My old friend Larry Kinkaid, one of the finest and noblest...Of course, you can""t flinch from what youbelieveto be your duty.But certainly you don""t want to acthastilyin the same spirit of lawlessness hat begot this foul crime.She steered the car down the sloped driveway, but the car side-swiped a tree, with the man still in close pursuit." A dour cynic, Adam plays the piano to accompany him and later joins him in the singing.Jerry ends up tap-dancing all over his friend""s place, even on top of the piano.BackgroundAmadeus(1984) was director Milos Forman""s stunning, opulent fictional biography of musical prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the Tony-winning Broadway play by Peter Shaffer (whose screenplay adaptation won him an Oscar).Before the film was made, Spielberg had offered Holocaust survivor and director Roman Polanski the job of making the film, but Polanski declined.Her gathering strength as a woman mirrored he social milieu in which the film was shown - the post WWII era when women were assuming stronger positions in US society.