The film's combination of background music, pictures and language can be described as ingenious. Milos Foreman's skillful use of film language control makes "Mozart Biography" coherent together, and there is no sense of sloppiness. A number of Mozart's famous songs interspersed in the film are closely related to the plot, which is the most perfect combination of classical music and images. James Cameron, the famous American director, said: "We have to admit that the musicality, forward-looking and realistic nature of the film "Mozart" is very deep, it is indeed a high-level, challenging film Sex films, likewise, director Milos Foreman's directing skills are worth learning from each of us directors."
"Mozart" is a "fact-based fantasy work". Using the technique of flashbacks, Mozart's wonderful life is told under the guise of the court musician Salieri. At the same time, the bystander's struggle between faith and anger is presented, which makes people stunned. Salieri does have a person in history and has created many excellent works, but he did not harm Mozart as in the film. The film is called Amadeus, which is the middle part of the name of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Who is Amadeus? He is the character in the popular 15th-century Spanish novel of chivalry Amadeus de Gaulle, whom Cervantes once praised as a "perfect knight", "a faithful lover", "pure and poetic" . Director Milos Foreman wanted composer Mozart to be a veritable Amadeus—a perfect knight, a devoted lover, pure and poetic. Amadeus also means "favored by God". There is no doubt that Mozart was a genius favored by God, but a genius is not destined to have both sides in an environment full of desire and evil. Salieri is just a representative of the jealous, and his humbleness and insignificance can be contrasted with Mozart's greatness.
Happy people can feel the joy of other people's happiness, and miserable people are often poisoned by "jealousy". This mentality was expressed in words by Gore Vidal and David Merrick, who said that "it's not enough to succeed, everyone else has to fail." Milos Foreman's "The Biography of Mozart" is not about the genius of Mozart, but about the jealousy of his opponent, Salieri. Salieri was destined to be a third-rate composer with a first-rate musical appreciation, so he knew how great Mozart was and how mediocre he was. Mozart's deathbed is the most moving scene in the film. The 35-year-old great composer had Salieri listen to and record the final movement of his "Requiem", sitting at the foot of the bed, holding a quill and manuscript, from Mozart's burning head Transcribe each note down. The reason why this scene is touching is not because of the dying Mozart, but because of his old enemy, Salieri. Salieri is doing his best to squeeze another masterpiece out of a dying man, one that would dwarf his own music. Salieri hated Mozart, but he loved music even more, and even though the work perfectly angered him and irritated him, Salieri couldn't live without it. Yes, Salieri tried to claim it was his own work. But for someone like him, doing so will only bring deeper torture to his heart.
"Mozart" swept the Oscars in 1985 and won 8 awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and won 8 awards at the British Academy Awards, the French Caesar Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, the It also won a lot of awards at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Just imagine that 98% of American citizens never listen to a classical music station, and Mozart was at one point the best-selling musician. What an amazing thing this is! And it's definitely not just the mothers who believe the talk show's hype about Mozart's music helps with prenatal education. Part of the film's success is due to Mozart's characterization. He wasn't cast as a role model, the kind of great holiness that often makes us feel burdened, but as a goofy classical hippie with a high-pitched laugh, addicted to drunkenness, married to a lover Busty wife who slaps around.
In the movie, Mozart, played by Tom Husk, who attracts bees and butterflies, laughs again and again, is full of foul-mouthed words, and is rambunctious, doesn't really look like a "genius". But Mozart is rumored to be so unreliable. He doesn't like reading, and he has been used to traveling by car since he was a child, and he has tasted the warmth and coldness of the world. This unearthly Son of God was mature as an adult at the age of five, but as naughty as a child at the age of thirty. He prefers dancing to music, and he left a home letter full of swear words. Not only was he good at playing marbles, but he also participated in a secret freemasonry. Such a person who is not very "pure" writes music as pure as a jumping child. A hundred years after Mozart's death, he was a little left out of the world, and then it became hot again, and it has been hot to this day. Bernard Shaw believed that the cold was due to the excessive heat in the past, as well as poor playing and conducting. To be fair, it was Haydn who influenced him and who in turn was influenced by him. And Beethoven, who is a dozen years younger than him, clearly has Mozart's shadow in the "First Symphony", but secretly there is a new heroic spirit bursting out.
Mozart's shrewdness is that he can explain to the layman and satisfy the requirements of the layman. In his own letter from home, he talked about the newly composed piano concerto: in many places, only experts know about it. The famous kick of the archbishop's supervisor turned Mozart into a beggar selling brains down the street. Many of the music drafts he left behind, some of which only started at the beginning, were written down after a few bars. Some people think that this is Jiang Lang's talent, but in fact, because no one has ordered and can't change the bread, the genius is too lazy to record the natural ideas in his mind. Someone ordered a duet concerto for him. After writing it, the orderer only paid half of it. The reason was that it was a great honor to ask you to teach in the house. When he was alive, people always regarded him as a maverick. A hundred years after his death, Bernard Shaw and other talents realized that Mozart is actually a summary of the musical style of a generation, just like Raphael did to painting, and Shakespeare did to drama. As for the cause of Mozart's death, the theory of poisoning has long been clarified as non-existent. The scene of the burial in the cemetery of the poor in the snowstorm in this film is also artistic.
