History Buffs: Bohemian Rhapsody Part One
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"You can do what you want with my music, but don't make me boring." -Freddie Mercury
@Cynical Frenchface I actually enjoyed the movie
He would have been pissed the fuck off about the actor they chose to represent him.
Internet: *cracks knuckles*
@@ADogNamedStay Why? He was great in the movie.
@@ADogNamedStay The one who won an Oscar for his performance?
I love how the actor Gwilym Lee looks more like Brian May than Brian May.
Haha right?? They cast the band PERFECTLY.
But only Brian may could look like Brian may
That's impossible
Shut up
@@rogerlambert7642 it's only a joke lol
"I pity your wife if you think 6 minutes is a long time" woah there
hold your horses
When Freddy Mercury wants burn someone , he uses a Flamethrower .
@@starlinyn9292 I think that it's pretty in keeping with his character though.
*Freddie
Can someone explain that joke to me? I know it probably has something to do with sex but I just don’t fully understand it
One of the things that reallly bugged me was how they never mentioned Freddie getting vocal nodules. In my opinion, that was a huge event that affected Queen's career until Freddie's passing, with his voice getting progressively deeper and raspy as time went on.
I had to google what vocal nodules are and boy howdy I'm uncomfortable now.
they switched it for his voice getting raspy for aids for some reason in thr movie
@@Burbie He did get AIDS though. That’s what killed him
it's because he pressed his vocal chords. they teach you in opera school not to do this for this exact reason\
@@PandaMonium92827 Why do you press on your vocal cords? to get higher pitch?
"It goes on forever, 6 bloody minutes."
Metalheads and Classical fans: "Only 6?"
EXACTLY brother!
Prog rock baby.
What do you mean the track is 24 minutes and only 6 lines of lyrics?
I pity your wife if you think six minutes to long.
laughs in Rime of The Ancient Mariner, Empire of The Clouds, Paaschendale
Pink Floyd be like:
We live in a society
*20 minute guitar solo with drum kit and trumpets*
16:47 An interesting and funny tidbit you missed: Queen had to ask Groucho Marx permission in order to keep using "A Night At The Opera" and "A Day At The Races" as album titles. Groucho's response?
"I am really happy that you are naming your albums after my movies and that you are being successful. I will allow it. In fact, I will be honoured if you name your next album after my new movie: Greatest Hits of the Rolling Stones".
Groucho Marx is a legend. You can't NOT love him lol.
@@madamebkrt "A man is only as old as the woman he feels."
I'm not sure where you heard this, but I don't believe it's true...From what I've heard, Groucho only found out about the albums after he heard some of their music being played by people working on his house. He then got into contact with the band, invited them over, and they performed a couple of songs on acoustic guitar, although John skipped out because he was too nervous.
You can't copyright a title. They didn't need his permission. If they asked him, then it was a courtesy move on their part.
Groucho Marx was awesome. He had a great friendship with Alice Cooper after Marx saw one of Cooper's shows and said: this is Vaudeville! Penn Jillette used to carry a photo of Cooper/Marx around when he was younger as it symbolised how people can get along(paraphrased).
Bohemian Rhapsody is like the American Revolutionary war cartoons you watched in 5th grade: it gets the general story across but skips over the non-family friendly parts like slavery (or for queen the major coke and alcohol usages).
sex addiction also killed him
I'm pretty sure it was the deadly disease that killed him, not sex addiction. Unless you're arguing that IV drug users and hemophiliacs who died from AIDS were actually raging sex fiends.
It definitely suffered from band members changing the narrative, as well as a sped up timeline, but Rami was wonderful and the reason I rewatch it occasionally.
Yeah same! I've had a crush on Rami Malek since I was 7 when he played Akhmenrah in Night at The Museum and I'm not gonna stop now😂
@@francescapatti2934 Me, too! ❤️
This movie was simply frustrating for anyone that knows a little bit of Queen history. This movie also shows how it can be a very bad idea to have band member as executive producers. Brian May and Roger Taylor made themselves appear more like saints. Roger Taylor himself was a well known party animal, womanizer and coke user. Ironically despite some of their partying Queen was definitely not the worst when it came to these things. The only Queen member who really developed problems was John Deacon with his drinking. Freddie Mercury was a very dedicated musician, according to their sound engineers and producers he spent the the most time in the studio out of everyone. In the movie it appears as if he is always late, and as if he never spends time in the studio.
You can understand how a movie might not always be accurate, but the worst part of the movie by far was how they pretended as if Freddie broke up the band to do a solo album. Queen never broke up. Freddie Mercury's first priority was always Queen, he took two years to record his solo album because he did the Queen album - The Works in-between, and Queen did a whole world wide, The Works tour. The highlight of the tour was the Rock In Rio Festival, where they played for a massive audience of almost 400k people. Queen did well at Live Aid, because the band was in good form, The Works tour had ended 5 weeks before Live Aid. It is ridiculous to think that a band who has not played together for years, are suddenly going to steal the show at such a big event. That is basically what happened to Led Zeppelin, they performed at Live Aid, but they had not played together for years, and it was pretty bad.
Freddie did not even promote his solo album, Roger did more promotion for his solo albums. Freddie's solo albums were not as unsuccessful and Brian May and Roger Taylor like to pretend. After Freddie's death they took some of his solo material and rerecorded it with their own instrumentation. So they obviously did not think it was that bad, if they still used the material. The way in which Freddie was represented as selfish jerk during this section especially was incredibly unfair and grating to watch.
Theres a reason why originally they wanted the movies halfway point to be Freddies death and the rest of the film to be the years that followed
They were talked out of it because while queen may have stayed a good band after his death nobody cared about them as people.
