Question: Freak was a song inspired by the historical drama film about whom?

Context articles: Allen Leech
Il conte Aquila
François Villon (film)
Freak (Bruce Foxton song)
The Crucible (1996 film)
Winston Chao
The New World (2005 film)
The Elephant Man (film)
Steve McQueen (director)
Spartacus (film)

Alan "Allen" Leech (born 18 May 1981) is an Irish actor best known for his role as Tom Branson on the historical drama series "Downton Abbey".
 He made his professional acting debut with a small part in a 1998 production of "A Streetcar Named Desire", made his first major film appearance as Vincent Cusack in "Cowboys & Angels", and earned an Irish Film & Television Awards nomination in 2004 with his performance as Mo Chara in "Man About Dog".
 Leech played Marcus Agrippa on the HBO historical drama series "Rome".
Il conte Aquila ("Count Aquila") is a 1955 Italian historical drama film directed by Guido Salvini.
 Inspired to real life events of Italian revolutionary Count Federico Confalonieri, it is based on the drama with the same name by Rino Alessi.
François Villon is a 1945 French historical drama film directed by André Zwoboda and starring Serge Reggiani, Jean-Roger Caussimon and Henri Crémieux.
 It portrays the life of the fifteenth century writer François Villon.
 The film was inspired by the play "If I Were King" by Justin Huntly McCarthy.
Freak is the debut single by the English rock singer-songwriter and bass guitarist Bruce Foxton, which became a hit and one of his most recognizable songs.
 It was originally released in 1983, as the lead single from his debut album, "Touch Sensitive".
 It was inspired strongly by the 1980 biographical film The Elephant Man, with the single's cover even referencing the film's posters.
The Crucible is a 1996 American historical drama film written by Arthur Miller adapting his play of the same title, inspired by the Salem witchcraft trials.
 It was directed by Nicholas Hytner and stars Daniel Day-Lewis as John Proctor, Winona Ryder as Abigail Williams, Paul Scofield as Judge Thomas Danforth, Bruce Davison as Reverend Parris, and Joan Allen as Elizabeth Proctor.
 Much of the filming took place on Choate Island in Essex, Massachusetts.
Winston Chao Wen-hsuan (born 9 June 1960) is a Taiwanese actor.
 He came to international attention for his performance in the 1993 film "The Wedding Banquet".
 He is also known for his roles in "Red Rose White Rose" and "Eat Drink Man Woman", and for his five portrayals of Sun Yat-sen, notably in the films "The Soong Sisters" (1997), "Road to Dawn" (2007) and "1911" (2011).
 His notable television roles include the adaptation of Cao Yu's play "Thunderstorm" (1997), a double role in the historical drama "Palace of Desire", the biographical mini-series "The Legend of Eileen Chang" (2004), the historical drama "Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan" (2007), the adaptation of Ba Jin's novel "Cold Nights" ("Han ye", 2009), and the portrayal of Confucius (2011).
 He acted in the Indian film, "Kabali" (2016), in a villainous role opposite Rajinikanth.
The New World is a 2005 British-American romantic historical drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, depicting the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement and inspired by the historical figures Captain John Smith, Pocahontas of the Powatan Native American tribe, and Englishman, John Rolfe.
 It is the fourth feature film written and directed by Malick.
The Elephant Man is a 1980 American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London.
 The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon and Freddie Jones.
 It was produced by Jonathan Sanger and Mel Brooks, the latter of whom was intentionally left uncredited to avoid confusion from audiences who possibly would have expected a comedy.
Steven Rodney "Steve" McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and video artist.
 For his 2013 film, "12 Years a Slave", a historical drama adaptation of an 1853 slave narrative memoir, he won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, as a producer, and he also received the award for Best Director from the New York Film Critics Circle.
 McQueen is the first black filmmaker to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.
 McQueen is known for his collaborations with actor Michael Fassbender, who has starred in all three of McQueen's feature films as of 2014.
 McQueen's other feature films are "Hunger" (2008), a historical drama about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, and "Shame" (2011), a drama about an executive struggling with sex addiction.
Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick.
 The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo was based on the novel "Spartacus" by Howard Fast.
 It was inspired by the life story of the leader of a slave revolt in antiquity, Spartacus, and the events of the Third Servile War.