Not Rowley Jefferson “Leck mich im arsch” had cultural significance in Germany-it was a saying derived from a Goethe play. I used to think that piece was a joke, but it’s a celebration of German independence
It's always interesting to me how Mozart was characterized as a rockstar of his time in this movie. His colored wigs, goofy and outlandish behavior, and cultural breaking music for his time.
They are two tropes if comedy: The august clown and whiteface clown The august clown is the classic red nose, based on childish naive and rebellious personality, the fool. The white face clown is the stubborn tall, serious, sometimes depressed and takes everything too serious. U can find them everywhere, from shakespear to dinsey, like timon and pumba or pinky and the brain etc etc
The best character introduction they could give him. I mean, can we appreciate how seamlessly it moves from one thing to the next and still covers everything you need to know?
I love how she is like “No I won’t marry you! You’re a fiend”. Then he hears his music and jumps totally out of child mode. I can totally relate to him. Also, those cans are inspiration for a thousand opera’s!
i love how Saleiri looks a little confused as they roll out from under the table. And then frightened as she's yelling, "Stop it":: it looks like he is about to crawl out and help her, but then he realizes they are just playing/having fun (sort-of).
I mean, there is SOME TRUTH to the play/story “Amadeus.” Mozart REALLY WAS a musical prodigy, who wrote his first instrumental composition when he was just five years old called Minuet and Trio in G Major. By eight years old he had composed his first symphony. the time he was twelve he had written music for an opera for the first time called “Apollo et Hyacinthius.”He DID die at the age of just 35 years old, which is a pretty young age to die at, even by 17th-18th life expectancy standards, considering the fact that people usually could make it to AT LEAST their 60s-early 70s back then. However, it was likely due to a bacterial, viral, and/or parasitic infection, organ failure, or traumatic brain injury, such as streptococcal throat infection, dysentery, rheumatic fever, trichinosis, a subdural hematoma from falling, kidney failure, or so on, not Salieri driving him to his death. Still, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s father Leopold Mozart REALLY WAS a composer himself, who nurtured his son’s talents by taking him under his wing to teach him everything he knew about music, and toured all of Europe with his son to show off his musical talents. While they were close before he got married to Constanze, there really WAS a kind of a drift between Wolfgang and his father because Leopold did not like the wife his son chose or the family she came from. That story Emperor Joseph II of Rome told about Wolfgang asking his sister Marie Antoinette to marry him when he was a little boy at their palace after playing for their family, actually IS true. Additionally, Wolfgang Mozart REALLY WAS a spendthrift who spent money excessively on himself, his wife, and his son, so he WAS in debt a lot because of his poor spending habits. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart also REALLY DID have a dirty low brow sense of humor, like in the movie. However, Wolfgang Mozart WASN’T an alcoholic, a playboy who slept around with a lot of women, a hard partier, or that obnoxiously arrogant and loud mouthed in real life. He was much more introverted and quiet than he was portrayed in Amadeus in real life. There also isn’t any evidence that Salieri killed him out of envy and resentment. There’s more evidence that they actually were friends with each other in real life, who openly admired each other’s work. Salieri also wasn’t this extremely devout Catholic in real life, who vowed to remain abstinent throughout his life to his God in exchange for the ability to become a great composer and musician. In fact, he had a wife and several sons. There is no evidence that Mozart ever had an affair with the opera singer Caterina Cavileri, the original young lyric/coloratura soprano who sang the lead role of Konstanze in Mozart’s German opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. In real life, Wolfgang was fully devoted to Constanze after they became engaged and got married. In fact, in real life, there’s actually MORE evidence that SALIERI had an affair with Caterina Cavileri than Mozart. While there are PARTS of truth to real life here and there, the writers of Amadeus definitely made Salieri much more austere and conservative than he actually was in real life, and they made Mozart much more of a childish, outgoing, and popular party boy and player than he actually was in real life, so that they could give Salieri a reason to despise him so much that he would want to kill him in the play and movie. Amadeus is an entertaining movie and play, but it’s NOT ENTIRELY historically accurate. A LOT of liberties were taken with Mozart’s and especially Salieri’s characters. That being said, I actually thought the script writers of this movie did a pretty good job of showing the audience how Salieri’s music in operas were more popular in Rome and Vienna with the emperor and the rest of the audiences at the time back in 18th century Europe. Years after his death in Salieri’s old age when he was dying during the 19th century (1820s) , Mozart’s tune from the first movement of “Eine Klein Nachtmusik” (A Little Night Music) was the one who’s music the younger priest knew the melody of. However, when Salieri played his music for him, he said he’d never heard it before. Sadly, that is kind of just how little recognition Salieri’s music got in the 19th-21st century in comparison to Mozart’s. I mean, I can’t blame anyone for liking Mozart’s music more in recent centuries. Mozart’s music generally has more complex, flowing, poppy, and long-patterned melodies that are bound to get stuck in people’s heads in comparison to Salieri’s more conventional and straightforward music compositions . Recent generations really enjoy quickly moving, complex, light, easily recognizable, and poppy melodies that get stuck in their heads. Still, it is kind of sad when you realize that Salieri’s life and music would have probably completely faded into oblivion after his death, if it weren’t for that rumor that he killed Mozart after saying it when he was a demented and senile elderly man, in spite of their being no evidence of it otherwise. Back in the 1700s, however, it was Mozart’s music that was under more criticism than Salieri’s because it was less conventional than his at the time. The emperor thought there were too many notes in his opera the Abduction from the Seraglio, so he ordered for some of them to be cut, which was shown in the movie Amadeus. The emperor didn’t like the entire ballet sequence in opera the The Marriage of Figaro that just had music playing the background, while no one was singing.
Mozart and his sister knew several languages so well that they interwove words from one tongue into another effortlessly, devising a language of their own, I read somewhere.
@@hujar5011 You're not getting it, bladerunner was a creole language. What mozart did was randomizing different languages which is totally different. Creole language is established, you say the same thing it will be the same thing, Random is just that, random and not a language by itself. The same thing can be said many times differently.
@@flybeep1661 my son met his cousin in China. the toddlers invented their own language in days. He spoke English and Mandarin, she spoke Japanese. People find a way; even if they're under TWO.
One of my favorite quotes from this magnificent film! F. Murray Abraham killed it in this movie; every line, every intonation, and emotion was pitch-perfect as he carries the audience along on this all too human journey.
Imagine going back in time. And you see Mozart rolling on the floor laughing hysterically to a woman. Talking about the world being backwards... I think I’d end it right there...
It's funny because the lady who played Constanze was actually given the part precisely because the director felt she was the ugly choice of the final two girls. The director said that based off of what was written of her, she was more homely and not a beacon of beauty because of her modest background.
