Hello, fellow movie fans. I'm Lily Percy and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with the Reverend Sue Phillips about the movie that changed her life, Amadeus. the first thing I think about is his laughter.

The laughter of the actor Tom Hulse, as he portrays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1984 movie.

It's a movie that when I was a kid and watched it, I didn't really

understand fully. Classical music was a world that my father was into, my brother was into,

and I didn't really feel a part of it. It always felt really foreign and adult and quite honestly

boring to me, even though I was taking piano classes at the time because my father really

encouraged it, I never connected with it. And watching the movie with my dad felt like I was

being led into the secret world for the first time.

The restored third act was bold, brilliant.

The fourth was astounding.

I saw a woman disguised in her maid's clothes. Hear her husband speak the first tender words he has offered her in years,

simply because he thinks she's someone else.

I heard the music of true forgiveness filling the theater.

It's important to remember that Amadeus is a fictional account of Mozart's life.

And here he's portrayed as kind of a playboy, eccentric, over the top, a dramatic kind of queen in a lot of ways.

And he takes command of every room he's in.

He's incredibly young, and he's also a genius. And this is a thing you get a sense of ways. And he takes command of every room he's in. He's incredibly young, and he's also a genius.

And this is a thing you get a sense of throughout the whole movie,

is the genius that Mozart carries within his fingertips and in his brain and just in the way that he thinks about music,

and that it comes to him without any effort, it seems.

20 minutes. 20 minutes.

20 minutes of continuous music, no recitative.

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