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Has anyone made an edit of Project Hail Mary/Ryland Grace to Queen’s ‘39 yet? If yes, can I see?
to this day it amazes me they were able to do that with their heads. it mustve been painful but it was worth it ❤
Decided to put pride colours on my pfp, realised I could not put a bisexual flag over Freddie without the possibility of being thoroughly misinterpreted.
Went for a blood test today. My number was 39. Of course I told multiple people I got the Queen number.
Freddie Mercury with curly hair, Freddie Mercury with curly hair, Freddie Mercury with curly hair, Freddie Mercury with curly hair…
That is all.
His natural hair texture is so gorgeous it’s unfair
The tv I have where I’m staying can’t play live tv but you bet it can play a channel of constant never ending 70s music videos. Like Rage, but I’m actually awake while it’s on.
Freddie Mercury with curly hair, Freddie Mercury with curly hair, Freddie Mercury with curly hair, Freddie Mercury with curly hair…
That is all.
Trying my very hardest to indulge my sister's new found interest in Michael Jackson post watching the movie, knowing full well I would have loved a hand to guide me down the rabbit hole after I watched Bohrap for the first time. Hoping we can end up crazy together, if I play my cards right. Me with Queen and her with MJ.
The fashion of Freddie Mercury
the gang is all here 🥹🥹
Finally more than a month after its release I finally have the Queen II cds.
FaceBook is good for one thing and it’s Crystal doing the lord’s work
The second one is about Roger and Debbie Harry.
“you sure as hell don’t like the fact he was gay 😃”
“I do and they didn’t” lol he’s so done
In the process of finding somewhere new to live. Cons, I can’t add to my ever growing collection of physical media. Pros, I can finally take a picture of my queen things all together without waiting for something in the mail.
I desperately want to be reading right now, but I went right from reading the last book (freddie mercury a life, in his own words) to planning a funeral. Not a fun time, I'll tell you.
Inevitably as someone very loud about their interest in Queen, I have been asked a few times whether I saw and/or liked the movie. Each time I say 'yes, and it's terrible.' And each time I get the response 'oh, well, some stories are hard to translate into a film, you have to forgive it a little bit.' I don't, and I won't. Bohemian Rhapsody sucks as a movie, Nothing will change my mind.
On the 1 hand, nearly every movie must have a plot of some kind: there’s a main character or 2 & they have to accomplish some goal, face challenges, & likely prevail.
And it’s gonna be impossible to show Freddie’s life in a standard hero’s journey kinda way cuz he died young of something he didn’t have much control over. It’s gonna be an absurdly depressing movie to end with him in character dying & wouldn’t feel narratively satisfying even if it’s what happened
So it can’t just be the pure, actual story of “band works hard and eventually makes it big, they argue but it’s no one person’s problem, & then Freddie dies.” There’s no climax or specific conflict in there.
What the movie ended up doing with that was ridiculous. Turns out the rest of the band were reasonable people & Freddie was jealous & torn away from them by drugs & Paul Prenter. Freddie has to learn the error of his ways (ie having a solo career) & grovel to them.
I think the movie had a kernel of a good idea in it with the idea of Jim as a guy who liked him for being him, not for his fame or money. They fucked it up by making Jim hired help. The actual story is so cinematic, it’s preposterous they didn’t leave it as is. But the idea of Freddie growing as a person by finding someone who doesn’t care that he’s famous is accurate as far as I can tell & it works for the story.
Where I’m torn on it, is I know absolutely no film can be completely perfect. But! I would have thought for a biopic they might have chosen a story they could tell with your usual arcs, or tried something new and different rather than doing what they did. Degrading Freddie’s character for what was almost entirely a fictional drama, and messing up what accurate events they did include by messing with the timeline so heavily. Something that was deeply unnecessary given the movie didn’t even span Freddie’s entire career, fading to black six years before he passed.
Then, even if I forgive the film for terrible structure and portrayal of its main cast, it falls completely short again with its handling of a queer storyline. It put very little focus on that part of his life for a movie supposedly all about it. In favour of what? Portraying Mary as his everything because people only ever read that bit without any of its surrounds or the comprehension of the era in which he said it (and why he might have chosen to hide behind Mary at every opportunity he could). The coming out scene in the movie felt as though it was written by a toddler. Portraying that Freddie ever called himself bisexual is confusing and incorrect, (I watched the movie with some straight family, and after having seen the film their takeaway was that Freddie was bisexual, he simply became gay). The only gay friend the movie really shows him having aside from Jim is literally ‘the villain’ of the story.
The portrayal of aids is pathetic to begin with, but especially pathetic when you actually start reading the books available to you (about Freddie) it becomes obvious that if anyone did read the books, they didn’t take away much that you wouldn’t have heard by not reading at all. His fear of the disease, his friends who were hurt by it (because in the movie he kept no real friends who could have been hurt), the fact he held off on telling anyone for so long or until he absolutely had to. That’s all forgotten.
All this to say I think they could have tried harder to make something better. A change of format, focus, or even sequels would likely have created something watchable.
I want to add to this because I have similar qualms with this film, but to add to @myassgoodbye 's point about the film needing a conflic- Queen struggled a lot with the press during the height of their careers; from the ridicule towards "Bohemian Rhapsody", the American media banning the "I Want to Break Free" music video because of the scenes portraying the members in drag, to the Rolling Stone straight up calling Queen the "first ever truly fascist rock band" after the release of "We Will Rock You", and even up until Freddie's death in 1991 (and some even after) the media/press was RELENTLESS towards Queen, but especially Freddie Mercury, who was not only a visibly Queer person, but a refugee and immigrant who was the frontman for one of the UK's most famous bands during a time where there was increasing animosity towards both queer people and immigrants in the UK (but also just in general). I feel like that would have made for a much more compelling story than the fictional one we ended up with, and would have had an overall greater impact.
If they did want to keep their focus on Freddie's personal life and sexuality, A; they should have actually gotten his sexuality right, and B; they should have gone with the original R rating instead of changing the script for the PG-13 rating. Freddie was a wild dude, and was DEEPLY involved with both the England and New York gay scenes, and that inspired parts of his art. There is a lot to say about Queen, and especially Freddie Mercury, but we unfortunately got none of that in the BoRhap movie.