Salieri always thought that God favored Mozart instead of him. He thinks that God killed Mozart just so that he would not receive part of the credit for writing the Requiem. He sees himself so much as a mediocrity that calls himself the “patron saint of mediocrity.” He blesses the others because they are mediocrities too. At the very end we hear Mozart's laugh as if he was laughing at him. This all shows that he's pretty much gone insane.
I agree but another award should have been coined for Such a very rare benchmark SOUL-giving performance :(comment from Pamela Small of Trinidad and Tobago).
The actor playing the priest doesn't ever get credit. Dude was amazing. He has the most simple scenes and yet you can see a complete character arc for him by the end. How he just goes from joyful faith to seeing mankind for real and having his faith tested beyond expectation.
@@awonoto "All men are equal in God's eyes" that is true, it refers to his justice that we all will be judged by our deeds and our wealth or power won't change anything. A Peasant will be judged just as a noble. But here on Earth, it's different. We cannot be equal, since everyone is different, has different abilities... To put into the story of Mozart and Salieri. Both of them will be judged by God, because in His eyes it doesnt matter that Mozart was a better composer.
One of the great overlooked performances was that of the priest, who goes from being charming, warm and confident, to being horrified, confused and helpless. The change is so subtle over the course of the film, you hardly notice, but if you watch his opening and closing scenes one after the other, you see a marvelous and terrifying transformation.
Excellent observation---the actor who played the priest was superb--and you are spot on in describing how he seems to ride an immense tidal wave of emotion as he hears Salieri's story. In the end, he is emotionally drained (as we are) and is probably questioning the whole concept of a merciful God!!
chazzalinko Though this film and story is fictional, Evil is the wrong word there, Salieri, in this story, certainly wasn't evil, he was merely consumed by Jealousy which he let eat him up.
chazzalinko Of course it is (though not in the case of Ted Bundy's execution, just one example where bringing about his Death was Justice, not evil), and that was his intention. But though he was clearly consumed with total Jealousy, for some reason I don't believe he would have continued through with it. I don't think he actually "killed" Mozart. Anyhow, the real Salieri and Mozart were said to have been actually good friends, and apparently Mozart envied Salieri, rather than the other way around, or so the story goes.
Will people just stfu with this "oh it isn't accurate" snobbery. It's an incredible film & I doubt very much it was even supposed to be historically accurate.
The movie is based in Shaffer's play for theatre and its a well performed dramatization of Salieri's/Mozart's rivalry in both music and personal life. Shaffer's view of Salieri is wonderful as storytelling piece and for musicians (as well other creative fields), Salieri's words are as relatable as possible, for it is not of the mediocrity but of the act of creating/working and make the best of it. Salieri in movie was indeed very hardworking and acoplished the highest position in music that time (the court composer and the emperors music instructor) but facing his expectations on his idol and even facing him on his talent, instead of learning from him what he may never trully achieve in music would have made of him a greater composer, but he chose jealousy to destroy what he thought was menacing him. Ego, selfishness, hate. All came to blend in mediocrity after. In the movie, Salieri was unable to realise that his ego destroyed himself, and he may have tried to understand, but it was already to late for him to learn.
The sad character of Salieri never recognized his own divine skill....his God-given ability to hear and appreciate the beauty of Mozart's music at a level that no one else could touch, perhaps not even Mozart himself.
Far hat , maybe he is not a legend but in real history unlike in the movie , he is a friend and respect Mozart, care for Mozart family, and he is the mentor of Ludwig van Beethoven. All before he got delirium/sick.
I feel like the heretics in burning graves in the divine comedy are a fine allegory for all of us mediocraties. we might all be in same situation and in same space, but we all suffer alone in our own little boxes while trying to get a glimpse of being better from it. even if we went with the parade allegory, between us all is a fence. none of us see each others misery in the sidelines but we all can see the ones in the parade. we have failed on our own terms even tho we have tried to be successful, there is nothing for any of us in this world.
So basically He wasn't forgiven he speaks for all the mediocrities in the world which tried and failed at everything they touched and how someone would always outshine them! People who were casted out and shamed and humliated over and over again, Salieri is my patron saint for medicorities he went insane, he lost with Mozart then he lost god and finally himself and Mozart had the last laugh in the end, So who is the real winner here?
@@JSBach-hw7zw Yeah, the question is if you're mediocre or not...ah, no, one can never call Bach mediocre...one would sooner call Mozart so. I think they are equals of their own age. Good job Bach. You even had an heir...not every musical genius dies of severe military fever or in plane crashes. You got lucky to live past forty and not die prematurely....unless Handel poisoned you...there is something suspicious about that who English thing...M16 before there was a M16.
That line where Salieri tells the priest that his music "My music growing fainter. All the time fainter. No one plays it at all." as the years pass while mozarts music remains well known, gets played everywhere, and lives on. That much is true. I never heard of Salieri until I saw this movie. Now, I'm not and never have been a player, composer, or even a fan of classical music. But when I was a kid in the mid-late 1970s, I was best friends with another kid who lived about 5 or 6 houses up the block from my place. He was a child prodigy classical pianist. He could play it all and very well. Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, Chopin, etc, you name it. Many was the time I'd be hanging out with him at his house when he'd call a time out and go to the grand piano he had in his living room to do his daily practice for an hour or so (which bored me to tears). As a result, I have heard of great composers such as Mozart, but still, I never heard of Salieri because as to the best of my knowledge, my friend never played Salieri. Not even once. I'm not even sure if my young classical pianist friend himself even knew who Salieri was at the time.
+mike spence Well, honestly, we all are mediocre, not only those you mention, except, of course, if you are talented and great as Mozart in your field, which I doubt.
The character Antonio Salieri is one of the greatest Tragic Villains in any medium. The irony is that Salieri's true war is not with Mozart it's with God and his own vanity. Salieri asks God for a gift. A way to use music to praise God and his Glory. God grants him that gift. The gift is to recognize musical genius in others. Salieri is unhappy with that and punishes Mozart in order to spite God. Salieri was vain and self-centered. It wasn't God whom he wanted to praise; it was himself, and God, of course, knew that. Salieri in the end only ended up destroying himself.
+Rhaegar Targaryen Well said friend....but let me add this...Never, ever underestimate one's ego....We are a fallen race, without our egos to prop us up, we'd have been long extinct...
I think Mozart is Satan - and he's testing Salieri's faith. Salieri fails the test, and the mental hospital is his personal hell. The laugh at the end, as Salieri is being wheeled through the hospital is chilling.
