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Show a OPINION ,It 1 DJ 0 1 1 I 41 iv .J (-- , Di jQ k (It Oiréçtor shouldn't disqualify 'Bohemian. Rhapsody' from recognition scar-worth- , , , . SPENCER BY NOELLE noellespencer Freddie Mercury lives on today in an iconic masterpiece made about him and his life. "Bohemian Rhapsody" took home the Golden Globe award in January for best picture and with the Oscars less than a week away, there is a high chance the film will snag the award for best picture. "Bohemian Rhapsody" provides viewers with an insight into Freddie Mercury's life and his upbringing as the lead singer of "Queen." There are differences between the movie and real life, but the movie does a fantastic job of showing a general perspective of Mercury's life. Rami Malek's performance as Freddie Mercury is unbelievable (which shows since he won best actor at the Golden Globes "I 4 ;4.-9' and is nominated for best actor at the Oscars) and the music is unique, being both Malek and Mercury's actual voice combined into one beautiful sound. Malek puts on the perfect amount of glamour and glitz and even has the prosthetic teeth to go with it to make him an almost exact replica of Mercury. No other movie has been able to pull off a duplication like that (Except maybe Christian Bale in "Vice", but that's another film to talk about on a later date). The movie made over $600 million, making it g the music all time. of biopic Queen is a classic band everyone is familiar with. Making a movie that focuses on that is something viewers paid to see. The award winning film has received a fair amount of criticism and awkwardness after one of the directors, who after being fired for not showing up on set, was accused of sexual misconduct after the Golden Globes. This has sparked controversy abut whether this film should maintain its nomination for the Oscars. Although these controversies are present, they should not decrease the chances of this film winning an Oscar. The music is a big factor y. : I , , , , , e , I , ', , 0 highest-grossin- '4 I. '' i ' , t, . . , - , . - - '''' l'' ' o , . , " - I' 1 , , -- , 1 . ., , ' ''' '''''',,. '' , I , ' t 1,,,: i ' ,, ' , 4 ,,,, ' .. ' ''. .,. , e t J cn t 4.- - t, N,0 AL .,06.1 11 , - ., , n - .A 1,4 i -- ' ) 4 x ' -, ''''' , - f, Pt, , ( ' '4 -4 , 41 - ) , I 44 ...., , et 13:1; , 4 P.1 ,x $ '' t , :t, '1 . 4 r , ' A , 4 i' f., , ..., ; , ;, 1 4 't , N 1 ,' . a ,"' 41,' , , ...., ' starred as rock icon Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody." Director Bryan Singer was fired during the filming and has since faced controversy amongst sexual assault accusations. Rami Malek tunes are too catchy not to sing along too. And other viewers feel the same way. The music is iconic. "Bohemian Rhapsody" has been through a journey, and after all the hard work put into the film by actors, producers and other directors, the film is well deserving of its nomination. The goal of the in what makes this film so excellent. Classic Queen songs such as "We Will Rock You" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" are heard throughout the film and viewers learn the backstory of these songs and how they came to be. I found myself singing along to every song throughout the course of the film. Those film was to stay focused on Freddie Mercury and creating a film dedicated to him and the band. With everything else put aside, how could the nomination be taken away from that? The movie brings a powerful message that well deserves an Oscar nomination and will hopefully win the award for best picture. 10-ye- ar The Oscars air on Sunday, Feb. 24 at 9 p.m. For more information on the other films nominated, visit https:www.oscars. ' orgi. ife, ti) ti-, ,1 Send letters to the editor to DixieSundixie. edu. Letters to the editor are accepted and may be published in the newspaper andor dixiesunnews. well-writte- 1 in email, not an erty of Dixie Sun News and may be published any format. Dixie Sun News en- courages in a lively discus- sion on its website among its readers. Dixie Sun News does not edit comments. However, an editor will not post any comments that are libelous or vulgar. rt k I , t4 t ,t n. the body of the attachment. Letters become prop- xiaedu .,,---' , 1 ,,, ' i t" 'I 11 tHt. , ' , ' V to, 4 4 i f ' I I ',, 3P,P,R i f I 1 corn. 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I was disappointed to see none of that. : I ,. 1, The film is violent, but the level of violence is PG-1- 3 in order to apa larger and much to peal younger audience than fans of the source material. By comparison, the manga is very violent, with blood, gore and nudity better suited for a horror movie or a hard R action film. The same is true of the anime, which itself is an adaptation of the manga. If you are new to what manga or anime is, manga is a graphic novel from Japan and anime is the Japanese word for a style of animated film in Japan. Both words specify a certain style of drawing or animation popular in Japan. The crowning achievement of this film is how well director Robert Rodriguez and producer James Cameron, along with other screen writers and producers, adapted the story of Alita for the big screen. They accomplished this by creating a n version of the of the aninstead manga is ime, which incomplete and only includes key ,live-actio- I - 1:' 1 I ,.... y A 1 ,t- ,-, '8 if 1 1 , ,,, '. plot points from the first volume of the manga. There were scenes in the film identical to the anime, which I thought was a brilliant nod to that film. One of these is the scene where Dr. Ido is combing the scrap pile for cyborg parts and finds Alita's head and torso. It was the same nearly shot for shot of the anime, which I had the day before. Costumes and set design seemed to come to life right from the pages of the manga, from Dr. Ido's hat and coat, to the floating city high above Iron City. There was some con troversy on the internet over the decision to enlarge Rosa Salazar's eyes digitally to match her appearance more closely to Alita's appearance in the manga and anime, but I thought it added to the character of Mita. Her enlarged eyes became another part of what made Alita stand out from the other human and cyborg characters in the film. It was amazing to ed -4- .' --- 4 j se 'e how much a human actress could be made to look like a charac- ter from the pages of a graphic novel, or the animation cells of an anime. Salazar embodied Alita so well, she brought the character to life in a way neither the manga nor anime achieved. The focus of the film is Alita's story of being brought back to life and rediscovering her purpose as a cybernetic human. While the bloodiness of the source material was left out, the heart and humanity is left intact. At its core, "Mita: Battle Angel" is a science fiction fable of love, tragedy, and rising to one's true potential. I may have been disappointed by the lack of violence and darkness that I found so edgy in the manga and anime, but the film is still very entertaining and fun to watch. It is a film those who read the manga or watched the anime can take their families to and is a true homage to the graphic novel. self-discove- ry I I Rosa Salazar stars as the central character in Twentieth Century Fox's "Alita: Battle Angel." (Twentieth Century Fox) , ?..;Y;:(,-0...4.:Iii;i1:!.,..- WHAT IS IT? Mita: Battle Angel is a 2019 American cyberpunk action film based on Yukito Kishiro's manga series Gunnm DIRECTOR: Robert Rodriguez RELEASED: Feb. 14,2019 BUDGET: 200 million PRODUCERS: I James Cameron Robert Rodriguez Jon Landau CAST: Rosa Salazar Christoph Waltz Jennifer Connelly SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA 1 4 |