Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2008)

I have seen this movie several times and each time I shocked with the sound of music. The character Salieri was perfectly created. Scenario is well covered and played. But the key point is correlation between opera scenes and story itself. Evething takes place masterfully.
"Amadeus" is the most wonderful movie on the subject of music ever made, a colorful costume drama with stunning music and performances, particularly by F. Murray Abraham (which won him the Oscar for 1984), by Tom Hulce in the title role (garnering for him an Oscar nomination) and in a supporting role by Jeffrey Jones, still known to movie fans principally as the dean of students in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." I said it '84 and nothing has changed since to alter this view. Were my high-school students of that opinion? I took a class to the film eighteen years ago, but the consensus among the teens was "there's no beat." I suppose that quote is comparable to the one made by Emperor Joseph's adviser's "Too many notes." The adviser was telling his boss what the latter wanted to hear that Mozart's compositions were inferior to Salieri's because of their complexity.