"Bohemian Rhapsody" is recognized by Queen fans as Queen's greatest work, named after queen's biopic, and apparently director Brian Singer is a down-and-out Queen fan. Although Foss later found another director to do the editing, the shooting part was almost completed by Singer, and the editor was Brian Singer's royal use, so this can basically be identified as Singh's work.
The important role of Queen in the history of British and American pop music need not be said, just a few sporadic facts can be seen. In the uk music album history sales chart, Queen took two places including the top spot. Album sales have been on the UK Album Sales Week chart for a total of 1322 weeks, or 27 years.
It should be reminded that Queen was formed in 1971, and lead singer Freddy Mercury died in 1991, which is 20 years, but the album has been on the charts for 27 years. Incomplete statistics, Queen's well-known fans include lady gaga, "fruit sister" Katie Paley, Adam Lambert, etc., lady gaga's name is from a song "radio ga ga" by Queen.
These facts all prove the influence of Queen in the European and American music scenes.
Freddie Mercury is the soul of Queen, fans have the impression of him as a strong body, a "wayward" tooth but a naturally good voice, Queen's most famous tracks are almost all sung by him, including but not limited to "We are the champin", "we will rock you", "killer queen" and "bohemian rhapsody" as the title of the film.
Until 2017, when people mentioned Queen, the first thing that came to mind was Freddy Mercury. This unruly boy from East Africa, Britain's first Asian rock star, single-handedly created the immortal legend of Queen.
He died of HIV in 1991, and his sexual orientation was male, which added many legends to his story. The director of the film, Brian Singer, is also a well-known gay director, and how a well-known comrade can compose the story of another well-known comrade is very attractive in itself.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is very appropriate in the musical part and the cast selection part.
The music section selects almost all of Queen's well-known tracks "We Are the Champin", "We Will Rock You", "Killer Queen", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "A Day at the Races", "Somebody to Love", "News of the World"... These familiar melodies sounded, and Queen fans could not sit still.
You know, half of the music scene in Europe and the United States is a fan of queen. It could even be argued that "Bohemian Rhapsody" won so many honors during the awards season that most of the credit went to Queen. Brian Singer has chosen a great genre with its own traffic, attention, box office, and soundtrack sales.
Arguably, with the song, the film was at least half the way through.
Speaking of casting issues, the actor Rami Marek, who plays Freddie Mercury, is tall, handsome and has small teeth, especially the last point of quite a godlike, it is difficult to find such an actor. He can be selected to play Mercury, which is simply the fate of fate. The only thing that is not enough is that the aura is slightly weaker, but the image and performance can be said to be very close.
Next, let's talk about the story of Bohemian Rhapsody.
The film begins in 1971, the year Queen formed, and tells the history of the band between 14 years after they formed. Mercury died in 1991, but the film did not choose to end with Mercury's death, but chose the climax of Queen's career, the 1985 live aid "Save Lives" big rock concert. In the last 20 minutes of the film, the panorama recreates the grand scene of a 20-minute performance in which thousands of people sing "We are the champin" together.
Throughout the play, the rhythm, editing, and atmosphere are in place around the music, and the protagonist of this scene is actually music. The director was once the director of the X-Men series, and is the most successful series of group dramas in superhero movies. After 20 minutes of "Bohemian Rhapsody", from the big vista to the close-up, the interaction on and offstage stage is very smooth and outstanding, and Brian Singer exhibits a powerful large-scene group scheduling skill.
The rest of the big shows are very rhythmic. It can be said that each story in the film alone is very successful, enough to make a queen fan fully burn.
But Brian Singer takes a generational approach to telling a coherent story, which is embarrassing.
The film selects several events as nodes to present. Queen was founded in 1971, released her first album Queen in 1973, toured in 1973 and subsequently broke up with her first wife and recognized her gay identity, released "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1975, released "We Will Rock You" as a single in 1977, Mercury made an album alone in the early 1980s, and returned to the band and performed in 1985, which also included Mercury's sexual orientation identity and emotional disputes with several boyfriends.
The film shows the history of the band's development over the past fourteen years, as well as Mercury's own emotional entanglement, which should be a complete vein, but the constantly jumping timeline divides the coherent emotions. Every time, when the audience's emotions reach a climax, expecting a more exciting emotional drama in the next second, the director shouts "click", limiting the expression of a lot of content.
Mercury's era was an era of "homophobicism" in American history. In the early 1980s, the first cases of AIDS were detected in the United States, followed by the spread of sexual liberation movements that allowed AIDS to spread rapidly throughout the United States.
At that time, people's fear of AIDS was quite serious, and according to the content of the film, the director obviously intended to find points that could dig deep into the hearts of the characters in terms of sexual orientation identity and acceptance of AIDS. However, due to this incoherent narrative method, the emotions and arcs of the characters cannot be fully displayed.
The director could have abandoned this narrative and focused on finding a line to perfect Mercury's characterization, but the director did not choose to do so.
The most impressive thing in the film is that in the previous scene Mercury fired an agent who wanted to persuade him to fly alone, and the next scene immediately changed his attitude and signed a solo contract to do the album, without even paving the way for a minimal character emotional change.
Not to mention the sudden arrival of the sexual orientation identity process and the series of mutations that suddenly decided to return a second before the end of the show, the character must not be valid in the eyes of viewers who are not Queen fans.
The shaping of a complete character must have complete emotional changes and sufficient motivation to convince the audience, so as to produce a character arc, which is a living person. Brian Singer's narrative approach personally cut off the possibility of digging deep into the character of the entire film, creating the feeling of being so flashy now.
It is a biographical film with a strong character arc, Brian's wrong choice has pulled the film to a mediocre level, as half a queen fan and fan, even a passing score is squeezed out of the teeth. This passing score still depends on the wonderful restoration of Queen and the last 20 minutes, if there is no such two points, I am afraid it is another failing movie.
It seems that only the legend of Queen is truly immortal.
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