Amadeus is a 1984 movie about a loose, fictionalized interpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s life told through the eyes of his rival, Antonio Salieri. In the movie, Salieri served as court composer for Emperor Joseph II and becomes envious of the more musically gifted Mozart. One of the movie’s main themes centers around Salieri’s jealously and the steps that he takes to eliminate Mozart as a rival. As the rivalry between the two intensifies in the eyes of Salieri, he takes steps beyond hindering Mozart’s professional career and starts plotting to end Mozart’s life altogether. Salieri sees his role change in three very distinct ways in the movie. At first, he considers himself to be God’s chosen composer. Then, he becomes infatuated with …show more content…
He was always present at the royal and public operas that Mozart directed. Yet, he could not stand the man. He even went as far as hiring a maid to clean the Mozart home, so that he could gather incriminating information on the work he was composing. These conflicting ideals soon led Salieri into a plot that would not only eliminate Mozart, but would also allow Salieri to take credit for a final composition, The Requiem. Taking the guise an anonymous benefactor, Salieri commissioned Mozart to write the Requiem in short order. The pressure to finish the piece as well as the other pieces Mozart was working on eventually led to a break down in Mozart’s health. A break down that would culminate in Mozart falling out during a performance of “The Magic Flute”. Salieri was conveniently present and was the person that took Mozart home. Instead of seeking the medical help that Mozart desperately needed, Salieri convinces Mozart to complete the work that he secretly commissioned at times driving him to complete exhaustion. The two work the rest of the night on the piece before Mozart finally succumbs to his tiredness and eventually dies. It is a death that Salieri takes credit for in the opening scene of the movie during his attempted
Throughout the play, Hamlet is shown as being a planner and this is highlighted with his organisation of the dumb show and the play within a play in act three, scene two. He gives the players clear instructions as to the performance of the play, an adaptation of "The murder of Gonzago" which Hamlet uses to try to prompt a reaction from his Uncle, the king. At the end of the performance, Hamlet sees the play as a success and he orders music, "Ah, ha! Come, some music…" However, dramatic irony is used at this point because the audience can see that Hamlet's plot has backfired because the king is "red with choler" and although there is now no doubt that the king was responsible for the unprovoked murder of Claudius, Hamlet's father, Hamlet underestimates the extent of the King's anger and does not realise the danger that he is in.
Throughout the documentary, the film maker illustrates the important events and characters that influenced Germany and Bonhoeffer by combining several aesthetic elements. As the documentary begins, we learn that Bonhoeffer was raised in a privileged district outside of Berlin. His father...
The story of P. T. Anderson’s Hard Eight, as made clear in the latter half of the film, is a story of redemption. Sidney, played by Phillip Baker Hall, is an ex-mobster responsible for the death of John’s father. Stricken with grief and regret, Sidney assumes the father figure role in John’s life. In finding John down on his luck, Sidney takes him under his wing and makes John his own apprentice. Teaching John how to play the casinos and live the life of a full time gambler, Sidney grows to love John as if he were his own son. He cares for his relationship to John so much, in fact, that he would kill to protect it. This film was the directorial debut of Paul Thomas Anderson. In it, as in his later films, there is a concentration on father figures. The absence of a conventional father figure is one that has been dealt with in stories as old as time itself. While Sydney’s actions are noble, it is questionable whether he deserves his forgiveness due to his dishonesty.
Also in the movie it shows that Mozart was more experienced at music than Salieri and proved that he could have a spot to work for Salieri’s boss Emperor Joseph 11. Once Salieri heard that the Emperor
One of the most interesting challenges in operatic composition , is composing for all the specific characters. A composer has to distinguish between characters through his music. Jan can’t sound like Fran , and Dan can’t sound like Stan. Each character must have his or her own traits. Mozart’s opera , Don Giovanni , provides us with many different characters to compare and contrast. One scene in particular lends itself to the comparison of Don Giovanni , Leporello , and The Commendator. Scene fifteen of Act two, places all three characters in close interaction with each other , making it easy to compare and find out how Mozart and his Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte brought them all to life.
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.
