I will hinder and harm Your creature on earth as far as I am able.” He spends the movie attempting to live up to those words. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. He can never get over the fact that God chose this boorish man given to doltish fits of laughter to bestow this most miraculous gift of music upon rather than himself, a much more deserving man.Īddressing a crucifix he delivers this speech to his Creator, “From now on we are enemies, You and I. It is essential to the plot, however, as Salieri mentions several times that it is really God laughing at him through the buffoonish Mozart.
For example there is no historic proof that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart really laughed with the annoying high pitched giggle he has in this movie.
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The theme of the story is envy, although the script takes some poetic license with history to make its point. But his envy of the obviously more talented Mozart leads to a life of bitterness. Salieri was a pious man with dreams of glorifying God through his music. Directed by Miloš Forman it tells of the life of Mozart as seen through the eyes of rival composer Antonio Salieri.
It's a variation of the story from Alexander Pushkin's 1830 play Mozart i Salieri. Murray Abraham in Amadeus.Īmadeus was adapted from the Tony winning play by Peter Shaffer.
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