+Lemon Drops I was Salieri by the end of the movie. His story made me think of my own inadequacies. Now 31 years after this film premiered I'm still upset at some of my past failures and total inability to have achieved anything really great.
+jdewitt77 We may not ever live up to our expectations, our wants - our desires for ourselves. We may not ever reach our aspirations and our goals; we may find nothing but failure at every turn. Yet still, I say that it is far, far better to have tried, and to keep trying then to simply give up, never to try, never to know. I would rather know I tried and I failed, then never try and not know anything at all. Failure may be a bitter dose, but it is one that we have had by trying our best.
+Lemon Drops Your interpretation is spot on. You (the audience) are the priest. The movie was made out of a play where Salieri himself comes out to the audience and speaks to them, us in the dark. But they couldnt do that in the movie, so what did the filmmakers do? Instead of the audience, they put someone who represented them. A priest. He is us. Salieri is telling Us (the priest) the story. At the beginning we are full of hope and bright. But here at the end we are horrified at what Salieri has done, and like the priest who desperately grabs the cross which holds his remaining faith in humanity, we also desperately cling to denial and desperate hope. But we have stared truth in the face, all the evil. There is no coming back from that. I took a film class, and this was one of the movies we discussed.
+Lemon Drops In one draft of the script, Salieri was the one who cried, and the priest was heartbroken because he didn't feel Salieri had to carry the guilt of murdering Mozart, but Salieri said he did because he may as well as killed Mozart by poisoning his life. The priest said something like "Oh my son, my poor son!" i love this movie anyway!
My interpretation of this movie was that, God had in fact blessed Salieri beyond belief! Only Salieri, though not on Mozart's level himself, could comprehend the depth and beauty of Mozart's music. God put Salieri as one who could fully experience the gift of Mozart. How he could not come to see that, I do not know. I think that in the end, he did.
Afonso de Portugal its better than what any common peasant can come up with, but that's not saying much. He's a good composer relative to us common folk, but in the realm of music he's forgettable
Hands down my all time favourite movie. Saw it when it came out and it changed my life - music took on greater dimensions. I have seen this film easily over 300 times, and always am moved by the outstanding acting, fantastic script, great cinematography. The music is truly the third character in this masterpiece. 💞
I like to think that the last moment, where we hear the music and Mozart's laugh, we're actually inside Salieri's head, hearing his thoughts. He loved music, he was obsessed with music, and when he heard the greatest music eve written, "the voice of God", as he calls it, he cannot resist it's allure, he cannot help but be drawn to it like a junkie to heroine. Yet he despises it as well, because it is greater than his own. So, for 32 years, that has been his waking nightmare; to hear the finest music ever written forever echoing through his mind, yet is tainted by the lingering hyena laugh of the man who wrote it. How did Salieri put it earlier? "The madness in me. The madness of a man splitting in half" Torn between the music of heaven and the arrogant, sinful pride of Hell. Forever pulled between the two, forever trapped in the middle, forever...mediocre.
I like to think Mozart went trollface, saying "lolumadsaly" and Salieri went "lolshutupnub uded mealiev". But yeah, your explanation is much more enjoyable.
This was my grandfather's favourite movie. He passed quite a few years back, only recently got round to watching this masterpiece, was very glad I did.
The man wrote forty operas, vast amounts of other work, ran with the nobility of Europe, tutored men like Beethoven and Schubert and is still known to this day. Lord, make me as mediocre as Antonio Salieri!
One of the best movies ever made. Everything just goes together in the film to make this movie special. The Acting, Directing, and the amazing screen-play.
Interesting enough, Salieri was a wonderful composer and his musical achievements outstanding. It’s unfortunate that people forget this master, who was overshadowed by Mozart.
The look on the Priests' face after hearing his speech makes him question on everything he was taught about forgiving everyone no matter how radical they've done.
There are 2 reactions to a life collision with Musical genius: 1) I'm not the best, as I had thought...This is not fair, he has taken something from me that I worked so hard to earn. He hasn't paid the price of glory. What made him more deserving? I loathe him more than all others. 2) What a rare gift that I met and worked, dined, debated and knew such a musical genius that performers and scholars will study and desperately try to understand for centuries that follow, perhaps a thousand years and more. By pure chance my path crossed his, and I dwelled instead his world. His music overshadowed all his common weaknesses and the human failings that we - and he - all own. The 2 feelings both have place in us. To begin with (1°) and cultivate (2°), and balance the self-conflict is a musicians labor. In my heart, Mozart pales next to Bach, so I feel even Mozart needed to confront his better at some point. To bring it home, when I perform a good classic at a dinner venue, guests stop eating, and I may overhear a child ask his parents for piano lessons. Listeners pause while food gets cold. But the genius is not mine, it's Ravel or Debussy. I'm a mode of transmission, and sometimes a very good one. But if my wife sings and I accompany on guitar, they weep. She's just better. UA-cam can be difficult, as there are many musicians who are better than me. I never encountered them in my small world before the web spanned the globe with high definition sound. I'm privileged to hear them.
@Deep Moticons your reply didn't depict so. the 'God's laugh' was mentioned by Salieri as his belief in the movie. And your reply clearly negated that. That's all. And well, tbh, I haven't watched the film. I'll definitely proceed to, but I've been binge-watching all the scenes on YT lately, and ironically I seem to know better than you. And lastly, since I haven't watched the movie, 0×100=0. Good luck.
Proverbs 1:24-27 "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you." , "Surely {q} he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly".
What a magnificent performance by F.Murray Abraham. I never tire of watching either the film or the making of Amadeus - a veritable chef d'oeuvre. Thank you Milos.
Not being a genius doesn't necessarily mean that one is mediocre. It was his inability to accept that he was no Mozart, as it were. Quite right about his being his own torturer, though.
Mediocrity is not confined to Salieri. Indeed, beginning at 1:10 Salieri recognizes the mediocrity of all people, including the Priest: "I will speak for you, father. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint."
That feeling of being mediocre even after the best of your efforts is truly painful. To experience this, you need to really pursue something that values so great to you and get so close but fail to understand his level of pain. Also since he was religious, it was an existential crisis for him in a very severe degree as he doubted God's plan with him. It isn't surprising that it drove him mad.
The greatest opera composers are generally seen to be Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner. After them, Monteverdi, Handel, Bizet, Puccini, Berg, Strauss, perhaps Rossini, perhaps Boito, etc. Salieri isn't very high on the list.
Oh my God. That piano concerto is so beautiful, it makes my heart melt. By the way, Salieri's operas were rescued after this movie and now is recognized as one of the top composers of operas of all time.