I'm sure if there was a movie about KISS, Paul would come across as the dedicated songwriter without the prissy condescending attitude, Gene would somehow be the genius businessman without his officious arrogance, and Ace and Peter would be portrayed as alcoholic drug addicts with nothing to contribute.
Absolutely 100 percent with you on this. But even with the movie's selective truth telling of Queen's history, what's an even bigger failure is just how incredibly awful this movie is from every angle. It's schizophrenically paced, overly edited, poorly acted, narratively boarder line incoherent, and worst of all, boring.
John used have his roadie make cocktails for him while he was on stage. Not surprising as John is a real introvert so being on stage in front of all those people must have been draining for him. It's partly why he gave up the business - that and he never recovered from Freddie dying whom he viewed as a father figure. He now plays golf and has the odd pint in his local pub just south of the Thames in London.
That's how all biopics are. Look at Straight Outta Compton. They made Dr. Dre into Superman when he was quite the awful person in his younger days.
While the Sex Pistols were recording Never Mind the Bollocks and Queen were recording News of the World in an adjacent studio, Johnny Rotten crawled in on all fours, up to the piano, said "Hi, Freddie," then crawled out. Johnny Rotten loved Freddie.
Not including the interactions Queen had with the Pistols in the movie was such a missed opportunity. The image of Freddie pushing Sid Viscious out of the studio is hilarious.
That happened?
THAT HAPPENED?!?
Why would they completely miss an opportunity THAT BIG!? That would have been an amazing scene!
Wow
@@NoahDaArk He made a joke about having ballet to the masses from that article and calling Freddie gay in an insulting way so Freddie kick his ass in front of the two bands
@@caitlinbelforti870 you mean Simon Ferocious 🤣
This movie has so many inaccuracies, it’s embarrassing. And as a Queen fan, I find it heartbreaking. But if you let this movie stand on its own, and just watch it without picking out what did and didn’t really happen, it was actually a good movie. It’s fun, makes you laugh, gets deep, and has a feel good ending.
That’s how I feel bout it I became a huge Queen fan from film.
Note the movie shows an iconic photo of Marlene Dietrich , which was the influence for the photo on the Queen II album cover . Also , the movie shows a cameo of the Bohemian Rhapsody drum kit .
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That's also how I feel about this movie.
The movie also used "fat bottomed girls" performed during their US tour in 1974, while the song did not came out untill 1978 as single for the Jazz album, along with Bicycle race.
Same thing with the We Will Rock you scene. Which clearly takes place during the 80's, while the song was written in 1977 and had a slidely different story behind it.
History Buffs: *Uploads*
_Is this real life? is this just fantasy?_
Brilliant lol
No, it's Bohemian Rhaposdy
CAUGHT IN A LANDSLIDE
OPEN YOUR EYES
This helps but... no escape from reality...
It would be awesome if History Buffs could do the mini-series "Chernobyl", I'd love to see how accurate it is to the source material
I'll second this.
Yep great idea. From what I have read and have seen from documentaries, it’s very accurate. ‘Source material’ is an interesting way of putting it!
HOLY FUCK YES
“Very accurate” - Not really. They may take individual factoids correctly, but they mash them together into a rushed timeframe that makes no sense historically (for example, the forest turning red happened over weeks, not hours). They also dialed up the danger levels of the radiation (like first-responders suffering radiation burns within minutes, instead of days), which inevitably ends up making the government response appear More incompetent in the face of (to the viewers) incontrovertible evidence of the plant’s danger. Additionally, that one manager of the plant (the one who’s in complete denial of the explosion in the first episode) was actually a heroic man who dedicated years of his life to clear the names of his subordinates, who were scapegoated into being the ones responsible for the reactor’s explosion. Nothing like the portrayal in the final show.
@@UGNAvalon don't forget the entirely invented scientist lady who came in to save the day!!
The scene where the audience sings Love of my life... Can you imagine the feelings of the song writer who has witnesses this ? Kind of brings a chill down my spine.
Club penguin is kil
@@kachow2461no
I like when he said "Anything over 3 minutes and they won't play it, period," when Bob Dyaln's "Like A Rolling Stone" was 6 minutes as well and recieved a LOT of airplay back in the day, 10 years before the release of "Bohemian Rhapsody"
American Pie got a lot of airplay too and it was I think seven minutes
@@bucksdiaryfan I believe American Pie was shortened tho, I do know the radio single had the record split as American Pie Part 1 & 2
-Hey Jude
Hey Jude was over 8 mins long, too.
Stairway to heaven is like 8 minute
Once again, knowing the actual history makes me sad about the movie we got and thinking the more historically accurate film we never saw would have been better.
This is the reason Bryan May and Roger Taylor didn’t want Sasha Baron Cohen, Sasha wanted the true warts and all story of Freddie, the band, the arguments. I also believe John Deacon was incredibly favourable to this.
Totally agree real shame
@@englishgentleman7471 yes i heard that apparently him and Brian may argued a lot about the story & apparently as others have said they wanted Freddie to die half way and show them carrying on...so omg we would have had a flipping Lambert clone at tail end of movie 🙈 christ the movie could have been even worse lol
The only thing I learned from this movie was that Freddie was gay
I agree and while the actors are all great, tbh Queen isn't the best band to do a biopic for without changing the story a lot. They never really had a lot of drama or conflict with each other and they made Freddie look like a giant prick as well when he seemed to be pretty reserved and humble judging by actual interviews. It seems pretty disrespectful when this movie is supposed to be a tribute to him and the band. I think Freddie would've took offense to his portrayal in this movie.
Me every time history buffs uploads : HE'S ALIVE
Relatable
He uploads a video every week but they can only be seen from Kazakhstan...
