The Biography of Mozart is a 1984 biographical film directed by Czech director Milos Foreman.
The so-called biographical films are different from ordinary feature films, and their plot structure is constrained by the deeds of real characters themselves, emphasizing authenticity. At the same time, it also allows imagination and reasoning on the basis of historical materials for reasonable embellishment. Excellent biopics have historical and literary value.
Milos Foreman's work is permeated with the influence of existentialist philosophical thought, and the most prominent feature of his film work is the reflection of the conflict between the individual and society. The film "Mozart" is no exception, in addition to his masterpieces such as "Flying Over the Madhouse" and "The Man on the Moon" and many other excellent works.
The film swept eight awards at the 57th Academy Awards that year, including four awards for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
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Through the confession of the Austrian court musician Sarielli to the priest, the film tells the story of Mozart's gifted talent and his bohemian and arrogant character defects, as well as the jealousy of Sarielli's mediocrity and the persecution of Mozart to death.
Biographical film shooting is difficult, because the situation and ending of the characters have long been no suspense, and it is not easy to stimulate people's curiosity. However, the reason why this film can be successful, in addition to the superb acting skills of the actors, the screenwriter fully reasoned and imagined on the basis of historical materials, and then used a unique narrative structure and techniques to express it, making the film full of legends.
The scene setting of the film is gorgeous and exquisite, reproducing the scenes of several classic stage plays of Mozart such as "The Wedding of Figaro" and "The Magic Flute", allowing the audience to relive the brilliance of Mozart's musical art. From this film, which lasts for more than three hours, we see the contradiction between greatness and defects in the genius classical musician, and also feel the sadness of the ugly human nature of the mediocre on the destruction of genius, and the impact of the social background on Mozart's tragic life at that time.
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Usual literary or film and television works always shape celebrities into a "perfect and sacred" image, and this "Biography of Mozart" changes the norm, not only depicting Mozart's prodigious talents, but also exposing his character flaws, and the character image is relatively objective, both magical and warm.
1 The greatness that Musical talent endowed Mozart with
There are many depictions of Mozart's musical talent in the film, and here are a few representative examples:
Childhood performance:
At the age of four, Mozart was able to compose his own music and follow his father to various countries to perform for the princes and nobles. We see a scene in the film where Mozart plays the piano blindly with blind eyes, and after the end of the film, he is carried by his father to a stool to play the violin, which reminds people of the word "musical prodigy".
Related pictures --- Mozart's childhood
Comparison of composition with Sarrieli's performance:
There is no harm without contrast. As the royal musician of King Joseph II of Austria, and the director of the world's first conservatory, Sarrieli also taught such top musicians as Schubert and Beethoven, who had to be tested and revised sentence by sentence when composing music.
And Mozart was on the billiard board at home, the original manuscript was not changed, and the instruments seemed to be like a group of soldiers waiting to be dispatched at any time, clearly lined up in Mozart's mind, waiting to be dispatched at any time.
There is a scene in the movie where Mozart's new wife takes Mozart's original manuscript and asks Sarrieli to give Mozart a job, and Sarrieli's eyes are full of surprise, envy, jealousy and other complicated expressions when he sees those beautiful and smooth music manuscripts.
Unique naturalistic musical features:
Mozart is a representative of the transcendent and independent individualist, his unique sense of innovation, the indomitable pursuit of freedom are reflected in his works, and his works have the natural characteristics of beauty, lightness and enthusiasm. The film's "The Marriage of Figaro" originally regarded as an inappropriate anti-monarchy theme for him, but Mozart finally won Joseph II's consent with his unique entry point and passion for music and his talent.
Mozart's works are trendy and full of natural expressions of human nature. A famous quote by Goethe perfectly sums up Mozart's music: "Art is nature, nature is art".
It should be said that Mozart's extraordinary achievements in music are inseparable from his extraordinary talent, in Sarielli's words, "God's favored man".
Although Mozart died young at the age of 35, many of his works have been passed down as outstanding representatives of classical music, such as don Juan, Requiem, Symphony No. 39 in E key, and Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major.
2 Mozart had a libertine and arrogant character flaw
In addition to Mozart's great achievements in music, he is also a bohemian and very arrogant person, and there are many plots in the film that show Mozart's character defects, including his own annoying and frivolous laughter, and the following two representative plots are told:
Sarrieli came to visit the house of the Archbishop of Salzburg, where Mozart served, wondering what kind of extraordinary appearance this musical legend had. But by chance, he saw Mozart chasing and playing with a young girl, behaving very indecently; the music of the playing had already sounded, and Mozart, who had just finished fooling around, came breathlessly. These all show Mozart's casual and promiscuous style.
