Did people see the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line? It succeeded by having the "climactic scene opening/flashback to return at the end" structure. (Folsom Prison concert was the scene, so you could obviously make LiveAid the scene). But more importantly, the movie had a theme about Cash's life: He was haunted by his early poverty and loss and rejection, and fame messed up his head and his relationships, until finally he learned to accept God's love and June Carter's love and this made him greater than his mere talent could have.
What is this movie's theme about Freddie's life? Is he a bisexual refugee person of color in UK who transformed himself into an international star of the straight white rock world, which still kept rejecting his disco and opera? That story doesn't sound fun enough for a rock movie. Is it the story of a talented striving immigrant who made it to the top but threw away all his gifts in his pursuit of dirty drugs and dirty sex and so is rightly punished by a deadly disease that cuts short his life, let that be a lesson to you? That hardly sounds like a best seller either, as a movie, though it's a very popular political campaign and sermon. Is he an innocent holy fool genius who was lured away from the love of a good woman by the decadent evil world of rock music, pushing its drugs and penises upon him? But how can rock music be the bad guy when rock music fans are the audience? Is it a story about a bunch of nice boys who started a rock band and then there was an evil manager that got one of them killed? They really don't know what they want to say about Freddie and the more they say they want the truth, the more they bury it, because there is no one truth about a person's life. There are only versions. They need to find a version everyone can live with.
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It succeeded by having the "climactic scene opening/flashback to return at the end" structure. (Folsom Prison concert was the scene, so you could obviously make LiveAid the scene).
But more importantly, the movie had a theme about Cash's life: He was haunted by his early poverty and loss and rejection, and fame messed up his head and his relationships, until finally he learned to accept God's love and June Carter's love and this made him greater than his mere talent could have.
What is this movie's theme about Freddie's life? Is he a bisexual refugee person of color in UK who transformed himself into an international star of the straight white rock world, which still kept rejecting his disco and opera? That story doesn't sound fun enough for a rock movie. Is it the story of a talented striving immigrant who made it to the top but threw away all his gifts in his pursuit of dirty drugs and dirty sex and so is rightly punished by a deadly disease that cuts short his life, let that be a lesson to you? That hardly sounds like a best seller either, as a movie, though it's a very popular political campaign and sermon. Is he an innocent holy fool genius who was lured away from the love of a good woman by the decadent evil world of rock music, pushing its drugs and penises upon him? But how can rock music be the bad guy when rock music fans are the audience? Is it a story about a bunch of nice boys who started a rock band and then there was an evil manager that got one of them killed? They really don't know what they want to say about Freddie and the more they say they want the truth, the more they bury it, because there is no one truth about a person's life. There are only versions. They need to find a version everyone can live with.