Aluminum Christmas Trees: Huge, colored powdered wigs were all the rage in Europe, and the bigger and more colorful, the better. It should also be noted that Don Giovanni is a Black Comedy so they just did it Lighter and Softer. Indeed, it's mostly Mozart's wife who dislikes it. Mozart attends this and clearly loves it while Schikaneder respects Mozart enough to commission The Magic Flute from him. Schikaneders company puts on a parody of Don Giovanni. Affectionate Parody: In-Universe example. Affably Evil: So much so, that Salieri's evil is never discovered note : Constanza, Mozart's wife, does get a glimpse at Salieri's true feelings towards her husband, but she never understands what is really going on, only when he confesses to the priest, and even then, he is quite nice and congenial. AMADEUS 1984 MOVIE
Adaptation Distillation: The movie is much better known than the previous works, expanding on both the comedy as well as relationships while downplaying some of the more over-the-top elements.Though in the director's cut, the Costanze scene still happens, although even in that he comes across as better since he doesn't violently shout at her. Additionally, Salieri is celibate in the movie, while his original theatrical characterization had him seducing a student to spite God, and almost sleeping with Costanze before changing his mind and rudely leaving her out. Although it was debatably Salieri coming to Mozart to encourage him to work on the Requiem through the night when he was already extremely ill that ultimately killed him.
In the movie, Salieri visits a sick and dying Mozart as himself and sits with him to try and help him complete his final Requiem, leading Mozart to quietly apologise to Salieri for being such a jackass before dying without ever learning that Salieri was his enemy.
Adaptational Heroism: In the stage version of Amadeus, Salieri comes to a sick and dying Mozart in his cloak and mask disguise to try and terrify him to death, only for Mozart to unmask him and Salieri to deliver a "The Reason You Suck" Speech that drives him to a complete mental collapse. Von Swieten has to point to the actual Emperor playing Salieri's 'Welcome March' at the piano, much to Mozart's confusion. Actually, That's My Assistant: When Mozart first meets the Emperor and the rest of the court, he bursts in enthusiastically and bows. The famous Falco song Rock Me Amadeus was directly inspired by the movie. Mozart in particular, and classical music in general, also got a nice little boost, but Mozart was quite well known already. Sometimes, he even succeeds.Īmadeus brought a considerable revival of interest in the life and work of Antonio Salieri. That the boorish Mozart could create such magnificent, groundbreaking compositions with seemingly little effort, while Salieri had to struggle to get to where he was, drives him to undermine Mozart any way he can. Though Mozart proves to be a tremendous boor and an immature Manchild, his godlike musical talents win the affections of the court and the audiences while simultaneously moving and infuriating Salieri with their genius. A devout and serious man, Salieri's faith is shaken when he meets Mozart. Taking some liberties with historical accounts, the story is told from the point of view of Antonio Salieri, the court composer for Austrian Emperor Joseph II. 
It is based off of an 1897 one-act opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart and Salieri, which is in turn based on an 1830 drama of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. Amadeus is a 1979 stage play about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart written by Peter Shaffer, adapted into a film in 1984 by Shaffer and director Milo Forman.
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