Amadeus

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In one scene, Mozart refers to Christoph Willibald Gluck as "boring" and says, "I don't like" George [...]	D
Sir Peter Shaffer shares his name with the original set designer (for the premier) of Wolfgang Amade [...]	D
Donald Sutherland read for the role of Salieri.	D
Vincent Schiavelli was informed by director Milos Forman after one take of him walking that, "Televi [...]	D
Jeffrey Jones replaced Ian Richardson in the role of Emperor Jozef II.	D
That really is Tom Hulce playing the piano on his back in one scene.	D
The first Best Picture Oscar winner to also win Best Makeup and Hairstyling.	D
F. Murray Abraham was in the make-up chair for an average of 4.5 hours each day he played the old ag [...]	D
Peter MacNicol auditioned for the role of Mozart.	D
This is one of only eleven films to receive more than one Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. I [...]	D
Final film of Eva SenkovÃ¡.	D
Elizabeth McGovern, who had earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in Milos Forman's previou [...]	D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Makeup.	D
Hugh Wilson had hoped to direct this movie, but was turned down.	D
The opera house in the film in which Mozart conducts The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni is wher [...]	D
The musicians play on an instrument that was the forerunner to the modern piano, called the forte-pi [...]	D
The only film in which both Best Actor nominees, F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce give their one and [...]	D
The accent convention in this movie is: American accents are native German speakers. Non-American ac [...]	D
The filmmakers often used music with text that could be interpreted as referential to the pathos of [...]	D
The piece of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music with the oboe and clarinet themes, whose score Salieri [...]	D
Tom Hulce said he based Mozart's distinctive, obnoxious laugh on a very famous director he worked wi [...]	D
When Mozart upstages Salieri by modifying the march that Salieri wrote for the emperor, the modified [...]	D
Milos Forman insisted that his lead actors retain their American accents so that they could concentr [...]	D
The performance of "Don Giovanni" in the movie was filmed on the same stage where the opera fir [...]	D
As Mozart, having fainted, is carried out of the middle of the opera "The Magic Flute", you see thre [...]	D
David Bowie and Mikhail Baryshnikov were considered for Mozart.	D
The play, on which the film is based, was first performed on November 2, 1979 at the National Theatr [...]	D
Several real (or at least apocryphal) events from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life were incorporated i [...]	D
When the movie won Best Picture at The 57th Annual Academy Awards (1985), Sir Laurence Olivier was p [...]	D
F. Murray Abraham originally sought for the small role of Rosenberg. During one audition session, Mi [...]	D
Though there are dubious historical reports that the real Mozart had an obnoxious laugh, Tom Hulce c [...]	D
Milos Forman and Sir Peter Shaffer spent four months adapting the very stylized play into a workable [...]	D
Several professors of music stated, after studying all of the musical keys struck on pianos througho [...]	D
Entire film was shot with natural light. In order to get the proper diffusion of light for some scen [...]	D
Patrick Hines' final film.	D
In the movie Salieri is portrayed as celibate, having chosen celibacy as a way to thank God for his [...]	D
Sets and costumes for the operatic productions were based on sketches of the original costumes and s [...]	D
Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham had a deliberately distant working relationship during the making of [...]	D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee not nominated in either of the support acting categories that ye [...]	D
Elizabeth Berridge, during the Nipples of Venus scene, did not know she could spit out the candy (wh [...]	D
The filmmakers often used music with text that could be interpreted as referential to the pathos of [...]	D
The final film of Jonathan Moore.	D
Salieri's chaste, unexpressed love for Katarina Cavalieri is shattered by the realization that Mozar [...]	D
Fourth-billed actor Simon Callow's first appearance is 81 minutes into the film.	D
F. Murray Abraham learned to read and conduct music for his role.	D
Now Playing Podcast reviewed Amadeus. This film received three "recommends".	D
During the opening scene, where Salieri is carried through the snowy streets, he is carried past a l [...]	D
Milos Forman: [Schiavelli] Vincent Schiavelli appeared in almost every Forman film. Here he's Salier [...]	D
Neville Marriner had less than an hour to commit to the project as he was in between connecting flig [...]	D
Originally, a very young Kenneth Branagh was cast as Mozart, but Milos Forman changed his mind and d [...]	D
Set in Vienna but filmed in Prague.	D
Mozart's middle name "Amadeus" for which the film is named, when translated from Latin means "love o [...]	D
