Amadeus
Amadeus was a world wide profound success, receiving 8 academy awards with the help of director Milos Forman, and the producer Saul Zaenty. It's not about a famous musician and his works, but about a suffering old man, Antonio Salieri, who carries the guilt of destroying an artist of music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, because of his lust for love. Transcending the two, Mozart and Salieri, are the universal themes they represent; the between God and man; the confrontation of mediocrity and genius; the difficulty of serving a God whose ways are often poor, irrational, perverse and mockingly cruel. This film had made me want to laugh, cry, and feel angry all at the same time. The most moving scene throughout the whole film was at Mozart's death bed. The magnificent composer, only 35, is struggling to create another master piece while lying sickly and distraught in the smuggled sheets of his bed. At the foot of the bed is Salieri carefully writing every note, making sure not to miss a beat as he is dragging Mozart to his last breath. This scene is moving not because Mozart is trying to withdrawal a final ingenious work of art so that it will illuminate how sorry his work really is. The movie opens with an old man yelling o
Hulce actually had to take up piano lessons to get the piano scenes just right. The interiors of six different palaces are used and stocked with antique furniture from dozens of other buildings. There was also a surprising amount of wigs used in the movie to achieve the authentic period look of Mozart. Filming of Amadeus took place in Prague where director Milos Forman found the ideal location. Amadeus success is mostly explained, in my opinion, by it's strategy of portraying Mozart not as a great historic composer, but as a goofy- drunken- hippie with a high pitched laugh that made you want to laugh right along with him. As his servants break down the door, because of hearing Salieri inside shouting, there is a gush of loud wonderful music. Salieri in the beginning was a kind admirer, then turned into a jealous, sick man who lusted for Mozart's talent. The choreographer actually told the producer that "Whatever you have to say, whatever you have to do to get this theater, do it, because we won't find another like it anywhere on earth". Right when the door is being swung open the music begins on cue, with the camera concentrating on Salieri, knife in hand, and blood every where. Throughout the movie the flash back scenes are full of light and color. Most of the music in the film was composed by Mozart himself. It is a cold and snowy out side, yet a young priest comes to hear his confession.
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