"However, even with Mozart and Salieri's rivalry for certain jobs, there is very little evidence that the relationship between the two composers was at all acrimonious beyond this, especially after 1785 or so, when Mozart had become established in Vienna. Rather, they appeared to usually see each other as friends and colleagues, and supported each other's work. For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788, he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own, and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790, Salieri had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage. Salieri and Mozart even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which celebrated the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace"
@@heb430 Its based off an old play and is not expected to be taken as a documentary. The backdrop is merely the canvas on which to explore the theme of envy, and how it destroys that which it loves, and this film does that masterfully. Its clear to see for those who look into the history that Salieri was an immensely successful and content man, but that has little to do with this film or its purpose. Also its not like its completely baseless as many rumours existed in the life of Salieri of him poisoning Mozart (upsetting him greatly), so its an interesting "what if", and if everything in the movie was accurate historians would likely still come to the conclusion that they were only friends in life as the character was shown being very careful.
***** Uh, several of Salieri's works have their own Wikipedia pages. In his own time, he was incredibly influential and prestigious. Calling him mediocre because Mozart overshadowed him is like calling Patrick Ewing a mediocre basketball player because he wasn't as good as Michael Jordan and never won an NBA title.
***** Which gets back to my original point. Yes, his music has become relatively obscure, but that doesn't make him mediocre. He was by any standard an excellent composer who just had less impact than some of his contemporaries. (Ironically, since this movie his music's actually had something of a renassaince, since he got so much exposure here). My original point still stands--if Salieri really believes that anyone who doesn't make a timeless piece remembered centuries later is a mediocrity, it's no wonder he's in an asylum.
+Kuriboh Actually this movie lead to people being interested in him and his music. I have two of his operas and some other works. His problem was to have been a contemporary of Mozart.
+Lynn Turman No, the definition of mediocrity is not being that good at all. If Salieri truly was mediocre, he would never have gotten to where he was as a prominent composer. In real life his music was performed all over Europe and he was a major influence on his contemporaries. He just didn't have the one-in-a-million talent that Mozart did. It's possible to be highly talented and respected without being freakishly gifted. Salieri didn't understand that. The whole plot of the movie revolves around him self-destructing because he was so obsessively jealous of Mozart's abilities. He should have focused on his own music and being the best composer he could.
Tragically I can somewhat relate to Salieri's jealousy. You see, when I was a kid, starting around 6 years old, I just loved cartoons, the comic strips in the Sunday newspaper, and funny comic books. I just loved the artwork, plus the laughter they provided me. My favorite painter at the time was Norman Rockwell and the comic strip I most admired was Peanuts by Charles Schulz. As a result, I decided to try my hand at being a cartoonist. My very first efforts, when I tried to draw people, they were little more than stick figures. I could see how bad my artwork was when I compared them to the more professional art work in comic strips and comic books. But I wasn't discouraged. I thought that with more practice, some lessons, instructions, etc, over time I should improve. Over the following years I read every book on drawing and sketching I could get my hands on, took art lessons and drew my heart out. But it proved to be no good. 6 years later, when I was 12, my art hadn't improved. My drawings of people still resembled little more than stick figures. All those art lessons, all the practicing, and all those books I read didn't help to make me a better artist. Instead, what it did do for me, for better or for worse, was give me the ability to better recognize good or great art when I see it. At age 12 I threw in the towel on my attempt to be a cartoonist. I would have loved to have my own popular comic strip that was well loved all over the world, like Charles Schulz's Peanuts (he made it look so easy!) But it was not to be. These days when I see a beautiful work of art such as a painting or a drawing, if the artist is a grown man in his 30s, 40s, 50s, or even older, I don't feel any jealousy whatsoever and I enjoy the artwork. But when I see a beautiful painting or drawing done by some 8-10 year old kid, I get huge pangs of jealousy and I ask myself, "why couldn't I have had just half of that kids talent when I was his age?"
Is it odd that i find this melody quite cheerful and this scene still punches me in the stomach every single time i watch it, specially when i hear Wolfie's laugh, i smile but then immediataly want to break in tears...?
ambivalent feelings I feel too indeed; perhaps it reflects we all live in an insanity world and even the good and best stuff will one day end for all of us. Too many interpretations though.
Can we take a moment to honor the great makeup artist Dick Smith for creating the greatest old age makeup ever on Salieri. That makeup itself is truly a star of this film considering F Murray’s greatest scenes are that of old Salieri. His entire face was covered in foam rubber and not once does it take you out of the movie. It is 100% believable and will stand the test of time. Bravo to a legend.
I've felt like Salieri many times in my life. There is nothing worse than feeling that your're slipping into irrelevance as you get older and that most of your contemporaries have surpassed you in most aspects of life. I've accomplished hardly any of the things that I always wanted to achieve. Now there is no way that I can change this except in some minor ways.
The priest, at the beginning was fresh and confident; at the end, he even swept to hear the horror of humankind mediocrity. Beautiful performance of this young, good looking priest.
The laugh at the end shows to me that Salieri finally became a genius. In the sense he recounted his life story not only well but. Perfectly. Finally after years he has become great at something. The laugh we hear is the laugh Mozart made when he first improved the music Salieri wrote, or did something extremely intelligent.
I still want a movie that depicts Mozart's actual biography. It would be just as dramatic. That period had some of the most influential people at one time: Ben Franklin where Mozart actually composed a tune on Franklin's Crystal-harmonic, Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson. John Adams, Hayden, Beethoven, Antoine Lavoisier, William Wilberforce, Nelson, Napoleon, Adam Smith, Henry Maudslay, John Needham. Every era has its host of brilliant and sometimes just influential (not always positively) people. But Mozart life has some interesting folks, a very interesting time. And his actual life is very dramatic and fascinating.
I'd watch it. Unfortunately, most people wouldn't. Hollywood will never make such a movie because it wouldn't be profitable. Most viewers need the schlock.
I printed out the last line: "mediocrities everywhre, I absolve you" in large letters and put it up on my office door. It humbles my colleagues before entering the room. It provides even myself with a reality check every morning.
This film completely captures the torture of one's own inadequacy when faced with someone so much better at what makes you, you. I always wonder how I might deal with such a situation; I may have been even more malevolent than Salieri. Because though I possess some achievements, mine are trivial and so I have never had the feeling of being at what I thought was the top, only to realise there is another height so far in the distance I cannot comprehend it existed until I saw it through the clouds. This really is an exercise in the evils of our own self-importance, confusing the empty echoes inside our heads for the voice of God.
