The Sound of Music is on!

Yay!

• Climb Every Mountain! OMG, I LOVE that song.

• Yodel-odel-lay-hee-yodel-ay-hee-hoo!

  The Prancing Goatherd

• How is Rolfe's bulge in high-def?

• Christopher Plummer calls it The Sound of Mucus

• The hills are alive!

• You are 16 going on 17 Baby its time to think Better beware Be canny and careful Baby you're on the brink You are 16 going on 17 Fellows will fall in line Eager young lads And grueways and cads Will offer you food and wine

  Crying as I'm typing this

• How do you solve a problem like gonorrhea?

• This is one of my Favorite Things.

• [quote]And grueways Oh dear!!

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• I am 6 inches, going on 7 inches.

• For R6:

  http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rou%C3%A9

• My appreciation for gay Max increases with every passing year.

• I've never seen it. Am I the only one?

• I loathe that idiotic piece of Disney Nazi crap.

• ...not a Disney film...

• r14 has never seen it yet thinks he is quite erudite and cute. He's really a snore.

• Love bitchy Eleanor Parker.

• "I would have brought my harmonica."

• I used to work with a young lesbian who stalked Julie Andrews all over the world. She (coworker) was a mousy little thing and very shy, never talked to anyone but me. She confided that one time Julie Andrews got out of her car in traffic and screamed at her "Why are you following me?" She said it was a high point. I never believed her when she said she was going to London and try to see her there. When she came back she told me Andrews wasn't in London but she found a key to her house and went in one night. I told her I didn't believe her. She said she planned it out, she would go into the house at night and stay a set amount of time. Then she took out a bunch of pictures of Julie Andrews and her family on vacation that she said she found in a drawer. Weird.

• Max is seeing dollar signs. The Baroness sees her doom.

• --You flatter me, Captain! --How clumsy of me...I meant to accuse you!

• More, R19!

• which channel?

• ABC

• Champagne, darling! I feel like - celebrating...

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• Do the Nazis get them this time?

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• Anyone who doesn't love The Sound of Music has a black heart. It is one of the best movie musicals of all time, if not THE best.

• I've never seen it. But I also knew a lesbian who was obsessed with Julie and who thought Julie was flirting with her on set. Friend was an extra.

• One line I use in real life: What's going to happen's going to happen. Just make sure it doesn't happen to you.

• Why is the brilliant Eleanor Parker always treated like the red-headed stepchild at all the Sound of Music cast reunions? She is never even mentioned as having been part of the cast and it is she alone who leavens the film's sweetness.

• LOVE eleanor parker's "goodbye" speech. classy, heart-breaking, and true. and the little kiss she gives christopher plummer... this movie is so damn good!

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• the mountains of saltzburg border with germany, not switzerland. so at the end they're actually "escaping" into nazi germany. there should be a sequel dealing with their musical adventures before finally finding a boat to america.

• If you will notice when Maria returns to the Abbey, the Reverend Mother calls her a dirty name. The Rev. Mother says: What is it you cunt face? Listen for it.

• Yes, R33, we know. Look at R9. There's been a thread about it here, numerous references, and there's a Youtube video.

• this is being remade for american tv. the producers feel the movie betrays the spirit of the broadway book. it will be a very literal retelling of the musical.

• For all my love for this movie, the kid who played Gretl was one of the worst child actors ever.

• The initial reviews were so poor that 20th Century-Fox was certain they had a flop. However, never underestimate the public's appetite for saccharine, sentimental crap.

• Julie Andrews sucked in TSOM! They should have cast Miss Barbra Streisand as Maria.

• I haven't seen the film in years. At any rate I have tickets to see a live performance of the show this coming week. I'm hoping it's not as cloying as I remember the movie being.

  So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night

• I used to have crushes on Kurt and Rolf as a kid.

• [quote]Anyone who doesn't love The Sound of Music has a black heart. THIS.

• I'm watching it for the first time since childhood. I never realized how HOT Christopher Plummer was in this.

• Really, r42? For me he's the spider on the Valentine.

• I wish they would restore the deleted rape scene.

