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Amadeus - Season 1 Episode 4
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00:00a sexual nature and scenes which some viewers may find distressing.
00:30You're writing it for your wife?
00:32Yes.
00:33You could just talk to her.
00:34This is how I talk.
00:36November is a long time to be alone.
00:38Yes, it is.
00:39He's refusing to reveal what his opera is even about.
00:42You're the capital-meister now, Salieri.
00:44If the audience are moved to leave the theatre and march on the palace demanding my head,
00:48then you have my permission to shut it down.
00:50Our emperor rides to war, and you incite a mob.
00:53You couldn't hear it, could you?
00:55He had secured a great vessel.
01:00The End
01:09The End
01:15The End
01:20Well, who could that be, knocking at my door at this hour?
01:40I had your footman call for a doctor on my way here.
01:43A kindly physician come to administer a tonic,
01:46or rough men with rough hands come to drag me away.
01:52Perhaps your treatment will depend on what I say to them.
01:58I'd like you to finish your story, Kapelmeister.
02:01We still have time.
02:03Joe would always puzzle me
02:05that in the moments of my greatest wickedness,
02:09I was never punished.
02:11The more abhorrent my behavior,
02:13the more I waited for God's retribution,
02:15and it never came.
02:18In fact, the opposite was true.
02:19I was rewarded for it.
02:22I watched Bono die.
02:24I was given his position.
02:27I committed infidelities.
02:29And nothing,
02:31nothing ever happened.
02:36But there are always consequences.
02:39there is always a reckoning.
02:44There is always a reckoning.
03:09there is always aount of me.
03:10I shall get here.
03:19Thanks.
03:19Ā¶Ā¶
03:48Figaro was shut down.
03:51I had truly blocked Mozart for the first time.
03:55Then I awaited God's response to my challenge.
03:59But he did not seem to defend his creature.
04:03Amadeus lost more pupils.
04:06Money became so tight he had to downsize his apartment.
04:10Even my introduction of Herr Sussmaier had yielded more than I expected.
04:14Well, I love his music.
04:17I do. Ever since I heard it through the flowers of my mother's house, I've loved it.
04:21But...
04:22What?
04:26It's not enough.
04:27Wolfgang?
04:43My leg has been troubling me and the doctor thinks some time away would be good for me.
04:48He thinks I should take the waters in Barton.
04:51Does he?
04:51Just for a month or two, maybe.
04:57Carl can go and stay with my mother and sisters for a while.
04:59I'll send for him later on.
05:07You can have one of these if you like.
05:09Mmm.
05:13I'll send word to you when I get there.
05:15Okay, Carl, before you go, should I show you a little magic trick?
05:34Are you listening?
05:36One more time.
05:37You see?
05:52Now that's in your head, when you go down for bed tonight, you might hear it.
05:57And then you'll think of me, won't you?
06:00Yeah.
06:01Noise.
06:02There we go.
06:03You might hear it too.
06:10Michael.
06:13Hear.
06:14Hear.
06:15Hear.
06:28Hear.
06:29Hear.
06:30Hear.
06:31Hear.
06:32Hear.
06:32Kappelmeister, not interrupting, am I?
06:50Yes, but no more than the soldiers.
06:54What do you mean, your aunt?
06:55I heard some news this morning from my lodge.
06:59The masons, I'm a brother there, you know.
07:01Yes, I had heard that.
07:02We'd be very keen in having you join us, by the way.
07:05Bless you.
07:06But I serve only one master.
07:08Yes, of course.
07:10Well, this morning, I heard that one of our brotherhood had passed away suddenly.
07:15Oh, dear.
07:15Who?
07:19Who?
07:23Antonio.
07:23They told me this was, well, they told me this is where you're living now.
07:28Yes, what do you think?
07:29Oh, what, uh...
07:30I'm joking, it's a shithole.
07:32I know it is.
07:33Don't worry, we'll be back somewhere nicer soon.
07:36It's, uh, as long as I hear, no?
07:38She's in Barden.
07:39Do you know Barden?
