“Shut Up, You Dick! You aren’t funny.”
I was watching “Bohemian Rhapsody” in Middletown. Spoiler alert – Freddie Mercury was a great singer and a homosexual man.
Someone in the audience needed to let everyone in the theater know that he disapproved of homosexuality by audibly grumbling and groaning when, two-thirds of the way into the movie, Mercury (gasp!) kissed another man.
The first time this idiot grumbled and groaned like a moronic 7th grader, there were some nervous giggles in the audience that the idiot might have perceived as approval. I think, it is more likely that people were taken by surprise by the very public display of assholery.
The asswipe was about two rows down and to the left of where I was sitting. The second time there was an onscreen kiss he grumbled and groaned again, expecting more “approval.” What he got instead was me saying “Shut Up, You Dick! You aren’t funny.” I said it loud enough and with enough edge that he would know I was ready to go, if he decided to make something of it.
Of course the chickenshit didn’t make anything of it. He meekly shut the fuck up. There were no uneasy giggles, and the second the credits rolled he and his wife bolted out of the darkened theater back to whatever shit hole they watch Fox News in.
I wasn’t going to share this story here. But what the heck. I think maybe saying that in the theater might encourage someone else to call out these chickenshit idiots in public. And if we are all ready to go, and have each other’s back – there is no way the assholes and idiots can continue getting away with their bullshit.
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Farrokh Bulsara was a bisexual man.
Good on ya for calling out a shithole of a “person”, but let’s not erase Bi people. (virtue signalling complete)
Thanks. The movie isn’t sure one way or another.
Interesting. I read a review of the film that panned it for glossing over the sexuality in some instances and making it cartoonish in others.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bohemian-rhapsody-is-an-insult-to-freddie-mercury
Apparently this is why Sacha Baron Cohen left the project after intially being cast as Mercury.
Good on you for shutting that down. I thought we’d gotten past this, but it’s clear we haven’t.
My take: if the film glossed over the sexuality in some instances and was cartoonish in others it is because 1970 – 1990 was a glossy/cartoony time to be a public bi/homosexual. It wasn’t like Mercury had a handbook to go by.
He was doing his best and the film, for me, captures that.
The point, I think, of the movie wasn’t so much that Freddie was gay or bi – but that (whatever he was) he lived most of his life in a kind of prison. Which made that asshole’s vocal disapproval all the more noxious as it missed the entire fucking point.
That guy, and many like him, are fine with LGBTQR people having to live lives in their own mental prisons – but hey – keep the good time rock and roll coming!
I think a point of the film is to celebrate Freddy Mercury’s physical and musical beauty. Beauty appears to be transitioning into irrelevance the way our culture is corrupting. Corruption emerges and the first thing to go is authentic beauty.
Someone complained that the portrayal of a glam rock star was “cartoonish”? Lol
not only that… BORAT complained.
The portrayal of his personal sexuality was minimized. In a bio-picture that generally presented a bit more seriously.
You realize he was a real human being not just a rock musician, right?
yeah dude. there are other takes on it about how private he was and how he kept himself to himself when not on stage. We all saw the performer he wanted us to see. It is not known if he would have wanted those incredibly personal aspects of his life put on screen for everyone to see. Who knows if he would have been more publicly out now that society has gotten a bit less hostile. Not every LGBTQR person has to be a LGBTQR icon. At the time he was alive, he wanted to be “not just a rock star, but a legend”. I think if the movie captured that, it would honor his wishes more than a gritty look at his struggle with AIDS.
I’m just referring to the review I linked to.
I very much object to the new “ads” that mimic the look of posts. Whatever you can do would be appreciated.
I’ll see what I can do. Thanks for the note.
I’m going tomorrow down in Ocean City. Can’t wait. Not that anyone would care, but I saw them in 1982 at Oakland Coliseum. What a concert! What a band! No words.
Oh yeah, in case anyone was really interested, Wikipedia has a decent write up on how the song was made. Very interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody