New fans of rock legend Queen, don't be fooled by this "biographical movie".
If it weren't for "Bohemian Rhapsody" that shined at the 91st Academy Awards, four of the five important nominations were made, including Best Actor, Best Sound Effects, Best Sound Editing and Best Editing.
If it weren't for the fact that I had quietly been shocked, comforted, inspired, and amazed by the musical melodies of "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Are Champions", "Killer Queen", "Somebody to Love", "Don't Stop Me Now" and so on.
As laymen in rock 'n' roll, we're likely to miss not only the brilliant world music scene of the 1970s, but also the great and extraordinary Queen.
In particular, miss out on the self-deprecating musical rock star, Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury.
Hidden and great Freddie Mercury
Based on the fact that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the essential attribute of a biographical film rather than a documentary biography, to a certain extent, it is inevitable to graft the "facts" or reconstruct them to ensure the artistry of the film, and cleverly set up dramatic conflicts.
So, it would be unwise to look at this film as if it were Freddie Mercury's real life.
His greatness is there for all to see, but the "secrecy" of his life has its own words.
The film's story takes place from 1970 to 1985, that is, Queen's big events from accidentally forming a group to participating in the "Save Lives" large-scale rock concert, the entire 15 years of major events, is compressed into more than two hours of length.
As we all know, Freddie was born in Tanzania, East Africa, on September 5, 1946, and died of pneumonia caused by AIDS on November 24, 1991, at the age of 45.
As the first Asian rock star in the United Kingdom, and the first "bisexual" rock star to die of AIDS, Freddie's outstanding uninhibited on stage and the low-key secret in her private life are extremely contrasting and often controversial.
In the film, Freddie's assistant Paul first threatens his chaotic private life, and then goes on TV to interview freddie's lovers and sexual partners, every gay bar he has been to, an ex-boyfriend who has had AIDS, and many unknown habits and details. In reality, Peter Fries, who served as Freddie's personal assistant for 12 years, used "intimate memoirs written by the people in the world who know him best" as a gimmick to uncover the other side of Freddie's "truth.".
Unlike the film's reasonable fiction, Freddie was actually diagnosed with AIDS in April 1987, first telling his agent Jim, and then at a dinner party, he stretched out his foot that could not heal due to a bleeding wound due to an immune defect, and the truth of the disease came out of the plate.
The touching emotional passages with a ten-year partner in the movie actually do not begin with love at first sight, Freddie has a crush on someone for nearly half a year before confessing to establish a relationship and not officially married. The two are not legally conjugal.
However, Freddie emotionally identified Mary as her wife, and after her death, she left most of the property and music rights, including the mansion, to her, and the ashes were fully disposed of by her.
It is said that Freddie was cremated after her death in accordance with religious rituals, and in view of the media's pursuit and interception, Mary placed the ashes in her home for two years before she was able to bury them in a place known only to her according to Freddie's will.
And jim, who accompanied Freddie until the end of his life, is not like the affectionate bridge section of Freddie alluded to in the movie, looking for two years in London and looking all over the streets to find him. The truth is that for two years, Freddie often sent assistants to secretly track jim, choosing a good opportunity to capture the heart.
The film's "Bohemian Rhapsody", portrayed in Freddie's fatalism, implies the attribution of his tortuous life.
As Peter Fries says, he is one of the most complex personalities in the world.
The psychological trauma caused by the shadow of childhood, half of which fed his talent, half of which fueled his indulgence, could not change this poetic and tragic fate.
Loyal and genius "musical prostitute"
When I perform, I put out a very exaggerated and dramatic Freddie, and inside I am actually a completely opposite person.
Born with four more teeth, he completes his high-pitched brilliant tone across four octaves of wide range. Without dabbling too much in professional music studies, songwriting has a genius awakening and has contributed many masterpieces to the history of world music.
He devoted his life to music, almost never driving, never reading, never cooking, never shooting commercials, correspondingly, he strictly controlled creation, strict control of recording and touring, strict control of mtv creativity and envelope design, strict control of Queen's "unsociable".
It is precisely because of "unsociable" that it has become the world's great crazy Queen band.
Freddie said that the four people in the band are not gregarious, dedicated to singing to the unsociable, to those who are excluded, who silently withdraw from the crowd, and who are sure that they are not social, and we are in their group.
Queen is a family, but they are very different from each other.
Because of her extreme love of music, Freddie can not only break the arrogance of personality, but even break through the limits of the body.
In order to go to Michael Jackson's house to record, he smoked more than 40 cigarettes a day and endured a smoking addiction, not smoking one. In order to be a good fan, Freddie, who meets her idol, becomes unusually docile and shy in front of the opera diva Montzkrat Cabaye.
Particularly admirable is that during his severe illness with AIDS, he rarely showed pain and sorrow, and he devoted himself to music in a positive state, keeping the facts of his AIDS secret until a few days before his death.
Immortal Bohemian Rhapsody
Freddie's biographical Bohemian Rhapsody is one of Queen's greatest works, and Freddie spans four octaves, showing a good voice that crosses from bass f2 to soprano f6.
On 24 August 1975, in the countryside of South Wales, Freddie spent three weeks almost sleeplessly completing the recording, which eventually achieved unusual success.
The single, which lasts nearly 6 minutes, consists of four fragmented and stylistically paced parts, the first of which is Freddie Mercury's anguished confession to the piano accompaniment, "I don't need any sympathy.".
The second part uses an opera aria to sing in unison with the background opera, "Satan prepared a devil for me".
The third part is a wild and heavy metal rock, rebelling against fate's defection with rage and despair, "You can't do this to me, baby".
The whispers of the piano accompaniment in the fourth part gradually return to calm and tranquility, "just want to leave immediately".
It's a god-class composition with no repetitive choruses, full of violent stream-of-consciousness and nightmares. The musical structure is extremely complex and special, and the musical connotation is extremely deep and philosophical, which is incredible and unique in popular music.
The film "Bohemian Rhapsody" was praised as a masterpiece, largely due to the perfect reproduction of Queen's music.
On the "Save Lives" stage, hundreds of thousands of people watched live, more than 150 countries around the world watched on television, 13 satellite broadcasts (only 3 were used at the Olympic Games), and Queen sang to more than 1.5 billion viewers around the world.
Twenty minutes of performance, from beginning to end, at once, if the first part of the performance stops, want to start from the middle part of the performance, everything will become extremely difficult.
On this point, it is worth the tears of music fans, the cheers of movie fans, and the worship of God.
Queen is immortal.