>> ^codenazi:
the voices and instrumentation sounding in Mozart's head are communicated by some strange sort of psychic transfer to Salieri
I know they are (trying?) to be poetic here, but this is one of my favorite scenes ever put to film because of how not "psychic" it is. It's the best example I know of as to why studying music theory is important.
For one that has studied the theory and (spoken) language of music, saying lines like "violins, arpeggios, a descending scale in 8th notes, and then back to the ostinato again" is a highly accurate description of the violin piece for Voca Mei. He had said that it started in C with the vocal part earlier, so no more really needed to be said.
Such a well done movie, though...


I think what he's trying to say here is...Mediocrity, I absolve thee.

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
I could only dream of becoming as good an actor as F. Murray Abraham in this movie. God he was at the top of his game.


F. Murray Abraham had a game?

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the voices and instrumentation sounding in Mozart's head are communicated by some strange sort of psychic transfer to Salieri

I know they are (trying?) to be poetic here, but this is one of my favorite scenes ever put to film because of how not "psychic" it is. It's the best example I know of as to why studying music theory is important.

For one that has studied the theory and (spoken) language of music, saying lines like "violins, arpeggios, a descending scale in 8th notes, and then back to the ostinato again" is a highly accurate description of the violin piece for Voca Mei. He had said that it started in C with the vocal part earlier, so no more really needed to be said.

Such a well done movie, though...

I love articles such as the one quoted from Literature Film Quarterly. You can tell the author was using the Thesaurus features of Word to a great degree to come across as an intellectual.

Besides, the most heart-breaking moment of the movie is where Salieri confesses his total and complete admiration for Mozart when he says "You are the greatest composer known to me". And Mozart in a rare glimpse of humility asks for forgiveness because he had always thought that Salieri didn't like his music.

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. Masterpiece.

It's Salieri... you forgot an 'i'. but yes, excellent, excellent movie.

Amadeus is a 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman and based on the stage play Amadeus. It won eight Oscars in 1984.

In this scene, Salieri, now residing in a mental home recalls the first time he came across Motzart's music to a Priest.

The stage play was written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, and was inspired by "Mozart and Salieri", a short play by Aleksandr Pushkin (later adapted into an opera of the same name by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov), which was in turn based loosely on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.

Another of my favorites. I must say that F. Murray Abraham is a criminally underrated actor.