The Sound of Music

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Anyone else watching? What a perfect way to while away an afternoon, swooning over Captain Von Trapp. Can't think how many times I've seen it but, if it's on TV, it must be watched!

My DC found the bit when they were hiding from the Nazis really scary (and it is pretty scary for a film I remember being all fluffy singing)

I have been on it!

I've just finished watching it! I had intended to only watch the first five minutes, but here we are nearly three hours later 😅 Eye rolling teenagers are glad it's finally over, but they did hang around..... 😅

I loved the sketch of Dawn French singing this

I'd like to see a version with a sing off between Maria and Joey 😁

That's where I start crying too. I've seen it 31 times in the cinema, not to mention my two excursions to Singalongasoundofmusic and countless TV viewings.

He'd actually loved her ever since she blew her silly whistle!

very true

Edelweiss is the magic song that always comforts my 3 month year old baby. If I start singing it she will stop crying, unless she’s hungry! I can’t wait to show her the film when she’s older. I adore it, it’s definitely in my top 5 films. I was obsessed with Liesel as little girl watching for first time.

This might be controversial but as I’ve gotten older I think CVT is a huge arse and I feel a bit annoyed that Maria marries him after he has treated her and his children so awfully.

Also as she’s walking down the aisle, why is everyone is singing about how annoying she is!

An alternative ending could have been she returns to her convent, then they go to her to help them escape, which she does and she is the hero in the situation…just pondering!

I'm not a fan of musicals but love TSOM.
Christopher Plummer is absolutely gorgeous too.

Love it! I do hate how forgiving the children are of their dad, he has been awful to them for years but he sings one song and all is fine. I wish one of them told him to fuck right off.

Singing Edelweiss knowing its the last they will see of their homeland breaks me every time.

Haven't seen it this year yet but I usually find it around New Years somewhere

But he lost his wife and revert to what he knew, running a ship. He changed back to normal and apologised. He lost them he found them

I highly recommend the book by Maria Von Trapp both for the story behind the film, and to add an additional dimension to your next trip to Salzburg.

since she sat on the pine cone
she loved him since he blew his silly whistle

I was in my teens when it first came out, and since all the old ladies were going sickeningly gooey over it, I thought it must be absolutely dreadful, so gave it a miss.

Roll on several years, we were living in a Middle Eastern desert with nothing to watch on TV - when someone gave us a pirate video of it, saying our 3 year old might like it.
So I sat and watched it with her, and when dh came home I said somewhat sheepishly, ‘Actually, it’s rather good…’
Dd watched it endlessly, and is still a fan!

I wonder what advice the Mother Superior would get on here:

I have a trainee Nun.
She likes climbing trees, scraping her knees and has tears in her dresses.
She dances to Mass and whistles during it. She has curlers in her hair.
She even sings in the abbey and is late for everything. Except for food/

But I believe her when she says sorry.

She does make people laugh though

WWYD?

But dancing the Laendler was when they each realised the truth...

Yes... her expression changes! Wonderful

The only bit I don't like is the song "I must have done something good".

The rest is sublime! Must have watched it at least 10 times

To me that dance is one of the most erotic scenes on film! You can absolutely feel the sudden massive mutual chemistry hit!

(I wonder whether they fancied each other in RL??)

I always cry at that scene... just seeing that populist appeal to the nastiest of human nature, how easy it can still be to stir up that hate... chilling... 😢

Yes! So delicate... such simmering... I've never see the Jane Austen adaptation to match it yet... No wonder the Baroness goes off like a gundog when she sees it...

Though my favourite screen Baroness is Baroness Bomburst... 😁

😄 Let her identify as a wild governess, it's an attention-seeking stage and she'll grow out of it when she gets a nice boyfriend...

But... "Why did Margo sing 'Maria'?"

😂

No Nazi singing. It's safe. We are a Polish household and love it! That is just an excuse to not hear doe a deer 80 times.

As a child the whole Nazi part of the film went over my head. I knew it was WW2 but I feel we know more or talk more about what the Nazi's did now than we did in my 70s childhood it was more jingoism about winning the war. Obviously I did not grow up in an occupied country or have relatives who did. The rest of Xmas was spent watching all the war films while really playing with my toys and it's only in my teens did I start understanding the significance of Nazism in the Second World War.
When you get older and you understand about Nazism the film takes on a more poignant feeling. And in my opinion makes it an actual piece of history or an important part of popular culture rather than just a musical.
I'm sure your 5 year old could enjoy the film for the children and the singing. My children demanded my gran made them Von Trap outfits with her living room curtains in the 90s they loved the film as children.