In preparation for some aspects of the title role, actor Tom Hulce studied footage of temperamental [...]	D
Milos Forman wanted Amy Irving to repeat her Broadway role of Mozart's wife. To his disappointment, [...]	D
Tom Hulce allegedly perfected his irritating Mozart laugh by testing it on unsuspecting store clerks [...]	D
During filming in 1983, Czechoslovakia was under Communist rule. The production team was often follo [...]	D
In 2019, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the L [...]	D
"Amadeus" joins a select group of other Best Picture Academy Award winners never to crack the box of [...]	D
In the movie Salieri deliberately sabotages Mozart, envious of the superior talent of a man he regar [...]	D
According to John Harkness's book "The 1999 Academy Awards Handbook", Maurice Jarre, in his speech a [...]	D
Sir Peter Shaffer broke down in tears when he first visited the Prague opera house, knowing that Wol [...]	D
The film ironically helped spark a revival of Salieri's music, which had previously languished in ob [...]	D
Tom Hulce has a tendency to play crazy characters, wild characters, characters who are overly sexual [...]	D
Simon Callow's first completed theatrical film. He had made his debut in "Gossip" in late 1982 starr [...]	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
Since the movie wasn't financed by a major studio, Orion Pictures promoted the film with a music vid [...]	D
One of two films to have won both Best Picture and Best Actor at the Academy Awards with 2 Best Acto [...]	D
The movie was shot without the use of light bulbs or other modern lighting devices.	D
When shooting the scene in which Salieri is writing down the death mass under Mozart's dictation, To [...]	D
This is the twelfth - and, as of 2021, the most recent - film to receive multiple Best Actor Oscar n [...]	D
The soundtrack made #56 in the Billboard album charts, making it one of the most successful classica [...]	D
Only four sets needed to be built: Salieri's hospital room, Mozart's apartment, a staircase, and the [...]	D
Throughout the entire film, all German (even those in the operas) is translated to English. All Ital [...]	D
An important theme of movie is the change in Salieri's belief in God. That might be the reason for t [...]	D
Tim Curry and Mark Hamill both auditioned for the role of Mozart (and played Mozart on Broadway).	D
According to Milos Forman's autobiography, one studio offered to fund the film on the condition that [...]	D
The Emperor tells of the young Mozart proposing marriage to his sister, Antoinette. This was Marie A [...]	D
It has been claimed that the concept for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's bizarre laugh was taken from "ref [...]	D
The filmmakers often used music with text that could be interpreted as referential to the pathos of [...]	D
One of only 4 productions to win both a Tony Award for Best Play (1981) and the Best Picture Oscar ( [...]	D
The original Broadway production of "Amadeus" opened at the Broadhust Theater on December 17, 1980 a [...]	D
Mozart was christened Joannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. The first two names, accor [...]	D
Several paintings in the film are based on real portraits of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father, [...]	D
Meg Tilly originally was cast as Stanze but tore a leg ligament in a street soccer game the day befo [...]	D
Cast member Simon Callow originally portrayed the part of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1979 stage [...]	D
The script clearly took some artistic liberties, including the plotline of the masked man who comes [...]	D
The "Don Giovanni" scene was being shot in part on the Fourth of July. During one take, upon Milos F [...]	D
This film is used to teach children about Mozart in schools, even though it starts with Salieri slit [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Understandably, no major studio was interested in financing a three hour biopic about a classical mu [...]	D
Burt Reynolds was an early candidate for Salieri.	D
The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.	D
One of 11 American Musicals to win Best Picture: 1) La canzone di Broadway (1929), 2) Il paradiso de [...]	D
Salieri in the movie often eats or admires pastries and other varieties of sweet food. According to [...]	D
In a interview on The One Show (2006) in 2013, Andrew Lloyd Webber said he was offered the role of M [...]	D
Tom Hulce only knew how to play the guitar before shooting. Milos Forman said they could cheat it, b [...]	D
The original script for "Amadeus" saw a number of variations in character actions and roles: Salieri [...]	D
Sam Waterston auditioned for the role of Salieri.	D
This is one of only seven films to receive more than one Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In [...]	D
Considering that the main conflict of the film is the envy of Salieri ( F. Murray Abraham ) for the [...]	D
Salieri says that Mozart composed his first concerto at the age of four, his first symphony at seven [...]	D
