"Bohemian Rhapsody" is strongly ideological and artistic. The ideological connotation of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a Western liberal philosophy, which blends the rebellious and uninhibited spirit of rock and roll, and expresses the vitality and self-consciousness of young people in its own way. At the same time, it has a bohemian artistic temperament of non-traditional music styles, which is unique and makes the audience crazy. "Bohemian Rhapsody" is an action and model for translating thoughts and emotions into beautiful music.
On February 25, 2019, the 91st Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA, and the film "Bohemian Rhapsody" finally won four high-value awards for best actor, best editing, best sound effects and best sound editing, which was the perfect end of the awards season.
Rami Marek won the Oscar for Best Actor for her role in "Bohemian Rhapsody" for her role as Queen's Freddie Mercury, becoming the first Egyptian-American in history to win the award.
The film "Bohemian Rhapsody", a tribute to Queen, legendary lead singer Freddie Mercury and their music, broke the box office record for a music biographical film.
Queen queen. British rock band, founded in London in 1971, consists of lead singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian Harold May, drummer Roger Taylor and bassist John Deacon.
Rami Marek (left) and Freddie Mercury (right)
Freddie Mercury. British musician, lead singer of Queen. Born on September 5, 1946 in Tanzania, East Africa. He died of pneumonia caused by AIDS on 24 November 1991, at the age of 45 just one day after he made his illness public (23 November 1991).
Freddie Mercury has been called "Britain's first Asian rock star" and in 2002, she was ranked 58th in the BBC's "100 Greatest Britons" poll for britons.
In 2006, Time Magazine Asia nominated him one of the most influential Asian-American heroes of the past 60 years, and he has been consistently voted one of the greatest singers in the history of pop music.
Known for his high-pitched tone and dramatic performances, Freddy also had a brilliant creative talent, writing many of Queen's legendary works, such as bohemian rhapsody, we are the champions, killer queen, somebody to love, don't stop me now, etc.
Queen, UK
For Freddie Mercury and Queen, the popularity in China may not be very high. I remember that there was a time when I heard others stomping and humming every day at school or on the street when there was an activity: we will we will rock you, at that time I didn't know where the song came from, but I would still be like others, and I couldn't help but stomp my feet after hearing the lyrics.
There are also some people who know them through the CCTV sports channel, because of the song "We are the champions" we are the champion.
It wasn't until the advent of this film that the public, including me, really began to get to know Queen and its lead singer Freddy's life.
When freddy sang "Mom" at the end of the film's "live aid" concert, many of the audience's tears began to roll in their eyes. Many people will be surprised: it turns out that this song was sung by them, and it turns out that this song is the bohemian rhapsody of bohemian rhapsody!
The song "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a bohemian rhapsody, one of Queen's greatest works, written and composed by Freddy, released on October 31, 1975, and included in Queen's fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera. This song is quite well known in Western society, so it is often colloquially referred to as "bo rhap".
After the release of the single "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1975, it was an unusually huge success. Topped the UK Singles Chart for nine consecutive weeks and sold over 2 million copies in the UK, setting a record for the highest-selling single in UK history at the time. Now third in history, after Do They Know It's Christmas? and Candle in the Wind 1997.
In 1977, the song won the Best Single Award at the 1st Brit Awards. In 1991, the song topped the British Pop Chart singles chart again, winning for 5 consecutive weeks. In 2018, the film of the same name based on the song, "Bohemian Rhapsody", was released worldwide.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is Queen's most personal song. In a sense, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a subversion of rock and roll in the form of classical music. The musical structure is very special, there is no repetitive chorus in the song, but it is composed of many fragmented and stylistically different parts, including opera, heavy metal, oratorio, etc., and is full of violent streams of consciousness and nightmares. This is incredible in popular music.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" can make people feel a kind of contradiction but also full of excitement, and the lyrics are full of fatalistic allegories, Freddy and Queen have not explained the true meaning of the song, but the band member May once said that "Bohemian Rhapsody" implies Freddy's personal psychological trauma, he recalled: "Freddy hid the uneasiness of childhood, disguised by debauchery, he was a complex person, he did not explain the meaning of the lyrics, but I think he put himself in that song." ”。
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is about Freddy's short, but dazzling life!
i sometimes wish i'd never been born at all – I sometimes wish I had never existed;
But i'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me – but I'm a poor boy and no one likes it.
The lyrics are more poignant and more blunt, which is the cry of Freddy's own heart. Looking at the lyrics, it seems that there is a sudden sense of bleak pity for the same disease, and it turns out that whether it is an ordinary person like us or a genius like Freddy, a similar feeling will be born.
In the film, Freddy says out loud: Let me tell you / We are not gregarious / So our music is made for people like us / Those who are marginalized at the low point of life / We are sure that they do not belong to anyone / and we sing for them - "Bohemian Rhapsody"
A song cannot be sung and circulated without thought. The song "Bohemian Rhapsody" has a huge relationship with its epochal background and unique philosophy of thought.
Neoliberalism is the dominant school of modern British political thought. Neoliberalism refers to a philosophy of political economy that opposes state intervention in the domestic economy. It advocates safeguarding individual freedom, mediating social contradictions, and safeguarding the capitalist system of free competition in the new historical period.
The earliest representatives of neoliberalism were mostly professors, scholars and researchers at Oxford University. At the beginning of the 20th century, neoliberalism gradually became an important foundation of British official policy, and its influence spread throughout the British Isles and extended to Western Europe, causing profound changes in Western political thought and practice. The two world wars severely hindered the spread of neoliberalism in Europe, but its ideological principles were embodied in North America. After the Second World War, the influence of neoliberalism also expanded.
