Starring: Rami Malek, Ben Hardy, Gwilym Lee, Joseph Mazzello, Allen Leech, Lucy Boynton, Tom Hollander, Aiden Gillen, Mike Myers
OUR RATING: ★★★★☆
Story:
Bio-drama directed by Bryan Singer until Dexter Fletcher took over to complete filming and post-production. Bohemian Rhapsody focuses on the years from the formation of Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek), up to their performance at the Live Aid concert in 1985. The story traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound, their near-implosion as Mercury’s lifestyle spirals out of control, and their triumphant reunion on the eve of Live Aid where Mercury, facing a life-threatening illness, leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music. In the process, cementing the legacy of a band that was always more like a family and who continue to inspire outsiders, dreamers, and music lovers to this day.
Our Favorite Quotes:
'We're four misfits who don't belong together, we're playing for other misfits. They're the outcasts right at the back of the room. We're pretty sure they don't belong either. We belong to them.' - Freddie Mercury (Bohemian… Share on X 'Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.' - Freddie Mercury (Bohemian Rhapsody) Share on X
Best Quotes
Freddie Mercury: I enjoyed the show. I also, I write songs.
John Deacon: Our lead singer just quit.
Freddie Mercury: Well then you’re going to need someone new.
Mary Austin: [to Freddie] I love the way you move on stage. The whole world belongs to you. Don’t you see what you could be?
Mary Austin: [to Freddie] Your life is going to be very difficult.
Mary Austin: What do you want from me, Freddie?
Freddie Mercury: Almost everything.
Brian May: That’s a nice fancy dress, Fred.
Freddie Mercury: I’ve got to make an impression, darling.
Brian May: You look like an angry lizard
Brian May: [to Freddy] No one will play us on the radio. We need to get experimental.
Brian May: [as they are recording Bohemian Rhapsody] So now what?
Freddie Mercury: This is when the operatic section comes in.
Brian May: Ah, the operatic section. Yeah.
Freddie Mercury: [as they are recording Bohemian Rhapsody] Do it again. One more.
Roger Taylor: How many more Galileo’s do you want?
Freddie Mercury: Roger, there’s only room in this band for one hysterical queen.
Ray Foster: [referring to Bohemian Rhapsody] It goes on forever, six bloody minutes.
Freddie Mercury: I pity your wife if you think six minutes is forever.
Ray Foster: Mark these words. No one will play Queen.
Freddie Mercury: We were going to do something different.
Ray Foster: It’s my money. I say what goes!
Brian May: We can’t simply repeat ourselves.
Freddie Mercury: No we can do better.
Jim Beach: Fortune favors the bold.
John Reid: So, tell me, what makes Queen different from all the other want to be rockstars I meet?
Freddie Mercury: Tell you what it is, Mr. Reid. Now we’re four misfits who don’t belong together, we’re playing for other misfits. They’re the outcasts right at the back of the room. We’re pretty sure they don’t belong either. We belong to them.
Bomi Bulsara: So now the family name is not good enough for you.
Freddie Mercury: I’ve changed it legally. No looking back.
Bomi Bulsara: [to Freddie] Good thoughts, good words, good deeds. You can’t get anywhere by pretending to be someone you’re not!
Freddie Mercury: [in his new mansion] What do you think?
Roger Taylor: [looks at Freddie’s mustache] Gayer.
Jim Hutton: So all your friends have left you alone.
Freddie Mercury: They’re not my friends, not really. They’re distractions.
Jim Hutton: From what?
Freddie Mercury: The in between moments I suppose. I find me intolerable. All of the darkness you thought you’d left behind comes creeping back in.
Jim Hutton: I know what you mean.
Freddie Mercury: Really? What is it that you do with them?
Jim Hutton: Spend them with real friends. You look like you could use a friend.
Freddie Mercury: [Jim leans in and kisses Freddie] I like you.
Jim Hutton: I like you too, Freddie. Come and find me when you decide to like yourself.
