I work in the movie business, and I can guarantee we'll never see a movie made like this again. Every aspect of the sound and cinematography, the costuming and design, the acting... If I ever work on anything a tenth as good as Amadeus, I'll retire fulfilled.
@@DEWwords just like Salierei, the patron saint of mediocrities? 😀 When I first saw this i was 13 and didnt quite get all the subtext. Now, i love it and how dark a picture it is. Abraham deserved that Oscar. And this is why you wont see a .ovie like thjs again, a movie for adults written by adults rather than overgrown children.
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Someone asked me, what my fav. movie is, and i said "Amadeus" Then I was asked why, and I said "ive never seen such a mix of drama, comedy and tragedy all in one movie" Yup, still stands
Strange to say, structurally speaking, even though Salieri is the villain of the piece, because the story is told from his point of view, Salieri is the protagonist and Mozart the antagonist.
This movie is nothing without Salieri's passion and appreciation of great music. He is our guide to Mozart. The love/hate going on inside of him is perfect. F. Murray Abraham's performance is equal to the Mozart's music. One of the greatest acting performance ever in film.
A great performance, undeniably. At the same time, it's pretty grossly unfair to Salieri that he is turned into a cartoon villain as that's not at all accurate. Most people who have heard of him now will have done so because of that portrayal.
@@steeltrap3800 The legend is definitely unfair to Salieri, But I protest the idea that this script renders him as a cartoon villain: here he is a great, sensitive intelligence that becomes entangled very early in a sort of pathology. This is a dangerously human trait. I feel that Abraham understands this delicate, frightening balance and gives it both us and Salieri,
@@steeltrap3800 I'm a huge classical music fan and know quite a bit about the history this film portrays. It's not and wasn't meant to be a biopic; it's a thoroughly fictionalized version of the characters and events it portrays. If people watch this and get the wrong idea about them... well, that's just their stupidity.
@@jonathanhenderson9422 With all due respect, calling people "stupid" because they don't know to trust film makers on something as basic as "did this person set out to KILL a very famous person", all the while backed up by your own situation of knowing "quite a bit about the history this film portrays", strikes me as rather ungenerous at the very least. But perhaps I'm simply peculiar. Cheers
@@steeltrap3800 Let me be more generous then. Anyone whose first instinct is to believe any film is historically reliable/accurate is terribly naive. For one thing, even actual history is fraught with epistemic complications, meaning it's often very difficult to know what happened in the past as evidence is often sparse and in itself unreliable. Second, the job of filmmakers and writers is to make entertainment, not to get things as historically accurate as possible. In the case of Amadeus it doesn't even pretend to be based on a true story.
As a classically-trained musician I must say that you had me after only six seconds of watching this video. As the old Southern US saying goes: you're my kind of people. 💛☮
Winner of 8 Oscars including Best Picture. Though the film is historically inaccurate, it's a pretty impressive motion picture about the life, death and legacy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The playwright/screenwriter Peter Shaffer himself admitted that this was essentially a fantasy based on fact, as related in the storyline by an embittered elderly man some thirty-two years onward whereby memory alters and fades.
I was 12 years old and studuing in music school and our class went to the cinema to see this movie in 1985. It made a big impression on me and I love this movie. This movie is one of my all time favorites. They don't make movies like this anymore and it's sad.
F Murray Abraham’s Salieri was the character we can all actually relate too. There’s always somebody in all walks of life who is simply better than you no matter how hard you try to best them. And as a composer he had the worst luck in the world when his contemporary was the greatest genius in music ever known.
Since you asked... Salieri reading Mozart's drafts, "Displace one note and there would be diminishment," and Salieri taking dictation from Mozart towards the end are two of my favorite scenes in all of cinema.
When Freddie Mercury was ill and in the last months of his life, according to his friend Reinholdt Mack, Freddie watched the movie Amadeus over and over again. At the end of the film when Mozart died, Freddie would say “That’s going to happen to me,soon”. (I think it was Freddie’s way of trying to “prepare” Mack’s children (including Freddie’s Godson, little Freddie Mack) for the fact he would be gone soon.)
This movie got Mozart into my blood at the age of eight. To this day I have never connected with any classical composer as deeply as I have with Mozart.
I was learning to play piano and listening to quite a few of the operas at the age of seven to eight-ish. My first one was The Magic Flute so watching this at about the same time was amazing.
Not based on true history, but on Peter Schaeffer's own theater play, which is in turn based on a Pushkin short tale. The story is in fact more of a study and reflection on genius and jealousy, not intended to be taken as a biography of any sort. True fact is that Mozart likely died because of some inflammatory disease that afflicted him from a very young age, and affected his kidneys. Salieri was a friendly rival on the Vienna musical scene, and was kind and civil to Mozart. He was admired by other composers and musicians because of his good and generous nature. BTW, he was no mediocrity at all, he was a great musician, a very competent composer, and the master and teacher of many famous composers, including Beethoven. Said that, I love this film, and I love the music and how music inspires the whole affair.
