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Best Costume Design Migliori Costumi | 1996 | Maurizio
Budget 120 USD
Gary Oldman actually played all of the Beethoven pieces he performed in the film. A different musician performed in the official soundtrack. When Oldman learned he would be playing the lead role, he spent six weeks practicing on a Steinway piano for six hours a day in his hotel, and completely immersed himself in the music as his research for the character. In an interview with the South Bank show in 1997, Oldman quoted an article that said "he mimes very well" in the film. He then laughed and said "I'm playing it! I can play that!"
In real life, Schindler was not a close friend of Beethoven, though he was Beethoven's secretary for a while. It has been claimed that Schindler destroyed 260 of Beethoven's approximately 400 conversation notebooks, although this belief has been challenged in recent years, and forged entries into the surviving ones. Beethoven's actual eulogy was written by poet Franz Grillparzer and given by actor Heinrich Anschütz.
Bernard Rose removed the music from the Columbia and Focus opening segments. He thought they sounded "cheesy" compared to Beethoven.
Gary Oldman also starred in Léon: The Professional (1994), playing a character obsessed with Beethoven.
Beethoven's remarks to Schindler during their first meeting, at a rehearsal of the Kreutzer sonata, is taken from Tolstoy's short story "The Kreutzer Sonata".
"Ludwig van Beethoven: [in reference to "Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 47" - "Kreutzer"...] Do you like it? Anton Felix Schindler: Shh! Ludwig van Beethoven: I cannot hear them, but I know they are making a hash of it. What do you think? Music is... a dreadful thing. What is it? I don't understand it. What does it mean? Anton Felix Schindler: It - it exalts the soul. Ludwig van Beethoven: Utter nonsense. If you hear a marching band, is your soul exalted? No, you march. If you hear a waltz, you dance. If you hear a mass, you take communion. It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. The listener has no choice. It is like hypnotism. So, now... What was in my mind when I wrote this? Hmm? A man is trying to reach his lover. His carriage has broken down in the rain. The wheels stuck in the mud. She will only wait so long. This... is the sound of his agitation. "This is how it is... ," the music is saying. "Not how you are used to being. Not how you are used to thinking. But like this.""
"Ludwig van Beethoven: It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer."
