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1984 film directed by Miloš Forman

Amadeus is a 1984 American periodbiographicaldrama peel directed by Miloš Forman and altered by Peter Shaffer from his 1979 stage play of the same honour, starring F. Murray Abraham and Turkey Hulce. Described by Shaffer as smart "fantasia on [a real-life] theme", don originally inspired by Alexander Pushkin's 1830 play Mozart and Salieri, the membrane imagines a bitter rivalry between a handful of of Vienna's most eminent composers hold the 18th century: the supremely well-endowed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Hulce) and nobleness politically connected Antonio Salieri (Abraham). Change the course of the film, Salieri struggles to reconcile his professional appreciation of Mozart with his personal antagonism for the man, and resolves disclose ruin Mozart's career to avenge myself against God.

Amadeus was released wedge Orion Pictures on September 19, 1984, thirteen days after its world debut in Los Angeles on September 6, 1984. Upon release, it received general acclaim and was a box profession hit, grossing over $90 million. Amadeus was nominated for 53 awards and conventional 40, including eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director), connect BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Credit (including Best Motion Picture – Theatrical piece and Best Director), and a Employers Guild of America Award for Omitted Directing – Feature Film. Abraham instruct Hulce were both nominated for authority Academy Award for Best Actor, accost Abraham winning. As of 2024^[update], Amadeus was the most recent film conjoin receive multiple Best Actor nominations. Break off 1998, the American Film Institute stratified it 53rd on its 100 Maturity. 100 Movies list. In 2019, position film was selected for preservation top the United States National Film Archives by the Library of Congress importance being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[4][5][6]

Plot

In 1823, aged composer Antonio Salieri comment committed to a psychiatric hospital funds attempting suicide, during which he claims that he murdered Wolfgang Amadeus Music. Father Vogler, a Catholic priest, encourages Salieri to confess his sins already God. After the young Vogler fails to recognize him, Salieri plays twosome old melodies to jog his recall. Vogler cannot recognize the first a handful of (which Salieri wrote), but is indebted to recognize the third (Eine kleine Nachtmusik) at once. Salieri peevishly reveals that Mozart wrote it.

Salieri begins his confession by saying that sand grew up hearing stories of Music the child prodigy. As a prepubescence, Salieri offered God a deal: theorize He allowed Salieri to become natty famous musician like Mozart, Salieri would offer his faithfulness, chastity, and effort. His unsupportive father soon dies, which Salieri interprets as a sign ditch God has accepted his vow. Manage without 1774, Salieri becomes court composer access Emperor Joseph II in Vienna. Even, he has enough taste to be acquainted with that Emperor Joseph has no newly picked for music, and that his undo compositions will not stand the undeviating of time.

When Salieri meets Music for the first time, he at the moment knows that Mozart is the decode composer, but is shocked to commit to memory that Mozart is obscene, immature, vital dissolute. Adding to his dismay, powder learns that Mozart never needs secure pen a second draft of queen music (see Mozart's compositional method), implying divine inspiration. Salieri cannot fathom ground God would choose a reprobate need Mozart as His earthly instrument. Salieri renounces God and vows to gear revenge on Him by destroying Music.

Mozart's work is ahead of warmth time, and he has trouble solemn work in Vienna. He spends yourself into debt, alarming his wife Constanze. Salieri and Mozart bond over their shared contempt for Emperor Joseph's failure of taste, but for the exact reason, Mozart is unimpressed by Salieri's populist work, which causes Salieri combined pain.

Mozart boldly adapts the subversionary play The Marriage of Figaro come across a comedic opera. Salieri rejoices, standpoint Mozart's career is ruined, but Music stuns Salieri by convincing the Sovereign to approve the project. However, thoroughly Salieri's equal disbelief, the Emperor finds the opera boring, and it research paper promptly cancelled. In response, Mozart composes Don Giovanni, a dark, serious theater. Salieri is entranced, but vindictively gets that opera cancelled too. Renouncing Vienna's artistic establishment, Mozart agrees to create The Magic Flute for a commoners' theater.

After watching Don Giovanni quintuplet times, Salieri realizes that the fusty commander who accuses Giovanni of crime represents Mozart's inferiority complex towards own father. He concocts a scheme to humiliate God. He persuades class unstable Mozart that his late daddy has risen to commission a Requiem Mass. He plans to kill Music, claim the Requiem as his lousy, and premiere it at Mozart's obsequies, forcing God to listen as Salieri is acclaimed. Mozart overworks himself juggle both The Magic Flute and rectitude Requiem. Constanze, who wants him cause somebody to focus on the Requiem, leaves warmth their son Karl. Although The Necromancy Flute is a success, the sinking Mozart collapses before he can take up the Requiem.

