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Salieri describing the music of Mozart
Taken from the movie “Amadeus”, 1984.
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August 30th, 2009
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another awesome f …
another awesome f murray abraham bit
Would you gainsay …
Would you gainsay me sir?
anyone who has the …
anyone who has the gall to say “I know whereof I speak”
doesn’t.
poor salieri
poor salieri
In Onorem Antonius …
In Onorem Antonius Salieri:
Talor se il vento freme
chiuso negli antri cupi,
dalle radici estreme
vedi ondeggiar le rupi
e le smarrite belve
le selve abbandonar.
Se poi della montagna
esce dai varchi ignoti,
o va per la campagna
struggendo i campi interi
o dissipando i voti
de’ pallidi nocchieri
per l’agitato mar.
Not saying he …
Not saying he wasn’t a genius. Just saying that genius is worth crap unless you sweat for it. I know whereof I speak.
But wasnt that …
But wasnt that Mozarts genius as the movie states. it was all finished in his head.. written in his head.. then all he had to do was litterally dictate it to himself and write it down. All the “hard work” had been done in his mind. That IS genius!
ha ha. ok karl …
ha ha. ok karl marx.
U r full of ur own …
U r full of ur own frikken bulshit.
With all due …
With all due respect. Genius is god given (or whatever… natural) the realization of that requires work. Paul Erdos counted in primes at age 2. No matter how hard one works, without immense natural genius, they will not be Newton. Genius is not something you work hard for. You either are or you aren’t. Your work dictates what you do with it.
OK. I have been to …
OK. I have been to hard on the flik. Just as long as we recognize that it is a fantasy of the scripwriter (was it Paddy Chayevsky?). I like the movie for its wonderful shots of Prague and the Estates Theatre. I also found the sections where Salieri is hearing the music while he reads it to be original and entertaining. I simply wanted to underline that genius is something you work hard for. You don’t simply take dictation. I hope the next Mozart movie is more balanced.
I disagree. There …
I disagree. There is no gene for “musical genius” but there is a personality types people can be born with for muscians/artists/writers, a genius has this personality type, and was set to work on their craft usually at a young age.
There are also personality type genes for people who think logically like Mathematicians/scientists, and another for those who are great at sports.
You make a similar …
You make a similar point to my father (a mathematician) who thinks Good Will Hunting is a garbage story. But in this movie I think there are some redeeming qualities:
1) They don’t pretend that this was real. It is just for the sake of a story.
2) Mozart’s wife says that all he does is work on music all day (very different from Good Will Hunting.)
Beyond your problem with the presentation of the nature of genius, I actually like this movie.
I disagree on your …
I disagree on your comments on the quality of the movie but I do agree with your statement that genius is more hard work than talent. Talent is just ignition.
This movie was …
This movie was absolute . It traduced the legacy of Mozart. Genius is something you work at and this did not come through in the film. It belongs in the same dungheap as Good Will Hunting where that nonsense is put out that you can do something great just by having a great intellect. It takes work! And this crappy movie is a foul insult to Mozart. What else would you expect though of Forman and his compadres whose only objective was a quick mental fix and lots of money? Fik them!
Yip. The eloquence …
Yip. The eloquence of his words makes me rigid.
he did not want …
he did not want fame but immortality, people to remember him with respect for his music in a hundred years, will Le Sacre du Printemps who ever they are be remebered dearly for there music?
F. murray Abraham …
F. murray Abraham stole the film from absolutely everyone