except Itll fly by everyone, so its pointless. Theyll continue to play this music in the background while they do other shit, completely ignoring the details
Something I missed the first time watching is that Salieri was able to experience the full impact of Mozart’s music just by looking at the page. He wasn’t just a jealous rival, he really was the best composer in Europe and thus, the only person who could recognize Mozart for who he truly was. Edit: Changed some wording.
It would be one of my all time favorite films is if not for the gross caricature of Mozart and, even worse, the woeful miscasting of Tom Hulce. The rest of it is perfect, especially Abraham and the cinematography.
I saw this film in Berlin in 1984. I was 18 and with a beautiful German girl who had to translate the entire film for me as it was dubbed in German. This required her to whisper softly in my ear the entire film. When the film ended and we walked outside, it was snowing. That was the first time since I had been a child that I felt I understood it all. Now, at 57, I am still so grateful for this film. The historical inaccuracies are irrelevant. The spirit of this man's music had just claimed another admirer. This scene was a life changing experience for me and it still reminds me of when I was young. God bless us all.
The comment that follows “it’d better be” responding to all that was just gold. Knowing deep in his gut that it was not an accident and just talent on a different level. But he had to believe that it was an accident otherwise what defines himself as one of the most celebrated composers of his time would crumble.
Why do people like you insist on using hyperbolic categorizations of the concept of "perfection"? MOST perfect? REALLY? As if perfection (or the idea of completeness) has degrees to it? Use your words wiser.
To be sure, but I always felt Tom Hulce was just as good, it's just Abraham gave a "performance" which of course got more attention. But it was Hulce who gave the more gutsy performance.
Amadeus was one of the absolute BEST movies I had ever seen in my entire life! The attention to detail, the costumes, the writing, the acting, the entire film is an exquisite masterpiece!
1:14 Salieri's mix of feelings: admiration, delight, guilty pleasure, the suffering, torment and sadness of envy… F. Murray, the best actor of the movie!!! Sublime performance!
When he says, "It had to be" it is almost like he was trying to convince himself at the time that the music was an accident. When he says "It better be" he is addressing God. If it wasn't actually an accident then... well, then the rest of the movie will happen. :) I think that what is so chilling about the "It better be" is that this is such a turning point in both composers' lives, although they don't realize it yet.
@@giorgijgerenaia4226 "It had to be" meant that he insisted it was an accident, otherwise, it would mean he had to question his entire relationship with God, or whether there even is one. He wasn't prepared to do that for fear that his entire world might unravel.
0:55 "This was no composition by a performing monkey. This was a music I had never heard; filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God." - The way he delivers those lines, with the scene showing him reading the score and the music playing in the background, is very moving.
The way he changed the tone of his voice from "it had to be" to "it better be". He is a phenomenal actor. This video is just too much showing phenomenal acting and phenomenal music writing. I am dead!
One of the best movies ever made. The strict rich upper class looking down on actual art. Few people remember anyone in that room other than Mozart in the record of history. Yet Mozart died in poverty but Salieri was rich.
"On the page, it looked simple, nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse. Bassoons, Basset Horns. Like a rusty squeezebox. & then, suddenly, high above it. An Oboe. A single note hanging there unwavering, until a Clarinet took it over. Sweetened it into a phrase of such delight. This was no composition by a performing monkey, this was a music I've never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable. It seemed I was hearing the voice of God. But why? Why would God choose such an obscene child to be his instrument? It's not to be believed. This piece had to be an accident. It had to be. It better be." - Antonio Salieri
@@donnademarino4845 God chose Donald Trump to save America from the march of the radical progressives. No one imagined him to be in such a role given his past life, but he is, and Thank God he is.
@@DoubleGauss hahahaha.... You think that your God, who presumably lives on a cloud and made a plan for mankind would actually take notice of whoever was elected as leader of the lands that were stolen from the people, the first people? The people who loved and respected the land, the flora and fauna and the great spirit?
What makes this scene so amazing is the temporary healing power of music. Even though he venomously envied Mozart, the music on the page temporarily gave him peace and clarity to the point that, for just 5 seconds he had nothing but admiration.
I thought I was the only one that did that. I can't make it through it without tears in my eyes. One of the most beautifully written and acted parts in the whole movie.
+Allison Moravec I'm right there with you. It's one of those magical movie moments that truly touches the soul. Just made the mistake of watching it in my office, and now I look like I just finished weeping.
I love this film so much. I'm very grateful to have been to Salzburg Austria in Aug 1990 to see his birth place, at the Mozart music festival. Thankfully I have this movie on DVD. Thank you.
This is literally one of my favourite scenes in any film ever!!!....I come back to watch it again and again - this film is just magnificent, a childhood film which will stay with me forever
This is my absolute favorite scene of any movie I’ve ever seen. Incredible how it conveys the appeal to Mozart’s music with such honesty while setting up the entire plot and Salieri’s feelings about the man whose story he’s about to tell.
This movie was simply a masterpiece. F. Murray Abraham was absolutely amazing in this film, his crowning achievement in acting in my opinion, and is a legend.
And though I love this movie, this is one side effect that I absolutely hate. Salieri was a genius in his own right. He was a court composer for the Emperor, for gods sake! You don't get a job like that by being mediocre. In many ways, he was just as much a genius as Mozart. I am so sick of this "Salieri? Pht, who's that nobody?"
