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Bohemian Rhapsody and its "factual inaccuracies"

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Bohemian Rhapsody is a groundbreaking tribute to the British rock band Queen through a celebration of their iconic music and lead singer Freddie Mercury , played by Rami Malek . This is done by tracing the band's journey to what made them one of the most powerful bands of all time. However, you shouldn't believe everything that you see in the movie. The movie has been getting all sorts of accusations of showing imprecise occurrences from the band's rise to fame. One of the most mistaken parts is where the movie makes the viewers think that Mercury is the bad guy by wanting to make a solo album after his manager encourages him to do so. Tension arises between the band members when they find out, however, in reality Mercury was not the first band member to actually take on a solo album by himself but the drummer; Roger Taylor played by Ben Hardy who released 'Fun in Space' and 'Stranger Frontier' prior to this.  In the movie, Taylor is seen as the bigge
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Aretha Franklin's "Amazing Grace" documentary set for early 2019 release.

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Back in 1972, Aretha Franklin went to Los Angeles to create what ended up becoming her best selling, double-platinum album which debuted her iconic music career.  This took place in Watts at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in front of a live audience over two nights.  The recording of which resulted into later becoming one of Aretha's greatest troubles. The footage was recorded back in 1972 by Warner Brothers, Inc. as Franklin was recording her first  album "Amazing Grace".  In spite of this, no movie was ever released due to unknown reasons becoming one of Hollywood's most enduring mysteries.  A few years later, Alan Elliott, an Atlantic Records employee discovered the footage and he put all his detective skills to work so to salvage the film.  It was discovered that the initial director, Sydney Pollack, never got to combine the audio with the footage.  Elliott had to mortgage his house several times in order to be able to purchase the actual footag
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The Heathers Reboot and all it's "damage"

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Remakes or 'reboots' have increased in popularity recently and most of the successful Hollywood movies of today are indeed remakes.  The word 'remakes' in itself tends to bring a negative vibe to something and Paramount TV's Heathers was no different.  When the new series reboot was announced last March, fans of the beloved 80's classic have been reacting in all sorts of ways. The new reboot mainly features a genderqueer character as Heather Duke, and a lesbian of colour as Heather McNamara in contrast with the original where the idea was to promote Westerburg's most influential trio as three basic, thin, white mean girls.  This of course already changes things quite drastically and most dedicated fans of the original argued that this completely altered the main idea of the plot.  Not only are the Heathers made up of characters that would traditionally be oppressed as minorities, but they are nothing like teens of today.  One can easily pick up the fa
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Hi there! I’m Thomas, an 18 year old Communications Student from the University of Malta . This is a blog where I will be appreciating and discussing all sorts of theatrical productions and movies.  I will also be discussing all about latest occurrences and trends in theatre and Hollywood.  Stay tuned for more! “The theatre is a spiritual and social x-ray of it’s time” – Stella Adler
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