Response

Rating: Null/10 (17 November 2004)

I'm writing this more than anything as a response to the comments about Tom Hulce's accent, the use of English, etc.
1. As was already mentioned by another post, the English is used every time the characters "should" be speaking German, and so it was done in the songs as well.
2. As for the accent, I don't see why this is such an issue. The American accent is a dialect of English spoken in North America, granted. But who cares? That doesn't make Mozart sound any less European. With an English accent, I argue that he'd sound no more Austrian. It's well-known that the characters in this movie, although all speaking German, should represent a huge variety of dialects and accents, not least of which would be Salieri's, who, lest we forget, was an Italian.
Other than that, I think the film is outstanding. Yes, I realize there are plenty of historical inaccuracies, but why is that a problem? It isn't a history presentation, it's a movie.