@@allenharper2928 I think people under every clip have made that clear…to the point where when someone is obviously talking just about the movie, some reply has to go “bUt HisToRicAlly sPeaKing”
Beg your pardon, but please don't compare Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce. The contrast is just opposite to the comparison of the genius Mozart and musician Salieri.
I watched Amaddus. Two months ago. Being. Well. Drugged. Is the word. By cannabis. High to the brim. And it changed my life. I had always loved music. And at that state. I wantwd to watch Amadeus. And I did it. Whwn Salieri first song. Is heard. When he is playing for father Vogler. Remembering himself directing an orchestra. I had nwver felt such pleasure on my life listening to his music. I cried so nuch. Because he in the movie. Salieri in reslity never harmed Mozart. And yet he had such mental suffering. Which did made him try to commit suicide. Well. Speaking in Amadeus. Salieri only wantwd to somwone love his music. He had such pain when doing the confession. He had such pain he wanted to die becsuse of guilt. And his confessions was truthful at all times. He regreted doing that. And yet. If Vogler had loved a single melody. His confession would not had been as bitter as it was. It wouod be more tender. As he described that piece. And at that state. High. Hearing that music. For the first time. I loved it. The scene where Salieri is reading. Listening in his mind. That music. I had that pleasure listening to his music. I loved his music since the very firts moment I heard it. And I dedicsted my life to him. To his works. His music. And him. As a whole. I am a writer. Eight yeats. And I am now a libretist. Composing an opera. Dedicsted fo him. I will forever woek the rest of my life for his works ro be listened. His name remembered. I coild never, ever forget that pleasure I felt listening him at the very first time. And even now. I want to share a desveiprion I did of one of his works. The second musical piece I heard of him. There was no such longing, such longing not in melancholy like Beethoven. If not in longing. In each note there was nothing but longing, love, tenderness that grows. The familiarity of feeling like they speak directly to your soul. That longing. There was nothing but longing and tenderness. Every note. Each sentence flowed, it was not mechanical. There was nothing mediocre about that piece other than the most sublime and tender piece I have ever heard. When I heard it I was paralyzed. I close my eyes immersed in a sea of his music. Of that longing that I felt flowing. That passion. Not unbridled passion. But as glorious as the sun of an evening. It was all I needed. There was nothing but genius. There was nothing but love in that piece. At that moment I closed my eyes and knew that when I thought about that feeling. I would always think of Salieri. He had nothing to envy of Mozart. To Schubert. To List. To Handel. To Beethoven. You are not a copy. He was not just a teacher. In that piece I stopped hearing how its structure had influenced the greats. I stopped listening in that piece to a teacher who had music on his shoulders. When listening to that piece. I only listened to Salieri. I long. Yearning. Tenderness. Light. glorious sublimity. And I wish everyone could hear it the way I could. I knew in that moment that I would not rest until everyone listened as I did. That they will not listen to mediocrity. That they won't listen to a teacher. That they will listen to Salieri. The piece is the symphony in D Major La Venezziana. II. Andantino Grandiozo. If love, tender, love. If being held by your love If eating a warm meal after working. If resting, showered and on clean clothes on your bed after being on the sun all day long. If being covered in blankets while the night goes and the chill que goes through the window. But you are on such a warm embrace. The cold is delightful. If being said that they love you too. If walzing tenderly as you laugh. If being said you are going to live. If walking workout pain. If being on a orchestra as an ovation arises. And for a moment all of you are one. If seeing something so beautiful you cry. If you realize how beautiful is life. And you cry. Not because it will end. But because all has such beauty you can't express how wonderful is being there. Being human. And being you. Would have music. Salieri would be the one you hear That was the start of all. And everytime I remember this scene. Becusse when I hear his music. I have the same wxpression Salieri in Amadeus have. When hearing Mozart.
The music is one thing, but the way Salieri describes it is absolutely beautiful as well. The music is divine, like something you would hear when you enter heaven, once you pass. Abraham was perfection in this movie. Absolutely perfect.
It's because it brings you double pleasure…..Mozart's music(probably one of the BEST musicians ever to grace our planet earth)…...then the movie itself, an absolute masterpiece of a film! I like how simple yet accurate your comment is! ;-)
Sublime scene of a sublime movie... a pleasure to all the senses... masterpiece of acting.... when I first presented this movie to my father he thanked me
The movie is about Mozart and Tom Hulce was great. But the acting concert performed by Fahrid Murray Abraham put me deep in the chair. I enjoyed every minute he spent on screen. He played the role of a jealous and friendly man at the same time so perfectly that I wouldn't be surprised if the movie was called "Salieri". The emotions that the real Salieri could have experienced during his meetings with Mozart were demonstrated with absolute commitment.
The whole script for the film was wonderful. Elegant wording to describe the music so beautifully presented by Salieri. Which was acted with a humble perfection which allows us to fall in love with the character and understand his "pain".
I'm someone who can sight read music pretty well. It's one thing to be able to sight read, and it's another to literally hear the whole thing in your head as if it's actually playing. Very few musicians can really do that today since now there's many DAWs that just do the playback for you. IMO it's such a flex of a skill.
Amadeus is a collection of brilliantly staged scenes. The scenes could exist on their own and are masterpieces in their own right that you want to watch over and over.
