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Compared with the aura and touch of the movie, I am more grateful to the team behind it that worked hard to get this movie released. QUEEN was supposed to celebrate the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Britain in 1985, but was violently cut off. This time it was released, and finally, more than 30 years after the queen missed China, there was a "late but not absent" feast.
▲ This program explains the origin of the song Bohemian Rhapsody word by word
At the end of the film "don't stop me now", I don't know how many people got up and left, but I just kept staring at the best time of freddie, immersed in a person, the peak of an era, reluctant to get up. Imagine if QUEEN came to China that year, I don’t know what kind of chapter the Chinese rock industry will open.
This may be the only time (although I have watched too many rock band movies and concerts), on the big screen in China, I touched a little bit of the warmth of my most obsessive era. They used to stand in the shadow of the world to shine, they used to be enemies of the world, but the world has changed too much. I don’t know if the rock warriors of the 20th century entered the Internet age, would they go to underground bars with their guitars when they were young Take risks, be willing to burn on the back of the world, no matter what internet celebrities or traffic, I will talk about it first!
▲ British band HONNE, a new representative of niche traffic, there are many fans, you can go to the scene if you want to see beautiful girls, and test it yourself, but it is much worse than the recording
There are many musicians, listening to the original sound is better than listening to the scene. For example, HONNE has been very popular recently. The sound in the album is like being in a wooden house, with an ambiguous and fiery bonfire in the fireplace. Winter rain in Europe, and sitting in front of them two reindeer men walking out of the depths of the forest, singing free tunes, sweeping away the desolation. But the scene was lacklustre, no different from ordinary pop bands, noisy and powerless, and the wooden house collapsed.
But a really good musician is naturally more magical than recording. LIVE AID’s "Bohemian Rhapsody" has a reason why the whole world can scream with him.
▲ LIVE AID is the climax of rock history, and QUEEN’s performance is the climax of LIVE AID. 1.5 billion people watched a performance at the same time, unprecedented
Compared with the divine comedy of "Bohemian Rhapsody", what is more fascinating is the mystery of the lyrics. Regarding what the song is about, there are many speculations and no conclusions for decades. Freddie himself explained that "if you say it all, it will be boring", which is a kind of answer. Of course, when people face the "mystery", they want to break their heads and want to solve them, so there are many sayings, combined with his life, a certain poem, the environment at that time, and so on. But I believe a guess is that Freddie referred to Camus's "The Outsider."
▲ "The Outsider" published by Nobel Prize winner Camus in 1942 has become one of his famous and representative works. It tells the story of an ordinary employee, Mersault's mother, who died and was tried after being shot and killed by accident. Although the protagonist is a murderer, the world that accuses him is even more absurd than murder.
As the most famous writer of existentialism, Camus described an indescribable human absurdity.
This "outlier", whose mother died without crying and was despised, and because of his indifference and willingness after the murder, he was sentenced to leave the world with indifference, disdain for priests and beliefs, and became a bombing of the world at that time. "If your mother died and you didn't cry, then you must be a murderer!" - Everyone in the novel seems to have a righteous man's license, stand up for morals, and come up with all kinds of explicit codes to accuse the people in front of them. As for what this person thinks, the world does not care. Those who do not follow the rules should be judged in the name of God. Who was the murderer who was shot? Executioner? Judge? God? Camus? Or some kind of dogma? Who is the murderer? criminal? Evildoer? Atheist? Or everyone?
Camus’s absurdity is not only a murderer being judged, a soul being stared at, and a life being erased, but also an imposed morality and expectation, a normal and ethical reinterpretation, and the ultimate meaning of life.
My favorite sentence of this novel is: "A person who does not despair of life will not fall in love with life." Just like Freddie's life, everyone can judge him wantonly, accuse him, and use moral muzzle to criticize him. Quasi his soul. And Freddie's initial counterattack was "Bohemian Rhapsody."
▲ If you only read the domestic imported version, you must not have seen it here. After desperate for life, Jim appeared and helped him fall in love with life again and burned his second life. In Freddie's last life, love accompanied him to the end. Jim finally contracted AIDS and persisted until his death in 2012.
Few people know whether Freddie has read "The Outsider" or whether he was inspired by "The Outsider" when he wrote this song. However, I am sure that Freddie must be strongly connected with the outsider. He has been an outsider in his life. . An alien who immigrated to the center of the world, the "fourth person" in the family who did not play cards according to common sense, the rock music circle was the first to be accepted by music critics, a deviant "heterosexual" who loves the same sex at that time, his lyrics The gun held inside, who was the muzzle pointed at, did not accept him in this outsider's world, or his wounds and loneliness that he could never heal. In the earliest way to dig into his own heart, he always held up the gun and looked straight ahead. It's like Mersault in "The Outsider". Was he wrong? He was wrong. No one has the right to take another person's life for no reason, but was he judged wrong? Just like the policeman who kept the murderer in the egg in the "Black Mirror" Christmas special, who gave him the power to let a man atone for a thousand years of atonement? Freddie only wants to be himself. Is he wrong, maybe some, but does anyone have the power to judge him and waste his life?