• r44, it has been said that Maria von Trapp stated that Max would never touch a blonde boy. So they had to delete that scene.

• Here in the UK there's going to be a documentary about the real Von Trapp's called Climbed Every Mountain. It airs on Saturday on BBC2.

• R39 Paper Mill? Great production. Jimmy Brennan the director did a great hob.

• i wish jerry lewis had adopted climb every mountain as the official hymn of the labor day telethon instead of you'll never walk again from carousel.

• TSOM turned me gay. The first time I watched it I realized that all I really wanted was to wear a twirly swirly dress and be swung around the gazebo by a handsome blond young Nazi.

• The Von Trapp Family Dancers!!!

• I agree with R31. She's wonderful.

• The first time I saw TSOM as a little boy, I had a horrible crush on Frederick.

• [quote]I wish they would restore the deleted rape scene. What scene? My GAWD!

• Edelweiss, Edelweiss Every morning you greet me Small and white, clean and bright You look happy to meet me Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow Bloom and grow forever Edelweiss, Edelweiss Bless my homeland forever Small and white, clean and bright You look happy to meet me Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow Bloom and grow forever Edelweiss, Edelweiss Bless my homeland forever

• r53, Robert Wise wanted to take the picture to a much darker place, in the end he lost out. ...the scene was filmed, but cut.

• That rape scene will be on the 5th Anniversary Criterion release.

• Sister Margaretta was a WHORE!!

• R39, the stage show is such a snoozefest! The movie is a vast improvement on the show, with certain songs replaced or moved around, and the beautiful scenery! For example, on stage Maria and the kids sing "Do Re Mi" immediately after being introduced. But in the film, they show her gradually gaining their trust and "Do Re Mi" becomes a passage-of-time number as Maria teaches them how to sing throughout Salzburg. Also, on stage the show begins with the "Preludium" and the search for Maria, but as you know the film begins with the title song and the epic copter view of the alps. And in the show, Maria sings "My Favorite Things" with the Mother Abbess (even though they repeatedly say there's no singing in the abbey) and "The Lonely Goatherd" is sung during the thunderstorm. But "My Favorite Things" works much better as a way to calm the kids about the storm, and "The Lonely Goatherd" puppet scene is just epic in its own way.

• [quote]The first time I saw TSOM as a little boy, I had a horrible crush on Frederick. Me, too! haha! I had such a thing for blonds and he has such an angelic face, too. I later learned that the girl who played little Gretl also had a big crush on him.

• [quote]I wish they would restore the deleted rape scene. Haha, here's MAD TV's alternative endings to "The Sound of Music":

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D3QcSS5vxhu4

• I'm embarrassed by this movie. I find myself blushing during certain scenes.

• r61, yes it was considered pretty vulgar back in the day.

• "Maria, is there anyone I should go to, to ask permission to marry you?" "Uh yeah, how about starting with ME?"

• The baroness sends her regrets....

  http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-regret-to-inform-you-that-my-wedding-to-captain-von-trapp-has-been-canceled%23.UNfOYA0qQo0.twitter

  LOL

• Thanks for that, R64. IRL (at least according to Maria's book), the Princess (presumably only a Serene highness), did not take it as well, and spread the word among their circle that the Captain had to marry Maria because she was knocked up.

• So fucking sweet..now I'm diabetic from this crap.

• Julie Andrews said that when they filmed the opening scene, they had a helicopter that pulled back to get all the scenery. Julie said that when the helicopter took off for each take, the wind it created was so strong that it knocked Julie over.

• Who was Peggy Wood lipsyching for?

• The helicopter contained the camera specifically to film JULIE as she twirled on the mountaintop. Each time the copter would hover close enough for the take, the downdraft from the copter wings would flatten her and they would have to re-shoot. Julie said she would wave at the copter to not get in quite so close but the technicians and the pilot would just wave back at her! And down she went. Time after time. She said it was exhausting to finally get that iconic twirly moment in the can.

