Everything Salieri said about Mozart, I agreed with him. In the end I didn't really feel that bad for Mozart. Or was the point of the movie that Mozart isn't the best person?
"You want me to roll 6,000 of these!? What? Should I quit my job!?" George Costanza, Seinfeld
Oh really?😒
Im sorry!
Mozart was genius and Salieri was jelous of him,so whats the point?😣
In my humble opinion, yes it is wrong.
For several reasons: Salieri as depicted (100% fiction) was:
- simply jealous. Plain and simple.
- hypocritical in his "virtue" (meaning he was self righteous and thought himself better than the rest, hence why he utterly despised Mozart for not being as "righteous" as he and yet having far more talent)
- he himself recognizes all this by claiming patronage of mediocracy.
Remember that Salieri was nothing like this in real life. He just turned out to be a far better teacher than musician (Beethoven was amongst his students for Christ's sake). That alone earned him immortality (even if only of late).
Of course it is normal to sympathise with Salieri, because his feelings are all too familiar to us.
Many of us, even when talented in a subject, meet someone who is even better than us. How many times have we all felt insecure and envious of that one person who got better grades or was more talented? People who feel such jealousy are usually talented themselves, but are very insecure because they are reminded that someone is always better than them.
It is even worse when that someone doesn't deserve that talent - that person can be spoilt or arrogant, just like Mozart, and then you feel bitter at this injustice.
Salieri took it too far by becoming obsessed with Mozart's work, that he completely forgot what he had achieved.
Mozart had support from his composer father, who taught him music and toured him around Europe, nurturing his talent and helping him establish his reputation early on.
Salieri had no support from his family whatsoever, he had no reputation, yet managed to quickly progress to being the court composer, become wealthy and know what kind of music to compose which the majority will enjoy listening to. Salieri was talented and intelligent in his own right, not at all a mediocrity, but unfortunately not a genius like Mozart who overshadowed him.
Its not hard to sympathize more with Salieri then with Mozart. Our society celebrates greatness, especially genius. While the majority of us are mediocre, but like to believe that we are geniuses in our own ways.
The thing with Mozart due to his genius, he was light years ahead of Salieri due to him being a child prodigy and son of a composer. What was easy for Mozart, other composers struggled with. A musician who is prolific and an expert in composing music and wins the audience and critics every time, is bound to create jealousy in his fellow musicians.
Salieri who was popular in his time, had to see the competition that was going to remove him the history books and the respect that he worked for as a composer. That couldn't have been easy for him.
In life, we will often meet someone like that, who may not have a genius level talent, but can out do us in one or many fields. And it can cause great pain, jealousy, enviousness, and shame to our soul and psyche. You will question God or nature, why was this person blessed or inherited which such talents? Why did this person come into your life and cause all this acrimony in your thoughts and feelings.
With Salieri, I heavily sympathize with him when he found out his crush Katarina had slept with Mozart. Unfortunately, I similarly dealt with objects of affections, and or females that I dated, who went for the guy who outmatch in the talent department.