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freddiemercuryfans2018-08-08 12:31 am
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Bo Rhap: The Film
Keep meaning to post this. The trailer has arrived for the much vaunted film of Freddie's life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN10tfVW0UY
Nothing too controversial there. It's been confirmed that Freddie's personal timeline has been rewritten, however, with him discovering that he's HIV+ before the Live Aid concert (in order to give the film a suitably climactic ending, apparently). This annoys me for reasons that I'm finding hard to articulate. We all know that historical details get altered for films, and there's nothing wrong with that generally. Apparently this film also mixes up which songs were released when, and that doesn't bother me much. That's movies. Changing when he found out about his diagnosis seems like too big a thing for me though. Whilst we'll never know when he became HIV+, it seems unlikely that he found out about it prior to 1987. Having him find out in 1985 feels very wrong. Sadly this isn't a big enough community to get a proper collection of responses, but I'd be interested in other's opinions.
The trailer actually looks quite entertaining, but I've very much lost interest in the project now, I'm afraid.
Nothing too controversial there. It's been confirmed that Freddie's personal timeline has been rewritten, however, with him discovering that he's HIV+ before the Live Aid concert (in order to give the film a suitably climactic ending, apparently). This annoys me for reasons that I'm finding hard to articulate. We all know that historical details get altered for films, and there's nothing wrong with that generally. Apparently this film also mixes up which songs were released when, and that doesn't bother me much. That's movies. Changing when he found out about his diagnosis seems like too big a thing for me though. Whilst we'll never know when he became HIV+, it seems unlikely that he found out about it prior to 1987. Having him find out in 1985 feels very wrong. Sadly this isn't a big enough community to get a proper collection of responses, but I'd be interested in other's opinions.
The trailer actually looks quite entertaining, but I've very much lost interest in the project now, I'm afraid.
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I will probably go and see Bohemian Rhapsody, though (unless the reviews are really, really negative), because I see it more as a celebration of Freddie than a factual representation of history.
(I'm also happy that they switched Bryan Singer to Dexter Fletcher because I would have felt uncomfortable supporting Singer, plus I really enjoyed Fletcher's Eddie the Eagle movie which also took considerable artistic licence when it came to facts, but imo perfectly captured the spirit of its subject)
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But we'll see. :) And thank you for being much more level-headed than the rest of us!