Freddie Mercury: Can I have your name at least?
Jim Hutton: It’s Jim Hutton.
Freddie Mercury: Goodnight, Jim.
Jim Hutton: Goodnight, Freddie. Or should I say good morning.
Reporter: Freddy, concerning your private life.
Freddie Mercury: What more do you need to know? I make music.
Reporter: Freddie, could you tell us about the rumors concerning your sexuality?
Brian May: I want to give the audience a song that they can perform.
Freddie Mercury: What’s the lyric?
Roger Taylor: Ready, Freddie?
Freddie Mercury: Let’s do it.
Brian May: You need to slow down, Freddie.
Jim Beach: [referring to the Brian, Roger, and John] They just need a bit of time.
Freddie Mercury: What if I don’t have time?
Roger Taylor: [to Freddie] You don’t make decisions for the band!
Freddie Mercury: [to Paul] You know when you know you’ve gone rotten, really rotten? Fruit flies. Dirty little fruit flies, coming to feast on what’s left. Well there isn’t much left for you to feast on anymore. So fly off. Do what you like with your photographs and your stories. But promise me one thing, is that I never see your face again.
Freddie Mercury: Before you leave, can I have a second?
Brian May: Yeah. What’s up?
Freddie Mercury: I’ve got it.
John Deacon: Got what?
Freddie Mercury: AIDS. I wanted you to hear it from me.
Brian May: Fred, I’m so sorry.
Freddie Mercury: Brian, stop. Don’t. But right now, it’s between us, alright, just us. But please, if any of you fuss about it, or frown about it, or worst of all, if you bore me with your sympathy, that’s just seconds wasted, seconds that could be used for making music, because you’re all I want to do with the time I have left. I don’t have time to be their victim, their AIDS poster boy, their cautionary tale. No, I decide who I am. I’m going to be what I was born to be, a performer, to give the people what they want. Go to the heavens, Freddie f***ing Mercury.
Roger Taylor: You’re a legend, Fred.
Freddie Mercury: You’re bloody right I am. We’re all legends. But you’re right, I am a legend. Now give me a chance to get my b**chy little vocal cords in order, and we’ll go and punch a hole through the roof of that stadium.
John Deacon: Actually, Wembley doesn’t have a roof.
Freddie Mercury: Alright.
Brian May: No, he’s right, it doesn’t.
Freddie Mercury: [as they do a group hug] Then we’ll punch a hole in the sky. Now even though you’re crying like sweet little girls, I still love you. Alright, enough of this.
Freddie Mercury: We’re family. We believe in each other. That’s everything.
Freddie Mercury: We’re going to do great things.
Freddie Mercury: It’s an experience. Love, tragedy, joy, it’s something that people will feel belongs to them.
[to his father as he’s about to leave for the Live Aid concert at Wembley]
Freddie Mercury: Good thoughts, good words, good deeds. Just like you taught me, papa.
Freddie Mercury: [after the band meets Davod, Mary’s husband ] What do you all think of David?
Brian May: He’s alright.
Freddie Mercury: I think he’s gay.
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Bohemian Rhapsody was one of the most engaging and charismatic movie performances I have ever seen. Scenes made me feel as if I were at Live Aid, or in the movie itself. Rami Malek captured perfectly the essence and feeling Freddy Mercury put on people. His attitude and side-comment humor made for a laugh even in fighting scenes. So many emotions, especially concerning Freddy and his sexuality, you could feel the held-back confusion and what led him to drug and alcohol abuse. With this movie, viewers took a step into his life and the travesties of it. Moving, powerful, emotional movie with great message and a great sense of togetherness and the worth of being with a united audience and friends.
