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Bohemian Rhapsody Documentary
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I watched and enjoyed this - apart from two parts.
I wonder how they persuaded a lot of Oxford Dons to sit around a table and dissect a pop song with full earnestness and nonsensical conclusions - they looked and sounded ridiculous.
But not as ridiculous as Richard E Grant declaiming the lyrics as though he was delivering a speech from Macbeth - he also looked and sounded ridiculous.
The entire point about pop is that it doesn't have to mean anything - why waste time pretending to find something that does not exist?
Other than that - it was good.
Anyone else see it?
I wonder how they persuaded a lot of Oxford Dons to sit around a table and dissect a pop song with full earnestness and nonsensical conclusions - they looked and sounded ridiculous.
But not as ridiculous as Richard E Grant declaiming the lyrics as though he was delivering a speech from Macbeth - he also looked and sounded ridiculous.
The entire point about pop is that it doesn't have to mean anything - why waste time pretending to find something that does not exist?
Other than that - it was good.
Anyone else see it?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.there are nonsense lyrics around, always have been (Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit?) but Bohemian Rhapsody may not be among them. I've heard it explained, for instance as Mercury coming out ("Mother, I've just ****ed a man"). It's worth thinking about, at the very least, and if you come up with no coherent meaning ... so be it.
Rather like these snobby arty farties who will attempt to explain to us plebs just why a 'work of art' is a 'work of art'. Remember Freddie being asked in an interview what the meaning of Bohemian Rhapsody was and his reply was something like, "Whatever you want it to mean, darling." That'll do for me:-)
Eddie - // I assume they persuaded the Oxford dons, by offering them a big fat fee. Why look for an explanation above the obvious? //
That may be so if you were talking reality 'celebs' who turn up to the opening of an envelope, but these are people who are known for their work in academia, and have no need for this sort of nonsense.
Likewise Richard E Grant, who must have known that he looked like a prize ninny declaiming lyrics so seriously to camera.
The last time this was done, was by the peerless Peter Sellars -
but he meant to be funny!
That may be so if you were talking reality 'celebs' who turn up to the opening of an envelope, but these are people who are known for their work in academia, and have no need for this sort of nonsense.
Likewise Richard E Grant, who must have known that he looked like a prize ninny declaiming lyrics so seriously to camera.
The last time this was done, was by the peerless Peter Sellars -
but he meant to be funny!