1003

01:37:17,360 --> 01:37:18,800

Guess, Your Majesty.

1004
01:37:19,040 --> 01:37:24,000
Imagine the longest time
it could be sustained, then double it.

1005
01:37:24,880 --> 01:37:26,480
Well. . . .

1006
01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:29,400
Six. . .

1007
01:37:30,320 --> 01:37:32,520
. . .seven minutes?

1008
01:37:35,280 --> 01:37:39,680
-Eight minutes?
-Twenty, sire. Twenty minutes!

1009
01:37:39,920 --> 01:37:44,200
Twenty minutes of continuous music.
No recitatives!

1010
01:37:44,720 --> 01:37:47,080
Sire, only opera can do this.

1011
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:51,240
In a play, if more than one person
speaks at once. . .

1012
01:37:51,440 --> 01:37:53,400
. . .it's just noise.

1013
01:37:53,600 --> 01:37:56,160
But with opera, with music. . .

1014
01:37:56,360 --> 01:38:00,480
. . .you can have 20 individuals
all talking at the same time.

1015
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:03,720
It's not noise.
It's a perfect harmony!
1016
01:38:04,160 --> 01:38:07,240
Mozart, music is not the issue here.

1017
01:38:07,480 --> 01:38:12,800
No one doubts your talent. It's your
literary judgment that's in question.

1018
01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:19,000
Even with the politics taken out,
it would still remain a vulgar farce.

1019
01:38:19,240 --> 01:38:22,080
Why waste your spirit on such rubbish?

1020
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:26,360
Surely you can choose more
elevated themes.

1021
01:38:26,560 --> 01:38:29,720
Elevated!
What does that mean, elevated?

1022
01:38:29,920 --> 01:38:33,680
I am fed to the teeth with these. . .

1023
01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:37,160
. . .elevated things. Old dead legends.

1024
01:38:37,360 --> 01:38:41,480
Why must we go on forever
writing of gods and legends?

1025
01:38:41,680 --> 01:38:43,640
Because they do.

1026
01:38:44,200 --> 01:38:46,640
They go on forever.

1027
01:38:47,440 --> 01:38:51,360
At least what they represent:
the eternal in us.

1028
01:38:51,600 --> 01:38:54,360
Opera is here to ennoble us, Mozart.

1029
01:38:54,560 --> 01:38:59,120
You and me,
just the same as His Majesty.

1030
01:39:01,960 --> 01:39:06,680
"Bello, bello, bello. "
Come on now, be honest!

1031
01:39:06,920 --> 01:39:12,600
You'd rather listen to your hairdresser
than Hercules, Horatius or Orpheus.

1032
01:39:12,800 --> 01:39:16,840
People so lofty, they sound
as if they shit marble!

1033
01:39:17,640 --> 01:39:19,360
What!

1034
01:39:19,720 --> 01:39:23,760
Govern your tongue, Mozart!
How dare you!

1035
01:39:28,240 --> 01:39:31,080
Forgive me, Majesty.

1036
01:39:32,280 --> 01:39:34,640
I'm a vulgar man. . .

1037
01:39:34,920 --> 01:39:38,080
. . .but I assure you, my music is not.

1038
01:39:41,760 --> 01:39:44,920
You are passionate, Mozart. . .

1039
01:39:45,160 --> 01:39:49,080
. . .but you do not persuade.

1040
01:39:51,640 --> 01:39:55,480
Sire, the whole opera is finished.

1041
01:39:55,720 --> 01:39:58,960
Do you know how much work
went into it?

1042
01:39:59,280 --> 01:40:04,600
His Majesty has been
more than patient, Signore.

1043
01:40:05,760 --> 01:40:09,040
How can I persuade if I can't show it?

1044
01:40:09,240 --> 01:40:12,240
That will do, Herr Mozart.

1045
01:40:14,160 --> 01:40:17,000
Just let me tell you how it begins.

1046
01:40:17,240 --> 01:40:21,080
May I just do that, Majesty?
Show you how it begins? Just that?

1047
01:40:26,640 --> 01:40:28,000
Please.

1048
01:40:29,000 --> 01:40:30,800
Look. . . .

1049
01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:34,520
There's a servant on his knees.
Do you know why?

1050
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:38,200
Not from oppression.
He's measuring a space.

1051
01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:40,440
Do you know what for?

1052
01:40:40,640 --> 01:40:43,360
His bed. His wedding bed.

1053
01:40:43,560 --> 01:40:45,840
To see if it will fit!