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).In a slow-motion sequence - accompanied by the slowly-building tone of Strauss""sAlso Sprach Zarathustra- he picks up an animal bone and uses it to smash at and shatter the skeleton, first tentatively and then more vigorously...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)).]The film was a commentary on the worst effects of child stardom, family dysfunctionalism, and a black satire about Hollywood.He was the first to truly realize that a filmed musical was otally different from a staged musical, with the camera becoming an integral participant with the choreography.