The Sound of Music (1965) Movie REACTION!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- For Film Friday #70, Madison watches The Sound of Music for the first time.
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“I have sinned… *pulls out car parts*” is one of my FAVORITE movie quotes ever!
The best
They are so funny 😂
They got away. They came to the U.S. Captain Gayorg Van Trapp tried to enlist in the U.S. Navy in WWII but was not allowed to serve. They bought a ski resort in Stowe Vermont and toured as a singing family around the country. ... And they all lived Happily ever after till the end of their days.
Captain Van Trapp was the top Austrian submarine captain in WWI. By the way, the real Captain was a loving father. The whistle was used because it could be heard over the large grounds.
GEORG
Bilbo Baggins wants his nook ending back.
I'm 69 years of age and I attended Catholic elementary school and I can recall the good Sisters taking the entire school, from kindergarten to 8th grade to the movie theater one afternoon to see "The Sound of Music" when it first premiered. Wonderful memory.
Wow, that’s amazing
A film for all ages
that there is a core memory
I love it ❤
I'm 50 and I remember the same exact thing, some things never change!!!
Winner of 5 Oscars including Best Picture.
Whenever my wife starts a sentence with "So ...", I always interject with " ... a needle pulling thread" 😁
I do that too 😂
@@michaelmarsh8802 Great minds think alike 😆
Hilarious! 😂
When the captain first hears his children singing was so touching. Christopher Plummer played it well.
This is one of those movies you watch over and over to feel young again and to remind you that life is worth living
Very true.
One of the most famous movies yet still underrated imo
Julie Andrews’ performance was amazing. She was nominated for an Oscar and sang all her songs. I think she even won the Oscar the year before for Mary Poppins too.
Of course she sang all her songs. Julie has the silkiest voice in the entire industry.
She sang the songs from Mary poppins to the children as they were filming the sound of music. The children were in awe of her ❤
@@andreadeamon6419 I remember, at the age of 8, showing my mother the record cover for The Sound of Music. It was the first vinyl record I had ever purchased with saved up pocket money. When she turned the cover over to look at the back of it, I remember looking over her shoulder at the black and white photo of Julie Andrew’s and saying to my mum, ‘I wish she was my mother’. I vividly recall the moment all these decades later and still feel slightly guilty for what was, unwittingly, a hurtful comment!! Julie Andrew’s was a lot of fun to be around, on and off the screen, it seemed.
My mother passed away last year and this was her favorite movie. I have wanted to watch it again recently but was unsure if I could make it thru without breaking down. Madison to the rescue!!! You had a 53 year old man sobbing, happily, watching your beautiful reaction. Amazing, as always Madison, will continue to watch all your reactions. Keep doing westerns please, an under reacted genre and yours are great. Keep up the awesomeness!!
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I was right there with you (58).
@@MadisonKThames my cousin couldn't remember the name of the lonely goatherd song when he was little and he used to call it o-de-lay
So sorry for your loss, Matt, and I understand the feeling after losing my dad last year, but I was right there tearing up with you as a 55 year old grumpy ol' (soft hearted) man.
The von Trapps moved to Vermont and opened a ski resort. I visited in the early 1990s. While walking through the gift shop, there she was, Maria, greeting and chatting with guests. BTW, edelweiss is a type of flower that grows in the Austrian Alps. White, felt-like flowers.
Asterix in Switzerland
One of the greatest movies ever made. Glad you discovered this classic.
Julie Andrews' autobiography tells a great story about the opening scene. She had to walk along the hilltop and start spinning just as the helicopter carrying the camera was closing in. Every take, she was knocked over by the downdraft from the helicopter as it flew over her, and she would curse like a sailor. Ah... The magic of editing!
I'm betting the fluffed takes were probably destroyed, but imagine a blooper reel.... in 70mm!
Fifty years too early for drones!
Also, time and weather was against getting the final ‘take’ of that scene. Next time you watch that scene you’ll notice when Julie Andrew’s finally twirls around and bursts into song with ‘The hills are alive with……’, the reasonably blue sky turns overcast in an instant!
I first saw this movie when I was about 3 or 4 years old when it first came out. It has been my favorite movie my entire life. I grew up and married an army officer. In 1985 we were stationed in Munich Germany. My husband had to go to a conference at a U.S. base in Germany, just over the border from Salzburg. The hotel we were staying at had a "Sound of Music" tour. We got to see all of the locations where this film was done. At one point, we were driven up onto a mountain near where the opening shot was filmed. I got off the bus with about 80 complete strangers from all over the world, and the vast majority of us broke out into song. I had lived my dream!