Years ago I read that “experts” hypothesized that Mozart died of Trichinosis. They referred to a letter he had written days before his death where he wrote he was looking forward to a pork dinner. Apparently, his symptoms seemed to match.
The story goes that the filmmakers started going through Salieri's music expecting, on the basis of the play, to find some obviously poor music but were rather dismayed when they didn't find anything that sounded remotely bad.
I enjoyed this reaction video so much. I think the thing that makes it special is that you have both a knowledge of the music but also and understanding of it and this shows through during your reaction. Thank you!
I loved this movie even more when I learned that, as much as they played up his life, Mozart actually was a "rockstar" of his day with his love of parties, drinking and dirty jokes (he wrote a piece called "Leck mich im Arsch", which needs no translation)
I kinda felt sorry for the emperor. He was asked for his feedback and had to say something critical, something that needed improvement, anything, lest he appear as a musical imposter. Unfortunately, many professional critics have the same impulse. They can't simply say they like a piece, they have to find something wrong, or else they'll look like they're not doing their job.
I was in Prague (where the film was shot) and visited the wonderful gold jewel box of the theater used in the filming--saw "Don Giovanni" performed there. As I walked around Prague, I kept experiencing a sense of deja vu passing streets and buildings used in the filming. It was delightful.
This movie is one of those miracles. The project was already thought of, paid preproduction by just the guys that developed the movie without any company knowing about it, no companies being involved in any way. This has happened just a few times in history, lord of the rings, matrix 1, fury road, star Wars, etc... And that's why it's so pure and unique and so good. No greed trying to fit a script into the commercial formula. Only when it was finished and packaged in a beautiful sealed hole, it was presented to companies to fund.
Mozart was buried in a common plot in a cemetery in Vienna. It's just a myth that he was buried in a pauper's grave. Common plots were the fate of the middle classes, unlike the poor and the paupers' mass graves and the upper class who could afford single graves with individual headstones or even mausoleums.
I'm so happy for you that you've now experienced "Amadeus." Thank you for the delightful reaction. Please consider "The Red Violin," and "The Last Emperor."
@@TylerD288 I agree. It dropped off the radar for some reason. Brilliant film. With one of the most beautiful and enchanting actresses of her time: Joan Chen. Who also dropped off the radar.
One of the best movies ever made. Every aspect is flawless. For me, what makes it so memorable and relatable is the character of Salieri. Aren't we all like that? Mediocrities, feeling small and insignificant in the face of greatness? Bargaining with God over our fate? I find it deeply touching.
I love this movie. My mother dragged me to it when I was seven. I left it in love with all classical music except opera. I love opera in short amounts but the only opera I've stayed awake for is Wagner.
Cheered Emma for the bravery to pull this out for review! Simply a great movie that very few brave to revisit. Your viewers have made great comments, but I thank you for the effort!
It made me happy that you recognised Vincent Schiavelli (Salieri's Valet) at the start of the movie. One of my all time favourite supporting actors. He's one of those that shows up in tiny parts in movies and so many TV shows where he plays a one off character in a single episode. He never disappoints.
Interesting thing about the Baron von Swieten (the court member with the long brown wig): IRL Mozart wound up becoming chummy with him, and through him he was introduced to Handel's work. This is why Mozart's later works had a lot of counterpoint like Baroque pieces like Handel's.
I saw this movie when I was a little kid and it turned me on to classical music. I think because the story is from Salieri’s eyes, he’s able to tell us exactly why the music is so beautiful and how it makes us feel and his painful envy conveys how excellent the music is. F. Murray Abraham is so wonderful as Salieri. Queen of the night aria is my favorite (and probably everyone else’s)
Emma thank you so much. This film always moves me and to watch your reaction moves me even more strongly. I was raised with an older sister who is an opera singer so I was exposed to this stuff at an early age. Your reaction is the first thing I've seen that reminds me of how she reacted to this film. Thank you. For a movie recommendation may I suggest, "The Mission" with Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro.
Such a great role for F Murray Abraham. Pretty clever premise to showcase Mozart’s brilliance, too. Love the “orgasm” Salieri has as he sight reads Mozart’s drafts.
Many years ago, I read that Beethoven always carried with him a drawing of Mozart's funeral, which was basically a horse drawn wagon with a single mourner following behind.
It was a great movie. My dad was a music teacher and would play this for his music appreciation class. If you haven’t yet, you should check out Gary Oldman as Beethoven in the movie “Immortal Beloved.”
The great director Miloš Forman also made "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest." There's more than just the connection of the scary asylum setting. Forman loved to tell stories about free-spirited wild-child characters who rub the powers that be the wrong way--- and end up paying a terrible sacrificial price for it in the end. (See also "Man on the Moon," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," and "Hair.")
I saw the Requiem performed earlier this year with the University of Michigan choir. It was amazing to hear it live. The Dies Irae was my favorite part. I couldn't stop listening to it for several weeks afterward.