Prague (Milos Forman's native city) was ideal as a stand-in for Vienna, as modern television antenna [...]	D
The music was pre-recorded and played in the background as scenes were filmed. Tom Hulce practiced f [...]	D
Mel Gibson, Mick Jagger, and Tim Curry all auditioned for the role of Mozart.	D
Despite featuring an international cast of actors, none of them were required to adopt the Austrian, [...]	D
The sets and costumes from the film were also used in Non dimenticate Mozart (1985).	D
At age 17, Cynthia Nixon played Lorl, the maid employed by Salieri to spy on Mozart. Though she was [...]	D
Baron van Swieten (played by Jonathan Moore) has a Dracula connection. He was the son of Gerhard van [...]	D
During the start Confutatis section dictation, a miscue from John Strauss (who was cuing the music p [...]	D
The filmmakers often used music with text that could be interpreted as referential to the pathos of [...]	D

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This film is not a biopic. It is a work of historical fiction. Many of the events shown did not occu [...]	D
When describing La nozze di Figaro, Salieri says "I saw the woman... hear her husband speak the firs [...]	D
Mozart plays carom billiards with what appears to be a tipped cue. The first tipped cue was invented [...]	D
Near the end when the bed-ridden Mozart is dictating a movement of his Requiem to Salieri, he tells [...]	D
Schikaneder has Mozart play the party theme in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach, which the Viennes [...]	D
A few mourners are shown at the city gates when Mozart is buried. The Viennese burial custom at the [...]	D
Don Giovanni was not Mozart's "blackest" opera. Far from being dark, it was classified by Mozart him [...]	D
When Mozart goes into the bedroom late at night to check on his son (and Stanzi awakens and looks at [...]	D
The Emperor Francis recalls an incident between the young Mozart and "My sister, Antoinette" - ie Ma [...]	D
Near the end when the bed-ridden Mozart is dictating a movement of his Requiem to Salieri, he tells [...]	D
Mozart is walking through Vienna drinking from a green glass bottle (in the director's cut we see th [...]	D
When the confessor is waiting to enter Salieri's door from the hallway of the asylum, there is a wom [...]	D
When Mozart goes to meet Emperor Josef II for the first time, there are two guards keeping Mozart ou [...]	D
During "The Abduction from the Seraglio" performance, we see Kappelmeister Bonno watching from the b [...]	D
At the end of the funeral procession, Katerina Cavalieri lowers and closes her umbrella, as a steady [...]	D
The Don Giovanni scene implies that Leporello, Don Giovanni's servant, shares his master's fate. Act [...]	D
At the first meeting of Mozart, Emperor Josef II finishes playing the march for Mozart and as he sta [...]	D
Snow and heavy rain are shown falling at the time of Mozart's death and burial. Contemporary Viennes [...]	D
When Emperor Josef is sitting and talking to Mozart, behind the Emperor is a servant holding a small [...]	D
There is one huge, musical and dramatic mistake, that seems to have been missed for all these years [...]	D
At the beginning of the film, Salieri plays for the priest on what looks like a harpsichord, yet the [...]	D
At the start of the film, Salieri laments the fact that his music is forgotten while the music of Mo [...]	D
During the closing act of Don Giovanni, the jets of flame that appear underneath the backdrop change [...]	D
The dancers in the opera/ballet scene are wearing costumes with zippers clearly visible.	D
The film places Salieri in Mozart's Vienna apartment and shows him contributing to the composer's de [...]	D
The film implies that Leopold Mozart opposed his son's marriage to Constanze Weber, and was even hos [...]	D
During the performance of "The Magic Flute", when the famous Queen of the Night Aria is being perfor [...]	D
When Stanze and Schikaneder argue about when Mozart will be paid to write an opera for Schikaneder, [...]	D
At the beginning of the film, the aged Salieri plays the first 18 notes of "Serenade No. 13 for stri [...]	D
Both Mozart and Salieri are shown conducting an orchestra in modern style, by standing in front and [...]	D
The powder on Mozart's forehead when trying on wigs before the first meeting with the emperor. After [...]	D
When Mozart is talking about the opera that will take place in a harem, he says it is set in "Turkey [...]	D
Mozart says music he is writing "is going to explode like a bombshell". The term bombshell as a coll [...]	D
During the comic opera, a crew member is seen when the last of the small horses pops through the sid [...]	D
When asked to play in the style of Handel, Mozart says "I don't like him." He also states that Chris [...]	D
[Director's Cut] When Mozart asks Salieri for a loan, the cup jumps from Mozart's hand to the table.	D
Josef II's title was Holy Roman Emperor, not Emperor of Austria as Salieri states. The name change t [...]	D
When Mozart is at the billiard table, the balls change position with each camera shot.	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was left handed, not right as portrayed by Tom Hulce, most noticeable when h [...]	D
