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- YEP, THAT DU “BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY” WAS ADAM LAMBERTDID YOU REALIZE HE ROCKED YOU?{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY BRANDON VOSSJANUARY 13, 2019/11:08 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2396PX;WIDTH:3600PX;}STEVEN FERDMAN/GETTY IMAGNEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 30: ADAM LAMBERT ATTENDS "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY" NEW YORK PREMIERE AT THE PARIS THEATRE ON OCTOBER 30, 2018 NEW YORK CY. (PHOTO BY STEVEN FERDMAN/GETTY IMAG)BY BRANDON VOSSJANUARY 13, 2019 / 11:08 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"YEP, THAT DU “BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY” WAS ADAM LAMBERT","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-01-13T16:08:21.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-01-13T16:08:21.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"BRANDON VOSS","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ADAM LAMBERT HAS FALLY NFIRMED HIS BRIEF MEO THE GOLN GLOBE-WNG FREDDIE MERCURY BPIC BOHEMIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT TURNS OUT THAT LAMBERT PLAYED THE BEARD TCKER WHO CIS MERCURY AT A GAS STATN, WHICH IS THE FIRST TIME THE DIENCE SE THE GAY IN ACTG ON HIS SAME-SEX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE 36-YEAR-OLD AMERIN IDOL ALUM TWEETED A PHOTO OF HIS UNCREDED CHARACTER OM THE MOVIE FRIDAY, WRG, “WHO IS HE!?” ALONG WH SMIRKG AND LGHG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE HAD TEASED AN APPEARANCE THE MOVIE PRR TO S RELEASE BUT DIDN’T REVEAL THE ROLE. SO NOW THAT'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LAMBERT, WHO TOURS AS A GUT VOLIST WH THE REMAG MEMBERS OF QUEEN, ED THE CHEEKY TWEET TO PLUG THE FACT THAT BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY IS AVAILABLE JANUARY 22 FOR DIGAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WON BT MOTN PICTURE-DRAMA AND BT ACTOR FOR STAR RAMI MALEK LAST WEEKEND AT THE GOLN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A SG-ALONG VERSN OF THE FILM IS NOW PLAYG ABOUT 750 LOTNS ACROSS THE U.S. AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LAMBERT ALSO MA HEADL LAST MONTH WH HIS PERFORMANCE OF CHER'S "BELIEVE" AT THE KENNEDY CENTER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: ALL THREE MUT OF THE FILM’S GAY SCEN CENSORED CHATHE QUEEN BPIC WAS FALLY RELEASED CHE THEATERS, BUT REFERENC TO FREDDIE MERCURY’S SEXUALY DIDN’T MAKE THE CUT.BY YOHANA DTAMARCH 26, 2019COURTY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEBOHEMIAN RHAPSODY HAS BEEN CENSORED CHA, MUCH TO THE ANNOYANCE OF SOME CHE THEATERGOERS. ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM, THE QUEEN BPIC H THEATERS THE UNTRY LAST WEEKEND, BUT WAS AN ALTERED VERSN THAT OMTED REFERENC TO LEAD SGER FREDDIE MERCURY’S SEXUALY. PER THE TIM, THOSE REFERENC CLU THE SCENE WHERE MERCURY, WHO WAS BISEXUAL, DISCS HIS SEXUALY WH HIS FIANCéE, AND THE SCENE THAT TRODUC MERCURY’S FUTURE PARTNER, JIM HUTTON. IN ADDN, A SCENE WHERE QUEEN PERFORMS WOMEN’S CLOTHG HAS BEEN OMTED. ALL ALL, THE CHE VERSN OF THE FILM IS ABOUT THREE MUT SHORTER THAN THE ORIGAL RELEASE.OTHER TWEAKS WERE MA, THE TIM NOT. IN THE SCENE WHERE MERCURY REVEALS HE HAS AIDS TO HIS BANDMAT, THE DIALOGUE WAS SILENCED AND NO SUBTL WERE PROVID. MERCURY LATER DIED OF BRONCHOPNMONIA RULTG OM AIDS. A SPOKMAN FOR TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX, THE STUD BEHD THE FILM, TOLD THE TIM THE PANY HAD NO MENT ON THE CENSORED RELEASE