D-Gauss yes, I completely agree! Few films posses such a quality! It is the very definition of character and performance driven cinema! That, to me, is what REAL drama is!
Serenade 10 in B minor in case your interested. F. Murray Abraham took the Oscar for best Actor as well as a Golden Globe; Amadeus took the Oscar for best movie in 1985, along with SIX other Oscars.
Amadeus was one of my inspirations to write. To see emotion, such passion, even though it's acting, it's as if he really was Salieri. It was indescribable
filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing... I like that line. Most of the creative stuff I produce comes from the tension caused by extreme yearning...
Amazing acting, great script, thank you. I have remembered this part ever since my first viewing of the movie. I think it also shows the importance of a good, knowledgable teacher - imagine getting an intruction at school with such knowledge and the love of the subject at the same time.
Salieri in the scene is talking about Serenade for Winds no 10. You can feel the same listening to the beginning of Symphony no 25, with the beautiful lone oboe line above the strings. Listen and enjoy it.
Salieri was so caught up in Mozart’s music that he couldn’t even appreciate his own talent of being able to read music and hear it in his head perfectly
Salieri seems to be very passionate about music. Even though he was never as great at composing music as Mozart, he could see notes on a page and know exactly what they would sound like when played. He obviously was a very skilled musician. I can see why he was popular at one time.
This movie is a mysteriously underacknowledged classic. It remains a niche obscurity almost and never gets name-checked in conversation, in reviews, blogs, magazines...nowhere. And when people talk about it in our current era, generally speaking, it's as if they're talking about some ordinary, b-grade 80's flick. I have never understood this. It's one of my favourite films too. I can't believe you posted this in 2008! Wow, how are you doing in 2022? Good I hope. :)
However, even with Mozart and Salieri's rivalry for certain jobs, there is very little evidence that the relationship between the two composers was at all acrimonious beyond this, especially after 1785 or so, when Mozart had become established in Vienna. Rather, they appeared to usually see each other as friends and colleagues, and supported each other's work. For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788, he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own, and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790, Salieri had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage. Salieri and Mozart even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which celebrated the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace" Läs mer
The screenplay took liberties with Salieri for drama's sake. If he were alive when this movie was released, he would have sued the pants off them. Playing fast and loose with someone's reputation is the major fault of the movie. It does, however, convey Mozart's genius and that wins the day.
What you have to keep in mind is that the play/movie version of Salieri is mad. He is fixated upon the delusion that he murdered Mozart out of jealousy and it is a delusion so complete that his memories and own self-assessments are warped by it.
@@LordZontar It was a fictionization and took great liberties with Salieri's life and reputation. I appreciate that it helped bring Mozart's genius to many people. But the movie poster said something to the effect that it was all true, when it wasn't. It's a pity that Schaeffer couldn't figure out how to illustrate Mozart's genius without maligning one of his contemporaries.
@@christinemusselman5499 Oh yes, I'm aware of the things you say. What I stated is how I've long interpreted the movie. Salieri actually did suffer a mental breakdown in his later years, when the rumour spread that he apparently had accused himself of killing Mozart. That and other rumours directly accusing Salieri of poisoning Mozart were circulating as early as 1824.
whoever the script writer was...he wrote such memorable lines for Salieri to express here. In reality Salieri never said such words of course. Anyway, if you have never heard Salieri's music before, go search in youtube. The dude is an amazing composer!
Recently rewatched How i met your mother (the one with the perfect burger) and there is a nice hommage to this very scene (marshall describing the burger „high above... a pickle) Realized it immediately and came back to this clip.
The genius of Peter Shaffer: first to see that every human is a diamond, and every other human usually only sees one of our many facets, but imagine what they see is transparent. Then the inspiration to share the _genius_ of Mozart in the stage (or cinematic) medium, and that's the genius he wants to share, not merely the music. Then to create an emotion caused by the contrast of genius with mediocrity -- jealousy. Then to find a character (named Salieri, but not) to carry the jealousy, to show the audience the genius at the heart of the diamond, but only through the facet that character has glimpsed, and amplified to lifetime proportions. And then to let the audience itself into the film in the form of the priest (who, like us, doesn't understand genius.) Great acting/set/sound/direction/costume/lighting (did you notice when it got brighter and darker?)/and music. And I don't use the word "great" lightly. But genius writing. Celebrating genius composing.
"And then... a pickle.. The most playful little pickle. Then a slice of tomato" Am I the only one who recognised this reference in How I met Your Mother, when Marshall describes his best burger? :)
_Just a Burger? Just a burger. Robin, it's so much more than "just a burger." I mean... that first bite-oh, what heaven that first bite is. The bun, like a sesame freckled breast of an angel, resting gently on the ketchup and mustard below, flavors mingling in a seductive pas de deux. And then... a pickle! The most playful little pickle! Then a slice of tomato, a leaf of lettuce and a... a patty of ground beef so exquisite, swirling in your mouth, breaking apart, and combining again in a fugue of sweets and savor so delightful. This is no mere sandwich of grilled meat and toasted bread, Robin. This is God, speaking to us in food._
That oboe and clarinet. Such beautiful sounds. I myself played percussion in my school band, but I longed to play both the oboe and clarinet. Never too late to learn, I guess.
