Amadeus was a world wide profound success, receiving 8 academy awards with the help of director Milos Forman, and the producer Saul Zaenty. It’s not about a famous musician and his works, but about a suffering old man, Antonio Salieri, who carries the guilt of destroying an artist of music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, because of his lust for love. Transcending the two, Mozart and Salieri, are the universal themes they represent; the between God and …showed first 75 words of 1356 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1356 total…in touch with classical music, especially kids my age, but I think Amadeus is a movie that could get a person in touch with their classical side. Then again that’s my opinion. Amadeus success is mostly explained, in my opinion, by it’s strategy of portraying Mozart not as a great historic composer, but as a goofy- drunken- hippie with a high pitched laugh that made you want to laugh right along with him.