The irony is that this movie actually helped rekindle interest in Salieri's work. There's even been a few annual Salieri music festivals as a result. Some of his music has even been featured in movies. Not so forgotten now, I'd say.

When a man who was considered the greatest composer of his time, considers himself to be a mediocrity next to Mozart, it really shows how big of a genius Mozart was.

" I will speak for you, Father. I speak for all the mediocrities. I am their champion. I am their patron saint."

As a mediocrity, I appreciate this scene very much.

I always get shivers when mozarts laugh plays in this scene. It validates Salieri's story... Wolfgangs music is immortal and got even more popular after his death while Salieri is left with a life with fellings of guilt and anguish while spending his last years in an asylum with his status diminished and his work forgotten. Mozart getting the last laugh is the perfect ending to this. If Mozart would have lived and Salieri would have helped him finish the requiem, then they may have become friends and Salieri could have redeemed himself, but even this was he denied. This movie is truly a masterpiece!

So beautiful... Perfect ending.

I think many of us could identify with Salieri in this scene. Don't most of us feel that we've never really accomplished as much as we would have liked in our lives?

Masterpiece. Probably best movie ever.

Mozart got the last laugh......

That last laugh...

I ABSOLVE YOU...

I will always love how Salieri is finally at peace while the priest is the one left with the existential crisis. A complete masterpiece.

When I first saw this film (it was on TV) I missed the opening scenes and jumped in during the scene where Salieri first meets with the priest and asks him if he knows who Salieri is. After sitting through the entire thing, it was only during this scene that I actually found out that Salieri had been taken to an asylum. It put a really interesting twist on the ending for me which was actually completely unintended. The man who had been telling the moving story of Mozart's life turned out to be completely insane. I wish the film had actually been cut that way.

One of the saddest inflection points in life is that moment when you recognize your own insignificance despite your efforts to be otherwise. Charles de Gaulle spoke of such when he said _The graveyards are full of indispensable people._

I came to watch this scene. Abraham was a genius, but we shouldn't forget the actor who portrayed the priest. He had listened to old Salieri's story all night, and now it was dawn. He looked absolutely wrung out from the unbelievable story he just heard. Most importantly, his expression tells us he believed every word and was moved by it. If he didn't convey that, it would have thrown the whole tale into doubt as the ravings of a mad man. One of my favorite movies of all time.

As a child I loved the seemingly historical story. As an adult, I deeply love this movie as an allegory.

Very possibly one of the best finales in cinema history. Mozart’s beautiful music played under the priest’s anguish and Solieri’s cheerful benediction to mediocrity, all capped by that “obscene giggle” - perfect!

The fact people acussed him of being Mozart's murdered because they parroted those stupid rumours back then tormented and drove him to have depression episodes later on his life, which contributed to Salieri end up believing he did killed Mozart when he finally got dementia as geriatric. It is now known that most of these rumours were spread mostly by many members of the German school of music, since they had a deep resentment toward italian musicians in general, considering them having been always favored by the Austrian aristocracy over them and blaming them for all their difficulties.

This was such an amazing ending to a brilliant film. A cinematic masterpiece that so many people have never seen. That in itself is a tragedy.

A shame Salieri is now little known, as he was a very able composer himself. The acting in this scene is brilliant. F Murray Abraham well deserved the Oscar for this film!

Ironic how F. Murray Abraham was the one who won the Academy award, not Tom Hulce. Not so mediocre after all.....

You can't help but wonder if he died in that scene as he opened his mouth, and on top of it; the last thing he'd see or hear is Mozart s obscene laugh, as a kid; this closing scene always had a way of frightening me, now, it is profoundly compelling and one of the perfect endings in Cinema. .. I absolve you!

That last laugh is truly beautiful Why didnt I know about this masterpiece sooner

I love how the laugh was in beat with the piano keys at the end.

the greatest film of all. Great music, great costumes, great script, great direction, great cinematography, and great acting. I love this movie. I watch it every so often, alone, in a dark room. the music is superb.

This has got to be one of the top 10 greatest dramatic movie scenes of all time!