This is so lovely. My parents were stationed at Hahn AFB, and we also did the "Sound of Music" tour! Watching this movie always makes me a little homesick...
I am 57, 6'0" tall and 260 lbs.. I love watching college football, I go fishing, play golf and watch 'guy' movies... But, I whenever I watch 'Sound of Music', I need absolute quiet so I can watch every scene with complete focus. I usually sing along with every song, and usually end up wiping away tears... what a wonderful movie. seeing you enjoy this movie is making my heart overflow...
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So, I'm sure others have or will comment but, this is based on a true story. There are a few differences between the film and the real events but the overall story is true. The Von Trapp Family ended up settling in Vermont (it reminded them of the mountains of Austria) where they opened a lodge and they also toured as a family singing act. (The real Maria von Trapp actually appears in the movie - she is in the background in one shot during the "I Have Confidence" song.)
Loosely based - serious differences. Maria was a schoolteacher, entered an abbey to become a Postulant. The Capt. had seven children, one of which Maria was hired to tutor in 1926. In 1927 they married, making her a Baroness and had three more children,. The great Depression ruined him financially so they rented out the bottom of their grand house and moved into the top floor in 1935, etc., etc.
In Austria, but also in Germany, the film was relatively unknown for a long time, nobody actually likes it either, it is full of kitsch and clichés and shows a completely distorted picture of Austria, the film from the USA has little to do with the actual events , is more or less the spun fantasy of American minds with little respect for the truth. It's a fantasy movie of an older generation that has nothing to do with the reality.
@@robertzander9723 If you're mad because a movie isn't like the real life story, I bet you're miserable watching anything.
I have an interesting link as i'm related to Robert Whitehead - the English inventor of the modern Torpedo. Whitehead travelled to present his invention to the Austrian Imperial Naval commission in 1866 - including Captain Georg Von Trapp. It was here Von Trapp met Robert Whitehead's granddaughter Agathe Whitehead - they married and she was the mother of his first 7 children before she died in 1922. Therefore I am related to the Von Trapp children (at least the first 7).
@Ava g That same dickhead is mad because the Rome HBO series wasn't historically perfect either.....
I'm a 36 year old guy and I absolutely love this movie. I saw it for the first time as a 5 or 6 year old and the nostalgia hits hard. It's just a beautiful film and it fills your heart. I'm glad you liked it.
I’m 34 now and love this song. My family watches it every Thanksgiving. My parents, my brother, and myself have been on the sound of music tour in Salzburg. It’s incredible there.
*FUN FACT:* Julie Andrews had just finished filming *Mary Poppins* and she’d sing *Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious* and other songs from that movie to these kids during breaks so they knew that whole soundtrack before the movie even came out.
Never in my 59 years have I seen that word spelled out lol
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius
That’s absolutely wonderful.
@@BarryHart-xo1oy Yes, and Nicholas Hammond, who played Friedrich, the oldest brother, said that at first they didn’t know they were from a movie, and because the songs were fun and upbeat and with funny lyrics they thought Julie was just goofing around making silly songs up 😂
I think she even taught them how to say supercalifragilistic backwards when they started filming together
You were right when you said that Rolf and Lisle made their dance in the gazebo look easier than it was. On the first take, Charmion Carr slipped and went through the glass wall. She had to be rescued from the splinters and her twisted ankle taped up before they could continue.
And now they digitally erased the wrapping.
Sister Sophia, of the abbey nuns, is played by Marni Nixon, who sang Audrey Hepburn's part in the film version of My Fair Lady, and Natalie Wood's part in West Side Story. The latter was also directed by Robert Wise, who decided she deserved a go before the camera.
Thanks for that account. Marni was quite photogenic in her own right.
What makes it more interesting is that Andrews was the star of the stage version of My Fair Lady, and there was some controversy when she was not cast for the film, and that instead they cast an actress who wasn’t a singer.
The filmmakers here were afraid there would be awkwardness on set between Julie Andrews and Marnie Nixon. However, when Andrews saw Nixon, she rushed up to her, exclaiming, “I’m such a fan of you!”
Don't forget, Marni also sang for Deborah Kerr in *The King and I* (1956) and *An Affair to Remember* (1957).
Wow, that's movie buff gold. Thanks.
