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 out his confession to the city of Vienna in the pitch of dark: "forgive me, Mozart. Forgive your assassin". He attempts to commit suicide, and is rushed to the General Infirmary building where there are sickly and neurotic suicidal patients. It is a cold and snowy out side, yet a young priest comes to hear his confession. Salieri is driven by one thing, and that is for God to give him the gift of music that he bestowed upon Mozart instead of him. In return he will give his chastity, vow himself to the church and humility if God grants him this one wish.
The film is told in flash back form, where the old man, Salieri, is telling the priest of his life spent with Mozart, and the unfortunate ending that lead him there.
Amadeus, however, is an exception. ... Amadeus covers the time that Mozart spent mostly in Vienna, the musical center of Europe at the time. ... Amadeus begins in the 1820s, with an aging Antonio Salieri screaming "Mozart! ... This person is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... For example, in the film Amadeus, Saliari was Court Composer for Emperor Franz Joseph II. ...
December 4, 1792 was the date that the great Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died. ... In this movie, Amadeus, the extravagances of grandeur costumes and buildings are breathtaking. ... Amadeus exemplifies Salieri's ordinariness against Mozart genius. ... Mozart's personality in Amadeus is portrayed as childish, vulgar, and unfit. ... Therefore, Amadeus is still a treat to watch with dramatic twists to Mozart's life. ...
Synopsis Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's was the sole-surviving son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father returned from their last stay in Italy in March, 1773. ... Making It in Vienna Back in Salzburg in 1779, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart produced a series of church works, including the Coronation Mass. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quickly found work in Vienna, taking on pupils, writin...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Born: Salzburg, January 27, 1756 Died: Baden, December 5, 1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was often considered the "most complete genius of all composers." ... v' The second half of the Enlightenment of the 18th century two geniuses Franz Joseph Hayden and the other was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the were introducing who wrote music called classical rather than Baroque. ...
The blend of fact and fiction is done well in Amadeus making it a good movie. ... Amadeus was based on a play, which was based on a rumor that Salieri murdered Mozart. ... The title of the movie, Amadeus (Mozart's middle name), means "Beloved of God- or "to love God."" ... I feel that "artistic license- should have limits, but Amadeus certainly did not exceed them. ... Amadeus was a good movie and the "artistic license- took nothing away from it. ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a man born into an amazing musical talent. When most boys were still running away from the girls that had cooties, Mozart was composing symphonies and operas. The movie AMADEUS illustrates Mozart's life as seen by another composer, Salieri. Throughout the movie Salieri...
The title of the movie was Amadeus and it's based on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life. The movie takes place at the end of the 18th century near the end of Mozart's short life and the setting is in Vienna. A very important part of the movie was about Antonio Salieri because he is the nar...
At first glance, "Amadeus" seems like a filmed version of a classic story, but it quickly throws in modern elements to lighten the mood and make everything more relatable. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who seems like a college frat boy stuck in the body of this period character. ... There is a scene in the first act that perfectly symbolizes my view of "Amadeus." ...
In the movie Amadeus, Milos Forman brilliantly depicts Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's short-lived life and the classical era in which he lived. ... When he stated, "Nobody has devoted so much thought as I," this amplifies the feeling you get from watching the movie that Amadeus thought he knew everything and was without a doubt, the best composer ever. ... In the film, and somewhat in reality, Amadeus seemed to be the "leper" of his class. ... Milos Forman did a wonderful job of expressing the Classic spirit in Mozart's time in Amadeus. ...