... movie stars like royalty or mythical gods and goddesses, viewing the drama between great archetypal characters in a personal psychic realm. By considering the statements made and their societal impact from a Marxist perspective, Benjamin’s method is highly effective, as it does not simply consider art in terms of pure aesthetics anymore, but considers art’s place in a society capable of mechanically reproducing and endlessly duplicating film, photography, and digital art. His qualm with losing the aura and mystique of an original work is negated by the cult of movie stars, the adoration of fame, the incorporation of soundtracks which embody a particular time period, cinematographic allusions, and time-capsule-like qualities of a film such as Basquiat, a 90s tribute to the 80s, produced both as a part of and resulting from the art movements and trends it addresses.
In this town lies the greatest hotel of all time during this era. It is an institution of all hotels, a great example of what a hotel and its staff should be like. In the movie, we see one main character, M Gustave the Manager of the Grand Budapest Hotel. In the movie, these two main characters find themselves going through many rough challenges. M Gustave is a great man. He makes sure that all of his guest are happy, and he makes sure to take care of all of their needs even if it requires pleasuring sex. In Mr. Gustave’s eager to please attitude, expecting nothing in return. He finds himself gifted a famous painting called “The boy With Apple.” From this unexpected gift he finds himself running away from bad people so that he is not
Bernardo dies trying to defend Maria’s honor. Not wanting a marriage to ensue between Maria and Tony and out of vengeance for her brother, Chino takes it upon himself to kill Tony. Bibliography Bernstein, Leonard, and Arthur Laurent. West Side Story: A musical. New York: Random House, 1958.
The spectacle and melody in the movie are the “pleasurable accessories of Tragedy” in that, despite their minor roles, they are two parts of the whole in a tragedy (72). The thought and diction behind a character’s lines or lack thereof carry messages of significance to carry out the plot and convey the morals behind its actions to the audience. The characters of a tragedy are defined by the actions they take and act as a medium to convey their moral purpose in the plot. Finally, the plot must flow from its beginning to its end with a unified, cohesive series of events while revealing peripeteia and discoveries as the tragedy draws closer to its conclusion. In the end, Bruno, a boy stuck in-between his family and their country’s beliefs and his friendship with Shmuel, the Jew Bruno was supposed to be brought up to hate, would eventually lead to his untimely death whilst not understanding the gravity of the situation surrounding Nazi Germany during the World
His girlfriend casually tells him as she is falling asleep that his mother had called and said that his friend had passed away from home. As Salvator is laying in bed and he calls his mother back he had realized then that it was Alfredo who had passed, he became very upset quickly. Salvato has a flashback to when he was a child and how him and Alfredo always made film together and Alfredo taught him everything he knows. Alfredo is Toto’s role model and he looks up to him and Alfredo is the reason why Salvator fell in love with film making in the first place. One part of the movie when the film studio accidentally caught on fire, Toto ended up saving Alfredo from the fire by pulling him down the stairs. Alfredo was Salvatore 's best friend he would have done anything for him. Alfredo did warn Toto it was dangerous to work there, Alfredo actually went blind because of the fire. Then they built the new theatre, Cinema Paradis and reconstructed what was lost in a brighter and newer way. Throughout the film Toto’s life experienced all the things a normal man should, he fell in love with this girl named Elena but she did not love him back at first, but he told her he will wait as long as it takes. Then he left for the military but returned safe home thankfully. All his adventures throughout life made him realize what was truly important
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is often referred to as the greatest musical genius of all time in Western musical tradition. His creative method was extraordinary: his writings show that he almost always wrote a complete composition mentally before finally writing it on paper. Mozart created 600 works in his short life of 35 years. His works included 16 operas, 41 symphonies, 27 piano concerti, and 5 violin concerti, 25 string quartets, and 19 masses.
...director did not limit the film to its historical context but extended the same to romance and fantasy. From a different angle of view, the director made use of the theme to communicate with the viewers and the fictional characters can be considered as his tools. Besides, ample importance is given to historical and fictional characters. In short, the amalgamation of history, fantasy and romance constituted much to the film’s importance as a historical/fictional masterpiece.