My number one favorite movie of all time. A masterpiece, chef's kiss, and it has everything you could want in a movie (except violence). I was heartbroken and crying by the end too! Top notch everything.....the writing/storyline, the casting, the acting, the costumes/makeup, the set design, the cinematography, and of course, the music! I'm a musician who's favorite music is classical and Mozart is my favorite composer! Lacrimosa is my favorite piece of his. 💜🎶🎵
I had been studying music for 8 years, had been dabbling with composition and just started up on double bass (plugged into the high school chamber and symphonic orchestras) when this came out. The chamber orchestra collaborated with the school choir for this ridiculously hard thing called "the Requiem" that i had never heard before (yeah, our high school was performing at THIS level!!!). And this movie wrecks me every time 😢😭❣️
At 2:20 "I remember this actor." Yes Vincent Schiavelli was one of the most memorable character actors. He also wrote several Italian cookbooks with his family recipes, so it isn't standard fare. He is buried in Sicily.
I come from the Czech republic and got to see this movie almost 2 decades ago in high school - they played it to us in our music lessons, actually. I know it can be long and heavy for many, but I am still in awe personally. Only other big movie about a musician I saw was Gainsbourg: Vie héroique. I saw that one with high school as well, though a bit later. And once again, it was long, but interesting. Come to think of it, I was lucky to have such high school education. I got to see several movies I would probably never come to see on my own. But now that I did see them, I am glad it happened.
I saw this movie back when in came out. I was in college (and a quasi-punk). I absolutely loved the movie and the music. Went to see it 4 times at our college theater. Glad you loved it, but am sorry it was so painful - it was for me too. Such a tragedy. I wish we knew what REALLY happened to Mozart, but I don't think we ever will. 💔
This movie (especially the Don Giovanni scene) inspired me to major in vocal performance at university. I sang professionally for 10 years, and did a lot of Mozart: Abduction (Osmin), Figaro (Bartolo), Magic Flute (Sarastro), Don Giovanni (Commendatore/Statue), and Alfonso (Cosi). It was such a 'coming full circle' moment the first time I sang the Commendatore scene from Don Giovanni...
My favorite piece is probably 'The Magic Flute', but... the one which pops into my head far more than any other when I think of Mozart is 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'
Great reaction, Emma! Another music movie masterpiece that not many have heard about is "Farinelli", it will break your heart too, musically speaking. It is set around the same time period, and deals with the life and trials of the greatest castrato singer in history, Carlo Broschi. They digitally blended the voices of a female and male singer to recreate the unique castrato voice.. you will not regret seeing this movie, to me personally it is as moving as Amadeus! PLEASE research and react to it, I am sure you will be profoundly moved by it! P.S. The great Handel also makes an important appearance in it too!
My friend Stephanie, and I got drunk, in the parking lot of St. Mary's Cathedral, in San Francisco. On the 200th anniversary of his death. We listened to San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, perform Mozart Requiem. It was an absolute honor, and pleasure, to hear the final voice of that insolent and vulgar man.
Excellent reaction video! This is one of my all-time favourite movies - and it was so nice to be able to "watch it with you" via your reaction video. I loved your random comments and thoughts! Well done!
Mozart's 'Requiem' is probably my favorite piece in my time. I love other of his works, but I remain transfixed to his "death mass!" It is especially elevating while driving through downtown Los Angeles surrounded by monoliths of "failure!"
About the burial; that was Mozart's wish to be buried in a mass grave. He, along with a lot of Vienna in the late 18th century, followed the city's custom of being buried in mass graves. And besides, Mozart was not one for ostentatious funeral ceremonies and rites, which he viewed as "superstitious".
The Emperor encouraged this greatly. The city was short of good wood and of space, and he was a good utilitarian leader. A great man, actually, and this film does him a kind of backhanded justice as, well, a nerd. 😂
You know Emma, what I found most delightful about your reaction was how well versed you are with Mozart! Truly impressed. I know this film took a few liberties, but what an amazing movie. One of my all time favorites. You're the best!!
First class reaction, from a person who knows her stuff. Bravo! The film was shot in Prague. Director Milos Forman returned after years in the States because of indifferences with the communist regime. The producer was Saul Zaentz, a former music producer (jazz). The Line Producer was Branko Lustig (Croatian/Israeli) who later produced Schindlers List for Steven Spielberg. AMADEUS is one of my five most favorable movies - a true masterpiece.
I genuinely appreciate your insightful analysis of this cinematic masterpiece. In my humble opinion, it serves as a profound tribute to the greatest composer the world has ever known. The film chronicles the extraordinary life of a child prodigy, gifted to humanity by divine providence, and the subsequent demeaning treatment he endured after his passing, as if Mozart were an ordinary individual. ❤️
Fun start to the video. I sang the solo tenor part in performances of Mozart's Requiem in Sydney's St Andrew's Cathedral a little under 30 years ago; some wonderful memories.
As an unknown arranger, I'd be dancing in the streets if anything of mine got nine performances. IMMORTAL BELOVED is a movie about Beethoven, with Gary Oldman as Beethoven.
