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To be #TeamBaronessvonSchraeder?

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SpicyMarge · 29/12/2024 17:51

Hear me out.

She’s rich, beautiful, and meets a man (as handsome as she is beautiful, and not in need of her wealth so she should be able to take him at face value) who makes it clear that caring for his children isn’t a top priority for him.

He proposes and then suddenly, thanks to the appearance of a singing and painfully chirpy nun, he’s in the running for Dad of the Year 1938 and poor Elsa is painted as the villain.

In fairness to her, she bows out with dignity. A lesser woman would have keyed his car. Or shopped him into Hitler.

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StartupRepair · 29/12/2024 20:24

Completely agree that the Baroness is very cool. And very gracious although not stepmother material. Hope she was ok during the war.

XWKD · 29/12/2024 20:11

WTFWilma · 29/12/2024 18:53

It's quite sobering to think that The Sound of Music came out just 20 years after the war had ended. That makes the events more recent than most of that Robbie Williams biopic are to us.

9/11 is farther back from today than WWII was from the time I was born.

ABBA winning the Eurovision is as far back as WWI was when I was born.

Kurt Cobain is dead 30 years. 30 years before that, The Sound of Music was released.

murasaki · 29/12/2024 19:48

Love that!!

Uricon2 · 29/12/2024 19:43

LBOCS2 · 29/12/2024 19:32

This parody letter from the Baroness to everyone explaining why they have called their wedding off makes me laugh every time I read it...

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That is hilarious!

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SpicyMarge · 29/12/2024 19:42

LBOCS2 · 29/12/2024 19:32

This parody letter from the Baroness to everyone explaining why they have called their wedding off makes me laugh every time I read it...

buff.ly/2yQtUS7

That’s hilarious. Would have been a much better ending to the movie than the talent show/flee from Nazis.

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LBOCS2 · 29/12/2024 19:32

This parody letter from the Baroness to everyone explaining why they have called their wedding off makes me laugh every time I read it...

buff.ly/2yQtUS7

TeaandHobnobs · 29/12/2024 19:25

Have you seen this excellent parody of Baroness Schraeder?
(bad language warning…)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDXKHq0vEyv/?igsh=MXJpNzN0c2hhNHh5eQ==

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SpicyMarge · 29/12/2024 19:25

ilovesooty · 29/12/2024 19:13

His suits don't have pockets. If you watch closely you'll see he doesn't know where to put his hands 😁

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I’d show him where to put his hands. 😈

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OliveLeader · 29/12/2024 19:23

Allswellthatendswelll · 29/12/2024 18:02

Classic man falls for the help/ mother figure. Can't handle a real women his own age.

And what's wrong with boarding school for the children anyway? Their education seemed very lacking as did their socialisation. If Lisel had had a properly rounded education would she have been trying to get off with the Nazi mailman?

Liesl does go to school. At one point she tells Maria she can’t wait to return to school, and Maria says something like ‘you can’t use school to escape your problems, you have to face them’.

Uricon2 · 29/12/2024 19:17

Damn. Edit as won't let me post nice pic of Captain vT as a young man.

From what I gather, the real Captain was an amiable chap (although a formidable submarine commander) and not the martinet the film makes him out to be, at all. His eldest son resigned as a doctor after his hospital sacked all the Jewish ones so a moral compass there.

Anyway, some sympathy with the Baroness TBH but I don't think she was entirely cut out for step motherhood.

OliveLeader · 29/12/2024 19:15

I’ve always rather admired her. She and the Captain were all wrong for one another but she leaves with grace and dignity once it’s clear where his heart really lies.

ilovesooty · 29/12/2024 19:13

HornyHornersPinkyWinky · 29/12/2024 18:02

Yeah, but he looks great in a suit :-)

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His suits don't have pockets. If you watch closely you'll see he doesn't know where to put his hands 😁

VictorianScreenTime · 29/12/2024 19:11

Agree OP. Captain Von T really drops her in the shit with the “this is your new mother” announcement just after Maria has left and the kids are all devastated.

Way to cast her as the wicked stepmother Georg.

Definitely LTB Elsa.

Sandsnake · 29/12/2024 19:10

I reckon marriage to the Cap probably came with a bunch of issues for Maria but I will never be able to see him tear up that Nazi flag without getting the raging horn.

JacJac77 · 29/12/2024 19:01

But she did get into Maria's head and got rid of the competition when she saw them dancing at the party. I am def #TeamMaria.

KiIIingMeDeftly · 29/12/2024 18:57

In the stage musical she's just Frau Schrader but presumably they upgraded her to baroness because Eleanor Parker was a fairly big star. I liked how she knew when to bow out with dignity but I wonder how far her relationship with the Captain had gone? Just a bit of heavy flirting? Or was it FWB whenever he was in Vienna?

Whatever you do, don't google for photos of the real captain and Maria. Plummer and Andrews they were not!

SemperIdem · 29/12/2024 18:56

@WTFWilma It goes some way to explaining why the film is not particularly popular in Austria. Imagine having Nazi insignia etc thrown up for the film set on location such a short time after the real events!

WTFWilma · 29/12/2024 18:53

It's quite sobering to think that The Sound of Music came out just 20 years after the war had ended. That makes the events more recent than most of that Robbie Williams biopic are to us.

Piggywaspushed · 29/12/2024 18:47

Edelweiss was the last lyrics Hammerstein ever wrote. I won't have a word said against it!

SemperIdem · 29/12/2024 18:43

FuzzyPuffling · 29/12/2024 18:10

What did wife no 1 die of? Has anyone dredged the lake?

I always assumed it was childbirth related, but google tells me that she actually died of scarlet fever.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 29/12/2024 18:38

I've watched this over the Xmas period as well, pure class!

XWKD · 29/12/2024 18:35

I think Reverend Mother is team Baroness as well.

What is it you cunt face?

Do you hear the nun swear?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EePtIkuy5lg

Memyselfmilly · 29/12/2024 18:32

FuzzyPuffling · 29/12/2024 17:58

And the goaty puppet show would be much better at "Austria's Got Talent" than a washy rendition of "Edelweiss".

I’m always amazed how they just pulled the goaty puppet show together…. Sure.

GellerYeller · 29/12/2024 18:31

And she’s pals with Uncle Max who appears to be some sort of 1930s Simon Cowell Svengali type running talent contests. They must have the most glamorous parties in Vienna!

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SpicyMarge · 29/12/2024 18:30

My husband would like to point out that the mountain they escape over at the end actually brings them right to the Nazis.

Elsa would have known that but noooo, Christopher had to take off with stoopid Maria.

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