@@brentwebster6164 Uh, dude, that actress was the famous Audrey Hepburn who could not sing that well, but she could carry a tune, in Breakfast at Tiffany's she sang Moon River. One of the big reasons Julie Andrews was denied the role in My Fair Lady film was because producer Jack L. Warner didn't think she was "known" enough as a movie actress. All is good she was to do Mary Poppins and history was made, she got an Oscar Best Actress for Mary Poppins...
You may be interested in these tidbits:
1) (I just looked it up) No other film earned as much money in any year of the 1960s as did 'The Sound of Music' - and it wasn't even close. Number two was Disney's 'The Jungle Book' in 1967. Other very high-earning films of that decade were 'Goldfinger' (1963) 'Thunderball' (1965), 'The Graduate' (1968), 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' (1963), 'Bonnie and Clyde' (1967) and Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' (1960). Notice a pattern? Most of the other high-earning films are NOT musicals and are also not love stories. The point is that audiences were going for a number of different kinds of films in the 1960s - and this film seems to have been an outlier, even at that time.
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2) The actress who played Gretel is indeed very cute in this film. If you Google the actress, and see what she looks like as an adult: she's what men used to call: a knockout. (astonishing good looks!)
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3) It's easy to hate 'The Baroness' in this story, but I suspect that this is being unfair to the character: from her point of view, she was trying to forge a good life for herself after her husband's death, by doing the thing that people did then and also do now: 'dating' at her social level in society. Then out of nowhere, a Governess (what we'd call a glorified Nanny) parachutes in and threatens to ruin everything. (Not because Maria was planning anything - she wasn't - but due to a series of unplanned events.)
When the Baroness advises Maria, is she manipulating Maria so that Maria will take the cue and leave? That is PART of the story. Maria hadn't grasped the implications of Captain Von Trapp's actions to that point, and also hadn't really examined her own feelings. Maria is also strongly motivated to 'do the right thing,' which would obviously exclude 'competing' with her employer's fiance and also doing a romantic intrusion 'above her station' - both actions would be 'taking something that doesn't belong to you.' So, how much of what the Baroness said to Maria was crass manipulation, and how much was merely pointing out a few facts, in as classy a way as possible? "Do you see that the Captain is attracted to you, and may be falling for you? Do you think it's right that things should continue this way? Would you like yourself as a person if they did?"
Then, when the Captain changes his mind, and tells the Baroness, "It's no use - you and I..." The Baroness is not only extraordinarily honest, but is also respectful (to the Captain - she respects his wishes over her own) and magnanimus: she gracefully bows out in favor of the Greater Good and in favor of what the Captain wants - and apparently wishes neither he nor Maria any ill will at all. Her agreeing with him, and stepping aside - IMMEDIATELY! - and against her own best interests, is one of the most astonishing acts of good ever depicted on film. It shows astonishing generosity and strength of character, on her part. (How often do you think we'd find other women - in real life or as fictional characters - who'd behave as decently as the Baroness does?)
Good points about the Baroness. In the original stage version, the character is much bitchier, and I think it was a very deliberate choice to portray her in the film in a more positive way. I'm sure that's part of the reason they cast the lovely Eleanor Parker in that role. To see Eleanor Parker in a film where she is the protagonist, check out *Interrupted Melody* (1955), a bio-pic of Australian opera singer Marjorie Lawrence.
I was an army brat born Germany. I visited an aunt in a convent as a kid. We moved to west and I became fascinated by the mountains. This was the first movie I saw in a theater when I was 9. I knew exactly what was happening . When asked what my favorite movie is? Thats easy , The Sound of Music.
The film is an adaptation of the stage musical, which itself is a heavily fictionalized version of the actual events. All of the music is original including "Edelweiss", which does indeed sound authentic enough to be their national anthem. And, in case you didn't notice, the music for the Laendler - danced at the party - is a slower instrumental version of "The Lonely Goatherd".
The real Maria is seen for a moment in the movie, carrying some luggage.
The real Maria was in love with the children, not him, when she married him. She fell more in love with him than anyone on Earth.
The real family left on the train for Italy, and eventually the US.
Their three children grew up with the rest at their home in Vermont, still flourishing as a resort.
Been watching this classic all my life 57 yrs old. Scenery, Music, acting and writing... They don't make them like this anymore, everything today s rushed. The Music Man with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones is a musical that you will love, Great job Maddison.
Or Victor/Victoria with Julie and Robert Preston directed by her husband Blake Edwards. ❤️🎶
Yes, "The Music Man" is definitely another MUST SEE musical!
My gosh, doesn't this film look AMAZING in high definition?? It was originally shot on 70mm film (a format known as Todd-AO) and the detail is astounding.
