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This film won 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture (Producer, Saul Zaentz), Actor (F. Murray Abraham), Director (Milos Forman), and Adapted Screenplay (Peter Shaffer). Tom Hulce plays the title role; he is perfect. If you haven't seen the movie, get this DVD. If you have seen it, you'll enjoy it even more because this special Director's Cut has 20 more minutes of beauty. The soundtrack is ... well, it's Mozart. Magnificent. The second DVD shares a behind-the-scene documentary and a feature-length audio commentary by the director and screen playwright. Fascinating. Enjoy!
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This movie was one of the least watched Academy of Motion Pictures "Best Picture of the Year" ever produced. I bought a copy of it from Ebey for a friend that had never heard of it, and she was beside herself in kudos. Amedeus was and is a picture that reflects not only a great story, but also reflects just what can happen in the industry when people truly give an inspirational effort in production, acting, story line etc, etc! From its first brutal scene to the last scene the movie captures the theme of just what "Talent" is, or can be or how it is best displayed, and even more important, where does talent come from and how should it be used. The music is timeless as only Mosart music can be, and the music tells a story as well as the dialog. Staging is simply perfect, and anyone with the slightest interest in fine cinama can find themselves melding into the plot. I have watched Amedeus numerous times and never fail to find a section that shows me something I had missed. The settings, done I believe, in the original places is without error, refecting how the Austrian live style looked in the times. One can not mention Amedeus without refering to the acting which was Oscar calibur throughout the entire movie. Not one carecter miss cast, each personality protrayed with believable concentration, including even those only shown in crowd scenes. What a joy it must have been to work on this picture! What a re-production of a fine stage play, brought to a larger than life offering! What a shame on the viewsing movie public that it is lost someplace in the vast mind numbing number of recent hollywood crap! The movies are a true "American" art form and Amedeus is one movie that deserves seeing again and again as it is a reflection of what the best in any art form should be. BCJRead full review
What can I say..it's a CLASSIC and should be MUST SEE viewing for anyone 4th grade and UP~!The cast is superb...F Murry won the OSCAR for Best Actor that year and you can easily SEE why. Why TOM was an also ran, now 'after time,' it is even harder to decide WHICH of them should have won for 'best actor in a leading role.' Supporting acting was EXCELLENT as well.
I have seen the movie in the theater when it came out, but I want to own a copy of it too. A quote from Roger Ebert's review of the film: "'Amadeus' is not about the genius of Mozart but about the envy of his rival Salieri, whose curse was to have the talent of a third-rate composer but the ear of a first-rate music lover, so that he knew how bad he was, and how good Mozart was.... 'Amadeus' (1984) swept the Academy Awards and had a considerable popular success. When you consider that 98 percent of the American public never listens to a classical music station, it is astonishing that Mozart became for a time a best-seller, and not only to women assured by talk-show gurus that his music boosted the IQs of embryos. The movie's success is partly explained, I think, by its strategy of portraying Mozart not as a paragon whose greatness is a burden to us all, but as a goofy proto-hippie with a high-pitched giggle, an overfondness for drink, and a buxom wife who liked to chase him on all fours. This is not a vulgarization of Mozart, but a way of dramatizing that true geniuses rarely take their own work seriously, because it comes so easily for them.... The film is told in flashback by Salieri at the end of his life, confined in a madhouse, confiding to a young priest."Read full review
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The extra features are worth it. Here we learn that the opera hall in Prague is the actual one that Mozart used. That the candles were supplied with 3 wicks to aid the filming. That secret police infiltrated the cast of extras. That the emperor's dwelling was a bishop's mansion. That the actress originally cast to be Mozart's wife had an injury the day before filming and had to be replaced. and more Get the 2 disc version.
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