If you think of the spice in the wing sauce as faith representation, or in the case of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, gay representation, you can understand that some people just want their wings spicier and some people just want their wings not as spicy as others. Likewise, there are people who would never think of getting nuclear wings, whose pallet can only handle wimpy. When a person who wants insane wings gets tongue-torched wings, they view it as being watered down. As a way to deal with this constant debate, what emerged for me was my Zaxby’s buffalo wings metaphor. The question always came up as to what made something “Christian.” I realized two things really quickly: 1) Everyone…and I mean everyone had a different idea of how Christian is Christian enough and 2) what they really were after was how much and how good faith was represented on film. There was a season of my life when I worked with writers of faith who wanted to blend their faith with their storytelling. “How Christian is Christian enough?” and “How gay is gay enough?” can look a lot alike on film. Let me disclaim that I am not an authority on Freddie Mercury and his sexuality, so this is less about how accurate the film is to his story and more a look at what we really might be debating underneath it all. It is with this delicious metaphor that I would love to explore a debate that I am observing with the film, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY. ![]() Each flavor obviously increases in spice and therefore heat on your taste buds. In the South, we have a place called Zaxby’s and they serve buffalo wings in 4 flavors- “wimpy”, “tongue-torched”, “nuclear” and “insane”. Rami Malek as rock icon Freddie Mercury in the upcoming film “Bohemian Rhapsody.” (Twentieth Century Fox/New Regency)
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