Murray Abraham was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, to Italian and Syrian parents, and grew up in El Paso, KS, where he spent the early part of his career on Broadway and in small roles in film and television. In July 2004, she was awarded a special prize by the Italian government for her outstanding achievements abroad as a descendant of Italians.
Chinese Name: Murray Abraham
Foreign Name: F. Murray Abraham
Alias: F. Murray Abraham
Nationality: United States
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Date of Birth: October 24, 1939
Occupation: Actor
Representative work: "Mozart"
Major achievement: Best Actor at the 57th Academy Awards
Early years
Murray Abraham showed great acting talent as a child. He attended the University of Texas, but dropped out before graduation to pursue his dream in Los Angeles, where he worked in a variety of occupations over the course of a decade and played small roles on Broadway and in film and television before rising to fame.
In 1983, Abraham was finally recognized by the famous director Milos Foreman, and was able to play the role of court musician Salieri in "Mozart", and as a result, he lived up to the expectations of his character, and interpreted the character's sinister jealousy and complexity of the heart, winning the Oscars, Golden Globes, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and other film titles, and creating a peak of his acting career. However, after that, there was no greater development, more supporting roles, the star road is going downhill day by day. He was married to Kate Hannan and has two children.
Awards
The 57th Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Mozart
The 42nd Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mozart
The 39th BAFTA Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Mozart
Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Actor for Mozart
Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Awards for Mozart
Mozart, the first film to be released in the United States, was the first film to be released in the United States. Biography"
Representation
Biography of Mozart
The plot
The film tells the story of the great musical genius Wolfgang. Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart). The film follows the life of the great musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The movie uses the technique of flashbacks and is written by Antonio Salieri. The movie is narrated in flashback by Antonio Salieri. He is a court musician who, envious and shocked by Mozart's genius, becomes psychologically sick and decides to get rid of Mozart. The music has a narrative and thematic point throughout the film, linking Mozart's music to events in his life and delineating the musical conflict between Mozart and Salieri.
In 1782, at the age of 26, Mozart arrived in Vienna, and his supreme talent immediately overwhelmed the entire Austrian court, as well as arousing the jealousy of Salieri, the court's chief musician. Salieri was conceited and boasted of being the first in the Viennese music world. Mozart's talent both amazed him and drove him into deep despair. The narrow-minded Salieri turned from cynicism to hatred, determined to destroy this powerful and terrible "rival" at all costs.
Mozart's musical attainments were extraordinary, but in his life he was a man of unkempt, wanton behavior. At the instigation of Salieri, the conservative, stereotypical Vienna mainstream music industry regarded him as a "heresy", everywhere for him to set up obstacles to trip. Mozart's scores were heavily censored, his works could not be performed in the theater, and his life became increasingly difficult. Mozart's father died suddenly, which caused Mozart great grief and mental stimulation, and his health declined. Salieri knew that his chance had finally come. He put on a masked prop that Mozart's father had used during his lifetime and knocked on Mozart's door to compose a Requiem. Mozart worked night and day under the combination of fear and illness. When the Requiem was written, he himself finally ran out of gas and died at the age of 35.
Salieri's plot succeeded, feeling that Mozart's spirit of injustice day and night, and finally mental insanity, was sent to an insane asylum. As time passes, Salieri is gradually forgotten, but Mozart's works become the jewels of the human musical hall of fame, and are sung forever.
Movie Appreciation
Mozart reflects the conflict between innovation and imitation in art, innocence and sophistication in life, and good and evil in life, and reveals the sad fact that ignorance and lack of appreciation have stifled genius in the history of human cultural development. Mozart's full name is "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", and the title of the movie "AMADEUS" is exactly taken from the middle part, which means "God's beloved one" in Latin. Mozart was God's favorite, and Salieri single-handedly destroyed his great talent. It is a wonderful irony of the world that what God loves so much, the mediocre do so much harm. At the 57th Academy Awards, the musical biopic Mozart won seven awards, creating a sensation around the world, and the night became known as the "Night of Mozart". The movie reflects Mozart's mad genius through the eyes of court musician Salieri. Salieri is a dedicated but mediocre musician, while Mozart is a talented but unknowing musician. The jealous Salieri eventually killed Mozart, but on the other hand, he was the only one in the headstrong and conservative Viennese music world who could understand the essence of Mozart's works, and was Mozart's unique musical confidant. The two could have been the Yu Bo Ya and Zhong Ziqi of the West, but due to the jealousy of one of them, both ended in tragedy. Jealousy, the primal darkness of the human race, destroyed a beautiful story that should have been a reality.
We have to admit that the musicality, foresight and realism of the movie "Mozart" are all very deep, it is really a high-level and challenging movie, and likewise, the directing skills of director Milos Foreman are worthy of learning from each and every one of our directors.
