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And did I ever send you a video called The Broken Formula of Music BioPicks?

Have we talked about that?

No.

What is that? It's by a youtuber named Patrick H. Williams, who's great, who does a lot of great video essays

about film.

This one came out when Bohemian Rhapsody, the movie, was doing its Oscar run in like early 2019.

Yes.

People are more attuned to this problem now, but at the time I thought he did a really great job of pointing out something that was under

discussed then which is that even though biopics about musicians do good business and

win awards the problem with a lot of them is that they try to say everything about their

subject totally and they kind of wind up saying nothing it's that cinematic

Wikipedia problem yes right exactly so he goes through some of the main offenders,

and he talks about some notable exceptions,

the ones that he thinks are more focused,

and then at the end he pitches a biopick

that hasn't been made,

let me guess.

And says how he'd make it. Maybe you can guess, given the news this week.

Let's see.

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