Ahh the Confutatis, Mozart, Salieri and Marriner make some highly memorable moments out of this one. One of the most enjoyable scenes in Amadeus. I'm sure there is nothing to compare with it in "Dumb and Dumber". You know, I agree with Norman. I enjoyed that film a lot. I'm no scholar, nor a knowlegable musicologist, just a musician (shameless plug--visit http://www.serafinotrio.com) but I think it is silly the fairly typical attitude of the musical "cognescenti" towards that film. Okay, it was not Historically Informed, there were some leaps of imagination re the relationship between Mozart and Salieri, but there was also a lot of that film which was true, and some that, well, could have been. To say that M. and S. had nothing more in common that the fact that they were both 18th-century composers is as much an assumption as it is to believe that Mozart dictated the last notes of his life to a repentant Salieri. We weren't there, and it those details aren't written down anywhere, so why not present one version in a theatrical interpretation? The film was never presented as a documentary, simply a could-have-been piece of entertainment. If you want to see a truly factual history of Mozart's life, see a documentary. But "Amadeus" was a beautifully crafted film, the music wonderfully recorded, and the characters alive and believable. And I must say that certain scenes from that film have stuck with me and help me put his music in perspective when I perform it. The image of him writing on the pool table as he bounced the ball around, the snowy Vienna winter, him working in the pit just as I have on so many occasions, his passionate belief in his art, his sense of humor, all accompanied by that wondrous music, truly changed my feeling about Mozart and the meaning of his music. Mozart isn't dusty, cold analysis or haughty elitism, he is flesh and blood to me and thanks to that film I feel more of a personal connection to him than to almost any other composer. Dave Runnion www.serafinotrio.com