The candles that Salieri holds when Mozart is laid on his deathbed are shorter than they are when he [...]	D
Severals scenes show the use of stage smoke, which looks like it was created with dry ice. While dry [...]	D
Salieri is shown to promise God to remain chaste in exchange for becoming a famed composer, and thro [...]	D
When Mozart performs in the orchestra for "The Magic Flute" he is shown playing the bell solo on a c [...]	D
When Mozart is conducting "The Marriage of Figaro", the Emperor can be seen yawning in the backgroun [...]	D
Don Giovanni premiered Prague, not Vienna.	D
Towards the end when Salieri is speaking with Constanze, his hair frequently swaps from hanging back [...]	D
Mozart is shown being buried in a mass grave. This was not the practice at the time. A "common grave [...]	D

Frase

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The whole thing is set in [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Confutatis maledictis" - [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] While my father [...]	D
[Mozart loses at musical chairs] Emanuel Schikane [...]	D
Constanze Mozart: Wolfie, I think you really are g [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: I'm a vulgar man, your Ex [...]	D
[first lines] Antonio Salieri: Mozart! Mozart, fo [...]	D
Archbishop Colloredo: [to Mozart's father] Your so [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] I will speak fo [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] That was not Mo [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: [reflecting upon Mozart's scores] [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: He was my idol. Mozart, I can't t [...]	D
Constanze Mozart: Stop it! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozar [...]	D
Count Orsini-Rosenberg: Italian is the proper lang [...]	D
[the Emperor offers the sheet music of Salieri's w [...]	D
Constanze Mozart: What are you doing here? Antoni [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: I heard the music of true forgive [...]	D
[repeated line] Emperor Joseph II: Well, there it [...]	D
Constanze Mozart: No. I'm not going to marry you. [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: [speaking backwards] Say [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] That was Mozart [...]	D
Count Orsini-Rosenberg: [about Mozart] A young man [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: My father, he did not care for mu [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: [to Emperor Joseph II] Si [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: It's unbelievable, the di [...]	D
Emanuel Schikaneder: [to Mozart] Look, you little [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: I was staring through the cage of [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: Are you sure you can't leave thes [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: I am fed to the teeth wit [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: But why? Why would God choose an [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] Your merciful G [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Why must I submit samples [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: Mozart, it was good of you to com [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: [of his great opera "Figa [...]	D
[addressing the complaints about the "improper" li [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: [trying on wigs] They're [...]	D
Emanuel Schikaneder: Look, I asked you if we could [...]	D
Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take i [...]	D
Constanze Mozart: [to Mozart's father] May I offer [...]	D
Father Vogler: All men are equal in God's eyes. A [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: [addressing a crucifix] From now [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: I actually threw the scor [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] So rose the dre [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: My plan was so simple. It terrifi [...]	D
[Having played two pieces of music to Father Vogel [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: The restored third act was bold, [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Forgive me, Majesty. I am [...]	D
[last lines] Antonio Salieri: [wheelchaired throu [...]	D
Katerina Cavalieri: I heard you met Herr Mozart. [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: [reflecting upon a Mozart score] [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: [about the royal composer [...]	D
Emperor Joseph II: Brava, madame! You are an ornam [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: Leave me alone. Father Vogler: I [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: All I wanted was to sing to God. [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: [suddenly realizing] My m [...]	D
Antonio Salieri: [about Emperor Joseph II's musica [...]	D

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