@@ulisesjorge hold up what???
You said it exactly right.
@@cleef4196 wtf
to be honest? it's REALLY WEIRD to watch a film with such heavy involvement with some ex band members paint Freddie like a total creep in many ways......... what was THAT all about? because no actual events or interviews appear to confirm it as truth.....
Brian May and Roger Taylor really went down in my estimation after seeing this. They should be ashamed for approving "you just killed Queen".
I understand Brian doing something like this......the guy is a genius but he is a bit of an egomaniac. But what really shocked me was Roger....I thought him and Freddie were really close friends? It's so disrespectful to his memory.
If i'm not wrong, john deacon said that he wanted nothing to do with the film. and considering how close he was with freddy during the end of his life, i'm not urprised by that.
also? Sorry, Rami Malek really doesn't look very much like Freddie........... he has these puffy eyes that make it almost impossible to suspend your disbelieve and become immersed..... nothing against his acting btw? he just doesn't resemble Freddie very well, which is a shame, since the other 3 members of Queen were quite good casting i thought....
My issue with the movie is that Brian and Roger allowed the writers to rewrite history and that Brian and Roger used to movie to piss on the graves of people who can't defend themselves, like Paul Prenter
paul prenter actually was a bit of a prick though
Unfortunately Paul Printer did quite a few crappy things. Read up on him. Including the selling of Freddie's private photos and other stuff about Freddie's love life. The london sun for 10 days ran as much as they could decently. The most porn snaps they couldn't use but owned.
Freddie never dignified it with any response.
Brian and Roger weren't going to defend Paul Prenter under any circumstances. They thought of him as a snake in the grass, and from what I've read over the years, that is what he was. And they were the music producers, they likely didn't have final approval on the script itself. That would have been Jim Beach.
The actor who played Brian May got it SOOOOO right ! It’s amazing
Apparently the actor phoned his mum and quizzed her on her whereabouts, genuinely concerned Brian May might've been his real father!
Apparently when Brian May's wife first set eyes on him in the full Brian May garb she totally went weak at the knees. I would've been like seeing your partner back when they were at their absolute hottest while your old man is standing next to you with grey hair and bags under his eyes. Still, that fact that Brian May can still wear that hairstyle all these years later is quite impressive.
@@NewFalconerRecords
Well, he used to straighten his hair until he saw Jimi Hendrix. He didn't think his curly hair was cool until then and when he saw him, (I like to believe) it was like releasing the animal within in a way. I don't have curly hair (mine's actually slightly wavy) but I can imagine how tedious it must've been to try and straighten such beautiful curls and how annoying it must've been whenever it rained. Lol.
You should have mentioned that the reason Mike Myers playing the EMI executive, who thinks that Bohemian Rapsody is too long, is particularly clever, is because Mike Myers had to fight his movie company to use Bohemian Rapsody in the famous Wayne's World sing-along in the Gremlin. Cheeky.
A better movie
This. Everyone is like "THATS NOT WHAT HAPPENED" and im like "its a fucking joke"
was in a Pacer
He mentioned it in part 2
I think it would've been better if he played himself and the film ended with him showing Wayne's World to Freddie before he died and him giving the film his blessing. That would've been a fantastic way to end the film
Queen were delighted to get onto Top Of The Pops as that was the great vehicle which propelled all the major acts back in the day. The last thing they would have done at the BBC studios would have been to complain about miming because if they did they would have quickly been shown the door.
There are compilations of bands making fun of being forced to lip sync while performing there. Like Iron Maiden exchanging their instruments in the middle of performing and Kurt Cobain doing Teen Spirit in a silly Morrisey voice.
the acting, casting, and costumes were amazing and i genuinely enjoy the movie, but i wish it was more accurate and painted freddie mercury and queen accurately
As a massive, die-hard Queen fan, while the film is entertaining and well acted, it does not do Queen or Freddie Mercury justice. The one good thing about this film is that it had brought a whole new generation of Queen fans, which I'm happy about, but if you want the real story of Freddie Mercury and Queen, then the film is not a good source for it. The real story of Queen is a fascinating and brilliant and certainly deserves better treatment.
But what makes the inaccuracies so unforgiving is that both Brian May and Roger Taylor were involved, you'd have thought that they would have pointed it out and corrected them, but no they didn't. I really like Brian May and Roger Taylor, both as musicians and as people, but I think having both of them being executive producers was a mistake, they should have just been technical advisors and nothing more. At least John Deacon wisely chose to stay out of it (but that's because he's now retired and doesn't want to do anything in public).
I may be wrong on this, but from what I've read, most of the fighting and arguments within Queen was actually started by Brian May, mainly because he was a bit of a perfectionist, and he often targeted his frustration at either Roger Taylor or Freddie Mercury, (mainly Roger). Freddie Mercury did get involved in his fair share of arguments and fighting, but more often he and John Deacon were the peacemakers. I read this somewhere, but I can't remember where exactly, so I could be wrong.
I agree completely. I just want to add Rami Malek's performance was incredible. He nailed it! If only the movie was better it would have been a masterpiece.
I agree with u Bru but I'm happy it was so damn successful despite the inaccuracies..I mean no way in hell did I see the movie making even 450 mill let alone twice that amount...sometimes I feel Queen don't get their due and are underrated but I was glad to see that alot of people do recognize them ..maybe not as much as they should but they do recognize them
@@antoniokastrocarlisledemel6617 I've never got that impression. I'm not a die hard Queen fan, but I still love their work. It is a pity however that most "variety" radio stations (at least where I'm from) hardly, if ever, play anything outside of like fifteen songs, which doesn't include any Queen (or Beethoven, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Joplin [I'm convinced that classical music isn't for stuffy arrogant people. Everybody loves classical music, but they just don't know it yet.]) unfortunately.