• Suck it!!!!! Disney nazi crap piece of shit schmaltz!

  http://www.tourmycountry.com/austria/thesoundofmusic.htm

• [R70] The cemetery scene and all other scenes not shot on location in Autria were shot at 20th Century-Fox studios in Hollywood, NOT Universal!!

• The cemetery scene was shot in Austria -- I've visited that cemetery. The part where they go to the top of the cemetery and the nun unlocks the gates is staged, though, I think.

• [quote]Julie Andrews said that when they filmed the opening scene, they had a helicopter that pulled back to get all the scenery. Julie said that when the helicopter took off for each take, the wind it created was so strong that it knocked Julie over. For real? Had no idea that happened.

• R72 - I have visited the cemetery too, but it was recreated in the Hollywood soundstage.

• Thanks r74

• Thanks, [R74]. It's obviously a set, not an actual cemetary. The backdrop of the mountains in the background is too perfect.

  What is it, you cunt face?

• r70: STILL not a Disney movie.

• Our tour guide told us that's how I know...They also said that they were quite impressed by the recreation.

  R74

• [r77]: in its repulsive spirit and reactionary sweetness it is!

• [quote]However, never underestimate the public's appetite for saccharine, sentimental crap. Tommyrot, R37. Hollywood studios lost gigantic fortunes trying to duplicate the success of The Sound of Music with one saccharine, sentimental, crap-laden musical after another in the decade that followed.

• Peggy Wood was herself lip-syncing Marni Nixon ( who was also one of the nuns).

• The interesting thing is this time the Nazis win

• "Disney Nazi" troll, I know you're using "Disney" as an adjective to describe what you don't like about it, but I'm using as a noun, as in "Disney picture," which it was not. Though I'm sure Uncle Walt would have liked the money. Still, he ended up doing quite well with Julie's NEXT picture.

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• You mean her previous picture, R83/ MARY POPPINS came out a year before THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

• Here's a pic of the cemetery. This is not mine, but I visited it, too.

• Sorry, here's the link:

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/janetfo747/3091283886/

• "A flibberty gibbet, a will-0-the-wisp, a CUNT!" Sister Berta!

• Maria was reportedly a glum, foul-tempered woman in real life.

• She was fierce and stout and would bench press the Captain, three sets of twenty reps, each morning and pound him with a strap on. I gather he regretted the marriage.

• Doesn't sound like the movie was anything like what really happened.

• So, once the Nais found out that the nuns had helped the Clapp Trapp family escape...what happened to the nuns? Shipped 'em off to Auschwitz I suppose..?

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• The family fled in 1935. No nuns were involved in the actual departure.

• I know that, R92, but the Nazis never suspected any involvement on the part of the nuns? Weren't they caught hiding in a graveyard connected to the abbey? And, what about Uncle Max?

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• Some of these themes are explored in 'Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS'.

• Last night's ABC broadcast included scenes previously always cut from network TV showings, such as the "Rex admirabilis..." sequence in the abbey at the beginning.

• They also restored the second half of Edelweiss when Liesl harmonizes with the Captain. Simply lovely.

• The movie is in no way like the real story. The Nazis wanted to get rid of Capt von Trapp because he represented something they didn't want remembered. I wouldn't be surprised if the Nazis paid the family's fare out of Austria. And they didn't flee like in the movie. The got on a train (or was it a plane?) and went to Switzerland. Also, at the time the movie came out, Germany was a divided country. Germany had a difficult time because people wanted to see the movie and the country didn't want it shown.

• They didn't go to Switzerland, R97. They went to Italy on a train then by boat to London and later to the USA. They did this in 1938 in response to the annexation of Austria by Germany that year. They did not have reason to flee in 1935, R92.

• [R81] Marni Nixon did not sing for Peggy Wood. Margery McKay sang for Peggy. Peggy in her day was quite an accomplished singer but by 1965, her pipes couldn't handle a tune like "Climb Ev'ry Mountain".

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Wood

  Sister Berthe (the mean nun)

• [quote]The Nazis wanted to get rid of Capt von Trapp because he represented something they didn't want remembered. I wouldn't be surprised if the Nazis paid the family's fare out of Austria. Serious?