OF BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY CHA.CENSORSHIP OF HOLLYWOOD FILMS IS FAIRLY MON CHA. THE MOST EXTREME RECENT EXAMPLE WAS THE UNTRY BANNG THE WNIE THE POOH FILM CHRISTOPHER ROB, LIKELY BEE POOH HAS BEEN ED AS A SYMBOL OF THE RISTANCE BY CHE ACTIVISTS. STILL, THE CHE THEATERGOG DIENCE IS A LUCRATIVE ONE FOR HOLLYWOOD, SO STUDS TYPILLY YIELD TO THE CENSORS.BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WAS A MASSIVE BOX-OFFICE H, STARRG RAMI MALEK AS THE BAND’S LATE, GREAT LEAD SGER. MALEK WENT ON TO W A BT-ACTOR OSR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE. HE DITED HIS SPEECH LARGELY TO MERCURY, SAYG, “WE MA A FILM ABOUT A GAY MAN, AN IMMIGRANT, WHO LIVED HIS LIFE JT UNAPOLOGETILLY HIMSELF.” THAT, APPARENTLY, WAS TOO MUCH FOR CHE CENSORS; THE MASSIVE MEDIA PLATFORM MANGO TV REPLACED “GAY MAN” WH “SPECIAL GROUP” SUBTL, THE TIM NOT.WHILE THE CENSORSHIP IS G TRATN AMONG CHE VIEWERS, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WAS CRICIZED UPON S STATI RELEASE FOR FAILG TO RPECTFULLY EXPLORE AND CELEBRATE MERCURY’S SEXUALY. THE BPIC ALSO DRASTILLY MIMIZED THE SUPERSTAR SGER’S RELATNSHIP WH HUTTON, WHO WAS HIS PARTNER FOR SEVEN YEARS, UNTIL MERCURY’S ATH 1991.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— “I WILL GET YOUR CHILD TO LLEGE.” INSI RICK SGER’S PCH TO L.A. PARENTS.— THE WAR THAT ULD TRANSFORM—OR TEAR APART—HOLLYWOOD— “I AM A FAT LADY, AND I SERVE RPECT”: LDY WT ON HULU’S SHRILL— WHY JORDAN PEELE MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO TOTALLY UNRSTAND USLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JAY-Z, TA KNOWL, ANGELA BASSETT AND MORE TOAST 20 YEARS OF DEFG THE SOUL OF BLACK ART1 / 19CHEVRONCHEVRONPHOTOGRAPH BY ROGER KISBY.TA KNOWL AND MARK BRADFORDMOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHMARK RONSON CLAPS BACK AT BILL MAHER OVER BARBIE BY CHRIS MURPHYYOHANA DTA
- ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ IS AN INSULT TO FREDDIE MERCURYNO PLEASURE CRUISETHE MEAN-SPIRED, GAY-SHAMG BPIC OF THE QUEEN ONTMAN REWR HISTORY AND MANIPULAT THE TTH ORR TO, FOR SOME REASON, PUNISH THE LATE GAY IN AND VOL SUPERSTAR.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED MAR. 14, 2019 7:54PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 02, 2018 4:19AM EDT ALEX BAILEY/20TH CENTURY FOXWHEN YOU’RE GAY AND YOU GO TO THE MOVI, YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO SETTLE AND BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU GET. A GAY CHARACTER RCED TO STEREOTYP, ED FOR TRAGEDY PORN, OR RELEGATED TO SET DRSG WH NO BACKSTORY? HEY, AT LEAST HE’S THE MOVIE! A GAY CHARACTER IS FALLY THE LEAD OF THE FILM, BUT HE’S PLAYED BY A STRAIGHT ACTOR. THAT’S OK, AT LEAST THE MOVIE EXISTS! THERE’S FALLY A MOVIE WH A BETIFUL, PASSNATE LOVE STORY, BUT THE MERA CUTS AWAY BEFORE THE SEX SCENE. WELL, WE SHOULD BE HAPPY TO SEE THE ROMANCE AT ALL! THERE’S ONE SEX SCENE, AND ’S TURNED TO THE BUTT OF A HOMOPHOBIC JOKE FOR THE NEXT 13 YEARS. WE HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR, TOO! OR THE SEX IS FALLY REALISTIC AND EROTIC, BUT THE MOVIE IS SO SMALL THAT NO ONE SE . NO ONE BUT THE GAYS THEMSELV, THAT IS—WE ALWAYS KNOW WHERE TO FD !AND SO WE’RE SUPPOSED TO SETTLE AGA, THIS TIME WH THE SANIZED, MEAN-SPIRED, GAY-SHAMG, AND ALTOGETHER LAME BPIC OF FREDDIE MERCURY, THE LATE ONTMAN OF QUEEN AND ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GAY INS POP CULTURE EVER. