After the two looked at it ("There""s more plastic than Cher") and bickered about cutting either the red or blue wire, Riggs finally cut the red wire.Its tagline described its 5 M""s:"The Man...The Music...The Madness...The Murder...The Motion Picture...AMADEUS...Everything you""ve heard is true."In the awards year in whichAmadeuswas being considered, it was competing and contending against British director David Lean""s epicA Passage to India (1984)that also received 11 Academy Awards nominations (with two wins, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Musical Score).Together, many of he crew watched progress on the construction of a newUSS-Enterprise-NCC 1701-Aship, shown in rapid time-lapse.At the scene of the funeral of Reggie""s murdered husband Charles, three strange men (three of the accomplices) - later identified as Tex Panthollow (James Coburn), Herman Scobie (George Kennedy), and Leopold W.