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!

I don’t think I really appreciated the Nazi aspect growing up. They were just baddies in the film.

I saw the musical with Petula Clark in London as a teen also.

There’s also been live action versions both in the US (Carrie Underwood) and UK (Kate Tointon) which I’ve enjoyed.

But he lost his wife ....

And his career. After WW1, Austria no longer had a sea coast or a Navy.

It’s a great scene, but I can’t get past Maria’s terrible haircut and nasty blue dress. It would obviously contextually off to have someone who was until five minutes ago a postulant planning to be a fully-professed nun in possession of a glamorous evening dress, but if I’d been the costume designer I’d have had to make her find an unusually good curtain to make herself a dress out of… She looks so good in the tailored outfit in which she returns from honeymoon!

Christopher Plummer apparently spent the shoot making moves on Charmian Carr, and the child who played Gretchen grew so much that they had to use a smaller child for the closing scene where they’re escaping over the mountains.

The film was released in 1966 so WW11 was not a distant memory for a lot of people . I think it was great that they included it in the screenplay . Definitely could have easily ended it at the wedding . I wonder if Maria Von Trapp had any input into including the story of their escape to the US eventually.

One of the most beautiful soundtracks ever . Hiw amazingly talented were Rogers and Hammerstein??

@NobleDeeds when she returned from honeymoon she was the wife of a very wealthy man so obviously would be better dressed than when she was a postulant on sabbatical. My issue with the blue chiffon frock was that it wasn't authentic for 1938.

The haircut I think is right. Her hair would have been chopped off, without style, to fit under her wimple.

I wrote this on why the Captain is my parenting guru: thepaternitytest.blogspot.com/2024/03/captain-parent.html?m=1

Do you remember the name of this please?

when she returned from honeymoon she was the wife of a very wealthy man so obviously would be better dressed than when she was a postulant on sabbatical.

Her marriage gave her wealth and status, but you'd think it would take time to adapt and grow into her new role - yet when they return from their honeymoon, she seems to have instantly transformed from young, 'problem' Maria into a mature, self assured woman. We don't really see 'Maria' again.

This was a great read!

I'm watching it now - it's called The hills are alive with the Kanneh-Masons.

The nazis don’t sing and are the bad guys

So so disappointed I missed this yesterday it's my number one film. I think I know the whole dialogue 🤣

Loved it since I was about 4 years old and still lust after the baronesses gold dress (and captain von trapp 😍😍😍)

My 5 year old twin girls watched it from start to finish and absolutely love it. It’s my proudest achievement as a parent so far 😂😂😂

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she was 13 years younger than him so not so far fetched

I think that part of it went completely over my head when I watched it as a child. So many films have goodies and baddies and I didn't see this as being any different.

Watch it every time it's on and always hold my breath during the last five minutes (even though I know that they will escape) and wish unspeakable acts of violence against Rolf.

Also we played Edelweiss to a comatosed relative during their last days so it holds extra special meaning now.

The Baroness gets such bad press but she was actually just following the Captains lead. He didn't give a shit about his kids, he treats them like unwanted pets so it made perfect sense that he would send them away and live with her. Yet she is the bad guy!

I also love how Maria saw through them all straight away. She saw kids who were ignored not naughty, kids act out when hurt. They just wanted a loving father.

Tbf she had a lot of experience in that regard with Jane and Michael.

My favourite ever film. The Edelweiss scene makes me sob, such a beautiful film

But look at how she got Maria to go back to the abbey.

"Couldn't keep his eyes off you"

She told Max what she was going to do. And she was left with children who had had their moment of freedom but then lost it.

I agree. I was prepared for the film to be nothing like the story on which it was based and was surprised at the similarities - she really was a trainee nun and completely unsuited to the role! The man she came to marry really was a lot older than her and she writes of when she first met him and getting butterflies in her stomach when she looked into his eyes. As another po said, she was fabulously dotty!

Like others, we went to Salzburg and on the SoM tour which was wonderful, as well as watched the SoM puppet show. It's a beautiful city in its own right

Literally only yesterday I heard someone describe another as a flibbertigibbet. I didn't know people used this word!

That takes me back. My lovely Granny - who was 99 when she died in 2014- used to use that word. She took me to see the Sound of Music at the cinema when it was out on a re-release when I was about nine or ten. We queued up for the matinee in the city centre cinema and I loved it. And Granny took sweeties in her bag for the interval. 😍

just put it on, and in tears with the first How do you solve a problem like Maria

It wouldn't be the film it was if it had ended with the wedding. The last ten minutes with the breath holding in the tomb makes the film! I still hold my breath now and I've watched it at least 20 times.., the tension is brilliant