I adore it... yes, there were the inaccuracies and dark undertones that were presented in this video, but the music and the movie make for such entertainment and memories that it has become indelible and enduring part of my youth and my life...
Fun fact: most people here in Austria don't even know that movie. My childhood classic is always going to be the original movie from 1956, not this remake.
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.
Thank you!!!! I was really hoping someone else would point that out. I just listened to a documentary about the Avon Trapp Family. Although there are always liberties taking in retelling a story, this was not one of them. He definitely had his political convictions!
We already know that *he didn't* sympathize with the Germans/the Nazis, so whether somebody thinks he "would have" or not...is somewhat beside the point. Having just seen a...really weird part of this poster's analysis... Oh, for God's sake. He didn't want to serve in the Nazis' Navy BECAUSE he did not believe in the Nazis. NOT the other way around. Please learn some history. Thank you. The real Captain was so disgusted with the Nazis and so saddened by what they were doing to Austria...that he could hardly stand to live there any more AND then they further tried to pressure him into working for them, which was worse. It also meant that he and his family would no longer have been safe in Austria because he was planning to say no to working for Hitler. In real life the eldest son was already a doctor by then and he was being asked (ordered) to be a doctor for the Nazis, besides. The real Captain wanted absolutely nothing to do with the Nazis *before* they ever endangered him or his family. He could not stand Hitler or anything Hitler stood for. This is not quite as hugely powerful in the play and movie as it was in the book, but it is still there.
The movie did leave out a lot of the reasons why the Captain was against the Nazis, but I think it was actually fairly obvious that he thought/felt/knew they were destroying the real Austria. The real Captain was in the Austrian Navy during World War I, which does put him on the same side as Germany and the Kaiser in *that* war. Obviously he thought that Hitler's regime was...very different. Back then, no, they did not know about the mass slaughter/genocide and world domination and so forth. But some people *did* already know that Hitler had problems, that they themselves didn't agree with him, etc. And, if you didn't agree with him, you could pretty much expect to find yourself on his...list of whom to capture next.
Not sure if the original poster's point is that the Captain would (supposedly) have had to be looking into the future to be able to see/know/tell what was wrong with Hitler, or what. Historically, some actual Germans and Austrians *did* already know that Hitler had serious problems, while others didn't. And the ones who knew...knew, too, that if they let on that they knew anything, then their days were numbered. This is a large part of why a lot of them left.
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?
@@TaitMemorialTrust A costume designer still had to put it together, there's always choices in costuming, especially in something like the Sound of Music
Agree. They miss the RELIGIOUS subtext of this. As you rightly said short nun hair. Modest wedding dress for a CHURCH wedding. Even today there are churches requiring sleeves, covered cleavage in their marriage ceremonies.
agree reading far too much into this. If anything it's more of a feminist statement that she will decide what she wants to do and won't be bossed around and will stand up for herself. And that you can still want to get married and lead a "traditional" life, just as an equal with the man. When they argue after the boat scene, he even calls her "captain". And as for the nastys, well at the time in the 30's noone really realised exactly what they were up to, and a lot of Austrians agreed with them so its not unrealistic.
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.
I never thought any of that as I've watched the movie... it's a clean movie with some darkness hidden beneath, I myself didn't think it was necessary to bring innuendos into this video...
I don't think this was meant to slander or ruin the classic film. I think it's just showing when you scratch the surface, there's more to see. Every single movie has an "analysis" and it makes the film even more meaningful. I love the Sound of Music! I didn't agree with some of the points, but this video was still interesting nevertheless.
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.
Plus, after she and the children put on the puppet show, Maria stated, with the Baroness in the room, that she wants to become a nun. Both knew Maria when developing feelings for the captain, and decides to leave, with the Baroness encouraging her to do so.
I think you could also argue that from the Baroness' point of view, Maria's feelings were irrelevant. She's a servant, a young woman, and for Maria to have a crush on her boss sort of went with the territory, so to speak. After the Baroness was married, she could hire a new governess if she wanted to. It was only after she saw that THE CAPTAIN had fallen for Maria that she realized the gig was up. By telling the captain she was leaving, she was implicitly delivering her ultimatum--it's her or me. But of course she did it in the most civilized way.
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.
Exactly. Just what is so scandalous about her falling in love with him when he blew his whistle and her sitting on the pine cone. The narrator says that now as adults, we see ..... see what? It's ridiculous!
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.
