Amadeus was a world wide profound success, receiving 8 academy awards with the help of director Milos Forman, and the producer Saul Zaenty. It’s not about a famous musician and his works, but about a suffering old man, Antonio Salieri, who carries the guilt of destroying an artist of music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, because of his lust for love. Transcending the two, Mozart and Salieri, are the universal themes they represent; the between God and man; the confrontation of mediocrity and genius; the difficulty of serving a God whose ways are often poor, irrational, perverse and mockingly cruel.
This film had made me want to laugh, cry, and feel angry all at the same time. The most moving scene throughout the whole film was at Mozart’s death bed. The magnificent composer, only 35, is struggling to create another master piece while lying sickly and distraught in the smuggled sheets of his bed. At the foot of the bed is Salieri carefully writing every note, making sure not to miss a beat as he is dragging Mozart to his last breath. This scene is moving not because Mozart is trying to withdrawal a final ingenious work of art so that it will illuminate how sorry his work really is.
The movie opens with an old man yelling ou

Throughout the movie the flash back scenes are full of light and color. Then as Mozart’s shall I say Salieri’s life begins to unfold the flash backs seem to get as grim and dark as the room he and the pries resides. Salieri’s lust for Mozart’s talent is becoming more revealing throughout the movie. He goes to all of his shows, and sits way in the back so that Mozart cannot see him. Salieri is sitting, and admiring his music, hating him as each note is being played. The film grows darker and darker representing all of the animosity, grief, and sorrow that Salieri is feeling. Not only Salieri, but also Mozart’s determination, lost of his father, and sadness plays a role in the darkness of the film towards the end.

What made this picture so astonishing was how they presented the music of Mozart. Going back to the beginning where Salieri is confessing his sin to Vienna, he has locked himself in his room. As his servants break down the door, because of hearing Salieri inside shouting, there is a gush of loud wonderful music. Right when the door is being swung open the music begins on cue, with the camera concentrating on Salieri, knife in hand, and blood every where. As each strong beat of the music is being played the camera swings from Salieri to the servants on each cue of the beat.

There was actually one incident that did occur during the making of the film. Because there was an enormous number of candles the actor portraying Don Giovanni twice edged to close to a candelabrum and his hat caught on fire both times. A fireman ran to his rescue and put out the fire, as the disappointed director yelled, “Cut!” The fireman did apologize.

ng out his confession to the city of Vienna in the pitch of dark: “forgive me, Mozart. Forgive your assassin”. He attempts to commit suicide, and is rushed to the General Infirmary building where there are sickly and neurotic suicidal patients. It is a cold and snowy out side, yet a young priest comes to hear his confession. Salieri is dri