I love this movie. It's one of my absolute favorites. But I will say it is not historically accurate. His alleged"poisoning" was never proven. Infact it has been largely discredited. Also the way he was buried in the movie most likely was not true at all. I think they chose these theories for the movie for the dramatic flair. Made for a good movie though.
I did my thesis on Mozart, and this was nowhere near accurate. But as a movie of semi-fiction it is one of most beautifully made films I've ever seen. I still have yet to see a movie that's better than this one.
Seriously, how genius is the direction of this movie... Who would have thought to make such bio into such an interesting movie that can relate to all of us. And yet, culture us with the beauty of classical operas. This movie is immortal! The kind of movie i'll show my kids later. Haha
I think Mozart is a gift from God it probably explains why he died so early in his 30's! God must've sent Mozart to show people how amazing one person can be and show people wonderfulness and talent and to leave a mark on this earth.
But it kinda ironically BROKE another man's spirit for striving greatness and instead was forced to accept his mediocrity. Did God just trolled Antonio?
This film takes three of the greatest dramatic themes (Man vs. Man/Man vs. Self/Man vs. God) and combines them ALL into a single character effortlessly
Salieri always thought that God favored Mozart instead of him. He thinks that God killed Mozart just so that he would not receive part of the credit for writing the Requiem. He sees himself so much as a mediocrity that calls himself the “patron saint of mediocrity.” He blesses the others because they are mediocrities too. At the very end we hear Mozart's laugh as if he was laughing at him. This all shows that he's pretty much gone insane.
Maybe because there's nothing other than becoming mad when you underestand that you are mediocre?
The Hollywood mantra.....don,t let the truth get in the way of a good story. Alas the same mantra adopted by the mainstream media
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Mintberry Crunch Peter Schaffer is a playwright, not a denizen of Hollywood. My guess would be that you’re a Trump supporter.
@@robbiekop7 - drivel. Another deplorable can't stay on topic
Never before has an Oscar been so well deserved
Couldn't agree more
I agree but another award should have been coined for
Such a very rare benchmark
SOUL-giving performance
:(comment from Pamela Small of Trinidad and Tobago).
It it was at all possible, he should have earned two for the same performence lol
May i know who got the oscar for this movie, sallire or mozart?
@@alfredhitchcock9264 salieri
The actor playing the priest doesn't ever get credit. Dude was amazing. He has the most simple scenes and yet you can see a complete character arc for him by the end. How he just goes from joyful faith to seeing mankind for real and having his faith tested beyond expectation.
The priest probably is questioning his earlier statement: that all men are equal before God.
@@awonoto "All men are equal in God's eyes" that is true, it refers to his justice that we all will be judged by our deeds and our wealth or power won't change anything. A Peasant will be judged just as a noble. But here on Earth, it's different. We cannot be equal, since everyone is different, has different abilities... To put into the story of Mozart and Salieri. Both of them will be judged by God, because in His eyes it doesnt matter that Mozart was a better composer.
The priest (not the actor) must have been thinking "they never taught anything like this at the seminary."
@@anastasiosgkotzamanis5277 why should they? 😂
shame,the actor who played the priest is dead.
One of the great overlooked performances was that of the priest, who goes from being charming, warm and confident, to being horrified, confused and helpless. The change is so subtle over the course of the film, you hardly notice, but if you watch his opening and closing scenes one after the other, you see a marvelous and terrifying transformation.
The priest is entirely representative of the audience and how they feel as the full extent of Salieri's madness and evil is uncovered
Excellent observation---the actor who played the priest was superb--and you are spot on in describing how he seems to ride an immense tidal wave of emotion as he hears Salieri's story. In the end, he is emotionally drained (as we are) and is probably questioning the whole concept of a merciful God!!
chazzalinko Though this film and story is fictional, Evil is the wrong word there, Salieri, in this story, certainly wasn't evil, he was merely consumed by Jealousy which he let eat him up.
Isn't bringing about the death of another human being an act of evil?
chazzalinko Of course it is (though not in the case of Ted Bundy's execution, just one example where bringing about his Death was Justice, not evil), and that was his intention. But though he was clearly consumed with total Jealousy, for some reason I don't believe he would have continued through with it. I don't think he actually "killed" Mozart. Anyhow, the real Salieri and Mozart were said to have been actually good friends, and apparently Mozart envied Salieri, rather than the other way around, or so the story goes.
"My music... growing fainter. All the time fainter, 'til no one plays it at all. And his..."
As a musician myself, this sounds freaking sad.
Will people just stfu with this "oh it isn't accurate" snobbery.
It's an incredible film & I doubt very much it was even supposed to be historically accurate.
The movie is based in Shaffer's play for theatre and its a well performed dramatization of Salieri's/Mozart's rivalry in both music and personal life. Shaffer's view of Salieri is wonderful as storytelling piece and for musicians (as well other creative fields), Salieri's words are as relatable as possible, for it is not of the mediocrity but of the act of creating/working and make the best of it. Salieri in movie was indeed very hardworking and acoplished the highest position in music that time (the court composer and the emperors music instructor) but facing his expectations on his idol and even facing him on his talent, instead of learning from him what he may never trully achieve in music would have made of him a greater composer, but he chose jealousy to destroy what he thought was menacing him. Ego, selfishness, hate. All came to blend in mediocrity after. In the movie, Salieri was unable to realise that his ego destroyed himself, and he may have tried to understand, but it was already to late for him to learn.
Javier Caselli When is anything in Hollywood accurate? Is this the first movie you ever watched in your life?
sadder part is that unlike mozart,he was forgotten until the 20th century
The sad character of Salieri never recognized his own divine skill....his God-given ability to hear and appreciate the beauty of Mozart's music at a level that no one else could touch, perhaps not even Mozart himself.
Ironically, Salieri's music has started being played more often the last 30 years because of the exposure he got in this movie.
@Far Hat that's not true. (I like it)
@Far Hat your ears wouldn't know music because you cant HEAR music.... you must clean out that brown substance between your ears.
Far hat , maybe he is not a legend but in real history unlike in the movie , he is a friend and respect Mozart, care for Mozart family, and he is the mentor of Ludwig van Beethoven. All before he got delirium/sick.
@Far Hat like you'd be able to tell
@@williambodin5359 Judging by the comments it was something along the lines of Salieris music being garbage.
My father used to say, "Not everybody can be in the parade. Someone has to stand on the sidelines and clap."
I love to be mediocre.
Most people will end up mediocre, that's the cruel reality of life. If I'm to be mediocre I'd only want to accept it on my deathbed.
