Singularity
Posted: 2020-03-09T21:31:43+10:00 In:

A jealous mediocre court composer blocks the career and plots the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

(16? words)

Amadeus

(1984)

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    4 Reviews

    1. Logliner

      Logline wizardry. Well thought out. I need to do this exercise more.

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    2. Logliner

      Good film!

      > A jealous mediocre court composer blocks the career and plots the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

      I would tinker with it this way:

      A jealous composer plots the death of his rival, the more talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

      That gets us through the drama faster. I did stumble over the adjectives — and mistook court for a law court…

      Since you have space for more words, you could also add something about Mozart not only being more talented but highly celebrated, or similar. Play on the fact one is known and one is unknown.

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    3. Singularity

      As Adam Bernstr?m said , Antonio Salieri is the protagonist.? The plot is framed by his confession to a priest years after Mozart’s death .? He has been committed? to an insane asylum after a suicide attempt.?

      It’s a biography of Mozart’s told from the pov of a jealous rival determined to destroy him.? Without that framing device, the film would just be a string of pearls, excerpts from a few hits by one of the world’s greatest composers.

      Also the plot is driven by a powerful thematic dialectic between a temperate man who tries so hard but can only write mediocre, formulaic fare while the intemperate Moazart doesn’t have to try at all; great music flows out of his mind effortlessly.? Salieri despises the man — but worships his music.

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    4. Uberwriter

      Notoriously unconventional, but works nonetheless

      Would like to hear how you reached it; why you decided against loglining it from the protagonist’s angle.

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