Current Events > Apparently they gloss over Freddie Mercury's sexuality Bohemian Rhapsody biopic

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https://twitter.com/ZachStafford/status/1054834775913984000

Well that's pretty fucking weird in 2018 lol
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Godnorgosh posted...

Yeah, old news. Sexuality, AIDS, none of it even gets mentioned. I would have been fine with Malek, but Cohen still had the right idea imo. Pretty sorry excuse for a biopic.

Wait seriously? Not even his AIDS? Wtf.
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Uh that's a good thing. Freddie Mercury never wanted his sexuality to be his identity. He wanted it to be his music.

Freddie Mercury's sexuality doesn't fit in a movie about his greatest musical achievements.

A lot of comments are saying that's how Freddie Mercury himself would answer questions like that.

I know fuck-all about the dude though, so maybe they're all independently lying?
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I could see not mentioning his sexuality because he didn't care. but glossing over his fucking AIDS?!
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Nidhoggr posted...

Uh that's a good thing. Freddie Mercury never wanted his sexuality to be his identity. He wanted it to be his music.

This movie is a biopic. Not a music video.

What's the point of a biopic if it ignores a large part of his personal life?

pegusus123456 posted...

A lot of comments are saying that's how Freddie Mercury himself would answer questions like that.

I know fuck-all about the dude though, so maybe they're all independently lying?

He would awkwardly umm and uhh over the question and try to dodge it?
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pegusus123456 posted...

A lot of comments are saying that's how Freddie Mercury himself would answer questions like that.

I know fuck-all about the dude though, so maybe they're all independently lying?

that's how he was. he hated the bad press they got during their earlier years and never defined his sexuality. he didn't even announce his illness until the day before he died

it's kinda disgusting how people are spinning this
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Oh I see, so we're making this about gays and not Freddie Mercury. Why am I surprised.

What if we made a PG-13 biopic of the Rolling Stones that doesn't have any sex or drugs?

Apparently people just wanna see how they uhh wrote a song I guess?
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Nidhoggr posted...

Uh that's a good thing. Freddie Mercury never wanted his sexuality to be his identity. He wanted it to be his music.

That's a very good position to take, but that doesn't mean they can't at least briefly mention it. And how he died sounds pretty damn relevant to a biopic, even if his sexuality isn't.
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Freddie_Mercury posted...

pegusus123456 posted...

A lot of comments are saying that's how Freddie Mercury himself would answer questions like that.

I know fuck-all about the dude though, so maybe they're all independently lying?

that's how he was. he hated the bad press they got during their earlier years and never defined his sexuality. he didn't even announce his illness until the day before he died

it's kinda disgusting how people are spinning this

Total shame how we're stuck with a movie that doesn't reference any of that side of him huh
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You're not fooling anyone TC, just come out and say what you want to say.

Nidhoggr posted...

You're not fooling anyone TC, just come out and say what you want to say.

You first.
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Nidhoggr posted...

You're not fooling anyone TC, just come out and say what you want to say.

What's that?

That a biopic that skips over someone's hardships and relationships is ultimately pointless? If you're not interested in that you're just watching an actor cosplay as somebody famous.
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I don't see why it's so weird to expect a biopic to address someone's sexuality and the way they fucking died
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Darmik posted...

Freddie_Mercury posted...

pegusus123456 posted...

A lot of comments are saying that's how Freddie Mercury himself would answer questions like that.

I know fuck-all about the dude though, so maybe they're all independently lying?

that's how he was. he hated the bad press they got during their earlier years and never defined his sexuality. he didn't even announce his illness until the day before he died

it's kinda disgusting how people are spinning this

Total shame how we're stuck with a movie that doesn't reference any of that side of him huh

I'll tell you when I see it instead of getting outraged at a clip of rami malek respecting freddie mercury's opinion of himself
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Freddie_Mercury posted...

I'll tell you when I see it instead of getting outraged at a clip of rami malek respecting freddie mercury's opinion of himself

I don't blame Rami for the shitty situation the movie put him in
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Hasn't it basically been acknowledged that this movie ended up as the shitty version the remaining members of Queen wanted as opposed to the actual biopic of Mercury that Sasha Baren Cohen wanted to do?
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Bio1590 posted...

