Why 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Did Not Show Freddie Mercury's Wild Side
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We all have heard those wild Freddie Mercury stories.
Clubbing with Princess Diana. The one with Sid Vicious. Hitching a ride on Darth Vader’s shoulders. These are just some wonderful things Freddie Mercury did during his eventful life.
However, you won’t see any of those stories featured in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen biopic starring Rami Malek as the charismatic rock frontman. The film skips over more than a handful of these colorful bits that have been left to legend. But for those who want to know more about it, here’s a video contemplating why the movie left Freddie Mercury's charming style out.
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I loved the movie Bohemian Rhapsody even with its inaccuracies!! Per Brian May “It was really all about the music” 🎶🎶🎶🎶 New generations now love Queen!
bcs of the Bohemian Rhapsody film i fell in love with Queen music
Yes that's true miss Debra, i watch the movie w/o knowing Queen/Freddie before ,i love the movie but their Music makes me fell inlove with Queen and Freddie. So i watch some docu about them and Freddie., as far as i could understand(English)For me it Doesn't matter he's wild life, behind that He was a Good/kind/Loving/Generous/Thoughtfull and Everything of a person you could wish to have. I love everything about Him.
And Thanks miss Debbie for sharing some of your info in comments about this Band.💛
I feel the exact same way
Freddie was UNIC. His voice & his talent were amazing. Whoever he was really in his private life, doesn't matter for me. I still love the singer, the great musician and charismatic performer he was. QUEEN and Freddie forever and ever ! 👑👑👑👑
Exactly . Queen music was,is & will be the best forever. Real 4 talented guys( especially Freddie).❤👑
@@dacegermane47 agree with you ! 🎼🎶👌👑
@@dacegermane47 agree with you ! 4 group members : friends, a kind of family, 4 "brothers " in QUEEN 's work & performances all over the world ! 👑👑👑👑. 4 differents characters : this was a good ingredient for building QUEEN
It’s this simple. Because his wild side had been discussed and publicized CONSTANTLY. There was no need to go over things that the media had already pushed at us FOR DECADES. It’s old news.
This.
The movie is full of so many untruths about Freddie. Shows someone who is mean, nasty and depressed. None of these things were Freddie Mercury. At least the music was phenomenal. I always wonder why they don’t talk about Roger’s wild side. He was a womanizer but I guess because he was straight, that’s okay!!
Bohemian Rhapsody movie was made so younger people could see the magic in their music
@@ljibberish he was kissed by a man once and another man kissed him however you have to be 13 years old or older to see the movie you can watch his videos on you tube there is no kissing just how great he was with Queen
$1 billion. #1 in the world. It wasn't just younger people.
Freddie was indeed a great showman. But he really loved the interaction with his fans.
Even at Live Aid & Ay-Oh improvised bit that he did the crowd just loved to play his little games with him.
The Sid Vicious moment saw Sid simply get just what he deserved. He had stumbled into the recording studio drunk trying to provoke Freddie, but Freddie simply walked up to him & grabbed him by the lapels on his leather jacket & shoved Sid Vicious out the door.
People are calling it Freddie's wild side but within reason a lot of the time.
i quite liked this movie, the reason for this is because a lot of biopics about bands you watch, only talk about the lead singer or the most known in the band. this movie talked about the band, their friendship, their ups and downs. i love bohemian rhapsody.
The movie Bohemian Rhapsody is more about the band and there music not Freddie's personal life.
I really liked the movie but the main problem I had is those made up storys in the movie about Freddie and Queen that never happend or happend completly different. I always felt like Freddie's story was intresting and insparing enough.
It's dramatization. Literally all biopics do it. The emotion is what rings true.
@@TheaterPup I disagree. They missed out vital components and aspects of his life that could have easily been added to the film that would have done justice to how Freddie lived his life to the full, but instead decided to add some of the most mundane and boring scenes that did nothing but undermine him. One of which being the scene of him working at Heathrow Airport where a racial slur was thrown at him.