Easily one of the greatest of all time. They don't make movies like this anymore. One of the most iconic and meaningful endings of all time. Thank you to whoever wrote it. And to whoever chose Mozart's Piano Concerto to end. That hopeful wistfulness is impossible to otherwise capture. Grazie, Mozart.

And yet this movie finally revived interest in Salieri.I had never heard of him until this film. So in a certain way. Salieri finally got the recognition he truly deserves.

Abraham and Hulce put on a world class performance and my only regret was that they both couldn't be awarded. Abraham without a doubt earned his award. A masterpiece (I actually seen the DVD version first and preferred it)

Yes yes thank you Salieri for absolving me.

This has got to be one of the greatest performances in cinematic history.

my fav film of all films

I will always remember showing my exgf this movie for the first time. This scene shocked her, especially with the guy having a seizure in the box. She said "wow it would suck to live back then". Thats how well done this movie was, to put you in that time period. Well done. A master piece.

The way he said "my music" feels very genuine as if he's talking about one of his kids 😢

This movie was such a masterpiece, so exquisitely done, so eloquent in its nature. Truly one of the best of all time.

What a masterfully composed scene, it conveys so much in such a short period of time, and that too in a subtle yet visceral manner when you actually grasp what was just said. F. Murray Abraham's acting here is just out of this world.

Such a beautiful piece of music. Now when I listen to it I hear Mozart's laugh though lol

In my view, Salieri names himself "the Patron Saint of Mediocrities" to make himself feel like he's something now that he has so little, and had years before. His greed for glory led him to become blind to everything God gifted him with.

Anyone else notice the brightness of the sunlight from the window intensifies when Salieri is given the chance to tell the real truth and always fades again as he decides to obfuscate? God is listening to everything Salieri is saying and trying to show the path to redemption. This movie is on another level.

I've played Mozart's pieces. They are wonderful!!! I saw the movie and loved it. It's a shame Mozart died so young. He was a genius. If only he could see how his pieces are still performed all over the world.

I have nothing but respect for Salieri

Thank you for the clip. This is one of the best films of all time.

To tell you the truth, Salieri's story is also quite sad, a man who played at the Emperor's door lives in a psychiatric ward

One of the greatest performances by any actor since the Greeks invented the performing arts. Genius.

Everyone speaking about Salieri and F.M. Abraham, but I think that the actor playing the priest steals the scene here. He conveys so much emotions with his face, it's quite rare

Abraham's acting is just mere perfection

The ending is just perfect. The first notes of the sublime concerto, but immediately we are brought back to earth with - "Morning Professor" - and talk of the water closet and sugar rolls! Genius. 00:49

I love how the movie starts out with us on Salieri's side, but throughout the movie, it slowly but surely moves our sympathy over to Mozart. The priest's expression shows that he saw Salieri's story for what it was; that of a man who slowly went mad with envy, and who perhaps had no real love in his heart at all. But Saleri was too vain to see it that way.

I remember seeing this in 1984. When this scene played...followed by the credits...my date & I just sat there and listened...just stunned and in awe of what we had just watched.

Saliari taught me to appreciate forgotten, independent films and all entertainment left buried by the more popular works.

Every time I watch this ending, I get something new and deeper. It is indeed a very very thoughtful movie.

An absolute masterpiece of a film....F Murray Abraham's work should be a course study in acting class....one of the FEW TRUE Hollywood talents.

Such a beautiful piece of music for the closing of this film.

1:55 The last laugh is mine

I do not understand how I know so many people who've never heard of this movie. This should be one of the most celebrated movies of all time!

This movie itself is amazing. It almost captured all the awards of the Oscar in that year. Like Wolfgang Amadeus himself It's the "best of the best "

One of the best movies ever made. Looks as if it has been filmed today! The cast is flawless. The dialogue fantastic. And overall impact is very deep. Such quality and It’s Almost 40 years old!

Historically inaccurate but this movie is damn amazing. Especially F. Murray Abraham's acting! Just wow!

I've never felt more hollow by the end of any film. Masterful.

