LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 3, 2019…ONE YEAR AGO MARKED THE DEBUT OF QUEEN’S MOVIE ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY.’ THE MOVIE IS THE BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA BASED ON THE LIFE OF FREDDIE MERCURY. THE FILM FOLLOWS MERCURY FROM THE FORMATION OF THE BAND UP UNTIL THEIR EPIC 1985 “LIVE AID” PERFORMANCE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM. THE MOVIE WAS IN ONE WORD “AWESOME.” THE OPENING WEEKEND BOX OFFICE WAS OVERWHELMING ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ TAKING THE TOP SPOT WITH OVER $ 51 MILLION DOLLARS (MARKING THE 2ND BEST OPENING FOR A MUSICAL BEHIND ‘STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON’). TO DATE THE TOTAL BOX OFFICE FOR ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ STANDS AT A TOTAL GROSS OF $ 903.7 MILLION DOLLARS, MAKING IT THE HIGHEST GROSSING MUSIC BIOPIC OF ALL TIME. THE TOTAL COST T MAKE THE MOVIE WAS $ 52 MILLION DOLLARS. RAMI MALEK PORTRAYED FREDDIE MERCURY IN THE MOVIE AND WAS STELLAR, WINNING THE GOLDEN GLOBE, SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARD, THE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARD, AND AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR.
THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL IN THE MOVIE IS INCREDIBLE. THIS IS A SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON FROM THE MOVIE TO TE ACTUAL QUEEN APPEARANCE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM
