This film had made me want to laugh, cry, and feel angry all at the same time. The most moving scene throughout the whole film was at Mozart's death bed. The magnificent composer, only 35, is struggling to create another master piece while lying sickly and distraught in the smuggled sheets of his bed. At the foot of the bed is Salieri carefully writing every note, making sure not to miss a beat as he is dragging Mozart to his last breath. This scene is moving not because Mozart is trying to withdrawal a final ingenious work of art so that it will illuminate how sorry his work really is.

The movie opens with an old man yelling o

Filming of Amadeus took place in Prague where director Milos Forman found the ideal location. "Many parts of Prague," said Forman, "contain streets or squares where you can turn 360 degrees and don't have to alter anything. There are wonderful palaces preserved as museums that are just breathtaking". The interiors of six different palaces are used and stocked with antique furniture from dozens of other buildings. The jewelry was made of ivory, onyx, mother of pearl, even gold and silver. These objects are rarely seen by people let alone filmed. The paintings are from periods when the kings would commission portraits of every member of the family, including the pets.

The film is told in flash back form, where the old man, Salieri, is telling the priest of his life spent with Mozart, and the unfortunate ending that lead him there. What is unique about the flash backs is that most of them in the beginning are filled with glorious colors of light. In the scene where he is in the room with the priest there is nothing but a piano, the chair where he sits, the chair where the priest sits, and a small window that allows just a little dim light to shine through. The light from the window makes the room look gloomy as if to capture Salieri's misery. Then when he flashes back everything is light, shinny, with beautiful colors, as if to represent the highlights, and happiest times of his life.

I really enjoyed watching this movie. I can't say that it has been my first viewing though, because I've been watching it since I was about the age of ten. I love the music, the actors, and every little odd and in. A lot of people are not that in touch with classical music, especially kids my age, but I think Amadeus is a movie that could get a person in touch with their classical side. Then again that's my opinion. Amadeus success is mostly explained, in my opinion, by it's strategy of portraying Mozart not as a great historic composer, but as a goofy- drunken- hi

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