07:41It's a lovely spa town.
07:42She gets to sing with her legs.
07:43The waters help, apparently.
07:45I don't know.
07:47Well, it's sad.
07:50Your father has died.
07:52I received the news this morning from the Brotherhood.
08:05Right.
08:09I see.
08:10Uh, when?
08:22When did he?
08:23Two days ago.
08:26I wanted to be the one to tell you.
08:28I thought it might help to have the news delivered my friendly face.
08:34Is that where you are?
08:38I'm not sad.
08:40Many composers view the Kepelmeister as an adversary, but I'm not.
08:45I'm really not.
08:48Of course.
08:49Well, thank you for letting me know.
08:58I prefer to be on my own now, though, I think.
09:03Of course.
09:05Absolutely.
09:09If you need anything, anything, my condolences, Wolfgang.
09:19I want to be on my own.
09:45Here rests a bird called Starling, a foolish little darling.
10:04He was still in his prime when he ran out of time.
10:08And my sweet little friend came to a bitter end.
10:12Gentle crowd shed a tear, for he was dear.
10:18I bet he is now up on high, praising my friendship to the sky.
10:25For when he took his sudden leave, which brought to me such grief.
10:39To a good companion.
10:41That's the first time I've been to a bird's funeral, that's for sure.
10:53Well, he was quite a creature.
13:30It's not one to listen to on a hangover.
13:33What is it?
13:34Our next opera.
13:35Our next opera?
13:36Our next opera.
13:38And what's it about?
13:39It's not one to listen to on a hangover.
14:09It's not one to listen to on a hangover.
14:39What do you think of it so far?
14:56I think we'd rather get the point, don't we?
14:58The man's an unrepentant fornicator.
15:00A thousand women in spade?
15:02A thousand and three.
15:03A thousand and three.
15:04Well, there you go.
15:05Have you spoken to the emperor yet?
15:08Not yet.
15:09I was advised that he was advised that he wasn't in the mood for conversing.
15:13How long has he been back from the front, so to speak?
15:17Two weeks.
15:17He didn't want to leave, but his health has been poor.
15:21Does anyone know if we're winning?
15:23Winning what?
15:26The war.
15:30Of course we're winning.
15:32Yes, of course.
15:33Emphatic.
15:34Well, that's a relief.
15:36What did you think?
15:38I thought he looked pale.
15:40Mozart, did you see him swaying at the podium?
15:42He doesn't look well.
15:43A problem in drinking.
15:45Yeah, that's how he spends most of his time these days.
15:47I'm enjoying it.
15:48I found it rather, um, tuneful.
15:52Tuneful?
15:53Yes, tuneful.
15:55Antonio, wouldn't you agree?
15:57No, I wouldn't.
15:57I'd say the whole thing's rather thin so far.
16:01Let's hope the second half gives us something more to chew on.
16:13Don Giovanni
16:28Don Giovanni
16:30Don Giovanni
16:33Don Giovanni
16:38I watched that performance on opening night, I heard those words, I listened to that music and I knew he'd opened himself up, revealed the darkest parts of his being.
17:08I saw it then, his damaged mind, the naked ugliness, his grief and guilt, there in that demonic figure on the stage with his own father, and in that poor, wretched philander of Mozart himself, punished for his sins, his puckish ebullience, his insolent virility.
17:38I watched that performance on opening night, his mark, turningidaÄ into the dead and soiled the fic Abgeord tuŃŃ, ŃŃŠ¾Š»ŃŠŗŠ¾ 19, 30, 30, 35, 33, 33, 34, 35, 35, 52, 33, 33, 33, 33, 33, 34, 38,?
18:19I saw his open wound, and through it, his barely beating heart.
18:40And I knew exactly where in time I would place the final blade.
18:44Bravo, maestro.
18:50It's, well, it's a triumph.
18:56You don't seem well, sir, if you don't mind my say.
18:59Oh, I'm fine.
18:59I, I didn't see your wife in the audience.
19:08No.
19:09She's still away.
19:11Oh, she's been gone a long time.