Imagine you are the smartest person in school and you dedicate your energy and free time into being the best. Then one day you are told your gonna meet someone on Einstein level. You are sitting in a room then this pot smoking hippie walks in and you find out that’s the guy. That’s how Saliari felt here
That's the thing, Saliari took everything too seriously and felt like Mozart insulted his ego. If he actually took time understanding who Mozart was and how gifted he is, he would've been better off.
The beautiful thing about this movie is that it made this period "real". We only know of this time and place from the literature, art and music these people created. Their purpose was to raise humanity as close as it could get to the divine. In this regard they succeeded, because the stereotype of the people of this era is that of being stuffy, aloof, and ridiculously pompous - like us in many ways but untouchable. This film speaks to us because suddenly these people are all real, we "know" them.
Being an entirely fictitious piece written by a 20th century play write (not even an Historian) to appeal to a twentieth century audience (which it did incredibly well) it does nothing of the sort. It is an entirely twentieth century piece of art, and very good at what it is, but history it is not. They are 'real' and you 'know them' because they are your contemporaries! They are not C18th century people at all.
@Jan Berrios the one thing this absolutely excellent film is not, is an accurate portrayal. It was never meant to be, and neither did the author of the equally excellent stage play it was derived from ever claim it to be accurate. Yes, within the frameworks of their believe systems and pressures of their technology they tried to be decent humans, but this film is not in anyway an accurate portrayal of that, nor was it ever meant to be.
His face while she’s figuring the “but I love you”... he just looks so nervous and sincere, and when she gets it and he just nods slightly, mouthing “I love you”. That was sooo sweet.
I get tired of "proper" music historians saying negative things about this film and the way it portrayed Mozart. I have read many accounts of the historic Mozart, the last being The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in which he talks about attending a performance of a court jester who passed gas a lot. These were letters that he sent to his mother. Mozart, in spite of what these music purists would have us believe, was not some dusty icon that we should all venerate as godlike. He was human, and DID have a bawdy sense of humor.
The way he and his wife are playing together is sooooo darn cute! I can't stop smiling! His laugh too! It's so crazy and contagious, sounds like a clown! This is my first time seeing this movie and I'm already starting to like thist! Mozart seems like an awesome and fun guy to be around with, I already love him! It seems so funny and heartwarming. Being a history buff I love seeing historical movies and this has to be the most sweetest one I've ever seen! Edit: I'm surprised with all the swearing. Especially since it's based in the 18th century. I wouldn't think they would have swears back then!
Funnily enough, historically speaking, this is actually surprisingly accurate. This movie gets a lot of things intentionally wrong for the sake of the story (Salieri and Mozart were never actually enemies for example), but Mozart was actually this vulgar (sometimes worse!) at times, although mostly in writing and in private. He did have a very nasty squabble with an Archbishop in his early adulthood, and apparently he was not so terribly respectful or kind to him.
I read about various well known people and their crude sense of humor and apparently it ran in Mozart's family, including his mom who wrote a love note to her husband (on a trip) that mentioned him having to find a way to kiss his own a@@ since he was gone. The amazing thing about this, is he's light years ahead of her in how quickly he thinks, yet never condescending. He brings her into his games as a friend.
The way the music follows the plot throughout the whole movie is magical...just look at the musical buildup as Salieri approaches the orchestra and realizes that the man who was rolling around the floor a minute ago is one of the greatest musical geniuses ever! Amazing use of music, and one amazing movie!
Don't feel silly! I found him attractive, adorable, quirky, frightening, maddening, and all too human and was as wilted as that priest at the end. Talk about a roller coaster of emotions. This movie had it all! The only thing is that I feel Hulce should have received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor because if not for him, the movie wouldn't have worked as well as it did (I believe the gentleman who played the priest should have received an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actor as well because, for the small amount of time he appears on the screen, he is acting as a gauge and reflection for the audience and does it brilliantly).
3:08 You know what I like about this scene? Later in the movie, Salieri describes the flute wavering in the air until the oboe joins in to sweeten the phrase. The music starts out without a conductor(playing as expected) until Mozart arrives(getting back to lead). Idk if that was intention, but it's definently a nice touch
The quote was as so… “On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse, bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly; high above it, an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the very voice of God.”
For some reason i can't stop watching this scene, i wonder if young/adult couples play like this in real life? i adore they way Wolfie is with Constanze the way he caress her legs to calm her, he's too odd and adorable...
highly love it and admire when Amadeus realizes his music has began and Salieri finally finds out (and dissapointed/surprised) who is the source of his favorite notes..
the last word on this clip.."that.." that was mozart!! salieri had a hard time believing a vulgar person to him could produce the 'voice of God' "looks are deceiving. The soprano said while practicing with salieri...
The funny thing is, that Elizabeth Berridge won the casting over the second strong contender, because the makers of the movie considered the other contender TOO BEAUTIFUL for the role ! She tells about it in the making of! She and her colleague were waiting together for the final decision, when Milos Forman entered the room and said: "O.K.! One of you is too beautiful to play Constanze ! So, Elizabeth, you got the part !" 😁
SALIERI: God, make me a great composer. In return, I will be model of virtue! ALSO SALIERI: I think I’ll steal some of these delicious sweets for myself. GOD: Tsk-tsk-tsk. You brought this on yourself...
I love Mozart’s trolling tactic: first, he makes Constance “decode” something backwards that happens to be vulgar. Then, he makes her decode something else that is actually sweet like “marry me,” as then “But, I love you” in order to win her over. Then, once he got her willingly playing the game, he does another 180 by making her spell another vulgar phrase 🤣✋
I love the way they depicted the haughty Prince-Archbishop. He was the last P-A of Salzburg; he fled the city in 1801 at the approach of Napoleon, never to return. Constanza is depicted in the movie as a total scatterbrain-airhead. After Mozart's death, she proved to be a shrewd businesswoman in managing his estate. Mozart's 2 children never married, and thus no grandchildren.
And that was Mozart!! That genius prankster and perfected connoisseur of the scatological, and all sorts of dirty humor of that particular type! Oh, and he's quite the musician as well, quite the talented musical composer (the best and most exquisitely dazzling). Though it was his irregular, scatological, absurd, obscene and even inverted sense of humor that made him World famous, that launched him way up into that very high stratosphere of greatness, and for which he was and is best remembered. Though boy, could Mozart write some great and sublime tunes, amazingly gifted in that department as well. 😊😊😊😊
People who don’t know much of Mozart think of him as some very serious individual but like this really showed him as more of a goofball cause he was one in real life.
