Diary entries forAmadeus
Amadeus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has to be the coolest name of all time and this has to have the coolest poster of all time. The story is very interesting and acting is obviously fantastic. His laugh is so strange, and Mozart himself is a complete weirdo, which is the point. They say most geniuses are. This film is visually stunning and deserves all the praise it gets. And of course, the score is perfection.
Amadeus
Hot damn, that's some rich, lavish shit yeah?! Always a soft spot for this -- hit me good back when I was just realizing what music could mean for me (and that I was allowed to enjoy period pieces). If I still made top ten lists this would be jostling for perennial position.
Amadeus
Me obligaron a verla en bellas artes y dije "que aburrida", que nene bobo era diosssss
Amadeus
“But with opera, with music... with music you can have twenty individuals all talking at the same time, and it's not noise, it's a perfect harmony!”
Amadeus
Arrête de rire comme ça
Amadeus
can't believe no one talk about this movie. Too many notes?
Amadeus
watching this before watching napoleon for funsies.
Amadeus
İzlediğim en güzel filmler listesine girdi kesinlikle. Böyle bir film yapmanın mümkün olabileceğini düşünemiyordum bayıldım bayıldım.
Amadeus
90/100 Of course Mozart wrote the Ratatouille realisation meme music. Milos Forman’s Amadeus is something I’ve been meaning to watch for a very long time but for its 3 hour runtime (director’s cut), I have kept away for as long as I could, add to the fact that I am not really a fan of classical music, not mostly anyway. Today I felt hateful, I must admit it was a bit of a spoiler but I knew that someone in this film was a hater and an all timer at that! So I thought this the perfect time to enjoy some bitterness. I was however not prepared for how desecrate this would get. My heart was aching for the genius by the end. Let’s start with that name - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This might be the greatest name ever, the most powerful name ever. Oh in what mysterious ways does Salieri’s god work, not only did he make Mozart the prodigy but also gave him an unforgettable name. What happens when everyone loves your work but you just happen to love someone else’s? That’s the story of Salieri our supreme hater. He is one of the few who understands Mozart’s true genius, he’s relied on God all his life but this is the first time he feels he’s come close to anything related to God. He even equates Mozart to God later on but there is context to that, I’ll explain in a bit. Salieri admired Mozart, not the man but talent, the sheer genius, he is by no means mediocre but considers himself so because Mozart exists. Amadeus is a film about this man who has such incredible admiration for another’s work that despite being a god’s man, that admiration turns to envy. Over this film, I didn’t see a major threat to his position from Mozart. That’s part of what bugged me as the film went on. There was no job risk or a risk of failure for Salieri. He was thriving, he just couldn’t see Mozart do the same. They could’ve shared Vienna and it doesn’t even appear that Salieri has Vienna to himself by the end anyway. The tremendous amount of hate seems unrooted after a while. “If he didn’t want me to praise him with music, why implant the desire like a lust in my body? And then deny me the talent?” This I understand. Why gift Salieri the desire and at the same time, the ear to truly hear someone he can never compare to. Why create this contradiction of a man, why leave him in such a state of paranoia that all that drives him is to put the man down that he so much admires. Why push him to every concert of his nemesis, why make him love music so much that he hates the very source of it. Now this is where I was referring to Mozart-God equation. Salieri forgoes God after witnessing Mozart’s genius and poor character intertwine, he questions God and his ways. And later on, what drives him to destroy Mozart is more his hate for God. He revels Mozart at the source of God’s music and finishing him would mean his triumph over God. Now if that’s not closeted admiration, what else could be! There’s a lot of bureaucracy involved to take down the genius as I believe has been the theme for centuries now. The masses or as Salieri refers to himself - the mediocre cannot handle someone who sets themselves apart, someone who doesn’t live to appeal but to convey. Their aim as Mozart showed is to change the way people perceive their genre of work, they are the true extraordinaire. Salieri with his power does no different, add his envy and it was always doom for Mozart. This film is of course declared fiction and so should it be because Salieri is supposed to be merely 6 years older than Mozart. Forgive my estimation of age but our Salieri here looked double Mozart’s age. Salieri does the extreme when he coerces his wife, I felt that was overboard for this God-loving man who in hindsight had lost all his grasp on sanctity by then. Salieri was never a good man, he believed Mozart’s music was music straight from the Gods and he says that he did well by the people, teaching many for free but it didn’t occur to him to share the music of God with as many people as possible for as long as possible? Salieri as I mentioned before is a walking contradiction and eventually, that does drive him to madness. I thought the ending was absolutely brilliant. To kill the genius whilst he for the first time, is sharing his work with you so that you cannot revel in his work ever was truly God’s work. From all of Salieri’s deductions, that was the one he got absolutely spot on. It was his punishment for envy, God’s last joke, taking away his messenger and letting thousands lose their privilege of hearing his music rather than let one hater bear the fruits of his gift. Brilliantly acted by Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce and Elizabeth Berridge, Amadeus is an aching period piece about the power of envy and the warranted outcomes of it. They overdo the opera at times I’m afraid.
Amadeus
It's great for it to be my 100th film of the year. Perfection
