In my opinion, Amadeus by Miloš Forman was a very interesting movie. In general, I felt the movie was well directed and had good actors that complimented the movie exceptionally well. The movie itself had an extraordinarily pretty setting, with beautiful architecture that was complimented by lush costumes. It was not much interesting content wise however the way that the film was structured impressed me. The story is being told from the point of view from a rival composer of the name Salieri. I also liked how because of this point of view, the movie was set up as being a story and collection of memories being reminisced by Salieri. I liked this addition of having a point of view because it makes his story a lot more interesting rather than …show more content…
Anyone, even someone without musical background, would think that Mozart, a composer whose work greatly shaped classical music, would be a acutely poised, proper, well-dressed individual. In the movie, however; he is portrayed to almost the opposite of that. He is introduced in the movie with a scene containing him and Constanze, his girlfriend, running around and messing about. Later on when we finally get some dialogue from Mozart we can we that he's very immature and silly. We also see that while he is immature for his age he is immensely confident and has no doubts about his talent or his intelligence. He has all the music in his head and is not self-conscious about ever sharing his work and does not hid his genius. When Mozart plays his first opera we see him almost showing off his talent, further adding to the fact that he was a cocky individual. Mozart is also shown as someone that doesn’t adhere to rules and the norms of society back then. He did not make the same music as everyone else, he did what he wanted and composed the music he wanted, which was great music. What is also curious is the how the other characters view Mozart, one would think that even though he was an immature boy, they would recognize his talent and respect him, but instead they all just thought he was some kind of one hit wonder or a child prodigy that was fading. While I am not sure if this …show more content…
All of the music used wasn’t just background music, it provided something to the story. As Salieri is examining one of Mozart’s pieces, he starts talking about the clarinet and we see him swaying and being entranced by the piece as the music itself is playing in the background and it creates a deep and impactful scene. When Salieri first meets Mozart’s officially, Mozart is playing one of Salieri’s pieces, however he’s improving it as he’s playing, making it go faster, adding scales etc. As soon as the music gets faster and more notes are added, we see Salieri getting increasingly angrier, which I though was very complimenting to the scene. This was not done just for one scene but throughout the movie, and it was truly well-done. Something else that caught my eye was how vengeful and jealous Salieri grew of Mozart. In the movie we constantly see Salieri being very upset with Mozart’s talent and I found it sort of ironic because Mozart was supposed to be the obviously immature one not Salieri. The extent to which Salieri becomes jealous and claims to have killed Mozart’s, shows that he obviously had a lack of confidence and was emotionally immature as he could not handle the simple fact of someone being better than him. I found it foolish the extent of how upset Salieri was, thinking that Mozart had a gift from God, and being particularly upset because he had prayed to God to be a good composer, and
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was undoubtedly one of the greatest composers of not only the classical era, but of all time. On January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria, Mozart was born into an already musically talented family. His father Leopold, a composer and musician, and sister Nannerl toured parts of Europe giving many successful performances, including some before royalty. At the young age of 17, Mozart was appointed Konzertmeister at the Salzburg Court. It was there that young Mozart composed two successful operas: “Mitridate” and “Lucio Silla”. In 1981 he was dismissed from his position at the Salzburg Court. He went on to compose over 600 works including 27 piano Concertos, 18 Masses (including his most famous, the Requiem), and 17 piano sonatas. Mozart was not often known for having radical form or harmonic innovation but rather, most of his music had a natural flow, repetition and simple harmonic structure.