The funny thing is Salieri's bitterly envious rivalry with Mozart was largely fabricated after both had died. They didn't make it up for the movie, but the rumor that Salieri had poisoned Mozart arose from a larger rivalry between German and Italian schools of music. Historically, the two composers occasionally competed for certain jobs as court musicians, but there's no documented evidence of them having any personal animus toward the other. In fact, there's even more evidence that they saw each other as colleagues and supported each other's work. They even collaborated on a cantata in 1785 and it's quite good. Their relationship was much more cordial than this film portrays, and it does him a disservice I think to portray him as this jealous scheming wannabe who hated Mozart for his youth and talent.
You're completely right ! Salieri even performed some of Mozart's masses to promote him. And years after Mozart's death he would even become the teacher of Mozart"s youngest son, Franz Xaver Mozart, who was born in the year of Mozart's death (1791) and later became a musical director in Lemberg ( today Lwiw in Ukraine ). Would Salieri have taught Mozart's son, if he had been his jealous enemy ?! Probably not ! If ever than Mozart at first could have had reason to envy Salieri, because Salieri had a position that Mozart always tried to achieve in vain. On the other side, there are statements in some of Mozart's letters, where he actually accuses Salieri of being intrigant against him. But that was an accusation, that Mozart had also brought up against other musicians of influence in other towns, where Mozart had hoped for a position without success, for instance against Abbé Vogler, who was Kapellmeister at the court in Mannheim, later the court was in Munich. So it seems, Mozart was often very suspicious against some of his colleagues, especially the socially successful ones, or he needed someone to blame, when his hopes for a well paid position or a comission for an opera didn't fulfill.
@@gunterangel Thank you for taking the time to write this, I didn't know a lot of that! It's fascinating to learn that it was more Mozart that distrusted Salieri, rather than the other way around.
@@andrewsinclair7159 Many thanks for your nice reply ! It was my pleasure to add my little two cents to your good comment. It's exactly as you said. Of course we can't look into Salieri's heart, nobody can, certainly not since he is dead since nearly 200 years. Maybe he actually envied Mozart for the obviously superior talent of his. But if so, he was always able to keep it to his heart. And there is not the slightest proof, that he ever actively worked against Mozart to hinder his career. He was an artist of great reputation and hadn't the slightest reason to do so. And the assumption that he'd killed Mozart is utterly ridiculous and borders at slander ! No, it doesn't border, IT IS SLANDER ! Sure, it makes for a good drama to paint Salieri as a villain in a biopic of Mozart, because every good and entertaining movie needs a convincing villain, and F.Murray Abraham delivered for sure. As a fictional drama I can really enjoy 'Amadeus', and I buy it from Peter Shaffer, who in the audio-commentary proudly claims, that this movie helped to introduce millions of young people to Mozart's music, that without the movie would arguably never bothered about classical music at all. That is surely a true merit of this well made movie. It works as a brilliant piece of entertainment and helps to promote Mozart and his music. But watching this movie we should never forget, that Salieri was a real human being, that had once lived and breathed, not only a fictional character on the pages of a movie script. I'm really concerned about this reducing of a real human being of actually very good reputation to a movie villain and foil of the hero, here Mozart. It doesn't do him justice. In one scene of 'Amadeus' Salieri tells the priest, that he had taught many pupils and some of them for free, and that is actrually true. Therefore he was maybe a much less selfish and egocentric individual than Mozart was. Among his many pupils are big names like Beethoven, Schubert and Franz Liszt, just to name the most prominent ones. This movie - as any movie - mixes historic facts with fiction and we should be always aware of this. Of course since this movie is a work of art and never claimed to be a documentary, we must give it the licence to do so. Imho there are too many people outthere, who are not able to discern between a historic report about a historic figure and a work of fiction about a period of history. They watch this movie and will take it all for facts. And afterwards they have the illusion, they would know somethng or even everything about Mozart and Salieri, when in reality they do NOT. They really fall for that Hollywood-stereotype of "the good guy", Mozart, vs. "the bad guy', Salieri, forgetting that they haven't watched a well-researched documentary, but only a work of fiction instead. I must say this always bothers me a little bit, even if I have to admit, that I still can enjoy 'Amadeus' as an ingenious piece of cinema. Therefore I would like to say to all viewers of 'Amadeus': Folks, enjoy 'Amadeus' for what it really is, a splendid fictional piece of entertainment, but NOT a documentary . AND NOOOOO : Salieri DID NOT kill Mozart !!!
F. Murray Abraham( Salierie ) won an Oscar for this role, in his speech, he wished that Tom Hulce (Mozart) was beside him to share the Oscar, they both wept. The original actress of Mozart’s wife role got hurt, the director chose this actress ( Elizabeth Berridge ) and was a great choice. What a great movie. Every single scene in this movie is a movie on its own IMHO.
I love Stanzi so much. I first saw this movie when I was 17 and I was so drawn to her, i even named one of my neopets after her 😂 I don’t exactly know why. I guess because she’s just a regular girl. It’s a historical drama, usually those are full of incredibly remarkable people, but she’s just some girl who happened to marry the most famous composer in history. She herself isn’t that musical, she’s not, like, a magnificent soprano or a piano virtuoso, and she’s not there to be his muse. She’s not particularly virtuous, or courageous, or intelligent, or spellbindingly beautiful. She’s the daughter of a landlady with a bunch of older sisters, i hoping to marry someone who can put a roof over her head and pay for some clothes and wigs. She likes to sleep in, eat junk food, and she’s not a great housekeeper. She doesn’t like her father in law. She herself isn’t the worlds greatest mother. If she hadn’t married Mozart, I’m sure she’d be lost to history completely, or almost completely. That’s why she’s so fascinating, and Ms. Berridge does such a good job bringing her to life.
I remember watching this in school years ago & our teacher fast forwarded through this part. 😂 She didn't think the cleveage scene was appropriate for us.
@@nautilus2612 There is a rare 1986 tv edit that ahem she does show a bit more cleavage and in that rare tv edit because the curse words aren't said in the broadcast, other words are said! This version has only aired once and never again! Mozart also licks Constanza's breasts with his back facing the camera in the theatrical version he kisses her breasts. Only if someone has the WPIX Channel 11 New York first premiere broadcast version!🤔📺📼🤷
What a way to describe such beautiful music - On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse, bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly; high above it, an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the very voice of God.
Life is at the least, very bizarre. Geniuses are usually so very strange, shuned, ostracized, even jailed. 'Irony' is a perversion. These people give us the very greatest of gifts, and all too often they die broke and alone. Very strange. Too.
I think perhaps the richest man in Vienna in those days was the wig salesman.
I guess he hated the French Revolution when all threw their wigs.