That’s how biopics work. They’re mostly pretend. Like any other movie. I know it’s aggravating.
Yes I think it was Brian who pushed things...but they are all very intelligent driven men and that's how the best bands become the best. Just look at Pink Floyd. There 's an audio clip of Brian arguing with Freddie about Freddie's vocals and Freddie says it was exactly the same as all the other takes.
"It's been a while since I've done a musical biopic, Last one being Amadeus"
*Video on Amadeus was uploaded 4 years ago*
Sure has been a long while.
Must be like eight videos ago)
I read your comment right as he said that and it tripped me out
@@TheMadSlavik yes
Has he done any other musical biopics?
Btw shout out too Marc Martel who did all of the dubbing for Marc Martel where Rami Malik couldn't lip sync actaul recordings. Doing freddie mercury's singing voice for his biopic can't be easy.
"Radiostations will never play it! It's 6 bloody minutes!"
Radiostations in 2154: "Here's a classic for you guys"
There will come a time when Dream Theater is played on radios
Bit of trivia for you. The guy singing at 5:39 is named Marc Martel and is the former lead singer of tribute band Queen Extravaganza. He used to front a Christian band named Downhere before they split up and was always told that he sounded like a young Freddie Mercury. Look up Marc's Somebody to Love audition for Queen Extravaganza. It's remarkable.
Ayooo I’m going to see him in concert in October! I’m so excited! I also got the pleasure of meeting him 2 years ago and he’s an absolute sweetheart!! He’s so shy as well but so am I so we talked pretty casually. He’s extremely intelligent and loves to talk about the breakdowns of his music and art! He’s awesome!!
Saw him in concert and he was a fucking legend
That tribute from Heathrow Airport just made me feel something that I can't explain cuz I'm cringing too hard
What's really sad is the amount of money spent on the film crews, extra lighting, the "lending" of the terminal in one of the busier airports in the world. The union mandated craft services for a single day of filming. Unfortunately all the clothing and suitcases are "costumes" someone was paid dedicated to gathering everything on the cheap or loaned except for the shoes and under clothes... They didn't some Money on that, plus the royalties AND it looks shite!
As a huge Queen fan I still enjoy the hell out of this movie, even though a lot of it is not true. Rami Malek still did a great job as Freddie in my opinion.
Same! I'm also reading a lot of stuff about Freddie being portrayed as a bad person and?? I didn't get that vibe at all?
He just made some bad choices, but he did that irl too, it's not like he's portrayed as an evil guy, he's just a good man who did drugs (everyone did at the time, also every Queen member did them as well).
I really didn't get the vibe.
Of course Brian and Roger portrayed themselves better than they were I guess? But the movie wasn't even about them, so I don't see why we'd need scenes of Brian cheating on his wife or whatever.
Besides there ARE documentaries on TH-cam, that are meant to be actually accurate! People can watch those.
Overall I liked the movie, didn't love it and it's not historically accurate, but it doesn't claim to be.
I also liked that they didn't show the later days, when Freddie was ill, because I think that would have been disrispectful af, the media hounded him during that time and besides, he was a very private person off stage, so I think ending with Queens Live Aid concert was a good idea.
I've been a Queen fan for about eleven years, so I know some of the inaccuracies of the movie. However, I understand that for the sake of brevity (and drama) they had to take artistic liberties. I do like this history lesson, though. I'm learning stuff I didn't know before (about Smile and other details).
No, they didn't had to.
Whilst the cast and production values were good this was such a sanitized film that took Braveheart-levels of historical liberty.
Freddie is portrayed as an arrogant eccentric, when that was just his public persona, he was really an introvert who lived with cats.
Also what baffles me is... they gave Rami Malek fake teeth, BUT THEN DIDN'T BOTHER TO GIVE HIM BROWN CONTACTS??
Rami wore brown contacts at the beginning of filming, but then decided to take them out because they were too difficult to keep in.
@@alyssasylvester6101 If only we had computers that could digitally alter color.
@@MarkArandjus the work it would take to paint eyecolour out in every fkin shot isnt worth it...
you people think you click a button and voila his eyes are brown
@@lp.shakur You people? You mean people who work with digital graphics for a living? Because that's what I do :D And I can tell you that while it's not as easy as pushing a button, all you have to do is create either a HSB adjustment layer or a channel mixer, then create a mask for the eyes and track its motion (this can often be done automatically). Depending on the number of shots I could do this in less than two months.
IN FACT, the VFX company working on this film is Double Negative, they've worked on several films that are famous for characters having strange eyes, including Alita, Bladerunner 2049, and the upcoming Dune, where half of the cast has unnaturally blue eyes.
This is probably sloppy creative decision-making on the part of the director(s), seeing how there was some major behind the scenes drama with Bryan Singer being unprofessional and he was eventually replaced.
@@alyssasylvester6101 contacts can also cause eye damage and infection. I know this personally. Why risk it.
THANK YOU NICK! I was waiting for the last two minutes of this video...... Freddie didn't break up Queen. Roger Taylor had already released two solo albums at that point. I hated that scene. Alot of this film vilified Freddie and covered up every shitty money grubbing thing Roger Taylor attempted throughout the groups tenure. I mentioned that in the comments of the original Facebook post about the announcement of this video and I'll say it again. THANK YOU
You can tell that a lot of this movie was Roger and Brian trying to paint themselves as the sensible, reasonable members that kept Queen together, and were the only reason Freddie became great, while John Deacon sat moping in the corner. It was a very sanitised and doctored story designed to portray as basically the Samwise Gamgees to Freddie's Frodo. Frodo may have been the main character, but Sam was the real hero who kept Frodo going.