Hasn't it basically been acknowledged that this movie ended up as the shitty version the remaining members of Queen wanted as opposed to the actual biopic of Mercury that Sasha Baren Cohen wanted to do?

That's the story I heard.

The usual suspects won't acknowledge that though.
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Hey, remember when Mercury announced to the world he had AIDS months before he died and openly talked about it?

Oh, wait, that never happened and he played it close to his chest until the final days.
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Libs wouldn't be able to handle those facts.
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loafy013 posted...

Hey, remember when Mercury announced to the world he had AIDS months before he died and openly talked about it?

Oh, wait, that never happened and he played it close to his chest until the final days.

I'm sorry. I wasn't aware that this movie was based on press releases. I thought biopics were about what happened behind the scenes.
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its inexplicably perverse that the movie retcons Mercurys HIV diagnosis as the bands motivation for Live Aid a concert that took place two years before the singer is believed to have been diagnosed.

lmao wow
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Uh the new trailer heavily focuses on his sexuality. I just saw it before watching Halloween. They even have a reporter asking him about his sexuality. Then it goes into him not having much time left, most likely due to AIDS. I call BS.
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Bio1590 posted...

its inexplicably perverse that the movie retcons Mercurys HIV diagnosis as the bands motivation for Live Aid a concert that took place two years before the singer is believed to have been diagnosed.

lmao wow

I just read that review, it sounds trash
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The best part about the weird defence force for this is that the reviews are already out and they stink. For the most predicable reasons.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Uh the new trailer heavily focuses on his sexuality. I just saw it before watching Halloween. They even have a reporter asking him about his sexuality. Then it goes into him not having much time left, most likely due to AIDS. I call BS.

I think that's about as deep as it gets according to the reviews I've read. Just the odd winks, nods and names.
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Darmik posted...

The best part about the weird defence force for this is that the reviews are already out and they stink. For the most predicable reasons.

IMDb = 8.6/10
IGN Entertainment = 7.3/10
Google users = 93% liked this movie

Hmmm

Darmik posted...

The best part about the weird defence force for this is that the reviews are already out and the stink. For the most predicable reasons.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Uh the new trailer heavily focuses on his sexuality. I just saw it before watching Halloween. They even have a reporter asking him about his sexuality. Then it goes into him not having much time left, most likely due to AIDS. I call BS.

I think that's about as deep as it gets according to the reviews I've read. Just the odd winks, nods and names.

I think that's all that really needs to be said honestly. I mean he was pretty flamboyant but he was always pretty secretive about his sexuality and personal life. If this were a movie about Liberachi or something that would make sense to put more emphasis on his sexuality.
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Seems pretty irrelevant to the story about his music.
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Nidhoggr posted...

Darmik posted...

The best part about the weird defence force for this is that the reviews are already out and they stink. For the most predicable reasons.

IMDb = 8.6/10
IGN Entertainment = 7.3/10
Google users = 93% liked this movie

Hmmm

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bohemian_rhapsody/

Rotten.

Smashingpmkns posted...

I think that's all that really needs to be said honestly. I mean he was pretty flamboyant but he was always pretty secretive about his sexuality and personal life. If this were a movie about Liberachi or something that would make sense to put more emphasis on his sexuality.

Biopics are about personal lives. What's the point if they aren't? Why watch an actor sing Queen songs inbetween scenes of shallow bullshit?

How someone's success impacts their personal lives and relationships is about as basic as a biopic gets.
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Darmik posted...

How someone's success impacts their personal lives and relationships is about as basic as a biopic gets.

This is true. In fact the most interesting part of this Biopic would have been his dealing with his sexuality and keeping it under wraps. It makes me not even want to watch the movie

So what would you do TC? Put in tons of gay sex scenes and have an hour long scene of Freddie Mercury crying about his AIDS? Yeah what a good movie that would be /s

Nidhoggr posted...