19:14Well, I hope you're looking after yourself.
19:16The, uh, Brotherhood has been looking after me.
19:23The Freemasons?
19:25Yes.
19:26They've been keeping me afloat since father died.
19:29A few commissions, it's all charity, really.
19:31But, uh, I'll pay them back when I can, obviously.
19:35Well, I'm just glad to see you still have some old friends looking out for you.
19:40That's, that's wonderful.
19:43You really liked it?
19:49It was as though I were looking into your soul.
19:52He had written a masterpiece again, and I was nothing but a spectator.
20:10But my power was undiminished.
20:12My influence remained.
20:15And I used it to ensure that Don Giovanni played only five times.
20:20Of course, I saw every one of those five performances.
20:28I wasn't the only one.
20:35Your Majesty.
20:37And I do.
20:41I wondered whether you were here to come and say hello.
20:43I'm sorry, Your Majesty.
20:45I, I, I didn't know if you want to be disturbed.
20:48It's all right.
20:50How, how is, how is the war?
20:57How is the war?
21:03I have all the music manuscripts sent to me at the front.
21:08All the new work.
21:09I, uh, I sit and try and read and, and hear the music.
21:18As I know you can.
21:19But, uh, my ears.
21:22I'd love to be able to, uh, be able to sit and, uh, hear the music and truly understand it.
21:33Uh, my great regret.
21:35What about this boy?
21:48My God, Aunt Daddy had listened to us.
21:51Do you ever marvel how lucky we are?
21:55Out of all of human history to have, uh, shared our time with music such as this.
22:00I do.
22:01I do.
22:02You promised me one thing.
22:03That you'll continue to commission new work.
22:07For the people left behind and the men who return.
22:23Don't there be music for them at least.
22:24Of course you want to just say.
22:26There's so much I wanted to do, Antonia.
22:30That was the last time I ever saw the emperor.
23:00He returned to the front and died six months later in his bed.
23:09And with him went your husband's most powerful ally.
23:14Well, it's not we have to shut down.
23:17We love it.
23:18We believe in it.
23:19I advocated for it, but with budgets as tight as they are, I'm afraid it's just more cost-effective to scrub it.
23:30Well, the next one will be even better.
23:34The next one?
23:35Yes.
23:38Wolfgang.
23:39Figaro.
23:41Don Giovanni.
23:43Your work is strong.
23:44We both know that.
23:45The Imperial Opera.
23:47It's not for everyone.
23:49These big old halls, they can be unforgiving.
23:53It's not just you.
23:55Everything's been cut.
23:56I'm sorry.
24:00Why can't they hear it?
24:05These are dark times, Mozart.
24:08Perhaps the people desire light.
24:18Light.
24:20Light.
24:22Fuck off, please.
24:24Fuck off!
24:25Cheers!
24:40Maestro, we would like to formally invite you to the wake of Don Giovanni.
24:47Thank you for inviting us soon.
24:51Thank you!
24:55Down, gentlemen, please.
24:57Oh!
25:05To another dead darling.
25:07Hooray!
25:08Hooray!
25:09To another dead darling.
25:10Hooray!
25:11Hooray!
25:13Hooray!
25:14Hooray!
25:15Hooray!
25:16Hooray!
25:17Hooray!
25:18Hooray!
25:19Hooray!
25:21Hooray!
25:23Hooray!
25:25Excuse me.
25:27No, not so.
25:28Um...
25:29So, I'm sorry.
25:30I'm sorry to be bothering you.
25:31Why are you doing it, then?
25:33Uh...
25:34Um...
25:35I'm a huge, huge, uh...
25:37admirer.
25:38Of yours.
25:39He doesn't write the words, you know.
25:41Sorry, who are you?
25:42S...
25:43Yeah, sorry.
25:44I'm Gregor, sir.
25:45I'm...
25:46I'm, um, Gregor Braun.
25:47I work backstage.
25:48So, we've never spoken.
25:50Please.
25:52So, which of my works have you seen?
25:55Uh...
25:56All of them.
