The Sound of Music

[kymom99]

We actually saw it on a school field trip at the movie theater. Last year at this time, it was on while I was in the hospital with Covid. My husband texted me to watch it which I did. I fell asleep on my back and woke up sicker than ever. Seeing it this year brought back some bad memories.

 

[jdb in AZ]

DH started to watch the most recent broadcast (since he knows how much I've loved Sound of Music for so many years.) I told him if I wanted to watch it, I'd pull out the DVD so I wouldn't have to deal with the commercials. We also have TIVO, so basically the only thing I watch live these days is footbrawl games.

 

[Moliphino]

Aren't they a little bit cheesed off about it in Austria? Not only about how it portrays Austrians but the utter historical inaccuracies. The real story is that the Von Trapps were married for a decade before leaving Austria, and they left Austria by taking a train across the border to Italy without anyone really caring whether or not they left. Not only that, but that Maria and Georg had three biological children together before they left Austria.

Salzburg likes to cash in on the nice tourist money the movie brings in. I did one of the tours there and it was a lot of fun. They do point out a lot of the inaccuracies (the film shows them crossing the mountains... which would take them INTO Germany) and anecdotes about the filming (Christopher Plummer hated working with the kids, except the oldest girl who he had a flirtation with).

 

[chickapin parterre]

Unpopular Opinion I hate the song my favorite things

 

[chickapin parterre]

Wholesome family entertainment. Not a Christmas movie.
Broadcasters are looking for cheap, safe programming over the holidays.
Case in point, "A Christmas Story". It clearly IS a Christmas movie, and probably the worst movie ever made. Absolute bomb at the box office. It has become a cult classic because Turner Broadcasting decided to run marathons of it on Christmas because it was cheap and safe.

Theatrically, the film's break-even point was $6.3 million, about twice the production cost, a figure it did not come close to achieving on its initial release. Because of the film's disappointing sales, Capra was seen by some studios as having lost his ability to produce popular, financially successful films.[5] Although It's a Wonderful Life initially received mixed reviews and was unsuccessful at the box office, it became a classic Christmas film after it was put into the public domain, which allowed it to be broadcast without licensing or royalty fees.[6]


In a 2010 essay for Salon, Richard Cohen described It's a Wonderful Life as "the most terrifying Hollywood film ever made". In the "Pottersville" sequence, he wrote, George Bailey is not seeing the world that would exist had he never been born, but rather "the world as it does exist, in his time and also in our own".[66] Nine years earlier, another Salon writer, Gary Kamiya, had expressed the opposing view that "Pottersville rocks!", adding: "The gauzy, Currier-and-Ives veil Capra drapes over Bedford Falls has prevented viewers from grasping what a tiresome and, frankly, toxic environment it is ... We all live in Pottersville no

In June 2008, AFI revealed its 10 Top 10, the best 10 films in 10 "classic" American film genres, after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. It's a Wonderful Life was acknowledged as the third-best film in the fantasy genr

 

[Babs Johnson]

Even with her title and money, she was probably proscribed from doing certain things without a suitable escort, preferably a husband.

No doubt about it. In 1938 Austria and elsewhere, even a rich woman of her relatively young age needed a man for society events. An elderly widow could always get a nephew or grandson to escort her, but a 40ish woman needed someone more suitable in age.

 

[Babs Johnson]

https://www.history.com/.amp/news/the-real-history-behind-the-sound-of-music

Aren't they a little bit cheesed off about it in Austria? Not only about how it portrays Austrians but the utter historical inaccuracies. The real story is that the Von Trapps were married for a decade before leaving Austria, and they left Austria by taking a train across the border to Italy without anyone really caring whether or not they left. Not only that, but that Maria and Georg had three biological children together before they left Austria.

Yes, from what I understand, the Broadway musical and especially the film are fiction “based on a true story.”

Salzburg likes to cash in on the nice tourist money the movie brings in. I did one of the tours there and it was a lot of fun. They do point out a lot of the inaccuracies (the film shows them crossing the mountains... which would take them INTO Germany) and anecdotes about the filming (Christopher Plummer hated working with the kids, except the oldest girl who he had a flirtation with).

