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The Sound of Music.
1965
G - 2 Hours 52 Minutes - Biography, Drama, Family
This movie was the winner of 5 Academy awards, including Best Picture. The movie was breaking records everywhere and by the month of November in the year of 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film of all-time, surpassing Gone with the Wind, and held that distinction for five years, such was it popularity.
The direction of Robert Wise is excellent. The movie moves along with pace and yet
tells a wonderful story of the Von Trapp family and the music is excellent, high
quality and easy to sing along to.
One of the main things that has always been an
attraction to me to this movie is the music, the singing, the joy that comes from
feeling uplifted by music. The soundtrack to the movie sold over 20 million copies
worldwide and the album reached the number one position on the Billboard 200 that
year in the United States, such was the delight of the public of such easy to sing
along songs of innocence and joy.
I have no idea when I first saw this movie but years later just putting the movie on and listening as the beginning of the movie scrolls through the tunes of delight and joy, the music is a real pleasure to the heart and soul.
It is hard to say how many people were so positively impacted by this movie, but it is a wonder to see and enjoy. This has to be at the top of my list of movies to see, especially for the family and even the musician.
The movie is based on the true story of the Von Trapp family. The children are in need of a nanny as the strict Captain von Trapp, a widower probably has no idea what he is to do with them. The Captain lacks a parent children connection and is not even aware of this, and wants everything organised and to stay in order, including his children. The children just long to know him better, to be loved accepted, and treated simply as children, imperfect, playful and what all children are. He fails to see this, and the interruption to his life by the random mixed up may just be what the Captain needs .
Julie Andrews play’s the talkative, fun, somewhat careless, good hearted woman who is perfect as a nanny for the children and if he should want her, a perfect wife for the Captain.
This delightful sing-along-movie is an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name in year of 1959, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
The Captain ( Christopher Plummer) sings as excellent version of Edelweiss, when he sings the song we see that emotion and gentleness is within the Captain even though he tries to give off a different picture.
“My Favourite Things” is one of my favourites from the movie.
The Nuns in the abbey sing a song about the ways of Maria. They say that Maria is not an asset to the Abbey, so how do you solve a problem like Maria, and when Maria is offering apologies to the Reverend Mother she is saying thats she can’t stop singing wherever she is, my problem too. Maria feels that she is there at the Abbey to find out what is the will of God and to do it wholeheartedly. From there so she finds that the next day she is to go to work for the Von Trapp family under the guidance of the stern Captain and the children who only want to be free to live as themselves express themselves as they are, and to have children’s fun as only children can.
Even though she comes off as a tad strange to the Captain he is also a tad desperate for someone to look after the children, a governess, thus forcing them both to get to know each other better. Maria is the 12th Governess, the last one the Captain tells us only lasted 2 hours, and that brings Maria to ask, “Whats wrong with the children?” He tells her that there is nothing wrong with the children, only the governesses, but perhaps they and the children don’t really work in well with his version of how the home should be run.
This should be a movie in every home as it is also an inspiration of a dark time and a families quest for hope and survival.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
8th of February, 2021.
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