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Salieri has even begun to attract some attention from Hollywood.

In 2001, his triple concerto was used in the soundtrack of The Last Castle, featuring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini.

It is a story that builds on the rivalry between a meticulous but untested officer ( Gandolfini ) serving as the warden of a military prison and an imprisoned but much admired and highly decorated general ( Redford ).

The Salieri piece is used as the warden's theme music, seemingly to invoke the image of jealousy of the inferior for his superior.

In 2006, the movie Copying Beethoven referred to Salieri in a more positive light.

In this movie a young female music student hired by Beethoven to copy out his Ninth Symphony is staying at a monastery.

The abbess tries to discourage her from working with the irreverent Beethoven.

She notes that she too once had dreams, having come to Vienna to study opera singing with Salieri.

Most recently the 2008 movie Iron Man used the Larghetto movement from Salieri's Piano Concerto in C major.

The scene where Obadiah Stane, the archrival of ' Tony ' Stark, the wealthy industrialist turned Ironman, tells Tony that he is being ousted from his company by the board, Obadiah plays the opening few bars of the Salieri concerto on a piano in Stark's suite.