Smooth and yet fancy, sophisticated yet agonizing, laughable and yet tearful! To me this movie has way too many contrasts and contradictions that only filled up my curiosity ever in a movie. I was hooked in this three hour journey like a dedicated researcher in search of a precious possession in the form of information.
At first what I thought would be a boring 18th century inspired elaborate costume movie with a shallow and unwitting screenplay turned out to be a magnificent cinematic art.
Amadeus is a story not about the greatness that Mozart was but about his arch rival Salieri who would disguise himself as a friend in need for Amadeus Mozart but in secret an enemy bringing about Mozart's downfall by playing in harmony with his weaknesses.
The story is told in flashback by an aged Salieri now seeking asylum at a madhouse. He speaks of his secret admiration for Mozart's talent and his failure to not being able to come even a quarter close to the music he loved. Salieri was what we would speak of a person with a 1st class taste in music but a 3rd rated ability to compose half the good music he hears.
Mozart was what he wished to be and yet wished to diminish. The young Mozart was Salieri's half glass full and yet half glass empty. There goes a saying by a wise old Chinese man, "What one is unable to obtain in his life, he fights against it: He turns his dreams into agony". While Salieri secretly dreamed to be as good as Mozart, the young composer only filled him with rage at the same time.
This happens to most of us when we are unable to diet with restrictions on our food limit, yet after a week we go back to our normal eating lifestyle and then we end up hating and accusing all those who achieved their weight loss goals while we couldn't and this is what brings out the Salieri in all of us. It is natural but with some people it breeds contempt.
And it is this "contempt" that revolves around the story structure of this movie.
Salieri goes on to bring Mozart down, either by blocking musical productions or by taking away job opportunities from the young composer. He does that by influencing higher authorities against Mozart, and by the end of the movie we learn Salieri's real talent: to manipulate better than to compose.
But the question arises, what makes Mozart better than Salieri?
Often in life we come across people who are incredibly smart and talented beyond norms, and quite often so such people are very joyous, mischievous, happy, outgoing with extraordinary personalities. How do they get it so easy? Their secret is that they themselves never get obsessed with what they love to do. They take their work as a child's play and spend more time having fun doing it than abiding to do it with stern rules and ethics. These are the kind of people who bring joy in work life and who inspire others to have it easy and to be ambitious much the same way. They are my dear people, the Influencers! Ever wondered why Dali was more famous as a surreal visual maker than the other surreal artists of his time? Read about his joy filled life. Marilyn Monroe is still regarded as the Queen of Hollywood even after 53 years since she died? Blame that megawatt smile and her carefree acting.
This is what this movie goes on to teach us, that no matter how the going gets tough, what is within you can never be stolen away from you.
Salieri might have harmed Mozart economically, but he could never steal the young man's genius mind and talent that was inculcated within him and this is why when the world forgot Salieri, Mozart continues to be the Father of Classical music to this very day ...
At first what I thought would be a boring 18th century inspired elaborate costume movie with a shallow and unwitting screenplay turned out to be a magnificent cinematic art.
Amadeus is a story not about the greatness that Mozart was but about his arch rival Salieri who would disguise himself as a friend in need for Amadeus Mozart but in secret an enemy bringing about Mozart's downfall by playing in harmony with his weaknesses.
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Mozart was what he wished to be and yet wished to diminish. The young Mozart was Salieri's half glass full and yet half glass empty. There goes a saying by a wise old Chinese man, "What one is unable to obtain in his life, he fights against it: He turns his dreams into agony". While Salieri secretly dreamed to be as good as Mozart, the young composer only filled him with rage at the same time.
This happens to most of us when we are unable to diet with restrictions on our food limit, yet after a week we go back to our normal eating lifestyle and then we end up hating and accusing all those who achieved their weight loss goals while we couldn't and this is what brings out the Salieri in all of us. It is natural but with some people it breeds contempt.
And it is this "contempt" that revolves around the story structure of this movie.
Salieri goes on to bring Mozart down, either by blocking musical productions or by taking away job opportunities from the young composer. He does that by influencing higher authorities against Mozart, and by the end of the movie we learn Salieri's real talent: to manipulate better than to compose.
But the question arises, what makes Mozart better than Salieri?
Often in life we come across people who are incredibly smart and talented beyond norms, and quite often so such people are very joyous, mischievous, happy, outgoing with extraordinary personalities. How do they get it so easy? Their secret is that they themselves never get obsessed with what they love to do. They take their work as a child's play and spend more time having fun doing it than abiding to do it with stern rules and ethics. These are the kind of people who bring joy in work life and who inspire others to have it easy and to be ambitious much the same way. They are my dear people, the Influencers! Ever wondered why Dali was more famous as a surreal visual maker than the other surreal artists of his time? Read about his joy filled life. Marilyn Monroe is still regarded as the Queen of Hollywood even after 53 years since she died? Blame that megawatt smile and her carefree acting.
This is what this movie goes on to teach us, that no matter how the going gets tough, what is within you can never be stolen away from you.
Salieri might have harmed Mozart economically, but he could never steal the young man's genius mind and talent that was inculcated within him and this is why when the world forgot Salieri, Mozart continues to be the Father of Classical music to this very day ...
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