25:57I mean, as many as I've been able to.
25:59And I've bought all of the pieces that I couldn't...
26:01That I could find.
26:02So, I've bought, um...
26:03The...
26:04The six piano sonatas.
26:06Bubbles from Paris.
26:07Uh...
26:08And the twelve variations on La Belle Francoise.
26:10Um...
26:11And then the Turkish March.
26:12The piece from the A major sonata.
26:14Uh...
26:15Wow, you really are an expert on him.
26:17What...
26:18What did he have for dinner last night?
26:20Ooh.
26:21How low do his balls hang?
26:25Uh...
26:26I don't...
26:27I don't know everything about you, Maestro.
26:29I...
26:30I just really, um...
26:32I really dream of emulating you.
26:34Hmm.
26:35I was ten years old when I first heard your work.
26:40And it just felt as though...
26:44Yes?
26:49It felt as though the heavens were talking to me.
26:51It felt as though God was speaking through me.
26:56Yes.
27:02Well, let's see if you can speak back, shall we?
27:06You're a rude Nazi.
27:07What did you say your name was again?
27:09Um...
27:10Gregor.
27:11Ah!
27:12Gregor.
27:13That's funny.
27:14My father had a dog named Gregor.
27:15Can you do tricks too?
27:16Uh...
27:17Come on, make yourself comfortable.
27:18Show us what you can do.
27:19Gather round, everyone!
27:20This is Gregor.
27:21He's gonna play us some tunes.
27:23Please!
27:24Don't be shy.
27:25Come forward.
27:26Come forward.
27:28In your own time.
27:29Shh, shh, shh.
27:30More tea, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
27:32There's a little.
27:36Okay.
27:37Och, shh, shh, shh.
28:11Oh, gosh. Well, there it is. What did everybody think? I'll tell you what I made of that. I recognise the notes, but very little else. As if the soul had been ripped out of it. Go on, please. Let's try another one. Surprise me.
28:30Uh, okay. I, uh, actually, this one's quite fun. I just, um, had an arrangement of one of your, uh, serenades for forte piano. Please.
28:40No, no. No, no. If you're going to play that one, it's not like that, is it? It's like this. Can you hear the difference? Okay, start again. Wolfgang, why don't I...
28:56Start again. Gregor, you tell me that you want to be a musician, and then you embarrass us both with this half-baked shit. I didn't say stop, keep playing, but fuck's sake, Gregor, do it properly.
29:14I thought you liked my music. Why are you butchering it? Not like that. You're getting distracted. You have to focus on the music.
29:23Do you want my advice, Gregor? Find another dream. Find something you can actually do, and find some other composer to fawn over. Maybe you can waste his time instead.
29:32Did it make you feel good, humiliating that poor boy in front of everyone?
29:49When did you get back? This afternoon. So did you see it? What?
29:55Don Giovanni, my opera. Did you see it? Yes. And? What did you think?
30:02A thousand and three in Spain. Well, Lorenzo writes the words, so...
30:09Well, I know how you inspire him.
30:13Your leg seems much better.
30:16How was Barden? Good.
30:20How was Franz? Oh, so I'm the subject of gossip, am I?
30:24Well, you make yourself the subject of gossip. Do I? Yes.
30:27How? By carrying on. Like a... Like a what?
30:31Like a whore. Like a cheap...
30:34A fucking whore.
30:35Well, a cheap fucking whore is the only kind of whore you'd be able to afford, Wolfgang.
30:41Mother said you haven't been to see Carl at once.
30:45She said she saw you one morning, and you were too drunk to even recognise your own son.
30:49Well, I would see more of my son if his mother wasn't constantly running off to moisten the balls of every inadequate fucking student musician to look her way.
30:56Well, yes, Franz did. He did look my way.
30:58He looked at me, yeah. He saw me. He spoke to me. He...
31:02He bothered to ask my opinion on things in the world beyond. What did you think of my fucking opera?
31:09What did you think of my fucking opera?
31:11I thought it was too fucking long.
31:13It made me sad.
