"The rest is just the same, isn't it?" Top 10 disses.

Salieri was a good composer and helped Mozart greatly to obtain work, even conducting Mozart pieces. In real life they were colleagues not enemies. But it makes a fun story.

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

I was 15 in 1786, when The Marriage of Figaro dropped. I'm 252 years old now, and it still gives me goosebumps.

I like how he seems genuinely oblivious to the fact that he was humiliating Salieri. In his head, he was simply exercising his creative muscles and showing the guy some of his ideas

"while I was still playing childish games, he was performing for kings and emperors" the struggle is real

Mozart was only 35 years old when he died. Yet he is responsible for creating over 800 compositions. The stuff just flowed out of his head like high water over a dam. To me, the most amazing thing is that he wrote operas too. Operas? 'Don Giovanni' is considered to be one of the greatest operas of all time. The man was incredible.

F Murray Abraham was incredible in this film. He’s constantly portraying awe and horror simultaneously it’s brilliant.

The way Salieri describes a serenade to the wind is so beautiful. This movie was the beginning of my love affair with classical music.

That laugh. That fucking laugh. Legend.

The scene where Mozart completely reworks Salieri's little ditty has to be one of my all time favourite scenes from a movie. You just feel for the poor Salieri.

How satisfying it is to see the actor's body and face and the hands in the same frame in a music movie.

Imagine playing the piano blindfolded and Santa is sitting right there.

Salieri was a great talent and extraordinary teacher to luminaries like Beethoven and Liszt. He’d probably have a good laugh at his portrayal in this film, which ironically, has rescued his music from oblivion and got it back on the radio.

Honestly, the emperor actually learns quickly. From stumbling the first two times to playing the piece perfectly the third time, if a bit slow. Like, by mundane standards, that is considered a quick study.

"Amadeus" is a great movie but!...... ......The saddest thing with this movie is that people still believes that Salieri hated Mozart and forgets that the hate and the rivalry is just fiction. ( the Movie is based on a very highly fictionalized play by Peter Shaffer). In real life, Mozart and Salieri were very good friends that respected each other and supported each other´s work. They even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia. Salieri also tutored Mozart´s children, he was very well known as a very talented pedagog and one of the most important and sought-after teachers of his generation (and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life). He tutored Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Simon Sechter etc etc. And all but the wealthiest of his pupils received their lessons for free as a tribute to the kindness Florian Leopold Gassmann had shown Salieri as a penniless orphan (Gassmann took the young Salieri under his wings, took him to Vienna, where he personally directed and paid for the remainder of his musical education).

You know he's a badass when his name is wolfgang

F. Murray Abraham's performance in this movie is just splendid.

Love it at the end, when Hulce laughs, and Jones jumps.. I think that was a spontaneous response to something he wasn’t expecting..

There is nothing intelligence hates more than talent. No matter how much you work at something, when true talent walks in the room, you just feel inadequate.

Salieri is such an interesting character. Smart enough to realize his insufficiencies, not smart enough to overcome them. Blessed by his impecable taste in music, tormented by his inability to recreate it.

I feel "bad" that I was smiling along with Mozart. This little march of welcome becomes such an iconic, delightful, little melody in his later work - Marriage of Figaro, and it makes me smile.

I actually know a friend from my parents who has a son that is 5 years my junior. I started to learn piano by age 12 and he a year later. I never gotten higher than the middle before post-secondary school made me dropped out. At the same time, by high school, HE had already completed all the necessary courses and was on the cusp of a musical DIPLOMA from the Royal Conservatory of music, and well on his way to become a professional music teacher by graduation. Yet, I best remember him for loving food and playing games like any other kid in school. Sometimes, the most musical genius would never look the way you think they do.

If Mozart’s personality, in real life, was anything like it was portrayed in this movie he must have been an absolute blast.

Salieri at the end managed to portray embarrassment, resentment and admiration all at once, amazing

Imagine having someone as talented as Mozart taking the time to make a variation on a theme you composed and actually having fun doing so. That is high praise, ladies and gentlemen. High praise. The most painful snub would have been for Mozart to refuse to adapt it because it was just uninteresting. I also love the scene where Mozart is asked to satirize Salieri, and he states that that would be 'a challenge.' Think about that. In the film, at least, Salieri's problem is in his own head. Mozart is not mocking him at all. Also, understand that in real life, Mozart and Salieri were good friends.

Such a great movie. This movie made me first fall in love with classical music - until then, I grinded through weekly piano lessons without much interest. I went from that to wanting to learn everything I could about Mozart and then other composers.

The final bass notes that Tom Hulce gleefully plays at the end, followed by his obnoxious/infectious giggle, makes this scene amazing!

The script, direction, editing, and acting were all so amazing. It made classical music lovers out of everybody who saw it, and brought depth to these characters.

In actuality, this was easy for Mozart. It's amazing to see from the perspective of the common man, but Mozart would INTENTIONALLY leave parts of the score empty so he could improvise every night of the performance. His intuitive improvisation was nothing short of incomprehensible.