Mozart was buried in an unmarked grave in St Mark's Cemetery in Vienna. This was actually common at the time. It was likely not a mass grave as depicted purely for dramatic purposes in this film. The exact location of his remains is unknown to this day but that cemetery does have a monument to Mozart that was erected years later in a spot believed to have been where he was burried. The monument was moved after that to an area of the cemetery with monuments to other famous composers of Vienna.
From what I've read, they put in a 'tomb' in 1859 at the area where they believed he was located in St. Mark's. Later in 1891 (the 100th anniversary of his death), that 'tomb' was moved to the location of where the famous composers are buried (the Central Cemetery, the 'Zentralfriedhof'). The people in charge of Mozart's actual grave at St. Mark's put up a 'new' headstone on the spot where the original 'tomb' was located shortly thereafter. When I went to Vienna in the mid 90's, I went to both locations. At Mozart's gravesite, his marker is a 'broken column' with a crying cherub. Mozart was a Freemason (he inspired me to become one myself), and the broken column is a well-known symbol regarding the death of a well-beloved brother.
Ken Russell made a film in 1974 "Mahler" that's interesting. In 1994 a film "Immortal Beloved" was made about Beethoven, starring Gary Oldman and Isabella Rossellini.
I remember when this movie came out. It won many Academy awards. At around the same time, there was a rock song on the radio called "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco. There were many versions of the song, but the best was the Canadien version because it included a spoken brief history of Mozart. Check it out sometime Emma. 😊 Love your passion and emotions when you watched this movie! Much ❤.
Great reaction! Amadeus is one of the greatest films and one of my favorites. Please consider reacting to famous musicals, such as West Side Story and The Sound of Music.
My favorite part of the movie is when Mozart is introduced to the Emperor and improves upon Salieri's piece. Favorite music by Mozart? impossible to pick, really, but I'll say Queen of the Night because it is so extra ordinary.
I work in the movie business, and I can guarantee we'll never see a movie made like this again. Every aspect of the sound and cinematography, the costuming and design, the acting... If I ever work on anything a tenth as good as Amadeus, I'll retire fulfilled.
It's an age that puts the mediocre and the substandard on a pedestal and worships it.
@@DEWwords just like Salierei, the patron saint of mediocrities? 😀 When I first saw this i was 13 and didnt quite get all the subtext. Now, i love it and how dark a picture it is. Abraham deserved that Oscar. And this is why you wont see a .ovie like thjs again, a movie for adults written by adults rather than overgrown children.
@@DEWwords whatever you say, sweetie 🙄
They don’t produce films anymore, they create content, filler to ensure your streaming service has more icons on the screen, more background to deliver ads on.
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I'd be too stressed to work on a film like this, even as a PA. The pressure to not fuck it up would be too great for me to function properly.
Literally one of the best films of all time. Nice reaction.
😘😘😘✨✨✨
The requiem composition scene is a masterpiece.
Someone asked me, what my fav. movie is, and i said "Amadeus"
Then I was asked why, and I said "ive never seen such a mix of drama, comedy and tragedy all in one movie"
Yup, still stands
The directors cut is MUCH darker than the other. And F. Murray Abraham is incredible. The layers!
The director's cut IS the film as far as I'm concerned. It's complete.
F. Murray Abraham won here the Oscar for Best Actor (playing an antagonist). But his performance of Salieri was simply... beyond amazing.
Strange to say, structurally speaking, even though Salieri is the villain of the piece, because the story is told from his point of view, Salieri is the protagonist and Mozart the antagonist.
One of the top 10 best films ever made. It deserved every award it won.
Though I think "A Soldier's Story" should have won for Best Picture
The Don Giovanni sequence was shot on the same stage and theater where Mozart first premiered it.
The production damn near burned it down when part of an actor's costume caught fire.
This movie is nothing without Salieri's passion and appreciation of great music. He is our guide to Mozart. The love/hate going on inside of him is perfect. F. Murray Abraham's performance is equal to the Mozart's music. One of the greatest acting performance ever in film.
A great performance, undeniably.
At the same time, it's pretty grossly unfair to Salieri that he is turned into a cartoon villain as that's not at all accurate. Most people who have heard of him now will have done so because of that portrayal.
@@steeltrap3800 The legend is definitely unfair to Salieri, But I protest the idea that this script renders him as a cartoon villain: here he is a great, sensitive intelligence that becomes entangled very early in a sort of pathology. This is a dangerously human trait. I feel that Abraham understands this delicate, frightening balance and gives it both us and Salieri,
@@steeltrap3800 I'm a huge classical music fan and know quite a bit about the history this film portrays. It's not and wasn't meant to be a biopic; it's a thoroughly fictionalized version of the characters and events it portrays. If people watch this and get the wrong idea about them... well, that's just their stupidity.
@@jonathanhenderson9422 With all due respect, calling people "stupid" because they don't know to trust film makers on something as basic as "did this person set out to KILL a very famous person", all the while backed up by your own situation of knowing "quite a bit about the history this film portrays", strikes me as rather ungenerous at the very least.
