Hello, cinelovers.

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Wow! What amazing news!
Our most beloved @CineTv's collaborates the @risingstargame and has his own unique card minted (see below). If you haven't get it yet, hurry and catch the few that are still available.

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This collaboration, also, highlights a very important topic, the direct relationship between music and cinema. Even in the era of silent cinema, there was always a pianist inside the hall, to play along with the projection of the scenes. Depending on the "rhythm" of the scenes, so was the rhythm of music: slow and melodic in romantic e.g. scenes or fast and furious in action scenes.

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Since the incorporation of sound into films, music was considered an integral part of every film, either as background music that binds and supports the scenes or as a catalytic element in the development of the plot.

But let's get to the main subject of this post:
@CineTV wanna know our favorite song in a movie for this week's contest. It's difficult to choose a favorite between the millions of songs that have been used in movies. Besides, I believe, you have see from my posts that I love music (and dance, but that's another story). If I can name a genre that I am particularly fond of is rock music. (You can see my posts about Bob Dylan,The Last Waltz, or The Beatles).

So, for this post, ladies and gentlemen, I present you:

Bohemian rhapsody by Queen

as presented in film Wayne's world

- The iconic official video of the song that is considered to be the 'father" of music videos-

How can one begin to describe this particular song? First of all, it's not a "one" song, but at least three. If we pay attention to the music alternations in it, we will notice that it moves between different musical genres: from ballad to opera aria, from glam/hard rock to the gentle closure with piano solo. Great guitar solos, piano melodies, strong drums and verses a capella.

The famous opera section (I believe we all have sung these lyrics at least once)

We will encounter the same difficulty with the lyrics, as they are more difficult to decipher than Linear B (a philologist joke, do not pay attention to me). Although, as Mercury himself stated, the lyrics refer to relationships (source), there is no specific explanation for the mixing of so many different narratives. Mercury seems to have been inspired by Camus' Stranger ("Mama, just Killed a man") as well as Faust ("Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me,"). In all of this, various names are added to the opera verse, such as Scaramouche, Galileo, Bismillah, and Beelzebub.

If you wanna check out the rest of this song's lyrics, you can see it here

In fact, we can never be sure of the song's message, as it was mainly Freddie's creation. He wrote music and lyrics, it was his "orchestration" (since especially for the piece of the opera "Galileo" needed endless downloads and Freddie constantly added "Galileans" to the mix) and with his own persistence (and the help of the whole band of course) released it as a single, at a time when most producers refused due to the duration (6 minutes instead of the usual 3 minutes) and the different style.

The recording session as was presented in the biopic film about Freddie Mercury and Queen with the title (what else) : "Bohemian rhapsody"

And there were many reactions from them. But the song belied them all and remained one of the most famous songs in rock history. A true masterpiece, in my opinion.
(Psss! I know all the lyrics by heart)

Wayne's world (1992)

In the opening scene of "Wayne's world" the main character, Wayne (Mike Myers) breaks the "fourth wall" and intoduces himself to the audience. A good hearted, easy-going rock fan, that can't keep a job for a long time, but he knows how to party with his friends and knows his music. His aim : to make the tv programme he produces and presents from his parents' basement a huge hit.

 A collection of nametags and hairnets from Wayne's previous odd jobs. 
                           (I adore his smile when he shows it to us)

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Wayne gets in the car of his friends, (introduces us his best friend Garth) and they start cruising around the city. And as Wayne says:

I think we'd go for a little Bohemian Rhapsody, Gentlemen?

And this is the beginning line of one most iconic scene...

Wayne pops in the cassette, music pours through the speaker and the protagonist starts "I see a small silhouetto ..." and the others following. Watch the scene when "Galileo" and "Let me go" lyrics come. Sense the group feeling that the director Penelope Spheeris achieved, as every one knows the exact order he will say his part.
And of course as real rockers as May's guitar thunders, they do handbanging, while driving around (please, guys don't do it, it not safe)

This was the scene that brought this favorite song to the fore again. For me, personally, it was a landmark, because I got to know this particular song. Then, in 1992, in my early teens, I was making my baby steps on the rock scene. And I might had heard of Queen (who doesn't know "We will rock you?") but I hadn't yet heard of "Bohemian Rapsody". And all this handbanging seemed so cool to me then.
Boom! A new whole world came in surface and hit me!

Needless to say that shortly after I bought with my pocket money the cassette "A night at the Opera"...

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I -teen Eva, that is- heard for the first time what we call progressive rock. And I loved it. I melted the cassette, pressing fast forward and rewind in order to hear the lyrics correctly (remember it was the pre-internet era). I listened to the whole album and I loved that, too. Not only the specific one, but the whole Queen discography.

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And yes, the film may not be one of the best films in history, but I always remember it with nostalgia for this reason: because in an era dominated by pop music, it brought out the masterpiece that is Bohemian Rhapsody.

Fun facts about Bohemian Rhapsody and this film:

• It is said that Mike Myers fought hard to be able to include the song in the film.
• It is also reported that Brian May showed a first copy to Freddie Mercury, who was seriously ill at that time, and that Freddie had found the handball scene extremely funny.
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Freddie missed the first official screening of the film. He died in November 1991, a few months before that. But thanks to the film, we, the teenagers of that time learned Queen and Freddie.
Oh, and headbanging, too.

And a certain one (a teenager only in the heart now, not in the years sadly) still continues to love them both.

This post was written for the CineTv Contest.

Thank you for reading!