Amadeus (1984)
After talking about Chuck Jones ' excellent What's Opera, Doc? (1957), I felt compelled to rewatch plenty of cartoons revolving around Opera (and classical music in general) that I used to enjoy when I was a kid. As a consequence of the amazing time I had in doing that, it was impossible for me not to choose Miloš Forman 's Mozart biopic Amadeus as the next movie to comment on. It was Mozart's my first opera ever, Le nozze di Figaro , which I had the pleasure to watch at the Sydney Opera House when studying in Australia. Also, I will be watching his Don Giovanni in a couple of months, at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, which will then become my girlfriend's first opera ever. Wrapped by Mozart's sublime music, the movie is told from the point of view of an old Antonio Salieri ( F. Murray Abraham ). After a failed suicide attempt, Salieri is committed to an insane asylum, where he accuses himself of having murdered...