Salieri’s description of the music with the music playing in the background helps bring the music to life. Amazing stuff

This is probably my favorite scene in the movie. The way Salieri describes Mozart's music and his admiration for him, combined with the beautiful music in the background, it's like poetry.

I love how his laugh makes the guy jump right at the end

Tom Hulce was so brilliant in this - he showed a complex range of emotions- from vulgarity, depravity to seriousness to sensitivity. I never understood why he did not had a more succesfull career.❤❤❤

I recall my third grade teacher telling us that if electric guitars had been around back then, Mozart would have been a rock star. For nearly twenty years that has colored how I perceive both the man and his music.

Salieri was not a failure. He composed the first opera performed at Milans La Scala Beethoven was also one of his students.

This is such good writing. Then there's the incredible acting performances. Not just the best of 1984. It's among the best of all time.

Watched this movie in 8th grade class. Introduced me to classical music, which I still listen to 36 years later.

"......tempo....tempo....lightly.....and....STRONGLY!" one of my favorite movies of all time and an awesome movie poster...love it.

This scene shows perfectly how people who work hard to achieve just a little bit of success can come to hate those who are talented and don't care about effort.

0:00 - 0:30 > Contredanse in F major KV 33b 0:34 - 1:34 > Bubak And Hungaricus (NOT Mozart, unknown composer) 1:41 - 2:34 > Serenade for Winds 'Gran Partita' 3rd mov. Adagio KV 361-370a 2:34 - 3:02 > Serenade for Winds 'Gran Partita' 7th mov. Finale Molto Allegro KV 361-370a 3:30 - 4:39 > Again, Serenade for Winds 'Gran Partita' 3rd mov. Adagio KV 361-370a 4:55 - 8:14 > A Welcome March written by Salieri, a gift for Mozart which he used in his opera: Le Nozze di Figaro (KV 492) Act I, Scene VIII, No.10 - Aria - Non Più Andrai, Farfallone Amoroso.

one of the best moments in the film is at 2:54- perfectly captures Salieri's shock that this lewd, disgusting man was the brilliant composer he so admired and there is envy yet regretful love for such powerful, enthralling music. This film was a masterpiece.

The most amazing thing about this is the quality of Mozart's compositions, and his legendary skill at numerous instruments. Here it is highly and enjoyably dramatized - and I love every second. Perhaps there was no feud or rivalry - we can't really know. We have Salieri, a respected musician in his day and to this day, with some number of surviving compositions, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who is one of the greatest of all time composers, whose compositions not only survive but are played around the world, every day - I mean come on, MOZART and why WOULDN'T ANY other musician be envious of his incredible genius? The movie is highly enjoyable but unlike the Marvel superheroes, here we have an historical figure whose real output continues to be sublime and relevant hundreds of years after he composed it.

F Murray Abraham's performance is incredible.

i remember i first saw this movie in music class in 7th grade... 1992

Sets, costume designs ...above & beyond exceptional 👏

Salieri’s reaction when he realizes it’s Mozart is priceless

*A single note hanging there unwavering*

I had the privilege and high honor of playing my violin in this room. I could hardly stay focused on the music in such splendor. The understated elegance and OLD world. Nothing like it in the United States. It was an opportunity I will cherish if I live to be a hundred.

There seems to be a great deal of enthusiasm and joy in this portrayal of a great musician. 😃👏

07:15 The music advisor turning Salieri's ponderous welcome march into Mozart's actual _Farfallone Amoroso_ was a stroke of genius.

Dat laugh at the end though.....

That maniacal laugh gets me every time.

I saw this film in December in Berlin in a beautiful old theatre that had managed to survive World War Two. I was 18 and it was 1984. A wonderful smart beautiful girl I had become friends with named Sophie had to translate the entire picture for me as it was in German. She ended up softly whispering in my ear for two and a half hours. Which was quite nice even though we were being hushed by other patrons. When the film was over and we walked outside the Kino, it began to snow. I fell in love so many times that one night. With Sophie, with Berlin, with Mozart and with my Maker, the Everywhere Spirit. I have been so blessed. Need to remember those moments. God bless you all.

I was in my early 20s and this movie really turned me onto Mozart.... And still love it.

That maniacal laugh that cuts out right at the end is absolute gold lol. He seems like a complete madman!

"The rest is just the same isn't it?" Peace.

Insolence, rapidité, espiègleries, joie, génie effronté.. Mozart ❤️

I don’t think it’s possible to love this movie any more than I do. One of my all time favs..

Bach mastered music Mozart perfected music Beethoven broke the rules My three favorite composers are all great, none better, none worse. You just can't compare them, they are too different. But they were all geniuses and gifted by God himself.

If Salieri lived in modern times,he would be one of the greatest record producer.

I absolutely love this movie. Content is awesome, actors are awesome. Drama was just delightful & had much more quality than most movies today.

This always makes me think of Spongebob, when he attends Squidward’s art class. 🤪🤣

The best part, when emperor gets scared of his loud obnoxious laugh in the end :DDD

7:07 A look of sheer contempt. What an amazing actor.

