"Bohemian Rhapsody": That's why Live Aid ruined the film on Queen and Freddie Mercury

In advance, so that the title of this article is not misinterpreted: The Live Aid benefit concert, which took place in 1985 at London Wembley Stadium, is of course not responsible for the fact that Bryan Singer's biopic film Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody", is as bad as it is. The concert was great, the goal anyway. However, the film, which begins Wednesday in Germany, is ruined by the decision to stage the group's performance as a fateful concert and a dramaturgical climax. At several levels, this decision is fatal.

"Mini Playback Show" on the big screen

Director Bryan Singer, his team and the cast transformed Queens' contribution to Live Aid at the beginning of the film's production. With great effort, the outfits and sets were recreated, Mercury's artist, Rami Malek, learned the movements of the rock icon by heart and imitated his movements at best. For the optical medium, he even wears prostheses meant to make his jaw as distinctive as that of Mercury.

Singer and his team were perhaps so intoxicated by their own attention to detail that they did not realize what they were filming: a million dollar edition. of the "Mini Playback Show" completely irrelevant on the big screen.

The appearance of Live Aid is certainly the apotheosis of the two-hour film, but it marks at the same time a low point in the career of director Singer ("The usual suspects", "X-Men"), who had 39, elsewhere was thrown a few weeks before closing. The reasons for this are not very clear, the rumor has arguments with the producers as well as the fear of revelations #Metoo on the menu. Maybe Singer also noticed that his heart project "Bohemian Rhapsody" was not going anywhere, from the bad dramaturgical decision that makes the visit to the cinema a joke.

The sound comes from the box, the public from the computer

Because after 100 minutes already tenacious, Queen Vergötterung, the film ends with a fake concert, which is only one-third less than the original first appearance of 28 minutes in 1985. Malek is seated like Mercury at the piano and rushes to a non-existent audience. In the background, actor Gwilym Lee plays as he was able to play the guitar, like Brian May. The latter was badociated with Roger Taylor as executive producer of the film and s' bowed to the famous Wembley show for a playback show. degenerated on the computer audience. To a completely inanimate copy whose meaning does not open to the viewer, no matter how one turns Bryan Singer's approach and turns around.

The alternative to the "Mini Playback Show" is obvious: if actors had played the Queen members' solos and played a real concert in the quality of current producers, May and Taylor, they would probably have drunk on the poison. Because even a Freddie Mercury was dependent on the skills of both, which incidentally is the film's subliminal message. Queen's concert of Wembley is not sufficiently recreated, so everyone involved should be clear beforehand. It would have been wiser to let star actor Rami Malek play the Mercury until he cleared the curtain until the stadium scene. Then restore the original recordings restored from 1985. After all, the concert videos have millions of clicks on YouTube. Queen's fans would like to watch the concert with the impressive sound of a movie theater. Instead, there is now a reading in front of a few extras, which have been duplicated via a computer until the Wembley stadium is filled with Pixelbrei.

The biography victim of dramaturgy

The supposedly pompous finale of the film is therefore a horror for the public. But the decision to end "Bohemian Rhapsody" with Wembley poses another problem. Because the history of the group continued after 1985 and that of Mercury even more. That he was HIV-positive, he told his group members well after his appearance in a white shirt. Even the reconciliation scene in which Mercure informs her parents about her baduality took place not just hours before Live Aid, but much later. Rolling Stone's colleagues have identified a series of time reinterpretations that now alter the group's biography. "It also seemed important for May and Taylor to inform the group members of Freddie's HIV infection before" Live Aid ", in order to show their empathic reactions," Colleagues write about the producer's problematic role for the remaining queen sizes.

Explaining Live Aid as the finale and the highlight of Queens also has a devastating effect on the timeline and therefore on the authenticity of the film. According to Bryan Singer, Mercury is supposed to come out of the movie in full glory, most people remembering it. Intoxicated by the fans' love on stage stage. All important information about his private life, baduality and illness had to be greeted in advance without enthusiasm.

The queen's connoisseurs are going to demolish themselves about these imperfect outfits, scenes and sequences of events. And enjoy the opportunity to recreate the history of the group with more precision than can "Bohemian Rhapsody". This is probably the only way to enjoy this movie.

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