Little things you notice on repeat viewings..*might contain spoilers*

In the first 30 seconds, there is a woman seated at the asylum, dressed in red. She has the back turned to the camera, and plays card with a patient. It is listed here as a goof, since the dress looks like a jacket with shoulder pads. But I can't see anything other than a woman wearing a red dress.

I didn't notice her at first, but I see her now.

I'm not sure if this constitutes a valid reply, but:
I've always been drawn into the early scene, in which Salieri says to the priest, "Ah, what about this one?" He then plays the intro on the harpsichord, stops playing and starts conducting along with the music in his head. The camera moves to the reverse angle, and we see the priest looking utterly bewildered, in the middle ground behind Salieri's hands. At the end, as the applause in Salieri's mind fades, he turns to the priest and says, "Well?"
The priest could not possibly have heard any of the flashback music in this scene or, indeed, in the entire film.
Most of the film is a flashback in the mind of Salieri. We, as the audience, have to make the leap of logic and imagine that Salieri's audience (the priest) is able to share in the flashbacks.

As far as #10 goes, both "Abduction from the Seraglio" and "Magic Flute" are sung in English in the movie because they were written in German. Since everyone in the movie is supposedly speaking German, they just translated everything that was supposed to be in German into English for the sake of continuity. Both "Don Giovanni" (written in Italian) and the Requiem (in Latin) are sung in their original languages, to show that they were a foreign language from Mozart's mother tongue.

I just noticed that a small portrait of Haydn adorns Mozart's wall. I thought that was cute.

Here's a good one:

I'm pretty sure that Saleri's servant in the beginning (the tall guy who brings him the doughnuts) is the same servant boy that Salieri has around in the flashback scenes. Just a little something I never thought about

When Mozart's body is buried in the communal pauper's grave, you can see fingers sticking out of one of the other wrapped bodies. It's totally unnecessary, but adds a touch of gruesome reality.

After watching this movie for many, many years, it only occurred to me just a moment ago that there is no tangible reason for Salieri to believe in his old age that he murdered Mozart. What we see toward the end of the film is that Stanzi, Salieri, and Mozart's son are all present when Mozart dies in 1791. Thus, one of the overarching themes of the film is that people eventually reach a pont in life where they are prone to believe whatever they want to believe, and nothing will dissuade them.
















JEB BUSH IN '012 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I might be wrong on this but one thing I remember from the last time I watched the movie was that whenever we saw an opera by Salieri the set design on stage was in dark colors but Mozart's were of bright colors (with the exception of Don Giovanni). Did anyone else notice this? The difference in colors meant to give the film audience the idea that Mozart's work was better then Salieri's.