I was pleasantly surprised when they showed Don't Stop Me Now in split screen with the film credits. It really showed what a great performer Fred was, and what an exciting band Queen were a long time ago. I think DSMN was shot on video rather than film but maybe I'm wrong.
ps Poochie's dead? D'oh!
Invisible Woman · Member since
@ mike hunt
It's my fault, I was thinking "timeline".
What is the proof that "Love Of My Life" was written for Mary? I don't believe it. Did Freddie say it in an interview?For me it's the same as her role in this movie, more fiction than true.
Maybe it's said that Freddie and Jim stay together but Jim was shown in the movie as someone who Freddie found just to have someone to care about him because he was ill. So, there is no time to show love between them but there is time to show how Mary is pregnant and how jealous Freddie was because of that, altough her pregnancy happened a few years later.
It's my opinion. All right if many of people believes in all those stories about Mary and Freddie, but for me it's fiction that lasts for decades.
runner_70 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]mike hunt wrote:[/b]
Inaccurate yes, but the events were true just not the timelines...And there is some fiction to build up drama as well...I hate that fact...but what is accurate is Freddie wrote Love Of My Life for Mary...No one could replace Mary In Freddie's own words...That's not made up or fiction...Jim was short changed for sure, but the closing credits did say that they were together till the end...[/QUOTE]
The events were NOT true:
* Freddie begging for his job to get back in the band
* Freddie quitting Queen for years for a solo career
* Freddie being tested HIV positive in 1985 and admitting it to the band in 1985 before Live AId
* Freddie living door to door with Mary and keeping in concact by switiching lights on and off
Laughable
bucsateflon · Member since
haha
mike hunt · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Invisible Woman wrote:[/b]
@ mike hunt
It's my fault, I was thinking "timeline".
What is the proof that "Love Of My Life" was written for Mary? I don't believe it. Did Freddie say it in an interview?For me it's the same as her role in this movie, more fiction than true.
Maybe it's said that Freddie and Jim stay together but Jim was shown in the movie as someone who Freddie found just to have someone to care about him because he was ill. So, there is no time to show love between them but there is time to show how Mary is pregnant and how jealous Freddie was because of that, altough her pregnancy happened a few years later.
It's my opinion. All right if many of people believes in all those stories about Mary and Freddie, but for me it's fiction that lasts for decades.[/QUOTE]
oligneisti · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Invisible Woman wrote:[/b]
@ mike hunt
It's my fault, I was thinking "timeline".
What is the proof that "Love Of My Life" was written for Mary? I don't believe it. Did Freddie say it in an interview?[/QUOTE]
Think of the lyrics, it is a break-up song. Also, think of it as being written from the point of view of Mary.
Wiley · Member since
That's what I've believed for the longest time, that the song is written from Mary's perspective. However, I believe John Reid said in some interviews that Freddie wrote it for/about David Minns, his lover at the time.
Speculating further, could it be both? That it's from Mary's perspective, about losing Freddie and that the third person in question was indeed David.
Who knows?
Blackvy · Member since
Freddie talked about Love of my life in an interview to Stephen Ford around 1976 :
"I suppose I do write a lot of sad songs, but that doesn't mean I feel that way myself. I really enjoy writing those songs but, again, there isn't necessarily any connexion between the music and my life. Love of My Life, for instance, I simply made up. There's nothing personal about it. Am I making sense? What I mean is, writing those sad songs makes me happy. To me, they're fun, so it all fits in. I just happen to like that kind of music"
Here's the source (By the way, there's an old post about Love of my life, and the source came from the user Sebastian,so thank you mate!) :) :
mike hunt · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Blackvy wrote:[/b]
Freddie talked about Love of my life in an interview to Stephen Ford around 1976 :
"I suppose I do write a lot of sad songs, but that doesn't mean I feel that way myself. I really enjoy writing those songs but, again, there isn't necessarily any connexion between the music and my life. Love of My Life, for instance, I simply made up. There's nothing personal about it. Am I making sense? What I mean is, writing those sad songs makes me happy. To me, they're fun, so it all fits in. I just happen to like that kind of music"
Here's the source (By the way, there's an old post about Love of my life, and the source came from the user Sebastian,so thank you mate!) :) :[/QUOTE]
So can The story about the Song and Mary be made up? Trying too think If their is an Interview with Freddie saying the song Is about her...I'm also In the camp of The song was written for her from her perspective.
tomchristie22 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]
Same goes for DSMN. Had it been shot on magnetic tape? Maybe I'm deceived by the grit in the face forward shots of Freddie that it was shot on film.
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It was shot on film, yeah. You can tell cos it runs at 24fps rather than 30. I was also very surprised they didn't bother to get a better copy and clean it up. There's a version on Chief Mouse's YT channel which is taken from 16mm film and restored - you know there's a lack of effort on the filmmakers' part when the version in the major motion picture is inferior to what fans and hobbyists have managed to do.
tomchristie22 · Member since
I was wholly expecting that pre-credits montage to end on a reference to how they're now touring with Adam Lambert. Someone obviously had the good judgement not to do that (and it probably wasn't Brian).
Grantcdn1 · Member since
For those who think somehow Jim got short changed in the movie....what about in Freddie’s will? He got a very small amount similar to his other friends....this is probably partly because their relationship was still a fairly short duration for a 45 year old man....meanwhile his relationship with Mary both as lover and friend later covered most of his adult life and remained to the end. Freddie’s will was his choice and the fact that Freddie chose Mary as the one to live in his house, leave most of his wealth to and to look after his ashes really tells us who was most important to him whether their relationship at the end was physical or not.
I think it is good that they recognised Jim as stability he had in the end but if they told a story of a multitude of partners and included Jim as the last one he would have been mimimized even more... as such I think they were respectful to him as well
Invisible Woman · Member since
^Doesn't mean that every song is true or that it's written for someone.
Who was the first to say that it was a song for her? Brian?
About Freddie's will, there may be many reasons why it's written like this and doesn't really matter to me. But I think it's clear that the money which Jim, Joe, Peter and Terry inherited wasn't given to them as his friends but as the people who worked for him.
Love and friendship are not determined by the amount of money.
mike hunt · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Invisible Woman wrote:[/b]
^Doesn't mean that every song is true or that it's written for someone.
Who was the first to say that it was a song for her? Brian?
About Freddie's will, there may be many reasons why it's written like this and doesn't really matter to me. But I think it's clear that the money which Jim, Joe, Peter and Terry inherited wasn't given to them as his friends but as the people who worked for him.
Love and friendship are not determined by the amount of money.[/QUOTE]
Not only Brian, but others who were close with Freddie like Mick Rock also said Love Of My Life was written for Mary..Are you a newer fan? Freddie Said In numerous Interviews that Mary was the most Important person in his life...He even said they were married at one point...that's not up for debate...As far as the silly Bi vs Gay debate, not that It matters but he was a Gay man as per Mary and his designer (Rhoads?) I forget her name...
mike hunt · Member since
Invisible Woman...If you are a newer fan watch the 2000 Documentary of Freddie that was a part of his solo collection..those are the people that really knew him...
