Too Much Music
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scottsteaux63-735-780576 — 10 years ago(January 15, 2016 09:28 AM)
Are you making some kind of joke?
No, I am not joking. It's kind of hard to explain unless you are familiar with Peter Shaffer's original play. The music was all in the background in the stage production; in the film Forman has it front and center to the point where the music is almost the star of the production.
You'd have to either see or read the play; the original was less about the music than about the legend (possibly started by Salieri himself) that Salieri had a hand in Mozart's death.
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scottsteaux63-735-780576 — 10 years ago(March 02, 2016 03:31 PM)
A film about Mozart without music would be frankly, ridiculous
Let me be clear: I was not suggesting a film WITHOUT music. But I saw the original Broadway play on which this movie was based and while there was a certain amount of Mozart's music in it, it was mostly in the background of the drama that was playing out on stage between the various characters. The extra music, moreover, adds nearly an hour to the running time without advancing the plot. At the moment where the Emperor yawns during a performance of FIGARO I must say I couldn't blame him.
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DoctorShemp — 9 years ago(November 26, 2016 11:48 PM)
It deserves to be front and center because his music is the entire goddamn motivation of the story, and of Salieri. And why not make use of the greatest artistic body of work of all time? Hearing that the music is "more in the background" in the play sounds dreadful, i'd probably get blue balls from that. Like that Jimi Hendrix biopic where they couldnt even use any of his actual music
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scottsteaux63-735-780576 — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 05:03 PM)
It deserves to be front and center because his music is the entire goddamn motivation of the story, and of Salieri. And why not make use of the greatest artistic body of work of all time? Hearing that the music is "more in the background" in the play sounds dreadful, i'd probably get blue balls from that. Like that Jimi Hendrix biopic where they couldnt even use any of his actual music.
I wish I could explain it to you but I stand by what I said. The play was electric,exciting, dramatic, and funny all at once. The film adaptation took a brilliant piece of theatre amd steamrollered it into a flat and uninspiring yawn-fest.
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Suzume-san — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 03:11 PM)
I think you're probably right, Scott.
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scottsteaux63-735-780576 — 9 years ago(December 11, 2016 08:38 AM)
Spare me, please, would you? You are not going to change my opinion and I am obviously not going to change yours so let's just leave it at that.
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