But perhaps I'm simply peculiar.
Cheers
@@steeltrap3800 Let me be more generous then. Anyone whose first instinct is to believe any film is historically reliable/accurate is terribly naive. For one thing, even actual history is fraught with epistemic complications, meaning it's often very difficult to know what happened in the past as evidence is often sparse and in itself unreliable. Second, the job of filmmakers and writers is to make entertainment, not to get things as historically accurate as possible. In the case of Amadeus it doesn't even pretend to be based on a true story.
“Immortal Beloved” (1994) is another movie of a great composer, Beethoven. Gary Oldman’s portrayal was just mesmerizing.
We need more composer movies. Bach, Liszt, Chopin, etc.
You should react to “Immortal Beloved” . Another great movie Beethoven’s , it is about his love life.
@@revo1336The Music Lovers is Tchaikovsky
It broke my heart to see someone who enjoys life so much weeping, but it demonstrates the depths of your humanity.
As a classically-trained musician I must say that you had me after only six seconds of watching this video. As the old Southern US saying goes: you're my kind of people. 💛☮
Winner of 8 Oscars including Best Picture. Though the film is historically inaccurate, it's a pretty impressive motion picture about the life, death and legacy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
It is not historically inaccurate. It is a story of its own.
Two words: unreliable narrator.
It wasn't meant to be historically accurate. It's fictionalized history... kinda like Inglorious Basterds.
The playwright/screenwriter Peter Shaffer himself admitted that this was essentially a fantasy based on fact, as related in the storyline by an embittered elderly man some thirty-two years onward whereby memory alters and fades.
Makes me happy to see people appreciate this movie. This was excellent! The 70 minutes went by fast.
-"No corrections of any kind!"....What a powerful line!
Can`t imagine a better person to react to this than You! Love it!
I was 12 years old and studuing in music school and our class went to the cinema to see this movie in 1985. It made a big impression on me and I love this movie. This movie is one of my all time favorites. They don't make movies like this anymore and it's sad.
F Murray Abraham’s Salieri was the character we can all actually relate too.
There’s always somebody in all walks of life who is simply better than you no matter how hard you try to best them.
And as a composer he had the worst luck in the world when his contemporary was the greatest genius in music ever known.
Fun trivia: The little person at 51:44 is Kenny Baker, the man inside R2-D2 in the Star Wars movies.
Since you asked...
Salieri reading Mozart's drafts,
"Displace one note and there would be diminishment,"
and Salieri taking dictation from Mozart towards the end are two of my favorite scenes in all of cinema.
When Freddie Mercury was ill and in the last months of his life, according to his friend Reinholdt Mack, Freddie watched the movie Amadeus over and over again. At the end of the film when Mozart died, Freddie would say “That’s going to happen to me,soon”. (I think it was Freddie’s way of trying to “prepare” Mack’s children (including Freddie’s Godson, little Freddie Mack) for the fact he would be gone soon.)
There have been many great composers, but I'm convinced that Mozart wrote the music that plays when the gates of heaven open.
This movie got Mozart into my blood at the age of eight. To this day I have never connected with any classical composer as deeply as I have with Mozart.
Same! From 8-12 I pretty much only listened to Mozart.
I was learning to play piano and listening to quite a few of the operas at the age of seven to eight-ish. My first one was The Magic Flute so watching this at about the same time was amazing.
My favorite part is watching you conduct, Emma. We need to see more of your talents.
Not based on true history, but on Peter Schaeffer's own theater play, which is in turn based on a Pushkin short tale. The story is in fact more of a study and reflection on genius and jealousy, not intended to be taken as a biography of any sort. True fact is that Mozart likely died because of some inflammatory disease that afflicted him from a very young age, and affected his kidneys. Salieri was a friendly rival on the Vienna musical scene, and was kind and civil to Mozart. He was admired by other composers and musicians because of his good and generous nature. BTW, he was no mediocrity at all, he was a great musician, a very competent composer, and the master and teacher of many famous composers, including Beethoven. Said that, I love this film, and I love the music and how music inspires the whole affair.
Years ago I read that “experts” hypothesized that Mozart died of Trichinosis. They referred to a letter he had written days before his death where he wrote he was looking forward to a pork dinner. Apparently, his symptoms seemed to match.
The story goes that the filmmakers started going through Salieri's music expecting, on the basis of the play, to find some obviously poor music but were rather dismayed when they didn't find anything that sounded remotely bad.
I enjoyed this reaction video so much.
I think the thing that makes it special is that you have both a knowledge of the music but also and understanding of it and this shows through during your reaction.
Thank you!
I loved this movie even more when I learned that, as much as they played up his life, Mozart actually was a "rockstar" of his day with his love of parties, drinking and dirty jokes (he wrote a piece called "Leck mich im Arsch", which needs no translation)
If you think the "too many notes" remark is crazy, apparently Joseph II also told him after one of his other operas "the bass is too low".
