I watched the regular first like 20 times from the library, and the directors cut surprised me. It was the only copy of the movie they had, and I didn't want to pay $25 for a used dvd. It sat there for a half a year, and I finally caved in when multiple visits to the rental store that was selling it clearly wasn't gonna get a normal copy. I wanted to own it though, and it satisfactorily outperformed the original 😊
Reminds me of a party I was at where the girl was falling into the pool with a bottle of champagne waving in her hand as I walked by. I grabbed the champagne from her hand and kept on walking as I heard the splash of her hitting the water. What a gentleman.
Poor actress, who played the shy girl. This was her ONLY appearance in the movie. She probably told all her friends, put it on her acting resume, then found out it was cut out entirely. Such a shame, it was a great scene! (I'm glad I watched the uncut version)
@The Snow Nigro No, she was in the theatrical cut briefly. She was mentioned where Mozart had to do a task by teaching a 13 year old girl before he was allowed to the Metta.
LMAO....grabbing that bottle at the end was the most savage mic drop ever. This movie is a true masterpiece. The story, the costumes, the music, the acting....
This. Is. Too. Real. As a private music instructor.. it’s so hard to ask parents to keep their dogs away because you don’t wanna seem too pushy since it’s their home so you just have to put up with it.
Or even worse if their other child just wants to plonk the lower keys while their sisters learning and the parents don't have the strength to discipline them properly. It makes you wonder why they hire private instructors in the first place if they don't genuinely want their children to learn.
That's just disrespectful! Some people don't know manners simply. Just like in the movie if I were in Mozart's place I would have done the exact same thing and been rudder. But there is nothing wrong to ask the parents to keep distractions away as long as you ask kindly. Especially non musician parents who simply don't know how annoying it can be.
I think that it's part of why good communication in setting rules is important for private instructors. The client wants to be spoken politely to, but they will respect you more and feel better about paying you if they feel that you consider your effort valuable. Being able to traverse the line between diplomacy and professionalism is a crucial skill to have.
Me too, though a lot of people wouldn't watch this out of me. It never seems to the vocal teacher that when it came to Mozart, I always wrote a paper five, and if it was about the 90s, I barely got a triple xd. God, I'm a kid today, I love modern things, but I really am a fan of Mozart. I would like to go to Vienna or Salzburg someday for some monument.
Now THAT's the most important piece of missing information, explained in the director's cut! That dumb boobie scene with Stanze stripping isn't HALF as satisfyingly foreshadowing to me as FINALLY knowing where Mozart got that f&@$:&$ BOTTLE. Lol, funniest part is, I'm not kidding!
Diana North ".......So rose the dreadful ghost from his next and blackest opera. There, on the stage, stood the figure of a dead commander. And I knew - only I understood - that the horrifying apparition was Leopold, raised from the dead! Wolfgang had summoned up his own father to accuse his son before all the world! It was terrifying and wonderful to watch." - Antonio Salieri
And, more importantly, it signals the return of the murdered Commendatore as a terrifying walking statue responding to Giovanni’s invitation to supper, after which he drags him down to hell.
Any musician who has ever given private lessons can relate to this scene. Nowadays, not only dogs, but screaming kids, parents arguing, TV on full volume, other music blasting from a stereo, etc.
Let's not show him any modern music. I'm just worried it may destroy his mind. Watching him perform live, on the other hand, what an experience that would be.
@@sc1ss0r1ng Or to watch him conduct the premiere of Don Giovanni at the Estates Theatre in Prague, used in Amadeus. They filmed the Don Giovanni scene on the very same stage Mozart stood in 1787.
Could you just imagine ... Mozart is in your own house giving you a private sample of his music, made up on the spot and you're playing with your dogs instead of listening to him...
I believe that Hulce was miscast in the role of Mozart. F. Murray Abraham, however, definitely deserved the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his finely-tuned portrayal of Antonio Salieri (who, BTW, was as excellent composer and music pedagogue).
Clever use of the K. 527 overture at the end - foreshadows the tragedy to come, and the themes associated with Don Giovanni. One feels nearly uneasy as the son embraces his father...embracing death.
I'm a singing pianist who played a New Year's Eve house party a few years ago and right in the middle of a big singalong, the host's 10-year old son brought his guinea pig into the room and put it right on my keyboard while I was playing. It was scared and ran back and forth across the keys trying to get away and I literally had to play around the damn thing, hoping it wouldn't crap right there. (It didn't.) I wish I could have stormed out like Mozart, but I would have had to leave all my equipment behind. That was one for the books!
when Mozart said "Perhaps if I played something it would encourage her" and went ALL OUT on that harpsichord, I would've felt completely humiliated not encouraged lol
Actually, no. It's a little more complicated than that. It is rather going to battle with wolf, meaning 1 turning wolf-like or 2 actually wearing a wolf's fur. And it's way older than the 8th Century.
No movie holds up better than this one in the category of a 10, 20, 30, 40 year old movie. Its so fresh that I still can't believe it was made in the early 80s!
It's intresting to note that there almost seems to be a subliminal message in the scene. It starts off with Mozart trying to teach the girl, but the lesson turns into a dog training session instead. He then takes off through the streets, where one sees trained dogs doing tricks, then trained bears, and finnally trained humans. It almost seems to imply that everyone in the city is in actuality a trained juggler, even though they don't realize it. Everyone that is, except Mozart, who sees everything but makes light of the whole charade.
