Amadeus (film)

See also: Amadeus

Amadeus is an American film of Milos Forman left in 1984, taken again in 2002 in twenty minutes a lengthened version.

Synopsis

Vienna, November 1823. In the middle of the night, an old stray man clamp this astonishing confession: “ Forgives, Mozart, forgives with your assassin! ” This phantom, it is Antonio Salieri, formerly famous musician and official type-setter of the Court.

As of childhood, it was dedicated entire to the service of God, being committed celebrating it by its Musique, at the price of a ceaseless labor and of its chastity. For price of its innumerable sacrifices, he claims eternal glory. Its talent, recognized by the emperor music lover Joseph II, is worth during a few years with Salieri the highest distinctions.

But, in 1781, an young man arrives at Vienna, preceded by a flattering reputation, but without much education. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart became the largest type-setter of the century. When there is talent and that one is brutally confronted with the Génie, how to survive? Carrying out the threat which for him this exceptionally gifted arrogant represents of which he admires the deep genius, Salieri tries évincer all while approaching it to include/understand why he is so gifted.

Comment

Adapted play éponyme of Peter Shaffer, it recalls the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a rather fictionalized way. The account of the life of Mozart is made through the memories of the type-setter Salieri adopting the point of view of this last. It is however also a film on the genius and creation. Salieri dedicated its life with God and the Music. However it does not find anything exceptional in its compositions, but is filled with wonder by those at Mozart. He wonders then why God, for whom he very sacrificed, placed the genius in Mozart, a character with manners more than contestable. Salieri will then decide to thwart the plans of God…

Data sheet

  • original Title: Amadeus
  • Realization: Standard Milos Forman
  • : Drama - Music and composition, historical
  • Lasted: 160 minutes - 180 minutes for Director' S cut.
  • Year of exit: 1984
  • Scenario: Peter Shaffer according to his part éponyme
  • Production: Saul Zaentz, Michael Hausman, and Bertil Ohlsson.
  • Musics of film: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Salieri, John Strauss
  • Make-up: Dick Smith
  • Photography: Miroslav Ondricek
  • Budget: 18 million $
  • US Boxoffice: 51 million $
  • Left to France: October 31st, 1984
  • Entered to France: 4.585.292

Distribution

Around film

  • a long version ( Director' S cut with 20 minutes of additional sequences) was presented to the internationally distributed Berlinale in 2002 then.
  • In the Top 100 of American Film Institute, this Film is classified with the 53e place, which in fact, according to AFI, the better fifty-third American Film of the history of the Cinéma.
  • Small anecdote: the scene of the dictation of the Requiem at the end of film is mainly of the improvisation what gives a single character to the scene. Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham had each one an auricle which transmitted the sound of the music to them. At one moment, one with the impression that Mozart is lost in his thoughts, but Tom Hulce said itself that it was the sound which did not come and which he forgot his lines. From where many interruptions of Abraham/Salieri which sought to take again the wire of the scenario. This shift confers on the scene an exceptional environment.
  • It is the theater baroque Tyl which was used for the sequences of opera. It is almost unchanged since the 18th century. The team used the enormous candlesticks from 40 to 60 candles which are suspended on the ceiling.
  • the catches of sight of the opera Don Giovanni were filmed on the scene even where at the time the first of this opera took place.
  • Seul four places were turned in plate: the room of hospital of Salieri, the apartment of Mozart, the staircase and the theater of light comedy. The other catches of sight of film all were carried out in natural decoration. The superb light is also entirely natural.
  • the idea of the so particular laughter is resulting from the written letters about it. In one of them one describes the laughter of the artist like a kind of “contagious dizzy spell”, in another like “striping metal of glass”.
  • It is Prague which was preferred with Vienna for turning because it had less contemporary elements in its landscape but also because it is the birthplace of… Milos Forman.
  • the music of Mozart was played in background of each scene.
  • Tom Hulce practiced four hours of piano per day before and during turning to appear more convincing.

Rewards

Amadeus is one of these films which force the jurys to decide between two exceptional performances of actors. Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham (Mozart and Salieri) were both named for the Oscar and the Golden Globes of the best actor for same film what is a very rare fact. Finally, F. Murray Abraham carried the majority of the awards (of which the Oscar and the Golden Globe).
  • Oscars of the cinema 1984 (10 nominations/8 gained )
    • Better film
    • Better realizer: Milos Forman
    • Better adapted scenario: Peter Shaffer
    • Better actor: F. Murray Abraham
    • Better artistic director: Karel Cerny, Patrizia Von Brandenstein
    • Better creation of costumes: Theodor Pistek
    • Better make-up: Dick Smith, Paul LeBlanc
    • Better sound: Tom Scott, Chris Newman, Mark Shepherd, Todd Boekelheide

  • Directors Guild off America - 1984

    • Best Director: Milos Forman

  • Césars of the cinema - 1984

    • Better foreign film: Milos Forman

  • Golden Globe Award - 1984 (5 nominations)

    • Best Director: Milos Forman
    • Best Actor : F. Murray Abraham
    • Best Film - Drama
    • Best Screenplay: Peter Shaffer
  • American Institute Film - 1998
    • 100 Greatest American Movies

  • L.A. Film Critics Association - 1984

    • Best Picture
    • Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham
    • Best Director: Milos Forman
    • Best Screenplay : Peter Shaffer

Nominations

  • Oscars of the cinema 1984
    • Better photography: Miroslav Ondricek
    • Better actor: Tom Hulce
    • Best Editing: Michael Chandler, Nena Danevic

  • British Academy Awards - 1985

    • Best Film
    • Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham
    • Best Adapted Screenplay: Peter Shaffer
    • Best Cinematography: Miroslav Ondricek
    • Best Costumes: Theodor Pistek
    • Best Design Production: Patrizia Von Brandenstein
    • Editing Award : Michael Chandler
    • Makeup Award: Dick Smith
    • Sound Award: Dick Smith

  • Golden Globe Award - 1984 (5 nominations)

    • Best Actor - Drama: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
    • Best Supporting Actor: Jeffrey Jones

External bond

  • Amadeus on Internet Movie Database
  • To read criticism on avoir-alire.com

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