Was just thinking that. It's similar in most respects to Super Panavision, the format of 2001: a Space Odyssey and Lawrence of Arabia.
They really used super high quality film in those old movie cameras. I found "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" here on YT, and was blown away by how good that looks in 1080p. Looks like it was filmed yesterday.
@@vytallicaq.6881 Yes, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was also filmed in 70 mm. A few other notable 70mm films are Oklahoma!, Ben-Hur, West Side Story (also directed by Robert Wise who directed The Sound of Music), My Fair Lady, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Patton...In 2015, Quentin Tarantino filmed The Hateful Eight in 70mm - he actually used some of the vintage camera lenses that were used for some of those earlier films.
@@vytallicaq.6881 I looked it up. The Sound of Music was shot on Eastman Color Negative 50T 5251, same as Dr No (1962), West Side Story (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), Dr Zhivago (1965), and 2001: a Space Odyssey (1968),
@@victorsixtythree You couldn't get that at home on TV at the time. Hollywood was competing with the tube. TSOM was the biggest box-office hit in history up to that time.
I had a girlfriend who was obsessed with this movie. She went on a trip to Europe in which she got to visit some of the locations shown in the film, including the house. And yes, that also included the "romance" gazebo.
Wonderful, beautiful reaction, Madison, to one of my *favorite* movies of all time. Thank you! Also, note that this great classic was directed by Robert Wise who a few years earlier co-directed (with Jerome Robbins) another spectacular musical, West Side Story, again one of my all-time favorite movies. If you haven't seen that one yet, I know you'd love it. Perfect for a reaction! 😍
Maria's true early story is an untold tragedy. She had to live with an bipolar uncle who beat her mercilessly. That is why she loved living in the abbey so much and confused the "comfortable" existence there with her destiny. Only learning of happy family life when she met the captains family.
I never knew that.
Grown man here and unashamed to say this is one of my favorite movies. One of my favorite lines is when Van Trap's fiancé ask him, "You're far away. Where are you?", and he replies with "in a time that is fast disappearing, I'm afraid". Favorite music is the nuns prayer at the beginning and the reprise at the end when they are hiking the mountain to Switzerland. We still have the original soundtrack album.
Liesl: Charmian Carr
Friedrich: Nicholas Hammond
Louisa: Heather Menzies Ulrich
Kurt: Duane Chase
Brigitta: Angela Cartwright
Marta: Debbie Turner
Gretl: Kym Karath
I'm 65, and saw this in Cinerama as a 7-year-old. It instantly became, and has remained for 6 decades, my all-time favorite movie.
The weight that was on Julie Andrews' young shoulders -- she's in virtually every scene -- is almost impossible to quantify.
I was teary-eyed right along with you. And you are quite right, the screenplay (by Ernest Lehman) is a masterpiece in the way it "ramps up the stakes" in Act II.If you get the chance, get a copy of the shooting script and see how Lehman describes the opening (prior to Maria starting to sing) shots.
And if you rewatch the first scene with the children, you can see the frog/toad being put into Maria's pocket by Friedrich.
Really enjoyed your reaction, especially that this movie clearly resonated as much with you as it did with me when I was young. ----Mike
I’ll be 60 in May and this is one of my all time favorites! I’m so very glad you’re enjoying it! ❤
Had the pleasure to have had lunch with Director Robert Wise decades ago. Great guy.
Thanks for this unexpected reaction. Haven’t watched this in ages, and I have a fond memory of our family going to see it when I was very young. It was one of those grand old theaters with a gigantic screen.
I have this and The Princess Bride entirely memorized. 😂🥰 Like I can quote through the entire thing from start to finish without missing a beat. Probably can with others as well, but I know for a fact I can with these. Apparently I have watched them too much.
A remarkable movie that brings so many emotions out in viewing it. I remember seeing it as a child when it first came out and being riveted and overjoyed at the story and the amazing performance. I see it now and still just love it. It was nominated for ten Oscar’s and won five(including Best Picture). So nice seeing you get into it and enjoying yourself.
TSoM was (I read) made while Robert Wise was making his big war epic, "The Sand Pebbles", and that the studio was strapped for cash, so they asked him if he could make a "filler" movie during downtime on Sand Pebbles. And being Robert Wise, he was like, "sure, here you go" and turned in The Sound of Music. He's my second favorite director after Stanley Kubrick, who made only 13 feature films, while Wise cranked out dozens.
Hi Madison , your reviews are always honest , informative , and very intelligent ! You are not only beautiful to listen to , but also to look at too ! ❤ .
