Amadeus

A detailed Summary of Amadeus

The main actors and their characters they played are:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Tom Hulce

Mozart's wife - Elizabeth Berridde

Emperor Joseph II - Jeffery Jones

The movie " Amadeus" was based on two composers, Mozart and Salieri. In the begging of the movie Salieri tries to commit suiside. A priest comes to see Salieri to ask him if he has anything to confess. Salieri then begins to unravel the story of Mozart and Salieri's life together. Mozart has been a great composer since he was four years old. Salieri on the other hand not as good and would never be as good as Mozart. In the movie you can see how jealous Salieri is of Mozart. Salieri's father was against him playing music, and on the other end Mozart's father praised it and insisted on it. Salieri wanted to play music more than anything in the world. One day while in church, Salieri asks God to let him be a great composer and in return he would give him his chastity and write for God. The next day Salieri's father died and this was a miracle in Salieri's eyes.

His family had to go to Vienna where Salieri then became discovered. Salieri worked his way

Mozart's father and Mozart's wife have a great conflict. Mozart's father thinks that she is a bad housewife and can't clean or cook and that she is a slob. He doesn't understand why Mozart and his wife excepts gifts without knowing whom they came from. Mozart's wife thinks that his father gets to involve in their lives. She says that they can't ever do enough to please him. She doesn't want him living in their house any longer and so he leaves. Their relationship is a major conflict.

Salieri sees how Mozart's father's death effects him and uses it to his advantage. Salieri buys a mask just like the one Mozart's father wore at mask party. Salieri goes to Mozart's house under the mask and tells him to write an opera about death. Mozart starts to write the piece and it makes him very ill. Mozart does not realize that the piece is killing him slowly. While Mozart is conducting an opera he faints. Salieri takes him to his home to get rest. Salieri tells him the opera was excellent there is a knock on the door. Mozart thinks it is the man with the mask. Mozart tells Salieri to tell the man that he is not finished. Salieri goes to the door it is the men from the opera house. They want to know if Mozart is ok and to give him his share of the money. Salieri goes to Mozart and tells him the man with the mask says that a hundred more will come if he finishes the piece before tomorrow night.

Mozart is happy at first because of the money, but then realizes because he is sick that he will never be able to finish the piece. Salieri asks Mozart if he needs help with finishing the piece. They are up all night long; they are almost done when Mozart has to take a break. They both fall asleep, and are awaken by Mozart's wife. Mozart's wife comes back because she misses Mozart she tells Salieri to leave. He tells her that he cant because Mozart needs to finish the piece. Mozart's wife tells him that he cant work on it anymore because it is killing him. While Salieri and Mozart's wife are fighting Mozart dies. Salieri in his old age tells the priest that God killed his own miracle and wishes that he could have done it himself.

Salieri and Mozart's wife do not have much of a relationship. They only come in contact with each othe

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