The thing is that they were undoubtedly into just as much crazy shit as Freddie was, and there wasn't a real break. They were still touring and releasing and recording Queen albums in 1985 when Freddie recorded his solo album. Also, John was done a disservice, as he was Freddie's best friend in the band but he basically fades into the background in the movie.
I think it's a real shame that we didn't get to see a more accurate representation that wasn't afraid to show some of the more sordid details, but also had a more genuine look at the relationships in the band.
31:00 thats why i prefer rocketman as it is a 15 or "R" rated as you call it in America
My band teacher had us play Bohemian rhapsody for last year's concert and I have been obsessed ever since
Ya know what's funny?
There is that scene where the producer is all "they would never play a 6 minute song on the radio" and then he's wrong but uh...
There is no point in this movie, which is named after the song, in which they play the entire song uncut. Not even over the credits or something.
They should've played the whole Live Aid scene uncut. Play all the songs and end it there with them walking off.
Please do an History Buffs episode on "Munich". Very, very underrated movie.
I just discovered this in my DVD $1 collection. It looks.. tragic & a little boring. (It was on sale for $1.00.) I may give it a shot.✌
Alysia Mer David-Wasser It’s a pretty cool movie
Yesss
It’s brilliant Spielberg at his best
@@susanmaggiora4800
Yea, I'm going to watch it. (I literally spent the last week rewatching History Buffs videos, and *yesterday* watching Queen & Marc Martel videos, so, this is a sign!)
U should’ve spoke about how several other bands had released longer songs. Like Hey Jude and Stairway to Heaven years before. They act like they’re the first to write a long song...
That really bugged me in the film. Hey Jude held the record for longest run at #1 and it was seven minutes, but it’s never mentioned.
@@Windupchronic I will concede the point that the Beatles were the biggest band the world had ever seen for quite some time before they released it, but they could’ve mentioned it. He could’ve said, “what about hey Jude?” To which the exec would say ur not the Beatles!
Also that train wreck MacArthur park was like a year long
What are you even arguing? Its well documented IN REAL LIFE that nobody wanted to air it. Its a fact. Are you mad they didnt lie about that part or what?
Well it grates most for me as an Australian cos there was a song released in Australia called Evie by Stevie Wright in 1974 a year before Bohemian Rhapsody that has 3 sections to the song much the same as Rhapsody does but goes for a staggering 11 minutes, almost twice the length of Queen's, making Queen's 6 minutes look tame by comparison and certainly not the first song to be released that was over 3 minutes long on commercial radio.
@TheMusicalOwl Yes but not on commercial radio, progressive rock was the indie music of the 70s
Makes me laugh how the movie goes out of its way to portray Freddie with a middle Eastern accent when but had a very posh English accent. The man was English through and through and loved being English.
Yes, that really struck me as well. Freddie always had a posh English accent.
My issue was how overdone his accent was. It was way too dramatic in some spots
@@mysticcrazy3 100%
Freddie went out his way to be English, and he was a Englishman through and through, right down to the posh accent. I have no idea why they wanted to portray him that way. Well I have an idea but that's the cynic in me.
When did the movie portray him with a “Middle Eastern Accent”? Every single scene he’s in has him sounding cockney. The very first scene he’s in is like that. Where are you getting this from? Tell me which scene specifically has him sounding like that; you can use time stamps so I’ll know exactly what you’re referring to.
@@pugachevskobra5636 lol wtf.... Completely false in every way. Where are you getting the cockney accent from? 😂 Look at the other comments, they noticed it as well. You're either deaf, or being wilfully disingenuous just to argue.
You can timestamp the movie yourself. I'm not going to waste my time time stamping all his scenes for you 😂🤡 do your own research.
Still waiting on that Cleopatra episode you've been teasing for years with that intro
agreed
Cleopatra is gonna make me act up
@@killianbolton8917 sniff sniff. Is that simp I smell?
@Bet stop ruining all the fun.
@Bet yeah
Knowing this movie and seeing Part 1, nick’s gonna be PISSED
So? That's what odd about this film choice. There are so many comments about Sasha Cohen, that it's almost like most ppl know about the controversial fight to get this film made. As you said: "Knowing this movie", so it's almost like most ppl ALSO know it was plagued with historical inaccuracies. So, Nick gets mad? It just shows that he went for low-hanging fruit. It doesn't take away Rami's Oscar, or the many awards this film won. He's one guy, whose opinion of a biopic doesn't diminish the memory of Freddie Mercury or Queen as legends.
@@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165 Freddie Mercury and Queen deserve a better movie representation.
Quite a lot of people were disappointed by this film and over 5000 people agree with Nick's opinion, this movie getting bullshit awards doesn't change it. It kinda comes off as "Transformers films were box office hits therefore anyone's criticism is invalid!"
Mark my words, the day a better Queen biopic is made, no one will give a fuck about this movie and would recommend it only for Mr Robot's performance. So what, many bad films have saving graces.
@@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165 Wow, it's almost like his entire channel is based around critiquing the historical innaccuracies in popular films. Go figure
@@DeepEye1994
A couple of things: Nick has a "background in creative writing & film" but he doesn't seem to be a historian. And, like it or not, as I stated, most ppl seem to know that the film was flawed, yet *9MILLION* still bought tickets globally, and *4.5MILLION* bought copies of the film on DVD/blu-ray. So, that's *13MILLION PPL* vs 5,000 on the internet. So, by saying that the numbers are akin to "calling the Transformers a good movie" bc of good numbers, but then ALSO saying that 5,000 ppl agree with Nick, you've brought out a double-edged sword. Either numbers matter or they don't. Either 5,000 ppl matter AND 13MILLION ppl matter or they don't.
