Then we laughed together for another half hour. His odd behaviour, portrayed by actor Tom Hulce in the hit 1984 movie x0201c;Amadeusx0201d;, has been a topic of numerous essays. As Schroeder notes, later psychobiographers seized on the letters as evidence for psychopathological tendencies in Mozart. The German-language popular theater of Mozarts time was influenced by the Italian commedia dellarte and emphasized the stock character of Hanswurst.