Ikr? Why is a hairstyle an indication of a person's sexuality? I hope this guy got some physical therapy, he had to have pulled something with all that elaborate stretching!
omg they have to be joking. she was a POSTULANT! at the ceremony, their hair is cut short to accepting their uniform. This symbolizes their submission and willingness to give up their earthly vanity.
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.
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.
There was also the issue that the eldest son, a physician turned down a major promotion, and that was going to look odd or disloyal. He u.timately had to attend medical school in the states in order to be licensed in the US.
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.
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!
I don't think was manipulating Maria, as she stated after the puppet show, with the Baroness in the same room, that she wants to be a nun. After the dance with the captain, Maria chose to take off back to the church and the Baroness encourages her.
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.
@@Ireneharnack1138 Yes. I believe (though I'm not certain) they do it because, "a woman's hair is her glory". They are leaving the world behind as contemplative.
The movie begins with Maria in the convent as a novice. She obviously still has some rough edges, prompting Mother Superior to send her out of the convent until Maria is really ready to take her vows. But the movie makes no mention of how long Maria had been on the convent, which could’ve been a very short time, like a few days, perhaps.
@@Couldnteventhink Also, if you are wearing a wimple and veil, as nuns always did in those days, long hair is very inconvenient. I believe in some places they shaved your head every couple of months.
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.
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.
Me too Pam. I'm a 62 year old heterosexual man, and my family watched it every year when it aired at Easter time. No one can take away it's beauty by twisting it.
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.
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.
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%.
i had to go back to the movie for this, but i think the reverend mother said "several", not "seven". her accent is kinda thick so i could totally be wrong, but i do believe she said several
@@elliecameron6140thanks for your reply, it's well appreciated. Actually, I got the information from a subtitled version, may be I was misled. Thanks for the clarification.
I think it’s due to the changes they made from the real story. In real life, Von Trapps first wife died in 1922 and he hired Maria in 1927, so their youngest child would have been 5. However, when they crunched the timeline so that their meeting, marriage, and escape from Austria would all happen in the same year in 1938, they must have forgot to make his first wife’s death also line up.
@@elliecameron6140 I've watched the movie zillions of times in now three languages so you're right, in French it's "il y a des années" ...which is like saying "SOME years ago."
Maybe if the movie was made 50 years later, some LGBTQ issues might had been introduced and other hidden messages would’ve been added along with enough profanity “just to keep it realistic”, of course. But in 1965, the standards were much higher, especially on movies intended for family entertainment and the closest thing to profanity might had been an occasional “damn it”. There will always be someone looking under rocks for some hidden messages, fueled by an over active imagination.
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 RUclips and I watch possum lady.
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.
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.
So "Woke" is the new name for "P.C."? That has been an annoying trope since at least the 1980s. As I developed as a kid, politically from Reagans initial election, as a Conservative.
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.
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.
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!!!!
I grew up about ten years after this-we girls DIDNT know anything about real life dealings with men, usually till we were married. It was ALL about romance!
Yeah I'm a lesbian but??? This is kinda ridiculous honestly. I mean sure, many people can identify with Maria but it's not LGBT exclusive... and the way he narrated it as "deciding if she's straight or not straight" makes it seem like a choice. So, definitely ridiculous
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.
And he longed so badly to be a man and belong to something bigger than himself that he joined the Hitler youth--not unlike kids that join gangs these days.
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.
@@gracebarr7874 It is how Julie Andrews always had her hair, but you know these woke idiots always like to put their narrative on everything. Next they will be saying it is an homophobic film because it has no transgenders in it or it is racist because most of the characters are white. F**k them, I unsubscribed as soon as I saw this woke video.
Plus short hairstyles were the fashion in 1965 when the movie was made. And she dressed in plain clothing in the beginning because she was a Nun - Nun's were required to dress in cheap, basic clothing, when out of the nun's uniform. He is way off the mark about her short hair and drab clothing.
@@kyliepechler Actually she wasn't a nun as yet. She was a novitiate, in training to become a nun. And nuns, certainly in Europe, had either short hair, or no hair at all - it was completely shaved off in some cases. It made wearing their wimple easier....the older styled wimple that winged out on either side. It could get very hot underneath. But it was also about denying any form of vanity.
