Was Mr. Von Trapp sexy af?

If at 3 years old I wanted to do him.. Yes, do the math, Im old. He was rich, he could sing and he looked good in shorts. YUMMMMMMM I bet da captain could do a girl proud!

Yes

I first saw SoM at a friend's house and didn't want to watch it. Then Daddy VonTrapp stepped into the screen and my 8 year old self fell in love HARD.

Julie Andrews recently said that Christopher Plummer is the reason that movie works. He was so dashing and stern, yet human that he elevated the material from schmaltz to something far more profound. And yes, he just looked fantastic in it. You could believe a young nun would run away from the abbey for him.

Yeah, Plummer himself hasn't always been attractive in other movies, but he was matinee beautiful in TSOM.

The uniform helped.

What is an af?

R6, AF means "as fuck". It's shorthand over a keyboard.

Daddy!

[quote]Was Mr. Von Trapp sexy af?

You may call me "Captain."

Imagine it's a Trump hat

He looks a little like Fassbender

It's why DL calls women Frau.

He was super hot and charismatic, and Maria was a crappy nun anyway: They had a whole song about it, 2 songs if you count Mother Superior's "Climb Every Mountain." The nuns practically begged her to go get married and stop bothering them.

In what world would a hot Captain ditch a more beautiful heiress worth a fortune for a singing nun?

Yes. But just in this film. And the uniform, and being stern but kind (supposedly) inside.

In a world where he had 6 kids to take care of, and they'd already accepted Maria as a mother figure. Baronness Schrader would have shipped the brats right off to boarding school, and as stern a disciplinarian as he was, the Captain apparently didn't want that.

[quote]In a world where he had 6 kids to take care of,

Seven.

Seven children.

OH DEAR! Have you never watched the film?

Right. I always forget about that one middle girl. The blonde one.

I'd go down on a 36-year-old Christopher Plummer so fast my kneecaps would shatter.

So he doesn't want them to go to boarding school but it's fine to ignore them?

What kind of relationship is that anyway? They hadn't had so much as a kiss when he broke up with the heiress. Julie had no character development. You know Von Trapp would threaten to send her back when they faught.

This is probably reading too much into a musical, but the implication is that he emotionally shut down after the death of his first wife, and the only way he could deal with his children was through military-style discipline. Once Maria the magic nanny arrives on the scene, he begins to open up--you see the progression in the puppet show sequence and, of course, the famous Laendler sequence. Once he begins to feel again, he doesn't want a shallow, materialistic wife who'll send away his children and encourage him to suck up to the Nazis.

Ah...he would have sent them off to boarding school but Maria brought music back into his life. He’d forgotten, you see.

I was so obsessed with that film I even read the book by the real Maria Von Trapp.

Cross posted with R21, who said it far more poetically. And I agree.

R22 oh. It was a real story.

R24 Yes. Book is on Amazon.

[quote] Maria Augusta Kutschera was born on a train en route to Vienna just before midnight on January 26, 1905. Her mother died when she was only two years old and her father left her with an elderly cousin so that he could be free to travel. She experienced a lonely and very strict upbringing without any siblings or other children in the household. She was raised a socialist and an atheist and was actively cynical towards all religions. It was during a visit to a church to hear a Bach concert that her mind was changed when she heard the words of a well-known priest, Father Kronseder. Her meeting with him led to her entering a convent to become a nun. While she was devoted to the convent life, she was taken away from the outdoor activities she once thrived on. Her doctor, concerned that her health was failing, helped the nuns to decide to send Maria to the home of retied naval captain Georg Von Trapp, to be governess to his bedridden daughter. On November 26, 1927, Maria and Georg were married. The rest is history.

I read somewhere that Maria was a total martinet who essentially enslaved her stepchildren and children at that hotel in Vermont.

I didn't realize Georg died so early on, in 1947. Of course, he and Maria had been married 20 years by then. The musical fucks with the original timeline quite a lot.

IRL, Maria outlived her husband by 40 years.

Interesting quote from Wikipedia about the real Maria's feelings on her wedding day:

[quote]Captain von Trapp saw how much she cared about his children and asked her to marry him, although he was 25 years her senior. She was frightened and fled back to Nonnberg Abbey to seek guidance from the mother abbess, who advised her that it was God's will that she should marry him. She then returned to the family and accepted the proposal. She wrote in her autobiography that she was very angry on her wedding day, both at God and at her husband, because what she really wanted was to be a nun. "I really and truly was not in love. I liked him but didn't love him. However, I loved the children, so in a way I really married the children. I learned to love him more than I have ever loved before or after." They were married on 26 November 1927 and had three children together: Rosmarie (born 1929), Eleonore ("Lorli") (born 1931), and Johannes (born 1939).

Yes, we all know TSOM was in no way a documentary. They really played with the facts to get a story out of it.

I’m starting to question whether or not doe is a deer?

Yes, if you look at the timeline, you'll realize the real Maria von Trapp and the Captain were already married 11 years and had 3 children together by the time the Nazis joined Germany to Austria. (The "Anschluss"). But what kind of musical would THAT have made? (A boring one). But I agree that Christopher Plummer was at the peak of his looks and appeal in the film. The actual age difference between Maria and the real Captain von Trapp was well over 20 years, whereas Julie Andrews and Plummer were only about 5 years apart in age at the time of the filming of the movie.

He was hot. He should have married the fabulous baroness instead of plain Maria. Who wants a bunch of singing brats around?

The Captain would let Max blow him when the Baroness wasn’t around.