Must have been a smart man
... . . And in Salzburg
. .... and Prague ??
kev3d I completely agree
*wig manufacturers
This showed to you that when it came to music, Mozart was dead serious.
SomeoneCommenting Oh boy, wait until you listen to his piece Leck mich im Arsch
@@notrowleyjefferson1951 political correctness on the air
Not Rowley Jefferson “Leck mich im arsch” had cultural significance in Germany-it was a saying derived from a Goethe play. I used to think that piece was a joke, but it’s a celebration of German independence
@@andrewfortmusic Germany wasn't even a country back then
@@SuperNovaJinckUFO No, but German nationalism was beginning to brew.
How Mozart laughs is pretty much how I laugh.
Wolfgang Icarus Oh, I'm sorry, I can't really find where I told you that I cared?
Wolfgang Icarus Let me speak in your language since you can't seem to understand what I'm saying. I don't give a damn.
LOL you're literally the dumbest person I've ever talked to
never stop laughing
Nanami Nai is
I love Constanze's voice. It contrasts from Wolfgang's so wildly. Her voice is smooth and calm and his is a roller coaster of pitch.
Uh, I don't think that's Constanze. I could be wrong, though.
@@pyromania1018 it is her, check on google on 'amadeus cast'
Jackson Rushing you dumbo her name is Constanze !!!!!
@HelenofTroy DeGhent Who the hell cares about brains?
Thats the emperor sis msrie antoinette
The problem with Salieri was that he didnt have a nice white wig.
guidc Or because he wasn’t blessed with a maniacal laugh
LOL
No Salieri needed a pink wig too
Abraham's performance won him an Oscar for this movie. Just see how great the acting was in that scene.
2:40 when Salieri gets it before she does
guitarvibe75 wgat is your profile picture?
OMG I've seen this movie 1000 times and I never noticed that LOL
Eat my shit
Piano piano piano...
How he didn’t write « Figaro »,
O I guess we’ll never know
He did that because Amadeus is kissing Costanze's hills😂😂😂
It's always interesting to me how Mozart was characterized as a rockstar of his time in this movie. His colored wigs, goofy and outlandish behavior, and cultural breaking music for his time.
Mozart was kinda like that IRL. Except for the colored wigs I guess.
Rock Me, Amadeus would probably be his favorite modern song.
colored wigs = movie produced in the mid'80s; makes sense
@@jjrj8568 Yep, this was during the punk era in England and hair metal still exist.
I fucking loath the "historic personage was rockstar of their time" trope
Mozart:spongebob
Seileri:squedward
Stolen
So trueeee
They are two tropes if comedy:
The august clown and whiteface clown
The august clown is the classic red nose, based on childish naive and rebellious personality, the fool.
The white face clown is the stubborn tall, serious, sometimes depressed and takes everything too serious.
U can find them everywhere, from shakespear to dinsey, like timon and pumba or pinky and the brain etc etc
lol wtf
@@MarkFilipAnthony Bart and ernie
Aw, you cut out one of the best quotes!
"THAT was Mozart! That, that disgusting little creature I had just seen crawling on the floor!"
no, it was: "THAT, was Mozart! That! That giggling, dirty-minded creature I'd just seen, rolling on the floor!"
CandyFanatic19 LOl
CandyFanatic19 lol
That line made the scene for me. It's a shame that line was cut from this clip.
Actually the best scenes because as he’s telling the story and it cuts to him it’s nice
The best character introduction they could give him. I mean, can we appreciate how seamlessly it moves from one thing to the next and still covers everything you need to know?
Yes!!
I love how she is like “No I won’t marry you! You’re a fiend”. Then he hears his music and jumps totally out of child mode. I can totally relate to him. Also, those cans are inspiration for a thousand opera’s!
I gave them their own round of applause :)
LMFAO
Gorgeous melons
Tis robust music
lmao
Greatest reveal of a main character in film history!!!
Usual Suspects rivals it surely ;-)
I agree. This is the best.
The Dark Knight's reveal of the joker was pretty good too.
What about Indiana Jones
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey what about it
i love how Saleiri looks a little confused as they roll out from under the table. And then frightened as she's yelling, "Stop it":: it looks like he is about to crawl out and help her, but then he realizes they are just playing/having fun (sort-of).
sort of? hell nah, they was having epic fun time!
But really tho he's creepin hard
@@Killenmachine05 that's his girlfriend, sicko
@@nautilus2612 doesn't look like it to me
@@Killenmachine05
I mean in the movie she is
“ that vulgar dirty minded creature crawling on the floor that was Mozart“ I laughed my ass off when he said that
I mean, there is SOME TRUTH to the play/story “Amadeus.” Mozart REALLY WAS a musical prodigy, who wrote his first instrumental composition when he was just five years old called Minuet and Trio in G Major. By eight years old he had composed his first symphony. the time he was twelve he had written music for an opera for the first time called “Apollo et Hyacinthius.”He DID die at the age of just 35 years old, which is a pretty young age to die at, even by 17th-18th life expectancy standards, considering the fact that people usually could make it to AT LEAST their 60s-early 70s back then. However, it was likely due to a bacterial, viral, and/or parasitic infection, organ failure, or traumatic brain injury, such as streptococcal throat infection, dysentery, rheumatic fever, trichinosis, a subdural hematoma from falling, kidney failure, or so on, not Salieri driving him to his death.
Still, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s father Leopold Mozart REALLY WAS a composer himself, who nurtured his son’s talents by taking him under his wing to teach him everything he knew about music, and toured all of Europe with his son to show off his musical talents. While they were close before he got married to Constanze, there really WAS a kind of a drift between Wolfgang and his father because Leopold did not like the wife his son chose or the family she came from. That story Emperor Joseph II of Rome told about Wolfgang asking his sister Marie Antoinette to marry him when he was a little boy at their palace after playing for their family, actually IS true.
Additionally, Wolfgang Mozart REALLY WAS a spendthrift who spent money excessively on himself, his wife, and his son, so he WAS in debt a lot because of his poor spending habits. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart also REALLY DID have a dirty low brow sense of humor, like in the movie.
However, Wolfgang Mozart WASN’T an alcoholic, a playboy who slept around with a lot of women, a hard partier, or that obnoxiously arrogant and loud mouthed in real life. He was much more introverted and quiet than he was portrayed in Amadeus in real life. There also isn’t any evidence that Salieri killed him out of envy and resentment. There’s more evidence that they actually were friends with each other in real life, who openly admired each other’s work.
Salieri also wasn’t this extremely devout Catholic in real life, who vowed to remain abstinent throughout his life to his God in exchange for the ability to become a great composer and musician. In fact, he had a wife and several sons.