The music of course was the main focus and for me I really enjoyed The fountains of Rome. This piece was near the end but I found myself to really enjoy The Fountains of the valle Giulia at Dawn which opened up with an oboe, and sounded like I was right near a fountain in the morning. Birds were chirping as the day started with a beautiful peaking of the sun beginning. The Triton Fountain in the Morning had an interesting beginning that started off with a high pitch. At first the horn frightened me but it set the tone with the violins mixed with some sort of symbol as if we were jumping right into the morning. It contained so much excitement in it, like a bursting ray of emotion. However, I did dislike one piece due to it contrasting too much to my favorite piece of the symphony. From The Pines of the Villa Borghese it came at me like a sudden rush, it abruptly ruined the subtle calm feeling I was experiencing too quickly and made it feel like I had an orchestra chasing after me. My favorite piece from the symphony was The Fountain of Rome was La fontana di villa Medici al tramonto. This one particularly caught my interest because it felt like it tied everything together by stringing emotion along. The entire songs presence was calming and subtle as everything was slowed down with a softer dynamic. What really drew me in was
Amadeus, the Tony-Award winning tale of 18th-century court composer Antonio Salieri's envy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is a mighty challenge for actors.
Amadeus is a movie based on the career and the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Viennese during the 18th century. Throughout the film Antonio Salieri tells his story of his growing hatred for Mozart that eventually led to his ?murder?. Through out the rest of the movie you can see where Salieri is getting even more jealous of Mozart.
Though, Mozart is unforgettably played by Tom Hulce, that the viewer has no other option to think of him as the central figure. Amadeus highlights the comparison of the two geniuses; Amadeus Mozart is clearly superior, and Salieri, sadly, recognizes his inferiority, which drives him insane (Somewhat like The Prestige). If you have missed this little, yet big detail, re-watch the movie and you'll witness a completely different scenery. It's true that much of Mozart's biographical information is given, but the sole purpose of the movie is to highlight Mozart's "Godlike" abilities, that come so easily to him. We see how his life is affecting Salieri, driving him nuts.
In one particular scene, director was truly a great one, featuring special focus on his dad life and the Colorado River. It was so cool to highlights of the movie by one of his favorite poem written by his dad when he was born, the Important Place. Also, this film was a good length, not excessively long but long enough to tell the story. This is really important today there were no such unwanted scene in the film, which literary the most closely and accurately delivered. In my opinion, this film is forced to possess the characters of a great aspect, and turns to make for quite the adventurous. There was no special character encounter rather than his dad, learned something from the secret Colorado River. Another great aspect of the film was the special footage that were introduce in this film was an enjoyable aspect to be a good documentary film, and that’s how this film is different from the rest.
...n do now is to die. And so he does. Although Mozart does suffer loss, the loss of his life and career, and is somewhat responsible for his downfall, he does not evoke sympathy or recognition. However, it is Salieri who contains all four elements of a tragic hero. Salieri loses practically everything he has faith in before Mozart appears. He suffers from the loss of dignity, esteem, and honor. Salieri also recognizes something he has never felt before, that is the “pain as I had never know it,'; (1,5), the pain from the beauty and delight of Mozart’s music. Thus, recognizing the limitations of his own talent, the mediocrity of his talent compared to the genius works of Mozart. He grows an awareness of disharmony in the universe that he has never encountered. Salieri clearly is culpable of his own tragedy. He is the Court Composer, his works are respected throughout Europe, and because he is not stupid, he does not say he is the better composer. Instead, he is the minority who actually appreciates Mozart’s music. There is definitely sympathy for Salieri, in that all human beings can work as hard as they want to at something and can still fail miserably.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, also known as W.A. Mozart, was a very well-known composer of the Classical Period as well as still to this day. Wolfgang Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He was known for his sonatas, symphonies, masses, chamber music, concertos, and operas. He set the standards high for all composers following in his footsteps. Mozart was born to Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart.
The sequences of events in the movie were largely intertwined. The movie begins with the death of Beethoven and proceeds with a friend and employee of Beethoven obsessed with justifying the rightful will of Beethoven’s assets and estate to an unknown lover. Avoiding Beethoven’s greedy brother, he travels around to meet with Beethoven’s previous lovers, listening to the tale of each, becoming closer to the truth as the movie moves forward. The stories told narrate many different significant events in the great composers’ life, including many mishaps, struggles, and disappointments that seem to fuel his music and its robust passion. By the end of the movie, an unlikely lover is found, the immortal beloved, a girl that Beethoven had once loved and conceived a child with. The audience is led to beli...
