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!

Also of course the nuns and the car tampering...

Worth watching just for the 5 seconds where the captain puts his gloves on whilst watching Maria dance.

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

This always makes me laugh 🤣 It's so hilariously incongruous with the solemnity that immediately precedes it

There’s a gif but I can’t post it. 🙃

If they remade the film now, they'd have to get Morrissey to lead on that song

This is so funny but I only really noticed this now! I just get to absorbed in it clearly!

Doesn't it show the 'Maria problem' has been triumphantly solved by the wedding, and she has found her vocation in marriage rather than the cloister?

And by golly, what a sublime wedding dress- the most beautiful in the history of film in my opinion...

Yes, obviously, like I said. But films that involve a romance plot with a female lead of initially ‘low’ status generally fudge realism to prettify her.

And no, most pre-Vatican II orders only had those who made it to the first professed stage (ie who had got through postulancy and made their first vows as novices) cut their hair off — a lot of postulants got weeded out, so it would have made no sense for them to return to the world after a few months cropped like convicts! Some orders didn’t just crop their novices’ hair either, they sheared it bald with a clippers.

I mean, TSoM is no realistic treatise on the life of women’s religious orders, but they’re correct in giving Maria a short veil and dress, not like the professed nuns in a full wimple and habit. She’d have had whatever hair she entered with, though.

only had those who made it to the first professed stage (ie who had got through postulancy and made their first vows as novices) cut their hair off.... She’d have had whatever hair she entered with.

Julie Andrews has always worn her hair short. I suppose they just decided to go with that and not bother with a wig. (Or perhaps they tried a wig but decided it made her look too much like Mary Poppins.)

I think her hair is amazing! So pretty 😍

I started my son on You Tube clips of the children singing So Long Farewell, Do Re Mi and the Lonely Goatherd. He was about 2 or 3. He loved them and was word perfect on DRM and SLF as a toddler. He’s 8 now, still hasn’t sat through the whole film though, and has limited interest in the story!

Exactly this!

Not a patch on Cabaret! Which sadly shows the rise of Nazism rather more realistically than SoM!

That doesn’t sound much different to the dubbed one, apart from the way he pronounced the first vowel. How odd they felt they had to dub it. I think singing stabdards were different in the 60s though. I always thought that Liesl must be singing the part that her mother used to sing.

It went for auction for $23k a few years ago according to a Google search!

For goodness sake. Who told him that rubbish?

I went to Salzburg one New Year, about 15 years ago. We stuck on the TV in our room to see that the Austrian equivalent of ITV was showing a made for TV sequel, dubbed into German, called Di familie von Trapp in Amerika (or however you spell it in German). It was crap -my friend is fluent and confirmed it wasn’t any better if you understood what they were saying 😂- but I think that shows that the story/film are very mainstream in Austria - nut to mention the huge Salzburg tourist industry around it.

Just don't accidentally show him Mr Menno's version of Do Re Mi - it's a bit different in focus and has a rude word in it!

@HotCrossBunplease our Austrian friends would disagree with you. However, I accept Salzburg's tourism industry milks the film.

They’d disagree that I saw something on Austrian TV in Austria with my own eyes?

I read he was fairly drunk throughout it.