There is no evidence that Mozart ever had an affair with the opera singer Caterina Cavileri, the original young lyric/coloratura soprano who sang the lead role of Konstanze in Mozart’s German opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. In real life, Wolfgang was fully devoted to Constanze after they became engaged and got married. In fact, in real life, there’s actually MORE evidence that SALIERI had an affair with Caterina Cavileri than Mozart.
While there are PARTS of truth to real life here and there, the writers of Amadeus definitely made Salieri much more austere and conservative than he actually was in real life, and they made Mozart much more of a childish, outgoing, and popular party boy and player than he actually was in real life, so that they could give Salieri a reason to despise him so much that he would want to kill him in the play and movie.
Amadeus is an entertaining movie and play, but it’s NOT ENTIRELY historically accurate. A LOT of liberties were taken with Mozart’s and especially Salieri’s characters.
That being said, I actually thought the script writers of this movie did a pretty good job of showing the audience how Salieri’s music in operas were more popular in Rome and Vienna with the emperor and the rest of the audiences at the time back in 18th century Europe. Years after his death in Salieri’s old age when he was dying during the 19th century (1820s) , Mozart’s tune from the first movement of “Eine Klein Nachtmusik” (A Little Night Music) was the one who’s music the younger priest knew the melody of. However, when Salieri played his music for him, he said he’d never heard it before. Sadly, that is kind of just how little recognition Salieri’s music got in the 19th-21st century in comparison to Mozart’s. I mean, I can’t blame anyone for liking Mozart’s music more in recent centuries. Mozart’s music generally has more complex, flowing, poppy, and long-patterned melodies that are bound to get stuck in people’s heads in comparison to Salieri’s more conventional and straightforward music compositions . Recent generations really enjoy quickly moving, complex, light, easily recognizable, and poppy melodies that get stuck in their heads. Still, it is kind of sad when you realize that Salieri’s life and music would have probably completely faded into oblivion after his death, if it weren’t for that rumor that he killed Mozart after saying it when he was a demented and senile elderly man, in spite of their being no evidence of it otherwise.
Back in the 1700s, however, it was Mozart’s music that was under more criticism than Salieri’s because it was less conventional than his at the time. The emperor thought there were too many notes in his opera the Abduction from the Seraglio, so he ordered for some of them to be cut, which was shown in the movie Amadeus. The emperor didn’t like the entire ballet sequence in opera the The Marriage of Figaro that just had music playing the background, while no one was singing.
Mozart and his sister knew several languages so well that they interwove words from one tongue into another effortlessly, devising a language of their own, I read somewhere.
Thusly inspiring city-speak from bladerunner
@@hujar5011 You're not getting it, bladerunner was a creole language. What mozart did was randomizing different languages which is totally different. Creole language is established, you say the same thing it will be the same thing, Random is just that, random and not a language by itself. The same thing can be said many times differently.
All Europeans and Africans and most of the world are like that !
@@flybeep1661 my son met his cousin in China. the toddlers invented their own language in days. He spoke English and Mandarin, she spoke Japanese. People find a way; even if they're under TWO.
Constanze Mozart
Singer ‧ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's wife
Best part of this scene is Salieri figuring out the backwards words lmao
lmaooo poor Tony
“IT’S A SECRET CODE I MUST DECIPHER IT!” 😂
No, the best part are close-ups on Constanze's BOOBS.
4:10 that
"That..." -Antonio Salieri
That was Mozart
That creature little nasty boy who crawled in the floor
(That was the continues of it from the whole movie)
After reading this comment and watching that part again I don't know why buy I can't stop laughing
Jon Smith THAT
HAHAHAHA
"That was Mozart! That, that giggling dirty minded creature I had just seen crawling on the floor!"
One of my favorite quotes from this magnificent film! F. Murray Abraham killed it in this movie; every line, every intonation, and emotion was pitch-perfect as he carries the audience along on this all too human journey.
Well, krishna likes it dirty xD
Imagine going back in time. And you see Mozart rolling on the floor laughing hysterically to a woman. Talking about the world being backwards... I think I’d end it right there...
Different mindset
Constanze is so beautiful:3
+AdaBaeLevi:3 I'm surprised to see people saying "Mozart is so cute" when there's Constanze there D:
Tanya:3 Yasss 😍 She's really pretty
Tanyaaa she’s my wife
Too bad none of their surviving children had their own. They have no people related to them in a direct line today.
It's funny because the lady who played Constanze was actually given the part precisely because the director felt she was the ugly choice of the final two girls. The director said that based off of what was written of her, she was more homely and not a beacon of beauty because of her modest background.
The virgin Saliery vs the chad Mozart
Slaiery had kids. Also this rivalry is fake.
@@liambrooks3987 Dude... Just... Dont, okay?...
@@WhenAllTheWarmthLeavesUs accept your mistakes and make a better joke
@@celestialdiscord2716 what r you talking about?
@@celestialdiscord2716 what mistake?
Imagine you are the smartest person in school and you dedicate your energy and free time into being the best. Then one day you are told your gonna meet someone on Einstein level. You are sitting in a room then this pot smoking hippie walks in and you find out that’s the guy.
That’s how Saliari felt here
Fr
Perfect analogy
That's the thing, Saliari took everything too seriously and felt like Mozart insulted his ego. If he actually took time understanding who Mozart was and how gifted he is, he would've been better off.
The beautiful thing about this movie is that it made this period "real". We only know of this time and place from the literature, art and music these people created. Their purpose was to raise humanity as close as it could get to the divine. In this regard they succeeded, because the stereotype of the people of this era is that of being stuffy, aloof, and ridiculously pompous - like us in many ways but untouchable. This film speaks to us because suddenly these people are all real, we "know" them.
Bang on.
Being an entirely fictitious piece written by a 20th century play write (not even an Historian) to appeal to a twentieth century audience (which it did incredibly well) it does nothing of the sort. It is an entirely twentieth century piece of art, and very good at what it is, but history it is not. They are 'real' and you 'know them' because they are your contemporaries! They are not C18th century people at all.
@@markturner4219 Ok mark.
@Jan Berrios the one thing this absolutely excellent film is not, is an accurate portrayal. It was never meant to be, and neither did the author of the equally excellent stage play it was derived from ever claim it to be accurate. Yes, within the frameworks of their believe systems and pressures of their technology they tried to be decent humans, but this film is not in anyway an accurate portrayal of that, nor was it ever meant to be.
@Jan Berrios Huge amounts of change have happened in my life time. Let alone over 200 plus years.
Also the fact that he said the words backwards so seamlessly shows that he
A) is truly a genius
Or
B) he practiced it in his free time
Maybe both :)
@@josephmathmusic That's what I was thinking... practice makes the master...
Speech is a form of music. He was a genius at music & applied it to speech.
