Things In The Sound Of Music You Never Noticed As A Kid 

What do you think about The Sound Of Music?

I have seen sound of music more than a dozen times. This analysis of the movie is just STUPID.

The climb every mountain comment is ridiculous. It's a metaphor for struggles in life.. not an inuendo for jumping Captain Vontrapp

The name of the video should be: Things in The Sound of Music we made up so you would click on it.

Your odd statement that Capt. VonTrapp would more likely have sympathized with the Germans doesn’t hold water. Georg VonTrapp was a real person whose political views are documented.

Sorry did you mention her haircut as a symbol of Maria being bisexual? She was training to be a nun, they cut their hair on entering the abbey. I am flabbergasted that you didn't know this.

Your comments on a movie that showed a sense of decency is an example of how distorted today’s values have become. This movie is a time honored classic that doesn’t deserve such slander.

Within moments we have a clear demonstration of how it is possible to throw dirt on the loveliest things in life, in the most simplistic and vulgar of ways. This is just sick.

Think you're looking at things that aren't there. Maria dresses the way she does at the beginning because she's a nun. They wear modest clothing that covers them up. She wears her hair short because all nuns cut their hair. She feels like an outsider everywhere and her self doubt is because she's young and doesn't know what to do with herself, a phase ALL of us go through. The message of a girl not coming unto her own until she's married is not unheard of for a musical and story from the mid 20th century. Marriage was an expected rite of passage for young women. In wealthy families, girls were brought up to be innocent and naive. They weren't exactly going to go out and get jobs, you know?

I think some people don't understand the culture and the traditions of Catholic religious community for women which are nins are a part of. Her having short hair and unflattering clothes isn't just her expressing her tomboyish personality, but that's a normal practice of modesty. My nanny became a nun and her hair was cut short and she never wore clothes that showed the form of her body. She lives a very modest, simple, and pious life.

My god this may be the most ludicrous interpretation since Reefer Madness.

Although we loved to hate the baroness, she was really a good person who was born and bred as an aristocrat. She was in love with Baron Von Trapp so naturally, she tried her best not to lose her man. But when she saw the handwriting on the wall, she gracefully stepped aside for Maria.

The role of the Baroness could have easily become a very typical villain type role… but in the hands of Eleanor Parker the character was a highlight of the film that had complex depth.

The Captain was portrayed as anti nazi because the real Captain Georg Von Trapp as well as the rest of the family was anti nazi. The real Captain did refuse a position in the German Navy as shown in the movie but the real reason they left Austria is because the family refused a request to perform for Hitler. They knew they had to leave or risk being sent to a nazi labor camp for the refusal.

It was a touching moment when the baroness admits defeat by telling the captain that she believes that the young lady walking in the garden will "never became a nun.

No matter how hard You try, You can't ruin this movie.

Most of these "revelations" are completely off the wall - seriously, folks, sometimes a pine cone is just a friggin' pine cone! - but the video is correct about the Baroness. Although I used to think she was old, ugly, and evil when I was a child, I later realized that she is young, beautiful, and justified in trying to defend her desires and interests. Yes, she manipulates Maria so that she can keep Georg for herself, but she immediately abandons her hopes of love and marriage when she realizes she has lost the competition. While not a perfect person, she is nevertheless true to her caste and era and she remains classy. BTW, Austrians hate the movie, and while I love it as an enchanting fable about the power of music to transform the human soul, I understand why they don't. For example, none of the British-American-Canadian actors seem in any way Austrian, and the authors transposed the "Anschluss" (annexation) of Austria by Hitler from dreary March to sometime in the summer in order to make the plot work. That isn't classy! For those looking for an equally high-quality but more realistic version of this story, there's a very good German version in color that was made in the 1950s. It even has a sequel, about the Von Trapp family in America!

Some of these suppositions are a real stretch! Remember, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar....

Oh really what a load of nonsense

Keep in mind that the outfit worn by Maria the first time she leaves the convent to care for the Von Trapp family is the outfit the young girl we see joining the convent when Maria is running late and is sent to see Mother Superior.

