Bohemian RHAPSODY

Just as 'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot' was a re-working of an 18 th /early 19 th Century Tale of Banditry

in  Ireland- Transported and amended to East Coast U.S.A.... and 'corrupted' by the 'Hollywood' 'Moguls'...

 ..'Monopoly' is both the basis for- and misrepresentation of- what originally was a 'Critique' of Capitalism.

'Monopoly' the Board Game has it's own [false/invented]rags to riches  History...it was invented by a Woman called Lizzie Magie and played for decades under the Pseudonym of 'the Landlord's Game'  before Her 'idea' [Intellectual Property] was stolen by a Fraudster /Conman named Charles Darrow 

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2023/02/14/american-experience-ruthless-monopolys-secret-history

So what? well every 'PIECE' used in the 'Modern' Version has a connection to the Filmography of 

certain Actors...although the 'Squares' in both are originally American-the 'Square World' names change according to  the Country the Game is actually played in-'GOAT ALLEY' is a new one for Me? but 'Market Place'? could be an old version of 'Supermarket?' maybe? Oriental Av? also not seen in European versions.

 in some  DVD pictures a 'Big Gun' features prominently....[very 'Freud']

'Artillery' is a Drug Term for Paraphernalia/Hardware used to 'inject' etc

In 'White Squall' ..A 'Boat'...[a Chapter of 'Moby Dick' has references to 'White Squall]

'Last American Hero' ..a Race Car...etc.. 'The Vanishing' ... a 'Top Hat using Magician' obsessed with 'eternity Symbols'?

tsk tsk it's like the same old Game being played without rules.. think You win doing that?

think again.. 'Against all Odds'.. Drug Dealing in Mexico Lightfoot ? 'Iron-Man?' lol......I win.

[I've had to raise My Fees what with inflation and what-have-You...it's now $300,000 a day cash only-not for anything 'PSYCHOLOGIC' that's free for You to take it or leave it-no, I mean to have a proper Professional Guide to Liverpool -not an Amateur Speculative and mostly Fictional 'Analysis' of American 'Perception'. Here's the thing-We here don't care if You think You are 'Italian-American' or 'Irish-American' or 'Jewish-American'-or any 'other-American' to Us- You are all just 'YANKS' so fucking live with it]

A 'Cowboy?' and  A 'Tailors Thimble?'

A ' Little Dog'

A 'Sports Car?'

and A 'Top Hat?' used by 'Magicians' [and Undertakers]

'Go to Jail'..

'An 'Iron' [neatly Ironed Shirts] 

'Funny Shtuff Money?'

concerned about 'Super Tax?'  

 lol....You said it Yourself-it's a Game.. well- Game Over Lebowski..

it does not matter what the Game is...POKER or any other Card Game...

 

Is It a Pact with the Devil?

Why Is the Song Called "Bohemian Rhapsody"?

Why Does It Last Exactly 5 Minutes and 55 Seconds?

What Is This Song Really About?

Why Was Queen's Movie Released on October 31st?

The movie was released on October 31st because the single was first heard on October 31st, 1975. It is titled "Bohemian Rhapsody" because a "Rhapsody" is a free-form musical piece composed of different parts and themes where it seems like one part has no relation to the other.

The word "rhapsody" comes from Greek and means "stitched together parts of a song."

The word "bohemian" refers to a region in the Czech Republic called Bohemia, where Faust, the protagonist of the work bearing his name written by the playwright and novelist Goethe, was born. In Goethe's work, Faust was an elderly, highly intelligent man who knew everything except the mystery of life. Failing to understand it, he decides to poison himself.

Just then, the church bells ring, and he goes out into the street. When he returns to his room, he finds a dog that transforms into a kind of man. This is the devil Mephistopheles. Mephistopheles promises Faust a full and happy life in exchange for his soul. Faust agrees, rejuvenates, and becomes arrogant. He meets Gretchen and has a child. His wife and child die. Faust travels through time and space and feels powerful. When he becomes old again, he feels miserable once more. As he did not break the pact with the devil, angels contend for his soul.

This work is essential to understanding "Bohemian Rhapsody."

The song is about Freddie Mercury himself. Being a rhapsody, it has 7 different parts: 1st and 2nd A Capella acts 3rd Ballad act 4th Guitar solo act 5th Opera act 6th Rock act 7th "Coda" or final act

The song talks about a poor boy who questions whether this life is real or if his distorted imagination is living in another reality. He says that even if he stops living, the wind will continue to blow without his existence. So, he makes a deal with the devil and sells his soul.

Upon making this decision, he rushes to tell his mother and says...

"Mama, I just killed a man, put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead. Mama, life had just begun, but now I've gone and thrown it all away..."

The man he kills is himself, Freddie Mercury himself.

If he doesn't fulfill the pact with the devil, he will die immediately.

He says goodbye to his loved ones, and his mother breaks into tears, with tears and desperate crying that comes from Brian May's guitar notes. Freddie, frightened, cries out, "Mama, I don't want to die," and the opera part begins. Freddie finds himself in an astral plane where he sees himself: "I see a little silhouetto of a man," "Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?"

Scaramouche is a "scuffle" or dispute between armies with horseback riders (4 horsemen of the Apocalypse of evil fighting against the forces of good for Freddie's soul), and he continues, "Thunderbolt and lightning very, very frightening me."

This phrase appears in the Bible, specifically in Job 37, where it says, "the thunder and lightning frighten me: my heart pounds in my chest." Seeing his son so scared by the decision he has made, Freddie's mother pleads for his release from the pact with Mephistopheles. "He's just a poor boy... "Spare him his life from this monstrosity. Easy come, easy go, will you let him go?"

