Watch QUEEN’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Interpreted as a Four-Minute Crime Film

08 December 2016

QUEEN‘s 'Bohemian Rhapsody' has been interpreted as many things over the past 40 years, including a Broadway musical, a comedy centerpiece and a Muppet fantasy. Now someone has taken the song to its most literal level.

In a new four-minute short film titled 'Literal Bohemian Rhapsody,' the six-minute song plays out, scene by scene, chronicling every detail in the 1975 song written by QUEEN singer Freddie Mercury.

“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality,” begins a hard-boiled narrator as the film opens on the bleeding protagonist, gun in hand as police sirens blare in the distance.

For the next five minutes, 'Bohemian Rhapsody'‘s familiar story unspools in front of us: gunshots, confessions (“Mama, I just killed a man“) and a showdown with the cops that incorporates the song’s famous opera section.