Amadeus (1984) - The abduction from the Seraglio (HD)

Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman and adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play Amadeus. The story is set in Vienna, Austria during the latter half of the 18th century, and is a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The film follows a fictional rivalry between Mozart and Italian composer Antonio Salieri at the court of Emperor Joseph II (Wikipedia)

Die Entführung aus dem Serail (K. 384; The abduction from the Seraglio; also known as Il Seraglio) is an opera Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Gottlieb Stephanie, based on Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The plot concerns the attempt of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedrillo, to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio of Pasha Selim. The work premiered on 16 July 1782 at the Vienna Burgtheater, with the composer conducting.
The complexity of Mozart's work noted by Goethe also plays a role in a well-known tale about the opera which appeared in the early (1798) biography of Mozart by Franz Xaver Niemetschek. In the version of the anecdote printed in Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes, a reference work, the story is told like this:
The Emperor Joseph II commissioned the creation of The Abduction from the Seraglio, but when he heard it, he complained to Mozart, "That is too fine for my ears – there are too many notes." Mozart replied, "There are just as many notes as there should be" (Wikipedia)

[gefeize]

I can see the squidward spongebob rivalry in this

[MondoBeno]

Let's see....Mozart wears an outlandish wig, outlandish clothing, sticks it to the authority, lives in an apartment where the rent is sky-high, drinks too much, parties non-stop, spends his money as fast as he makes it, women fawn over him, he sticks it to the authority some more. Mozart was the first ROCK

[kataisa]

I don’t understand how the aging makeup on F. Murray Abraham was so seamless and believable in 1984 but nobody has been able to replicate it since then, not even with CGI being available. Incredible talent.

[Euroviking]

0:58
"Hurt me! Break me! Kill me!"
Mozart: 😄

[Usedwtm]

Im never going to get over the incredible makeup on Salieri. When I was a kid I thought it was two separate actors, it took me way too long to figure out it was the same person. Absolutely beautiful makeup. This movie deserves so much more love but no one wants to watch a 3 hour biopic about a classical composer anymore.

[acempdc]

0:14 that shift from lesson to opera is totally magnificent, along with the 8 second long high note of the soprano while the orchestra does its stuff... Genius Schaefer, Forman and Mozart, and the soprano.

[tulabutt]

I love mozart's smiles as he directs the orchestra. he makes it seem as if genius is simply the pure joy of doing what you love. obviously, salieri loved music as well, but in his confession to the priest I feel that he ultimately loved the respect and potential legacy that music gave him more. to me, that was the dividing cut between the two masters.

[kratos]

The actress doing the opera singer was amazing, you can see she loves the sound of her voice by just her expressions, without a line of dialogue you can see how big her vanity is and by the way she looks at mozart while she sings you can tell they have been intimate. Beautiful

[mirdja]

This just blew my mind when I was a kid. Its still in me.

[CharlesGRuiz]

I wish they would re-release it for a limited time in the theaters so you can get the full effect of the concerts. This was such a great movie. Didn't it win Best Picture of 1984?

[joestimemachine]

Great physical acting by Tom Hulce throughout the entire film. I bet fans of this film like me have tried to mimick him when he's conducting the operas and symphonies (in private of course 😳) and know how difficult it is.

[FerchoDelgaRams]

3:07 Spongebob making Cangreburgers
3:11 Squidward attending Krusty Crab's customers

[cheskavictoria]

the irony in this movie is so fitting, I couldn't even tell which are the events that are real and which are made up. love this movie.

[allisterbernal]

I love how there is an inverse relationship between his most famous operas and the reception of high Austrian society as the movie progresses. It goes from The Abduction from Seraglio ( one of his least famous) - for which he gets the emperor's approval - to The Magic Flute ( arguably the most performed Mozart opera) where there is no aristocrat in sight, nothing but commoners.

[beardo]

One detail it took me years to notice: All performances of Mozart's Italian operas are in Italian, but all the German operas are in English. This stays consistent with the English-speaking cast talking about German as "our own language, plan German for plain people."

[WesCoastPiano]

In real life Sallieri had an affair with the soprano and Mozart did not.

[erickleefeld]

Musical virtuosity that goes on and on, to the point of grandiosity, leaving people either overwhelmed in a sort of divine ecstasy, or tired out from “too many notes.”

Wow, Mozart invented prog-rock.

[jhl]

I love the moment 3:32 when everyone is waiting for the emperor's reaction, and as soon as he rises, people staring cheering wild.

[kathrynmolesa]

Tom should have gotten the Oscar for this. He made the movie.

[bloodyrose]

For those of you who are wondering, the first aria is called “Martern aller Arten". In this, the soprano (Konstanze) is rejecting the Pasha’s demands to love him despite his threats of violence.