So what would you do TC? Put in tons of gay sex scenes and have an hour long scene of Freddie Mercury crying about his AIDS? Yeah what a good movie that would be /s

What if I told you there are options between those two extremes, for example, mentioning it but not dwelling on it (at least the gay part; I think the AIDS part needs to at least get a bit of discussion given that it's, y'kno, how he died).
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DarkTransient posted...

What if I told you there are options between those two extremes, for example, mentioning it but not dwelling on it

But that's exactly what they did and people are saying it's not enough.

Nidhoggr posted...

DarkTransient posted...

What if I told you there are options between those two extremes, for example, mentioning it but not dwelling on it

But that's exactly what they did and people are saying it's not enough.

Oh, it is? I got a different impression from this topic and what I've heard in the past. If that's the case, nevermind, fair next etc.
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Nidhoggr posted...

So what would you do TC? Put in tons of gay sex scenes and have an hour long scene of Freddie Mercury crying about his AIDS? Yeah what a good movie that would be /s

I love how you go straight to how they need to have a bunch of graphic sex scenes. Lol I dont think anyone's asking for that, but idk maybe portraying his secret life and his attempts to keep it hidden as well as his friendships and dealing with success etc could all be portrayed. It doesnt have to be gratuitous sex scenes to drive the point home but they could at least address it and how he battled to keep it hidden all the time.
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Darmik posted...

The usual suspects won't acknowledge that though.

God damn that Keyser Sze.
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Nidhoggr posted...

DarkTransient posted...

What if I told you there are options between those two extremes, for example, mentioning it but not dwelling on it

But that's exactly what they did and people are saying it's not enough.

That's not what the reviews say at all.

Apparently the guy he had a long term relationship is referenced in one cheesy joke and that's it.
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@Nidhoggr posted...

Uh that's a good thing. Freddie Mercury never wanted his sexuality to be his identity. He wanted it to be his music.

Fair enough, but in his particular case its something that 100% should be in a story about his life.

I'm not saying it's what the movie should have been about, but to completely ignore it is asinine imo.
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I can kind of understand why they did it, but I don't agree with it. Yes, he was a private person about his personal life which makes it hard to get any possible personal scenes accurate, but cmon, show the fact that he was gay. Reference his lifestyle. Show that he had AIDS and then show the fact that he was so private about his life. There's no reason to change a persons personality/life for what is supposed to be essentially a biography of his life.
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This is a biopic. His sexuality may not have been his identity, but it played a part in his contraction of AIDS which resulted in his death.
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Darmik posted...

Bio1590 posted...

Hasn't it basically been acknowledged that this movie ended up as the shitty version the remaining members of Queen wanted as opposed to the actual biopic of Mercury that Sasha Baren Cohen wanted to do?

That's the story I heard.

The usual suspects won't acknowledge that though.

And I weep inside for what was lost to us
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Irony posted...

This is a biopic. His sexuality may not have been his identity, but it played a part in his contraction of AIDS which resulted in his death.

This. They have a right to not discuss it, it just then becomes something other than a biopic. The NWA movie "Straight Outta Compton" had the same issue.
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Darmik posted...

https://twitter.com/ZachStafford/status/1054834775913984000

Well that's pretty fucking weird in 2018 lol

Yea thats weak
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So gays are just their sexuality and have no personality whatsoever. Got it.

Seriously I'd rather see a doc about him without getting into his sexual exploits. Everyone knows the man was gay, it's common knowledge. It's not something they need to slather on in the film. You want your diversity but you want your characters to be so one dimensional in what makes them them. Freddy wasn't just gay, he was a talented music legend. The sexuality of someone shouldn't be the forefront. If the most interesting thing about you is what sex organ you're attracted to, then you aren't interesting.
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Anime_Killer17 posted...

I can kind of understand why they did it, but I don't agree with it. Yes, he was a private person about his personal life which makes it hard to get any possible personal scenes accurate, but cmon, show the fact that he was gay. Reference his lifestyle. Show that he had AIDS and then show the fact that he was so private about his life. There's no reason to change a persons personality/life for what is supposed to be essentially a biography of his life.

He wasnt gay though. He was bi
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