"The filmmakers contrived an Austrian character that's anti-Nazi without once mentioning any of the things that made the Nazis evil." In a post-WWII world, does any movie, or anything else really, NEED to mention the things Nazis did to understand that they were evil? I think that is universally understood without requiring supporting data. I understand that the movie was set in a pre-WWII world, but we watch it from OUR perspective, a world that understands why Nazis are evil with elaboration.
not to mention that his statement about Austria only having existed as an independent country not too long is grossly inaccurate. Germany was younger than Austria as a unified state and had been an empire in its own right up till the end of WW1
Nazis wouldn't have to invade my country for me to know they're evil. If they came knocking on my door insisting I join their party, I'd refuse too. They'd been indoctrinating German youths for years before they invaded Poland. I'm pretty sure the captain would've known that.
The worst part about this is that they don’t seem to realize that Von Trapp as well as most of the rest of the cast were REAL PEOPLE. Von Trapp, for example, was not just a captain but the highest scoring U-boat commander in the Austro-Hungarian navy, sinking 11 ships during the war.
@@sirboomsalot4902 And he felt terrible about it. That's why he had no interest in re-entering the navy for WWII. As I understand it. I actually haven't read anything specific regarding Captain von Trapp's feeling towards his career. But I should do some research, based on your comment. Thanks!
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.
DioneN: I agree. The whole song is a flirty little give and take between her and Rolf. Rolf thinks he is so manly and knowledgeable but then gets flustered when Leisl flirts with him. He is after all only 17 and he probably had very little to no actual knowledge of girls and women at this stage in his life and in 1930s Austria.
It's so ridiculous that it could be a spoof to make "woke" attitudes seem ridiculous. And in that regard, isn't it somewhat suspicious that the speaker has an American accent?
The Sound of Music is just a musical based on a real family. It is not meant to be a treatise on human sexuality, gender roles, political history or Freudian symbolism. It was not created to please people with college degrees in Gender Studies, LGBT Studies or 20th Century European History. Just relax for a couple hours and enjoy the music and the Austrian scenery.
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.
Yeah, when examining a movie that was made in 1965 about events that occurred in 1938, you'd think they'd take the passage of time and the transformation of culture and society into consideration for at least a minute or two, wouldn't you? It's as if these people were literally born yesterday!
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.
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?💁🏻♀️
There were so many great actors in this movie that were very well cast. Julie Andrews, in particular, with her acting, singing, dancing and beautiful looks was perfect as Maria. But my favorite actor was Eleanor Parker who is so good at scheming and professes she wants the captain because they are both rich so they belong together. And then toward the end it becomes clear she really is in love with the captain and when she senses she is about to lose him starts pushing too hard to charm him. And then struggles to hide her sorrow with jokes about how they really are not right for each other and departs. God, how that performance could have been any better I have no idea. And so lovely I don't see why the captain did not choose her. Should have won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
I totally agree! Her acting was superb and real. As for why the captain did not choose her, I guess, most men would date someone like her but marry someone like Maria to care for their kids, the estate, and the sunset (looking after them near the end of life) lol
the inclusion of the sexual gender uncertainty is preposterous...also according to the book. facts the family ended up in Vermont, USA and gradually accustomed themselves to a new freer life...having escaped from the Nazi regime by creating a singing ensemble which captured so many audiences for its quality and originality.....
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.
Certainly, a very subjective interpretation. It was created clean and wholesome both in religious life and family life. Your sexual interpretation is yours and yours alone. Do not pollute the minds of the young.
"…details that only adults* notice in this classic film.” In this video “adults” = people who have a revisionist, progressive filter. Having seen this film countless times and been to Salzburg dozens of times, I recommend that instead of spending 10 minutes of your life on this video, be look elsewhere for actual facts about this film and this family.
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".
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.
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?
Though remembered today primarily as the Baroness, Eleanor Parker had a significant movie career in her own right, appearing in a variety of films including *Of Human Bondage,* *Interrupted Melody* (a bio-pic about. polio-stricken opera singer Marjorie Lawrence) w/ Glenn Ford, and *A Hole in the Head* w/ Frank Sinatra.
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.
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....
Seriously trying to pin Maria as a homosexual is just sickening. She was portrayed as a young lady entering the convent and the short hair is the way all nuns had their hair. To say that queers can relate to her as being part of the LGBQT community is so far-fetched and extremely distateful. You have taken a decent family move and attempted to put it into the light of approval by the WOKE mob and make it something it is not. Leave it alone. The Sound of Music is pure, sweet and cheerful. Do not disgrace it by stupid comments that are totally untrue.