I thought it was a circus atmosphere, and Mozart seems quite happy and at home in it. Then he sees his demonic looking father, is first scared and then happy to see him. The happy part seems strange.
And he played the straight character in a comedy, and a the joker in a drama. Also, Salieri told Mozart not to get a reputation as a debtor in Amadeus, and Tom Hulce’s character was in major debt trouble in Parenthood.
My best childhood friends uncle was good friends with Tom Hulce (whom is from nearby Plymouth Michigan where I grew up) and in the late 1970s, I got to meet Tom at my friends house just shortly after Tom was in Animal house with John Belushi. He was very nice and told many funny jokes.
Mozart and Salieri were not the enemies like shown in many movies! They respected each other,worked often together,but sure were also rivals in selling their compositions to the public!
From a post a long time ago, Salieri also took care of Mozart's family after he passed. I think that should have been in the movie, to set the record straight, they played/wrote him as a villain, once Mozart was gone they could have made him look good, he deserve to be remembered by History, (and this is the "official" History now). No book is going to reach as wide a audience.
@@streamofconsciousness5826 Well, if he was that benevolent he could have paid for Mozart's funeral? It's normal things in movies are always dramatized and to have him as the villain worked perfectly.
It's a shame they had to cut that stroll throught the teeming streets of Vienna out from the final cut. To see Mozart as he would have been on any given day in own element, among the chaos of hawkers and street performers, drinking away an idle afternoon on his way home. What a special treat!
I've never seen the uncut version, but have definitely seen the scene of Mozart swaggering through the street with a bottle in his hand, and the father greeting him at the top of the stairs, so I think it was just the private music lesson that was cut. It does explain how he came to have a bottle in his hand though!
One of the reasons why this scene is genius is how it shows how the composers transitioned from loyal slaves like Salieri to egocentric self-made artists like Mozart...Mozart was called "The First Romantic" because he defied social conventions in a time where musicians were not seen as more than servants. Here, instead of tolerating the man's obnoxious behaviour, Mozart is the one expecting respect and consideration...so when this was not met he stormed away in a temper. He was a hero of musicians because he symbolised that an ordinary-class man with gifts could be worth more than high nobility.
The piece he played on the piano, of course, was his Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-flat Major K. 450, third movement. He played the strings on the piano as well. You can hear the actual piece played with the strings after he walks into the streets.
For years, I had wondered why he was walking the streets with a bottle! The added context was subtle but illuminating. I would have been driven to drink after the incident as well!
The Directors cut is on DVD and the whole movie is presented with the deleted scenes edited into the movie all beautifully remastered and restored color and sound!!
Einstein was terrible as a teacher, and so were the great ones of Physics in the 1920s, Heisenberg, Pauli, Dirac, Schrodinger. A very smart guy like Oppenheimer, the Father of the Atom Bomb, went to Berlin in the 1920s to learn from the Big Shots, only to realize that in that environment he was a C- student.
I’m appalled at this man’s behavior regarding Mozart. He came to be a tutor for the Frauleïn and is not allowed privacy and silence for the session but instead asked to comfort the dogs… That’s another level of disrespect.
I feel the same way as a instructor today when i teach. Most parents have no respect to the music and the teacher 😔😔. That is why after teahing over 25 years. I finally stopped teaching. Before i quit, i told my students even though i stopped, but music will always be my passion.
Entertainers, musicians, singers, dancers had a long time coming into their own - being recognized for their ability, creativity, talent, virtuosity. Chopin always thought of himself as classy and somewhat above the people to whom he owed his living. There is an anecdote about Beethoven. He and a friend, a fellow musician, were walking and coming toward them was some person of nobility. Beethoven did not step aside. He said to his friend, "There are many of them and only a few of us".
Wonderful scene that should have stayed in the film. Must be nice for a producer to have such a good movie that this could be removed and the finished product still be top notch.
Anyone notice how the three footsteps of Leopold at 4:30 mirror the 3 bangs before the Commendatore breaks down the wall in the Don Giovanni opera scene later in the film?
I bought the director's cut of this film and the scene is in the movie. I did watch the VHS theatrical version as a kid but this seemed so natural to have in the film I'm so glad they have the director's cut
For years, I never knew there was a directors cut that was 3 hours long. When I finally watched it, it explained away a few different parts of the movie that never made sense to me, the biggest one being why Constanze seemed to have a disdain for Salieri. And this scene here leads so perfectly into the next scene which I never knew I needed lol
The contrast of the music with his reaction to seeing his father sends a message about there relationship I think it's great use of music to convey undertext to scenes
Man, that scene walking down the streets of Vienna. You never see shit like that anymore. It’s all CG and green screen. Look at how much effort they put into the costumes and the animals. It looks like a real place.
By the way, the music Mozart plays in the house then is played as he strolls through the street is Mozart's Piano Concerto #15, in B flat, K450. (Others below have used the wrong concerto!)
The striking similarity between the ending scene and the scene where Tony Soprano's mother standing on the stairs in his dream has haunted me for a long time.
Supposedly, when Walt Disney was planning to put sound in "Steamboat Willie", he and Roy(?) did a rehearsal in their garage with projector, screen, and sound effects set up on a table, and their wives were the audience, sitting on lawn chairs in the driveway. When they were finished, they looked to their wives for a reaction, only to find that the wives had been gossiping and not paying any attention the entire time.
Reminds me of a party I was at where the girl was falling into the pool with a bottle of champagne waving in her hand as I walked by. I grabbed the champagne from her hand and kept on walking as I heard the splash of her hitting the water. What a gentleman.