One of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen in my life

I used to watch this movie on TV in the 90's on KCET Ch.5 in Los Angeles. I've always resonated with this film since I was 5 years old. Such a great movie! 👏📽️🎬🎻

Even though this movie is not historicall accurate I still find it a complete masterpiece especially with F. Murrays performance

When I want to see one of the best acting performances EVER, by anyone, I treat myself to F. Murray Abraham in this role. Outstanding!

Milos forman knows how to end a movie beautifully 👌

Shivers, oh damned shivers. (':

0:26 32 years of torture, 32 years of slowly watching myself become extinct!! 🤕🤢

Richard Frank (priest) and Tom Hulce (Mozart) should have also won an award. Both were also awesome!!!

I love how the movie's score is just all Mozart's pieces placed perfectly at the right moments, fitting their exact emotional context. All the score of the movie about a composer made by the composer himself years before. Don't think there's any other movie with this specific characteristic out there. Not at least as completely as Amadeus

Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 has never sounded so good.

It’s because of this scene that I learned what “Absovle” means.

The entire movie was absolutely mesmerizing. 💯 So fascinating is the difference between someone who is talented, popular, dutiful, successful and someone who is a once-in-a-lifetime genius, stretching and forever changing the art 🎶🎵.

What a great , extraordinary movie , omg, this was just perfect, i have seen it more than 100 times.

Salieri's true masterpiece is destroying the faith in God this young priest has, in one night.

the ending radiates 2 greatest lessons for every artists is humility and humble.

Haydn wrote, "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years" and in 1785 told Mozart's father: "I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition."

All speak of F Murray Abraham in these scenes but the guy who played the priest did a great job too.

theory : sallieri dies in the last scene, and the mozarts laugh represents the quote sallieri said “that was god laughing”

The priest was angry when Salieri accused God 😂

This is what True Defeat looks like...

“I will speak for you, father. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.” Relatable AF

This part also traumatized me for a long time

This is probably one of the most satisfying endings of all time

The look on the Priest's face, shaken and mortified by what he heard. Making him question if some men are beyond saving.

Perfect ending tune. :)

The movie's theme is more than just show the life of Mozart, actually is centered on the thoughts and emotions of Salieri and about religion. Salieri in the film is showed as a musician who wanted to serve God with his talent, and after seeing Mozart acknowledge that he has not that talent he thought he had. So that is why at the end he sees himself and the people as mediocre, even the priest. The movie also talks about religion and God. Because in the eyes of Salieri, he wanted to do good, but God didn't let him do good, and also put somebody with talents who doesn't care about God.

Even to this day this scene scares the living crap outta me (shuddering)😨😬

thanks for posting the full thing, best ending ever.

Still hearing Wolfgang's laugh after all these years.

Whenever I hear the Romanza mvt from PC 20 I instantly think of this scene.

The best ending in the history of cinema

He loves those....fresh sugar rolls.

Many great movies have not so great endings. Not this one! The ending scene of Amadeus is one of the greatest and most ironic conclusions of cinema history!

The film sets up one thing and then throws you for a loop. The first scene makes it sound like Salieri genuinely regrets what he did to Mozart and as the flashback happens, you wait for him to have his moment of realizing what a monster he’s become. But he never does. It turns out his “forgive me, Mozart” and suicide attempt was one last effort to get some kind of spotlight. He never feels sorry for anything he did. And it’s horrifying for the priest to realize just how insane this guy is.

If you pay attention you see that both men were were not without fault. Neither could find humbleness in themselves or could count their blessings. Salieri was a competant composer with a great job, salary, and home but saw himself as less than because he didnt have more talent. Mozart had the talent but couldnt submit to being under anyone elses authority. He was a perfectionist who felt all his music had to be spectacular and wouldnt take time for breathers and wouldnt take projects to provide for his family because he viewed them as beneath him.

i guess he heard the voice of god when he dies

I think this is one of the greatest films of all time and Murray Abraham's performance here is a miracle.

The best movie made ever!

The most passive-depressive ending i can think of

What an unfair movie ! Salieri's music is beautiful and far from being mediocre.

I was left speechless like that priest when I first saw this movie.