I feel like the heretics in burning graves in the divine comedy are a fine allegory for all of us mediocraties. we might all be in same situation and in same space, but we all suffer alone in our own little boxes while trying to get a glimpse of being better from it. even if we went with the parade allegory, between us all is a fence. none of us see each others misery in the sidelines but we all can see the ones in the parade.
we have failed on our own terms even tho we have tried to be successful, there is nothing for any of us in this world.
That is a GREAT line--so true!!
Good Point... ha.-
"I will speak for you, father. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint."
So basically He wasn't forgiven he speaks for all the mediocrities in the world which tried and failed at everything they touched and how someone would always outshine them! People who were casted out and shamed and humliated over and over again, Salieri is my patron saint for medicorities he went insane, he lost with Mozart then he lost god and finally himself and Mozart had the last laugh in the end, So who is the real winner here?
@@Choices2aa *cast not 'casted'.
In the face of real talent. Your hard work becomes just mediocre at best.
Which is sad af.
One of the best movie endings of all time.
*HAHAHAHAHA*
True
Facts, facts
absolutely.
Jamie Kang : sad to see some of the other mental inmates st the end....
Absolute brilliant film in every respect. Mozart has the last laugh! Nice touch.
Nice touch
and its always terrifying if you think about it.
Mozart...or God?
I absolve you
The guy who portrays the Priest did a great job as well as the others...
It was a very understated, yet emotionally powerful performance--the priest was outstanding!! (In so many ways he represents us---the audience!!)
You're the fucking idiot, get some class.
Carolyn Stakely Yeah, I agree with you, totally! The priest was awesome!
I've always thought this: his reactions are essentially ours.
@@JSBach-hw7zw Yeah, the question is if you're mediocre or not...ah, no, one can never call Bach mediocre...one would sooner call Mozart so. I think they are equals of their own age. Good job Bach. You even had an heir...not every musical genius dies of severe military fever or in plane crashes. You got lucky to live past forty and not die prematurely....unless Handel poisoned you...there is something suspicious about that who English thing...M16 before there was a M16.
That line where Salieri tells the priest that his music "My music growing fainter. All the time fainter. No one plays it at all." as the years pass while mozarts music remains well known, gets played everywhere, and lives on. That much is true. I never heard of Salieri until I saw this movie.
Now, I'm not and never have been a player, composer, or even a fan of classical music. But when I was a kid in the mid-late 1970s, I was best friends with another kid who lived about 5 or 6 houses up the block from my place. He was a child prodigy classical pianist. He could play it all and very well. Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, Chopin, etc, you name it. Many was the time I'd be hanging out with him at his house when he'd call a time out and go to the grand piano he had in his living room to do his daily practice for an hour or so (which bored me to tears).
As a result, I have heard of great composers such as Mozart, but still, I never heard of Salieri because as to the best of my knowledge, my friend never played Salieri. Not even once. I'm not even sure if my young classical pianist friend himself even knew who Salieri was at the time.
UA-cam stars, Pop music stars, Rappers.....I absolve you!
+mike spence You can't include Justin Bieber in that though, he's "unabsolvable" :-D
+mike spence You just won the big price!
+mike spence Well, honestly, we all are mediocre, not only those you mention, except, of course, if you are talented and great as Mozart in your field, which I doubt.
+soeffingwhat Well there is hope for everyone although he is a bit of a longshot..
***** Very true.
Now I know who my patron saint is.
Lol!!! Thanks buddy I needed that good belly laugh
Me too👍
Yup.
And he loves and absolves you
I absolve you my son.
The character Antonio Salieri is one of the greatest Tragic Villains in any medium. The irony is that Salieri's true war is not with Mozart it's with God and his own vanity. Salieri asks God for a gift. A way to use music to praise God and his Glory. God grants him that gift. The gift is to recognize musical genius in others. Salieri is unhappy with that and punishes Mozart in order to spite God. Salieri was vain and self-centered. It wasn't God whom he wanted to praise; it was himself, and God, of course, knew that. Salieri in the end only ended up destroying himself.
+Rhaegar Targaryen Spot on analysis!!! Its like robert baratheon is salieri and rhaegar is mozart ahaha
+Rhaegar Targaryen Well said friend....but let me add this...Never, ever underestimate one's ego....We are a fallen race, without our egos to prop us up, we'd have been long extinct...
+Rhaegar Targaryen brilliant synopsis
I think Mozart is Satan - and he's testing Salieri's faith. Salieri fails the test, and the mental hospital is his personal hell.
The laugh at the end, as Salieri is being wheeled through the hospital is chilling.
you're right, God is always looking for the best to us, but he cant do anything if we dont want his help
This could possibly be the greatest movie ever made
It is
Its the Citizen Kane of the 1980s.
Yes. The conclusion rocked the audience to its soul. Beyond belief. I love you too Michael.
It's a good movie but greatest? Nah.
It is great no doubt, but id nominate One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
That demoralized look on that priest's face.
+Corek BleedingHollow The movie doesn't show it, but Mr. Priest decided to change professions later on.
@SarcasticSugar How do you know?
@Stxr KillerX Because he knew that the so called "insane ward" was right and the beauty. He was shocked because God taught him a lesson that day.
@@torquiloers3966 wdym?
The look of complete and utter defeat.
That laugh at the end is ingenious. I love it.
+Gabriel Friedel God is laughing at me...
Mozart getting the last laugh.
that laugh is the sign of the genious, the madness inherent in him too; it's lovely to hear it one last time... in an asylum
@@gopdavey That was not Mozart! That was GOD!
Something about this film that has never really gotten the credit it deserves: That is some of the best old-age makeup in cinema history.
Seriously thought it was a different actor!
It is very realistic, but ironically an 82 year old Mr Abraham looks much better than this! Good on him.
The Priest was me by the end of the movie.
+Lemon Drops I was Salieri by the end of the movie. His story made me think of my own inadequacies. Now 31 years after this film premiered I'm still upset at some of my past failures and total inability to have achieved anything really great.
+jdewitt77 We may not ever live up to our expectations, our wants - our desires for ourselves. We may not ever reach our aspirations and our goals; we may find nothing but failure at every turn. Yet still, I say that it is far, far better to have tried, and to keep trying then to simply give up, never to try, never to know.
I would rather know I tried and I failed, then never try and not know anything at all.
Failure may be a bitter dose, but it is one that we have had by trying our best.
+Lemon Drops Your interpretation is spot on. You (the audience) are the priest. The movie was made out of a play where Salieri himself comes out to the audience and speaks to them, us in the dark. But they couldnt do that in the movie, so what did the filmmakers do? Instead of the audience, they put someone who represented them. A priest. He is us. Salieri is telling Us (the priest) the story. At the beginning we are full of hope and bright. But here at the end we are horrified at what Salieri has done, and like the priest who desperately grabs the cross which holds his remaining faith in humanity, we also desperately cling to denial and desperate hope. But we have stared truth in the face, all the evil. There is no coming back from that. I took a film class, and this was one of the movies we discussed.