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY IS THAT DISAPPOTG. BUT THE SHOT-FOR-SHOT, STT-FOR-STT RECREATN OF MERCURY’S LEGENDARY LIVE AID PERFORMANCE, PERFORMED BRILLIANTLY BY THE FILM’S STAR, RAMI MALEK, IS REALLY OL. SO I GUS WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE GRATEFUL FOR THAT—EVEN THOUGH YOU N JT WATCH THE ORIGAL SET ON YOUTUBE. THE FILM PLAYS FAST AND LOOSE WH FACTS A WAY THAT SUGGTS THE ENTIRE PROJECT WAS BORN OUT OF RENTMENT OM THE SURVIVG MEMBERS OF QUEEN THAT, ALL THE YEARS AFTER MERCURY’S ATH, THE BAND’S LEGACY IS STILL SO MARRIED TO THEIR LATE ONTMAN’S OUTSIZE VOICE, PERSONALY, AND CELEBRY. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY SMELLS LIKE CEMATIC RETRIBUTN, WHICH MERCURY IS POSTHUMOLY PUNISHED. THAT HE’S PICTED SUCH BROAD STROK IS EVEN CELER, WH HIS SEXUALY RCED TO A PARTYG VICE AND THE SO-LLED NTY-GRTY OF HIS LIFE FULLY IGNORED—A CREATIVE CISN THAT LED ORIGALLY ANNOUNCED STAR SACHA BARON COHEN TO DRAMATILLY DROP OUT OF THE PROJECT. THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO APPROACH HOW A CELEBRY IS CHARACTERIZED A BPIC, WHICH IS PECIALLY TE WHEN THE PUBLIC FIGURE’S SEXUALY WAS A BEHD-CLOSED-DOORS SECRET FOR MUCH OF HIS REER. BUT THIS APPROACH BORRS ON CHARACTER ASSASSATN. MEANWHILE, THOSE OTHER MEMBERS OF QUEEN E AWAY SEEMG LIKE MENSCH. HOW THE FILM WOULD PORTRAY MERCURY’S SEXUALY WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE A NTENT ISSUE. MERCURY WAS NEVER OUT TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, NEVER SPOKE ABOUT HIS SEXUALY TO THE PRS, AND THERE ARE NFLICTG REMEMBRANC ABOUT HOW OPEN HE WAS AND TO WHOM. HE WAS WH WOMEN. HE WAS WH MEN. WHEN HE DIED, HOWEVER, HE WAS A RELATNSHIP WH JIM HUTTON, WHO HAS SPOKEN ABOUT THEIR TIME TOGETHER. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY FIRST HTS AT MERCURY’S BISEXUALY BY SHOWG HIM CISG AT A RT STOP. HIS NEXT SIGNIFINT ENUNTER WH A MAN IS WH FORMER MANAGER PL PRENTER, ALMOST RTOONISHLY PICTED THE FILM AS A PREDATOR WHO DRAGS MERCURY TO A SORDID PARTYG LIFTYLE WH HIS OTHER GAY IENDS. THOSE EVIL GAYS! THEY’LL YOUR LIFE! “THE FILM PLAYS FAST AND LOOSE WH FACTS A WAY THAT SUGGTS THE ENTIRE PROJECT WAS BORN OUT OF RENTMENT OM THE SURVIVG MEMBERS OF QUEEN.” THEN THE SCREENPLAY REWR HISTORY. MERCURY REVEALS TO HIS BANDMAT THAT HE HAS AIDS WHILE THEY’RE REHEARSG FOR THEIR LIVE AID PERFORMANCE. BUT LIVE AID WAS 1985. MERCURY WAS DIAGNOSED 1987. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY SUAT THAT ’S THIS TRAGIC NEWS AND SOME SORT OF EXISTENTIAL NONTATN WH HIS OWN MORTALY THAT MOTIVAT HIS TRIUMPHANT LIVE AID PERFORMANCE, A CEL AND MANIPULATIVE VERSN OF TRAGEDY PORN THAT IS ACCURATE AND PERPETUAT THE TROPE OF AIDS AS PUNISHMENT FOR GAY PROMISCUY. HIS RELATNSHIP WH HUTTON IS WRTEN TO THE SCRIPT AS A AMG VICE. HE AND MERCURY FIRST MEET WHEN THE SGER IS PICTED ON A DARK PATH OF SEX AND DGS, AND HUTTON DISAPPROV. BUT THEY MEET AGA NEAR THE END OF THE FILM, WHEN MERCURY HAS HAD HIS AIDS-TRIGGERED E TO J. “LEARNED HIS LSON,” YOU MIGHT SAY. AS PIER DOMGUEZ WROTE FOR BUZZFEED, THE SCEN PICTG HIS RELATNSHIP WH JIM “[E] ACROSS AS AN ATTEMPT TO REEM MERCURY’S QUEERNS WH A ‘RPECTABLE’ PARTNER.”MORE, THE ANTIQUATED NMNATN THAT SURROUND HIS GAYNS IS NFG GIVEN HOW CHASTE HIS SEX LIFE AND PARTYG IS PICTED. THERE’S A SUPERFICIALY TO ALL OF THAT WE’D IMAGE MERCURY WOULD HAVE BEEN APPALLED BY. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY ONLY GLANC AT HIS RACIAL INTY AND THE PLITED FEELGS AND SHAME HE HAD ABOUT THAT. IT ONLY GLANC AT HIS SEXUAL INTY AND THE PLITED FEELGS AND SHAME HE HAD ABOUT THAT. IT ONLY GLANC AT HIS FEELGS ABOUT MASCULY, HIS GENI PLEX, HIS DG ISSU, HIS RELATNSHIP TO FAME. NONE OF THE THGS ARE ERASED, BUT THEY’RE ALSO NEVER DUG TO. IT’S A SURFACE-LEVEL TREATMENT THAT SUAT THAT THE THGS ALL HAD SOME NEGATIVE EFFECT ON HIS LIFE, OR THAT HE HAD ONLY TORTURED FEELGS ABOUT THEM, WHICH IS HARDLY TE AT ALL. INSTEAD, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY SEEMS MOSTLY NCERNED WH PICTG HOW OL AND FUN IS TO BE A ROCK STAR, AND HOW BTER THE SURVIVG MEMBERS OF QUEEN SEEM TO BE THAT FREDDIE, THEIR VIEW OF EVENTS, TOOK THAT AWAY. AS SUCH, ’S WORTH POTG OUT THAT THE BAND’S FORMER MANAGER, JIM BEACH, IS A PRODUCER ON THE FILM. MEMBERS BRIAN MAY AND ROGER TAYLOR SERVED AS CREATIVE NSULTANTS, AT ONE POT THE PROCS REPORTEDLY CHASG SACHA BARON COHEN AWAY WH THEIR EXECUTN OF SCRIPT APPROVAL A WAY THAT SHIFTED THE ATTENTN TO THEM AND AWAY OM MERCURY. “MERCURY’S HARD-PARTYG WAYS, RECKLSLY AND SHAMEFULLY TERTWED WH HIS SEX LIFE AND GAY CULTURE, ARE MA OUT TO THE BE THE DOWNFALL OF THE BAND.” THAT’S IMPORTANT, NSIRG ALL THE WAYS THAT, AS MIKE RYAN LAID OUT HIS PIECE FOR UPROXX, THE FILM “PLAYS DIRTY POOL” WH MERCURY’S LEGACY. IF YOU DID NOT KNOW THAT ALL THE MEMBERS OF QUEEN NTRIBUTED TO WRG THE BAND’S SONGS, THEN BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY DRILLS THE POT SO HARD YOU WON’T SOON FET . THAT’S FE. GIVE CRED WHERE CRED IS DUE. IT’S THE FOUL TONE AND SANCTIMONY BEHD HOW MERCURY’S BEHAVR IS PICTED THAT REDIRECTS THE FILM TOWARD REVISNIST PROPAGANDA.MERCURY’S HARD-PARTYG WAYS, RECKLSLY AND SHAMEFULLY TERTWED WH HIS SEX LIFE AND GAY CULTURE, ARE MA OUT TO BE THE DOWNFALL OF THE BAND. THE RT OF THE MEMBERS, MEANWHILE, ARE PORTRAYED AS UPSTANDG FAY MEN WHO HAVE NO PATIENCE FOR SUCH BCHERY. “WHAT PISS ME OFF ABOUT IS THAT THOSE THREE (TO BE FAIR, [JOHN] DEAN DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHG TO DO WH THE MOVIE) ARE STILL AROUND TO OFFER THIS VERSN OF EVENTS WHILE FREDDIE ISN’T HERE TO SAY, ‘WA A MUTE, WHAT ABOUT THE TIME YOU DID SUCH AND SUCH,’” RYAN WR. THE LAST ACT OF THE FILM SHOWS THE BAND BREAKG UP BEE MERCURY MAK THE GREEDY CISN TO PURSUE A SOLO REER. HERE’S THE THG, THOUGH. AS RYAN WR, THERE IS NO RERD OF THE BAND EVER BREAKG UP. WHEN MERCURY’S SOLO REER STALLS, THE MOVIE SHOWS HIM GOG BACK TO THE BAND WH HIS TAIL BETWEEN HIS LEGS, BEGGG FOR THEM TO RNE AND PLAY THE LIVE AID SHOW. AGA, NOT ONLY IS THERE NO RERD OF THAT HAPPENG, ALSO EXCABLY OMS THE FACT THAT ROGER TAYLOR RELEASED TWO SOLO ALBUMS AND BRIAN MAY RELEASED ONE BEFORE MERCURY EVER DID. IT’S MORE CELLULOID CHASTISG OF FREDDIE MERCURY. APPARENTLY THE VERSN OF A FREDDIE MERCURY BPIC THAT SACHA BARON COHEN ENVISNED WOULD HAVE BEEN “OUTRAGEO TERMS OF HIS HOMOSEXUALY AND OUTRAGEO TERMS OF ENDLS NAKED SCEN,” DIRECTOR STEPHEN FREARS, WHO WAS AT ONE TIME ATTACHED TO THE PROJECT, TOLD VULTURE. HE POSS THAT ’S THE APPROACH HE “WOULD IMAGE FREDDIE MERCURY WOULD HAVE APPROVED OF.”FOR WHATEVER REASONS BARON COHEN EVENTUALLY LEFT THE PROJECT, SEEMS PRETTY UNLIKELY THAT A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD STUD WOULD HAVE EVER MA A MOVIE THAT EXPLICLY WENT THAT FAR. BUT THERE’S A VERSN OF MERCURY’S STORY THAT EXISTS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THAT PIPE DREAM AND BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY THAT IS WORTH TELLG. MAYBE ONE THAT EVEN SEEMS TO ACTUALLY LIKE FREDDIE MERCURY. INSTEAD, HERE WE ARE AGA, HAVG TO SETTLE. SETTLE FOR THIS. KEV FALLON
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)But the jury is still out on exactly how gay, if at all, is Bohemian film, which stars Rami Malek the lead role, chronicl the rise of a mil in and the many ups and downs of life wh his Queen bandmat. You're gay.