A lovely reaction. You put me right back in my childhood. :) The interruption of the Anschluss into the love story is, I think, part of the point. War -- especially that war -- interrupts everything; your love story becomes impossible or can even seem trivial. What does Rick say in Casablanca? "The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." I think that's the way many people felt. This film was made only 20 years after the end of the War, and all the producers, directors, and grown-up actors remembered those days very clearly.
Like you mentioned, the music and songs bring back such nostalgia. We watched this film every year as I was growing up. Especially loved going to the Drive In Theater in the family station wagon. Great memories.
The real Maria is an 'extra' in this movie. Strolling at the stone archway.
Great reaction, Madison. There is a reason why this is considered to be a classic. Yes, it is based on the true story of Maria Augusta Trapp, the family did escape to America during The Second World War.
I absolutely love how even Maria acknowledged how inconsequential Louisa was in this film when speaking to the captain. Out of all the children, she just takes up space for most of the film.
Madison - I'm not ashamed to say that I got choked up several times watching this video with you! "The Sound of Music" is my all-time #1 favorite film. Watching this video was like watching the film for the first time through your eyes, and your reactions, and involvement, and oohing love for the scenery, the music, the performances, got me choked up time and again! I have a feeling, and I hope I'm not wrong, that you'll watch the film again, and possibly again, and possibly again after that! This film has the unique quality of actually becoming part of the viewer's life!! It has TRULY "stood the test of time"! Thank you so much for this!!
Hey there! I'm so glad you enjoyed the reaction🥰 I will definitely be coming back to this movie time and time again!
I met Maria at her Vermont Trapp Family Lodge in the late 1970s. She was in her early 70's at that point. The basic story of the movie is true but the specifics were fictionalized. You have to see this film on a large screen in Wide format!
This movie falls in my top ten movies of all time. And so does The Big Country, a movie that you should definitely check out if you haven't seen it. Right in your wheelhouse!
I watched The Big Country while on a 50s-60s widescreen binge watch, and second the recommendation.
OMG you would LOVE The Big Country. You think the young Christopher Plummer is gorgeous? You need to see Gregory Peck in his prime!!!
Climb every mountain still gives me goosebumps and makes me tear up when she sings it.
I actually really like the Baroness, overall. It's easy to villainize her because she's in the way of Maria and the Captain ending up together, but this is a woman watching her boyfriend fall for another woman! Most people would try to do something about that, and the Baroness actually went about it in a pretty kind way (pointing out the obvious to Maria, and letting Maria leave, since obviously a nun is going to be disturbed by a possibility of love and romance in her life.) It's always felt a bit like they added the boarding school thing just to make her seem villainous since otherwise she's a pretty realistic and fair woman, who ultimately chooses to gracefully step aside.
I agree. Many people I knew compared the Baroness to Vikki from the Parent Trap (the 1961 version). One was comically a catty witch, the other just wanted to keep her financee (Although they both made cruel boarding school references about the respective children)
Yup, and the Cpt. handled it perfectly and honestly.
She wasn't a bad person, a little stiff and no Maria, but she's certainly no villain
@@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons She was a little iffy with the boarding school comment, but we have to understand that Maria was the "other woman" in this situation and the Captain was having an emotional affair with her, albeit unintentionally.
When the Baroness realized that the Captain fell out of love with her (or may never have been in love with her), she graciously left. She's far from being a villain.
Agree. The Baroness was a good sport in the end, and besides, it's impossible to dislike Eleanor Parker.
Thank you for this reaction! My favorite musical for over 50 years. The songs are absolute perfection and still bring tears to my eyes. In fact, I used to sing Edelweiss to my kids as I rocked them to sleep at night. What a treat this was to watch!
Fantastic movie (best of all LOOSELY based on a true story). It's a true shame that Hollywood no longer makes such wholesome movies that you could happily take either a date, or children, or even your Mom/Grandmother to see, be fully entertained, and yet be completely confident that there would be no risk of exposing any of them to coarse/vulgar/inappropriate language, obscene visions, and/or smutty plot lines.
Julie had not played Eliza Doolittle in the film version of "My Fair Lady"; the role went to Audrey Hepburn. Neither did she portray Guinevere in Joshua Logan's "Camelot" in 1967; Vanessa Redgrave starred opposite Richard Harris. Andrews had been a big success onstage in each.
While growing up, my mom would play just about EVERY Rodgers and Hammerstein play (on vinyl of course).
I forgot how long it has been since hearing these songs. Great vid!