Rating: 5/5
12 Dec 2018 Hi all, and warm holiday greetings !! I want to say that the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, the story of Freddie Mercury and his band Queen, is one of the best movies I’ve seen in many years. This is because, while I have always loved Freddie Mercury’s music, I’ve never known any of his personal story, except that he died of AIDS. Thanks to my seeing this movie, I now know that he was of Persian / Zoroastrian ancestry, and that, a thousand years ago, his ancestors were “chased out of Persia by the Muslims with the shirts on their backs” as his mother describes it. Regarding his music: I thought that they would show the iconic scene where actual fat-bottomed women ride bicycles onto the stage in response to the order: “GET ON YR BIKES AND RIDE” at the end of a song, but they didn’t. Surely it’s on YouTube … Near the end, after his life has turned tragic, his singing of “Nothing really matters, to meee .. ” brought tears to my eyes, as did his triumphal “We are the Champions of the World, My Friend, … ” I’m happy to read that, according to Wikipedia: “Upon its release in November 2018, the biographical film about Mercury and Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, became the highest-grossing musical biographical film of all time.” Surely one might easily consider BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY to be best film of the year !! I like how Freddie describes the fact that he has four extra canine teeth, near the start of the movie. I give Bohemian Rhapsody five stars ***** With kind regards, Mark Creek-water Dorazio, amateur film critic.
Rating: 5/5
“We’re all legends” – Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury; Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Bohemian Rhapsody is a full of inspiration. It goes through the hardships of Freddie Mercury and how they effected the band as a whole. It begins showing how the band was formed and shows Queen through the years and how their fan base and music grew and evolved. It also takes a dive into his personal life from his family, to his love life and sexuality, his drug use, to even his battle with Aids. This is not an action packed movie and parts of it were a little slow but overall it was still very entertaining. This movie is full of music and Rami Malek did a great job performing and capturing Freddie’s witty sense of humor, his mannerisms, and his style. This movie will make you laugh, cry, but most importantly this movie will inspire you. I would highly recommend for everyone to go and see this movie. You will not be disappointed.
Rating: 4/5
Towards the end of the movie, when Freddie says something like I am going to be who I was born to be..is that the quote? I think it’s in reference to not wanting to be identified by his illness but by his art…
This is what he says:
“I don’t have time to be their victim, their AIDS poster boy, their cautionary tale. No, I decide who I am. I’m going to be what I was born to be, a performer, to give the people what they want.”
Mary Austin: What do you want from me?
Freddie Mercury: Almost everything.
Can someone tell us the exact quote? Freddie talking to Mary, “When I have them. When I know that they are listening. Then I can’t sing off-key to save my life. I can do anything.”
Freddie:”I think he’s Gay”
I remember that quote in the movie, without the “I can’t sing off-key to save my life.” With kind regards, Mark Creek-water Dorazio, amateur film critic
Bohemian Rhapsody Billed as the best thing since sliced cheese cake (I don’t like bread) & I hoped this wasn’t another fake takeaway. It’s raw, rampant & illuminated by a flamboyant lead singer. It portrays Queens conception, evolution, rise & eventual demise. Freddie’s tense relationship with his father leads him to seek new pleasurable pastures elsewhere as he begins to milk a groups breakup. Freddie puts a smile on the faces of a group that’s just lost its lead singer but the new swinger is instantly a winner! The bohemian behaviour of Freddie is illuminated & is the catalyst for the groups evolution. His effervescence is the hydration of the group as the experimental rock band witness a meteoric rise to fame.
Freddie’s enigmatic behaviour in promoting the single Bohemian Rhapsody bears fruit as the group begins to juice the no 1 spot on top of the pops. The groups rocky road to success is not always blessed as friction & cracks appear to tear it apart as some persona darts are bent on splitting it apart. The cost of stardom has its price too as black shadows begin to murk the green meadows! The cooperate wheel begins to steel the soul of the group as it gropes at the leader with money feeder temptations that eventually succumbs Freddie’s resistance as he gives into their persistence. Freddie’s isolation leads to internal violation & soon the spoon of consciousness is no longer the boon as he realises too late that he’s been surrounded by buffoons. The goons repeated deceit is the final straw as he draws a line & declines their company to return home to the real symphony.
