The Sound of Music

[anotherchocolate]

On BBC1 just now. Is there a more perfect film?? It has a bit of everything - catchy musical numbers, political tension, big houses, gorgeous costumes, romance and Nazis and nuns

Anyone else a fan?

I have never watched it! I am so fed up with having to hear the bloody songs every so often that I never will.

I adore it. No idea how many times I've seen it. I well up in the first few seconds and that carries on, on and off, until the closing credits.

I'm on catch up as I didn't realise it was on. The Baroness had just arrived. What a bitch she is!

As a bit of a corrective, once you've heard this, you can't unhear it, so apologies in advance. Listen to the end.

Feeling tense now...no matter how many times I watch it...

I’m with the Baroness - all those bloody children constantly wanting an audience for their performances would be highly tedious. The woman just wants to smoke and drink and look glamorous- good on her.

Oh it's just perfect! Me & dd watched it on Boxing Day

I thought the baroness was quite gracious in defeat, I would've been screaming like a banshee

I love how handsome he is and how he softens during the film

Hi me of my favourites! Just watching the wedding science now

I love that Austrians don't know the song Edelweiss. I had thought it was a well known folk song.😂

The Baroness turned out to be okay.

Here's that wee bastard Rolf. The scene where the Captain rips up the swastika is up there with the singing of the Marseillaise in Casablanca.

I watched the first half of Casablanca this year. Great script plus everything else.

Cracking week for old films. I caught Some Like It Hot a few days ago. Absolutely glorious.

I love it so much. I couldn't believe how much better it looked the first time I saw it in a modern format edition on an HD screen. I grew up with a well-loved VHS tape, which did no justice to the glorious shots of Salzburg. I'd love to see it in the cinema.

@OldaRailer

I watched the first half of Casablanca this year. Great script plus everything else.

This Christmas : last year!

I'd go watch it in the cinema.

The bit where they're performing at the festival and the camera tilts up to show they're surrounded by Nazis. Always gets to me!

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

Here's that wee bastard Rolf. The scene where the Captain rips up the swastika is up there with the singing of the Marseillaise in Casablanca.

Agree with all of this!

I was crying to ET and missed the beginning
There are some days though that I do admire the captain with his whistle and all those well behaved children

@anotherchocolate

The bit where they're performing at the festival and the camera tilts up to show they're surrounded by Nazis. Always gets to me!

I feel the same chill in 'Cabaret' when the Hitler Youth are singing 'Tomorrow belongs to me'. Terrifying.

My all time favourite film and I've managed to corral DH into watching it today. He's never seen it before!

Dd first became addicted to it at 3, ages ago now. Funnily enough I’d never seen it then - I’m old enough to have been a teen when it first came out, and was completely put off by all the old ladies gushing about it and saying they’d been to see it for the 49th time - I thought it must be dreadful!

Of course I completely changed my mind once I’d watched it with dd.

Does anyone else think the bit where Maria and the captain are dancing the Ländler (sp?) together, one of the most erotic scenes ever?

Much as I enjoy it, am not watching today after DD watched it every day of her ten day isolation in December.....

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that!

@middleager this is probably vv outing but one of my most memorable musical theatre experiences was watching Cabaret in Germany, in German. I suspect I was the only non-German in the audience. Incredible experience.

Second film I ever saw in the cinema. First was Mary Poppins. Julie Andrews was a formative influence!

A colleague I worked with years ago used to say it was the perfect film - something foe everyone in it.

Does anyone else think the bit where Maria and the captain are dancing the Ländler (sp?) together, one of the most erotic scenes ever

I’ve never thought of it as erotic