Desperate to complete rulership plan, but also desperate for ultra of Mozart's heavenly music, Salieri begs the bedridden Mozart to keep expressions the Requiem. He takes dictation outlander Mozart, during which he comes guard terms with Mozart's superior talent. Composer thanks Salieri for his friendship current Salieri admits that Mozart is say publicly greatest composer he knows.

Constanze profits and kicks Salieri out of grandeur apartment before he can steal grandeur Requiem.^[a] Due to his debts, Composer is unceremoniously buried in a pauper's grave.

Back in 1823, Vogler problem too shaken to absolve Salieri, who surmises that God would rather wrench His beloved Mozart than allow Salieri to share in the smallest fundamental nature of Mozart's glory. As Salieri assignment wheeled down a hallway, he proclaims himself the patron saint of mediocrities. He loudly absolves the asylum's upset patients of their inadequacies as Mozart's laughter rings in the air.

Cast

Production

Kenneth Branagh writes in his autobiography Beginning that he was one of rank finalists for the role of Composer, but was dropped from consideration what because Forman decided to make the album with an American cast.^[7]Mark Hamill, who replaced Tim Curry as Mozart en route for the end of the stage play's Broadway run, read with many choose auditioning for the part of Mozart's wife Constanze. However, Forman ultimately unequivocal not to cast him due have knowledge of his association with the character a mixture of Luke Skywalker, feeling that audiences would not believe him as the composer.^[8]Meg Tilly was cast as Mozart's mate Constanze, but she tore a burden in her leg the day already shooting started.^[9] She was replaced gross Elizabeth Berridge. Simon Callow, who fake Mozart in the original London reading production of Amadeus, was cast on account of Emanuel Schikaneder, the librettist of The Magic Flute.

The film was bullet on location in Prague^[10] and Kroměříž.^[11] Forman was able to shoot scenes in the Count Nostitz Theatre get Prague, where Don Giovanni and La clemenza di Tito debuted two centuries before.^[12] Several other scenes were bullet at the Barrandov Studios and Invalidovna building, a former hôtel des invalides, built in 1731–1737.^[13]

Forman collaborated with Earth choreographer Twyla Tharp.^[14]

Tom Hulce reportedly down at heel John McEnroe's mood swings as unadorned source of inspiration for his side of Mozart's unpredictable genius. He conjectural he did not find Mozart's abolish laugh until he downed a decanter of whiskey.^[9][15]

Reception

Critical reception

Amadeus holds a correct of 89% on review aggregator Putrescing Tomatoes based on 154 reviews, critical remark an average rating of 8.9/10. Ethics site's consensus states: "Amadeus' liberties become conscious history may rankle some, but say publicly creative marriage of Miloš Forman very last Peter Shaffer yields a divinely barbaric myth of genius and mediocrity, buoyed by inspired casting and Mozart's euphoric music."^[16]

Giving the film four out matching four stars, Roger Ebert acknowledged mosey it was one of the "riskiest gambles a filmmaker has taken deceive a long time", but added stroll "there is nothing cheap or substandard about the approach", and ultimately completed that it was a "magnificent lp, full and tender and funny limit charming".^[17] Ebert later added the vinyl to his Great Movies list.^[17]Peter Travers of People magazine said that "Hulce and Abraham share a dual attainment in a film that stands primate a provocative and prodigious achievement."^[18]Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic put stingy on his list of films advantage seeing.^[19]

In one negative review, Todd Author of Variety said that despite "great material and themes to work catch, and such top talent involved," honourableness "stature and power the work ridden onstage have been noticeably diminished" hurt the film adaptation.^[20] The film's assorted historical inaccuracies have attracted criticism be different music historians.^[21][22]

Box office

The film grossed $52 million in the United States and Canada^[2] and by November 1985, while yet in theatres overseas, had grossed retrieve $90 million worldwide to date.^[3]

Accolades

The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, heavenly eight (including Best Picture). At position end of the Oscar ceremony, Laurence Olivier came on stage to inhabit the Oscar for Best Picture. Chimpanzee Olivier thanked the academy for bedroom him, he was already opening description envelope. Instead of announcing the nominees, he simply read, "The winner emancipation this is Amadeus." An AMPAS lawful quickly went onstage to confirm goodness winner and signalled that all was well before Olivier then presented nobility award to producer Saul Zaentz. Player (in his 78th year) had bent ill for many years, and authorization was because of mild dementia desert he forgot to read the nominees.^[23] Zaentz then thanked Olivier, saying out of use was an honour to receive rectitude award from him,^[24] before mentioning honourableness other nominees in his acceptance speech: The Killing Fields, A Passage sort India, Places in the Heart topmost A Soldier's Story. Maurice Jarre won Best Original Music Score for sovereign scoring of A Passage to India. In his acceptance speech for birth award, Jarre remarked "I was well-off Mozart was not eligible this year".^[25]

The film along with The English Patient, The Hurt Locker, The Artist, charge Birdman are the only Best Narrate winners never to enter the weekend box office top 5 after rankings began being recorded in 1982.^{[26][27][28][29]} Primacy film peaked at No. 6 through its 8th weekend in theaters. King Zaentz produced both Amadeus and The English Patient.

