Join this classical musician for funny faces, laughter, & tears with my first time watching AMADEUS (director’s cut)
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The story itself is fictional, but much of it is so rooted in history that it is very credible and could in fact have been the true story.
The title of the movie is an excellent choice btw. This is far better than "Wolfgang" or "Mozart" would have been as a movie title. "Amadeus" literally means "loved by God", which underlines the movie theme because of Salieri's distorted ideas about religion.
Barry Lyndon, perchance?
I prefer the theatrical cut. I’ve never seen a directors cut or extended edition that was better than the original theatrical release.
Entertaining movie but a complete distortion of the real people, especially Salieri. Salieri was a talented composer and a highly regarded music teacher. Beethoven and Liszt studied with him.
A suicidal person was considered insane back then. Hence his appearance there. P.s. don giovanni was my favorite of his Operas.
This is one of my top 10 favorite films, it got me interested in opera so I bought some books, some CDs and started going to live performances. Verdi is played a lot in theaters, I've yet to see any Wagner other than on video.
This film isn't true to life, just a supposition; but it has so much depth. Salieri's gift was the ability to recognize greatness yet he deprived himself of more great works that Mozart could have written, Very Cain and Abel relationship, the jealous older brother whose musical offerings didn't match up. If he'd helped Mozart deal with court politics he'd have learned and improved his craft. And yes Mozart would have learned some humility sooner than on his deathbed.
Mozart was buried in a communal grave in the cemetery for the poor.
Well…what amazes me is that the Genius died a puaper and was buried in an unmarked grave. Tragic and disturbing to say the least.
The movie frames the situation as if, maybe, Salieri did push Mozart into the grave, but the play, on which the movie is based, frames it in such a way as to insure that you in the audience know that the character of Salieri is an unreliable narrator. And the rumors of Salieri killing Mozart are probably attempts by Salieri to insure the survival of his own name by connecting it with Mozart's.
Salieri's indecent proposal to Constanza is not on the theatrical release. And I'm glad they cut it out. Salieri is a troubled person, but not in that way.
Hello Christina. Let me guess …. Alto ? Thousand and one thank you for your reaction.
Amadeus is my favorite movie of all time! I think this story is an excellent fusion of history and fiction, filled with glorious music!
Mozart's Requiem was commissioned by someone who intended to pass it off as his own work, but it wasn't Salieri. Mozart died before it was completed by his "excellent friend" Emanuel Schikaneder, (the Vaudeville guy in the film). When it was played there was little doubt it was the Master's work.
Amadeus is based on a Pushkin play (In which I think Salieri poisons him?) and the characters are mostly real historical people, but the story is entirely fictional. However, the Count Orsini-Rosenberg (the old brown-wigged gentleman in the film) in real life said that Salieri had used his influences in Court to ruin many a moment of Mozart's life. Mozart never got any kind of Royal appointment.
Mozart got dragged around Europe in all kinds of weather at a young age and caught just about every illness known back then. As a result, his health was kinda poor for the rest of his short but very productive life.
F Murray Abraham’s performance was brilliant. The passion & love in which he talks about Mozart’s Music is how we all feel and would love to be able to articulate to someone about how great music makes us feel and what it means to us, but it’s such a difficult thing to express with words, F Murray Abraham says it for all of us!
I saw this in NYC the year it came out. I knew nothing about classical music at the time but I always loved period pieces. I was surprised how much I liked it.
A suggestion for a movie about a classical composer I actually like better than this is "Immortal beloved." It's about Beethoven and some of the women in his life. Oh, I just see you saw that as well. 🙂
Mozart a one-hit wonder? I love classical music, but I'm far, far, far from being an expert on it. And I know all sorts of Mozart "hits."
Ugh…. ALWAYS avoid the DIRECTOR'S CUT….
The movie was not very accurate, historically speaking. First of all, Mozart had two sons that survived him. Salieri and Mozart were aware of each other, but there is nothing to indicate that they ever had any direct contact. Salieri was the Emperor's court composer for only four years (1784-1788). In 1788 Salieri was appointed Hofkapellmeister by the Emperor. Salieri taught Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Franz Liszt among others, but not Mozart. There is nothing to indicate that Salieri had anything other than an appreciation for Mozart's work.
The movie about Beethhoven was also very good. The movie is called: Immortal Beloved.
Cutting Mozarts improv over Salieri's piece in front of the emperor et al is a no go. Otherwise and being relatively new to both music theory and piano i very much appreciated the "nerd" comments. Abraham's Oscar winning performance was flawless. The Jupiter Symphony K441 (his last) is my fav, especially the second movement.
Another Oscar winning musical very few reactors have taken on is The Sound Of Music. The cinematography, storyline and acting in addition to Rodgers and Hammerstein's score is spectacular!
I love the depiction of Mozart, but I hate the perpetuation of the Salieri mythothology. Slalieri had such a huge impact on Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt, that he deserves great respect as a teacher, and mentor to greatness. Beethoven's choral symphony could be described as an ode to the impact of Salieri in his musical ideas.
On the other hand, this stupid reduction of Salieri to a second rate and jealous composer flies in the face of the known reality of the time. There appears to have been mutual admiration between the two men, but Salieri was far more successful than Mozart at the time, and was busy with his career elsewhere.
Both men deserve our respect and admiration, and is unfair that Salieri's memory gets dragged through the mud like this.
Really enjoyed your reaction to this Christina! Your knowledge of music and composition and all else really adds a wonderful depth to it, much the same as Elizabeth Zharoff of the Charismatic Voice does with vocalists. My German mother loved to play classical music and so I grew up with a love for it, though I have precious little knowledge of music notation but I'm sure I could learn a thing or two from you simply by watching. Scribed!
I rather enjoyed this reaction more because you were able to give some musical insight.
