tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post4012963227737299746..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: Amadeus: A Pinnacle of Cultural CorruptionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-28887026364194087952010-11-30T19:09:27.115-05:002010-11-30T19:09:27.115-05:00Nice work, Mr. Cline. By the way, the musicologist...Nice work, Mr. Cline. By the way, the musicologist Paul Henry Lang also wrote a very good piece debunking Shaffer's vile propaganda "back when", and it first appeared in the old High Fidelity/Musical America magazine. I've got the original--somewhere around here....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-59388181145376702010-11-30T14:35:22.721-05:002010-11-30T14:35:22.721-05:00Anonymous: Happy to oblige. Someone asked me why I...Anonymous: Happy to oblige. Someone asked me why I critiqued a movie that came out in 1984. I answered that Amadeus is as much a cultural "icon" now as are Grapes of Wrath, It's a Wonderful Life, Lawrence of Arabia, and other films (good and bad). Amadeus is particularly objectionable because of the libels about Mozart and Salieri it propagated. I hope you clicked on the highlighted links to read my backup documentation. I could've gone on for ten more pages. <br /><br />EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-27935423164871041482010-11-30T12:45:36.964-05:002010-11-30T12:45:36.964-05:00I was duped too. I remember seeing this film in j...I was duped too. I remember seeing this film in junior high music class. I'm a huge fan of Mozart. I find his music to be exhilarating. As I got older, I realized something wasn't right. I rented through Netflix. Afterwards I did some research, I could not reconcile the music this man worked hard to create to the buffonery and narcissism that was presented in the film.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-13129496211918422012010-11-29T15:07:37.716-05:002010-11-29T15:07:37.716-05:00Randy: You shouldn't be ashamed of having been...Randy: You shouldn't be ashamed of having been duped or misled by your high school teacher about this film. One can't "fact-check" every piece of historical information one encounters in school or even outside of school classes. It used to be that one implicitly trusted that one's teachers were presenting truth and facts. Under the current progressive school regime, that assumption is no longer valid. It was bad enough when I was of high school age (the 1960's); it's even worse now. <br /><br />EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-87372782950200688542010-11-29T13:49:54.384-05:002010-11-29T13:49:54.384-05:00I am ashamed that I am among those that took for g...I am ashamed that I am among those that took for granted that this was an historical account. If I remember correctly, this film was presented to me in a high school classroom with no caveats about it's historical accuracy and that is a worse crime than that I committed by not fact checking this movie. Thank you for opening my eyes, again.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14871995062048215902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-1611216801965042062010-11-28T23:09:05.405-05:002010-11-28T23:09:05.405-05:00You have done a thorough job of proving the corrup...You have done a thorough job of proving the corruptness of this movie. Regardless of how thrilling it was to hear Mozart's great music in a movie and to see the outstanding acting, if it was all done to humiliate the source of the great music, Mozart himself, then it was indeed a demonstration of hatred of the good for being the good.Teresanoreply@blogger.com