![]() This excerpt from the movie lets you in on what his mind set is like during this song: “Being a Highlander isn’t always easy. The song is meant to be from the perspective of the main character, the Highlander. This would later become the scene where the song is played. Due to this powerful and emotion-evoking scene, this scene stuck in Brian’s mind. ![]() Inspiration came from the scene where Connor Macleod (Christopher Lambert) takes his dying wife Heather (Biettie Edney) in his arms at the time of her death. While in the cab on his way back from viewing the film, Brian wrote the line “Who wants to live forever”. Queen was commissioned to write this song for the movie and, after watching the first cut of the film, Brian May took a liking to it. I’m not going to spoil the movie but it’s a Type A ending. While reluctant to accept that fact, he is told that if he falls in love that it will be in the end of him. The movie is about a Scottish swordsman, a Highlander, who, throughout the movie, becomes conscious that he’s no longer mortal, he is immortal. In 1986, Queen’s music came alive in the movie The Highlander.
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