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"It also builds a whole annoyg subplot around the 'predatory gay villa' trope, which is a tired, obnox cliche that Bohemian Rhapsody is even more problematic than ual bee 's ed to imply that Mercury, a real-life gay man, was somehow rpted to beg queer by an opportunistic mic dtry parase who don't really re about Freddie at all.
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: ALL THREE MUT OF THE FILM’S GAY SCEN CENSORED CHATHE QUEEN BPIC WAS FALLY RELEASED CHE THEATERS, BUT REFERENC TO FREDDIE MERCURY’S SEXUALY DIDN’T MAKE THE CUT.BY YOHANA DTAMARCH 26, 2019COURTY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEBOHEMIAN RHAPSODY HAS BEEN CENSORED CHA, MUCH TO THE ANNOYANCE OF SOME CHE THEATERGOERS. ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM, THE QUEEN BPIC H THEATERS THE UNTRY LAST WEEKEND, BUT WAS AN ALTERED VERSN THAT OMTED REFERENC TO LEAD SGER FREDDIE MERCURY’S SEXUALY. PER THE TIM, THOSE REFERENC CLU THE SCENE WHERE MERCURY, WHO WAS BISEXUAL, DISCS HIS SEXUALY WH HIS FIANCéE, AND THE SCENE THAT TRODUC MERCURY’S FUTURE PARTNER, JIM HUTTON. IN ADDN, A SCENE WHERE QUEEN PERFORMS WOMEN’S CLOTHG HAS BEEN OMTED. ALL ALL, THE CHE VERSN OF THE FILM IS ABOUT THREE MUT SHORTER THAN THE ORIGAL RELEASE.OTHER TWEAKS WERE MA, THE TIM NOT. IN THE SCENE WHERE MERCURY REVEALS HE HAS AIDS TO HIS BANDMAT, THE DIALOGUE WAS SILENCED AND NO SUBTL WERE PROVID. MERCURY LATER DIED OF BRONCHOPNMONIA RULTG OM AIDS. A SPOKMAN FOR TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX, THE STUD BEHD THE FILM, TOLD THE TIM THE PANY HAD NO MENT ON THE CENSORED RELEASE OF BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY CHA.CENSORSHIP OF HOLLYWOOD FILMS IS FAIRLY MON CHA. THE MOST EXTREME RECENT EXAMPLE WAS THE UNTRY BANNG THE WNIE THE POOH FILM CHRISTOPHER ROB, LIKELY BEE POOH HAS BEEN ED AS A SYMBOL OF THE RISTANCE BY CHE ACTIVISTS. STILL, THE CHE THEATERGOG DIENCE IS A LUCRATIVE ONE FOR HOLLYWOOD, SO STUDS TYPILLY YIELD TO THE CENSORS.BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WAS A MASSIVE BOX-OFFICE H, STARRG RAMI MALEK AS THE BAND’S LATE, GREAT LEAD SGER. MALEK WENT ON TO W A BT-ACTOR OSR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE. HE DITED HIS SPEECH LARGELY TO MERCURY, SAYG, “WE MA A FILM ABOUT A GAY MAN, AN IMMIGRANT, WHO LIVED HIS LIFE JT UNAPOLOGETILLY HIMSELF.” THAT, APPARENTLY, WAS TOO MUCH FOR CHE CENSORS; THE MASSIVE MEDIA PLATFORM MANGO TV REPLACED “GAY MAN” WH “SPECIAL GROUP” SUBTL, THE TIM NOT.WHILE THE CENSORSHIP IS G TRATN AMONG CHE VIEWERS, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WAS CRICIZED UPON S STATI RELEASE FOR FAILG TO RPECTFULLY EXPLORE AND CELEBRATE MERCURY’S SEXUALY. THE BPIC ALSO DRASTILLY MIMIZED THE SUPERSTAR SGER’S RELATNSHIP WH HUTTON, WHO WAS HIS PARTNER FOR SEVEN YEARS, UNTIL MERCURY’S ATH 1991.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— “I WILL GET YOUR CHILD TO LLEGE.” INSI RICK SGER’S PCH TO L.A. PARENTS.— THE WAR THAT ULD TRANSFORM—OR TEAR APART—HOLLYWOOD— “I AM A FAT LADY, AND I SERVE RPECT”: LDY WT ON HULU’S SHRILL— WHY JORDAN PEELE MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO TOTALLY UNRSTAND USLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JAY-Z, TA KNOWL, ANGELA BASSETT AND MORE TOAST 20 YEARS OF DEFG THE SOUL OF BLACK ART1 / 19CHEVRONCHEVRONPHOTOGRAPH BY ROGER KISBY.TA KNOWL AND MARK BRADFORDMOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHMARK RONSON CLAPS BACK AT BILL MAHER OVER BARBIE BY CHRIS MURPHYYOHANA DTA
What homophobia were people seeg the film?
‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ IS AN INSULT TO FREDDIE MERCURYNO PLEASURE CRUISETHE MEAN-SPIRED, GAY-SHAMG BPIC OF THE QUEEN ONTMAN REWR HISTORY AND MANIPULAT THE TTH ORR TO, FOR SOME REASON, PUNISH THE LATE GAY IN AND VOL SUPERSTAR.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED MAR. 14, 2019 7:54PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 02, 2018 4:19AM EDT ALEX BAILEY/20TH CENTURY FOXWHEN YOU’RE GAY AND YOU GO TO THE MOVI, YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO SETTLE AND BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU GET. A GAY CHARACTER RCED TO STEREOTYP, ED FOR TRAGEDY PORN, OR RELEGATED TO SET DRSG WH NO BACKSTORY? HEY, AT LEAST HE’S THE MOVIE! A GAY CHARACTER IS FALLY THE LEAD OF THE FILM, BUT HE’S PLAYED BY A STRAIGHT ACTOR. THAT’S OK, AT LEAST THE MOVIE EXISTS! THERE’S FALLY A MOVIE WH A BETIFUL, PASSNATE LOVE STORY, BUT THE MERA CUTS AWAY BEFORE THE SEX SCENE. WELL, WE SHOULD BE HAPPY TO SEE THE ROMANCE AT ALL! THERE’S ONE SEX SCENE, AND ’S TURNED TO THE BUTT OF A HOMOPHOBIC JOKE FOR THE NEXT 13 YEARS. WE HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR, TOO! OR THE SEX IS FALLY REALISTIC AND EROTIC, BUT THE MOVIE IS SO SMALL THAT NO ONE SE . NO ONE BUT THE GAYS THEMSELV, THAT IS—WE ALWAYS KNOW WHERE TO FD !AND SO WE’RE SUPPOSED TO SETTLE AGA, THIS TIME WH THE SANIZED, MEAN-SPIRED, GAY-SHAMG, AND ALTOGETHER LAME BPIC OF FREDDIE MERCURY, THE LATE ONTMAN OF QUEEN AND ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GAY INS POP CULTURE EVER. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY IS THAT DISAPPOTG. BUT THE SHOT-FOR-SHOT, STT-FOR-STT RECREATN OF MERCURY’S LEGENDARY LIVE AID PERFORMANCE, PERFORMED BRILLIANTLY BY THE FILM’S STAR, RAMI MALEK, IS REALLY OL. SO I GUS WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE GRATEFUL FOR THAT—EVEN THOUGH YOU N JT WATCH THE ORIGAL SET ON YOUTUBE. THE FILM PLAYS FAST AND LOOSE WH FACTS A WAY THAT SUGGTS THE ENTIRE PROJECT WAS BORN OUT OF RENTMENT OM THE SURVIVG MEMBERS OF QUEEN THAT, ALL THE YEARS AFTER MERCURY’S ATH, THE BAND’S LEGACY IS STILL SO MARRIED TO THEIR LATE ONTMAN’S OUTSIZE VOICE, PERSONALY, AND CELEBRY. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY SMELLS LIKE CEMATIC RETRIBUTN, WHICH MERCURY IS POSTHUMOLY PUNISHED. THAT HE’S PICTED SUCH BROAD STROK IS EVEN CELER, WH HIS SEXUALY RCED TO A PARTYG VICE AND THE SO-LLED NTY-GRTY OF HIS LIFE FULLY IGNORED—A CREATIVE CISN THAT LED ORIGALLY ANNOUNCED STAR SACHA BARON COHEN TO DRAMATILLY DROP OUT OF THE PROJECT. THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO APPROACH HOW A CELEBRY IS CHARACTERIZED A BPIC, WHICH IS PECIALLY TE WHEN THE PUBLIC FIGURE’S SEXUALY WAS A BEHD-CLOSED-DOORS SECRET FOR MUCH OF HIS REER. BUT THIS APPROACH BORRS ON CHARACTER ASSASSATN. MEANWHILE, THOSE OTHER MEMBERS OF QUEEN E AWAY SEEMG LIKE MENSCH. HOW THE FILM WOULD PORTRAY MERCURY’S SEXUALY WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE A NTENT ISSUE. MERCURY WAS NEVER OUT TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, NEVER SPOKE ABOUT HIS SEXUALY TO THE PRS, AND THERE ARE NFLICTG REMEMBRANC ABOUT HOW OPEN HE WAS AND TO WHOM. HE WAS WH WOMEN. HE WAS WH MEN. WHEN HE DIED, HOWEVER, HE WAS A RELATNSHIP WH JIM HUTTON, WHO HAS SPOKEN ABOUT THEIR TIME TOGETHER. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY FIRST HTS AT MERCURY’S BISEXUALY BY SHOWG HIM CISG AT A RT STOP. HIS NEXT SIGNIFINT ENUNTER WH A MAN IS WH FORMER MANAGER PL PRENTER, ALMOST RTOONISHLY PICTED THE FILM AS A PREDATOR WHO DRAGS MERCURY TO A SORDID PARTYG LIFTYLE WH HIS OTHER GAY IENDS. THOSE EVIL GAYS! THEY’LL YOUR LIFE! “THE FILM PLAYS FAST AND LOOSE WH FACTS A WAY THAT SUGGTS THE ENTIRE PROJECT WAS BORN OUT OF RENTMENT OM THE SURVIVG MEMBERS OF QUEEN.” THEN THE SCREENPLAY REWR HISTORY. MERCURY REVEALS TO HIS BANDMAT THAT HE HAS AIDS WHILE THEY’RE REHEARSG FOR THEIR LIVE AID PERFORMANCE. BUT LIVE AID WAS 1985. MERCURY WAS DIAGNOSED 1987. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY SUAT THAT ’S THIS TRAGIC NEWS AND SOME SORT OF EXISTENTIAL NONTATN WH HIS OWN MORTALY THAT MOTIVAT HIS TRIUMPHANT LIVE AID PERFORMANCE, A CEL AND MANIPULATIVE VERSN OF TRAGEDY PORN THAT IS ACCURATE AND PERPETUAT THE TROPE OF AIDS AS PUNISHMENT FOR GAY PROMISCUY. HIS RELATNSHIP WH HUTTON IS WRTEN TO THE SCRIPT AS A AMG VICE. HE AND MERCURY FIRST MEET WHEN THE SGER IS PICTED ON A DARK PATH OF SEX AND DGS, AND HUTTON DISAPPROV. BUT THEY MEET AGA NEAR THE END OF THE FILM, WHEN MERCURY HAS HAD HIS AIDS-TRIGGERED E TO J. “LEARNED HIS LSON,” YOU MIGHT SAY. AS PIER DOMGUEZ WROTE FOR BUZZFEED, THE SCEN PICTG HIS RELATNSHIP WH JIM “[E] ACROSS AS AN ATTEMPT TO REEM MERCURY’S QUEERNS WH A ‘RPECTABLE’ PARTNER.”MORE, THE ANTIQUATED NMNATN THAT SURROUND HIS GAYNS IS NFG GIVEN HOW CHASTE HIS SEX LIFE AND PARTYG IS PICTED. THERE’S A SUPERFICIALY TO ALL OF THAT WE’D IMAGE MERCURY WOULD HAVE BEEN APPALLED BY. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY ONLY GLANC AT HIS RACIAL INTY AND THE PLITED FEELGS AND SHAME HE HAD ABOUT THAT. IT ONLY GLANC AT HIS SEXUAL INTY AND THE PLITED FEELGS AND SHAME HE HAD ABOUT THAT. IT ONLY GLANC AT HIS FEELGS ABOUT MASCULY, HIS GENI PLEX, HIS DG ISSU, HIS RELATNSHIP TO FAME. NONE OF THE THGS ARE ERASED, BUT THEY’RE ALSO NEVER DUG TO. IT’S A SURFACE-LEVEL TREATMENT THAT SUAT THAT THE THGS ALL HAD SOME NEGATIVE EFFECT ON HIS LIFE, OR THAT HE HAD ONLY TORTURED FEELGS ABOUT THEM, WHICH IS HARDLY TE AT ALL. INSTEAD, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY SEEMS MOSTLY NCERNED WH PICTG HOW OL AND FUN IS TO BE A ROCK STAR, AND HOW BTER THE SURVIVG MEMBERS OF QUEEN SEEM TO BE THAT FREDDIE, THEIR VIEW OF EVENTS, TOOK THAT AWAY. AS SUCH, ’S WORTH POTG OUT THAT THE BAND’S FORMER MANAGER, JIM BEACH, IS A PRODUCER ON THE FILM. MEMBERS BRIAN MAY AND ROGER TAYLOR SERVED AS CREATIVE NSULTANTS, AT ONE POT THE PROCS REPORTEDLY CHASG SACHA BARON COHEN AWAY WH THEIR EXECUTN OF SCRIPT APPROVAL A WAY THAT SHIFTED THE ATTENTN TO THEM AND AWAY OM MERCURY. “MERCURY’S HARD-PARTYG WAYS, RECKLSLY AND SHAMEFULLY TERTWED WH HIS SEX LIFE AND GAY CULTURE, ARE MA OUT TO THE BE THE DOWNFALL OF THE BAND.” THAT’S IMPORTANT, NSIRG ALL THE WAYS THAT, AS MIKE RYAN LAID OUT HIS PIECE FOR UPROXX, THE FILM “PLAYS DIRTY POOL” WH MERCURY’S LEGACY. IF YOU DID NOT KNOW THAT ALL THE MEMBERS OF QUEEN NTRIBUTED TO WRG THE BAND’S SONGS, THEN BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY DRILLS THE POT SO HARD YOU WON’T SOON FET . THAT’S FE. GIVE CRED WHERE CRED IS DUE. IT’S THE FOUL TONE AND SANCTIMONY BEHD HOW MERCURY’S BEHAVR IS PICTED THAT REDIRECTS THE FILM TOWARD REVISNIST PROPAGANDA.MERCURY’S