Quote:My gripe was just that the movie portrays him as rather incompetent at his craft.
The best scene of the movie... in fact, what could be considered the whole point of the movie... was where Mozart was dictating the Confutatis from the Requiem. In every case, Salieri knows the technical aspects of musical composition but what he cannot follow is the creative spark. Somewhat unfair to Salieri who was every bit as competent as other composers in Austria/Germany at the time, Dittersdorf, Van Hal, Benda, Stamitz, etc. Not everyone can be #1 but there is still room for other players on the team.