Also, concerning the Baroness, sending the children to a boarding school wasn't a punishment but a natural thing to do for the status of her family. In Europe at least that was something very common. I've also read that in the original story, Maria was the strict one and Von Trapp was a quite cheerful man.

Did not really need this It's a love story . End of story.

The best part of that movie was the musical score.

Seriously? about three minutes in I had to stop watching ...

Saw it first when it came out in the 60’s when I was 8, seen it a hundred times since. Brilliant movie.

Maria’s portrayal wasn’t too off. It’s said that the real Maria was tomboyish and didn’t have a lot of manners but she enjoyed singing

As a lover of classical music, the movie 'Sound of Music' is one of my favorites. The only little mistake I noticed is in Rev. Mother's conversation with Maria that she is going to be a governess to captain Von Trapp's seven Children, that his wife died seven years ago. When the Children introduced themselves to her, the last-born is five year old. How is that possible? It shows no one is above mistake but rating the movie, I love it 100%.

The words, "radical interpretation of the text" come to mind when viewing the video.

The wokeness of this upload is infuriating.

Really stretching it there. Lol This is ludicrous.

You're looking at a 1960's portrayal of an even earlier time through a 2021 politically correct set of glasses.

I have watched this film about 20 times and liked every bit of it. This criticism is just not correct .

Never entered my mid for a moment Maria was anything but straight.......what some can’t think up!

Some things I found interesting about the real life characters in The Sound of Music - neither the real Captain Von Trapp nor Maria were raised Catholic by their parents. Maria's parents were atheists. She became interested in the church as a student when she heard a priest give a talk/sermon. Captain Von Trapp was originally Protestant ( I forget which denomination) and converted to Catholicism. They actually left Austria by train with nine children --- Maria had three children, her youngest Johannes being born in the United States. They went to Italy for a while and then to the United States, eventually making their home in Stowe, Vermont. There is a book about Captain Von Trapp's life in the Austrian Navy ( back when it did have a border on the ocean) called To The Last Salute.

It's a film with a love story and songs that will still be remembered in 100years. It's not necessary to ruin everything to be 'woke'.

I have watched this move for the last 30 something years and I have never seen any of that. I do not value some people's opinions at all. The messed-up world we live in.

What a ridiculous review. The sound of Music is a true story and after the Von Trapp family left Austria, they moved to Stowe, Vermont where their descendants still live. Also, you cannot EVER judge the past by the present. Get over your "woke" selves.

Wow. Way to destroy a beloved family “movie.” I never watched it for its accurate historical value or deep social commentary. It’s Julie Andrew’s for heavens sake!!

I don't think I've ever given a thumbs down on any video before. I've always felt too bad to do so. Today I hit that button. This was the most ridiculous video I think I've encountered on RU-vid and I watch possum lady.

Why does everything in this day and age have to be analyzed to fit into a liberal agenda???? This film was depicting traditional roles from the 1940's....stop trying to make something out of nothing!!!!

Gotta call out some BS here. The Captain disliked the Nazi agent, tore down the Nazi flag and was mad at Rolf for giving the Nazi salute BEFORE he was summoned to leave Austria to serve Hitler. So no...they weren't 'soft' on Nazis in the picture.

The youtuber trying to inflict things on a 1950s musical that aren't there. It's a light hearted musical and knows exactly what it is and never pretends to be anything else. Maria's hair is short because was a novice in a convent and they cut their hair as a sacrifice letting go of vanity. Maria is a free spirit which doesn't mean she's a conflicted homosexual or unsure of her gender. Liesel being inocent makes sense as she was the pampered and shelter daughter of a wealthy family being educated at home and not at a boarding school. The baroness is just a plot device the move the story along. They use the dance to show the connection between Maria and her employer. In reality the real Maria said herself she married the children and loved the guy later by learning to love him. She wasn't really cut out to be a nun being a free spirit that much is true from movie to reality. She was actually quite controlling and didn't want the kids to marry and move on with their own lives. Leave the classics alone.