Salieri had such an appreciation for Mozart’s genius music. It’s sad to me how he really understands the beauty of it and how much he wants to create that same kind of beauty but can’t. I get why he thinks it’s unfair that Mozart was gifted with something he seemingly takes for granted. Mozart just is. He’s not aspiring to anything he just is.

As many times as I hear this I’m blown away by the interaction between the two

I sound like His Majesty when I try to sight read.

When Mozart composed music, what went onto the sheet was the finished, perfected product. No redos. No alterations. No corrections. It was the finished product... right from his brain to paper. That is talent

I love this movie and I cry every time for Mozart’s ending

For those who don’t know, his variations on Salieri’s piece turn into the aria “Non più andrai,” from The Marriage of Figaro. So he just casually improvises his way into one of the most famous arias from one of his most famous operas.

F. Murray Abraham did a BRILLIANT job in this movie. His running commentary throughout this film truly brought it to life. The complicated emotions of the love and simultaneous hatred this man felt gave the story the depth that it had. No wonder he won the Academy Award for that year.

Tom Hulce and Abraham both inscribed the performance of a lifetime, and by which they will always be remembered, no matter what other roles they play.

Who’s still here loving this music. You’d have to be a musician to really take this all in. I was 14 when I went to the movies with my music group to watch this. It was and is amazing… carved my desire to be in music.

That final laugh gets me every freaking time, and you can see it startles the other actor as well.. Oh jeez, so good.

7:06 "The rest is just the same, isn't it?" That moment Salieri realised he was fucked

Little unknown fact: Mozart had an american accent before american accents were a thing!

I love that this is an actual Mozart piece, and they deconstructed it into a simpler, awkward Salieri piece. The music direction and creativity in this film was truly unique and amazing.

Mozart was just a genius as I think of all classical composers back in that time. Amadeus is one of my favorite movies. Brilliant cast, especially Tom Hultz and F. Murray Abraham!

It has been awhile but I reminded what a great movie "Amadeus" is. And what a great genius Mozart was.!

Oh, the burn on Salieri's face when Mozart improves the ending and starts throwing off effortless variations!

"Is talent like that, written on the face?" really reminds of "don't judge a book by it's cover"!

One of the greatest piece of film ever made. I loved this movie from when I first saw it as a kid. Mozart was so much fun and so tragic!

0:36 When your cellphone goes off during a concert.

When people say Mozart was a genius, they dont know that he practiced composition on carriages, starting from his childhood. That's what made Mozart one of the top composer in the world that time.

La pelicula que mi hermano ama.la vimos siendo niños y fue mágico.gracias.

I love it! Specially the last part, when he laughs.

Emperor Joseph II: "On one hearing only?" Mozart: "Hold my hat"

I remember leaving the movie theater in 1984 (maybe 85) with my jaw dropped, feeling drained. Speechless. Spent. Astounded. In disbelief. I was a classically trained pianist just out of college working as a waitress. I've been watching it since.

"that giggeling dirty minded creature crawling on the floor" 😂

It would be good to be able to view the whole film 'Amadeus' on KZfaq.

Salieri wanted so much to be a great composer. Mozart wanted so much to make music

0:00 - 0:30 > Contredanse in F major KV 33b 0:34 - 1:34 > Bubak And Hungaricus (NOT Mozart, unknown composer) 1:41 - 2:34 > Serenade for Winds 'Gran Partita' 3rd mov. Adagio KV 361-370a 2:34 - 3:02 > Serenade for Winds 'Gran Partita' 7th mov. Finale Molto Allegro KV 361-370a 3:30 - 4:39 > Again, Serenade for Winds 'Gran Partita' 3rd mov. Adagio KV 361-370a 4:55 - 8:14 > A Welcome March written by Salieri, a gift for Mozart which he used in his opera: Le Nozze di Figaro (KV 492) Act I, Scene VIII, No.10 - Aria - Non Più Andrai, Farfallone Amoroso.

In reality, Mozart was a genius and loves to improvise, but he respected Salieri as his teacher. Both were serious in their music but different path and style. Just as a father and son whom have different ideas and taste in music. Both of them never really have feud nor competion, Salieri even warned young Mozart to be modest on how he spent his fortune. In many cases Salieri was amazed by Mozart and also guided him for many many court music jobs, he helped Mozart getting paid most the time. So this film is partially fictionized.

Mozart might be the most talented human at anything that's ever existed. He was like the prodigy of prodigies.

F. Murray Abraham was the Mozart of this film.

Christ, why don't screenwriters write like this anymore??

A nicely edited presentation

The theme is Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Atto I Scena 8: No. 10, Aria "Non più andrai" (Figaro) when Mozart is building upon the march from Salieri. Most of the themes in the movie that Mozart was playing such as the party scene were actually based off of his real pieces, but they built upon some of the themes with their own variations to make them better for the movie. The other theme is Klavierstück in F Major, K. 33b when in the first scene of the clip Mozart is playing the harpsichord as a child, but unlike some of the other themes, this one isn't a variation.

That laugh though 😂