The point being is that May and Taylor found plenty of opportunities throughout the film to undermine Freddie as a person with a lot of ficticious nonsense rather than celebrate his incredible life and how he lived life to the full in everything he did.
The film was a bore and the only part of Bohemian Rhapsody that showcased any likeness to reality was the Live Aid segment, everything else was made up nonsense to suit May and Taylor's agenda. Branding being top of the list above anything else. Total let down in every way possible.
@@mjsilverfox You’ve been overruled by the world.
Big miss was the relation between John Deacon and Freddie. In the movie it's like nobody, (especially Freddie) knows what John studied. But allot of the equipment and effect's where created by John in reality. In 1977 John wanted to leave the band, but Freddie begged him to stay. Another one bites dust recordings where so tough for Freddie to do, but he wanted it to be the best for John. And so on between Freddie and John. As I see Queen as a group, I also see Queen as two duo's Freddie & John and Brian & Roger.
The movie brought a lot of people to enjoy the music and love Queen especially in the US since we didn't Recognise the music and the band that much. The personal life of Freddie and the group is really no one's business. This man was one of the most talented people ever put on this earth. We should appreciate and enjoy all the wonderful music he and the band as given us. I play their music almost everyday and during this awful Pandemic has brought so much joy to my heart. I dont believe half the stuff said about him. The only thing that did make me sad is the actor made Freddie look sad with no personality and what I see of him his humor and love of life didn't show with the actor. Plus Freddie would have never!! Begged Queen to take him back on the group as they showed in the movie. Please just enjoy this talented Queen group and all they have given us
"The personal life of Freddie's and group is really no one's business "???? Are you kidding me??? By making this movie their the one's that opened up PANDORA's Box. I did NOT want to know all this about him and why their trying to resurrect Queen with Adam is beyond me. So now Freddie turns 75 this year. Are all of you going over to Garden Lodge??? Write on Mary's wall? Traumatize her back into seclusion. For what?? I was horrified when I saw the wall. So for me they should of left it alone!
They shouldn't have made live aid as the finale. They should've shown how his final days went. They should've also shown the painting that he got made for Elton John
The movie did show his wild side actually. Just not in the gratuitous way Sasha Baron Cohen wanted.
The live aid outfits was so the audience can focus on the music not them
Why didn’t they show the real Freddie? Cos if they did, you’d have one side saying it was disrespectful showing Freddie’s darker side while the other side would say that it was the real him and it should be presented as such. I’ve read so many books on the guy and heard so many stories that trust me, you don’t wanna show that kind of stuff on film, it’s just a bit too much. On paper i could pass it off as Freddie being Freddie. on film? i just couldn’t show that to friends and family. I like to remember Freddie as the guy they showed in Bohemian Rhapsody, the other stuff I don’t think about.
When making a movie you only have so much time to do it. In other words how do you fit a lifetime into 1.5 hours????? Yeah something will be missed. Freddie never said he was perfect nor did he say he was saintly. Fact is he lived his life, made mistakes and sang wonderful songs. He was the best Front Man ever and damn good at it too. Even today his personality (on stage) stands out and gives us something to smile and sing along with,
I really wish the movie has a sequel
Most fans don’t want to watch “him die”.
My mom loves music and she would listen to everything as I was growing up, Mozart to Beethoven, Michael Jackson, Johnny Cash, Elvis, a lot of Queen and so much more so her love of music easily passed to me.
I remember very fondly when this movie came out. I was seeing this girl in college and I asked if she wanted to see it with me and she said yes. By the night of the movie our date had somehow turned into a girls night with her 3 roommates and I was just tagging along. We have a mutual friend that is a drag queen and another that was trans so they fell in love with Freddie during the movie.
Once it was finished we went out for drinks and they were asking me every question about the band that you could think of and I was trying my best to answer them all, by the end of the night around 3 or 4 am we were back at their house blasting Queen's music and that is where I took over and started showing them their actual live performances here on CZcams. Oh man you should've seen the look on their faces. It's one of the best memories of my life.