+Lemon Drops In one draft of the script, Salieri was the one who cried, and the priest was heartbroken because he didn't feel Salieri had to carry the guilt of murdering Mozart, but Salieri said he did because he may as well as killed Mozart by poisoning his life.
The priest said something like "Oh my son, my poor son!"
i love this movie anyway!
really? we're you the priest? I didn't know you came back from the death, since the priest was gay in real life and died back in late 90 from AIDS.
"Saliari's 32 years of torture punctuated by Mozart's laugh at the end"
When movies held unbelievable value and Oscars were truly deserved.
The final laugh made me cry. Mozart might had been a clown, but he sure knew how to make me laugh.
The laugh is his final triumph. Mozart is in the Glory
Well, he was a successful clown then, since he made you laugh, which is the job of a proper clown who respects himself.
F. Murray Abraham rightly takes the top billing at the end as the movie credit rolls. One of the best performances ever captured on film.
My interpretation of this movie was that, God had in fact blessed Salieri beyond belief! Only Salieri, though not on Mozart's level himself, could comprehend the depth and beauty of Mozart's music. God put Salieri as one who could fully experience the gift of Mozart. How he could not come to see that, I do not know. I think that in the end, he did.
The irony is that Mr. Abraham's performance of Salieri is anything but mediocre.
haha perfect
My favorite film performance ever.
Salieri's music is also anything but mediocre.
I disagree
Afonso de Portugal its better than what any common peasant can come up with, but that's not saying much. He's a good composer relative to us common folk, but in the realm of music he's forgettable
The role of a lifetime...
This movie was so awesome, and the music was unbelievable!!!
I got got over this movie after seeing it first while stationed at Ft. Riley, KS back in 1988. Just excellent.
Hands down my all time favourite movie. Saw it when it came out and it changed my life - music took on greater dimensions. I have seen this film easily over 300 times, and always am moved by the outstanding acting, fantastic script, great cinematography. The music is truly the third character in this masterpiece. 💞
Outstandingly good editing as well.
I like to think that the last moment, where we hear the music and Mozart's laugh, we're actually inside Salieri's head, hearing his thoughts. He loved music, he was obsessed with music, and when he heard the greatest music eve written, "the voice of God", as he calls it, he cannot resist it's allure, he cannot help but be drawn to it like a junkie to heroine. Yet he despises it as well, because it is greater than his own. So, for 32 years, that has been his waking nightmare; to hear the finest music ever written forever echoing through his mind, yet is tainted by the lingering hyena laugh of the man who wrote it.
How did Salieri put it earlier? "The madness in me. The madness of a man splitting in half" Torn between the music of heaven and the arrogant, sinful pride of Hell. Forever pulled between the two, forever trapped in the middle, forever...mediocre.
I like to think Mozart went trollface, saying "lolumadsaly" and Salieri went "lolshutupnub uded mealiev".
But yeah, your explanation is much more enjoyable.
gotta say, I thought your comment was in the original German for a second.
Mad Hatter yep.
Mad Hatter I know it's a bit late, but... LOL.
Kthxbai
(German is amazing)
This movie is nooow avaaaailable to watch here => twitter.com/783efc9a404abacdd/status/822769451393126400 Amadeus Ending
Even Just that little touch on the priest shoulder deserved the Oscar
indeed
This was my grandfather's favourite movie. He passed quite a few years back, only recently got round to watching this masterpiece, was very glad I did.
The man wrote forty operas, vast amounts of other work, ran with the nobility of Europe, tutored men like Beethoven and Schubert and is still known to this day. Lord, make me as mediocre as Antonio Salieri!
Oh man! Mozart's laugh in the end gave me chills!
seen it also millions of times. never get tired. what a masterpiece. it's simply perfect as it is. thanks for sharing this wonderful ending in HD.
The most brilliant film ever....I watch it again and again. Thank you Milos.
Like Chopin once said:if i dont see Mozart in heaven God will have to hear me complain for eternity
I get goosebumps every time I see this scene. And it's been 20 years since the first time.
One of the best movies ever made. Everything just goes together in the film to make this movie special. The Acting, Directing, and the amazing screen-play.
Interesting enough, Salieri was a wonderful composer and his musical achievements outstanding. It’s unfortunate that people forget this master, who was overshadowed by Mozart.
The look on the Priests' face after hearing his speech makes him question on everything he was taught about forgiving everyone no matter how radical they've done.
I think the priest has met far worse. It was more that he realised that god did not make all man equal, which must have tested his faith.
There are 2 reactions to a life collision with Musical genius:
1) I'm not the best, as I had thought...This is not fair, he has taken something from me that I worked so hard to earn. He hasn't paid the price of glory. What made him more deserving? I loathe him more than all others.
2) What a rare gift that I met and worked, dined, debated and knew such a musical genius that performers and scholars will study and desperately try to understand for centuries that follow, perhaps a thousand years and more.
By pure chance my path crossed his, and I dwelled instead his world.
His music overshadowed all his common weaknesses and the human failings that we - and he - all own.
The 2 feelings both have place in us. To begin with (1°) and cultivate (2°), and balance the self-conflict is a musicians labor.
In my heart, Mozart pales next to Bach, so I feel even Mozart needed to confront his better at some point.
To bring it home, when I perform a good classic at a dinner venue, guests stop eating, and I may overhear a child ask his parents for piano lessons. Listeners pause while food gets cold. But the genius is not mine, it's Ravel or Debussy. I'm a mode of transmission, and sometimes a very good one.
But if my wife sings and I accompany on guitar, they weep.
She's just better.
UA-cam can be difficult, as there are many musicians who are better than me. I never encountered them in my small world before the web spanned the globe with high definition sound.
I'm privileged to hear them.
God is laughing at him through Mozart's laughter in the end....
@Deep Moticons have you even watched the movie?
@Deep Moticons your reply didn't depict so. the 'God's laugh' was mentioned by Salieri as his belief in the movie. And your reply clearly negated that. That's all. And well, tbh, I haven't watched the film. I'll definitely proceed to, but I've been binge-watching all the scenes on YT lately, and ironically I seem to know better than you. And lastly, since I haven't watched the movie, 0×100=0. Good luck.
I think it was Salieri's laughter all along, and he's laughing at himself.
