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Originally Posted by AliceLover
But WHY WAS SALIERI SO JEALOUS AND PISSED??!?!? By the end of the film Salieri was conducting fantastic operas and Mozarts were not doing to well. AKA the one about his father. His life was falling apart. Why was salieri so jealous. He had money and was famous....I understand about how God sent Mozart to mock him and make him feel mediocre, but still seems a little pointless to me.
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Shaffer says he was influenced by the story of Cain & Abel in Genesis. In fact, Gregory Allen Robbins wrote an essay titled "Mozart & Salieri, Cain & Abel: A Cinematic Transformation of Genesis 4."