It really is one of those special, magical movies. The kind that will never fade into obscurity.
My parents grew up from early teens on near Salzburg and came here to the States in their early twenties. I was born here in the states. My grandparents stayed living in Salzburg. In the 60s and 70s, from 8 until 17 years old, I spent a month of every summer in Salzburg with my grandparents. This movie brings back so many memories for me. I ran around nearly every place shown in the movie. I know that city like the back of my hand. Even as an adult, I've returned to Salzburg every 5 years or so. I watch the Sound of Music pretty much once a year. I really appreciated you sharing your reaction and I think you should put Salzburg on your bucket list of places to visit. Take care.
I saw this movie for the first time when I was 8 back in 1977…I watched it with my grandmothers…they’ve both been gone for over 18 years…this movie reminds me of them…one of my favorite movies
Wow, your reading into the plot was spot on. I'm like you in that I was totally uninterested in such movies as a kid, but this one still gets me every time.
Julie Andrews has/had one the greatest voices ever! And after watching this reaction, Madison is the Julie Andrews of editing! Great job!
Thank you, Frank!🙏🏻
Unfortunately, had. She lost her singing voice in 1997, allegedly due to a botched surgery. However, she still takes speaking roles. She's been in The Princess Diaries, Shrek, and Despicable Me, and currently is the voice of Lady Whistledown on Bridgerton.
She can sing again in a low register.
Thank You for your reaction, it was heart felt. Yes it did indeed win 5 Oscars including best picture!
A few other musicals you should watch if possible. “Singing in the rain.” Which some consider a better musical the the sound of music. “West Side Story”. “Fiddler on the Roof”.
Also consider the George Gershwin musical An American in Paris, named after his orchestral tone poem. It has Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron and has all Gershwin songs, of course.
Another off the radar musical is called “Hans Christian Andersen “. Based on an actual person
Another classic that is rarely seen on TH-cam is the Russel Crowe Film, 'Master and Commander, the far side of the World'. Probably the best of its genre ever made and very little known. A masterpiece that is sadly very underrated.
The girl who played Brigitta von Trapp (Angela Cartwright) played one of the children of the Robinson family in the old TV series "Lost in Space". She is the only child from this movie that I ever saw again in anything else.
This is a remarkable movie. The songs, acting, and cinematography are outstanding. The story in the movie is really great but the actual story of the family is also remarkable. For instance, they asked by Hitler to perform and, for ideological and religious reasons, they refused. Finally they asked a third time and the captain said that you can’t refuse Hitler a third time so they left Austria for Italy and eventually made it to the USA. With just a few dollars, they regained some their fortune, built a ski lodge in Vermont and lived their lives together. Sadly, just before Maria passed away, the lodge was consumed in a fire. The true story is amazing and is the movie story. I love the amazing silence the you showed during the song… a true admiration to their story.
It has been rebuilt and is more than 3 times larger than the original.
Excellent review. Loved watching your reaction to this classic movie. Saw it the first time when I was 10 in 1965 and never get tired of watching it. Thank you.
This is one of those movies that when you watch you never forget it.
Everytime this plays at Christmas I have to watch it. Not so much for the musical but the Rembrandt worthy cinematography. The shots are like paintings.
I've known this movie for decades but it was a pleasure watching it with you seeing it for the first time.
This is one of my favourite musicals, along with My Fair Lady (1964), Oliver! (1968), and The King and I (1956), which i highly recommend for future watches.
All excellent suggestions.
I liked how you noticed the character development, so much better than the rushed or non-existent development in so many modern movies. Also, the pacing seems so natural. Not choppy. I love this show! Glad you liked it.
I liked the nuns, and how each one of their personalities showed themselves as they made their opinions about Maria known. "Maria makes me...laugh," is my favorite. Wonderful reaction Madison!
34:57 "look at the lighting in this scene; it's like a painting."
This was not the originally planned lighting. There was a smaller gazebo on location but any of the interior shots of it are on set in the studio. The gazebo on location was actually quite a bit smaller and the 16 Going On 17 dance number needed more space. It also allowed for more control of the lighting and gels and all that filming tech stuff.
Anyway, the panels on the ceiling of the gazebo got quite hot from the lights and as a result started making rather rude noises. Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer got the giggles during this romantic and emotional scene and as soon as they got themselves together the noises would start again. So the solution was to shoot it in silhouette where they could still sing along to the track but any giggles and lip twitches could be hidden in the shadows.
I remember watching this with my mom. I'm a 48 year old man and this movie makes me emotional everytime.
