![freddie mercury your gay meme freddie mercury your gay meme](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/17/61/b5/1761b5032a1041596c3ac81c75d36ecb--freddie-mercury-leather-jackets.jpg)
There are two separate scenes of Freddie showing up late for rehearsal while the other band members have their own ideas, like Brian May coming up with the beat for “We Will Rock You,” then having hung-over Freddie ask, “Wait, what’s that?” Or when Freddie is ranting and raving about how he wants to do more disco records, but then there’s John Deacon over off in the corner randomly playing a baseline, “dum dum dum, du du du dum da dum.” Then Freddie again asks, “Hold up, what’s that?,” then a smash cut to the band playing “Another One Bites the Dust” in concert. But it all seems to come at Freddie’s expense. So I understand why the other members would like their due. And what pisses me off about it is that those three (to be fair, Deacon didn’t have anything to do with the movie) are still around to offer this version of events while Freddie isn’t here to say, “Wait a minute, what about the time you did such and such.”Ī few months ago I was at bar trivia and a question was, “What is the only four-member group where every member is in the songwriting hall of fame.” The answer was Queen.
#FREDDIE MERCURY YOUR GAY MEME MOVIE#
The whole movie is basically those three shaking their heads at Freddie’s behavior. You see, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon are wholesome people who would never partake in the rockstar lifestyle like Freddie Mercury does. Look, there’s Freddie, doing drugs and hanging out with all his gay friends, while the rest of the band – those squeaky clean choir boys – tell Freddie how they can’t stay and party because they all have to get home to their wives and kids. Bohemian Rhapsody doesn’t ignore Freddie’s homosexuality, but instead kind of twists and warps it into what the movie presents as his downfall.
![freddie mercury your gay meme freddie mercury your gay meme](https://didyouknowfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Freddie-Mercury.png)
There were concerns Bohemian Rhapsody wouldn’t address Freddie being gay – which is a crazy thing to even be worried about in 2018, but then again this movie certainly has plenty of archaic surprises lurking inside of it. We see him declare his everlasting love for a woman. A more accurate way to phrase it would be, “Painting by numbers but the artist is really bad and can’t read numbers and just puts any color where he damn well pleases.”ĭirected by Bryan Singer (I mean, sort of, since from most accounts he got fired off of this movie and his troubles just seem to be beginning), Queen’s historic performance at 1985’s Live Aid bookends the film. Anyway, I’ve already seen that term used to describe Bohemian Rhapsody and it’s inaccurate. Honestly, I don’t remember painting by numbers being a big part of my life or really anyone I know. Anyway, the results of this agreement are troubling.)Ī popular phrase to use when describing a biopic is “paint by numbers.” It’s a phrase used so often, it gets me thinking about the actual popularity of painting by numbers. Or, at the very least, the music couldn’t be used. (This film couldn’t get made without the surviving member’s cooperation. So what we get is Rami Malek performing his ass off as Freddie Mercury in what’s essentially a Brian May and Roger Taylor propaganda film. I do wish he could have, somehow, been in a movie that was kinder to the legacy of Freddie Mercury – one the band didn’t control – but that’s not the way it went down. He’s so great that he almost sells what this movie is trying to pawn off on us. Either one of the next two things are true: Either the surviving members of Queen still resent the fact that so much of their legacy is wrapped up in Freddie Mercury that they had to make this revisionist history of a movie, or the surviving members are so cinematically tone deaf they inadvertently made a movie that sure comes off like that’s what they were trying to do.īefore we get too far, let’s get this out of the way: Rami Malek is really great as Freddie Mercury.