Freddie didn't use revenge, he didn't use hell, he just shot, he killed despair, or self. In short, the curtain has ended. Without complete despair, there will be no warmth of recovery.
For example, these lyrics ▼
Mama, just killed a man,
Mom, just (me) killed someone
Put a gun against his head,
Put the gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead,
Pulled the trigger, now he is dead
Mama, life had just begun,
Mom, life has just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away-
But now I completely ruined it
Goodbye everybody-I've got to go-
Goodbye everyone, I have to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-
I have to leave you to face the truth
Mama, woo-
Mom, woo
I don't want to die,
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all-
I sometimes wish I never existed
This song not only sings Freddie’s soul, but also sings the eagerness of every "outsider", the unacceptable self, the end of life, the desperate soul, yet loves the world so much, so nostalgic, Because being alive is a joyful thing.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" uses music to describe the moment of killing. It's like being on the scene like everyone listening to the song raises a gun. If there must be a conclusion, I believe that he killed himself. If you are not desperate enough, you will not really fall in love with the preciousness of life. If you don’t kill yourself, you don’t know how much you love the preciousness of life. Rock music is obsessed with death, questioning the soul, and singing freedom. If I were to write a philosopher, I would make him love symphony and rock the most, because they all bear the doubts of the whole mankind on the universe.
▲ One of the most decisive lead singers in the history of rock and roll, Kurt, to end his life is probably the ultimate pursuit of freedom by the lead singers of rock bands in the 20th century
In addition to "Bohemian Rhapsody", there is also a song about murder, whose title is folsom prison by Johnny Cash. He has sang the same name as Elvis for half a century. One of the most famous things is that he took the production team to prison for recording, and sang with the most "bad and evil" people. He sang: "I shot him and watched him die." Johnny stood by the bottom class all his life, singing for their hearts, his murderous gun was aimed at the ridiculously rich class. Compared to Freddie, he was lucky. He didn't have deep pain, so his gun was not aimed at himself.
"Go with the Song" starring Joaquin Phoenix tells this story well. Not only the performance but also the singing were enough to make Johnny Cash, who appointed him to play the role in his lifetime, blow a satisfactory whistle.
▲In the movie "Walk with the Song", the heroine Reese Witherspoon took away the figurine, and the hero Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for the best. They were the two protagonists appointed by the Johnny Cash couple during their lifetime.
The song folsom prison is one of the songs recorded live in the prison. This scene is restored in the movie. Johnny standing on the stage raises his guitar, just like raising a gun for murder, the criminals in the audience. There has never been such a right. Watching great people stand up for their rights, hormones and stinky sweats are accompanied by sinful desires, and evil suddenly intertwined with musical notes, becoming weapons that provoke the world.
▲The version of Joaquin Phoenix is both righteous and evil. It is different from the performance in "She". The Phoenix family is really a genius
It can be said that killing people is a common theme in music (especially rock music). Which band has not "killed a few people", but there are not many people who can kill people in the annals of history. Except for Freddie and Johnny, Another one is Jim Morrison of The Door Band, who runs through my youth.
▲If he hadn't been a rock lead singer, Jim Morrison would definitely be a poet. His lyrics are full of mysterious and psychedelic poems.
Compared with Freddie's own gun, Johnny's guns of different classes, Jim's guns are even more shocking, which is in line with the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother. The biggest similarity between this rock vocalist and Oedipus is that the tragedy of life has long been doomed. Life has set the most extreme light and the deepest abyss from the beginning.
THE END, an 11-minute divine comedy, depicting a lot of poetry scenes. At about 7 minutes and 20 seconds, Jim Morrison shouted the shocking "Father I want to kill you. Mother, I want to ……"
This is the most poetic and disillusioning moment of the rock's rebellious spirit.
The 20th century is a really nostalgic era. The "minority people" continue to appear spiritual leaders, literature, music, art, philosophy, and people continue to overturn the world's hijab, and the current spirit is probably only in the advertising words. The side light box advertisements are all printed with fearlessness and living out your greatness. It is hard for you to figure out whether this is the best era for mankind so far or that era has passed away. When every corner of the world is stepped by people, there are people trying in every field, when countless people urge you to stay away from your comfort zone every day, will the spirit of the 20th century continue or be marketed.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" will no longer be there, and Johnny Cash will not have any live radio albums recorded in prison. Even the young pioneer Madonna in LIVE AID has already gone with the times.
But it doesn’t matter. For a timid person like me, all the practical things about adventure, diving, skiing, and skydiving are nothing to do with me. Standing on a cliff and flying into the sky or jumping into the sea are things that are unattainable in a lifetime, but it doesn’t hurt. , I never yearn for physical decisiveness, but in my mind, yes, soul, and life, I am willing to take risks with these great people, even if I need to kill myself. Even if you can experience a glorious day like on LIVE AID, it is worth it.
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