Spoiler alert: He didn't speak English
am I the only one who thinks he's really cute? ♡♡♡
NOO ^-^
I think so too he was fine
he's adorable and like my twin lol
+Maddison Young No!!! Tom Hulce killed it in this movie. He was quite sexy in the 80s
RachelMieleMusic couldn't agree more
Mozart: My music... they started without me...
Salieri: WTF........ IS THAT *HIM* ?!! 😧😧😧
Laughed my butt out!
Ashlyn Wolff you mean ass out
But you did that backwards.
Laughed my butt IN
Salieri @ 2:53 - "Are you fucking KIDDING me???"
he be like: "his music... hiiissss muuuu-AW ELL NO DAT AINT EM DAT AINT MOZART IS IT!!!"
Yea $***wit!!! lol
EAT MY SHORTS!
- Amadeus and Bart
mercuropheliac loool😂
His face while she’s figuring the “but I love you”... he just looks so nervous and sincere, and when she gets it and he just nods slightly, mouthing “I love you”.
That was sooo sweet.
Yes
Ahhh I didn’t notice that until you said it! That was sincere, good eye!
Salieri's reaction in 2:54 is everything!!
Watching this movie will make you love Mozart
True. I have seen this movie and All l want is to be like Mozart . So amazing and genius
you are right, i love him :)
And cleavage
ironically, the purpose of the movie was opposite LOL
And Salieri😂
She's so pretty.
Do you know actress` name?
Elizabeth Berridge
yes.
timties too.
She was 22 in this movie right? Beautiful!!! :)
"kiss my ass" sounds funnier than it should since mozart was into scat
+EpicRainbowLollipop also "eat my shit"
I get tired of "proper" music historians saying negative things about this film and the way it portrayed Mozart. I have read many accounts of the historic Mozart, the last being The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in which he talks about attending a performance of a court jester who passed gas a lot. These were letters that he sent to his mother. Mozart, in spite of what these music purists would have us believe, was not some dusty icon that we should all venerate as godlike. He was human, and DID have a bawdy sense of humor.
He would've absolutely loved some of the movies of today.
Thomas Romano Yeah he even made a song that says "lick my ass, lick it nice and clean lol
EpicRainbowLollipop 😂
The way he and his wife are playing together is sooooo darn cute! I can't stop smiling!
His laugh too! It's so crazy and contagious, sounds like a clown!
This is my first time seeing this movie and I'm already starting to like thist! Mozart seems like an awesome and fun guy to be around with, I already love him! It seems so funny and heartwarming. Being a history buff I love seeing historical movies and this has to be the most sweetest one I've ever seen!
Edit: I'm surprised with all the swearing. Especially since it's based in the 18th century. I wouldn't think they would have swears back then!
Oh they had swears
We get it, you are all wet.
@@ComradeHellas
Not wet.
I'm fangirling!
Darling, they hella did 😉
I appreciate the fangirl comments on this video. As a devout lover of Mozart, I rarely see people adoring him in such a way.
Funnily enough, historically speaking, this is actually surprisingly accurate. This movie gets a lot of things intentionally wrong for the sake of the story (Salieri and Mozart were never actually enemies for example), but Mozart was actually this vulgar (sometimes worse!) at times, although mostly in writing and in private. He did have a very nasty squabble with an Archbishop in his early adulthood, and apparently he was not so terribly respectful or kind to him.
I read about various well known people and their crude sense of humor and apparently it ran in Mozart's family, including his mom who wrote a love note to her husband (on a trip) that mentioned him having to find a way to kiss his own a@@ since he was gone. The amazing thing about this, is he's light years ahead of her in how quickly he thinks, yet never condescending. He brings her into his games as a friend.
The way the music follows the plot throughout the whole movie is magical...just look at the musical buildup as Salieri approaches the orchestra and realizes that the man who was rolling around the floor a minute ago is one of the greatest musical geniuses ever! Amazing use of music, and one amazing movie!
We watched this movie in music class but this was the one scene we couldn't watch. Everyone was like NOOOO!!!! But now I saw it😊
Your worst Nightmare my teacher let us watch this scene, all the males were perverts
They let you see the part where constanze gets her warlocks out?
We watched some clips of Amadeus too in our music class at school last year! That's how I discovered this movie and I've loved it since then! 😆😆😆😆
Why didn't they want to watch it? It's such a cute scene!
@@AWlpsSHOW36 probably because of books and dirty jokes
I just love the playful flirtation of this scene. It’s very realistic in a lot of ways.
I have a huge crush on Tom Hulce in this movie and I can't feel more silly 😭
Why do you feel silly? :)
I think he is very cute. I love his laugh 😂😁😍
Don't feel silly! I found him attractive, adorable, quirky, frightening, maddening, and all too human and was as wilted as that priest at the end. Talk about a roller coaster of emotions. This movie had it all! The only thing is that I feel Hulce should have received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor because if not for him, the movie wouldn't have worked as well as it did (I believe the gentleman who played the priest should have received an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actor as well because, for the small amount of time he appears on the screen, he is acting as a gauge and reflection for the audience and does it brilliantly).
3:08 You know what I like about this scene? Later in the movie, Salieri describes the flute wavering in the air until the oboe joins in to sweeten the phrase. The music starts out without a conductor(playing as expected) until Mozart arrives(getting back to lead).
Idk if that was intention, but it's definently a nice touch
The quote was as so…
“On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse, bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly; high above it, an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the very voice of God.”
One of the greatest movies ever made
Before watching this movie, any non-music historians would've easily have thought that Mozart was this highly professional and pedantic type of person
For some reason i can't stop watching this scene, i wonder if young/adult couples play like this in real life? i adore they way Wolfie is with Constanze the way he caress her legs to calm her, he's too odd and adorable...
no. young adults don't play like this. I think. Perhaps it was unique on Amadeus as he appeared to have HD; hyper activity disorder
highly love it and admire when Amadeus realizes his music has began and Salieri finally finds out (and dissapointed/surprised) who is the source of his favorite notes..
the last word on this clip.."that.." that was mozart!! salieri had a hard time believing a vulgar person to him could produce the 'voice of God' "looks are deceiving. The soprano said while practicing with salieri...
I'd caress ur leg, 2 calm u down.
"he appeared to have hd" is you dumb
I don't know why but Mozart and Salieri gives me a strong impression of Spongebob and Squidward.
She's too beautiful and has such a wonderful voice!
The whole film I couldn't get over her. Still can't actually
The funny thing is, that Elizabeth Berridge won the casting over the second strong contender, because the makers of the movie considered the other contender TOO BEAUTIFUL for the role !
She tells about it in the making of!
