The first time I watched this movie I was in elementary school chorus. We had two movie days because the movie is so long. I remember the teacher looked a lot like Maria. She turned the lights off and all us kids got on the floor and she brought in the rolling tv to play The Sound of Music. I spent most of my time jabbering with the others and getting fussed at for not paying attention. I wouldn't trade it for the world, such warm, happy memories.
I wish that at the end of the movie, that Nazi leader Her Zeller, becomes so touched and overwhelmed by Maria's and the family's music, in the festival, that he lets the Captain go free and ordered the Nazi men out of the theater. Then the movie ends with the Von Trapp family free from the Nazis.
Yes he did seem depressed, stuck, kind of . . . The governess brought him and therefore his children out of the depressive rut. It’s why I love this film xx
I don't know anything but... I go to the hills when my heart is lonely... I know I will hear what I've heard before And I speak Spanish but this music is so awesome that all the world loves it
It's so embarrassing to be reaching out to someone you want to love you, especially a parent, and they withhold love from you. I know it's a turning point moment in the movie but I still feel so bad for those kids.
I wish Disney made The Sound of Music (1965) instead of 20th Century Fox as a live action/animated musical fantasy comedy drama movie featuring animated talking animals, talking mythical creatures, kings, queens, princes, princesses, dwarves, munchkins, elves, nondwarves, nonmunchkins, and fairies along with the original live action characters from the original movie played by the original cast members with additional cast members like big celebrities starring Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Jerry Lewis, as well as regular actors that had work for Disney like Jack Albertson (Charlie’s Grandpa from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Amos Slade from Fox and the Hound (1981)), Hans Conried, Daws Butler, Kathryn Beaumont, Annette Funicello, Tommy Sands, Verna Felton, Glynis Johns, J. Pat O’Malley, Darleen Carr, Ilene Woods, Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Ginny Tyler, Clint Howard, Thurls Ravencroft, Phil Harris, Kate Bauer, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Rod Taylor, Dick Van Dyke, Bill Thompson, Sterling Holloway, Mel Blanc, June Foray, Walt Disney (himself), Jimmy MacDonald, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, and many others. There would be more music, songs, and romantic moments with the help of the Sherman Brothers in collaboration with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Additionally, fellow supervising animators of Disney by the name of Milt Kahl, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Eric Larson, John Lounsbery, Marc Davis, Ward Kimball, and Les Clark along with additional animators like Cliff Nordberg, Hal Ambro, Jack Boyd, Fred Hellmich, Ken Anderson, Hamilton S Luske, McLaren Stewart, Don DiGradi, James Algar, Ralph Wright, Hal King, Eric Cleworth, and Art Stevens would be involved for the animated sequences and animated components. Ken Anderson would have been the storyboard artist/art director/ character designer/production designer of animated sequences and animated components. Don Griffith would have been the layout artist for animated sequences. Art Riley and Al Dempster would have been the Background Artist for animated sequences. Wolfgang Reitherman would have been the animation director of animated sequences+components, director, and producer and would collaborate with Robert Stevenson (Director of Davy Crockett, Old Yeller, Mary Poppins, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks) and Robert Wise (original director of original Sound of Music).
Angela Cartwright should have been paid 5 times whatever the other kids were paid for their roles in this movie. Her acting capabilities & charm added quite a bit to this movie.
Brigitta rushing to him and clinging to him the way she does when he extends his arms just tugs at your heart strings. Like she’s missed him as much as she’s missed their mom 🥺😢💔 such great acting from a young girl.
On the next to our last day at Incirlik AFB, Turkey, I saw this poster on the outside of the Oasis Service Theater for an upcoming showing. It stuck in my 9 year old mind for reasons unknown. It wasn't 'til the late '70s that I saw this movie for the first time. There is a little bit of Walt Disney in this, and it always makes me feel close to Mom and Dad now whenever I watch it. GBY Mr. Plummer for going through with this performance, it was worth it.
