God, what a cringe-fest that clip was. Literally could not watch all the way through it. I mean, the dog whistle joke could not have been delivered worse even if they tried.
"Can you go a bit higher?" *Plastic-Roger proceeds to sing the exact same notes.*
But yeah, I enjoyed that little bit of live soundtrack.
I think the movie will be hard to enjoy, with all the artistic freedom used to make it attractive for a larger audience.
On the other hand - there are so many documentaries out there that are fact-based.
This is a different angle, hardcore fans will be critical about it, but the crowd will love it.
I'm a hardcore fan, and am ready to enjoy it. I'm fully able to live with the artistic license.
Artistic licence is fine if it actually improves the film artistically, or streamlines things to convey the same message in a more direct way.
But I don’t believe this scene does that. Perhaps ‘higher’ is something the general audience can understand, but they’re still gonna be confused when Roger proceeds to sing the same note. The scene is just not coherent.
Easy fix would have been to have Freddie, unsatisfied, asking Roger for more and more takes of the same line. Simple.
Here's my thing. Both actors have clearly done their best to sound like Freddie and Brian (Brian especially is almost shockingly similar) but the young man playing Roger speaks in a voice that doesn't remotely sound like him.
I agree about Roger's voice, but I'd say it's quite difficult to emulate having that sort of broken, high register voice, if your voice doesn't truly match that register. It would probably sound silly.
Also, it's a nitpick but John Deacon's dancing in the live scene is way over the top. It wouldn't bother me as much if not for the fact that the guys portraying Freddie and Brian are so spot on in their stage mannerisms, by contrast.
Freddie's stage mannerisms aren't spot on at all. Freddie flapping his arm about at the start of the stage scene all limp wristed like that. Just... no.
Whoever said he looks more like Mick Jagger is spot on. That live clip is jokes.
I think Freddie and John were always going to be the hardest to portray, on stage. Roger is hidden behind his drums, while Brian's movements are fairly predictable and simple to replicate. Freddie and John's movements, on the other hand, were fairly unpredictable and hard to replicate. I think this speaks for itself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8_ig4SPAak&feature=youtu.be&t=1m42s
I love the star jumps on Budapest, i wasn't sure any one else noticed them.
"young man playing Roger speaks in a voice that doesn't remotely sound like him"
Tough one that though, for a non-gravelly speaker to try and sound like Roger has the potential to sound even worse than him just sounding like an everyman.