Proverbs 1:24-27 "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you." ,
"Surely {q} he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly".
@@GatisSturis The best comment of all is God's own judgment, which the prideful do not understand.
Excellent performance of F Murray Abraham !
I Love it! " I'm the saint patron of mediocrity" "I absolve you"
Greatest movie ever !
What a great actor
What a magnificent performance by F.Murray Abraham. I never tire of watching either the film or the making of Amadeus - a veritable chef d'oeuvre. Thank you Milos.
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Psychotic...no i am Mozart!!!!
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Yes, A Great Line
I absolve you!
Even how that last cackle at the end blends into his piano concerto no 20 is brilliant. Everything in this movie is brilliant, start to finish.
The issue is not his mediocrity, but his inability to accept it. He is the lone cause of his torture and misery. Salieri is his own torturer.
Not being a genius doesn't necessarily mean that one is mediocre. It was his inability to accept that he was no Mozart, as it were. Quite right about his being his own torturer, though.
He completely accept it, he knows he wont never be as good as mozart.
@@asgoritolinasgoritolino7708 No no, acceptance means to be at peace with it.
Mediocrity is not confined to Salieri. Indeed, beginning at 1:10 Salieri recognizes the mediocrity of all people, including the Priest: "I will speak for you, father. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint."
That feeling of being mediocre even after the best of your efforts is truly painful. To experience this, you need to really pursue something that values so great to you and get so close but fail to understand his level of pain. Also since he was religious, it was an existential crisis for him in a very severe degree as he doubted God's plan with him. It isn't surprising that it drove him mad.
The narration was perfect in this movie. This was one of the saddest movies I ever have seen before, but at the same time so wonderfully crafted.
at the end of all this, Mozart got the last laugh
Abraham was incredible. The moment I first saw him in Scarface, I knew I would see more of him. Thank God we did.
Pure excellence
After this movie, Salieri’s music was rediscovered. Now he is regarded as a one of the greatest opera composers.
The greatest opera composers are generally seen to be Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner.
After them, Monteverdi, Handel, Bizet, Puccini, Berg, Strauss, perhaps Rossini, perhaps Boito, etc.
Salieri isn't very high on the list.
@Anti-Federalist 1776 Bach (if you mean Johann Sebastian) didn't write operas.
@@sophiadao7325 The point was that the movie led to a great renewed interest in his work.
I wish more people would see this movie. It is pure excellence.
Murray Abrams has my undying respect for his top shelf performance.
I'm just so glad there are people who care about this! Vive Mozart and the creative spirit that may soar through all men and women.
Young people should really watch this movie.
It'll stay with you for the rest of your lives.
Um...it's R-Rated-
But I did watch it. And I'm 11.
First time in my life a film gave me goosebumps.
Mr. Abrahams acting skills are top notch ! The man does not got the attention that he so rightly deserves !
Oh my God. That piano concerto is so beautiful, it makes my heart melt.
By the way, Salieri's operas were rescued after this movie and now is recognized as one of the top composers of operas of all time.
Absolutely awesome fantastic great awesome unique amazing fabulous wonderful talented gifted great artist genius legend
"However, even with Mozart and Salieri's rivalry for certain jobs, there is very little evidence that the relationship between the two composers was at all acrimonious beyond this, especially after 1785 or so, when Mozart had become established in Vienna. Rather, they appeared to usually see each other as friends and colleagues, and supported each other's work. For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788, he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own, and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790, Salieri had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage. Salieri and Mozart even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which celebrated the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace"
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@@heb430 Its based off an old play and is not expected to be taken as a documentary. The backdrop is merely the canvas on which to explore the theme of envy, and how it destroys that which it loves, and this film does that masterfully. Its clear to see for those who look into the history that Salieri was an immensely successful and content man, but that has little to do with this film or its purpose.
Also its not like its completely baseless as many rumours existed in the life of Salieri of him poisoning Mozart (upsetting him greatly), so its an interesting "what if", and if everything in the movie was accurate historians would likely still come to the conclusion that they were only friends in life as the character was shown being very careful.
Piano concerto no. 20 in d minor- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Many thanks! Been loking for it for some time.
Second movement
Salieri, if you really think "not as good as Mozart" equals "mediocrity", you REALLY need to lower your standards.
***** Uh, several of Salieri's works have their own Wikipedia pages. In his own time, he was incredibly influential and prestigious. Calling him mediocre because Mozart overshadowed him is like calling Patrick Ewing a mediocre basketball player because he wasn't as good as Michael Jordan and never won an NBA title.
***** Which gets back to my original point. Yes, his music has become relatively obscure, but that doesn't make him mediocre. He was by any standard an excellent composer who just had less impact than some of his contemporaries. (Ironically, since this movie his music's actually had something of a renassaince, since he got so much exposure here). My original point still stands--if Salieri really believes that anyone who doesn't make a timeless piece remembered centuries later is a mediocrity, it's no wonder he's in an asylum.
+Kuriboh Actually this movie lead to people being interested in him and his music. I have two of his operas and some other works. His problem was to have been a contemporary of Mozart.
+mam162 That's the definition of mediocrity: pretty good, but not great...
+Lynn Turman No, the definition of mediocrity is not being that good at all. If Salieri truly was mediocre, he would never have gotten to where he was as a prominent composer. In real life his music was performed all over Europe and he was a major influence on his contemporaries. He just didn't have the one-in-a-million talent that Mozart did.
It's possible to be highly talented and respected without being freakishly gifted. Salieri didn't understand that. The whole plot of the movie revolves around him self-destructing because he was so obsessively jealous of Mozart's abilities. He should have focused on his own music and being the best composer he could.
I came here for ABSOLUTION.. from my patron saint
Mozart's cackle matching the music was sheer brilliance!
Tragically I can somewhat relate to Salieri's jealousy.
You see, when I was a kid, starting around 6 years old, I just loved cartoons, the comic strips in the Sunday newspaper, and funny comic books. I just loved the artwork, plus the laughter they provided me. My favorite painter at the time was Norman Rockwell and the comic strip I most admired was Peanuts by Charles Schulz.
As a result, I decided to try my hand at being a cartoonist. My very first efforts, when I tried to draw people, they were little more than stick figures. I could see how bad my artwork was when I compared them to the more professional art work in comic strips and comic books.
But I wasn't discouraged. I thought that with more practice, some lessons, instructions, etc, over time I should improve. Over the following years I read every book on drawing and sketching I could get my hands on, took art lessons and drew my heart out. But it proved to be no good.
