The Sound of Music

Fanny

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Epic Nanny fail

To be fair to Ralph they made him a villain in the film. In the original stage musical he discovers the Von Trapps in the cemetery but when his commanding officer asks if he's found them he replies to say he hasn't, and lets them get away.

And let's have a cheer for Sisters Margaretta and Bertha for stealing the Nazi's spark plugs!

I also like that Maria stands up to the Captain

The scene with the whistle ...

Agree with DreadPirateLuna. I also like that Maria stands up to the Captain. (I love this film, thanks OP )

Ralf was still prepared to dob on her and potentially get her killed in the scene in the graveyard (even if they did say they Just wanted von Trapp to report to Bremerhaven).

I like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Milly doesn't fit in with town life either, she is totally equal to Adam and stands up to him. Okay soooo they kidnap the other 6 girls.... But they were all going to be married off by their parents to the rubbishy boys in town which wasn't great either.

In the end the girls get to make their own choices rather than their parents' which is great. You just have to ignore the whole kidnap thing

Plus it's less creepy than Gigi. Anything is less creepy than Gigi.

How had I forgotten that scene of Dr Doolittle snogging a seal, then chucking it into the sea while it was wearing a gown and bonnet?

True RufustheLanglovingreindeer
but I had the rage with Grease when the school decided the songs were just the thing for school singing, and my (then) five year old started chanting "tell me more, tell me more did you get very far,...did she put up a fight" in my ear driving home from school. I really should have made a BIG fuss but I'm not a natural complainer and hadn't discovered Mumsnet (if it existed) back then.

To cap it all, having put it at the top of films MY DAUGHTERS WILL NOT SEE list my mother thought it would be a lovely film for them to watch when they stayed over and bought the dvd, so they promptly learnt all the songs.

Ha! I'll leave the other ones to someone else as I don't know them as well as 7B47B!

Please rewrite the ending of all the movies here please seventy

I’m self isolating for 14 days...i need something cheerful (like severed heads)

Seven Brides isn't bad! Adam gets the idea from Roman history but crucially it doesn't work out how he planned because Milly is not compliant. Milly and Adam only get back together when he realizes what an idiot he is and that she is a person in her own right. Ok, they all miraculously fall in love in the end instead of murdering the brothers and returning to the town with their severed heads but you can't have everything. And I love it and know the words off by heart

My mum loathed the sound of music

Because she had to watch it eleventy billion times in her 2nd job as a cinema usher while trying to earn money for my dads engagement ring

Tart yourself up and start smoking if you want to keep your man

To be very fair to Danny he is actually trying changing himself for her at the end

(Ds1 middle name is Adam...after the lead of a local production of 7 brides. Im sorry...i was young 😳)

I went to watch a local theatre group doing Seven Brides for Seven Brothers years ago without knowing anything about the storyline.

I left at the interval because I couldn’t grit my teeth any harder.

Love it jcurve. 😂😂😂

Saturday Night Live had a very funny take on the Rolf & Liesl relationship a few weeks ago:

I love all the old musicals but they are looked at through a modern lense.
I still enjoy the old Fred and Ginger films but he is a pretty creepy stalker in most of them.
It's a stark reminder of how invisible that kind of misogyny was and is especially jarring because its dressed up as romance.
It makes me wonder how our current cultural output will be judged in the future.

Oh I still love them too

@GCGayDad Thank you, thank you, thank you. That is screamingly funny. It was done with such insouciance(?) after that maudlin song.

Why didn't Dr Dolittle just tangle the seal up in a few plastic bags, and be done with it.

I now know why I avoided this movie as a child.

glimmerglass.org/2011/07/annie/
The real Annie Oakley is an interesting character. And in real life, she won!

I hope i don't ruin the jolliness.
I watched Frozen for the first time with the little people, was lovely and all but bloody hell,

"You look beautifuller, no not fuller but more beautiful"
I have never like disney, even as a child, but there is a free trial.

GCGayDad

I've watched the clip several times now, and I love the comments. I am still concerned for the seal though - I don't think that bonnet is a good idea for swimming

@GCGayDad I have not laughed so much in days. That seal clip. Thank you.

Never seen the film so what on earth is going on?!

With pretty much any kind of popular entertainment, you have to put your feminism aside for a while, and enjoy the show, then be feminist again. Kudos to kids who ask the right questions, though. They'll grow up to live good lives.