I think both characters - Salieri & Mozart were fantastic because F. Murray Abraham & Tom Hulce's performances were A++++ level. So other than the usual behind-the-scenes Oscar campaigning which got F. Murray the win, who would YOU objectively find a tie-breaker if you granting the award now?
Do you look at acting range within a few scenes, or overall consistency of the performance? Does it boil down to which actor broke your heart just a bit more?
I think F. Murray won it with the scene where he's looking at Mozart's manuscripts and describing the music:
There is a superb scene near the end of the first act when Salieri studies a batch of Mozart's original manuscripts, which, to his horror, look ''like fair copies,'' containing no corrections of any kind. ''It was puzzling -- then suddenly alarming,'' he says. Mozart, he realizes, wasn't composing like anyone else, but ''simply transcribing music completely finished in his head.'' Finally, ''I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at -- an Absolute Beauty!''
That's the moment I feel voters went over to F. Murray. But is that fair given the writers gave F. Murray the meatier lines?
Submitted October 08, 2017 at 02:29PM by smoledman http://ift.tt/2xsb1yR
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