Richard Pennycuick wrote in response to me:

>>...the movie is NOT about the historical Mozart.
>
>Indeed it isn't, but for many people who saw it, it depicted real events
>and, as yet another Hollywood rewriting of history, became the popular
>version of Mozart's life.

So what? Not better or worse than the popular versions of Mozart's life
believed before Amadeus.  I think it is not important to know exactly how
Mozart lived and thought and acted.  The music is important.

>As it won the best film Oscar in 1984, it did much better business than
>it might otherwise have done, especially for those who regard an Oscar
>as a measure of quality and not as a marketing tool.

The film had already been a huge success before the Oscar came.

Robert