He was also fucking Rolf on the side.

[quote]Who wants a bunch of singing brats around?

Exactly! Darling, haven't you ever heard of a delightful little thing called boarding school?

My parents stayed at their Vermont inn years ago and when on a walk, encountered Maria carrying buckets of water (or something else - I forget) down the lane. He said she just looked like a old, anonymous country frau.

No one ever likes to talk about how after making it to the United States, the Captain abandoned Maria and the children after meeting the vivacious Toni Tennille and decided that the marketing of a duo instead of a family of singer would be an easier path into breaking into the music scene. He would adapt and translate an old Austrian folk song about amorous water rodents, which would be one of their biggest hits, except for the ironically entitled “Love Will Keep Us Together,” which was a bitter pill for Maria to hear blasting on the radio.

"In what world would a hot Captain ditch a more beautiful heiress worth a fortune for a singing nun?"

The Captain knew the end was near and he needed a young, strong wife to carry his things over the Alps during their escape.

Maria's wedding gift was probably a large rucksack.

[quote] Maria's wedding gift was the Captain's huge, pendulous cock and low hanging nutsack

Fixed!

[quote] the Captain's huge, pendulous cock

Cock-koo! Cock-koo!

I’d like to see the Captain from TSOM movie severely discipline Rolf from TSOM Live!

Not so sexy now.

Once he found out why the the Baroness only liked anal he made a call and went with the more traditional Maria.

R42... he's three hundred years old. Cut him some slack.

R41 Michael Campayno, yes please!

[quote] In what world would a hot Captain ditch a more beautiful heiress worth a fortune for a singing nun?

In my world, R14. And it's the real world. I fell in love with this movie when I was around 12 and saw it at the Palace Theatre in Lake Placid in the summer of 1975. A few years later I noticed how hot Captain von Trapp was. You can keep that little Nazi slime dog Rolf! When the Captain danced the Ländler with Maria, and he reacted with the slight smile to her blushing...Good God! I still get teary eyed and excited at the same time.

When I saw Christopher Plummer next in a Pink Panther movie, playing a villain, my heart sank!

As for the wedding scene, it suggested the cream of the Habsburg nobility had come to pay tribute to the mountain girl's turn of good fortune.

R14, you are not a romantic. The Baroness had the good sense to step aside!

Maria!

[quote]R14 In what world would a hot Captain ditch a more beautiful heiress worth a fortune for a singing nun?

[italic]How very dare you??[/italic]

(Though granted, Maria had an unfortunate haircut...)

I'm not sure R46 is a romantic as much as a hysteric. MARY!

I wonder if there were any cocksucking Von Trapps running around Stowe, Vermont?

Touché, R49. And I gladly wear my MARYness on the sleeves of my flowing caftan!

I live in the same town as a few of the Von Trapp great-grandchildren. I met one of them and she told me that every time she leaves a party or someone's house or even a store some smart-ass will always sing "So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodnight." She said it's sweet but after hearing this literally every day of her life it's grown a little thin.

Well excuse me. I guess I missed the part where they fell in love via dancing. I was up wandering around doing laundry and things. It's a long movie.

It seemed to me the children pulled a prank, then they had a tiff and she made clothes out of curtains and then they had a trek up the mountain to sing and swung from trees and had a heated argument with Maria telling Capt to be a father. He dimissed her then the children miraculously start singing at just the right time. His heart remembers how to love again by singing.

All of this happened in the span of a day. Then they have a party and dance an Austrian folk dance where apparently they fell in love and the Baroness kindly informs Maria she is loved by him. Maria flees like a maniac, abandoning the children. The nuns sing her a song telling her to climb or something she runs back. Captain achingly asks Maria to stay. Only for the kids. Then the Baroness and him break up. Maria I love you! From the moment of the prank at dinner when I was yelling!

Then Nazis come, they sing and there's a shootout in a graveyard at the nuns place and the family is last climbing a mountain.

I mean it's great but just a little contrived. Maria had very little character development. Christopher Plummer played the role mostly with his eyes and was fabulous considering how ridiculous it sounds.

I'm amazed even at 89 he still have an active film career.

He seemed like he'd be very bossy and strict in bed. I'm sure he gave Maria a real workout on their wedding night, and she was surprised to find she so greatly enjoyed submitting to his will.

“Fraulein Maria...I mean, Mother. Why are you walking all funny?”

[quote]I'm amazed even at 89 he still have an active film career.

Does he have an OnlyFans?

I always thought the Captain would be into kink with a lot of role play.

Fifty shades of edelweiss

Little known fact: The "Baroness" was actually a drag queen from Vienna named Erik Schrader. Georg got off on his enormous dick.

I always wanted Rolf to invade my ass.

^^Kiefer Sutherland has really aged well.

Daniel Truhitte today. His hair was dyed blonde for the movie.

How hard would it have been to find a real blond for the role of Rolf though? Or did the actor just put out the best?

He was handsome but I'd love to see him in his first film which seems to have been lost—

That movie looks good. I can't believe it's lost!

I couldn't stand him, he was dull dull dull, like a prop to set up Julie's scenes and songs. I would prefer Julie's Camelot co-star Richard Burton.

[quote]How hard would it have been to find a real blond for the role of Rolf though?

Studio also dyed Nicholas Hammond's hair blonde for his role as Fredrick.

R69 So why the fuck did they leave Angela Cartwright dark haired?

What caused that long horizontal scar under his mouth. He's had it right from the beginning.

The Captain surely spanked Maria