(1) Orthodontic: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Freddie is a bulging mouth and buck teeth. In "Bohemian Rhapsody," the reporter asked him why he didn't trim his teeth, and he said he wanted to get together in the UK. This is certainly a joke. After reading this paragraph, I think he is so fucking cool. I am also a buck-tooth. From childhood to large, people kept getting my teeth trimmed, and over time I felt that I was a rubbish, and I would not get any love. My lack of love is all because of my buck teeth. Can anybody find me somebody to love?
Freddie also said that he was born with four front teeth, and his mouth is wider than ordinary people, so the sound range is also wider. It happens that my vocal range is also quite wide, this is fate in the dark. Damn, I don't want to have my teeth anymore.
The whole "Bohemian Rhapsody" tells the story of incompatibility. When I first signed, the record company executives asked Queen what is better than other rockstar wannabe? Freddie replied without hesitation that they would dedicate to those who don't belong anywhere. The anxiety of the other Queen members is at best the incompatibility of the crazy-loving middle-class man of science and technology. Only Freddie is a complex of personal and automatic full-dimensional identity anxiety.
This biography, which is more regular than the college entrance examination essay, revolves around Freddie's identity anxiety. Anxiety about the place of birth- not admitting that he was a Persian boy who was born in East Africa and grew up in India, everyone thought he was a local boy in London. Faith anxiety- living in the Christian world, the original belief was Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrianism (known as Mingjiao in China) is too far away from contemporary life. The only thing I am familiar with is that Nietzsche borrowed the name of their prophet to write a book called "The Saying of Zarathustra". Life choice anxiety-the strict father is determined to train the "good words and good deeds" of his good middle-class boys, can not tolerate any of his choices, he can not be accepted by his father in any case; and the most talked about by tabloids- he Anxiety of sexual orientation.
A few major anxieties made him fall into a hard mode where it is difficult to be himself anyway. According to hearsay theories (I don't know if it is true or false), serious identity anxiety is always associated with creativity, because they spend a lot of time observing the environment, thinking about themselves, and then evolving into creativity. The line in the "Green Book" "I am not black enough, nor white enough, I am not even man enough, so who am I?" It is the same, or even more applicable, to Freddie. He has gone through many, many struggles- It takes so long a lifetime to straighten up and say, "I will be myself."
(Two) Star: Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see
Another thing that pushed Freddie to the position of a superstar was his amazing stage performance-he was strictly disciplined in his childhood, supplemented by rigorous technical training, and applied to people with rich inspiration. Once the constraints are loosened, the artistic side It can explode in one burst and bloom the most beautiful flowers. So Freddie is the real star in Queen.
He can even be said to be the only star in Queen. Queen is famous in China because the band members are all academic masters, astrophysicist Brain May, dentist Roger Taylor, and electronic engineer John Deacon. However, what Freddie said when trying to hurt his teammates in the film is actually correct. They may have good ones. Music technology can do all kinds of behind-the-scenes work, but they are not "front man". Without Freddie, it would be difficult for people to notice the existence of such a band.
If everyone in a band is a star, then one person's AIDS can spread to the entire band. Queen, three otaku and a star. The biography of Freddie can only tell the story of his own person, but the biographies of other people have to tell Freddie.
Stars are all born and cannot be acquired through hard work. The recording industry needs Freddie: his extravagant lifestyle, a large number of lovers, his moody and difficult personality for the staff, a true drama queen. "Bohemian Rhapsody" uses modern technology to reproduce the passionate scenes of Freddie. If you don't pay attention, you will miss the moment of great birth. A 15-inch laptop screen and hundreds of speakers can’t show a star. We have to go to the cinema. Not only should I watch imax, but also the follow-up version, preferably the follow-up version of imax, in order to feel the stage that Freddie once radiated.
(3) Halo: Too late, my time has come
I have to admit that the film is not excellent in terms of plot. The global box office of 860 million US dollars is not unrelated to its more popular plot, so I prefer to regard it as a musical rather than a feature film. In order to organize Freddie’s life into a story line that is more suitable for mainstream Hollywood blockbusters-"Love", "Going Home", "The Prodigal Son's Heart", "Accept Yourself", the attribution becomes single, and the characters tend to be stereotype. the good, the bad ,the ugly.
Brian May and Roger Taylor participated vigorously in the filming of the film, and the images of the two were beautified to a certain extent. Since John Deacon lived a very hard-core retirement life after Freddie's death (refused to participate in all public activities, including the production of the film and even the premiere, and did not have any contacts with colleagues in the music industry), he has few scenes To almost non-existent. The film also treated Freddie's solo as the main cause of the band's disintegration, but in fact, Brian and Roger published their solo albums in the early 1980s, and the band was once worried that Freddie's gay identity would affect the development of the band.
