# Bohemian Rhapsody for the win! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328 "2019-01-07T04:44:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/21 "2019-01-07T21:01:56Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Hmmm. I didn’t think I’d remembered Freddie ever going solo and I was also pretty sure they were still together and still kind of popular (I know I still liked them) at the time of Live Aid. Other than that, I just look at the other stuff as creative license. Maybe Brian and Roger don’t think those other details are a big deal either. Freddie did do some solo work (and work with other artists) during that timeframe depicted in the film – then again, Brian and Roger were both also doing much the same, and, unlike how it was depicted in the film, it didn’t involve breaking up the band, or putting the band on hiatus. My strong suspicion was that Brian and Roger were all right with the creative license, so long as it told a good story, and so long as they felt it stayed true to the spirit of Freddie, and what the band was about. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/22 "2019-01-07T21:05:25Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > And yet all us young 80’s metal-head guys never had a clue about Rob Halford. 😃 No shit! At the time, all my metal head friends were all “Is Adam Ant gay? I think he is gay!\*”, and right there is Halford and no one even suspected. The only way the cover of Unleashed in the East could be more obvious is if it had a sign saying “I am most sincerely gay”. And we just thought it was “metal”. \*not gay ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/23 "2019-01-07T21:07:00Z")
In terms of them playing Live Aid, too. I once heard Geldof say he was speaking with them and essentially blackmailed them to decide. He issued a release saying they were playing and dared them to say they didn’t want to play. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/24 "2019-01-07T21:42:43Z")
I don’t understand the Golden Globes. Bohemian Rhapsody is in the drama category and Vice was in the musical/ comedy category. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/25 "2019-01-07T21:55:52Z")
Ricard Madden winning over Matthew Rhys establishes the GGs as garbage. Madden might be a decent actor, but _Bodyguard_ was awful. It started well which made the ludicrous, poorly-plotted, badly-written, and crappily-directed effluvium that ensued all the more bewildering. Did I mention that it really wasn’t very good? ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/26 "2019-01-07T23:19:47Z")
The film got me and the wife and kids listening to old Queen albums even a month and a half after seeing it, so that says something. It would have been nice if they’d found a way to fit Mustafa in somewhere though. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/27 "2019-01-07T23:59:39Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I don’t understand the Golden Globes. Bohemian Rhapsody is in the drama category and Vice was in the musical/ comedy category. Bohemian Rhapsody is a drama about musicians, it’s not a musical. Mary Poppins Returns, that’s a musical. Vice is more of a satirical dark comedy than a straight drama. I have no issues with either being listed in their respective categories, same with Green Book which has a lot of humor. Comedy doesn’t just mean slapstick & dick jokes. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/28 "2019-01-08T00:16:17Z")
The Golden Globes are crap. Look up how films win. > [@Skammer](#): > > I haven’t seen the movie, having heard it was good-but-not-great, but I guess I’ll check it out. > > I was more shocked by Green Book winning the Musical/Comedy category, since I had heard it wasn’t even close to great. Very weird year. Green Book was RT 81% vs. Bohemian Rhapsody’s 62%. Objectively people think it’s better. > [@Gatopescado](#): > > And yet all us young 80’s metal-head guys never had a clue about Rob Halford. 😃 Hell Bent for Leather! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/29 "2019-01-08T00:29:24Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I was surprised to hear that _Bohemian Rhapsody_ won best drama, after having heard so many people (including here on the SDMB) say it was formulaic and mediocre—enjoyable for fans of Queen, but hardly a Great Movie. (And that arguably the best things about the movie were the musical performances, yet it won in the Drama category rather than the Musical category.) I guess the rule is: Biopics win awards. > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I don’t understand the Golden Globes. Bohemian Rhapsody is in the drama category and Vice was in the musical/ comedy category. > [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Bohemian Rhapsody is a drama about musicians, it’s not a musical. Mary Poppins Returns, that’s a musical. Vice is more of a satirical dark comedy than a straight drama. I have no issues with either being listed in their respective categories, same with Green Book which has a lot of humor. Comedy doesn’t just mean slapstick & dick jokes. Yes, Bohemian Rhapsody definitely does not qualify as a musical. In a musical, songs advance the narrative, think something like West Side Story, or The Music Man (or that greatest of all musicals, Marge vs the Monorail). ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/30 "2019-01-08T00:45:17Z")
BR brought in the two(!) Freddy solo albums, which somehow I’d never even heard of, but omits the Flash soundtrack. You’d thin doing a movie soundtrack would be at least worth a passing mention. IN real life, I noticed that Bowie followed Queen at Wembley. It would have been cool if they could have transitioned between the two acts with Under Pressure! Start with Queen and end with Bowie. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/31 "2019-01-08T03:52:35Z")
Well, Queen didn’t play Under Pressure that day. The setlist went: Bohemian Rhapsody (partial) Radio Gaga Hammer to Fall Crazy Little Thing Called Love We Will Rock You We Are the Champions The also showed U2 coming off stage when Queen went on. U2 played earlier and Dire Straits played directly before Queen. I’ll admit, too, that while everyone seems in love with Queen’s performance that day, it was U2 who stole the show for my money. Queen delivered what they do, a good solid performance designed to please the crowd and get some participation going. U2’s performance was transformative. I don’t know what world Bono was in during Bad but it wasn’t on this plane of existence. It was some place where singer and crowd become one. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328/32 "2019-01-08T15:53:27Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Well, Queen didn’t play Under Pressure that day. I just meant they should have. Have a seamless transition from Queen to Bowie. But you wouldn’t get to give the big applause at the end - Queen would have just disappeared. I guess that wouldn’t really work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-the-win/827328.md?page=1)