-Magic Flute! Hee, I liked the pop moments, it's a great reminder that Magic Flute was basically like rock concerts to us (well, I mean, not me personally, but you know)
-Interestingly, I was more okay with Gillen's Mozart interpretation in this section. I think because it dovetails with Salieri's objectification of Mozart, calling him the reed that God was playing through -- and no more, just an object of pity at best (which he really was at the end). So it was interesting and I guess in the end worked for me, although I still liked Tom Hulce's interpretation better and I still think Gillen's doesn't work at all in that middle section.
-I never *really* understood why the play was called Amadeus until now -- I think you had actually mentioned this in your movie review, maybe? because I'd seen it before -- but there was this just visceral shock to my system in that last terrible confrontation between Salieri and Mozart and he calls him Amadeus and it's clear that he means it absolutely literally, the one God loves, and all that Italian Salieri's been randomly speaking suddenly has this huge payoff
-The way he was tapping out music on Constanze's shoulder as he was dying, and even his death spasm was in time to the music AGH
-I mean, the end Salieri-Mozart scene in the movie is SO GOOD, the play did not top it, but it was surprisingly powerful, or at least I was surprised by how powerful it was
(I hope to reply tomorrow when my time's not being all taken up with watching this play! :) )
Act 2 - Magic Flute and Requiem to end
-Magic Flute! Hee, I liked the pop moments, it's a great reminder that Magic Flute was basically like rock concerts to us (well, I mean, not me personally, but you know)
-Interestingly, I was more okay with Gillen's Mozart interpretation in this section. I think because it dovetails with Salieri's objectification of Mozart, calling him the reed that God was playing through -- and no more, just an object of pity at best (which he really was at the end). So it was interesting and I guess in the end worked for me, although I still liked Tom Hulce's interpretation better and I still think Gillen's doesn't work at all in that middle section.
-I never *really* understood why the play was called Amadeus until now -- I think you had actually mentioned this in your movie review, maybe? because I'd seen it before -- but there was this just visceral shock to my system in that last terrible confrontation between Salieri and Mozart and he calls him Amadeus and it's clear that he means it absolutely literally, the one God loves, and all that Italian Salieri's been randomly speaking suddenly has this huge payoff
-The way he was tapping out music on Constanze's shoulder as he was dying, and even his death spasm was in time to the music AGH
-I mean, the end Salieri-Mozart scene in the movie is SO GOOD, the play did not top it, but it was surprisingly powerful, or at least I was surprised by how powerful it was
(I hope to reply tomorrow when my time's not being all taken up with watching this play! :) )