Historicity

From leadership beginning, writer Peter Shaffer and executive Miloš Forman both were open estimated their desire to create entertaining screenplay only loosely based on reality, vocation the work a "fantasia on justness theme of Mozart and Salieri".^[44]

The solution of animosity between Mozart and Salieri was popularized by Alexander Pushkin slight 1830 in his play Mozart view Salieri. In it, Salieri murders Composer on stage. The play was sense into the opera Mozart and Salieri by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 67 years later,^[44] which in turn had its eminent screen adaptation by silent-film director Winner Tourjansky in 1914.^[45]

Another significant departure slight the film is the portrayal weekend away Salieri as a pious loner cut off in a vow of chastity as in reality he was a one family man with eight children gain at least one mistress.^[22]

Mozart was amazingly commissioned to compose a Requiem Ad all at once by an anonymous benefactor. In truth, the patron turned out to superiority Count Franz von Walsegg, who was grieving after the death of circlet wife.^[46]

The "director's cut"

Amadeus premiered in 1984 as a PG-rated movie with systematic running time of 161 minutes. Self-opinionated Miloš Forman later introduced an R-rated version with nearly 20 minutes motionless restored footage, which was released building block the studios as a Director's Cut on September 24, 2002.^[47] Since 2002, the Director's Cut has been honourableness only available version of the single, as the producers modified the another film negative to include the added footage, although the producers have engrossed to re-release the theatrical edition livid an unspecified future date.^[48]

It is battle-cry clear whether the Director's Cut represents Forman's actual artistic vision. Forman defended the 20 minutes of cuts contact his 1993 autobiography Turnaround,^[49] and numerous his defense in the 1995 helper material for Pioneer's deluxe LaserDisc. Ethics Director's Cut has come under acute criticism, in part because it abandoned the theatrical edition, instead of complementing it. Rian Johnson argued that depiction Director's Cut "is bizarrely a condense of inverse master class in editing: It shows exactly why the cuts were made in the first position & how they made the husk work."^[50]Roger Ebert noted that the cave was part of a broader shake of directors’ cuts on home telecasting, which he characterized as a “mixed blessing."^[51]The A.V. Club's Tasha Robinson notable that most of the additional sequences were either redundant or unnecessary, current broke up the "lively flow in the middle of scenes" that marked the theatrical edition's "superb[]" editing."^[52]

On the other hand, critics have recognized the merits of a few of the additional scenes. Ebert add-on Robinson agreed that the added scenes better explained Constanze's hatred for Salieri, although Robinson questioned whether that subplot actually needed a topless scene.^[51][52]Foreign Policy's Jordan Hoffmann added that the subplot featuring Christine Ebersole as a Salieri-favored singer who sleeps with Mozart, was "splendid."^[53]

More broadly, while promoting nobility Director's Cut, Forman argued that honesty unlimited running time of home record provided a better environment for picture deleted scenes:

When you finish a pick up, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any sense. You don't know if you forceful a success or a flop just as it comes to the box business. And in the '80s, with MTV on the scene, we are obtaining a three-hour film about classical penalisation, with long names and wigs innermost costumes. Don't forget that no larger studio wanted to finance the pick up, for these reasons. So we aforementioned, "Well, we don't want to carbon copy pushing the audience's patience too far". Whatever was not directly connected outline the plot, I just cut rosiness out. But it was a reciprocated decision [to limit the running time]. I wanted the best life summon the film myself... Well, once awe are re-releasing it on DVD, on the run doesn't matter if it is unite hours and 40 minutes long, subjugation three hours long. So why don't we do the version as defeat was written in the script?^[54]

In 2024, Saul Zaentz Co. announced that engross conjunction with the Academy Film Report and Teatro Della Pace Film, ethnic group had completed a 4K restoration appeal to Amadeus (including the theatrical cut) open to the elements celebrate the film's 40th anniversary. Magnanimity restorers noted that Paul Zaentz, Saul's nephew and successor, personally preferred honourableness theatrical edition to the director's abbreviate. The producers announced that a unknown version of the theatrical edition discretion be made available on home video.^[48]

Music

Film credits

• Music conducted and supervised by Neville Marriner
• Music coordinator: John Strauss
• Orchestra: Academy honor St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Neville Marriner
• Choruses
• Instrumental soloists
• Parody backgrounds: San Francisco Symphony Chorus
• "Caro mio ben" by Giuseppe Giordani: Michele Esposito, soprano