31:32I was intruding on something I wasn't supposed to see.
31:34It made me realise everything I know about you. I've had to learn through your characters.
31:48And I wondered if you...
31:50If you could ever open up to me, or...
31:54Just be stuck hoping that...
31:56Tiggerau or Don Giovanni would tell me the things that you weren't.
31:59You're supposed to see it.
32:02You're supposed to see it.
32:08You're supposed to see it.
32:20You can't stay with me.
32:25It isn't good here.
32:29I know.
32:31You're supposed to see it.
32:32You're supposed to see it.
32:33You're supposed to see it.
32:36But it's nice to see it.
32:37I can't wait to see it.
32:39It's very powerful.
32:40I can't wait to see it.
32:42It's actually a good way.
32:44You don't...
32:46I should've seen it.
32:48It's my body.
32:50You're supposed to be Zukunft.
32:53It's my body.
32:55It's my body.
32:57So...
32:58We'll go again. We'll write something else. You'll write something else.
33:19You shouldn't do this. Keep working with me. I'm cursed.
33:23Oh, please, don't be a fucking martyr.
33:25Go write for Salieri or fucking Regini or anyone else.
33:29We're having a small run of bad luck. I'll give you that.
33:32Look, I don't want to write for any of them. I want to write for you.
33:38It's different with you, and you know that.
33:41And that's as much of a compliment as you'll get out of me, so don't look for any more.
33:49I hate this.
33:52What?
33:55The end of a party.
33:59I mean, obviously, Wolfgang, I'd be delighted to have you put something on here.
34:02I just assumed you'd be staging your next one at the Bird's Theater again.
34:04Oh, no, it's too stuffy.
34:07I feel like I need something more alive.
34:11Oh, wait, that's us.
34:13Wait, we were alive all right.
34:15No, we're packed every weekend.
34:17Wolfgang, I can guarantee you a full house of excited music lovers.
34:22Desperate, desperate to be entertained.
34:24They won't just sit there like the aristocrats.
34:26No, they sing along, they dance.
34:29They laugh.
34:31And on the takings, I can give you off.
34:34Oh.
34:36Well, if that's the best you can do, I suppose we'd better shake on that.
34:40I'm so pleased.
34:42He's very excited.
34:43I'm sure it's going to be a hit.
34:44And actually, between you and I, the Brotherhood owns the lease on the place,
34:48so it gets a cut of the takings as well.
34:50Everyone's doing very nicely.
34:52Mopsup might be able to pay off his debts.
34:55Get back into the city.
34:55I'm very quiet this morning, dear.
35:03Oh.
35:05Just in my thoughts.
35:08What are you thinking about?
35:12The Masons.
35:15Wolfgang!
35:16Cabermeister!
35:17I wanted to find you and congratulate you on your new commission.
35:20Oh, thank you.
35:21You were right, by the way.
35:22Much better to get away from the Burke Theatre.
35:24Well, I think it's wonderful news.
35:25Let's celebrate.
35:26Yes.
35:27So, tell me.
35:29What have you got so far?
35:31Love, sire.
35:33Excuse me?
35:34Do you remember?
35:35The first time I ever went to the Emperor's Palace,
35:38he asked me what a good German virtue might be.
35:40Ah, yes, yes, yes.
35:41You said love, sire.
35:43Yes.
35:45Love.
35:47I want to write about love.
35:49And light.
35:50I think it's a wonderful idea.
35:52Although it strikes me there are different kinds of love, aren't there?
35:57There's romantic love, certainly, but that feels pretty played out at this point.
36:02But what of maternal love, familial love, fraternal love?
36:07Fraternal love.
36:08Brotherly love.
36:09That's a thought, yeah.
36:10Brotherhood.
36:11I mean, that's what the Masons are all about.
36:13My father used to talk about it all the time.
36:15The sucker that we got from them.
36:16Perhaps.
36:18No, that's too much.
36:20What?
36:21No, no, no.
36:21It's a bad idea.
36:22What?
36:23Well, I was just thinking, why not put them into it?
36:29Into it?