@@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165 I'm not sure what you're point is. Braveheart also won many awards and sold very well, but is it also a complete mess historically. For the record, I also didn't like this movie because I've already seen it many times before it was created. I saw the same plot in The Mighty Ducks, Walk the Line, basically any hollywood movie about fame/sports/money follows the same beats and I'm just sick of it. Did anyone seriously watch the beginning and not just know that Freddie will have to "reconnect with his roots" right before his third act triumph?
We'll never get another band like queen or a masterpiece like Bohemian rhapsody
18:42 Fun fact: Bohemian Rhapsody wasn’t the only instance of that happening. I actually thought you were mistaking Boh Rhap with March of the Black Queen, but both are so similar in recording process I have no doubt this was true of both songs
It would be cool if you did an history buff on “Straight outta Compton”
Yes!!!
Hell yeah, especially the details of their individual upbringings and their legacy on hip hop.
Please please please do this
This and "The Dirt"
movie about Mötley Crüe
Straight outta Compton way better film and adaption then Bohemian Rhapsody, yet guess who got Oscar nomination. Show how much race plays in the Oscar.
"Coronation Street has most boring intro of all time"
Late at night, a sea of flat-caps and pitchforks came to claim Nick Hodges's soul
As they should!
it's the one good thing left of Corrie!
@@robogarda past year has been great mate. By far the best soap out there. And I’m generally more of a cinephile.
American here. I remember watching the video in my teens and wondering “what the hell is this?” A few years later almost was in tears while watching Lisa Stansfield pushing a vacuum cleaner at the Freddie tribute concert.
Fast forward roughly 20 years and I learned about Coronation Street.
They did a very great job with casting for this movie.
Im glad that you did Bohemian Rhapsody, because think the history aspect is more important to this movie than most. It could have either been a movie with a 3 act structure or a recreation/celebration of queen(well mostly Freddie Mercury's) career, in my opinion the movie didn't really stick to either all the way but it definitely dropped the ball on the historical angle.
man i seriously don't mind waiting months for new videos if they're as well made as this. I've probably seen every history buffs video at least 3 times because they're all made with the same level of care and passion for history. keep up the great work.
The best part about doing a historical movie on a rock band/artist is that you can always name the movie after their greatest hit song. For Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, for Elton John, Rocket Man. I imagine if they do one on the Eagles it'll probably be either Hotel California or The Long Run.
Or they could go a different route and have Jeff Bridges narrating "I Fuckin' Hate the Eagles, Man"
Is the Dead Kennedys biopic going to be titled Too Drunk To Fuck?
You can also do it with fictional bands, like "That Thing You Do!"
Nah if they ever do one on The Eagles, they should name it take it easy. I know they'd almost certainly call it Hotel California or The Long Run like you said, but I think take it easy sounds really cool for an Eagles biopic lol
Or David Bowie and call it "hero's" or "space oddity" they did one staring Billi Joel Armstrong called ordinary world (even though it had nothing to do with grean day)
Rogers like “I’m in love with my future car that I’ll make lot of money from later on”
I love your deep dive into movie histories. I have truly missed your videos, so glad you're back! I know these require A LOT of research and we really appreciate all your hard work. I went back and rewatched a lot of your videos, it keeps me entertained during these trying times. I especially loved your Casino and Goodfellas and was wondering if you would ever consider doing Bugsy? I would really love to see your take on that movie.
Queen stopped touring in the USA because MTV banned their music video for the song "Body Language", and there is a little known story that could have been intresting to talk about sort of a Rock VS Punk story: One day while recording the News of the World album Freddie and Roger met the Sex Pistols in the studio and they started fighting. Sid Vicious said that their sound (especially the albums Sheer Heart Attack and Day at the Races) were soft and "gay" so freddie called him "Simon Ferocious" so Sid tried to attack him so Freddie pushed him out of the studio. In reaction Roger wrote the song Sheer Heart Attack to prove that anybody can write a punk song. So you can say that Sheer Heart Attack is the only Queen song which is intentionally bad. But Brian liked the song so they played it live until 1982.
There's no way in hell anyone will ever say Sheer Heart Attack is a bad Queen Song, it's arguably one of their best songs.
How could Roger have written Sheer Heart Attack to "prove that anybody can write a punk song" in 1977...when he'd already written it in 1974, 3 years earlier? :/
accusing Queen of being soft, when they had songs like Liar, Ogre Battle, Modern Times Rock'n'Roll, Brighton Rock and Stone Cold Crazy is kinda ridiculous
“Sheer Heart Attack is meant to be intentionally bad”
If it’s supposed to be bad on purpose then they failed: the song is cool. lol
Also MTV banned their video I Want to Break Free.
Thing that even queen fans don't know is that Freddie Mercury came out publicly as bisexual in 1976, al ot of fans think it was somewhere in the eighties but Freddie Mercury came out publicly in the song Good Old-Fashiond Lover Boy, the song is literally about Freddie's first date with his first boyfriend David Minns
@Gerd Wiesler I know, from what was told in the news of my country its one of the most watched movies in my country and tons upon tons of people think that the story in the movie is real. Its sad how many people belive in the lie which is this movie!!!!!
David Minns!
Peter freestone was his pa!
