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Amadeus : A 'Flawed' and 'Fraud' Masterpiece

Milòs Forman, along with Roman Polanski, is one of the two most respected 'European' film directors of Hollywood. Roman, a Polish, directed the epic 'Chinatown' and 'The Pianist' in 2006.....two hugely successful movies and eventual Oscars Winners. Milòs left his country of birth, Czeckoslovakia in 70s after feeling ostracized in an unfavoring movie fraternity and moved to Hollywood. His first project was 'One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest' starring the ever-phenomenal Jack Nicholson (He headlined Polanski's Chinatown too) proved a tremendous success with audiences and critics alike and eventually swept the Oscars in 1976. His Second Project, 'Amadeus' came out in 1984, depicting the much rumored but heavily fictionalized rivalry between Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang 'Amadeus' Mozart. Like its predecessor, it scored aplenty with Audiences and Critics and dominated Oscars in 1985, meanwhile launching the careers of F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce in the process. Murray won the best actor Oscars for his portrait of Viennese Court Composer, Salieri and indeed, he carried the character with aplomb. Tom went onto become a celebrated and successful stage actor and director later.

I take a strong liking to historical drama and thus liked 'Amadeus' to the core. Then I got to know that screenplay of the movie 'fictionally' calibrated the 'rivalry' between Mozart and Salieri where in the reality, Salieri by his own admission was never even in the class of Mozart and was his professed 'biggest' admirer. Yes, he was Mozart's senior and contemporary but so were Ludwig Von Beethoven, Zummer and Schubert. All were legendary but had mutual admiration for each other's work. Salieri was no match for Mozart's naturally gifted musical craft but he was the court Composer of Vienna and that itself was a huge achievement. He trained countless composers and musicians throughout his career from all over the Europe and groomed them with parental care. I then realized that making slight arrangements to history for movie-making can be understood for entertainment's sake and values but completely undoing it and thus tarnishing legacies of several artists at once cannot be tolerated at any price. I abhorred 'Amadeus' on my second viewing for it didn't do justice with either Mozart's or Salieri's legacy.........I shall, however, doubtlessly recommend you to watch it for our generations to come must have a chance to know through you what good music once sounded like and who the hell were Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert anyway.........‪#‎Salieri‬.......‪#‎Mozart‬.....‪#‎Legends‬

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