When Sarielli finished playing and received the medal, everyone came to congratulate and praise. Mozart also came, but what he brought to Sarrieli was not congratulations, but criticism and disdain for the work, which greatly annoyed Sarrieli, that is, from that moment on, the fire of jealousy in Sarrieli's heart rose to the point of hatred.
The genius Mozart was defeated in the face of human sophistication and his non-conforming manners. Perhaps God, when He opened the window on music for him, also closed a few doors in his disposition.
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Sarielli, another protagonist of the film, the royal musician before the Austrian king, is ambivalent about Mozart's appearance.
On the one hand, he is proud of his musical talent and hopes that his musical works will be immortalized. This sense of superiority continued as soon as he met Mozak.
Mozart's handy works were much better than his musing works, which made Sarrieli feel so mediocre that he resented God's favoritism. The moment he placed the pious cross in the fire and burned it, he was completely blackened, and the idea of revenge took over his whole heart, bent on getting rid of God's favorite child--- Mozart.
Movie stills - Sarrieli
On the other hand, Sarielli restricted Mozart's performances through his power, causing Mozart's economy to fall into an unprecedented predicament. Mozart, who was so arrogant before, even fell into frustration to take the initiative to ask for the aristocratic master who had previously disdained to be a tutor.
As Mozart's health deteriorated, Sarielli was secretly planning revenge, and he knew Mozart's situation so well that he was close to the last straw.
Sarrielli commissioned Mozart to do a Requiem song in order to make mozart mozart work around the clock, and finally Mozart finally tired of the podium.
Sarrielli saw Mozart, whose light of life was extinguished, and this emotion of love and hate reached its peak. At that moment his mood was indescribable, he was both a confidant of Mozart's music, because only he could appreciate the extraordinary features of Mozart's music, and at the same time he was mozart's murderer.
Mozart died of exhaustion, and the part of Sarielli who had always admired Mozart in his heart made him unable to rest, and he went crazy, and the two of them went to destruction together.
On the surface, it was Sarrieli's narrow-mindedness and ugly jealousy that killed Mozart, but in fact he was also victimized by the context of the whole society at that time.
At the end of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution was about to break out, and the waves of revolutions in various countries under the rule of European monarchies were also stirring, Britain had established a constitution, and the era of kingship was about to be overthrown.
So the austrian monarchs and aristocrats, in the heart of Mozart's Roman Empire, were worried about their fate on the one hand, and on the other hand, they were doing their last revelry, doing the most extravagant things, resisting the works of advanced ideas while not sacrificing musical geniuses like Mozart.
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For a film with a biography of a musical celebrity, the choice of background music is particularly important, not only to match the theme characters but also to reveal the inner activities of the characters, set off the atmosphere of the film, and reflect the unique characteristics of the music.
The film's background music director uses mozart's own musical works, citing 54 musical fragments, including operas, piano concertos, symphonies and serenades.
These music not only echo the emotions and fates of the characters, but also play a good role in expressing Mozart's extraordinary achievements in music.
As a relatively elegant European classical music, not many people can appreciate its beauty, but the film uses the classic opera performance method of reproducing Mozart himself, so that the audience can intuitively feel the greatness of Mozart's music.
The most influential musical segment in the film is the multi-person chorus part of the opera "The Marriage of Figaro", as Mozart himself said, 20 people can speak at the same time on stage, forming a high and low sound like a clear spring, which is simply wonderful.
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The director chose Mozart's works as the background music, which was seamlessly connected with the talent and personality characteristics of Mozart himself and even the development of fate that the film wanted to reflect, which not only deepened people's understanding and understanding of Mozart, but also improved the musical art appreciation value of the film.
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The Biography of Mozart is a classic in biographical films. Director Los Foreman vividly presents the wonderful, down-to-earth, and absurd life of the genius Mozart to the audience in a reasonable and unexpected narrative way.
The characters in the film have distinct personalities, full of contradictions and antagonistic struggles, completely overcoming the tediousness of the biographical film's flat and direct narrative, and bringing a new feeling to the audience, which is perhaps the most attractive part of this film.
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In this film, Mozart is no longer a "saint" who does not eat fireworks in the imagination, he is both a victim of the distortion of human nature and a tragic product of that era and society. This film presents people with a three-dimensional image of Mozart with flesh and blood.
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