all right JHC! You might be the only human on earth who never saw Amadeus.
Imagine sitting on the floor under a piano, under the keyboard, facing the bench,
holding your arms up, turning your palms to your face,
reaching up and over and towards you to play. I've tried it. A few times.
Your left hand is playing the right side parts upside-down from behind,
and your right hand doing the same thing for the left side.
In Amadeus, Mozart does this while playing a spritely air, maybe a harpsichord.
He might have had only so much worked out to play that way,
but hey, who knows, once he got going he might have gotten into it.
I've had Amadeus on VHS and would buy it on DVD.
It's got the music, non-stop, and Mozarts' opera music translates well as a soundtrack.
It's got the architecture, inside castles, estates, concert halls, opera halls,
the clothes, everyone always dressed up or dressing down on purpose,
the paintings, art and sculptures, always decorations that look historic,
the horses and carriages, the symphony performances and operas themselves,
a fabulous movie, even if Tom Hulse was criticiaze for his laughing and giggling Mozart.
That worked for me. He also got down on the floor to chase his wife around,
getting both-handed under the piano with her.
I have to admit, even if it might not be the best here,
but Mozarts' father had a strong resemblance to Frederik Magles' father.
I saw a self-portrait oil painting he did, and there is a strong resemblance.
I had some comments at the time, analyzing it, and I'd say the same things here.
If you don't see Amadeus, I'll type your user name jhc from now until 4eva.
Before you see the movie, I'd like to pull a Salieri and knock on your door,
late at night, but you're too long distance.
yeah, Amadeus is a hard core top twenty pick for the best movies I've ever seen.
The best thing about this old movie, is it's about Mozart and his life, antique already.
Very nice.
I see Mozart working hard to be exceptional any way he can, mostly because of his father.
That's a big part of the movie, his father, his music, and when they meet.
I find it hard to believe that in all of human history,
only Mozart is said to be writing out symphonies and operas like they were perfectly notated the first time,
not making one mistake.
I would think he did that in secret, writing out scores as a finished piece, not a composition.
They say no-one saw Jimi Hendrix writing lyrics. He'd leave the studio and come back with the lyrics.
Nobody can do it all at such high levels of performance, but it's putting on the act that's the biggest head trip.
on my own, I can wander through this wonderland alone,
never knowing my left from my right, my hat from my glove,
I'm so Misty, and so much in love.
Apparently, Mozxart wanted to write the most complicated and highest female vocals,
having a diva on tap, putting her through the wringer, tired of all this high notage dotage.
That's in the movie, what, almost three minutes of the most dramatic, high vocal singing you've heard.
When the woman looks like she's ready to pass out at the end, it's very believable.
The movie itself is very operatic, visually soft, characters moving like they're on a stage,
all the world becoming a stage, and all of the earth becoming his burial place.
That's one of the most moving scenes in the movie, at the end,
when his funeral carriage is being led down a tree-lined road,
and it has to stop for some cows, everyone funereal about it.
Mozart loved animals. He always tried to get live animals into his operas,
and these cows, the most artistic cows I've ever seen, are just so nice.
That was hot at the time, that atmospheric fog, and the lime powder.
When I went with my library technician girlfriend to see the movie,
I was laughing out loud like I was laughing along with Mozart, every once in a while,
something I normally don't do.
My girlfriend asked me what made me laugh, and I said I know how it feels to be like Mozart,
and he was the one who was starting the laughing.
It was nervous laughter,
but he was laughing at the stupidity of the royalty and courts around him.
I'd be willing to be his lead guitarist, and jam along to the soundtrack.
If it's a remix, I'll hold his royalties.
Tinkle tinkle, I played in bars, now I wonder how I got this far.
For heaven's sake, JHC, you're a bass player. Help out a band.
Did you guys keep pretty busy?