Hey. I am Polish. Please don't be rude. I understand there is a lot of hatred between our nations, but since we've got a ceasefire, I hope I can ask a question.
I have been trying to make up for my lack of knowledge about films. There are many great movies I have not seen yet, and it makes me feel dumb.
Now, apparently, there was once a Czech director called Forman. It seems he made a few pretty decent films back in the day. I am interested in checking (no pun intended) those out.
I am wondering, have you ever heard of this filmmaker? Seen his movies? Are they worth checking out?
I think Miloš Forman could be an interesting as a director to cover. He has a wide variety of films throughout his career. Like Veerhoven or Lee his career starts in a foreign country, this time Czechia. His big Hollywood breakthrough is One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest which is an iconic New Hollywood film. He then goes on to direct Hair, Amadeus, and Man on the Moon which I think would all make great episodes. I don’t know much about Ragtime or The People vs Larry Flint but they look interesting.
What do you think?
First of all, I'm not a native English speaker so I would like to apologize beforehand for the grammatical mistakes. I've always loved Mozart and when I was 11, I decided to watch this movie to see the genius mind behind his sublime music. Ooh boy. Of course the movie is highly inaccurate and the characterization of Mozart and Salieri, while being literarily masterful, is quite exaggerated; because it was not based on real events but Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus instead, which was inspired by Pushkin's play Mozart and Salieri. That being said, I loved Mozart even more and the magical 18th century Vienna sucked me in instantly.
However, even though I still love Mozart, I finally get to understand this movie and its theme much better after watching it a few years later. The movie actually was about a man's fight against God. After God lets the devoted and hard-working, well-behaved Antonio Salieri have the chance to be the court composer, the highest position any composer would yearn for, He finally mocks him choosing the obscene, lustful "creature" Mozart as His instrument, and giving him an insane talent and brilliance as a gift.
"From now on, we are enemies - You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature as far as I am able. I will ruin Your incarnation."
There are only few things that's worse than a man realizing the mediocrity and pointlessness within his existence and loathing God for it, slowly causing his own fall towards the pit of insanity, darkness and terror. I have never seen a more brutal portrayal of jealousy, defeat, loathing, lust and revolt against God in any movie.
Fantastic performances from F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce. Fantastic directing by Miloš Forman (R.I.P.). This fantastic masterpiece of a film deserves every single Oscar it won.
Father Vogler: It makes no difference. All men are equal in God's eyes.
Antonio Salieri: [leans in mockingly] Are they?
I just couldn't help notice the visual similarity between those two films. Score by Rasmus Hedlund
Hello, I am trying to find a single English copy of the movie “Taking Off” by Miloš Forman. I have tried searching on Amazon, EBay, KSL (Utah), and Craigslist (Salt Lake City). If anybody knows where I could find one if you could please DM me. Thank you!