@Rampaging Koala as a bisexual, i don't think freddie was bi, actually ! i don't recall where i heard this from, but i believe one of his friends stated that he would cry during sex with women. to me it sounds more like comphet, though i could be wrong ! that being said, i don't think it's right for us to debate the sexuality of anyone, especially someone who is no longer with us & cannot speak on their truth. i personally regard him simply as a queer icon regardless of what he decided to label himself as :)
@@hellothere4364 I remember reading that too. Your point about comphet is absolutely right. And even reidentifications are completely commonplace considering elton john originally came out as bisexual. Elton john!!
And Roger (I think) said smth like how in the early days of the band, he noticed that the girls that used to pour into freddie’s dressing room backstage were now slowly replaced by boys.
And ofc people point to his relationship with Mary to say he’s bi, but Mary herself said (in a documentary) that she came to understand that freddie was gay. Which makes more sense.
All in all yeah, we dk for sure. If it was a preference or if he completely lacked attraction for women. But considering he named his band QUEEN, a derogatory term for queer men, I feel like he’d be fine with the queer label.
5:48
also nobody on the planet would pick up a harmony this good right away while sitting in a parking lot and hearing someone sing for the first time
Elton John did for Daniel
@@nolesy34 ?
@@muchanadziko6378 oh in Rocketman, Elton had an ear for picking up a tune
I'm a Queen fan, and i liked the movie, despite it's inaccuracies
Same
Same I can’t understand why people are so super mad
now we need the Crue edition with the Dirt, complete with ant snorting Ozzy and all the drugs like every single one of them present in the 70s and 80s
He could be working on it right now.
2020: A Desolate wasteland of Bad News, more Bad News, and even more Bad News
But today...... today is a good day.
It's funny because out here in the countryside where I live 2020 has been a great year full of fun and games and mountain hikes for me.
Today is one of those rare and austere glints of lighted hope.
In urban city life its been boring and in your position in rural area you got it great. Unless you got a financial backed
Welcome to history, weaklings. Where an unarmed man is a slave and bullets are as good as typewriters. Things are going to get a lot more historical in the coming years.
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Maybe in the 'States bud, but as long as we can still enjoy a good cuppa tea when we bloody well want, and beer remains in plentiful supply, we British will be just fine 😁
Mike Myers playing a character taking the piss out of Bohemian Rhapsody when it was a Mike Myers movie , Wayne’s World who I feel made it popular again in the early 90’s ; it was like an Easter Egg I believe
Radio manager: "its to long to play on the radio"
Meatloaf: *laughs in "i would do anything for love" 12 minute uncut edition*
Also, 25:02 the lady with the black hair is the same women from "the witches" who tries to trick the boy out of his tree house.
He's returned to us.. He lives again!
"Just don't make it boring." -Freddie Mercury.
Oops.
I really want to see the Sacha Baron Cohen version. But the living band members won't let them license the music for something that doesn't fawn over them, so it will not be made in their lifetime. By the time it can be made, Cohen will be too old.
I was extremely disappointed when Sacha was no longer a part of this production. The overall finished product of this film is a sterilized version of Freddie’s crazy life. The only part I enjoyed in theaters was the live aid concert recreation and even then the crowd was sterilized.
I was disappointed too. I especially found it humorous how the band initially envisioned the film as a PG Disney film. I personally found Rocket Man to be an infinitely better film that was closer to what I envisioned Bohemian Rhapsody being.
He reportedly quit because May, at the point of Cohen’s involvement, wanted Freddie to die halfway through the film and focus on how the remaining members carried on. As if anyone would have ever wanted to watch a movie depicting May and Taylor’s failed solo careers and eventual hiring of an American Idol runner up to replace Freddie...
@@jongon0848 I haven't seen Rocket Man yet, but that's what all the reviews said. I'm looking forward to watching it.
@@jessi5401 did you forget the time Roger and Brian hired that dude from Free to sing for the band?
I love the irony of EMI not wanting to play it on the radio and years later I remember a story about someone walking into class late and the excuse was "Bohemian Rhapsody was on and you don't walk away from that."
You made Amadeus one of my favorite movies. Thank you for covering Bohemian Rhapsody
The almighty listened to my wishes. He’s back!!!!
"I mean look at this, even the cat's falling asleep."
Lmao!
Would be lovely to see History Buffs cover Valkyrie!
Man, your content is such good quality stuff. It is always worth the wait. Keep up the good work.
I remember hearing some people say the relationship between Freddie and Mary in the movie was not worth focusing on. I'll be honest, I haven't seen the movie, but I already know some Queen history. And some people just don't understand how deep Freddie and Mary's relationship was. Even after their engagement ended, they were very good friends til Freddie's death. Freddie even left her a good chunk of his estate in his will. His reasoning for it was that she would have been his wife anyways. The man was absolutely affectionate towards Mary, and it even made some of his male lovers jealous.
The sole good thing for any of these historical character movies, in my mind, is that people like you can use them as a platform to talk about the real history. Every inaccuracy, big and small, is inexcusable to me, because these mainstream representations essentially are the history for most people, who won't look into it any more.
What a brilliant video. Thank you for making this.
Top charts for 9 weeks, in the Netherlands it held the top 2000 for 6, losing it one year, then taking it for another 4, losing it for 1. Taking it for 3, losing it for 1 and then holding onto it till 2020. Damm it is just such a good song!
I am drilling holes at my new house for my shelves and I have stopped . Sitting on a dirty floor with my phone watching my beloved Scottish friend's video. Love you dude
I’m so happy he did this movie it is completely riddled with inaccuracy.
I have a lot of mixed emotions about it
It is simple impossible for a movie with limited time to accuratetly portray reality. That's why you can't use movies as source material. All movies that are based on true stories are inaccurate and fictional. The main point is instead to make a tribute for the person and tell important event in his life
Prenter’s little smile when he talks about breaking with Queen. I believe him 100% and I think he still thinks of them fondly. We should all hope to be so lucky
The live aide scene was amazing. That scene alone was worth the entire film being made.