Her pleas are heard, and the angels descend to fight against the forces of evil. "Bismillah" (an Arabic word that means "In the name of God") is the first word that appears in the Muslim holy book, the Quran. So, God himself appears and shouts, "We will not let you go."

In the face of such a battle between good and evil, Freddie fears for his mother's life and says to her, "Mama mia, let me go." They shout again from heaven that they will not abandon him, and Freddie shouts, "No, no, no, no, no," and says, "Beelzebub (the Lord of Darkness) has a devil put aside for me, for me."

Freddie pays tribute here to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach when he sings, "Figaro, Magnifico," referencing Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," considered the greatest opera of all time, and Bach's "Magnificat."

The most rock-oriented part follows. The devil, angry and betrayed by Freddie for not fulfilling the pact, says, "So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye? So you think you can love me and leave me to die?"

It's chilling how the Lord of Darkness feels powerless against a human being, against repentance and love.

Having lost the battle, the devil leaves, and we arrive at the final act or "coda" where Freddie is free, and that feeling comforts him. The gong that closes the song sounds. The gong is an instrument used in China and East Asia to heal people who are affected by evil spirits.

It lasts for 5 minutes and 55 seconds. Freddie liked astrology, and in numerology, 555 is associated with death, not physical, but spiritual, the end of something where angels will safeguard you. 555 is related to God and the divine, an ending that will usher in a new stage.

And the song plays for the first time on the eve of All Saints' Day. A holiday called "Samhain" by the Celts to celebrate the transition and opening to the other world.

The Celts believed that the world of the living and the dead were closely connected, and on All Saints' Day, both worlds merged, allowing spirits to cross over.

Nothing in "Bohemian Rhapsody" is coincidental.

Everything is carefully measured, worked, and has a meaning that goes beyond being just a simple song.

It has been voted worldwide as the greatest song of all time.[My note; by who?]

This song represented a radical change in Queen's career, as if they had truly made a pact with the devil; it changed their lives forever and made them immortal...

Credits to whoever deserves them...

FARROKH  BULSARA a.k.a  FREDDIE 'MERCURY' was possibly the greatest Stage Performer of Modern Times ?.

A HOMOSEXUAL who  died of AIDS, [same as CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT -'ROCK' HUDSON lol..] He was COCAINE ADDICT and A Zoroastrian. [ZARATHUSTRA]. 

Apparently He started writing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in 1968 and the opening was originally Titled 

'THE COWBOY SONG'....

Bulsara worked for a time as a Baggage Handler in Heathrow Airport, and lived in Liverpool for a time-where He ran a Market Stall selling Scarves...

His other 'Alias' for a short time was 'LARRY LUREX'....DUDE.

Critics of the 2018 Movie called it a 'hopelessly corny Biopic' inaccurate for many reasons..

 Bulsara had 4 'extra' Teeth and had to cancel a TV interview to get some Dental treatment...in His place an unknown 'Group' made Their debut ...only to be physically removed from the Studio after the most ill mannered and vulgar display of bad language and unapologetic non-Musicianship ever seen..

They were called?- THE SEX PISTOLS

              

"When I was offered the part of The Dude in 'The Big Lebowski' (1998), I went through a big thing in my head worrying if this was going to be a bad example for my girls.

The guy was kind of an anti-hero, a pot-smoking, slacker kind of guy, and I was really racking my brain about it.

I always want to feel free to play any role, a despicable guy or a good guy -- the full range of human experience.

But this one was really giving me problems.

So I assembled the family and told them my problem.

After a long pause, my middle girl said, 'Dad, you're an actor.

We know that it's all pretend what you do.

We know that when you kiss some lady on the screen that you still love Mom. We know you're an actor.'

So I had their permission, their blessing, to go play a character like The Dude.

That was great that they understood that.

And I count on the audiences to understand that what I do in my personal life and what I do on the screen are not some kind of example for them to base their lives on.

Hopefully, when people see a movie, they know it's a movie."

The Dude was based on independent film promoter Jeff "The Dude" Dowd, who helped the Coen brothers secure distribution for their first feature, "Blood Simple" (1984).

Like his fictional counterpart, Dowd was a member of the Seattle Seven, and takes a casual approach to grooming and dress.

The Port Huron Statement of which The Dude refers to himself as being one of the original authors, is a real document and statement written by The Students for a Democratic Society at a national convention meeting in, Michigan, June 11-15, 1962.

Jeff Dowd was not one of those students, being twelve-years-old, as he was born on November 20, 1949.

According to Alex Belth, who wrote the e-book, "The Dudes Abide", on his time spent working as an assistant to the Coen Brothers, casting the role of Jeffrey Lebowski was one of the last decisions made before filming.

Names tossed around for the role included Robert Duvall (who passed because he wasn't fond of the script), Anthony Hopkins (who passed, since he had no interest in playing an American), and Gene Hackman (who was taking a break at the time).

A second "wish list" included an oddball "who's who", including Norman Mailer, George C. Scott, Jerry Falwell, Gore Vidal, Andy Griffith, William F. Buckley, and Ernest Borgnine. The Coens' ultimate Big Lebowski, however, was Marlon Brando.

The Coens amused themselves by quoting some of their favorite Jeffrey Lebowski lines ("Strong men also cry") in a Brando imitation.

Before filming a scene, Jeff Bridges would frequently ask the Coen brothers "Did the Dude burn one on the way over?" If they said he had, he would rub his knuckles in his eyes before doing a take to make his eyes appear bloodshot.

A lot of the Dude's clothes in the movie were Bridges' own clothes, including his Jellies sandals which he still owns and uses to this day. (IMDb)

ever thus to 'Cover Stories'...what a load of Doody -Dude