This year's awards season is a little different.
The hottest topic is not "black", nor "feminism", but "music".
Two musical films swept Hollywood, competing for the Golden Globes and hitting the Oscars with super-strong heads.
One is "The Birth of a Star", which was previously pushed, Lady Gaga was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and won the National Critics Association Award for Best Actress;
The other one is going to talk about today, word of mouth against the sky -
Bohemian Rhapsody
<h1>Bohemian Rhapsody</h1>
It's no exaggeration to say that it has swept the awards season.
At the recent Golden Globe Awards, it just won best feature film and best actor.
But fans of Queen must be well aware of the meaning of the title "Bohemian Rhapsody".
Because this is one of their most prestigious songs.
As one of the "greatest bands of all time in the UK", Queen has an unshakable place in the rock circle.
Their songs are extremely popular and infectious, and they still occupy the number one album sales chart in British history.
Even if you really don't know where they are, you've definitely heard "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions."
Queen once represented the legend of an era, and today, this musical biographical film about them has once again created a new glory.
Just 5 weeks after its release, Bohemian Rhapsody set a new record and became the highest-grossing musical biographical film of all time.
It has grossed more than $750 million worldwide.
The film's writers, Anthony McCarten and Pete Morgan—
The former wrote "The Theory of Everything" and "The Darkest Hour", and the male protagonists of both films won Oscars for this;
The latter wrote Dialogue with Nixon and The Queen, both of which were nominated for The Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director.
It can be said that these two big guys work together to produce, which is properly the limited model of the award season.
Not surprisingly, it will be the seeded contestants for this year's Oscars.
The audience's reputation is even more explosive:
Douban score 8.9.
IMDb 180,000 people scored 8.3.
The members of Queen are all legends:
Lead vocals – Freddie Mercury
The soul of Queen, the typhoon is gorgeous and has a wide range of voices, and is a highly talented singer-songwriter. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was written by him.
He is known to fans as "Uncle Tooth" for his iconic tooth decay.
The character was originally scheduled to be played by Sasha Byron Cohen, who had the closest face shape, but fell out with the creator because of sasha's insistence on making an R-rated film.
In the end, it was decided to be Rami Marek, who became popular because of "The Matrix Army".
Guitarist – Brian May
The most "academic" guitarist in history. His other status is a Master of Physics, a Doctor of Astronomy and an Honorary President of the University of Liverpool.
Since his debut, the hairstyle of "Mei Ye" has not changed, especially after the gray hair, live scene was jokingly called "Newton playing guitar" by fans.
Drummer – Roger Taylor
The whole team is responsible for the appearance, with its own sucking female powder physique, and fans send nicknames "Flowers".
Although it is not the lead singer, its natural metal voice is quite recognizable, especially the false high pitch is ridiculously high, and can simultaneously assume the soprano, soprano, tenor, and bass 4 parts of the harmony.
Bassist – John Deacon
He was the latest and youngest member of the band to join, quiet and silent, with a weak sense of presence.
He retired shortly after the death of Uncle Tooth.
Each of the four members has a wonderful story, and their respective fan groups are also a big catch.
But to say "legendary", it is still the lead singer "Uncle Tooth" as the most.
Born in the British colony (now Tanzania), Uncle Tooth grew up in India to devout Zoroastrian parents (the most influential religion in the Middle East and West Asia before the birth of Islam).
Later, in order to escape the war, the family moved to London.
The family atmosphere is traditional and conservative.
In the film, "Uncle Tooth" before joining Queen is just an airport porter, and sneaking out at night to play music will be severely criticized by his father.
At this time, the astronomy doctoral student "Mei Ye" and the dentist "Hua Hua" have long been fixed partners, they belong to the band Smile, and they have a small reputation on campus.
Later, Smile's original lead singer left the team, and "Uncle Tooth" introduced himself, which led to a later legend.
However, what is not explained in the movie is that "Uncle Tooth" has formed two bands since elementary school music, but both ended in disbandment.
Until he met "Mei Ye" and "Hua Hua".
"Uncle Tooth" seemed introverted in life, but as soon as he stood on the stage, it was as if he had changed as a person, and the typhoon was gorgeous and exaggerated, which was unique in Britain at that time.
Soon, the talented Band Queen attracted the attention of the scouts.
Due to space limitations, the film does not explain the history of Queen's development in great detail, but focuses on the creation process of "Bohemian Rhapsody" with "Uncle Tooth" as the protagonist.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" came from a bold idea from "Uncle Tooth":
Rock 'n' roll on the scale of an opera.
The song is nearly 6 minutes long and extremely complex in structure, including opera, heavy metal, guitar solo, oratorio, etc., and the styles of each part are very different, and the lyrics are even more obscure.
In the film, the whole team moved to an independent small building in the countryside to retreat and create, boldly experimenting with various instruments and styles.
There is an unknown "Galileo" (Galileo) in the lyrics of the harmony of "Flower Flower", he soared over and over again, "Uncle Tooth" was still not satisfied, tried countless times.
At the end of the recording, even the magnetic powder was almost worn out.
The song was completed in a seriously overdue time, making it the most expensive song to produce at the time.
However, the 6-minute length is unacceptable to the record company, as only 3 minutes of songs can be played on TV.
Either it will be cut or it will not be used as the title song.
"Uncle Tooth" is angry, the song can not be deleted for a second, and must be the album's title.
In the film, he even mocks the management:
If you think it's six minutes long, I'm really upset with your wife.
In the end, the two sides fell apart and the whole song was hidden in the snow.