I hate it when a reviewer does not look at the story in the context of the time period that they occurred.

Julie Andrews as far back as I can remember seeing her, always wore her hair short. Good grief, she was becoming a cloistered nun. That means she would have interaction with the outside world, once she took her final vows. That is, if it did not happen sooner than that. You notice in the wedding scene the nuns are watching from behind a gate. That says they are cloistered. They are not outside with the others in attendance. That is her reason for having there, so the nuns could be there for her wedding.

I loved this movie as a kid. And I loved the songs. I could listen to the soundtrack now and enjoy it.

The Reagan Administration didn’t know that “Edelweiss” was not an Austrian Folk Song until after it was used at a White House State Dinner with the Chancellor of Austria and the Chancellor, though amused, gently educated the White House staff of the error.

16/17 is supposed to be funny because the man thinks himself worldly when clearly he is indistinguishable in maturity from her. In fact he is in many ways less mature than she is.

Was a beautiful movie as many back in the day! I still love it to this day. Julie had an amazing range in Her singing.

Maria being butch because she had short hair is a stretch 😂

The real Maria was on talk shows during the promotion of the movie. She said she fell in love with the children long before she fell in love with the Captain.

Her hair is short because she lives in a nunnery. She wore clothes that the nunnery provided. Who of us at her age isn’t unsure of where our lives will take us?💁🏻‍♀️

Most of these are just figments of your creepy imagination.

This “list” is made by someone who does not realise that The Sound of Music is based on a true story. Oh-Maria has short hair because Julie Andrews has short hair, lol.

Your perspective is twisted.

3:08 - Maria has just come out of the convent. Nuns, and even novices, were expected to have their hair cut short. (To avoid vanity, I think.)

I never thought the Baroness was evil, just a bit superficial.

That's what makes it a great family film. Kids enjoy it for the songs and the children, the grown ups enjoy the romance and the the subtext. When the kids become grown ups the understand what they didn't understand when they were kids and it keeps on going like that since 1965....

I thought the only significance for Maria's short hair is that was how Julie Andrews styled her hair in every movie she made. Mary Poppins, same short hair style.

I saw this movie on the big screen when I was almost 4 years old. I loved it. I understood bad guy vs good guy. As an adult I had a better appreciation for how beautiful the film was. Now being part of the lgbt family, it never occurred to me that Marie was a lesbian. Short hair and dumpy clothes don’t scream lesbian.

I thought the Baroness actress was pretty

Reading way to much into this movie.

Watch the good Captain's eyeline when he and Maria are dancing. If he is not ogling her legs, I will eat MY shoes😁

I think you're watching this through 21st century eyes and seeing things that weren't intended.

this perspective is entirely subjective, and making it into a yt video does not change that

I will never forget going to this movie with a girl by the name of Sherry Chine. I was really new at dating I was so nervous because she was so absolutely beautiful. I guess I saw the movie I don’t remember all the details

Actually I always thought Leisl comes across as not so innocent and naive when she is responding to Rolf in 16 going on 17. She is very obviously showing him she knows more than he thinks.

Absolutely ridiculous!

Wow! This is a stretch.

She cut her hair because of the hot wig in Mary Poppins. That’s actually pretty common knowledge and easily accessible information. But, I digress.

I think the Liesel and Maria's exchange is a fair bit more empowering than this makes out. She expresses in song that she experienced love as being knocked off her feet and willing to joyously follow the object of her desire anywhere. Maria expands this to draw her attention to what this does to the mind "Gone are your old ideas" and how this might lead to marrying without really knowing your partner or the power imbalance you're in for "Lo and behold your someone's wife and you belong to him." The caution to "wait" is the caution to be one's own person, capable of holding ones own first. This after all is the separated perspective Maria gains from freedom from love at the monastery and she transforms Captain Von Trapp, making him a considerably less regimented person who listens better to her, his children's needs and everyone else. Liesel is a nieve character type in a stock romantic narrative we too are encouraged to go along for the ride with, so the moral that she is enough without marriage and should probably wait for greater self-actualization before diving into romance again would feel tragic in more conventional stories, but here it works. As a feminist, I think it's certainly a fair bit better and less starry eyed than most early musical, leaving a woman single and happy in it's happy ending.

