I'm pretty astounded that I haven't seen this movie before. I have been in choirs and taken private voice lessons for many, many years, and somehow had no idea that this movie existed. You would think that someone who sings from Mozart operas would be drawn to a film about the man. I always saw the movie at rental stores, but I never (as stupid as this sounds) knew what it was from just glancing at the box art. In my senior year of high school, I actually went to Europe, to Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, to sing and tour. We went to tons of places that Mozart lived and performed. We sang his works in churches, at Catholic mass. I guess I didn't pay much attention on the tours, though. I am pretty sure I spent most of my time taking bad "photography" and eating too many imposter Mozartkugel (little known fact - you can buy these guys at World Market - for me, the taste of them so strongly brings me back to that fun trip that I like buying a few every now and then, for nostalgia). So, with all of that in mind, I sat down today and watched the three hour long director's cut of Amadeus, directed in 1984 by Miloš Forman. I didn't pick the director's cut for any reason other than it was streaming on Netflix, but I read up a bit about what was added in and I (ignorantly, of course) felt that the extra scenes were a positive thing.