I kinda felt sorry for the emperor. He was asked for his feedback and had to say something critical, something that needed improvement, anything, lest he appear as a musical imposter. Unfortunately, many professional critics have the same impulse. They can't simply say they like a piece, they have to find something wrong, or else they'll look like they're not doing their job.
Mozart asking him to choose which notes to remove has bad ass.
@@Randsurferhonestly if the right ones WERE removed you'd be left with a prog metal jazz masterpiece.
I was in Prague (where the film was shot) and visited the wonderful gold jewel box of the theater used in the filming--saw "Don Giovanni" performed there. As I walked around Prague, I kept experiencing a sense of deja vu passing streets and buildings used in the filming. It was delightful.
This movie is one of those miracles. The project was already thought of, paid preproduction by just the guys that developed the movie without any company knowing about it, no companies being involved in any way. This has happened just a few times in history, lord of the rings, matrix 1, fury road, star Wars, etc... And that's why it's so pure and unique and so good. No greed trying to fit a script into the commercial formula.
Only when it was finished and packaged in a beautiful sealed hole, it was presented to companies to fund.
This is one of my favorite movies. Perfect. 10/10.
I highly recommend the "making of" documentary for this film, which is available on this platform.
Fantastic...a true musical genius. His body ended up in a mass grave...his memory will live on for eternity. Wonderful movie
Mozart was buried in a common plot in a cemetery in Vienna. It's just a myth that he was buried in a pauper's grave. Common plots were the fate of the middle classes, unlike the poor and the paupers' mass graves and the upper class who could afford single graves with individual headstones or even mausoleums.
They took liberties with history but the movie is exceptional.
considerable liberties ....
Real history is usually boring.
I'm so happy for you that you've now experienced "Amadeus." Thank you for the delightful reaction. Please consider "The Red Violin," and "The Last Emperor."
The Red Violin is an amazing movie. A must watch for a musician.
Also "The Red Shoes" by the Archers.
I haven't seen any reactions to "The Last Emperor", such a great film.
@@TylerD288 I agree. It dropped off the radar for some reason. Brilliant film. With one of the most beautiful and enchanting actresses of her time: Joan Chen. Who also dropped off the radar.
One of the best movies ever made. Every aspect is flawless. For me, what makes it so memorable and relatable is the character of Salieri. Aren't we all like that? Mediocrities, feeling small and insignificant in the face of greatness? Bargaining with God over our fate? I find it deeply touching.
IMMORTAL BELOVED
Film about Beethoven.
Gary Oldman plays Beethoven.
I love this movie. My mother dragged me to it when I was seven. I left it in love with all classical music except opera. I love opera in short amounts but the only opera I've stayed awake for is Wagner.
Cheered Emma for the bravery to pull this out for review! Simply a great movie that very few brave to revisit. Your viewers have made great comments, but I thank you for the effort!
A timeless classic. Milos played the music aloud during scenes. Brilliant to capture the moment sir. RIP.🙏
It made me happy that you recognised Vincent Schiavelli (Salieri's Valet) at the start of the movie. One of my all time favourite supporting actors. He's one of those that shows up in tiny parts in movies and so many TV shows where he plays a one off character in a single episode. He never disappoints.
Even though it is fiction, the way his music is woven through the film brings me to tears. This is truly a love-letter to Mozart.
The soundtrack to this movie was my first classical album. I loved this movie.
An all time great, and it's safe to say the greatest musical score ever. I loved this movie from the first time I watched it when I was a teenager.
Interesting thing about the Baron von Swieten (the court member with the long brown wig): IRL Mozart wound up becoming chummy with him, and through him he was introduced to Handel's work. This is why Mozart's later works had a lot of counterpoint like Baroque pieces like Handel's.
Great movie! A tale about genius,talent, how you can not build it or even understand it. Not true facts , but a work of art. I just love it!❤
I watched this movie in school and the Confutatis scene unlocked an entirely new appreciation of music for me
I love, love, love Mozart's music. The soundtrack for this movie was my go to music for years after the movie came out.
I saw this movie when I was a little kid and it turned me on to classical music.
I think because the story is from Salieri’s eyes, he’s able to tell us exactly why the music is so beautiful and how it makes us feel and his painful envy conveys how excellent the music is. F. Murray Abraham is so wonderful as Salieri.
Queen of the night aria is my favorite (and probably everyone else’s)
Emma thank you so much. This film always moves me and to watch your reaction moves me even more strongly. I was raised with an older sister who is an opera singer so I was exposed to this stuff at an early age. Your reaction is the first thing I've seen that reminds me of how she reacted to this film. Thank you.
For a movie recommendation may I suggest, "The Mission" with Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro.
Such a great role for F Murray Abraham. Pretty clever premise to showcase Mozart’s brilliance, too. Love the “orgasm” Salieri has as he sight reads Mozart’s drafts.
Many years ago, I read that Beethoven always carried with him a drawing of Mozart's funeral, which was basically a horse drawn wagon with a single mourner following behind.