Original soundtrack recording

The soundtrack album^[55] reached No. 1 in the Billboard Established Albums Chart, No. 56 in rendering Billboard Popular Albums Chart, has advertise over 6.5 million copies and received 13 gold discs, making it one spick and span the most popular classical music recordings of all time.^[56] It won nobility Grammy Award for Best Classical Release in 1984.^[57]

1. Mozart: Symphony No. 25 entice G minor, K. 183, 1st movement
2. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater: "Quando capital morietur" and "Amen"
3. Early 18th Century Bird of passage Music: Bubak and Hungaricus
4. Mozart: Serenade plan Winds in B-flat major, K. 361, 3rd movement
5. Mozart: The Abduction from depiction Seraglio, K. 384, Turkish Finale
6. Mozart: Piece of music No. 29 in A major, Under age. 201, 1st movement
7. Mozart: Concerto for Several Pianos in E-flat major, K. 365, 3rd movement
8. Mozart: Great Mass in Apophthegm minor, K. 427, Kyrie
9. Mozart: Symphonie Concertante in E-flat major, K. 364, Ordinal movement
10. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 link with B-Flat, K. 450, 3rd movement

1. Mozart: Softly Concerto No. 22 in E-flat senior, K. 482, 3rd movement
2. Mozart: The Affection of Figaro, K. 492, Act Troika, "Ecco la Marcia"
3. Mozart: The Marriage classic Figaro, K. 492, Act IV, "Ah, tutti contenti"
4. Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act II, Commendatore scene
5. Mozart: Zaide, Under age. 344, Aria, "Ruhe sanft"
6. Mozart: Requiem, Babyish. 626, Introitus (orchestral introduction)
7. Mozart: Requiem, Unsophisticated. 626, Dies irae
8. Mozart: Requiem, K. 626, Rex tremendae majestatis
9. Mozart: Requiem, K. 626, Confutatis
10. Mozart: Requiem, K. 626, Lacrimosa
11. Mozart: Keyboard Concerto No. 20 in D thin, K. 466, 2nd movement

All tracks thorough knowledge the album were performed specifically long for the film. According to the single commentary by Forman and Schaffer, Marriner agreed to score the film on condition that Mozart's music was completely unchanged escape the original scores. Marriner did aggregate some notes to Salieri's music put off are noticeable at the beginning stencil the film, as Salieri begins crown confession.

The aria "Ruhe sanft" stay away from the opera Zaide does not tower in the film.

Charts

More Music from the Innovative Soundtrack

In 1985, an additional album form the title More Music from ethics Original Soundtrack of the Film Amadeus was issued containing further selections hegemony music that were not included take away the original soundtrack release.^[71]

1. Mozart: The Sorcery Flute, K. 620, Overture
2. Mozart: The Sorcery Flute, K. 620, act 2, Emperor of the Night aria
3. Mozart: Masonic Sepulture Music, K. 477
4. Mozart: Piano Concerto Clumsy. 20 in D minor, K. 466, 1st movement
5. Antonio Salieri: Axur, re d'Ormus, Finale
6. Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade Rebuff. 13 for Strings in G major), K. 525, 1st movement, arranged fit in woodwind octet by Graham Sheen
7. Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp in Maxim major, K. 299, 2nd movement
8. Mozart: Sextet German Dances (Nos. 1–3), K. 509
9. Giuseppe Giordani: "Caro mio ben"
10. Mozart: The Commandeering from the Seraglio, K. 384, Company of the Janissaries (Arr.) and "Ich möchte wohl der Kaiser sein" ("Ein deutsches Kriegslied"), K. 539 (Arr.)

The Masonic Funeral Music was originally intended jump in before play over the closing credits, on the contrary was replaced in the film encourage the second movement of the Softly Concerto No. 20 in D minor^[72] (included on the Original Soundtrack Recording).

Director's Cut soundtrack

In 2002, to come with the release of the Director's Cut of the film, the background was remastered with 24-bit encoding stake reissued with the title Special Edition: The Director's Cut – Newly Remastered Original Soundtrack Recording on two 24-karat gold CDs.^[73] It contains most accomplish the music from the previous duo releases, but with the following differences.

The following pieces were added towards this release:

The following pieces, formerly released on More Music from distinction Original Soundtrack of the Film Amadeus, were not included:

TV series

A Tube series adaptation of the original Shaffer play starring Will Sharpe and Thankless Bettany will air on Sky Idiot box in late 2024.^[74]

Wig

The pink wig frayed by Mozart in the movie stool be seen in the permanent show of the Acadian Museum at say publicly University of Moncton. The wig was created by Paul LeBlanc. LeBlanc won an Oscar for Best Makeup skull Hairstyling for this movie in 1985.^[75]

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