After its first release, Paramount Studios was so concerned about the misanthropic film""s unrelenting cynicism, anti-Americanism, and poor box-office that they unsuccessfully changed its name and rebranded it as "The Big Carnival.Not of the brilliant little prodigy, but of his father, who had taught him everything.My father - he did not care for music.When I told how I wished I could be like Mozart, he would say: ""Why? Do you want to be a trained monkey? Would you like me to drag you around Europe, doing tricks like a circus freak?"" How could I tell him what music meant to me?In the same flashback, young 12 year-old Salieri was in a church in Northern Italy in the 1760s with his mother and father Francesco (Peter DiGesu), where a choir of young boys sang in the balcony." As Jacob reached Alice, Freddy went back into hiding, and Jacob revealed where he was: "Inside you, where he hides.Well, it""s practically a matter of life and..." While Mortimer is shouting into the phone during a long-distance call to he Happydale Sanitarium to make arrangements, a thirteenth elderly prospective boarder, Mr.