He was a great young composer that transformed into a genius that was able to write music in the short periods of time he had during the day and was able to rewrite the musical rules. After being very successful in his early years, Mozart grew little older and started looking at things in a bigger picture. He tried to fit in on many different things including languages of others. The “Magic Flute” that was written at the end of his short life is known as the ultimate expression of Mozart’s ambition to connect with the human life and the human emotion through music as well as theater. At 25 years old, Mozart is no longer a prodigy but has not proved to be an amateur composer. In Provincial Salzburg is where Mozart is still living with his father and sister. Mozart is going to Munich because they have commissioned him to write an Italian opera in a serious style. Mozart’s father said he gave Wolfgang the advice to never neglect the popular style for the unmusical public as the musical ones. Leopold agreed to be Mozart’s middle man between the poets but he didn’t know that this would be his last detailed involvement in one of Mozart’s projects. Mozart’s father said they worked every day on the poems but Mozart was determined about something totally different than his father. He had problems with everything his father done. Whether it was too long or not dramatic enough, it would never suit his needs. His
Salieri like everyone else also had a bad side. He was really jealous when Mozart took over his dreams. Mozart was also a composer and he became well known in Vienna through his music. When Salieri first saw Mozart he thought how can such a vulgar man create such great music. Salieri was really mad at God for making such a disgusting and a dirty minded person such a great composer.
The proscription from any domain of memorable works may be due to a major problem both in the novel and film: the ambiguous point of view adopted. The novel is geared for a transposition to the screen. It is no coincidence that the film was scripted by Niccolò Ammaniti, who adapted ...
...movie that I fell in love with. But most of all I love how the story line is a great overlap into the cinematically engaging movie. There is a great use of camera, timing, shots and story line that are portrayed in this movie without being too overwhelming. This allows the audience to relax during the movie and just take in the scenes as a story from reality. To this day, and even still doing this paper I still come to find different aspects of the movie that I missed the previous times I have watched it.
There is then a time jump and we find ourselves observing an older Salieri. Salieri, now has made somewhat a name for himself in the city of Vienna, which is referred to as the “city of musicians”. Salieri is the court composer for Holy Roman Emperor Joseph 2nd, and he seems okay with the way his life is going and feels that his God has honored his part of the oath and so has Salieri. That all changes when Salieri attends a performance that Mozart is giving, hoping to meet the man he has idolized for so long. Salieri first observes Mozart without his knowledge and within minutes comes to the conclusion that he is a vulgar man and wonders how his God could gift a man such as Mozart with the talent that he has. As Salieri first hears Mozart 's music he himself feels as though he has heard the voice of God, but instead of wanting to believe that God gifted Mozart with such talents Salieri chooses to believe that such music was nothing more than an accident, he needs it to be an
I really like the way how Polanski filmed the movie. The storyline of “The Pianist” is arranged in a chronological order. Polanski made the overall pace of the movie is really slow. In the movie, Szpilman gradually changes from a gentleman into a savage. There are many scenes where Szpilman is alone, struggling to stay alive and trying to keep his humanity within him. Szpilman’s mental state grows stronger as he tries to survive in the crumble Warsaw city. I believe that a slow pace of the movie is necessary to show how Szpilman has developed a stronger inner character throughout the whole incident. The way how Polanski chose to direct this movie is very interesting. Polanski chose to film the movie in a subjective way, where the audience can only see the incidents through Szpilman’s perspective. While watching the movie, we are not just looking at Szpilman in a third person perspective, instead, we existed in Szpilman’s mind. The audience can get an idea of how the situation must have been during the Holocaust. There is a particular scene in the movie where an ear-piercing sound appeared after the explosion. In the scene, Polanski put the audiences straight into Szpilman’s mind, so they can experience how Szpilman feels after the bombing. Polanski’s unique directing style allows him to win an Oscar for best