6 years later, when I was 12, my art hadn't improved. My drawings of people still resembled little more than stick figures. All those art lessons, all the practicing, and all those books I read didn't help to make me a better artist. Instead, what it did do for me, for better or for worse, was give me the ability to better recognize good or great art when I see it.
At age 12 I threw in the towel on my attempt to be a cartoonist. I would have loved to have my own popular comic strip that was well loved all over the world, like Charles Schulz's Peanuts (he made it look so easy!) But it was not to be.
These days when I see a beautiful work of art such as a painting or a drawing, if the artist is a grown man in his 30s, 40s, 50s, or even older, I don't feel any jealousy whatsoever and I enjoy the artwork.
But when I see a beautiful painting or drawing done by some 8-10 year old kid, I get huge pangs of jealousy and I ask myself, "why couldn't I have had just half of that kids talent when I was his age?"
I saw this movie a year after it was released. It moves me to this day, and I consider it required viewing for anyone who is pursuing music.
This movie is AMAZING
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Ladies and gentlemen... a visual metaphor of the actual condition of humankind.
the contemporarily prevailing Coronavirus lockdown makes it even more similar.
@@amiqai I laughed. I'm going straight to hell.
The longest most painful confession EVER. Priest became an alcoholic after this encounter.
Still my favorite movie.
some of the most beautifull music I have ever heard. a great movie
Is it odd that i find this melody quite cheerful and this scene still punches me in the stomach every single time i watch it, specially when i hear Wolfie's laugh, i smile but then immediataly want to break in tears...?
ambivalent feelings I feel too indeed; perhaps it reflects we all live in an insanity world and even the good and best stuff will one day end for all of us. Too many interpretations though.
An outstanding film about the greatest composer that ever lived.
I didn't know this movie was about Bach
Can we take a moment to honor the great makeup artist Dick Smith for creating the greatest old age makeup ever on Salieri. That makeup itself is truly a star of this film considering F Murray’s greatest scenes are that of old Salieri. His entire face was covered in foam rubber and not once does it take you out of the movie. It is 100% believable and will stand the test of time. Bravo to a legend.
I've felt like Salieri many times in my life. There is nothing worse than feeling that your're slipping into irrelevance as you get older and that most of your contemporaries have surpassed you in most aspects of life. I've accomplished hardly any of the things that I always wanted to achieve. Now there is no way that I can change this except in some minor ways.
The priest, at the beginning was fresh and confident; at the end, he even swept to hear the horror of humankind mediocrity. Beautiful performance of this young, good looking priest.
Mr Abraham should have gotten a Oscar for his performance, good acting from the whole cast as well.
The laugh at the end shows to me that Salieri finally became a genius. In the sense he recounted his life story not only well but. Perfectly. Finally after years he has become great at something. The laugh we hear is the laugh Mozart made when he first improved the music Salieri wrote, or did something extremely intelligent.
That laugh at the end is great. It sums up the whole movie.
the priest is me after I got into something I shouldn't have
Absolutely beautiful
I still want a movie that depicts Mozart's actual biography. It would be just as dramatic. That period had some of the most influential people at one time: Ben Franklin where Mozart actually composed a tune on Franklin's Crystal-harmonic, Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson. John Adams, Hayden, Beethoven, Antoine Lavoisier, William Wilberforce, Nelson, Napoleon, Adam Smith, Henry Maudslay, John Needham.
Every era has its host of brilliant and sometimes just influential (not always positively) people.
But Mozart life has some interesting folks, a very interesting time.
And his actual life is very dramatic and fascinating.
I'd watch it.
Unfortunately, most people wouldn't. Hollywood will never make such a movie because it wouldn't be profitable. Most viewers need the schlock.
I printed out the last line: "mediocrities everywhre, I absolve you" in large letters and put it up on my office door. It humbles my colleagues before entering the room. It provides even myself with a reality check every morning.
Best.Movie.Ever.:3 Amazing Tom hulce& F. murray abraham
Agree. See also Places in the Heart with Sally Field.
Yes but not just them. So many great performances. I loved Jeffrey Jones as the Emperor.
This is one of the greatest films ever made. Of all time.
This film completely captures the torture of one's own inadequacy when faced with someone so much better at what makes you, you. I always wonder how I might deal with such a situation; I may have been even more malevolent than Salieri.
Because though I possess some achievements, mine are trivial and so I have never had the feeling of being at what I thought was the top, only to realise there is another height so far in the distance I cannot comprehend it existed until I saw it through the clouds.
This really is an exercise in the evils of our own self-importance, confusing the empty echoes inside our heads for the voice of God.
Life doesn't always go to the hard working.
My favorite piece of music ever...Serenade No. 10 for Winds ❤❤❤
All who dislikes this video don't know what true cinema is. Sad.
My favorite movie of all-time. Perfection.
I love this movie. It's one of my absolute favorites. But I will say it is not historically accurate. His alleged"poisoning" was never proven. Infact it has been largely discredited. Also the way he was buried in the movie most likely was not true at all. I think they chose these theories for the movie for the dramatic flair. Made for a good movie though.
I don't think it was meant to be historically accurate. The film was not about Mozart. It was about Salieri and how he perceived Mozart
I did my thesis on Mozart, and this was nowhere near accurate. But as a movie of semi-fiction it is one of most beautifully made films I've ever seen. I still have yet to see a movie that's better than this one.
Spiritual cleanser
Amadeus isn't meant to be historically accurate. It's the kind of story that plays with history
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Seriously, how genius is the direction of this movie... Who would have thought to make such bio into such an interesting movie that can relate to all of us. And yet, culture us with the beauty of classical operas. This movie is immortal! The kind of movie i'll show my kids later. Haha
How come that brilliant acting :)
***** You think I am crazy :)
Saw this in SA and absolutely everyone in the theater turned around while everyone cried i burst out in laughter!
I think Mozart is a gift from God it probably explains why he died so early in his 30's! God must've sent Mozart to show people how amazing one person can be and show people wonderfulness and talent and to leave a mark on this earth.
The stars that burn the brightest always seem to be the ones who leave us too soon.
But it kinda ironically BROKE another man's spirit for striving greatness and instead was forced to accept his mediocrity. Did God just trolled Antonio?
This is simply, the greatest ending ever, and among if not the greatest movie of all time, and I mean that wholeheartedly.
LOL...just a normal day for two crazies sitting down throwing hay at each other.
This ending is hilarious, I laughed harder at this than I did at any comedy. Well done.
This film takes three of the greatest dramatic themes (Man vs. Man/Man vs. Self/Man vs. God) and combines them ALL into a single character effortlessly
I have to say: Rarely have there been two equal roles competing for the Oscars.