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