Eroica Page #2
- Year:
- 2003
- 129 min
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Bloody hell.
They're ready, sir.
My wife says it's about Napoleon.
How may a piece of music
be said to be about something?
I have never seen anything like it.
It may not be music at all.
Stop!
- I thought you were supposed to be good.
- It's off the beat.
And there are so many markings.
Gentlemen.
Gentlemen, it is our first attempt.
Patience, please.
Even to my ears, it did sound rather fiendish.
Rather difficult to play, don't you think?
Violent. Needlessly violent.
- Bonaparte.
- I've marked it exactly as I want it played.
- The marking here, you see - sforzando.
- "Sforzando"?
A sharp attack to each note, Your Highness.
Really hammering it.
- How modern.
- You're trained to make a beautiful sound.
But I don't want a beautiful sound.
Elsewhere, yes, but not here.
This is a summons, an imperative.
Play me the first two chords.
I want more intensity, more guts.
Again, please.
- Don't be so tentative. Play louder.
- We never play louder than that.
And some of it's hard to follow.
It keeps changing.
Yes. It changes. The mood shifts all the time.
But are you telling me you can't play it?
- Not at all.
- Then play it, for the love of Christ.
Could we play it a little slower, sir?
No.
Not slow. Urgent.
That's it, yes. Punch every accent.
My God, it's like a dam bursting.
- Fool! Wrong!
- Don't interrupt!
It's a copyist's mistake, is it?
I've left my two eldest in the nursery.
I hope that's all right.
- What's all the fuss?
- The horn came in too early.
- That's my hand. There's no mistake.
- Of course not.
- Extraordinary.
- Otto, play it as written.
Let's go on, shall we?
I'm terribly sorry.
- It didn't sound right.
- Didn't obey the rules?
- No.
Go over there. Go over there.
Piss off.
Gentlemen.
A Haydn would be over by now, sir,
wouldn't it?
He's buggered about
with the whole thing, hasn't he?
The shape of it and that.
Is it finished?
- Let's go straight on.
- That was quite superlative.
I thought of a battle. I thought of a general,
horse rearing, saber shining.
And columns of men
streaming through the mountains.
- I was meant to, wasn't I?
- If you like.
If it was a battle, we should have had
snare drum, surely.
Drums and fifes in march time.
of a hero of antiquity.
A Greek, perhaps. Achilles.
I am so sorry. I'm forgetting.
May I present my cousin von Dietrichstein?
The Countess von Deym.
The Countess von Brunsvik.
How is your brother?
He's at Korompa Castle. Otherwise he
would be here. He adores these gatherings.
- He sends his love to you.
- Forgive us for missing the opening.
You didn't miss much. Tasteless intermarriage
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