Mr. Robot’s, Rami Malik, completely embodies Mercury from his days as the unknown Farrokh Bulsara, a son of Farsi conservative immigrant, to his flamboyant over the top days as Freddy Mercury.
The storyline doesn’t revile any secrets that anyone who lived through the seventies and eighties hasn’t already known. One of the major events that the script decided to alter was Mercury’s confession to his fellow Queen members about him being HIV Positive at LiveAid. The LiveAid concert happened in 1985, whereas Mercury only found out two years later the he was positive in 1987.
Director, Bryan Singer, tried to build Freddy Mercury a gay icon, who was unwilling to analyse or justify his lifestyle publicly.
Bohemian Rhapsody is a very respectable homage to one to a music giant, Rami Malik embodies Freddy Mercury to a point you really forget you are watching a movie. And then there is the phenomenal soundtrack…
Bohemian Rhapsody is going to be pushed very hard this awards season and will most likely be one of this years frontrunners in the nomination game.