Our conversation, edited for length and clarity, follows.
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I recently spoke to Martin about how he transformed John’s music for the film to establish Rocketman’s overall unique tone, and how the movie is different from Bohemian Rhapsody. Elton John himself signed off on Martin’s involvement, giving Martin carte blanche to reconstruct his music at will. Songs like “I’m Still Standing” and “Tiny Dancer” are immediately familiar, then veer into new territory of glossy flourishes, updated instrumentation, and a fuller sound to grant John’s solo act a renewed sense of grandeur. But for Fletcher and Rocketman music director Giles Martin, the chance to create a visually stunning, fantasy-tinged jukebox musical was more interesting. That’s not to say the movie makes fiction out of John’s facts. The point is to transport viewers into the singer’s vibrant inner life, unmoored by reality. In Rocketman, though, the point is not verisimilitude. It’s unlikely that a young Elton John (née Reggie Dwight) broke out into song in the middle of the street as a child, and he surely never lifted off the ground mid-“Crocodile Rock,” ascending toward the heavens. Where Bohemian Rhapsody takes its story beats from Mercury’s life - albeit with some dismaying alterations - to paint a straightforward portrait of the artist, Rocketman does away with the cinematic conventions of a more typical biopic, forgoing restaged, famous performances to instead reimagine and recontextualize John’s catalog.
And they even share a director, sort of Dexter Fletcher helmed Rocketman, and he replaced Bohemian Rhapsody’s Bryan Singer on that project after Singer was infamously fired.īut while the films’ similarities are striking offscreen, onscreen, their differences are stark. Both films star young actors with a passing resemblance to the men they’re portraying, neither one known for their singing chops. Both films use their subjects’ music to help convey their stories. Both films celebrate musical legends - Elton John and Queen’s Freddie Mercury, respectively - in largely biographical fashion. It seems inevitable that Rocketman, released in May, would be pitted against last November’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
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