The oil crisis of the 1970s had a severe impact on the economies of the developed countries of the West, with the price index rising, gdp falling, inflation, and the number of unemployed rising. Keynesianism was shelved, welfare state policies could not be implemented, and neoliberalism was further recognized and developed globally. In terms of economic policy, it advocates economic privatization, economic marketization, and economic globalization, which has laid a theoretical foundation for economic recovery and development.
The philosophical foundation of neoliberalism is individualism. It believes that individual rights, especially the right to freedom of individuals, are sacrosanct. The personal preferences and interests of every member of society should be respected and protected, and the advantages and disadvantages of one kind of standard cannot be distinguished between many personal interests and demands. Everyone has the freedom to set their own goals and take measures to achieve them, and this freedom should be protected.
In the neoliberal view, individual rights become the yardstick for judging the success or failure of all social behaviors, and individual interests become the driving force for explaining all historical events. In the relationship between the individual and society, neoliberalism believes that the reality of the individual determines the superiority of the individual over society, that society is composed of countless individuals, and that the character of the individual determines the nature of the whole society.
The state is only a part of society, the state and society are likewise composed of individual living individuals, and the state and society have no special additional rights. Therefore, the individual takes precedence over the state and society, and there are clear boundaries of rights between individuals, societies and states, and society and the State cannot violate the rights of individuals by crossing the line under any pretext.
The spirit of the '60s was rebellious, the culture of the '60s was rebellious, and the life of the '60s was rebellious. In the West in the 1960s, a considerable number of young people despised tradition, abandoned morality, consciously distanced themselves from mainstream society, and expressed their rebellion against real society with a unique way of life that could not be seen in mainstream society, these people were called "hippie", and the rebellion movement with the participation of hippies and the rebellion of culture and life as the main content was called the "hippie movement".
In the 1960s, under the historical atmosphere of student rebellion, the hippie movement took shape and hippie culture became popular. At that time, many young people rebelled against society and resisted tradition by wearing strange costumes, long hair, long beards, wearing ultra-short skirts, taking drugs, listening to rock music, dancing swing dances, homosexuality, and social villages.
The hippies themselves believe that Western society is at the junction of old and new cultures, that they are the vanguard of the times, that they are actively creating a new life and a new cause that has never been done before. The hippies' proverb, "do your own things," reflects their vision and defiance of reality, of tradition.
Hippies hope that by escaping from mainstream society, free debauchery and free life without any restraint, they can recover the original lust of man lost in the highly developed modern rational society, restore the power of cultural creation contained in man's personality, resist the strangulation of human nature by the current rational society, and strive to achieve the transcendence of culture, the liberation of the human spirit and the renewal of man's living state.
They believed that with the rise of the hippie movement, there would be a new awakening among the masses and the dawn of a new century of true freedom, equality, and fraternity.
Rock 'n' roll is the collective religion of the "hippies", which expresses their inner world. Especially the rebellious and uninhibited spirit of rock and roll. Two of the most admired "hippies" of the time were rock bands: beatles and rollingstones. Their emergence pushed the "hippie culture" to a climax.
Rock 'n' roll expresses the discontent of young people in its distinctive way; it makes people restless, exhilarating, and wants to move with music; and this movement is entirely driven by inner feelings—no rules, no pace, how you want to move, fully expressing vitality, expressing the existence of the self.
In addition, rock music uses modern sound equipment and lighting to create a dreamlike world effect, making people feel that music does not come from the stage, but from people's internal organs, from the depths of the heart, making people feel the existence of a new "me".
It should be further seen that although the hippie movement stems from the rebellious consciousness and rebellious impulse of young people, from the doubt and denial of everything that exists, the spiritual core of the hippie movement and hippie culture is still the two basic values of the Western world: liberalism and individualism.
Neoliberal and hippie culture had a huge influence on Queen's lead singer Freddy. When we look back at the lives of Queen and Fred, a clear clue is that they were never mainstream, and in terms of artistic pursuits, song styles, images, and even Fred's stage performances, they were all out of the ordinary in british society in the 1970s and 1980s.
Freddy and his Band Queen's elaborate Bohemian Rhapsody not only meant a rebellion against the rights of reality, tradition, morality, rules, and culture, but also the process by which they created a new life. Start with the self, start with the feelings of the self.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a complete embodiment of "doing your own thing". It is to abolish the monopoly of the right to speak of the stars, to let all people who love music "do it themselves" to create music and express themselves; to let everyone really "independently" engage in music, without making tradition, authority or large companies a hindrance to whether music or my own development.
I'm willing to take risks for music. Before it's too late, before I can do anything but curl up in a wheelchair, I want to go to places I've never been, like China, Russia. I'd be wearing the same tights, and look, I can imagine them pushing me, and I was in a wheelchair, still singing Bohemian Rhapsody. —Freddie Mercury
Thanks to the film's director, we were able to see the magnificent scene of that concert in 1985. The four-member Queen band, the passionate Freddy, mobilized the passion and enthusiasm of eighty thousand viewers. His arms sometimes point to the sky, challenging God with the melody of youth, sometimes swinging his fists, showing his heroism of not succumbing to fate.
Eighty thousand people sang with him, and "Bohemian Rhapsody" resounded throughout the stadium, the whole sky, the whole universe.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a celebration of life and a monument to dreams. You and I, not Freddy, but we can also go forward with candles and find our own dreams, big or small, it doesn't matter, everyone's life is their own.
The lyrics of "Bohemian Rhapsody" are the most important shouts and reflections of life, which makes people feel excited and tearful. Life is limited, it seems like a hundred years, in fact, not necessarily, if you burn in a limited time to release light and heat, how to find and adhere to the true self, is a very difficult thing, but there will always be someone to do, no remorse, let it go, cut through thorns, ride the wind and waves.
A rock of life is shouting, and I won't miss Bohemian Rhapsody in my own time.