Fun fact: the Von Trapps were a real family and so we’re Maria and Captain Von Trapp. As for the kids, their names and ages were changed for the film
So glad you enjoyed this classic. I'm in my 40s, but have watched this when it comes on tv every year since I was a kid. Love it to this day.
This was my mother's favorite film. You saying your mom loves this film, I am sure many of your viewers also will relate. I started crying right when you started watching it. This movie is just amazing. Welcome to the Sound of Music universe.
So glad you liked it! I have vague memories from when I was really little - they used to play this movie once a year on a regular TV channel, and I loved to sing along and dance around the living room, lol! Then in high school I played one of the nuns (lol) and my older sister was the Baroness (ooooooooh!). Very fond memories of that production. It's such a fun movie, with the music and Julie Andrews and the kids, but you're right - the underlying story about the start of the war and the nazis is surprisingly heavy duty, which gives the film more emotional weight in the end. Pretty impressive!
P.S. Recently, I read an article that the guy who played Rolf, Leizl's nazi boyfriend, said that role followed him forever afterward. He did not get looked at kindly, poor guy! Still, though, I wanted to smack his character for yelling out to his superiors. So much for loving his girlfriend and promising to take care of her. What a jerk. (That's me putting it nicely, lol)
Here's a fun tidbit: one of the nuns is played by Marni Nixon. Ms Nixon was a wonderful singer who sang, often uncredited, for several famous actresses in some of the biggest movie musicals. She sang the lead for Deborah Kerr in the King and I, for Natalie Wood in West Side Story and for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.
My Nan introduced me to musicals, her favorite was Sound of Music. She loved "Climb Every Mountain". :) I cry every time I watch this, just from all the wonderful memories now that she has been gone for many many years.
I only just sat down to watch this a few years ago myself. Like you, I was surprised to discover that I was already familiar with almost every single song in it. That's how much the soundtrack has seeped into the public consciousness.
Also, the ending is kind of cool from the structural perspective. It's almost like a mini-sequel, added on after the main plot has concluded.
Wow, finally 😊😊😊😊 I remember seeing this in the movies with my parents when it first came out. I was 12.
This film, when I was a kid, was in the theatre in downtown Minneapolis, for two years!!! That’s how popular it was! I saw this film 8 times in that theatre on the big screen. That’s the best way to see it. Such a joy, this film.
In real life, they boarded a train just hours before the Nazi’s closed the borders. They barely made it out!
The real Von Trapp family eventually ended up in the mountains of Vermont, in the US. They have a very popular ski resort up there, which they own and operate.
Robert Wise is an underrated director. If you look over his career you will find a lot of wonderful films.
An unequalled review and reaction of this movie. Thank-You for your insight regarding "The Sound of Music"
Beautiful reaction to this beautiful movie!! Bless you for sharing 😍😍
Such an amazing film. It starts as a charming love story, then it takes a turn into the stratosphere and becomes a timeless classic.
I loved watching this with you dear. It's been my favorite movie since it came out when i was little. I still love it almost 60 years later and watched it hundred times. Lol
The Romance Gazebo 😂 what a perfect alternate title!
It was nominated for 10 Oscars and won 5. It was up against a couple other powerful movies that year. There was Dr. Zhivago, Cat Ballou, The Great Race, Ship of Fools and Thunderball. Still, it inched out Dr Zhivago for the most Oscars that night. I saw it at it's premiere run in Los Angeles at, if memory serves, the old Fox Wilshire in Beverly Hills. I was only10 and it was a 'roadshow' release, meaning this was the only theater it was showing in. The tickets were more expensive but we saw it in 70mm and in April, months before its general release. Still a favorite movie of mine.
I love the view of that ending scene as they climb to the peak of that mountain that is on the border of Austria and Germany...as the movie has them escaping INTO Germany, since Salzburg is on that border. The true story of their escape involved taking a train. He was free to travel around, since he was a captain. But that's not as beautiful. I really do prefer them going up that particular mountain. But historically speaking, Hitler had a camp on the other side of it at that time. So that escape would have been tragic.
The Music Man is also an excellent musical..Singing in the Rain is absolute joy & Hilarity.
Such a great film. It used to come on broadcast TV every year and we watched it as a family each time. The days before being able to just find it whenever you want.
I remember seeing this movie as a kid when it came out in movie theaters, and I loved it.
Good for you Madison, this is what I would call just about the purest of pure moral entertainment, it's great in its way.. my mom taught piano and I'd have to hear her teach all these kids these singalongs. So I had to in turn play my Led Zeppelin records.