It was a great movie. My dad was a music teacher and would play this for his music appreciation class. If you haven’t yet, you should check out Gary Oldman as Beethoven in the movie “Immortal Beloved.”
Great movie! Tom Hulce was robbed of the Oscar!
Yeah, he was completely robbed. The guy who won the Best Actor Oscar instead was a total hack in a film that I can't even remember right now. 😡
@@theevilascotcompany9255umm, F. Murray Abraham won Best Actor. They were both nominated.
@@theevilascotcompany9255 😂😂😂😂 yeah, that party pooper. I cant remember who he is though.
@@samhain1894He was clearly joking
The first rock star. And, at least in legend, the first case of the rock star / leechy manager trope.
The great director Miloš Forman also made "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest."
There's more than just the connection of the scary asylum setting. Forman loved to tell stories about free-spirited wild-child characters who rub the powers that be the wrong way--- and end up paying a terrible sacrificial price for it in the end.
(See also "Man on the Moon," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," and "Hair.")
I too have been touched by God (musically). A very light touch, Mozart got the real thing. But enough to recognize greatness.
I saw the Requiem performed earlier this year with the University of Michigan choir. It was amazing to hear it live. The Dies Irae was my favorite part. I couldn't stop listening to it for several weeks afterward.
My number one favorite movie of all time. A masterpiece, chef's kiss, and it has everything you could want in a movie (except violence). I was heartbroken and crying by the end too! Top notch everything.....the writing/storyline, the casting, the acting, the costumes/makeup, the set design, the cinematography, and of course, the music! I'm a musician who's favorite music is classical and Mozart is my favorite composer! Lacrimosa is my favorite piece of his. 💜🎶🎵
I had been studying music for 8 years, had been dabbling with composition and just started up on double bass (plugged into the high school chamber and symphonic orchestras) when this came out. The chamber orchestra collaborated with the school choir for this ridiculously hard thing called "the Requiem" that i had never heard before (yeah, our high school was performing at THIS level!!!). And this movie wrecks me every time 😢😭❣️
Makes me emotional EVERY time I watch it. The music is largely to blame for that.
At 2:20 "I remember this actor." Yes Vincent Schiavelli was one of the most memorable character actors. He also wrote several Italian cookbooks with his family recipes, so it isn't standard fare. He is buried in Sicily.
You are the real deal. As a classical trumpeter myself, you nailed this.
I come from the Czech republic and got to see this movie almost 2 decades ago in high school - they played it to us in our music lessons, actually. I know it can be long and heavy for many, but I am still in awe personally.
Only other big movie about a musician I saw was Gainsbourg: Vie héroique. I saw that one with high school as well, though a bit later. And once again, it was long, but interesting.
Come to think of it, I was lucky to have such high school education. I got to see several movies I would probably never come to see on my own. But now that I did see them, I am glad it happened.
Excellent and insightful reaction. Thanks for sharing your journey through this wonderful film :)
I saw this movie back when in came out. I was in college (and a quasi-punk). I absolutely loved the movie and the music. Went to see it 4 times at our college theater. Glad you loved it, but am sorry it was so painful - it was for me too. Such a tragedy. I wish we knew what REALLY happened to Mozart, but I don't think we ever will. 💔
This movie (especially the Don Giovanni scene) inspired me to major in vocal performance at university. I sang professionally for 10 years, and did a lot of Mozart: Abduction (Osmin), Figaro (Bartolo), Magic Flute (Sarastro), Don Giovanni (Commendatore/Statue), and Alfonso (Cosi). It was such a 'coming full circle' moment the first time I sang the Commendatore scene from Don Giovanni...
I knew you would enjoy this movie, but also your tender heart would be pierced.
Great reaction as usual.
Oh thank you!
i did not know about mozart's SISTER! 😳 now i am curious 🤔 thank you for TEACHING something NEW 😁 ...and THANK YOU for your WONDERFUL REACTION! 👍☺
Your musicianship impresses me more and more each video!
My favorite piece is probably 'The Magic Flute', but... the one which pops into my head far more than any other when I think of Mozart is 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'
This is a Masterpiece of a movie. The performances are magnificent.
Great reaction, Emma! Another music movie masterpiece that not many have heard about is "Farinelli", it will break your heart too, musically speaking. It is set around the same time period, and deals with the life and trials of the greatest castrato singer in history, Carlo Broschi. They digitally blended the voices of a female and male singer to recreate the unique castrato voice.. you will not regret seeing this movie, to me personally it is as moving as Amadeus! PLEASE research and react to it, I am sure you will be profoundly moved by it!
P.S. The great Handel also makes an important appearance in it too!
My friend Stephanie, and I got drunk, in the parking lot of St. Mary's Cathedral, in San Francisco. On the 200th anniversary of his death. We listened to San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, perform Mozart Requiem. It was an absolute honor, and pleasure, to hear the final voice of that insolent and vulgar man.
Mozart died before he could finish the Requiem. It was completed by others.