It's a good Movie if you what the details they are available it many books and video documentaries.
Any thoughts on what they said about freddie telling mary he thought he was bi and she replying i think your guy, and what they went on to say about what happened? I never read or heard that said before.
The warts and all story will be made, but sadly not until all the main players have passed on
And no one will watch such a thing thankfully.
I could't agree more. I felt like they completely missed the opportunity to show the real Freddie Mercury as a whole, who he truly was as a person.
Freddie once said something along the lines of ''You can do whatever you like with my legacy, just don't make me boring'' and I'm afraid that's exactly how they portrayed him in the film. I also felt that there was some bitterness, jealousy and resentment towards Freddie from May and Taylor which came across in how the film was depicted.
May and Taylor were heavily involved in every aspect of the film from the conception, script to the production and really undermined Freddie imo and it seemed branding was more important to them than showing who Freddie truly was.
It's a real shame as they could have made one hell of a movie that would have done Mercury the justice he really deserved and to me they just failed comletely, not only with all the May and Taylor fairytales created to give themselves a pat on the back but also they created a film that was just pure cringe.
I can't imagine for a second that this film would be something Mercury would have been happy with at all as far as I'm concerned.
Let's hope a film is created down the line that actually showcases a more honest and real portrayal of Freddie Mercury, one that highlights not only the incredible musician and performer he was but also his adventerous side, fun nature, sense of humour and of course doesn't sideline the fact that Freddie was gay.
Bohemian Rhapsody was nothing more than fiction and I would love to see a fim that is based on truth and fact, his party lifestyle and the fact he lived life to the full should be included as it was all part of who he was as a person, alongside his more sensitive side, giving nature and genuine kind soul... All totally missed in Bohemian Rhapsody.
I didn’t like the movie because I have the impression that Freddie was lovable, kind, fun loving, professional, confident, funny, intelligent. In the movie he seemed insecure, sullen, unhappy. His character was not well developed.
I am a huge fan of Freddie and I can’t agree more with you. A complete failure of this movie makers and jealousy on behalf of May and Roger. The movie was boring and the main character had been portrayed boring exactly the opposite to how Freddie wished to be remembered.
@@irinat9521 Yes, it might as well have been the Brian May biopic lol. He is the only one who seemed to be portrayed most accurately and bored us to sleep with such a dreary film.
Freddy was INCREDIBLY WILD when he partied---ANYTHING, WITH ANYBODY WENT. It's no wonder he contracted AIDS and he couldn't have been surprised by the news. He did calm down later, but by then he was already sick. ALL of THAT drama could not have been shown in a PG13, 2 hour movie. He was a very complex person. Perhaps some years down the line, a more realistic film about his life can be made. Rami did a great job with the script he was given, but I have come to learn that many scenes in the movie were not even accurate, which is weird considering the former band mates are still alive and could have been consulted---clearly Hollywood taking artistic license to do what they wanted, whether true or not for entertainment value. However, in the end, I did like the film.
Brian May and Roger Taylor were involved in every aspect of the film from it's conception, the script right down to the production and the characters that played them all. The way they went about portraying and undermining Freddie as a person can't be justified. Despite it being a 2 hour film they still managed to add in the most mundane and ficticious scenes that did nothing for Freddie's character in reality.
They missed a golden opportunity to create a brilliant film showcasing the life of Freddie Mercury from his talent to his adventerous side, great sense of humour and kind and gentle spirit. The film did none of that. In fact they made him out to be this selfish, self entitled arsehole, The complete opposite of what we know of him through years of performances, interviews, footage etc and a complete contradiction to everything positive they had said about him previously along with many others who knew him well, they contradicted what they had both said before he passed away and after. This film was nothing more than branding for Taylor and May and was just a total let down.
Yes, they should've given more real facts,situations,language, sex related facts that were part of his life and personality which were absolutely awesome but not PG Disneyland ..
There are actually several very grown up scenes in the movie. Gratuitous does not mean real or adult.
