A Marvelous Motion Picture!

Rating: 10/10 (6 May 2008)

I never knew much about Mozart, just only his music. Despite the inaccuracies I have heard about this movie, it sheds a unique and brilliant light upon the man. Tom Hulce is simply wonderful as Mozart. He's clever, ingenious, funny, eccentric, and even naughty. I'm very surprised that he did not get the Oscar for Best Actor.
F Murray Arahams is great in his role as a selfish, envious, competitive, and career driven colleague of Mozart, but I did not find him to be as believable as Hulce. Neither were well-known actors back in Amadeus's release, but it is fair that one of them won. On a side note, I think this movie would not have been good if it had a well-known Hollywood cast.
Director Milos Forman, famous for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", captures the film astonishingly, specifically with the opera sequences that pan back and forth between Mozart conducting and the actors on the stage performing. In addition with the opera sequences, the art direction, costume design, and the work of the cinematography is exquisite to the point that I felt like I was seeing Mozart conducting in the 1700s.
This movie has it all. The Man. The Music. The Madness. The Magic. Marvelous! The Oscars were right on what this film earned. 10/10