Bohemian Rhapsody《波西米亚狂想曲》作者:欧文·菅直人格莱伯曼 叶文兴 肖维青来源:《英语世界》2019年第03schrodinger方程
期 Rami Malek does a commanding job of channeling Freddie Mercury’s flamboyant rock-god bravura, but Bryan Singer’s middle-of-the-road Queen biopic rarely lives up to the authenticity of its lead performance.拉米·馬雷克极为出地再现了摇滚之神弗莱迪木蠹蛾·摩克瑞的华丽与惊艳,但布莱恩·辛格中规中矩的皇后乐队传记片实难匹配其主角逼真的诠释。 By Owen Gleiberman
Freddie Mercury was the most majestically debauched of all rock stars. A bad-boy diva with a famous overbite that made him look not just sexy but libidinous, he strutted around onstage with the come-hither flamboyance of a leering vampire prince. In his heyday as the lead singer of Queen, during the mid-to-late 1970s, Mercury crooned and wailed电力线上网, but more than that he soared, like Robert Plant fused with the spirits of Cher and Tina Turner. He was as down-and-dirty as any rock ‘n’ roller,人造神 but his melodic glide could lift you to the h
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