Gotta be bull$hit!! Freddy Mercury lived an R rated or very likely an NC-17 rated lifestyle!!
shareYep. It's going to be absolute shit. Sure, it will be full of awesome Queen songs but as for it standing as an actual film, terrible.
It would have been incredible if they let Sacha Baron Cohen do the film he wanted to do but the rest of Queen are total pussies and wanted to make a sanitized version. Fuck those guys.
I reckon 48% RT score.
Yeah, it would have been great seeing a "true" depiction of Freddie and the gang.
shareDo you think the saucy story of Princess Diana sneaking into a gay bar disguised as a man with Freddie Mercury's help will make the cut? Good way of showing Queen's antics.
shareNah, I doubt the movie makers will make much of Freddie's sexuality, let alone touching on the VERY touchy subject of Diana.
shareI'm sure that most people already know that Queen was a very solid rock band. Be a great intro for those unfamiliar to their material. I wonder where the filmmakers are going with this. What do they want people to see? I'm hoping to learn things about them we may not already know.
shareI think they're going for a disposable, family friendly rock version of Mama Mia. Carefully chosen bits of the band's history that glazes over or completely ignores many parts, peppered with their songs.
shareWhile it wouldn't do Queen historical justice, even if they're getting a paycheck out of this, let's hope commercial exposure and success of "Rhapsody" spurs other projects that can dive deeper into their lives.
shareThe problem is, May et al are very controlling over what they want the public to see. So the stuff you're interested in would be shot down by them
shareI see, got to appeal to everyone. Get too specific and the audience shrinks, which major studios don't want since it means less opportunities to make money.
shareIt's less of reducing the potential audience, more trying to engineer a family friendly portrayal of the band.
So you'll probably not see scenes of Freddie's parties with midgets walking around with plates of cocaine strapped to their heads.
Queen's story practically writes itself, haha! Their reality is stranger than fiction.
shareHAH!! I would LOVE to see some of his parties! I remember a small snippet of Freddie entering his home , or somewhere. An unseen questioner asks him, "Are you gay?" Freddie answers, "As gay as a daffodil."
HAHAHA! What a delightful man he must have been. I wish he was still around. His voice is hypnotic. RIP Freddie😪
You sound like some SBC troll. Sure, he might have done a good job, but he might have done a really shitty job.
I want my rock stars to seem like real people, invincible sometimes, vulnerable others.
Cohen seems like a screen hawg. Does he ever "act" with other people? Let them play a character and not chew scenery?
I haven't seen it.
Hardly. Sure I like like most of SBC's stuff but I'm no troll. This would have been a real passion project for him and I very much doubt he would have screwed it up. You want your rockstars to seem like real people, invincible? I think you'd be better off with SBC's vision ironically.
When you read about his leaving due to creative differences as the remaining band members vision had 'an amazing thing that happens in the middle' (Freddie's death)...So the second half is about 'the band carrying on from strength to strength'
Yeah. Fuck that. No one cares about Queen without Freddie.
Yeah. Fuck that. No one cares about Queen without Freddie.
I can't say I disagree. Though, I am enamored of Dr May. That he continued his education and finished his doctorate. He aint no slouch.
Queen’s Roger Taylor on why Sacha Baron Cohen was dropped from playing Freddie Mercury in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
https://www.nme.com/news/film/sacha-baron-cohen-dropped-bohemian-rhapsody-movie-2393476?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral
Bit of a meh statement really. I still think it would have turned out a better film.
shareNo wonder the AIDS killed him so fast
shareA lot of people in the entertainment industry live an NC-17 or X rated lifestyle.
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