On the other hand, the villain agent Paul Prenter in the film, in reality, other members of the band hate him very much. After separating from Freddie, he sold a lot of Freddie’s privacy to The Sun-for example, several editions of intimate photos of Freddie and his male partners, entitled "Queen Men"; another example is Freddie crying late at night and worrying about herself. Will catch AIDS, because his two dates died of AIDS...These reports made Paul earn tens of thousands of pounds. After the report was published, Paul cried and begged Freddie to reconcile, but Freddie was very hurt and never spoke to him again. In 1991, Paul Prenter also died of AIDS.
Freddie died on November 24, 1991. When he was dying, his partner Jim Hutton (the film was stamped as true love) was by his side. Jim and Freddie met in 1985. Jim likes gardening and is not very interested in the rock and roll life. According to Brian May's obituary, Jim gave Freddie "another perspective on life."
In 1987, when Freddie found out that he was suffering from AIDS, he immediately told Jim that if you were to move away from me, I understand... Jim answered without a second thought, how could it happen, Freddie, I love you! In 1990, Jim was also tested positive for HIV, but he didn't tell Freddie about it until a year later, and he took care of Freddie until the last moment of his life. Freddie thinks Jim is his husband, and they both wear rings.
Freddie’s other true love, Mary Austin, inherited most of Freddie’s legacy (though she doesn’t love freddie that much). Ironically, Mary said she was jealous of fans, record companies, others around Freddie, and even members of the Queen because of this legacy. In addition, the marriage between her and her two straight male husbands did not last long and happy; she had never been loved by her real husband like she was loved by Freddie. In the end, she broke through the reporters' blockade under the pretext of making a face, and buried Freddie's ashes in an unknown corner.
(4) Holy: So you think you can love me and leave me to die
If I were to write Freddie-related scripts, I would rather put my pen and ink on his heartfelt love for music-always try new styles and never be confined to myself. He likes opera and ballet, so he integrates them into his works; the epic masterpiece "Bohemian Rhapsody", with Intro and Outro, Ballad and Rock, and Guitar Solo, a variety of styles are integrated; and Obscure lyrics—according to the Persian lyrics commentary when it was released in Iran, it tells of a boy who killed a man and sold his soul to a demon—like "Faust." It has pushed Queen to a position that cannot be ignored in the history of rock and roll.
"Never Looking back." As Freddie said when he changed his surname, he was not bound by any restrictions. In the film, he said that he should be himself, but how can it be so easy to be himself? They are all very costly. Most ordinary people’s attempts to "be yourself" were compromised because of strong mainstream opinions; but Freddie, his father would not let him be a rock band, he would go his own way; the company would not let him use Bohemian Rhapsody as the main hit , He threw a stone at the boss's window.
At the end of Freddie's life, many excellent works were born in his solo career, such as the album "Barcelona" published in 1988. It is not inferior to any of Queen’s works. It was completed with Freddie’s idol and legendary opera soprano Montserrat Caballé. It was made for the Barcelona Olympics and is considered to be the most seamless combination of opera art and pop music. When Freddie designed his own funeral, he said that Montserrat Caballé's song would be played at the funeral.
Freddie insisted on recording after suffering from AIDS, and encouraged other members to "wait for me to die, sales will go to the sky". Knowing that there is not much time, he recorded one sentence after he wrote it, hoping to finish it later. When recording a song once, Brian worried that his treble would not go up. He said how could it be possible? Then he drank a whole glass of vodka and finished a wonderful performance. That song is "The show must go on".
On September 5, 1991, Freddie’s birthday, the last eighty days of his life, everyone thought he would not be celebrating, but he still held a party very carefully and invited many old friends to join us. Watching his past videos, recalling the past and telling jokes. Friends said: "Freddie is very brave to face death."
(5) Sublimation: Nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me
The sequence of the selection of the original soundtrack of the film is very particular. The opening "somebody to love" sets the tone for the inner world of a boy who lacks love; "Keep yourself alive" tells young people's search for inner meaning; "Killer Queen" marks their initial mainstream success; "Fat" tells the life of Groupie "Bottomed Girls", gradually marching towards a drunken fan...
As for "Bohemian Rhapsody", Xiami's music has a description derived from the netizen "The wilderness is calling", "Because I'm easy come easy go, A little high little low" and the "Sheng" on the top of the light in "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji" What a joy, what a pain in death, joy and sorrow, all return to the dust” is a source of the same origin (I guess they are all from Zoroastrianism, that is, a certain book of Mingjiao), so Jin Yong also considered using this song as "Yi Tian" The theme song of the TV series version of "Slaying Dragons".
I haven't found the source, but this sentence can be said to be the best description of the legendary adventure of this lonely and sensitive, life-changing fire-worship boy. He did coolies at Heathrow Airport, wandered over half of the earth, experienced love with men and women, experienced the game of life on the largest scale, and saw everything through close contact with death, leaving only music in the end. So he has the confidence to say: "Nothing really matters, Nothing really matters...to me."
THE END
Source: Biography of Brian May and Freddie Mercury; Wikipedia
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