That scene where he describes the moment of introduction by the different instruments opened my ears and heart to classical music and indirectly or directly, other genres
Please, Keep in mind that a lot of the information you hear is highly exaggerated. Mozart himself stated "It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied."
@@Forgetit2697 come on man with all this hawgwash. Mozart clearly is like someone from another planet. He does not look or sound like any humans you see or hear today. He had a photographic memory. There are higher levels of humans on this planet and not all humans are the same
Bishop master I knew someone in school who did with me the exact same scene where Mozart plays Salieri’s composition in front of the emperor. I was playing a final fantasy theme and while commenting he asked me if he could show me that he can play it from one hearing only and he played it better than I did. I remember him saying that his father taught him music since he was 4 years old. That guy literally played any music he could randomly hear. I believe in high training + talent. Talent alone wont do.
Who else still gets chills when the oboe kicks in?
me!!!
Same here, but i can totally understand when Salieri literally melts into his seat as he mentions the Clarinet ♥
I was lifted.
LeckMichImArsch you know
@@jonbarron8049 well said sir ♥
This was the most important scene in the film: The film maker was teaching the viewing audience how to listen to and appreciate music.
yes you are right
@@stephenfermoyle1498 It goes way beyond that.
I couldn't agree more
My favorite scene in this movie. Brilliant.
except Itll fly by everyone, so its pointless. Theyll continue to play this music in the background while they do other shit, completely ignoring the details
Something I missed the first time watching is that Salieri was able to experience the full impact of Mozart’s music just by looking at the page. He wasn’t just a jealous rival, he really was the best composer in Europe and thus, the only person who could recognize Mozart for who he truly was.
Edit: Changed some wording.
In reality he wasn't even an rival they got along well
@@JJ-mq2lv just because they were actually friends doesn't mean they weren't rivals. They were, to an extent
Something that even the Emperor of Austria didn't have, appreciation and recognition for actual music.
@@agenttheater5 That's not true. Emperor Joseph II was a huge patron of music in his time.
@@ohger1 yes but in the movie context I'm sure Sallieri said that the Emperor knew nothing about music
There's something indescribably beautiful listening to F. Murray as Salieri attempting to describe beauty.
It is a great scene which is why I’m watching it right now
@@Nappa-q5x Rock me, Amadeus!
A single note; hanging there, unwavering, until a clarinet took it over, sweetened it into a phrase of such delight !!!!
Heart 💔 breaks
And then a pickle.
What did he say at the start, before " bassoon " ? Pulse ?
yip wh Yes
Thank you !
The pause between "it had to be" and "it better be" is glorious. You can almost see all the thoughts going through Salieri's mind. Top notch acting.
One of the best performances I've ever seen in any genre of film.
I like your comment on acting, but make no mistake, this was only a hollywood film and that means: not truthful to real history
Jakob Ashkelon for sure!
It would be one of my all time favorite films is if not for the gross caricature of Mozart and, even worse, the woeful miscasting of Tom Hulce. The rest of it is perfect, especially Abraham and the cinematography.
robert hill alot of people disagree with you.
I saw this film in Berlin in 1984. I was 18 and with a beautiful German girl who had to translate the entire film for me as it was dubbed in German. This required her to whisper softly in my ear the entire film. When the film ended and we walked outside, it was snowing. That was the first time since I had been a child that I felt I understood it all. Now, at 57, I am still so grateful for this film. The historical inaccuracies are irrelevant. The spirit of this man's music had just claimed another admirer. This scene was a life changing experience for me and it still reminds me of when I was young.
God bless us all.
Did you marry the girl?
What happened to the German gal
This film. This scene. This comment!
I want to make a film based on just This one comment!
What happened to the girl? :)
Hopefully he married her
Salieri's pause when saying "This piece had to be an accident, it had to be...." is the most perfect line delivery I've ever seen.
I had never really taken notice until I read your comment. That *is* perfect isn't it?
Salieri's jealosy could not be portrayed any better way than this...
it's funny too that he says such mastery is just an accident..😂
100%
The comment that follows “it’d better be” responding to all that was just gold. Knowing deep in his gut that it was not an accident and just talent on a different level. But he had to believe that it was an accident otherwise what defines himself as one of the most celebrated composers of his time would crumble.
Why do people like you insist on using hyperbolic categorizations of the concept of "perfection"? MOST perfect? REALLY? As if perfection (or the idea of completeness) has degrees to it? Use your words wiser.
Salieri's description of Mozart's music, the scene draws you right in and you forget this is a movie.
A well deserved Oscar performance by F. Murray.
To be sure, but I always felt Tom Hulce was just as good, it's just Abraham gave a "performance" which of course got more attention. But it was Hulce who gave the more gutsy performance.
F. Murray Abraham is a delight to watch in this role.
Lorraine J Or any other.
The music piece is from Mozart's "Serenade for Winds" (KV 361), 3rd movement. Beautiful.
Thank You.
That's all I wanted to know. THANK YOU
@@eddiepacer your welcom
Came here for this!! Thank you
Thank you. Found on Spotify!
Amadeus was one of the absolute BEST movies I had ever seen in my entire life! The attention to detail, the costumes, the writing, the acting, the entire film is an exquisite masterpiece!
1:14 Salieri's mix of feelings: admiration, delight, guilty pleasure, the suffering, torment and sadness of envy… F. Murray, the best actor of the movie!!! Sublime performance!