Excellent reaction video! This is one of my all-time favourite movies - and it was so nice to be able to "watch it with you" via your reaction video. I loved your random comments and thoughts! Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!😉👍☺️☺️☺️☺️✨
Mozart's 'Requiem' is probably my favorite piece in my time. I love other of his works, but I remain transfixed to his "death mass!" It is especially elevating while driving through downtown Los Angeles surrounded by monoliths of "failure!"
About the burial; that was Mozart's wish to be buried in a mass grave. He, along with a lot of Vienna in the late 18th century, followed the city's custom of being buried in mass graves. And besides, Mozart was not one for ostentatious funeral ceremonies and rites, which he viewed as "superstitious".
The Emperor encouraged this greatly. The city was short of good wood and of space, and he was a good utilitarian leader. A great man, actually, and this film does him a kind of backhanded justice as, well, a nerd. 😂
Yes, one of my all time favourites! This film is a true masterpiece. 🙂👍
For the "Game of Thrones" fans out there, the actor playing Leopold Mozart is the same one who played the Wildfire wrangler in season 2 of the show.
Much of the movie was filmed in “Mala Strana” in Prague where I live…I recognize so many of the buildings every time I see this film.
You know Emma, what I found most delightful about your reaction was how well versed you are with Mozart! Truly impressed. I know this film took a few liberties, but what an amazing movie. One of my all time favorites. You're the best!!
Wow, thank you!
First class reaction, from a person who knows her stuff. Bravo! The film was shot in Prague. Director Milos Forman returned after years in the States because of indifferences with the communist regime. The producer was Saul Zaentz, a former music producer (jazz). The Line Producer was Branko Lustig (Croatian/Israeli) who later produced Schindlers List for Steven Spielberg. AMADEUS is one of my five most favorable movies - a true masterpiece.
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your joy at that brightened my day
I genuinely appreciate your insightful analysis of this cinematic masterpiece. In my humble opinion, it serves as a profound tribute to the greatest composer the world has ever known. The film chronicles the extraordinary life of a child prodigy, gifted to humanity by divine providence, and the subsequent demeaning treatment he endured after his passing, as if Mozart were an ordinary individual. ❤️
Love You Emma 💗
This is one of those films about a real person done so well, you have to go look up what is fictional.
One of my favorite movies of all time.
Fun start to the video. I sang the solo tenor part in performances of Mozart's Requiem in Sydney's St Andrew's Cathedral a little under 30 years ago; some wonderful memories.
I love music too, "Eddie and the Cruisers" is a movie about the meaning of the music from a rock & roll point of view
Some people love so much what they do, to the point of forgetting to love themselves.
Great that you could appreciate the score of this brilliant film. Mozart's Jupiter Symphony was my first intro to his mind boggling catalogue.
magnificent film - really enjoyed your reaction - the music is from another world :)
As an unknown arranger, I'd be dancing in the streets if anything of mine got nine performances. IMMORTAL BELOVED is a movie about Beethoven, with Gary Oldman as Beethoven.
Mozart was buried in an unmarked grave in St Mark's Cemetery in Vienna. This was actually common at the time. It was likely not a mass grave as depicted purely for dramatic purposes in this film. The exact location of his remains is unknown to this day but that cemetery does have a monument to Mozart that was erected years later in a spot believed to have been where he was burried. The monument was moved after that to an area of the cemetery with monuments to other famous composers of Vienna.
From what I've read, they put in a 'tomb' in 1859 at the area where they believed he was located in St. Mark's. Later in 1891 (the 100th anniversary of his death), that 'tomb' was moved to the location of where the famous composers are buried (the Central Cemetery, the 'Zentralfriedhof'). The people in charge of Mozart's actual grave at St. Mark's put up a 'new' headstone on the spot where the original 'tomb' was located shortly thereafter.
When I went to Vienna in the mid 90's, I went to both locations. At Mozart's gravesite, his marker is a 'broken column' with a crying cherub. Mozart was a Freemason (he inspired me to become one myself), and the broken column is a well-known symbol regarding the death of a well-beloved brother.
Ken Russell made a film in 1974 "Mahler" that's interesting. In 1994 a film "Immortal Beloved" was made about Beethoven, starring Gary Oldman and Isabella Rossellini.
Both fantastic films.
I remember when this movie came out. It won many Academy awards. At around the same time, there was a rock song on the radio called "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco. There were many versions of the song, but the best was the Canadien version because it included a spoken brief history of Mozart. Check it out sometime Emma. 😊 Love your passion and emotions when you watched this movie! Much ❤.
Great reaction! Amadeus is one of the greatest films and one of my favorites. Please consider reacting to famous musicals, such as West Side Story and The Sound of Music.
This is an underappreciated Best Picture winner. Great music, great performances. Thanks for reacting to it!
My favorite part of the movie is when Mozart is introduced to the Emperor and improves upon Salieri's piece. Favorite music by Mozart? impossible to pick, really, but I'll say Queen of the Night because it is so extra ordinary.
While going thru architectural design studios, I would watch and re-watch this movie for creative inspiration. It does feed the soul.