EARLY ACCESS | Amadeus: Director's Cut (1984) Movie Reaction (w/o Trivia)
Added 2025-03-19 15:22:36 +0000 UTCHi all! So... with amendments needing to be made, which I'll note in a moment.. here's my edited reaction to "Amadeus" (1984), the Director's Cut edition. The trivia segment is coming soon!
PLEASE NOTE: Just as I was about to start working on the trivia etc, Warner Brothers decided to bombard me with a dozen or so lengthy copyright claimed segments to this... so I now need to go through it and re-edit a lot of it, trimming it by quite a bit. That's why I wanted to release this version on here (and YT Members), so you can see what it originally would have been. I'm hoping this can be released by this weekend, so look out for the trivia segment coming soon too.
A superb romp with hilarious moments throughout and although this is the longer version (nearly 3 hours), it didn't feel like it was overly long.
I really enjoyed it. I think you'll be able to tell that when you hear my thoughts on the film.
I hope you're all well, take care!
Comments
44:43 - Yep. Marie Antoinette. She was Joseph's younger sister, both of them children of the Empress Maria Theresa. Joseph was .... responsible for getting a family started between Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, who hadn't been able to consummate the marriage for several years. Joseph visited Paris and spoke to Louis. By the way, the story Joseph tells at the introduction scene about Mozart slipping, Marie Antoinette helping him and he asking her to marry him has a couple of variations but seems to have been true.
Maria Torres
2025-03-20 00:51:09 +0000 UTCSo looking forward to this one! I saw it on Broadway; then the whole family saw it in theaters. We bought the VHS and watched it many times. For me, this is one of those times when the movie is better than the play, especially in the treatment of Mozart's character. And the one time our African Gray parrot Martini ever spoke it was to call out "Wolfie!" once and only once at the climactic scene. No matter how often we replayed it for him, he never repeated the word or any other. 1:05:20 - Sort of okay: those are the actors involved in Schikaneder's theater: they're riffing off bits of the overture of "The Magic Flute", which is the lightness opposing the Requiem that Mozart fears. That whole fantastic section where Salieri is taking down dictation from Mozart and a thunderclap of understanding hits him: for two seconds or so, he's into the mindset. For two seconds his voice of God is in his own head. This is an achingly, painfully brilliant movie. The Lachrymosa, I believe, wasn't completed by Mozart, but enough was there. When I was in high school and part of the mixed chorus, I learned the alto part of the Lachrymosa (lower altos, like me, also learned the tenor parts because there were never enough boys; and as I was always envious of the sopranos, I learned that part too. Now I barely remember the alto part....)
Maria Torres
2025-03-20 00:02:49 +0000 UTC