"It better be..." Gave me chills. Incredible acting!
IlaNiira hello, can u help me what this it better be means? some people wrote it was great moment of this scene. my english is poor. I got interested.
When he says, "It had to be" it is almost like he was trying to convince himself at the time that the music was an accident. When he says "It better be" he is addressing God. If it wasn't actually an accident then... well, then the rest of the movie will happen. :) I think that what is so chilling about the "It better be" is that this is such a turning point in both composers' lives, although they don't realize it yet.
@@antoyal i was almost anxious someone was gonna be a jerk to the commenter who requested a translation. Cinephiles don't disappoint.
@@giorgijgerenaia4226 "It had to be" meant that he insisted it was an accident, otherwise, it would mean he had to question his entire relationship with God, or whether there even is one. He wasn't prepared to do that for fear that his entire world might unravel.
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0:55 "This was no composition by a performing monkey. This was a music I had never heard; filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God." - The way he delivers those lines, with the scene showing him reading the score and the music playing in the background, is very moving.
And his jarred blinking as Mozart snatches the score, anyone can relate to. Who’s been flying in another space and then jolted back to earth.
It’s almost like he’s feeling it.
Salieri truly understand s and appreciattes Mozarts music more than Mozart himself.
The way he changed the tone of his voice from "it had to be" to "it better be". He is a phenomenal actor.
This video is just too much showing phenomenal acting and phenomenal music writing. I am dead!
Leon Eldarion You’re dead? So is Mozart!
@@samiam619 O.K!
One of the best movies ever made. The strict rich upper class looking down on actual art. Few people remember anyone in that room other than Mozart in the record of history. Yet Mozart died in poverty but Salieri was rich.
"On the page, it looked simple, nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse. Bassoons, Basset Horns. Like a rusty squeezebox. & then, suddenly, high above it. An Oboe. A single note hanging there unwavering, until a Clarinet took it over. Sweetened it into a phrase of such delight. This was no composition by a performing monkey, this was a music I've never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable. It seemed I was hearing the voice of God. But why? Why would God choose such an obscene child to be his instrument? It's not to be believed. This piece had to be an accident. It had to be. It better be."
- Antonio Salieri
A few errors in your transcription. Are you practicing to be a stenographer ?
But why? Why would God......Such a lovely oration, God often chooses the unexpected one. It makes us look deeper into the meaning of why.
@@donnademarino4845 God chose Donald Trump to save America from the march of the radical progressives. No one imagined him to be in such a role given his past life, but he is, and Thank God he is.
Hi Mozart, how are you alive?
@@DoubleGauss hahahaha.... You think that your God, who presumably lives on a cloud and made a plan for mankind would actually take notice of whoever was elected as leader of the lands that were stolen from the people, the first people? The people who loved and respected the land, the flora and fauna and the great spirit?
What makes this scene so amazing is the temporary healing power of music. Even though he venomously envied Mozart, the music on the page temporarily gave him peace and clarity to the point that, for just 5 seconds he had nothing but admiration.
Yeaa he did!;)
I recomend you to Watch an análisis of the movie Amadeus Made by the channel Historybuffs. Real Salieri didn't really Envy Mozart.
I think envy can not speak like that... is a profound love maybe....
25 seconds at least
This scene STILL makes me cry - such a beautiful description from an envious believer.
I thought I was the only one that did that. I can't make it through it without tears in my eyes. One of the most beautifully written and acted parts in the whole movie.
+Allison Moravec I'm right there with you. It's one of those magical movie moments that truly touches the soul. Just made the mistake of watching it in my office, and now I look like I just finished weeping.
*_THIS SCENE ALWAYS BRINGS TEARS TO MY NAKED EYES! :)_*
I thought I was being an emotional dork crying to this scene. So epochal
Me too, tears every time
1:03 "This was a music I never heard."
Something about the way he said that. You can really feel the emotion. The joy that memory brings him.
Being able to read music and play the whole pievce in your head on the spot is a talent in itself.
My favorite part in Amadeus. My favorite movie of all times
I love this film so much. I'm very grateful to have been to Salzburg Austria in Aug 1990 to see his birth place, at the Mozart music festival. Thankfully I have this movie on DVD. Thank you.
The Oscar was secure by this particular scene. What a performance
This is literally one of my favourite scenes in any film ever!!!....I come back to watch it again and again - this film is just magnificent, a childhood film which will stay with me forever
One of my favorite monologues in movie history. Abraham is so delicate, delightful and utterly transparent in this scene.
This is how I fell in love with Mozart music
That "it better be" is insane...how can you transmit so much in 3 words, unbelievable acting in this scene
Saw this movie first time 33 years ago and this sublime scene has stuck in my mind ever since.
This is my absolute favorite scene of any movie I’ve ever seen. Incredible how it conveys the appeal to Mozart’s music with such honesty while setting up the entire plot and Salieri’s feelings about the man whose story he’s about to tell.
The long pause when he says “it better be”, as if he deeply knew that it was, indeed, not an accident.
Antonio Salieri: "It better be."
The whole world: "It was."
This movie was simply a masterpiece. F. Murray Abraham was absolutely amazing in this film, his crowning achievement in acting in my opinion, and is a legend.
David Hollis It makes up for Abraham playing Lincoln in some Civil War POS movie!
