10 Best Musical Scenes In Movies
9. We Are The Champions - Bohemian Rhapsody
Going from a stellar movie beginning to the grand finale, there was no better way for Bohemian Rhapsody to end except for at Live Aid. The epic concert date is one of the highlights of Queen's career and an absolutely breathtaking film sequence. While Rami Malek and co. go through an assortment of Queen tunes, each rendition pales in comparison to "We Are the Champions."
Being one of Queen's most empowering tunes, the song also ties the film up beautifully by bringing Mercury's character arc full circle. Throughout the film, Mercury's struggles to come to terms with his sexuality and eventual AIDs diagnosis left him separated from his loved ones and without his band of over a decade. Once the band fully reconvenes to play the Live Aid gig, Mercury goes from a timid rockstar screwup to a completely different animal.
Amid all the strife of the music business breathing down his neck, Mercury commanding the crowd with "We Are the Champions" takes the song from victorious to almost otherworldly. The extreme payoff of the scene is the close-up on Brian May (Gwilym Lee), which conveys the perfect "Holy-s**t-I-can't-believe-we-did-it" face better than words ever could. A stellar presentation of one of the best live performances in music history.