HARD-PARTYG WAYS, RECKLSLY AND SHAMEFULLY TERTWED WH HIS SEX LIFE AND GAY CULTURE, ARE MA OUT TO BE THE DOWNFALL OF THE BAND. THE RT OF THE MEMBERS, MEANWHILE, ARE PORTRAYED AS UPSTANDG FAY MEN WHO HAVE NO PATIENCE FOR SUCH BCHERY. “WHAT PISS ME OFF ABOUT IS THAT THOSE THREE (TO BE FAIR, [JOHN] DEAN DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHG TO DO WH THE MOVIE) ARE STILL AROUND TO OFFER THIS VERSN OF EVENTS WHILE FREDDIE ISN’T HERE TO SAY, ‘WA A MUTE, WHAT ABOUT THE TIME YOU DID SUCH AND SUCH,’” RYAN WR. THE LAST ACT OF THE FILM SHOWS THE BAND BREAKG UP BEE MERCURY MAK THE GREEDY CISN TO PURSUE A SOLO REER. HERE’S THE THG, THOUGH. AS RYAN WR, THERE IS NO RERD OF THE BAND EVER BREAKG UP. WHEN MERCURY’S SOLO REER STALLS, THE MOVIE SHOWS HIM GOG BACK TO THE BAND WH HIS TAIL BETWEEN HIS LEGS, BEGGG FOR THEM TO RNE AND PLAY THE LIVE AID SHOW. AGA, NOT ONLY IS THERE NO RERD OF THAT HAPPENG, ALSO EXCABLY OMS THE FACT THAT ROGER TAYLOR RELEASED TWO SOLO ALBUMS AND BRIAN MAY RELEASED ONE BEFORE MERCURY EVER DID. IT’S MORE CELLULOID CHASTISG OF FREDDIE MERCURY. APPARENTLY THE VERSN OF A FREDDIE MERCURY BPIC THAT SACHA BARON COHEN ENVISNED WOULD HAVE BEEN “OUTRAGEO TERMS OF HIS HOMOSEXUALY AND OUTRAGEO TERMS OF ENDLS NAKED SCEN,” DIRECTOR STEPHEN FREARS, WHO WAS AT ONE TIME ATTACHED TO THE PROJECT, TOLD VULTURE. HE POSS THAT ’S THE APPROACH HE “WOULD IMAGE FREDDIE MERCURY WOULD HAVE APPROVED OF.”FOR WHATEVER REASONS BARON COHEN EVENTUALLY LEFT THE PROJECT, SEEMS PRETTY UNLIKELY THAT A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD STUD WOULD HAVE EVER MA A MOVIE THAT EXPLICLY WENT THAT FAR. BUT THERE’S A VERSN OF MERCURY’S STORY THAT EXISTS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THAT PIPE DREAM AND BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY THAT IS WORTH TELLG. MAYBE ONE THAT EVEN SEEMS TO ACTUALLY LIKE FREDDIE MERCURY. INSTEAD, HERE WE ARE AGA, HAVG TO SETTLE. SETTLE FOR THIS. KEV FALLON
"All thoughts nsired, appears there is no clear nsens on if Bohemian Rhapsody is good for the gays. Adam Lambert has fally nfirmed his brief meo the Goln Globe-wng Freddie Mercury bpic Bohemian turns out that Lambert played the beard tcker who cis Mercury at a gas statn, which is the first time the dience se the gay in actg on his same-sex 36-year-old Amerin Idol alum tweeted a photo of his uncreded character om the movie Friday, wrg, “Who is he!?
This isn’t herently wrong, per se, particularly given the skill and rpect Malek brgs to Mercury’s story, but at the very least, begs the qutn of when (or if) we will ever get a queer film of this sle starrg an actual queer a recent terview wh INTO, Malek was asked whether he se Freddie Mercury as a gay in. ”Though might be misleadg to ask whether or not Mercury was a “gay” in specifilly, given the mician’s bisexualy, Malek’s answer is still ditive of the type of disnnect many straight actors may have when playg queer characters. ” In fact, his willgns to fully embody his flamboyant stage persona a time of rampant homophobia is one of the most important parts of the sger’s Mercury never me out publicly, Bohemian Rhapsody don’t shirk away om explicly alg wh his sexualy, even takg some (perhaps ill-advised) creative license wh his story by cludg a scene which he (kd of) out to his parents right before Queen’s historic LiveAid set.