I have listened to Mozart for years, yet I didn't appreciate it until I saw this scene. It is miraculous.
The most beautifully written and acted 1:44 minutes in the whole wonderful movie. Just makes me cry every time I see it.
Allison Moravec to be fair there are actually quite a few such moments. The "these....are originals ??" scene is one such.
@@DoubleGauss you are corrrect but so is Allison
This scene alone deserves an Oscar.
Having the ability to appreciate genius, but not able to create it drove him mad.
Mozart truly was a genius.
SaintSaens was probably much more of that kind. A veritable genius knowing music inside out but unable to really compose.
It drove him mad in the movie. In reality, he did not kill Mozart or conspire against him. That is totally made up. Good movie, though.
And though I love this movie, this is one side effect that I absolutely hate. Salieri was a genius in his own right. He was a court composer for the Emperor, for gods sake! You don't get a job like that by being mediocre. In many ways, he was just as much a genius as Mozart. I am so sick of this "Salieri? Pht, who's that nobody?"
@@allenharper2928 I think people under every clip have made that clear…to the point where when someone is obviously talking just about the movie, some reply has to go “bUt HisToRicAlly sPeaKing”
Both performances from F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce are amazing, outstanding, unbelievable and perfect
"It was not to be believed." ;)
Beg your pardon, but please don't compare Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce. The contrast is just opposite to the comparison of the genius Mozart and musician Salieri.
Serenade for Thirteen Wind Instruments, K. 361
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This scene is the most powerful in this movie, I have never forgotten it. Absolute brilliant script and acting.
I watched Amaddus. Two months ago. Being. Well. Drugged. Is the word. By cannabis. High to the brim.
And it changed my life.
I had always loved music. And at that state. I wantwd to watch Amadeus.
And I did it.
Whwn Salieri first song. Is heard. When he is playing for father Vogler. Remembering himself directing an orchestra.
I had nwver felt such pleasure on my life listening to his music.
I cried so nuch. Because he in the movie. Salieri in reslity never harmed Mozart. And yet he had such mental suffering. Which did made him try to commit suicide.
Well. Speaking in Amadeus.
Salieri only wantwd to somwone love his music. He had such pain when doing the confession. He had such pain he wanted to die becsuse of guilt. And his confessions was truthful at all times.
He regreted doing that. And yet. If Vogler had loved a single melody. His confession would not had been as bitter as it was.
It wouod be more tender. As he described that piece.
And at that state. High. Hearing that music. For the first time. I loved it.
The scene where Salieri is reading. Listening in his mind. That music.
I had that pleasure listening to his music.
I loved his music since the very firts moment I heard it.
And I dedicsted my life to him. To his works. His music. And him. As a whole. I am a writer. Eight yeats. And I am now a libretist. Composing an opera. Dedicsted fo him.
I will forever woek the rest of my life for his works ro be listened. His name remembered.
I coild never, ever forget that pleasure I felt listening him at the very first time. And even now. I want to share a desveiprion I did of one of his works.
The second musical piece I heard of him.
There was no such longing, such longing not in melancholy like Beethoven. If not in longing. In each note there was nothing but longing, love, tenderness that grows. The familiarity of feeling like they speak directly to your soul. That longing. There was nothing but longing and tenderness. Every note. Each sentence flowed, it was not mechanical. There was nothing mediocre about that piece other than the most sublime and tender piece I have ever heard. When I heard it I was paralyzed. I close my eyes immersed in a sea of his music. Of that longing that I felt flowing. That passion. Not unbridled passion. But as glorious as the sun of an evening. It was all I needed. There was nothing but genius. There was nothing but love in that piece. At that moment I closed my eyes and knew that when I thought about that feeling. I would always think of Salieri. He had nothing to envy of Mozart. To Schubert. To List. To Handel. To Beethoven. You are not a copy. He was not just a teacher. In that piece I stopped hearing how its structure had influenced the greats. I stopped listening in that piece to a teacher who had music on his shoulders. When listening to that piece. I only listened to Salieri. I long. Yearning. Tenderness. Light. glorious sublimity. And I wish everyone could hear it the way I could. I knew in that moment that I would not rest until everyone listened as I did. That they will not listen to mediocrity. That they won't listen to a teacher. That they will listen to Salieri. The piece is the symphony in D Major La Venezziana. II. Andantino Grandiozo.
If love, tender, love.
If being held by your love
If eating a warm meal after working.
If resting, showered and on clean clothes on your bed after being on the sun all day long.
If being covered in blankets while the night goes and the chill que goes through the window. But you are on such a warm embrace. The cold is delightful.
If being said that they love you too.
If walzing tenderly as you laugh.
If being said you are going to live.
If walking workout pain.
If being on a orchestra as an ovation arises. And for a moment all of you are one.
If seeing something so beautiful you cry.
If you realize how beautiful is life. And you cry. Not because it will end. But because all has such beauty you can't express how wonderful is being there. Being human. And being you.
Would have music.
Salieri would be the one you hear
That was the start of all. And everytime I remember this scene. Becusse when I hear his music. I have the same wxpression Salieri in Amadeus have. When hearing Mozart.
The way he says “it better be”. Goose bumps
That's movie made me appreciate Mozart's music. This is truly beautiful.