I see Bohemian as a total failure starting with a choice of the main character that had nothing to do with Freddie except being middle asian, and not as physically fit and attractive as was my hero , missing his charisma , also Freddie always been funny,joking and laughing a lot, this guy though portrayed as sad melancholic always deep in his thoughts, Freddie enjoyed his life and lived to the fullest, at least on outside,this guy is shown said, often angry and the list goes on and on. Again, Freddie was a genius, a hero, what I’ve seen in the movie was a pathetic fake of my favorite one and only Freddie who is still admired by millions even 30 years passed his tragic death.
I'm not really that interested in Freddie's wild side. I mean, yes, he had LOTS of sex and did drugs. We all know that ffs. What I wanted to see was the little stories. I wanted to see his relationship with Brian, Roger an John. What I didn't want to see was a bunch of lies where apparently a character has to say how intelligent Brian is every five minutes.
There are no lies, and you obviously have a bias to start with.
@@TheaterPup Freddie was already friends with Roger, Brian and Tim before Smile broke up. Freddie was -by John, Roger and Brian's admission- the peacemaker of the band. All of them cheated and Brian was the only one who never did drugs. John took cocaine and LSD -the bit about seeing God in Was it All Worthy is a reference to that. They all went crazy in Munich -Brian has talked about it several times. They didn't take a break because Freddie wanted to fly solo -he wasn't the first to do a solo project and the band was still touring some weeks before Live Aid. Freddie didn't know he had AIDS then. Brian wasn't certainly the first to value AOBTD: he and Roger hated it, and Freddie was the one who liked it: There are more changes that I don't mind because I understand why they were made (Paul wasn't fired until later, Jim and Freddie didn't meet like that) but the movie painted a picture of Freddie that it's not real, while Roger, John and especially Brian come across as saints. The people who only watched the movie will never know how much Freddie supported John or how he used to take care of Brian when Brian felt uncomfortable (again, Brian's words).
@@HelenaDax I suggest you do some research into what biopics are. Events are dramatized for pacing or combined for time. And I don't see any saints in the movie. Freddie fans have this weird need to view him as a victim, which he was anything but. There is no evil conspiracy here. Sorry.
Umm PG13!
In general, I liked the movie. But, there are several things that stood out to me that I did not like. We all know that Freddie had deep brown eyes..... in the movie there are a couple of scenes where Rami has his natural blue eyes! He must have worn brown contacts for most of the movie. I think that the actor played Freddie way too gay and I found that distracting. Also, he talked so mushy-mouthed..... I have never heard Freddie speak that way. Also, the actor was way too short and did not have the beautiful body that Freddie had. He just did not exude the confidence that Freddie had when he was performing.
100% right buddy 👍
You don't think we knew this already?? Pillock
I thought it was a respectable to portray Freddie people have to remember his friends an band mates that help with the film so of corse they wanted him to betrayed in a loving positive way
Tbh you should have wrote the movie you like have more knowledge than the flim makers so like why not
I thought it was awful.
How long did some of you want the movie? 5 hours? 7 hours? This video is picking apart things. Some that possibly should have been included and some that are petty. Even if I knew nothing about Freddie at all the scene where he's in the club obviously drugged told me enough. I didn't need to be in the room with him. Same with his sexuality. I don't care who he slept with. You shouldn't either. None of our business. Freddie was private. Roger and Brian gave their approval of the movie. That's good enough for me.
Because the movie wanted to have a homophobic bent to it, i.e., look where this "lifestyle" leads. Sigh.
@Ker Ridiculously paranoid comment actually.
Ehhh who in Hollywood wanted a homophobic bent? This isn't the '50s. Plus the director Bryan Singer (regardless of his allegations) is a gay man. No one calls it a "life style" in the movie. I suggest you watch the scene between Freddie and Kenny again, the movie is anything but homophobic. Heck, watch Freddie and Jim's scenes. Think you might be taken it the wrong way. The reason we have concepts like safe sex today was in part due to the AIDS crisis. I assume you support that concept? That doesn't mean anyone is being blamed.