "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust" won the US Billboard Hot 100. In 1981, a compilation album Greatest Hits was released, which became the highest-selling album in the UK (over 6 million copies). The 1985 performance in "Live Aid" brought the band back to the spotlight. In 1990, he won the Brit Award for Outstanding Musical Contribution. On November 24, 1991, Freddie Mercury passed away. In 1995, the band's last studio album, Made in Heaven, was released. In 1997, John Deacon retired, and the band's remaining members Brian May, Roger Taylor, continued to develop as a band.
In 2001, he was inducted into the 16th American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2002, he left his name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, the singles "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions" were included in the Grammy Hall of Fame, and in 2018, they won the 60th Annual Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in the same year, the band's biopic film "Bohemian Rhapsody" broke the box office record for music biographical films.
This movie cannot be evaluated with an extremely professional eye.
These awards alone and the brilliance that this band was, and still is, should be given a four-star with closed eyes.
This movie is only about the biographical film of Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury, the lead singer is the protagonist, and the experiences of the other members are not too involved.
If I only talk about such a story background, I think the film is quite good.
Was the Scene of Live Aid at the end of the movie shocking? "The film only goes on a 1985 Live Aid, after Freddie and Queen released A Kind Of Magic (1986), and completed the band's largest and most successful world tour that year, followed by The Miracle (1989) and Innuendo (1991). He personally released the first rock classical crossover album "Barcelona" (1988) with one of the world's greatest soprano singers from Spain, who died just last month, and the song of the same name became the theme song of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and became a classic. After Freddie's death, the band members sorted out footage of his posthumous recordings and released Queen's last studio album, Made In Heaven (1995), after which the three members released a single "No One But You" (Only The Good Die Young) in honor of Freddie.
The reason why they chose to only talk about Live Aid was probably because the members of Queen did not want to reproduce the pain of Freddie's final illness and death in front of the world, which was a wound that could never be healed for them, and if they continued to shoot, they would probably collapse completely again. Freddie himself was reluctant to let the world know what his pain looked like, although he insisted on appearing on camera to shoot the MV, and even shot The Are The Days Of Our Lives when he finally couldn't walk. ”
Seeing some popular science with many Queen fans gave me a deeper understanding of lead singer Freddie, who used to hear and tell his story from some unscrupulous media, and then read the biography to know how touching his life was.
I like to watch documentaries and listen to live, so "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a simple story line that records Freddie's life experience, and behind it is the powerful Queen soundtrack.
The film is more about Queen's own outlook on life, world view, values, they are traditional, well-educated British gentlemen, they are also ordinary people, life experience and us are not bad, but in that era foreign countries are also suffering from the rescue of this pair of homosexual 'psychosis', no one can really help anyone speak, what we can see now, is only a little bit of the skin at that time.
It tries its best to restore the costumes and makeup that are almost indistinguishable from the stored images, and the hard work behind the production is only for the passion and enthusiasm of the film when it is released, and also to preserve the youngest and most tearful moments in our hearts.
The Songs of Queen are sung to this day, and I think of this movie every time I hear it on the streets. I've always used images to get to know great people, but the guy in the movie, like reappearing here, running on stage, singing, sweating hard, like exchanging lives with the self who once struggled and struggled, constantly reconciling and seeking redemption, and in the end, he was still the Freddie who could write lyrics in a single turn.
He sings:
"Instead of lingering, it is better to burn calmly." （It's better to burn out, than fade away） ”
The screenwriter took off various labels from him and solemnly handed them to all the audiences.
In the end, what we see is still the purest and kindest image portrayal.