The music is one thing, but the way Salieri describes it is absolutely beautiful as well. The music is divine, like something you would hear when you enter heaven, once you pass. Abraham was perfection in this movie. Absolutely perfect.
The acting and score of this movie couldn’t be surpassed in 1,000 years. Sublime scene.
One character drives the entire movie, with Mozart in a supporting role.
Am I the only one that laughed my ass off when Mozart snatches the music book and just says "Excuse me"?
This movie holds a special place in my soul
It's because it brings you double pleasure…..Mozart's music(probably one of the BEST musicians ever to grace our planet earth)…...then the movie itself, an absolute masterpiece of a film! I like how simple yet accurate your comment is! ;-)
This, my friends, is god tier acting and writing.
*AND THAT, BOYS AND GIRLS, IS HOW YOU WIN A OSCAR*
Sublime scene of a sublime movie... a pleasure to all the senses... masterpiece of acting.... when I first presented this movie to my father he thanked me
The best scene that I have ever seen in my life, specially the little laugh after the sentence "like a rusty squeezebox" it is just sublime...
+Victor Besteiro Could not agree more. It gives me chills and makes my eyes swell to the point of nearly crying. Every. Single. Time.
I totally agree. That was next level acting!! You could feel what he felt about Mozart.
He said what we can feel through this music so beautiful it will live on forever
I'm always conservative with my compliments on great acting but this is GREAT ACTING. He does feel like an expert on music describing music.
Truly amazing acting from FMA
To all young actors; This is acting. Everything you need is in the script. Make the material sing. Be a conductor - of language.
The movie is about Mozart and Tom Hulce was great. But the acting concert performed by Fahrid Murray Abraham put me deep in the chair. I enjoyed every minute he spent on screen. He played the role of a jealous and friendly man at the same time so perfectly that I wouldn't be surprised if the movie was called "Salieri". The emotions that the real Salieri could have experienced during his meetings with Mozart were demonstrated with absolute commitment.
The little chuckle sublime.
I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes - at an absolute beauty.
My favorite scene in this fantastic movie.
Oscar in the bag for F. Murray Abraham in this scene.
The whole script for the film was wonderful. Elegant wording to describe the music so beautifully presented by Salieri. Which was acted with a humble perfection which allows us to fall in love with the character and understand his "pain".
I'd love to be able to look at a sheet of music and be able to hear how it sounds like that.
The universal language. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I'm someone who can sight read music pretty well. It's one thing to be able to sight read, and it's another to literally hear the whole thing in your head as if it's actually playing. Very few musicians can really do that today since now there's many DAWs that just do the playback for you. IMO it's such a flex of a skill.
It's easy to see why this movie won eight Oscars.
Amadeus is a collection of brilliantly staged scenes. The scenes could exist on their own and are masterpieces in their own right that you want to watch over and over.
D-Gauss yes, I completely agree! Few films posses such a quality! It is the very definition of character and performance driven cinema! That, to me, is what REAL drama is!
Everytime i'm getting to hear this, i'm feeling emotional ❤🥺
It unlocks memories I didn't even know I had.
“It better be”, still sends chills down my spine. I can’t praise the acting enough!!!
Phenomenal scene
Bought the soundtrack on vinyl, found it at a garage sale in excellent condition. Beautiful music.
what a treasure!
My dad has it on vinyl too! Absolutely beautiful music
Serenade 10 in B minor in case your interested. F. Murray Abraham took the Oscar for best Actor as well as a Golden Globe; Amadeus took the Oscar for best movie in 1985, along with SIX other Oscars.
Amadeus was one of my inspirations to write. To see emotion, such passion, even though it's acting, it's as if he really was Salieri. It was indescribable
F Murray Abraham's acting is exceptional, the way he describes Mozart's work.
This movie is one of the cinematic triumphs :-)
The director Milos Forman brought back Salieri and Mozart to life through Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce
filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing...
I like that line. Most of the creative stuff I produce comes from the tension caused by extreme yearning...
This must have fun to watch for a truly informed classical musician.
“...this was a music i’d never heard.”
That line gives me chills
Amazing acting, great script, thank you. I have remembered this part ever since my first viewing of the movie. I think it also shows the importance of a good, knowledgable teacher - imagine getting an intruction at school with such knowledge and the love of the subject at the same time.
I love how Salieri describes Mozart’s music in this scene.. he describes it with so much feeling.
Salieri in the scene is talking about Serenade for Winds no 10. You can feel the same listening to the beginning of Symphony no 25, with the beautiful lone oboe line above the strings. Listen and enjoy it.
amazing movie, amazing music, amazing acting!!! thanks for the vid!!
Salieri was so caught up in Mozart’s music that he couldn’t even appreciate his own talent of being able to read music and hear it in his head perfectly
Salieri seems to be very passionate about music. Even though he was never as great at composing music as Mozart, he could see notes on a page and know exactly what they would sound like when played. He obviously was a very skilled musician. I can see why he was popular at one time.
The story-line is an extreme exaggeration of their relationship. He was not the villain you see in the film. But the film was artfully made.
He so deserved this Academy Award. I feel honored to have seen it.
This is the only piece that makes me cry instantly. Everytime.
