Amadeus

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Amy & Paul hum along to 1984’s classical fantasia Amadeus! They learn how closely this unusual biopic matches the true history of Mozart, discover a Marvel reference to Salieri, and praise director Milos Forman for highlighting what made Mozart’s compositions endure. Plus: The phenomenon that inspired a smash novelty single. Next week, Paul & Amy are talking about American Beauty! You can join the conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Check out this week's spotlight episode from the Unspooled archives, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is on presale now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 1984 and it seems to me that I'm hearing the voice of Pod.
0:10.0	The movie on on the dais. Hello everyone and welcome to a unspold.
0:37.0	I am Paul Shear.
0:38.0	I love movies and I am joined as always to talk about movies with my friend and also a amazing critic
0:46.8	a voice of film Amy Nicholson. Welcome Amy.
0:50.3	Oh Paul welcome welcome to. We are starting our Oscar Best Picture Series, which I am very, very excited about just to go in, look at what one in the past, examine why and how how we felt about it and do we stand by that choice today
1:05.3	and we are starting with Amadeus for a very good reason.
1:09.0	Two very good reasons.
1:10.3	One, this is a movie that was kicked off the AFI list, put on, kicked off, Justice Ramea's, we've always
1:16.9	want to go back and cover it.
1:18.6	And two, Paul, I cannot think of a better movie to kick off this best picture winner series.
1:24.3	I mean this is a movie that questions the very nature of are we able to spot genius in
1:28.6	the moment or do we gravitate toward politically friendly salariest mediocrity.
1:35.0	Well, I am ready to break this down.
1:37.0	I'm also ready to look at this movie from the point of view of the Hollywood system. how we made this movie, the cultural
1:44.8	phenomenon of it and the choices that were made. This could have been a movie that
1:49.5	was made in a very big way, but instead we see a lot of craftsmanship in the choices made here there are a lot of
1:56.4	independent choices made in a big blockbuster there really are I mean just the casting alone really going back and appreciating the bold
2:04.4	casting moves that meelish foreman made here. I am astounded that this movie existed at all.
2:09.6	We'll also be looking at the fallout of careers. Did this help hurt?
2:13.8	You know, what does a movie like this do
2:16.7	when it becomes all-encompassing?
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