Albert
Fellows
10/26/15
Intro To Film
Amadeus
The
wardrobe in Amadeus was very spot on. It felt like it was taking place in 1984
and the masks’ that they used were as if it were in the past. Especially the
wigs that everybody wore in the movie, and the color pallet in Amadeus made us feel
what the color was supposed to make us feel. For example when Mozart died and
everybody was in black representing death and the color white when Mozart was
getting married. Especially the color red meaning power and you saw that
throughout the movie, lots of different people were in charge. The make up on
the actors was good, I guess back in the past it was trying to tell us that a
lot of women used a ton of makeup. The locations also made me feel as if I were
there, it had a English look to the movie, for examples the buildings, but the
lighting indoors made it feel tense, and
made you think something terrible was going to go on. The production design aided verisimilitude very
well, again I felt as if I were 1984 with the costumes and the setting. The
production designed added to the story big time, for example the old guy in the
wheelchair with his jacked up teeth, and the crazy people and different kind of
cages. I felt what we learn from 1984 is that people cared about money and
fame. They cared about music big time, including Mozart, and some people were
jealous of him. I think the theme of Amadeus is you have a different set of
talents from god and that you have something special and other people do as
well, and you have to accept that. Don’t wish to be somebody else, but just be you. The explicit meaning is that
Antonio Salieri is jealous of Mozart and wants to ruin everything for him.
