So anyway I saw Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) yesterday and I liked it a lot. It made me emotional, I was mouthing along to the songs, Rami malek is fucking wonderful. Queens a big BIG thing in my family and so I know that there were some historical inaccuracies but honestly? It was a fun, inspiring portrayal of an amazing man. Its well shot, the actors are great. Maybe the dialogue gets clunky but it’s still good.
And then I see that it’s only got 50 odd percent on Rotten Tomatoes which, whatever, critics suck. THEN I read a review to see what everyone’s mad about and let me tell you I am fuming.
I read an economist article that worried that stopping other biopic in 1985 “might prevent an excellent performance from being a prize-winning one, of the sort that earned Oscars for Tom Hanks in “Philadelphia” (1993) and Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyers Club” (2013).”
What. The. fuck. One of my favourite things about this film is that it didn’t show the horrible, pain-porn, graceful and yet horrific decline into aids that every other film about queer men in the 80’s milks out. The LGBT community knows about the aids crisis. Everyone knows that Freddie died of AIDS related illnesses. I’m so fucking sick of gay tragedies.
I loved this film because instead of being a glorification of his death it was a celebration of his life. You want to know when Freddie Mercury informed the public he had AIDS? The day before he died. He didn’t want to be a poster boy, a spectacle. He was a person outside of his illness.
Queer people don’t exist to die peacefully on your screen, leaving you with a hopeful majestic quote about how really everything’s going to be a alright. Growing up gay I truly thought I wouldn’t be able to be happy. Why? Because in every portrayal of a queer character they either died horribly or died alone.
So yes. I like this film. I like having a film about a queer person that focused on their life instead of their death
God all I can think of is those photos of them actually having a drinking contest?? And I’m gonna make a case for John and Brian here, because I feel like they’d 100% get it into their heads to secretly be trying to one-up each other the entire time. Honestly John Deacon may be tiny but he’s also basically 90% spite and sass, and given that he had a fake amp exclusively to store a mini bar in and that he was no stranger to the clubs himself I’d say his tolerance is probably higher than we realize.
I wanna say Brian’s mom instincts would kick in eventually and he’d step out, but honestly the evidence doesn’t lie.
That is not the face of a mom friend. That is the face of a bad idea bear, and I think that’s John right behind him looking for another drink. The blind are leading the blind here.
That leaves Roger and Freddie, and I think they probably have the best chances of winning but also the best chances of eliminating themselves or getting distracted. If they can keep it together it’s really any man’s game and the odds are good for both of them. I agree with you that Roger could probably find a ton of ways to get himself out, but since Freddie is so frequently his partner in crime they might just be together in it. Either way it’ll be a long night for both Crystal and Phoebe, that’s all I know for sure!
Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor are a peak symbiotic relationship in the form of Car Friend/Gay Friend Who Can’t Drive and I think that’s beautiful
Also worth noting that Roger Taylor and Brian May are a peak symbiotic relationship in the form of Blind Friend Who Doesn’t Want To Look Like A Nerd By Wearing His Glasses/Nerd Friend With Perfect Vision and that’s beautiful too
“1 in 4 people owns a cat” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person owns 0 cats. Freddie Mercury, who lives in cave & adopts over 10,000 cats each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
“John Deacon Is A Father Of 6″ actually statistical era. John Deacon is a father of nine. His three band mates are children and should have been counted.
Bohemian Rhapsody. We Will Rock You. Somebody To Love. All hit singles, and all the direct product of a band that was formed when an astrophysicist and a dentistry major found a new friend in an art college, who then went on to recruit a fourth member from the electronics school. Based on this alliance I propose the rift in society between Arts and STEM students was fabricated to keep us separated so as to dilute our true power – and fabricated by who, you may ask? The business major, the only member of society who reaps no reward from art and science and thus must weaken us so as to stay ahead. In this essay I will
People are protesting that we must boycott the film Bohemian Rhapsody because, and I quote, “the trailer erases Mercury’s homosexuality by having him flirt with a woman and whitewashes him!” Which is funny, because these people are basically erasing Freddie Mercury’s bisexuality and his relationship with Mary Austin and whitewashing Rami Malek at the same time in order to back their shitty excuse of an argument.
Now, repeat with me:
Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.
Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was
bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.
Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was
bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.
Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was
bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.
This has been a PSA.
Please don’t boycott this movie, my dad worked on it and said that Brian May was talking to him and saying that he was so happy that they were true to how Freddie was and how Rami was doing an exceptional job at portraying him
I can’t believe this is still up for debate, I mean why do you sons of bitches think we leave out milk and cookies for Freddie on Bisexual Visability Day Eve???
People are protesting that we must boycott the film Bohemian Rhapsody because, and I quote, “the trailer erases Mercury’s homosexuality by having him flirt with a woman and whitewashes him!” Which is funny, because these people are basically erasing Freddie Mercury’s bisexuality and his relationship with Mary Austin and whitewashing Rami Malek at the same time in order to back their shitty excuse of an argument.
Now, repeat with me:
Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.
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