Saw this film in 1966 as a 6year n I loved the film n its still my favourite today,

You seem to have forgotten that the movie is based on a real-life story.

This is the biggest load of crap I've read in a long time.

My fav movie of all time❤️❤️❤️❤️

The nuns represent penguins which are from a cold place and therefore imply that Maria is frigid. LOL.

I was always smitten with baroness schrader even as a youngling. Such a beauty🖤🖤

That was written by someone who graduated from college in the past 10 years. Good God that stank.

I never thought the Baroness was a villain

What surprised me after having heard how hokey the movie was for year's. I finally watched it as an adult. I found it much better than its reputation-a surprisingly mature film.

You really need to do more research on the true history. It is obvious you are ignoring it if you , did indeed , do any research at all. Try getting that part correct for a change.

I don’t agree with the comments. At that time, when this movie came out, nobody thought about Maria the way you described her. We laughed, loved and cried with this movie. I love Sound of Music! Being a nun, she had to dress like that as she couldn’t get any attention herself, also nuns have short hair. Maria is amazing and she was very sure of who she was until she fell in love!

They ended up running an alpine ski resort in Stowe vermont

Speaking of clothes, the green dress Maria wears on her return to the family is the same one worn by the new postulant who leaves the Abbess' office before "Climb Ev'ry Mountain". It reinforces Maria's earlier statement to the Captain on first arriving how her drab clothes were also cast-offs "the poor didn't want".

Buddy, I think you're reading WAY too much into this wonderful movie; a film that has enthralled audiences, young and old, for decades. First saw it at 10, and 59 years later, still love watching it. And......that moonlit love scene in the gazebo is one of the best on film...EVER!

Oops. You need to edit that ending summary in which you mentioned the children were dressed in drapes. They were dressed in uniforms the captain deemed suitable. They were not dressed in drapes until Maria made use of old drapes and made them "play clothes," a matter the Captain was appalled to learn that day they all met the Baroness. Did whoever wrote this script even see the movie?

Yes as very interesting as to how the themes were changed to make the movie more interesting.It's still just as interesting to know the real life truths like that they escaped out the back window to board the train and avoid the nazis.Also how they really were married sooner and had 3 more kids. I first heard this on an A&E Special.

Remember that I thought it was so funny 😂😂😂❤❤❤😂❤❤

I am shocked. I saw this in Hollywood as a child, and many more times in my 68 years. This is all bunk!

I'm sorry most of the time, I agree with what you're saying, but alot of things you said here about this movie are a little skewed.... Times and traditions were very different back when this movie took place...

I had a crush on Rolf.

I never could bear to watch this as a kid, and it was constantly on TV. Much too sappy for me! So sweet and sugary, it was giving people eye diabetes. Now, The Ipcress File, The Dirty Dozen, 2001, those were MOVIES.

This entire thing is a grasp at best.

Lisell is actually 20 during the filming of the movie.

I was talking about "the sound of music". I personally like the picture, but the people of Salzburg, feel it takes away from other more interesting parts of Salzburg. For instance mozarts house. If you get the chance you should visitvsalzburg for yourself. It's a beautiful place.

it is amazing and wonderful

The Baroness could teach everyone what class is

Thanks for this video, this movie is very special to me.. What the nuns did at the end was not less than any heroic effort.. We need someone when we are broken and shattered, the nuns helped Maria on every way, when she was confused about love and accepted her immaturity.. The baron and her friend was also quite understanding.. The children were saved from the atrocities of their father and the whole family was saved from Nazis.. The Von Trapp family was lucky enough to flee and survive together..

About her haircut...that was a common practice for apprentice nuns. Meaning when you entered the convent to begin the process of actually becoming a nun you got your hair cut short. So, that's no big deal and doesn't have any deeper meaning than that.

I saw this 21 times when I was 5.

Innuendo is in the mind of the beholder.