The film producers certainly played loose with the facts. Dramatic license and all that. But it made for a compelling movie that is still loved 55 years later. The real story may have been dry as a bone.

One fact conveniently overlooked, to the relief of those who would deny it or like to forget it, is that a significant minority of the residents of Salzburg and elsewhere in the country actually welcomed the Nazi annexation of Austria, or Anschluss.

 

[AppleDumpling]

Oh I love SOM. Have seen it many times and can’t resist watching if I know it’s being shown on television. No correlation to Christmas, but as others have said, just a heartwarming family-friendly movie suitable for the holidays. I grew up listening to an LP record of the soundtrack.

The factual inaccuracies don’t bother me, it’s a movie and a musical, so you have to appreciate the story as entertainment. I mean, who routinely breaks into song in the course of everyday life? And yeah, even as a young girl, I thought CP was smoking hot and ever so debonair. My favorite scene is him dancing the Laendler in tux and white gloves.

 

[mom2rtk]

I grew up listening to an LP record of the soundtrack.

Same! A lot of my love of Disney and other musicals came about because of that little record player we had in the basement rec room.

 

[bcla]

Oh I love SOM. Have seen it many times and can’t resist watching if I know it’s being shown on television. No correlation to Christmas, but as others have said, just a heartwarming family-friendly movie suitable for the holidays. I grew up listening to an LP record of the soundtrack.

The factual inaccuracies don’t bother me, it’s a movie and a musical, so you have to appreciate the story as entertainment. I mean, who routinely breaks into song in the course of everyday life? And yeah, even as a young girl, I thought CP was smoking hot and ever so debonair. My favorite scene is him dancing the Laendler in tux and white gloves.

Christopher Plummer was perturbed that many thought that he was English. Or even worse, thought that he was American.

 

[thanxfornoticin]

The film producers certainly played loose with the facts. Dramatic license and all that. But it made for a compelling movie that is still loved 55 years later. The real story may have been dry as a bone.

We'd probably be hard-pressed to name a movie based on historical events that isn't historically 'adjusted' or changed by the film makers in the past 75 years! Some more than others.

 

[AppleDumpling]

Christopher Plummer was perturbed that many thought that he was English. Or even worse, thought that he was American.

I imagine this is true of many Canadians.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

My favorite scene is him dancing the Laendler in tux and white gloves.

The part when he reaches behind him for her hand to begin the next sequence of the dance; after a moment's hesitation she places it in his and they continue to dance. I just about die every time. Swoon swoon.

 

[RedAngie]

Christopher Plummer was perturbed that many thought that he was English. Or even worse, thought that he was American.

Geez, he was pissy about everything concerning that movie. Why did he even accept the role?

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Geez, he was pissy about everything concerning that movie. Why did he even accept the role?

He said it because he wanted to work with Julie Andrews.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

He said it because he wanted to work with Julie Andrews.

And then, afterward, it's reported he thought she was just too "nice & sweet".

 

[PrincessShmoo]

And then, afterward, it's reported he thought she was just too "nice & sweet".

I'm going to take this comment back. I found this info today:

Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews are great friends today, but when Plummer first met Andrews, he didn’t like her at all. He admitted to finding her “insufferable and annoying” when they filmed The Sound of Music, and even peevishly called her “Ms. Disney.” He later took it back and said that his feelings were “immature” and that Andrews was a professional.

https://www.factinate.com/people/ju...immature” and that Andrews was a professional.

 

[penn19]

Sexy as hell.

Yes he is!!

 

[Kitty 34]

Geez, he was pissy about everything concerning that movie. Why did he even accept the role?

cuz.........he was GORGIOUS!!!! :love

OK.....back to my freighter webcams.

 

[Silver saucer]

I watched the movie with my mom at the movies as a kid. I watched it on tv often through the years. I own the DVD and pull it out at Christmas and sing my way through it!
It brings back warm and fuzzy memories for me.

That's all. Nothing deep.