Essay - Amadeus Is the Fictional Story About the Supposed Relationship Between...

Amadeus is the fictional story about the supposed relationship between Mozart and another composer, Antonio Salieri. In the story. *****, ***** insanely jealous that God has given such extraordinary talent to a person as crude ***** Mozart, and he is gradually driven mad by h***** jealousy. He commissions Mozart to write a Requiem, which Salieri then plans to steal. He plans ***** then murder Mozart, and posing as Mozart's loyal friend, perform the Requiem, with Salieri's name on it as the composer, to play in h*****or of his dead companion.

Sound editing *****s an important role in t***** movie, and not just because the movie tells the story of two *****s. Sound editors used background sounds ***** well as music to great effect in this movie, ***** particular to signal shifts in time or location, or to help guide the viewer's attention to ***** most important feature ***** an ongoing scene.

***** movie opens with the sounds of Antonio Salieri's attempted suicide, after he shouts his confession ***** he contrived to make Mozart die. The ***** attempt is experienced auditorally only - h***** confession, his scream, his fall to ***** floor. This pivotal opening action in the movie occurs only by sound effects. This is a foreshadow of ***** how important sound effects will be in this movie.

In a scene s*****tly following that one, a priest enters the madhouse. As he moves through, the piano can barely be heard, gradually becoming louder, under the sounds ***** the inmates. The sound of the piano, ***** plays ordinary and pedantic ***** compared to Mozart's, demonstrates ***** frustration at his comparative lack ***** talent, and sets up the scene with the priest where Salieri tries to get the ***** to recognize at least one of ***** pieces.

***** priest, who *****ok music lessons, does not remember any of Salieri's compositions, but he does recall one of Mozart's. Without ***** sound of the music, Salieri's anguish would not ***** any sense. ***** sound, there is no *****.

As Salieri ***** his story, sound is used to draw us into the memory of when *****'s father dies and the next transition, to a concert at the Archbishop's. It enhances ***** effect of delving back ***** Salieri's memories.

***** another memory ***** *****, we are introduced ***** Mozart first by his high*****pitched, unpleasant laugh, a sound ***** also closes the movie. Later, the sound of Mozart's music is ***** to humiliate Salieri in front of o*****rs, as Mozart plays ***** piece and improves it immensely, before getting completely carried away and mocking it musically.

Abrupt changes in sound ***** also used to ***** changes *****in the individual. The sound ***** music falling brings Salieri out of his reveries ***** he studies Mozart's manuscripts for the first time and realizes Mozart's genius. In ***** anger at God, we hear the fire before he burns his crucifix on it, as he vows to ruin Mozart.

The absence of sound is also used effectively. When Salieri appears *****