![]() ![]() ![]() He chalks this up to God's will for his career. ![]() Predating the prosperity gospel by about two hundred years, Salieri mistakes obsessing with God over his own earthly desires with actual godliness, even being happy when his father - who objects to Salieri's musical interests - chokes to death and leaves Salieri free to pursue his musical dreams. Salieri, a contemporary of Mozart, has only one dream - to be a great composer. This film is an unusual biography, and I often like to compare it with Ed Wood, since both Ed Wood and Salieri were men who gave everything they had to their respective crafts and came up short. I went to see it multiple times back in 1984 during its initial release, back when the theater was empty whenever it played and before it was nominated by the Academy. At the tender age of 26, when I still thought no film was complete without a car chase and a big explosion, Amadeus had me hooked. ![]()
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