#mor thoughts

kings of social distancing

ok i was just going to make this joke but mozart being blue and salieri orange? aka coMPLEMENTARY COLOURS?!?!?!?!

something really funny that neither proshot shows is how after mozart gives salieri the score and tells him he doesnt need it, salieri is so MAD, so BAFFLED at mozarts attitude that he starts running after him to (i guess) give back the score cuz he wants to leave the premises immediately and never look at this pretentious twink again

but he stops when mozart bends down and unnecessary shows his ass which, first of all, gay, but besides that salieri realises that trying to reason with a clown is pointless so he thinks "ok hes irritating. im sure this will suck and ill have a laugh. ill stay"

this super early vivre a en crever look is actually iconic. its actually how salieri should look like in every single vaec. messy clothes and hair to symbolise his character development !!! him not caring about appearances anymore and being relaxed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah of course! in summary its because they degayed it so much that it became flavourless.

i watched both the 2010 and the 2011 recordings side by side to 1. go insane and 2. show u what i mean. see how literally every single iconic part got cut off:

the guy at the beginning choking and pushing salieri around is not there at all anymore

again the male dancer is not there anymore so when salieri sings about the knife going through his heart he doesnt get symbolically stabbed by the dancer, he just bends down like he has arthritis or a stomach ache

wow would u look at that. yet again no male dancer to shove the score on his face so salieri just awkwardly grabs it

am i being repetitive yet?

this is the climax!!! the peak of the performance!!!!!!! and now hes just standing there ..........

and to finish it off once again he isnt being manhandled anymore, just awkwardly walking around.

but wait. u thought it was over? ha. lets not forget the atrocious continuity error, in the 2011 recording, of salieris cravat suddenly being gone when the song is over. this is the lAST STRAW TO ME. this could have been finally a good change... something with flavour.. and yet... its a mystery. idk if it was a mistake and it felt off or idk maybe a male dancer pulled it off so they had to cut the gay out!1!1 dkljaskl

(btw the editing problem isnt just in this scene. from the top of my head i remember that in the rehearsal part u can see how they clearly mixed together 2 different shots which obviously kills the vibe of it being a live performance. i mean this; salieri is uncrossing his arms in one shot and when it cuts to the next one he is fixing his coat)

but back to lbqfm. now this might just be me being biased cuz i already prefer the 2010 dvd for those reasons, but i also think that in that version they zoom in at the right parts and show the choreo, the stage and the lighting a lot better than in 2011. like in the instrumental part of the song, when the lighting changes from red and green to purple and blue u know? ugh in the 2010 dvd is so much cooler, they show everything in a wide shot... perhaps they changed the way they shot it to add a cOoL 3D effect but oh well i cant know that

anyways i had to check some youtube videos to see if the choreo changes were just for the new recording and nah u can see in this video from february 2011 how its the exact same but this one from june 2011 shows yet again more changes in the choreo, being a mix of both versions and i think my favourite one now?

so to be clear im not mad about the constant changes in basically every part of the show bc MOR isnt a the phantom of the opera situation (POTO). in replica productions of POTO (like broadway) the choreo/blocking etc etc is still the same from when it premiered 3 decades ago but the actors change all the time so it feels different, it still stays fresh. MOR is different; besides claire leaving, the cast remained the same for 3 years and i mean of course every single performance is unique, even when its the same choreo and people, but its minor stuff like the micro expressions i love to screenshot every week dlakjsk

at first i thought this was salieri choking himself but no he is grabbing his collar bc THAT is whats choking him which rEPRESENTS the perSONA HE PRETENDS TO BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!