She and her colleague were waiting together for the final decision, when Milos Forman entered the room and said:
"O.K.! One of you is too beautiful to play Constanze !
So, Elizabeth, you got the part !"
😁
SALIERI: God, make me a great composer. In return, I will be model of virtue!
ALSO SALIERI: I think I’ll steal some of these delicious sweets for myself.
GOD: Tsk-tsk-tsk. You brought this on yourself...
good point, which remind me, never trust on someone who is eating lots of sweet/sugar things!
OMG I am in LOVE with Wolfie because he soooooo adorable and I love his laugh I wish I was in that movie talking the role for constanzi
that's Tom Hulce for you :D
Ashley Martinez awwww
Same!
Me too . I love him . Really . So sad he died
...
we should dress like this again!
no way in hell. i may love Mozart's fluffy wigs, but i also love my captain America t shirts. no dress and ten foot wigs for me
dekubaner yessss i want to
No god know, the outfits people wore back in those days were horrifically uncomfortable, especially for women.
im in
Naw, fuck that
2:53 that is why F. Murray Abraham got the Oscar.
I love Mozart’s trolling tactic: first, he makes Constance “decode” something backwards that happens to be vulgar. Then, he makes her decode something else that is actually sweet like “marry me,” as then “But, I love you” in order to win her over. Then, once he got her willingly playing the game, he does another 180 by making her spell another vulgar phrase 🤣✋
I love the way they depicted the haughty Prince-Archbishop. He was the last P-A of Salzburg; he fled the city in 1801 at the approach of Napoleon, never to return. Constanza is depicted in the movie as a total scatterbrain-airhead. After Mozart's death, she proved to be a shrewd businesswoman in managing his estate. Mozart's 2 children never married, and thus no grandchildren.
She's not a scatterbrained airhead - she's the practical one.
And that was Mozart!! That genius prankster and perfected connoisseur of the scatological, and all sorts of dirty humor of that particular type! Oh, and he's quite the musician as well, quite the talented musical composer (the best and most exquisitely dazzling). Though it was his irregular, scatological, absurd, obscene and even inverted sense of humor that made him World famous, that launched him way up into that very high stratosphere of greatness, and for which he was and is best remembered. Though boy, could Mozart write some great and sublime tunes, amazingly gifted in that department as well. 😊😊😊😊
I love how Salieri is always stalking Mozart. It is as he said: "He was my idol".
Not only did mozart love music but he was also a man of culture..
2:18 "I love you"
People who don’t know much of Mozart think of him as some very serious individual but like this really showed him as more of a goofball cause he was one in real life.
He wasn't a goofball in real life, he just liked fart jokes.
The funny thing is Salieri's bitterly envious rivalry with Mozart was largely fabricated after both had died. They didn't make it up for the movie, but the rumor that Salieri had poisoned Mozart arose from a larger rivalry between German and Italian schools of music. Historically, the two composers occasionally competed for certain jobs as court musicians, but there's no documented evidence of them having any personal animus toward the other. In fact, there's even more evidence that they saw each other as colleagues and supported each other's work. They even collaborated on a cantata in 1785 and it's quite good. Their relationship was much more cordial than this film portrays, and it does him a disservice I think to portray him as this jealous scheming wannabe who hated Mozart for his youth and talent.
You're completely right !
Salieri even performed some of Mozart's masses to promote him.
And years after Mozart's death he would even become the teacher of Mozart"s youngest son, Franz Xaver Mozart, who was born in the year of Mozart's death (1791) and later became a musical director in Lemberg ( today Lwiw in Ukraine ).
Would Salieri have taught Mozart's son, if he had been his jealous enemy ?! Probably not !
If ever than Mozart at first could have had reason to envy Salieri, because Salieri had a position that Mozart always tried to achieve in vain.
On the other side, there are statements in some of Mozart's letters, where he actually accuses Salieri of being intrigant against him.
But that was an accusation, that Mozart had also brought up against other musicians of influence in other towns, where Mozart had hoped for a position without success, for instance against Abbé Vogler, who was Kapellmeister at the court in Mannheim, later the court was in Munich.
So it seems, Mozart was often very suspicious against some of his colleagues, especially the socially successful ones, or he needed someone to blame, when his hopes for a well paid position or a comission for an opera didn't fulfill.
@@gunterangel Thank you for taking the time to write this, I didn't know a lot of that! It's fascinating to learn that it was more Mozart that distrusted Salieri, rather than the other way around.
@@andrewsinclair7159
Many thanks for your nice reply !
It was my pleasure to add my little two cents to your good comment.
It's exactly as you said.
Of course we can't look into Salieri's heart, nobody can, certainly not since he is dead since nearly 200 years.
Maybe he actually envied Mozart for the obviously superior talent of his.
But if so, he was always able to keep it to his heart.
And there is not the slightest proof, that he ever actively worked against Mozart to hinder his career.
He was an artist of great reputation and hadn't the slightest reason to do so.
And the assumption that he'd killed Mozart is utterly ridiculous and borders at slander !
No, it doesn't border, IT IS SLANDER !
Sure, it makes for a good drama to paint Salieri as a villain in a biopic of Mozart, because every good and entertaining movie needs a convincing villain, and F.Murray Abraham delivered for sure.
As a fictional drama I can really enjoy 'Amadeus', and I buy it from Peter Shaffer, who in the audio-commentary proudly claims, that this movie helped to introduce millions of young people to Mozart's music, that without the movie would arguably never bothered about classical music at all.
That is surely a true merit of this well made movie.
It works as a brilliant piece of entertainment and helps to promote Mozart and his music.
But watching this movie we should never forget, that Salieri was a real human being, that had once lived and breathed, not only a fictional character on the pages of a movie script.
I'm really concerned about this reducing of a real human being of actually very good reputation to a movie villain and foil of the hero, here Mozart. It doesn't do him justice.
In one scene of 'Amadeus' Salieri tells the priest, that he had taught many pupils and some of them for free, and that is actrually true.
Therefore he was maybe a much less selfish and egocentric individual than Mozart was.
Among his many pupils are big names like Beethoven, Schubert and Franz Liszt, just to name the most prominent ones.
This movie - as any movie - mixes historic facts with fiction and we should be always aware of this.
Of course since this movie is a work of art and never claimed to be a documentary, we must give it the licence to do so.
Imho there are too many people outthere, who are not able to discern between a historic report about a historic figure and a work of fiction about a period of history.
They watch this movie and will take it all for facts.
And afterwards they have the illusion, they would know somethng or even everything about Mozart and Salieri, when in reality they do NOT.
They really fall for that Hollywood-stereotype of "the good guy", Mozart, vs. "the bad guy', Salieri, forgetting that they haven't watched a well-researched documentary, but only a work of fiction instead.