The Von Trapp family lived in Austria during WWII. They escaped the Nazi takeover, fleeing to Switzerland and then to the United States where they performed as a group for a few years.
In 1959, they put out a album called THE SOUND OF MUSIC - THE MEMBERS OF THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS SING AND PLAY THE SONGS INSPIRED BY THEIR LIFE STORY. by this time the family was not a singing troupe as the children had grown and forged their own careers and lives. But they came together this one time to record this special album to celebrate the opening of the Broadway play. It is a nice recording and worth the listen.
Then from 2001-2016 we had The von Trapps (formerly The von Trapp Children) a musical group made up of Sofia, Melanie, Amanda, and August (formerly Justin) von Trapp. They are the grandchildren of Werner von Trapp, who was portrayed as Kurt in the movie, and the great-grandchildren of Georg Ritter von Trapp and his first wife Agathe Whitehead, and the step-great-grandchildren of Maria von Trapp, Georg's second wife.
The von Trapps began their singing career in 2001 after recording the folk songs taught to them by their grandfather Werner von Trapp. They subsequently toured in North America, China, Southeast Asia, and Europe for over 15 years. They frequently performed with the band Pink Martini, and their collaboration album, Dream a Little Dream, was released in March 2014.
The von Trapps appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Jack Hanna's Into the Wild, The Today Show and 19 Kids and Counting. In March 2016, The von Trapps announced that after 15 years of performing together, they would be closing the chapter in their lives as full-time musicians. Their last performance as a group, "Final Farewell Show", took place in their hometown of Portland, Oregon on May 3, 2016.
In 2006, the von Trapp Children were given the Special Award for Outstanding Young Family Singing Group at the 27th annual Young Artist Awards.
Back when I was a child, some movies came to town multiple times. This was one such. It was my mother's favorite movie and, as a result, it was the first movie I ever saw. It was also the second, third, fourth and fifth. Then something strange happened. Mom said she was taking me to the movie again but the movie was all messed up. There were no singing nuns but there was an airplane trying to land with another airplane blocking the runway. It was 1970, I was 7 years old and the movie was "Airport". It left me very confused. My mother had to explain to me that there was actually more than 1 movie. There was even more than 2! For what it's worth, Airport was my 6th movie but Sound of Music was also my 7th - 13th. Come to think of it, in the 80s, it was also the first VHS tape we ever got!
Your adjectives are right on! This is a movie you have to see every few years. It's a film you must introduce to your children and your grandchildren. The songs are timeless. Yes, there really was a Maria and the Von Trapp family and although it was based on actual people they took much license with the story. Still, it is an exceptional movie!
There were a lot of very long movies in this era and like plays, ballets, and classical concerts they had intermissions. Get up, stretch your legs, go to the bathroom, grab a snack...then come back for part 2.
There are are some more recent (subject to interpretation) movies that could have used an intermission.
Mom showed me this when I was a kid. As old as I am now, I still enjoy it.
I remember when this came out in first release. It is hard to immagine what a sensation it was. The songs were sung in grade school for years. It still holds up as top notch entertainment in every way. NEVER TO BE MATCHED.
I have many favorite movies... and this one is somewhere near the top.
This movie truly is something special.
Everything about it from good acting to catchy tunes and choreography on the surface, to something much deeper about loss and love and second chances.
It's got drama and comedy and fantastic music and it's so pure.
20 out of 10 stars that this world could use more of.
Definitely in my top 3-5 of all time and, depending on my mood, could move as high as 2 and maybe even 1 on my personal list.
Maybe not 1 since that is mostly reserved for Backdraft, which you should also most definitely react to, but you get the point.
I'm so glad that you and your mom now have the love of this movie in common. My husband and I had the pleasure of taking the "Sound of Music" tour when we were in Austria several years ago. We got to see the "love" gazebo and the crypts where the Von Trappe family truly hid during the real events that took place during WWII. It was an amazing experience. Every person on our tour bus sang the Eidelweitz song together. And yes, this really happened although of course, Hollywood took some liberties. There is a book written about the family that I'm sure you can find.
Julie Andrews is a wonderful actress. Growing up, my 2 favorite movies of hers were "The Sound of Music" and "Mary Poppins". I remember years ago I saw an interview where they talked to some of the actual family members of the Von Trap family. One of the things I remember them saying is that at the end of the movie they had left Austria on foot but in reality they had gotten on a train. I do like the fact that the movie is based on a real family even though the story was embellished a bit.