Love this scene
This movie is a mysteriously underacknowledged classic. It remains a niche obscurity almost and never gets name-checked in conversation, in reviews, blogs, magazines...nowhere. And when people talk about it in our current era, generally speaking, it's as if they're talking about some ordinary, b-grade 80's flick. I have never understood this. It's one of my favourite films too. I can't believe you posted this in 2008! Wow, how are you doing in 2022? Good I hope. :)
However, even with Mozart and Salieri's rivalry for certain jobs, there is very little evidence that the relationship between the two composers was at all acrimonious beyond this, especially after 1785 or so, when Mozart had become established in Vienna. Rather, they appeared to usually see each other as friends and colleagues, and supported each other's work. For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788, he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own, and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790, Salieri had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage. Salieri and Mozart even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which celebrated the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace"
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The screenplay took liberties with Salieri for drama's sake. If he were alive when this movie was released, he would have sued the pants off them. Playing fast and loose with someone's reputation is the major fault of the movie. It does, however, convey Mozart's genius and that wins the day.
What you have to keep in mind is that the play/movie version of Salieri is mad. He is fixated upon the delusion that he murdered Mozart out of jealousy and it is a delusion so complete that his memories and own self-assessments are warped by it.
@@LordZontar It was a fictionization and took great liberties with Salieri's life and reputation. I appreciate that it helped bring Mozart's genius to many people. But the movie poster said something to the effect that it was all true, when it wasn't. It's a pity that Schaeffer couldn't figure out how to illustrate Mozart's genius without maligning one of his contemporaries.
@@christinemusselman5499 Oh yes, I'm aware of the things you say. What I stated is how I've long interpreted the movie. Salieri actually did suffer a mental breakdown in his later years, when the rumour spread that he apparently had accused himself of killing Mozart. That and other rumours directly accusing Salieri of poisoning Mozart were circulating as early as 1824.
whoever the script writer was...he wrote such memorable lines for Salieri to express here. In reality Salieri never said such words of course. Anyway, if you have never heard Salieri's music before, go search in youtube. The dude is an amazing composer!
Recently rewatched How i met your mother (the one with the perfect burger) and there is a nice hommage to this very scene (marshall describing the burger „high above... a pickle) Realized it immediately and came back to this clip.
I saw this movie when it came out in a converted church/mission into a theater in Santa Barbara Ca. The atmosphere of the place added to experience.
The genius of Peter Shaffer: first to see that every human is a diamond, and every other human usually only sees one of our many facets, but imagine what they see is transparent. Then the inspiration to share the _genius_ of Mozart in the stage (or cinematic) medium, and that's the genius he wants to share, not merely the music. Then to create an emotion caused by the contrast of genius with mediocrity -- jealousy. Then to find a character (named Salieri, but not) to carry the jealousy, to show the audience the genius at the heart of the diamond, but only through the facet that character has glimpsed, and amplified to lifetime proportions. And then to let the audience itself into the film in the form of the priest (who, like us, doesn't understand genius.)
Great acting/set/sound/direction/costume/lighting (did you notice when it got brighter and darker?)/and music. And I don't use the word "great" lightly.
But genius writing.
Celebrating genius composing.
I love the way it builds up in the beginning.... and that oboe is magnificent....
Wolfgang was the GOAT, no doubt about it.
That part of the serenade for 13 wind instruments is a very special musical treat. If it speaks to you it will always be treasured.
"And then... a pickle.. The most playful little pickle. Then a slice of tomato" Am I the only one who recognised this reference in How I met Your Mother, when Marshall describes his best burger? :)
I did too, it was awesome
I just watched that I never saw it. But how awesome that was lolololo.
+KnightsWhoSayyNi OMG. I really need to watch that show.
_Just a Burger? Just a burger. Robin, it's so much more than "just a burger." I mean... that first bite-oh, what heaven that first bite is. The bun, like a sesame freckled breast of an angel, resting gently on the ketchup and mustard below, flavors mingling in a seductive pas de deux. And then... a pickle! The most playful little pickle! Then a slice of tomato, a leaf of lettuce and a... a patty of ground beef so exquisite, swirling in your mouth, breaking apart, and combining again in a fugue of sweets and savor so delightful. This is no mere sandwich of grilled meat and toasted bread, Robin. This is God, speaking to us in food._
Love your name. That movie was hilarious.
I always tear up
That oboe and clarinet. Such beautiful sounds. I myself played percussion in my school band, but I longed to play both the oboe and clarinet. Never too late to learn, I guess.
That scene where he describes the moment of introduction by the different instruments opened my ears and heart to classical music and indirectly or directly, other genres
My ears are unworthy to receive the art of Mozart!
He is a human just as you are. Mozart honed his craft, just as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Handel, Schubert, Schumann and Haydn had.
How do you explain having "honed your craft" when you are writing and performing at the age of five?
Please, Keep in mind that a lot of the information you hear is highly exaggerated. Mozart himself stated "It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied."
@@Forgetit2697 come on man with all this hawgwash. Mozart clearly is like someone from another planet. He does not look or sound like any humans you see or hear today. He had a photographic memory. There are higher levels of humans on this planet and not all humans are the same
Bishop master I knew someone in school who did with me the exact same scene where Mozart plays Salieri’s composition in front of the emperor. I was playing a final fantasy theme and while commenting he asked me if he could show me that he can play it from one hearing only and he played it better than I did. I remember him saying that his father taught him music since he was 4 years old. That guy literally played any music he could randomly hear. I believe in high training + talent. Talent alone wont do.