Bryan Fuller accuses "Bohemian Rhapsody" of het-washing and ignoring AIDS in synopsis

[ishumy]

ANYONE ELSE MILDLY ANNOYED (enough to tweet about it) THAT THE #BohemianRapsody TRAILER FEATURES GAY/BI SUPERSTAR FREDDIE MERCURY FLIRTING WITH AND TWIRLING WITH A WOMAN BUT NO INDICATION OF HIS LOVE OF MEN?
- Bryan Fuller (@BryanFuller) May 15, 2018
Like thousands of people, writer Bryan Fuller took to Twitter yesterday to give his opinion about the

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[maryjanewatson]

there is a guy in the trailer though and also a trailer is not the whole movie. ppl complain when trailers show too much and complain when they don’t show enough. bitch after the movie’s come out.

they’re also showing him and mary in the trailer who is arguably the most important person in his life. that’s not ~het-washing~ when it’s was his actual life. god that tweet just didn’t come out right at all.

[unique_lilpixie]

ia with all of this, ty

[ishumy]

mte to all you said. To me, it's crazy that people honestly believe a Freddie Mercury movie could brush over his sexuality, considering it's like the second most well-known fact about Freddie himself.

And I understand most people are casual fans and might not know much about the history of Freddie/Queen, but calling Mary Austin "a woman", as I've seen a lot of comments? lmao. To me, it's the same people who take SBC's words as gospel and seem to wish for a movie solely about Freddie fucking men, doing drugs and then dying.

[jeff_koons]

I mean sis let's be real was there a reason for SBC to lie? His story about the other Queen members sounded realistic I don't even remember them denying it. And let's be real fucking guys/doing drugs/dying was a part of his story, basing the whole movie around those facts would be sensationalist, but brushing them under the rug is also not the best thing

[ishumy]

I don't think SBC was lying, but I don't think he was being objective either and from his statements, I got the impression that he wanted the movie to be heavily focused in the partying and the last years of his life, which wouldn't present a balanced narrative either. As you said, it was a part of his life, not the whole of it. SBC's vision and May/Taylor's were probably completely opposite and thus all the bad blood between them. This is the guy who made Borat, he thrives on scandal and shock value.

I mean, from this trailer alone you can see they included Freddie's 39 year-old party in Munich. I doubt they will pretend it was a straight-laced affair, even though we can only speculate at this point.

[pourtant]

basically

and that description on youtube that no one is reading anyway isn't worth that much attention

[eveofrevolution]

[loglady]

Yeah, aren't trailers usually misleading anyway?

[junglelands]

Yeah, I feel like this just goes to show that Bryan Fuller knows nothing about Freddie if he didn't understand why Mary was in the trailer so much. Just complaining to complain.

[ishumy]

He was never out to his family though, at least according to interviews by Jer and Kashmira. About Mary, iirc, the conversation she talked about was him saying "I think I'm bisexual" and Mary answering as "no, I think you're gay."

[ohmylol]

I'm not trying to start anything lol, but i remember in an interview Mary said he told her he believed he was bisexual and she told him she believed he was gay, i think that was when they broke up and they were talking about it, i didn't know he told her he was gay later though.

[onlytheycreate]

lol

[frelling_tralk]

I agree, I was going to sympathise if he had seen the movie early and was talking about the movie as a whole, but I don’t know how he can complain just from a two minute trailer that obviously isn’t going to show everything