--Famous American director James Cameron
Mozart breaks through the general pattern of biopics. Instead of focusing on the life of Mozart, it focuses on the conflicts and contradictions between Salieri, a court musician who chased fame and fortune but had mediocre talent, and Mozart, who was a talented but uninitiated musician. Instead, the storyline focuses on the conflict between Salieri, a court musician who pursued fame and fortune but was mediocre in talent, and Mozart, a talented but uninitiated musician. It changes the tradition of portraying classical musicians as "perfect" or "saints", and overturns the "gold standard" campaign started by Mozart's wife after his death, to restore the relationship between Mozart's imperfect life and his perfect music. It reverses the "gold standardization campaign" that began with his wife after his death, and restores the contradiction between Mozart's imperfect life and his perfect music.
--Anonymous
Music is an important element of the movie, and the soundtrack uses a lot of Mozart's original compositions, which is breathtaking in its cleverness of connecting with the plot and its subtlety of setting the mood. It makes people sigh for Mozart's difficult life, and at the same time, they have to be touched by his superior musical talent.
--Film critic Liu Zhili
Film musings
There are many different kinds of reviews about the movie, but the following is a vivid, macro, systematic and comprehensive summary of Mozart's musical spirit and charisma, combined with the film "Mozart's Biography" and the events of Mozart's life by Tingting Wang, a student of Zhejiang University. The film is a vivid, macroscopic, systematic and comprehensive summary of Mozart's musical spirit and charisma.
1. Grassroots Genius
There is no doubt in my mind that Mozart is a musical genius, but I prefer to add "grassroots" before the word "genius", because I think Mozart is a genius in the heart of the people, and he is alone in the creation of works belonging to the majority of us. I am sincerely proud of the fact that his works have earned him the title of "most accessible to the heart".
A musician's work is an important window into the world's view of the musician, and Mozart is no exception. Opera was the mainstay of Mozart's creativity," and "his music responded profoundly to the spirit of the times," and "the ideas of the civic class, especially in the operatic works".
Obviously, not everyone can be a Mozart, and his emergence is almost a "small probability event". Perhaps, his unique talent to give you a "beyond the world" feeling, but his works of the actually did not have a "high above" feeling, has never been put on the shelf, his operas are still performed on the stage, his music in the life of those who continue to echo. The first time I saw him, I was in the middle of the night, and he was in the middle of the night.
As shown in the biography of Mozart, when his operas were performed in public, from "royalty" down to the "common people" in the lower opera houses, they all shouted and cheered for his works, giving them a very strong affirmation.
Able to be accepted by the vast majority of people, both "white snow", taking into account the "lower class", the music itself is worthy of praise, those who create these popular works of music is naturally worthy of respect, while Mozart Such a remarkable man, an extraordinary man with seemingly infinite creative powers, was able to root the ideas and emotions contained in his works so y in the psyche of the "masses" and the "common people" and of humanity in general, that, despite what some may think, he deserved to be honored. Although some people may think otherwise, he deserves to be y loved.
One of the most fascinating aspects of his musical life was his "operas", which he composed with great effort, and it is in these monumental works, produced through "alcoholism", that we learn so much about his inner calling, a calling that was not "loneliness", but a calling that was not "loneliness", but a calling that was not "loneliness". A call that is not "loneliness", because it is "the easiest way to get to the heart".
2. The Freedman
As the only musician in Europe who was not supported by the aristocracy at that time, he struggled with the "cage" for his dream of music, and was determined to be a completely free musician. He suffered unimaginable hardships.
When he was a child, his father's business mentality made Mozart's young heart begin to "suffer", and at the age of 10, he traveled far away from home in order to show his "talent" in front of the public, and every day in order to keep his talent from diminishing and practicing, which gave him a solid foundation for the music industry. Although this gave him a solid musical background, it really "killed" the only "good" childhood he could have had. The biography of Mozart begins with his departure from his hometown to Vienna. It is said that Mozart learned a lot from Haydn, but the biggest difference between them is that Haydn's freedom was not as strong as Mozart's, at least from the fact that he could not bear the abuse of the godfather and ran away.
Perhaps the "child prodigy" is no longer appealing because he has grown up and developed a bold spirit of independence, and so the real world has coldly rejected this passionate talent.
At a time when the aristocracy, represented by the counts, was ruling the world, Mozart wrote: "I can't stand this any longer I'm not a duke, but I'm probably more honorable than many of the dukes I've inherited. I am prepared to sacrifice my happiness, my health and even my life, my character" I think it is not difficult to imagine that he suffered from social oppression and indifference.
On the one hand, due to the discrepancy with the social reality, he was out of work, which is well reflected in the biography of Mozart. While he had no income, his wife was also not good at financial management, the embarrassment of life is inevitable, and in order to maintain the basic needs of daily survival, the maverick Mozart had to withstand from the "enemy" how much pressure ah.
At the same time, his demand for his own works also tormented himself, and his health was extremely poor, but he still insisted on creating works, and "pushed" himself with alcoholism. As he said to Kucharz, the conductor of the orchestra of Don Giovanni, "Whoever thinks that my art has been achieved without any effort is wrong. I tell you exactly, my dear friend, that no one would have spent as much time and thought in composition as I have; there is no famous work that I have not diligently studied many times." It is true that Mozart was a genius, but geniuses also have their own "hard work".
External and internal causes, he had to suffer a great deal, but such a person is precisely a "free man", then such a life has become extremely painful. Such a free man suffers in this way.