It doesn't matter where you are buried. It's a pity that those songs disappeared with the death of the genius's body. At the end of the film, director Milos Foreman gave Mozart's signature weird laugh abruptly, while the audience burst into tears. The mediocrity has long been used to complaining to God in a half-jealous, half-hatred tone: He is the Son of God, loved by God, and we are all fucking outcast souls. The majority is justice, and the masses never consider themselves innocent. The more sinful, the more filled with rare grievances. Is it true that no matter what kind of art, it cannot be left behind and independent? Is it true that no matter what kind of genius, it is inevitable that they will be fooled by mediocrity and even stupid people? No wonder the ancients said: "Those who are earlier will be killed without mercy, and those who are not in time will be killed without mercy." Those born earlier than the times will surely die; those who are born later will surely die.
This is not to vulgarize Mozart, but to dramatize how real geniuses rarely take their work seriously because it comes so easily to these people. The great writers (Nabokov, Dickens, Woodhouse were like in the movies (great work was created with ease). And the near-great writers (Thomas Mann, Galswart) Suy, Woolf) made success look like a daunting victory. This is true in every field, compare Shakespeare and Shaw, Jordan and Barkley, Picasso and Rothko, Kennedy and Nixon. Salieri Racked in tension and lamentation to release those jingles, Mozart can sing merrily as Salieri complained - he was "dictating the sounds of God." Well-known actors to complete it, especially F. Murray Abraham, who played Salieri in the film, beat the also excellent Tom Hugh who played Mozart in the battle for Oscar winner. sk.
F. Maury Abraham was originally invited by Milos Foreman to play a small role in the film, and by chance Milos Foreman was chosen to play Salieri, a role that all English-speaking actors envied. Facts have also proved that the director has a unique vision. F. Murray Abraham used his profound image-building ability to interpret the hypocritical, angry and despicable villain very vividly, which also made him the first person after Ben Kingsley. Two actors who made their first appearance in a movie to win a golden statuette. Mozart was created by independent producer Saul Zaenz ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Life Is Unbearably Light", "The English Patient"). He took Peter Schaefer's play and asked him to adapt it with director Milos Foreman. Sol Zaenz's style is characterized by shooting those excellent literary works that are very ambitious, very professional, and seemingly impossible to make into a movie. Milos Foreman, a Czech filmmaker who fled to the United States because of his reluctance to accept Russia, doesn't exactly work for Hollywood. He has directed "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), "Hair" (1979) and "Man on the Moon" (1999).
Perhaps the most memorable in "Mozart" is his penetrating "laugh". He laughed so "unruly", so "unscrupulous", so "do whatever you want", of course, it was not only his open-minded smile of "laughing at the world's ridiculous people", but also a helpless smile to avoid embarrassment. But no matter what the reason, his smile showed an "optimistic, enthusiastic" image of Mozart. In Mozart, there is a typical artist's nature. He loves life, is poetic and emotional. He believes that the poor are the most faithful. "Only the poor are the best and most real friends in the world. The rich have no idea what friendship is." He is innocent, simple, always elated, easily moved, and has a feminine Tenderness, childlike innocence, full of curiosity like a child, it seems that she will never grow up. Of course, he loves to "laugh at himself". There is such a passage, "A man with a noble mission, even if he is deeply indulged in the chaos of life's fanaticism, and is covered with blood and dirt, he will not become small and mean, and destroy the divinity in his heart; Lost countless times in the deep darkness, the divine fire in the temple of the soul will not be extinguished, and he will not lose his creativity... Those lifelike images harmonized by inner law and order, those sincere The face that shines with the radiance of the soul. Those pure and lovely trees and flowers, those hands that ask for mercy or receive favor, and all those brave and tender, proud and holy gestures... In This artist and seducer's heart is very bright and splendid, and full of the grace of God", may be a good commentary to Mozart, who is always hopeful about life and always passionate about music.
The film is told through flashbacks of Salieri, who is incarcerated in a lunatic asylum on his deathbed and confides in a young priest. He thought maybe he killed Mozart. But it was actually more like Mozart killing himself with a deadly cocktail of tuberculosis and cirrhosis. It was Mozart's art that was killed by Salieri, for which he was deeply remorseful. Mozart's dying moments reveal his agony, the old adversary hated to lose, and despite his lies and betrayal, he couldn't deny that the young man's music was sublime. "Mozart" was filmed in Milos Foreman's hometown of Prague, one of the few European cities that retains its 18th-century style on a large scale today. It's a visual feast of palaces, costumes, wigs, banquets, theatrical premieres, champagne and even money and debt. Mozart never had money and didn't get much attention. Salieri is rich, but you can take some relief from his expression when people are giggling behind his back.
In this age of DVDs, the "Director's Cut" is a pros and cons. Many movies do this purely for the purpose of selling more DVDs. Milos Foreman says the new version of "Mozart", which is 20 minutes longer than the 1984 version, is actually his original cut. He and Saul Zaenz trimmed the film for practical reasons, fearing that the biographical Mozart story would not attract the box office. The main extra episode explains why Constance despises Salieri so much. The Queen's composer Salieri told the young newlywed that if she would do him a favor, he could use his power to appoint her husband a lucrative opportunity. There is little indication that Salieri has much interest in women (or at all, except for Mozart), so the move is not out of lust but to humiliate Mozart. Desperate to help her husband, Constance actually went to Salieri's house and took off her shirt without thinking about it.
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