36:30Show them in all their generosity.
36:32Let people see the kindness of the Masons.
36:35Well, the Brotherhood's rituals are a secret, of course.
36:38Needn't copy them exactly.
36:39You could adapt them, change a few details here and there,
36:42one step away, but they're still recognisable.
36:44Change a few details, but keep the intention.
36:48I like it.
36:48In fact, I'm going to speak to DuPonte.
37:00Antonio, what a surprise.
37:04You've caught me at an inopportune time.
37:07Well, it's hard not to.
37:17Oh.
37:18Entertaining.
37:21Very.
37:22Um.
37:23Please.
37:25Sit soft.
37:26No, no, I think I'll come straight to the point, Lorenzo.
37:30There were people who were disturbed by your presence
37:32when you first arrived in Vienna.
37:34But I vouched for you.
37:36I saw something in you, and the Emperor was moved by your work.
37:39We all have been.
37:41Times are changing.
37:42The Emperor is unwell.
37:44You won't recover?
37:45His brother stands ready to take over when the time comes.
37:48It will be a rude awakening for many of us.
37:51He has none of Joseph's love of the arts.
37:54I expect budgets to tighten.
37:57I expect there to be a less...
37:59...liberal outlook.
38:01formal notice
38:04that you were to be removed from your position as court poet
38:07and dismissed from Imperial service.
38:10Now, I'm afraid with the loss of both your patron and your position,
38:13questions have been raised about your continued residence here in Vienna.
38:16Figaro.
38:17Figaro.
38:18Figaro.
38:23Politics.
38:24How long do I have?
38:28Oh, I wouldn't linger.
38:33The mood is changing.
38:36You're a man out of time.
38:58Lorenzo?
39:06i have no idea.
39:07I don't know.
39:32Don't worry about that.
39:34Let's go.
40:04Hello, Wolfgang. Hello. Hello.
40:16Your mother took Carl up to Barden to see Stanza.
40:19Oh.
40:20We would have told you, but you haven't been to visit, so...
40:27Would you like a seat, Wolfgang?
40:34How is Carl?
40:44He's well. He can basically talk now.
40:47And Sophie's been giving him piano lessons.
40:50He's very bad, but so am I.
40:53Have you heard from Constanza?
40:56She writes.
41:00Is she happy?
41:04Cheers.
41:34I love you.
41:36Spend me.
41:38I'm so happy.
41:40I pale.
41:42She is a little red like her.
41:44She is happy about her.
41:46Is she happy?
41:48I'm so happy, I'm so happy.
41:50She is so happy about her.
41:51I'm so happy about her.
41:52She is happy about her.
41:53I love you, Henry.
41:54She is happy?
41:55She is happy.
41:56She is happy about her.
41:57Oh, my God.
42:27Oh, my God.
42:57Oh, my God.
43:27Oh, my God.
43:57Oh, my God.
44:27Oh, my God.
44:57To hint at, yes.
44:58What were you thinking?
44:59Listen to the audience.
45:00They love it.
45:01Listen to them.
45:02This can't happen again.
45:03I need to talk to Shikhanada, the box office.
45:05The Masons own the lease on the theatre.
45:06They also control the box office.
45:08And I don't think now's a good time to ask them for more money.
45:10You told me to do this.
45:11No.
45:11No.
45:11No.
45:11No.
45:12No.
45:13This was your idea, Mozart.
45:15This was you, remember?
45:17Mozart, I would make haste for home.
45:19I'll find them.
45:20I'll calm them down.
45:21They'll be away, Mozart.
45:22No.
45:23No.
45:23Don't be away.
45:23No.
45:24Be away.
45:25No.
45:25No.
45:27There.
45:28Let's go.
45:58For the brotherhood.
46:28A commission.
46:55A mass for the dead.
47:06You have seven days.
47:09The pieces had fallen into place.
47:20He was weak, broken, and alone, teetering on the edge of a precipice.
47:34And all that was needed was my hand to finally guide him over.
47:43So, into the darkness we go.
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49:24You
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