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In Reply to: Excellent film, terrible history . . . posted by Auricle on October 27, 2004 at 10:27:19:
This film was about the genius of mozart told as an art - it was after all a fairly close re-telling of the Peter Shaffer play - though there were previous stories. The play is better than the film in that it is made more clear that this is a story from Salieri's perspective - and thus that allows historical mistakes to be tossed out as "well it is from one person's memory" especially when it's all fictitious.Still we don't go to movies or documentaries for historical truths and nor should anyone be going to history textbooks that you got in elementary school for historical accuracy. I'm not sure why there is a fuss over how Mozart died - he did -- simple.
Amadeus is one of the better films available if for no other reason than it intrduces Mozart's to a lot of people who may not have really bothered to give Mozart's music a try or classical music a good listen. Excellent performance from Abraham and Hulce.
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It's clearer in Shaffer's play (which I was lucky enough to see on stage) than it is in the film, but the real drama is about the nature of art and genius. The historical Salieri & Mozart are the characters through which this theme is explored and developed, and Salieri is actually the protagonist.
Well human mind is curious by nature, and if a man of this stature died and was burried in a mass grave, one is entitled to ask " why "...
Of course it is only an academic question, and we can live with his music without asking what may look trivial.
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