Never gotten to a video so quickly we've missed you in general Nick!
Next movie should be "the doors", just imagine nick covering all the things Oliver Stone got wrong lol
You mean the majority of the movie?
@@jokerhere4504 lol yeah, but atleast Val Kilmer did a good job lol
Greg Elchert at least most of them lol
I'd love to see him talk about all those walkabouts Jim takes with that naked Indian dude
"It's your movie, Wayne"
Hal Emmerich have you ever listen to commentary when that scene plays through?
I never realized how the surviving members did make themselves look reasonable and nice 😂😂
Whenever I hear Bohemian Rhapsody, the first thing that always will pop into my head is the guys singing along in the Mirthmobile in Wayne's World.
It's forever etched into my mind.
How can you not remember that epic scene inside a 1976 bright blue Pacer with flames on the side. Lol
SHWING!!!!
25:08 out of touch media calls something it doesn't like fascist.
I guess some things never change.
I just lol my ass off when I saw that
That statement was the ultimate bruh moment.
Let me guess, Trump cultist who is big mad people say he is fascist. It isn't just the media saying it, matter of fact, the "media" actually isn't. IT IS EVERYONE ELSE who are wondering why the media doesn't call him out.
@@timothyhouse1622 TDS is real........
@@timothyhouse1622 I wasn't talking about Trump, but okay.
I like that you mentioned "Death on Two Legs." The song itself tells a story all its own.
Good to see you back
I just love Nick's funny asides & quips delivered by his cartoon avatar.
I'm not typically very interested in music and bands, but you present things really well!
Love ur vids!
We meet again on the TH-cam. Awesome, to see you on the path of history buffs. Still have good taste.
What fossil did you choose
Oh my god I did not expect to see you here I'm subscribed and love your pokemon videos
Same, I didn't know shit about Queen, and I've never been a fan of their music, but this video was very entertaining
Little in joke about Ray Foster, the EMI exec: He's played by Mike Myers, who became a film legend with his role in the 1992 comedy Wayne's World. And what is that film's most famous scene? The leads headbanging to Bohemian Rhapsody. So it's funny to see him here trying to shoot down the very song that would later make him famous.
One of the worst parts of the movie honestly. Unsubtle, unfunny, stuck out like a sore thumb, a crowbarred in reference that fit right in with a bad script. How did the song make him famous, by the way? Surely it was the movie.
@@Bagheadman Because if you ask anyone to name the first thing that comes to mind when you say Wayne's World its that scene
@@joshburns969 And if you ask someone what movie comes to mind when you say Mike Myers, they'd say Shrek or Austin Powers.
@@Bagheadman Maybe The Cat in the Hat.
@@Bagheadman Which wouldn't have happened without Wayne's World.
I love that the TH-cam videos analyzing this movie were more well done than the movie itself.
10:10 Great editing, this should win an Oscar.
They sanitized this movie so much, we never saw the true freddie
That movie stunk. To see Freddie's life reduced to Hollywood cliches and myths in order to make money was an insult.
Why change important facts about events in Freddie's life and then have the actor recreate every exact movement made during live aid is asinine.
Horrible film and a disgrace to Freddie's memory.
I places this movie in the *"Historical Fiction"* category.
That concert is absolutely amazing.
21:43 I see what you did there. I love how you include these references with a normal time just to add to the video.
Dawg what
The Pacific, based on A Helmet for my Pillow and With the old breed: On Peleliu and Okinawa
My nomination for the next review, especially since you did Band of Brothers.
And it's also where Rami Malek and Joseph Mazzello became best friends which led to the casting of this movie and it's fantastic chemistry because of their relationship. Excellent idea! (And if Nick does it, I hope he mentions that!)
Matthew Davis It’s too bad not a lot of people know that Both Malek and Mazzello both met in The Pacific
I second this
The Guadalcanal landing scene at the start was actually film out the front of my house.
I've been pitching this for too long that I'll keep on seconding this. 😔
"The only song with opera in the record is Bohemian Rhapsody"
Cries in The Prophet's song
Nobody ever remembers that masterpiece >.>
@@ToastersChannel March of the Black Queen was on Queen II.
"The Prophet's Song" is actually my favorite Queen song. I actually think it is more well crafted than "Bohemian Rhapsody". I imagine that all the layered vocals Freddie did to sing in a vocal canon with himself, wore out the tape as much as the plethora of "Galileos" in B.R. Brian's guitar work was stellar, and I also loved the use of the koto in the opening and closing.
It just doesn't get the love, likely due to its run time. Most people don't have the patience for a near 9 minute song, as evidenced by how hacked up "November Rain" was when radio stations actually played it, and to hack up "The Prophet's Song" to make it "suitable for air play" would be a crime.
always felt like rami malek was portraying a caricature of Freddie Mercury
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It happened in the past so I guess it’s history. Just never thought Bohemian Rhapsody would be on here. I thought 1917 or All Quiet on the Western Front would be here first.
Ye
But it’s good
I mean history doesn’t just involve wars. Queen was a notable part of history, if there’s ever a Beatles biopic we’ll probably see it here too
Well queen is apart of history it made history and all that
@@ralphintheshadowrealm7002 I know, but the majority of the videos he’s made are war related. Such as Waterloo which is one of his most popular videos
Every History Buffs video is like a little Christmas present randomly given to you throughout the year.
Best channel on TH-cam. Can’t wait for the next one.
I like how you cite the historical significance of the music press giving the punk rock scene far more praise than it deserved, which was a key part in bringing about the decline of 70's album oriented arena rock.