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Should it not be classified as...


comedy?

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No it shouldn’t

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it's a parody.

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No it isn’t, it’s a historical fiction with some comic relief

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It's satire. It uses broad comedy to portray Mozart as an idiot and Salieri as a bitter loser, neither of which was true.

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