As a shining star in the history of the world music scene, the brilliant and remarkable musical career of Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury is legendary. As far as Freddie Mercury is concerned, he is unruly and unruly. Life attitude is more fascinating than reputation. But despite this, out of the Queen’s protection of its own image, the ill-fated "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the real Freddie Mercury do not seem to have much relationship. In terms of story and image creation, it seems a bit too conservative. However, no one would think that "Bohemian Rhapsody" lacks musical enthusiasm.
As a music-themed biographical film, especially after "Breaking Out of Compton", which had a good reputation at the box office, another music biographical film with topicality and box office potential, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is undoubtedly disappointing. of. But at the same time, the starring role has changed from Sasha Byron Cohen to Rami Marek, and the director has changed from Brian Singer to Dexter Fletcher. Comparing commercial movies with constant accidents during the production stage-"Justice League", "Range Solo", "Money World", and even R-rated "Venom" that changed to PG-13-"Bohemian Rhapsody" is at least in music And the performance is much higher than average.
With the strength of the golden song and the golden song, and the performance of Rami Marek with both gods and figures, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is actually quite visible and entertaining. But this is not as shocking as Queen and Freddie Mercury, lacking the kind of pioneering and courage that belongs to the Queen. Perhaps for the filmmakers, it would be thankful for the filmmakers to use formulaic and patterned biographical routines to release such a fateful movie.
From the perspective of the composition of the play, the script of "Bohemian Rhapsody" comes from the experienced Peter Morgan and Anthony McCarten, both of whom have very good resumes in the British era and are also good at capturing and constructing complex Interpersonal relationship. However, due to the change of director-from Brian Singer, who is familiar with the big scene, to Dexter Fletcher ("Flying Eagle Eddie") with a smaller perspective-did not perform well. The level it deserves. Perhaps the older Ron Howard would be a better director candidate.
As far as the category of biographical films is concerned, the performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is not satisfactory in many aspects: the stories often lack coherence, are fragmented and very superficial, avoiding any narrative complexity, but simply The dotted lines are not so much a biographical film as a special feature behind the concert. The background of time and space in the 1970s was blurred, avoiding the subtle situation faced by the LGBT community at that time. But at the same time, the film has a refreshing portrayal of the emotional relationship between Freddie Mercury and his important partner, Mary Austin. This alone makes almost the entire film more like A love movie, not a biographical movie.
And this self-contradiction almost runs through the entire "Bohemian Rhapsody." At some point, it makes you too high to burst into tears, humorous and free, whether it is a script or improvisation, it can effortlessly emphasize the connection between the characters. The music clips are even more contagious and persuasive (mainly from the original sound of the queen band, and some of them are mixed with the voice of Rami Marek); but at certain critical moments, they deliberately regulate themselves and refuse any in-depth discussion Possibly, the performance of the actors has also been simplified. Taking into account the appropriate chemical reaction between the several leading actors, "Bohemian Rhapsody" wastes too many opportunities to intensify contradictions and upgrade drama. An intuitive example is that Freddie Mercury’s continued growth of arbitrariness in the later period is like a fragmented personality falling from the sky. It is difficult for the audience to really feel how this personal behavior affects cohesion, and it will affect the queen. What is the threat to the fate of the band?
But similar to Tom Hardy in "Venom", Rami Marek also rescued "Bohemian Rhapsody" with a soul-possessed performance almost on his own. His imitation of Freddie Mercury's spirit and temperament has far surpassed the latter's iconic big buck teeth-extremely passionate, especially in the performance scene. You know, although Rami Marek is a few centimeters shorter than Freddie Mercury, and the proportions of his body are more miniature (without Freddie Mercury’s long legs), but when worn The moment he entered the costume, he took on an extraordinary face like a reborn.
With such an outstanding performance, why can't "Bohemian Rhapsody" become a better movie? It’s hard not to think of the two biographies of Steve Jobs, one is the 2013 version of "Jobs" that looks agitated but lacks drama, and the other is full of spirit by Alan Sorkin. It even overshadowed the 2015 version of "Steve Jobs" by the same excellent starring and director. Why can't the two films merge into a more special and private film?
Although "Bohemian Rhapsody" has an exciting theme, it is a traditional biographical film that takes the middle route, is safe and dry, and uses independent events to describe different aspects of the protagonist, rather than leading the audience. Immerse yourself. It gives a glimpse of Freddie Mercury's personal life-sexual identity anxiety, pain, loneliness and recklessness-and it hardly makes people feel any sense of reality.
In other words, as a biographical film, the perspective of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is no different from that of an ordinary fan. And this is precisely where biographical films should be avoided. Taking a ten thousand step back, if Sasha Byron Cohen, who is more similar in appearance and bolder, can play Freddy Mercury, it must be a more ironic approach to Freddy. · Mercury’s hedonism and the black comedy of interpersonal relations, but there is no doubt that this movie will definitely be greatly reduced in terms of stage effects and performance standards.
In any case, "Bohemian Rhapsody" made Freddie Mercury a star, but unfortunately, it never really touched Freddie Mercury.
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