‘So much fun to play’ — That is why us low brass players like Holst & Sousa.
have you seen gary oldman as beethoven? fun movie too!
My father was not a classical musician but he was a studio musician through the 70s and early 80s. He loves this movie. I feel most artist can understand this film a little deeper than the average viewer
You should see "Immortal Beloved". #movietitle
Some months after the movie came out, our local symphony hall presented a concert entitled "MOZART! (and a little Scalieri)", with featured guest Tom Hulce. Mom was a season ticket holder (we routinely saw the annual Nutcracker production) and took me. At one point, Tom took the podium and read a letter from Mozart to his sister, dropping into character as he did. The letter closes with a particularly catty remark, whereupon he did the laugh, and the whole floor broke up in return. Nice to see the stuffed-shirt crowd loosen up a bit for once.
My brother and I saw this together. I was 23, he 21. We were aghast that after that intensely lived life he was thrown into a hole. I remember we were both completely silent on the ride home. Not discussing a thing until hours later. Very unusual for us.
You n the play, salieri clearly loves mozart 's music and that is the tragedy
OK, Christina, this was a LOT of fun to rewatch with you. I enjoyed it very much! I am now a subscriber and looking forward to delving into many of your past reactions. So, as a musician, another film that you might enjoy very much, if you have not yet seen it, is the 1988 Le maître de musique, The Music Teacher. It stars José van Dam in the title role and is filled with wonderful music, especially quite a lot of Mahler. I think you would enjoy it. As for Tom Hulce, when Amadeus came out, the only other film I had seen him in was the 1978 romp Animal House starring John Belushi. You might get a kick out of that one too. Thank you very much for sharing this reaction. This is one of my favorite movies!
During Mozart's time in the late 18th century, life expectancy for men was significantly lower than it is today. In Europe, the average life expectancy was around 35–40 years, so he did not die so young, although infant mortality rates were high, so that may skew the data a bit.
Just to be clear, as I see some comments about the portrayal of Salieri, this is a fictional and dramatized version. Peter Shaffer, the playwright of Amadeus, never claimed that the play was a historically accurate depiction of Mozart's life or his relationship with Antonio Salieri. In fact, Shaffer openly acknowledged that Amadeus is a work of fiction, drawing on historical figures and events but shaped primarily by dramatic and thematic concerns rather than a commitment to historical accuracy.
HI, Christina, new subscriber here. I noticed on the wall behind you, you had a picture of R2 D2 from Star Wars. Fun fact, in Amadeus during the parody of Don Giovanni, the parody commendatore was played by none other than Kenny Baker, who played Artoo in the original and prequel trilogies. As to your reaction, great reaction, I love the fact that you were able to identify most of Mozart's music on the soundtrack. This film was probably especially meaningful for you, being a classically trained musician. However, the scene where Salieri looks at Mozart's music and comments that he had set it to paper already finished is based on what we now know to be an urban legend. There was a quote attributed to Mozart, where he says, "The commtting to paper, once it is done, rarely differs from what is in my imagination." We now know this quote to be false. Many of Mozart's scores showed corrections and revisions. This does not diminish his greatness in any way, he was, in my opinion, the the greatest composer of all time. You clearly know a lot about Mozart's life, but, I suggest reading a biography of him, there a number o excellent ones out there. Salieri was not involved in the requiem, it was actually completed by Mozart's pupil Franz Sussmayr. Also, he died in the evening not in the morning as shown in the film. Finally, based on the symptoms of his final illness, medical experts speculate that he most likely died from Congestive Heart Failure brought about by Rheumatic Fever. Anyway, fantastic reaction, I'm not a musician I first saw this movie when I was 18 years old, I new nothing about Mozart, it changed my life, i'm now an expert on his music, I own a number of DVD's and Blu Ray discs of performances of his music, including his main operas. Cheers!
From John Barry to Mozart, great reaction, you clearly are a music lover and I love watching along.
I saw this in high school. I thought it would have Falco in it, but I was mistaken. Kidding. It was the strongest lure to rethink the idea of music and the culture it promoted. Then the door opens to art, history, human progression and degradation. The beauty of the creative spirit and the necessity of thought. Ideas like emotion are neither good or bad just the actions taken. Music is the language of God. Thanks for sharing. Peace
Christina. This is not a movie but is a very long music video… you should check it out not a reaction request..
The band is Versailles, they are a Japanese Visual Kei Melodic Symphonic Power Metal band…they ha a Visual concept…they are Baroque Era Vampires who wear French Rococo inspired outfits.
The song is Faith and Decision live with English Subtitles. The singer Kamijo has an amazing operatic voice you will love.
The main thing I know Tom Hulce from is Animal House.
Thexut a few lines always gets a laugh out of me. In tge Classical and the Baroque eras musical compositions not only had to sound good they had to be mathematically perfect as well, yhis line is like telling a mathematician that his answer 3 + 3 = 6 isn't good as 6 is too big use a smaller number like 4 so 3 + 3 should be 4 just so the king thinks that number is small enough.
39:46 the coolest scene of the entire movie
You should watch The Red Violin
While it is accepted that Moszart died of Tubervulosis, Salieri dud go insane and at the end of his life he claimed that he killed Mozart, this is generally believed to be an insane delusion. Because it was only one of dozens of claims he made while insane which were demonstrably no true. This movie was not based on history but a fictional novel based on Mozarts life as told through the eyes of his fictional killer, also based om a real character.
Similar to the Movie Gladiator which has real life characters but a completely made up story. Or yhe Ten Commandments based on the Bible story but mostly fictionalzed.
You should really get the blue ray. The commentary and extras are very interesting. I dont know anyone who appreciates this movie as you seem to!
I think the actor who played Mozart got his start as a pledge in the movie Animal House.