[ad_1]
Can someone find me a movie to love?
The long-awaited biopic about Queen Freddie Mercury's singer, "Bohemian Rhapsody," arrived after eight years of development, with changing stars and a reshuffle of the director.
What all this calamity has done is a bad service rendered to one of the greatest rock singers of all time. "Rhapsody" has a shallow scenario, oversized performances and seems to have been shot in a sauna.
We met the future musical actor (Rami Malek) in 1970, while he was still Farrokh Bulsara, working in luggage at London-Heathrow airport. After attending a small concert of a band called Smile with Brian May (Gwilym Lee), John Deacon (Joseph Mazzello) and Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy), Freddie convinces them to let him sing. And so, queen.
The rise of Queen's is described as a series of artificial moments in which band members realize that rock is very similar to opera or that the public can love to stomp and applaud. The wild-haired actors watch the party, but they receive quality sitcom material.
In a strange appearance, Mike Myers plays the head of EMI Records, who does not believe in what would become Queen's defining song, preferring instead that their single be "I'm Am Love With My Car".
"It's the kind of song that teenagers can break their heads," he says. "Bohemian Rhapsody" is not that song. "The film is filled with lame and naive phrases like this one.
Instead of living in the dark emotional life of Mercury, Malek offers us a little portrait of a man. It is a performance at the surface level: physical galvanization, but without substance. The rocker was known for his flamboyant style and called everyone "darling," but he was not Liberace. Malek, as in Papillon, gets lost in eccentricity.
However, we can not blame Malek for not having the extraordinary voice of Mercury. Some reports said that the songs heard in the film were a digital mix of Mercury, Malek and a Canadian singer, Mark Martel. In my ears, however, that does not seem different from the songs in the band's album. So, the poor actor has to synchronize his lips with music that seems to come out of his mouth.
Much has been said about how this film deals with Mercury's sexuality. He slept with men and eventually had a male partner, Jim Hutton, until he died of AIDS in 1991, but never spoke about it publicly. This lets the movie do a certain amount of guessing; his relationship with Hutton is vaguely presented.
In a scene during a tour, Freddie is on the phone with his fiancee of the time, Mary Austin (Lucy Boynton), and she says, "Say hello to boys for me". Take a look at a man who says Freddie should follow him In the bathroom, he answers "I'll do it". It's corny to the point of making fun of.
The best part of the movie is – shocked – listening to timeless Queen's songs. It was during a fabulous re-enactment of the 1985 Live Aid concert, which was watched by 1.9 billion people worldwide. The film, directed by Bryan Singer, then licensed by Dexter Fletcher, thrillingly showcases more than half of this legendary 25-minute set.
But the most exciting and real performances are easily available on YouTube. In the end, what we wanted from "Bohemian Rhapsody" was not carbon concerts, but an in-camera glimpse of a deeply private, complex and beloved superstar around the world.
Source link
