Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Milos Forman
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Actor: Elizabeth Berridge, F. Murray Abraham, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Tom HulceDirector: Milos Forman
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Saul Zaentz
Producer: Michael Hausman
Producer: Bertil Ohlsson
Writer: Peter Shaffer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Director's Cut
- 2-Disc Special Edition
DVD Reviews of Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
DVD Review: God's beloved
Summary: 5 Stars
Before commiting yourself to this read, I would like to point out that this is a very, very long review. I've been reading some of the reviews here, and found a lot of derogatory comments about the movie's inaccuracy. Not the playright, nor the director made any claims of historical accuracy on this movie. It's a fiction based on real historical caracters. Although this review should be about the movie and not about historical truth, I can't help pointing out certain false informations printed by certain people. Some people claimed that Mozart was not popular in his own time. I'm getting sick and tired of people throwing that cliche around about every single philosophical, musical, scientific, artistic, or literary genius that ever lived. People in his time were well aware of his genius. The reason he had some trouble pleasing the aristocracy was that his music was too avant-guarde and it took some time for people to warm up to it. But no one doubted his genius. Do your research on Mozart and the music of the late 1700's and you will see how aware people were of his talents. There were reasons for his financial problems, and lack of popularity wasn't one of them. In fact, as Charles Rosen mentioned in his book "The Classical Style", some years, Mozart was among the top 2% of earners in Vienna. Before I proceed with my comments on the movie, here are some other facts. In truth, Salieri was not chaste. He got married at the age of 24, and raised a ridiculously big number of children. So, by the time he met Mozart, he had been a family man for 8 years. We also know that Count Walsegg was the one who comissioned the Requiem, and Mozart was well aware of this, despite the Counts discretion. Everyone in Vienna knew of the Counts reputation for commissioning works from famous composers to pass off as his own in concerts thrown at his parties. And Mozart's pupil Franz Xavier Sussmayr was the one Mozart was dictating the Requiem to while his wife, his doctor, and many others were around him at his death (Salieri was not there). Mozart knew he was dying, and believed he was writting the Requiem for himself; not his father, as implied in the movie. His opera Don Giovanni, although blattantly obvious in it's insinuations on Mozart's relationship with his father, was composed before Leopold's death; not as a result of it. Mozart and Constanze actually accompanied Salieri and his wife to the premiere of The Magic Flute. Yes, Salieri was jealous of Mozart and repeatedly suppressed his advancement. There are many documented proofs of this, as well as proofs that I'm sure are lost or destroyed by Salieri himself, as the playwrite noted. There. That's for all you people who need factual information on Mozart's life to use in putting the movie down for not being accurate. And for those who accept the work as fiction, and care only to appreciate it as one, here are my comments on it:... This is a very misunderstood movie. I've read review after review from people who hail it as the geatest movie ever without the least bit awareness of it's content. Salieri didn't kill Mozart because he was insane with jealousy and just wanted to get rid of him...Salieri's battle was not with Mozart. It was with God. He had sacrificed all his non-christian impulses to be a great composer; respected all his vows to God; was granted the position of "court composer" at the Emperor's residence in Vienna; etc...And then came Mozart. As non-christian as they come...writing down the voice of God...God had granted his wish to an overgrown, sleezy, obnoxious child despite all of his sacrifices, and gave this child an obscene laugh which symbolized God laughing at him (yes, there's more to that laugh than simply amusing the viewers...)He vowed to destroy this creature of God's ,that's even going by the name of "Amadeus", which means "God's Beloved" in latin. He suppresses Mozart's progress so that Mozart never gets the recognition he deserves. "This child of God will not accomplish the task given him by his master. That task was mine! Not his..." And now, in the director's cut, we're really shown the extents to which Salieri goes to achieve this creature's destruction. In the original theatrical release, we are not. To all those who say that the added scenes are pointless,...I salute you. The nude scene with Mozart's wife...pointless? I don't think so...Salieri vowed never to indulge in sexual activity...now he sees what the creature has...what he vowed to sacrifice...Mozart's wife standing naked in front of him...making him weak in the knees...he shies away from it: "From now on, we are enemies...you and I..." he says to God. "I will hinder and harm your creature on earth as far as I am able!.." And that beautiful climax around the end of the movie where you see Mozart laying dumped in that pauper's grave with white smoke seemingly emanating from it and the Lacrymosa sounding it's "Amen" at the end of the piece. Right there, you have the entire story in one image: Mozart's poverty, and his death..the result of another man's battle with God...I read some reviews here nagging about the fact that we don't actually see Salieri poison Mozart...Salieri never poisoned Mozart. "Your merciful God...He destroyed his own beloved, rather than let a mediocrity share in the smallest part of his glory..." He thought that God killed Mozart to prevent him from stealing the Requiem. That's why he felt responsible for his death. And more "he killed Mozart, and kept me alive to torure!" To prevent him from stealing the Requiem, God could've killed him instead of Mozart, but didn't. He killed Mozart and kept Salieri alive so that Salieri will see how revered Mozart's music would grow to become despite all his efforts to supress it..."32 years of torture...of watching myself become extinct...My music groing fainther and fainther,...while his..." And he's strolled off on his weelchair in his madness,...puts his hands on his heart as he hears God still laughing at him just before the credits roll... There's also a sublime moment in the movie whose beauty you only notice the second time you watch the film. In this moment, you are given a hint that Salieri's truth about God having killed Mozart to prevent his hogging the glory for the Requiem might be true. Mozart's wife asks her husband about the Requiem :"Why on earth won't you finish it? Can you give me one reason I can understand?"..Mozart replies:" Because it's killing me..."
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