3. Spiritual support
But even in his short, tortured life, he wrote a great deal of music, in a variety of genres, leaving behind works that bear his special mark. First and foremost, of course, are his immensely brilliant operas, to which he devoted so much of his life.
His opera "The Marriage of Figaro" was based on the Bomarsche play, which was banned in Austria at that time. In order to express "the people's integrity, wit, and bravery" and attack the feudal aristocracy represented by the Count, Mozart appropriately weakened the opera, and made it more appealing to the public. However, Mozart's "freedom" was never corrupted by the hypocrisy and extravagance of the society at that time, and the work still expresses "struggle", "exposure", "revelation", "struggle" and "revelation" very well. The work is still a good expression of "struggle", "revelation" and "satire". In his other masterpiece "Don Juan", he also made a profound revelation of the feudalism represented by the aristocrat Don Juan, through the plot and the identification of objects, as well as the incomparable music. These works, rich in the "free spirit of the times", are worthy of being the operatic masterpieces of the "liberals", and give a good explanation of the "liberals".
Mozart's later life was very bad, and his health was also very bad, when his last opera "The Magic Flute" (The Magic Flute) first public performance, when people are in Vienna's opera house competing for seats to enjoy, such a huge success for the near collapse of his bring indescribable relief, but finally in the morning at 1 o'clock, he quietly left the world, let him suffer, but also take away his body show the world, and the world, and the world. world and took with him the aura of genius that he had displayed. The Magic Flute is a monumental work that reflects the pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity and the struggle for them, and celebrates the idea that "light will triumph over darkness", and even better, it is accompanied by typical Protestant hymns, which give the audience a solemn and sublime sense of solemnity. Sort of a tribute to his departure.
4, laughing warrior
In the "Mozart biography", the most memorable is perhaps his penetrating "laugh". He laughed so "unrestrained", so "unscrupulous", so "at will", of course, not only his own kind of "laughing at the world Of course, it is not only his own kind of "laugh at the world's ridiculous people" open-minded smile, but also in order to avoid the embarrassment of the helpless smile. But no matter what the reason, his laugh shows an "optimistic and enthusiastic" image of Mozart.
Mozart embodied the typical nature of the artist. He loved life, was full of poetry, and was full of emotion. He believed that the poor were the most faithful, "Only the poor are the best and truest friends in the world; the rich know nothing of friendship." He was na?ve, simple, always cheerful, touching, feminine, childlike, full of curiosity like a child, and never seemed to grow up. Of course, he loves to "laugh at himself".
There is a passage that says, "A man with a noble mission, even in the chaos of life's frenzy of drowning very deep, covered with blood and dirt, will not become small and mean, and extinguish the divinity of the heart; even if he is lost countless times in the deep darkness, the soul of the sanctuary of the sacred fire will not be extinguished, and he still will not lose the creativity.... Those lifelike images harmonized by inner law and order, those sincere faces, shining with the luster of the soul, those pure and lovely trees and flowers, those hands that pray for mercy or have received a favor, and all those gestures, brave and tender, lofty and holy... What is again very bright and brilliant in the heart of this artist and seducer, and full of divine favor," might be good commentary for Mozart, who was always hopeful about life and always passionate about music.
When the royal family to do its works of bad taste when picking, he only first "a laugh over", and then carry on their own talk, when faced with family strife, laugh, or first laugh American musicologist Joseph. The American musicologist Joseph Maclise put it well: "There is a moment in the history of music when all the opposites agree and all the tensions are eliminated. Mozart was that splendid moment." Optimism for people, not afraid of the "darkness", not afraid to walk alone in the "darkness", not surrounded by the "darkness" and melt the "confidence "
Mozart's music is elegant and beautiful, easy to understand, with the general warmth of the sun, overflowing with youthful vitality.
He fought on the road of music, he deserved to be a smiling warrior, because of his meaningful "smile".
Great dialogue
Salieri:Areyouureyoucan'tleavethesehereandcomeback?
ConstanzeMozart:It'stemptingsir,butit'simpossibleI' mafraid. mafraid.Wolfiewouldbefranticifhefoundtheyweremissing,youseethey'realloriginals.
Salieri:Originals?
ConstanzeMozart:Yes
Salieri:Theseareoriginals.
Salieri:Theyshowednocorrectionsofanykind. Hewassimplywritingdownmusicalreadyfinishedinhishead.Pageafterpageasifheweretakingdictation
EmperorJosephII. Yourworkisingenious.It'squalitywork.Buttherearesimplytoomanynotes,that'sall.Justcutafewanditwillbeperfect.
Mozart. Justcutafewanditwillbeperfect.
Mozart: Whichfewdidyouhaveinmind,Majesty?
Salieri:Mozart,itwasgoodofyoutocome!
Mozart:HowcouldInot?
Salieri:So, didmyworkleaseyou?
Salieri:So, didmyworkleaseyou?
Salieri:So,didmyworkpleaseyou?
Mozart:Ineverknewthatmusiclikethatwaspossible!
Salieri:Youflatterme.
Mozart:No,no! Onehearssuchsounds,andwhatcanonesaybut..." Salieri."
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