Celebration of art at the highest level

Rating: 10/10 (30 August 2007)

Those Salier's description of Mozarts' music, it was a blissful moment for me as I was glad I saw this movie in the cinema. I had mild interest in classical music until this movie showed me the great appreciation. I hated Opera until this movie came along. What about the setting? So beautiful. Each scene is like a painting itself. One very haunting and sad yet beautiful scene at the same time I thought was a transition from Leopold crumbling of the letter to the scrambling frighten deers.
Abraham & Hulce gave those two musicians forceful identities. Abraham's performance is so passionate. Though I haven't seen the play, I doubt anyone can imitate Hulce's laugh so wickedly. Wonderful direction was done by Milos Forman. Peter Schaffer's writing is purely great theater, mixed with comedy and great imagination. Who cares if much of it is fiction. Also kudos needs to be given to the stage choreography Twyla Tharp who is known in the Broadway world.
The only drawback was that I was so spoiled by the near perfection of the theatrical version, I became so nitpick on the editing in the director's cut. I felt a bliss just thinking about the movie. I know it had a great influence on many people. It was a shame that AFI dropped it off the recently revamped top 100 movies list. Nevertheless, Amadeus is a celebration of art in film at the highest level.