In the BBC interview documentary, "Mei Ye" broke the news:
One guy named Kenny Everett loved the song so much that he stole the tape and ran it 14 times on his radio.
However, there are also rumors that Queen deliberately brought samples to this young man.
In the movie, it is "Uncle Tooth" who personally makes a guest appearance on the radio station and shares the music with the host of the program.
In short, "Bohemian Rhapsody", a song that the record company once claimed would never release, suddenly became popular all over the country.
Eventually, the album reached number one on the UK Christmas Chart in 1975 and lasted for nine weeks.
Later, in 1991, after the death of "Uncle Tooth", the song was re-released and won the first place in the UK Christmas charts for the second time, which lasted for 5 weeks.
In addition, the lyrics of "Bohemian Rhapsody" are still divided. The creator "Uncle Tooth" refuses to explain this, and the whole band still holds the secret.
"Mei Ye" hints at the personal trauma of "Uncle Tooth" hidden in this song:
Freddie is a very complex person, flirtatious and funny on the surface, but inside he hides insecurities, hiding the problems of his life and the reckoning with his childhood. He never explained the lyrics, but I think he put a lot of his ego into the song.
Another song highlighted in the movie is the popular "We Will Rock You".
The song was inspired by "Mei Ye", who was shocked by the feeling of tens of millions of audiences singing together during a concert, and felt very cool.
He thought about how to get the audience to participate in the song collectively.
As a result, the rhythm of stomping and clapping that we are all too familiar with has naturally occurred in our minds.
Bang Bang! Bang Bang! Bang Bang!
For the first time in the history of music, the interaction between the singer and the audience was so high.
As mentioned earlier, the film is based on "Uncle Tooth", so there will be quite a lot of space dealing with private life other than band matters.
This is naturally also the part of the gossip tabloid that is most interesting.
Uncle Tooth is bisexual, which is almost an open secret, although he himself has never directly admitted it.
Many people focus only on his same-sex partner, but tend to ignore his girlfriend Mary Austin, who he once had a relationship with and lived with for many years.
Although the two later broke up, Uncle Ya always called Mary "the love of his life".
He once said:
All my lovers asked me why they couldn't take Mary's place, but that simply couldn't happen. The only friend I have is Mary. We trust each other, and that's enough for me.
The famous "Love of My Life" was dedicated to Mary.
Moreover, so far, only Mary in the world knows the true location of Uncle Tooth's ashes, not even Uncle Tooth's parents.
According to his last wishes, he hoped to gain peace after his death, and did not want to be disturbed by many people.
The film spends a considerable amount of ink to present the true love between Uncle Tooth and Mary, including a very romantic marriage proposal.
However, it is easy for the audience to misunderstand that Uncle Tooth is not actually married to Mary.
He did propose, but as Mary later recalled, it seemed to have been a whim on Uncle Tooth's part, because the marriage was never mentioned again.
Another important figure who influenced Uncle Tooth's life was Paul Prenter, the agent who had worked for many years.
In the movie, this person is portrayed as extremely despicable and selfish, maliciously blocking Uncle Tooth's contact with the outside world, provoking the relationship between Uncle Tooth and his teammates, and pointing out that he is the manipulator of Uncle Tooth's depravity.
Although some of the plots about this person in the film are relatively different from the facts, they basically conform to the public's impression:
He is a selfish parasite.
Especially after he was fired by Uncle Tooth, he revealed to the Sun that Uncle Tooth was gay and revealed a lot of information about Uncle Tooth's sexual partner.
In the film, it was adapted to be reported by television.
Whether Paul Plant is really so evil, we don't know.
But what is certain is that both "Hua Hua" and "Mei Ye" have made it clear that they do not like this agent very much, and their ideas as key figures in the production of this film must have penetrated into the script.
Even if there is really a suspicion of smear, he has no way to stand up and defend. Because he died of AIDS as early as 1991, the same year as Uncle Tooth.
The focus of the entire film is on the final century concert, Live Aid.
The massive rock concert on July 13, 1985, had an "unprecedented lineup" at the time.
David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Paul McKetterney, Madonna, Bob Dylan, U2...
The show was watched by 90,000 people and broadcast live in more than 140 countries, attracting nearly 1.5 billion TV viewers.
Although the show lasted 16 hours, the time allocation of more than 100 rock stars was still tight, with a quota of only one or two songs per person, but Queen's performance time was half an hour!
The opening track is "Bohemian Rhapsody".
The film basically restores the entire performance, recreating the scene of the explosion as it was.
Even if you are not a rock lover on weekdays, you can still be infected with tears.
The movie is still like this, how shocking the real scene should be, Uncle Fish is really unimaginable.
Queen's performance was later voted "the greatest rock scene of all time" by British music critics.
The film came to an abrupt halt amid cheers from the audience, when in reality Uncle Tooth was diagnosed with HIV two years after Live Aid, but he did not disclose his condition to the public until November 23, 1991, when he made a public statement.
However, before the media and fans could react, the next day, that is, on the evening of the 24th, Uncle Ya died forever.
Whether it is in this movie or documentary, Uncle Ya has said that he will become a legend.
He did.
At the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, Uncle Ya reappeared on the stage in the form of a video.
This is the classic interaction at Wembley Stadium in 1986, uncle Tooth shouting rhythm on the stage, and the audience responding below, which lasted for several minutes.
Therefore, the queen's fan pitch is the best.
The flesh will die, but the music will not.
Even in another century, Queens will still be the best rock band!
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