I must say this always bothers me a little bit, even if I have to admit, that I still can enjoy 'Amadeus' as an ingenious piece of cinema.
Therefore I would like to say to all viewers of 'Amadeus':
Folks, enjoy 'Amadeus' for what it really is, a splendid fictional piece of entertainment, but NOT a documentary .
AND NOOOOO : Salieri DID NOT kill Mozart !!!
F. Murray Abraham( Salierie ) won an Oscar for this role, in his speech, he wished that Tom Hulce (Mozart) was beside him to share the Oscar, they both wept. The original actress of Mozart’s wife role got hurt, the director chose this actress ( Elizabeth Berridge ) and was a great choice. What a great movie. Every single scene in this movie is a movie on its own IMHO.
''MY MUSIK...THEY STARTED WITH AOUT ME''.....AND SALIERI GOT HIS FIRST HEART ATTACK..............
My fav scene and a bit sexual
Sc0pe Sk8 nice pfp
@@r4vnclaw 2 years since that comment was put on the intertubes, and I find it just 16 hours after someone replied to it.
I feel special somehow.
@@TheEnderLeader1 Good... yees... hahaha... good..
O
Do you know actress` name?
this move could be made now and win 8 Oscars and still deserve each and every single one
Version 1
Mozart: “My music... They started without me"
Salieri: *Surprised Pikachu face*
_10/05/2020 1:20pm_
Interesting! You timestamp your comments.
*"SAY IT BACKWARDS, SHIT-WIT!!"*
this movie is epic and will never get old...
I saw this movie with my parents at the Seville theater in Kansas City (now closed) in 1984 when I was nineteen. Ah, those were the days.
lucky you...
i did too...
Wes Bervig are you sure it wasnt made in the early 2000s?
You are 54 years old Wes Bervig , go get a life dude 😑
@@doyle8120 Why? What's the problem?
My my he is an excellent runner 😂
Lol :D
one of my talents i must say
@@wolfgangamadeusmozart9826 Hi dude
I'd like to see him and Ozzy Osbourne in conversation.
We all know your here because u wanted to see the part your teacher skipped
That slide across the threshold, the hair adjustment. Epitome of cool.
One of the best movies of the 1980's. Absolutely loved it, & his laugh!
this move could be made now and win 8 Oscars and still deserve each and every single one
One of the best movies ever
@@greengamerguy623 i doubt that, given that Salieri isn't gay for Mozart and the emperor isn't played by Will Smith
This man managed to make a fart joke and kiss a girl in the same minute, what a legend.
😭
I love the way they depicted the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg...he was every bit as imperious as shown here in the movie.
You knew him?
I love Stanzi so much. I first saw this movie when I was 17 and I was so drawn to her, i even named one of my neopets after her 😂
I don’t exactly know why. I guess because she’s just a regular girl.
It’s a historical drama, usually those are full of incredibly remarkable people, but she’s just some girl who happened to marry the most famous composer in history. She herself isn’t that musical, she’s not, like, a magnificent soprano or a piano virtuoso, and she’s not there to be his muse. She’s not particularly virtuous, or courageous, or intelligent, or spellbindingly beautiful. She’s the daughter of a landlady with a bunch of older sisters, i hoping to marry someone who can put a roof over her head and pay for some clothes and wigs. She likes to sleep in, eat junk food, and she’s not a great housekeeper. She doesn’t like her father in law. She herself isn’t the worlds greatest mother.
If she hadn’t married Mozart, I’m sure she’d be lost to history completely, or almost completely. That’s why she’s so fascinating, and Ms. Berridge does such a good job bringing her to life.
Tom Hulce was perfect for this role. I love this movie!
3:08 love how the camera is shaking and right away, when it comes to music, the camera move fixely
The music:
Mozart: Serenade No.10 in B-Flat for Winds and Contrabass (‘Gran Partita’), K.361
3rd mvt - Adagio
7th mvt - Finale: Molto allegro
2:39 Salieri's face when he realized what the sentence is backwards😂
The details in this movie!🤩🤯✨
The scene when mom pops up to see what movie I'm watching 2:29
lol
Xd
hahaha this is gold, my friend
That look on Saileiri's face is priceless
That would not work out well in mozarts actual language
Esseisch eneim si
Idk looks like it works to me
I always wondered about that myself!
why not? works fine in German
The song at the end is Serenade for the Winds Finale
Thanks so much. Been looking this in the comment. Thanks
I remember watching this in school years ago & our teacher fast forwarded through this part. 😂 She didn't think the cleveage scene was appropriate for us.
She was jealous
@@nautilus2612 There is a rare 1986 tv edit that ahem she does show a bit more cleavage and in that rare tv edit because the curse words aren't said in the broadcast, other words are said! This version has only aired once and never again! Mozart also licks Constanza's breasts with his back facing the camera in the theatrical version he kisses her breasts. Only if someone has the WPIX Channel 11 New York first premiere broadcast version!🤔📺📼🤷
When an artist leaves a woman, hot and heavy, for his music. Hahaha. His first love.
serenade for winds
unki3259 thanks!
I thought you were making a joke!
Merci!
Some of Mozart’s lines in this scene sound like they’re straight from his letters.
That laugh!!!! One of the best movies if all time!!
Better laugh by Mordred in the best movie of all time, Excalibur also from the 80's.
I totaly love him
I wonder what will happen if the actual Mozart sees this
Sergeant Veda Ra ...
Imma tweet it at him
@@creepkilla007 😂😂😂
Probably be fucking frightened that his friend Salieri watched him suck his girlfriend's breasts.
i saw this and i love this
What a way to describe such beautiful music -
On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse, bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly; high above it, an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the very voice of God.
My husband acts like this around me, only I like it
Salieri is just there like the annoyed school teacher 🤣
Nobody:
Salieri at the end: *THAT*
Hulce deserved an Oscar along with Abraham.
I didn't know people lost their hair color so young back then.
Just wigs bro
@@ATTJ7628 He was joking
im totally ok if girls reject me by saying
“No, you’re a _fiend_ .”
it’s so strange seeing people from the old serious days having a good time like modern casual life
One day, you'll look back on your life with the same thought as well.
Life is at the least, very bizarre. Geniuses are
usually so very strange,
shuned, ostracized,
even jailed.
'Irony' is a perversion.
These people give us
the very greatest of
gifts, and all too often
they die broke and alone.
Very strange. Too.
POV:
Costanze and Mozart:❤😘
Salieri:😐😶😳
Me: 😭😭😭
“Yes you are, you are very sick!” 😂
That was ridiculously adorable
"What a long and melancholic sound!" (W. A. Mozart)