The Grand finale in the face of Freddie’s AIDS declaration was the inspiration for the group to appear on live aid. The bands performance was ranked as the highlight of the live show that was broadcast worldwide. The queen legacy will live long in the memory as long as the rock lane is open. From rock to frock Queen will always illuminate the ticking clock! Kam copyleftorright 2018
Rating: 3/5
In one point Freddie is referring to Humanity as something that need to be sedated..?
In classic Queen tradition, in this year’s Christmas purchasing cycle we are bequeathed a new Queen release. For Queen music affectianadia this is a tour de force, containing songs or teases of songs, such as “Good Old Fashioned Loverboy,” “I’m in Love With My Car,” “My Fairy King,” “Doing Alright” which didn’t chart in the US and weren’t commonly played by the band on major tours. Queen was a rock band, and the beefy sound system of a good theatre did the music justice. The movie alleges, as if it were possible in PG-13 format, to relate the larger than life, Mae West style over the top story of one overflowingly talented Zoastrian Farrokh Bulsara, known to 99% of theatregoers as Freddie Mercury. A man whose voice, pen and musical acumen are well conveyed in this biopic. Critical reviews of this movie were not satisfied with the movie’s amount of gay coverage of Freddie’s life. But there was no hiding Freddie’s lifestyle here.
In one of the later scenes, Freddie admits to his bandmates, excellent supporting imitations of Englishmen Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, that they have families while he has maintained his lifestyle trajectory. The backstabbing and bickering that add to the pressures of creating music that the public will purchase is well expressed, as Freddie fires a long time manager without consulting his band family. The creativity of the band Queen, who prided themselves on traditional rock, ala, “no synthesizers,” and the behind the scenes production of music on state of the 1970’s art equipment are well captured. While Freddie gets most of the face time, the supporting cast includes a nonstop wardrobe of statement clothing and heroic music bowling you over with “Hammer to Fall,” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Now I’m Here,” “Killer Queen,” and the epic, “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Four stars for the music, the inside story, and the memories. One additional comment. Those who arrived early were flagellated with a trailer for a comedy of Sherlock Holmes and a bumbling Dr. Watson who are entrusted with Queen Victoria’s life. God Save The Queen.
Rating: 4/5
What is Freddie Mercury quote after band tells him there is no roof at Whembley Stadium?
Then we make a whole in sky
When Freddie told his personal manager to leave he said something like a fruit fly Can you finish the statement please?
About being a rotten fruit. Fruit flies like to go to rotten fruits. Freddie being the rotten fruit and Paul the fruitfly.
You know when you know you’ve gone rotten.Really rotten.. Fruit flies. Dirty little fruit flies, coming to feast on what’s left. Well there isn’t much left for you to feast on anymore. (Under Pressure begins) So fly off ! Do what you like with your photographs and your stories. But promise me one thing. Is that I never see your face again.
You know when you know you’ve gone rotten, really rotten… Fruit flies. Dirty little fruit flies, coming to feast on what’s left. Well there isn’t much left for you to feast on anymore. (Under Pressure begins) So fly off ! Do what you like with your photographs and your stories. But promise me one thing, is that I never see your face again, ever.
When he’s late and say’s hes an artist.
Ja when he’s late he says ‘I’m not a Swiss train conductor’ 😀
I want to know the line between he and his father before he leave house.
Good thoughts, Good Words Good deeds. That’s what you thought me papa. (these are the core belief for Zoroastrians)
Freddy and jim hutton just met- are talking…freddy says something like “they’re not friends-they’re just distractions….”
Please finish the statement.
This could be the quote you’re looking for:
Jim Hutton: So all your friends have left you alone.
Freddie Mercury: They’re not my friends, not really. They’re distractions.
Jim Hutton: From what?
Freddie Mercury: The in between moments I suppose. I find me intolerable. All of the darkness you thought you’d left behind comes creeping back in.
Jim Hutton: I know what you mean.