I noticed a lot of people signalling their disagreement. To me this is a leftist LGBTQ attempt to distort a kid friendly family musical, which is not a format to make political discussions on how evil the Nazis are. Imagine trying to take this happy musical and then telling happy kids about genocide, which by the way, a not systematically underway in 1938. Many Austrians were sickened by the Anschluss, and one of the original von Trapp kids said that watching the Nazis come in was like watching a funeral for their country. Not only does Maria have short hair because of her time as a nun, but Julie Andrews always wore her hair short off screen and was definitely not lesbian. She was married twice and the last one lasted 41 years until his death. I won't go on any further at the mudslinging and supposedly sexist/homosexual/pro Nazi overtones this movie supposedly had because most likely it was as most human beings see it and that is as a happy musical.
The comments on the Nazis and Captain von Trapp are quite historically inaccurate. Austria was an empire for centuries, predating a national German state. The captain was an Austrian patriot; his loyalty to his country was more important to him than his hatred of the Nazis (although that existed as well). The takeover of Austria by Germany (Anschluss in German) happened in March 1938. This was before the Night of Broken Glass (9 November 1938), which was the most violent persecution of Jews in Germany before WWII. My opinion is that the movie actually speeds up the process of Nazifying Austria for the von Trapp family, not softpedals it.
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!
I know you mean't the narrated voice over....because at first I was like but all the "comments" are pretty well in line and on the same page, this was a very poor review.
This is the worst analysis one can imagine of this most amazing film, one of the best films ever!! It is shallow, it is weak, it is poor and shows that the narrator has no skills at analyzing any literary material but it also shows how today’s society waters down everything with a meaning to a level of cheap, vulgar entertainment…
Even as I watch the movie as an adult I don't view it the way you do,, the movie has nothing to do with any homosexuality,, but it is natural and pure for all people to watch and sing...whatever you blah about the world will still love this innocent movie....perhaps you come from a place that thinks like that and sure your country is not a peaceful place...This movie brings anyone who watches it Peace. cause it is innocent but your mind is evil overly modern.
"Maria confesses to the governess"? (:53) No, she confesses to the MOTHER SUPERIOR. Maria and the Captain do not remain "perfectly platonic" until their wedding, as claimed here. Even if you discount the dance where the sparks are flying, "Something Good" is staged very romantically, and they kiss at the end of the scene. And never mind the weird sexualized analysis here....
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
What do you think about The Sound Of Music?
I adore it... yes, there were the inaccuracies and dark undertones that were presented in this video, but the music and the movie make for such entertainment and memories that it has become indelible and enduring part of my youth and my life...
Fun fact: most people here in Austria don't even know that movie. My childhood classic is always going to be the original movie from 1956, not this remake.
My favorite as a kid,i watched it over and over
Great musical but your analysis sucks.
A beautiful, amazing movie that for some reason you decided to put an ASININE "woke" stupida$$ spin on. Good grief STOP!
The climb every mountain comment is ridiculous. It's a metaphor for struggles in life.. not an inuendo for jumping Captain Vontrapp
Amen. Despite what life throws at you, keep going!
honestly, modern media just doesn’t have a clue about clean, respectful, true romance.
Exactly.
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.
Thank you!!!! I was really hoping someone else would point that out. I just listened to a documentary about the Avon Trapp Family. Although there are always liberties taking in retelling a story, this was not one of them. He definitely had his political convictions!
We already know that *he didn't* sympathize with the Germans/the Nazis, so whether somebody thinks he "would have" or not...is somewhat beside the point.
Having just seen a...really weird part of this poster's analysis...
Oh, for God's sake. He didn't want to serve in the Nazis' Navy BECAUSE he did not believe in the Nazis. NOT the other way around. Please learn some history. Thank you.
The real Captain was so disgusted with the Nazis and so saddened by what they were doing to Austria...that he could hardly stand to live there any more AND then they further tried to pressure him into working for them, which was worse. It also meant that he and his family would no longer have been safe in Austria because he was planning to say no to working for Hitler. In real life the eldest son was already a doctor by then and he was being asked (ordered) to be a doctor for the Nazis, besides.
The real Captain wanted absolutely nothing to do with the Nazis *before* they ever endangered him or his family. He could not stand Hitler or anything Hitler stood for. This is not quite as hugely powerful in the play and movie as it was in the book, but it is still there.
The movie did leave out a lot of the reasons why the Captain was against the Nazis, but I think it was actually fairly obvious that he thought/felt/knew they were destroying the real Austria.
The real Captain was in the Austrian Navy during World War I, which does put him on the same side as Germany and the Kaiser in *that* war. Obviously he thought that Hitler's regime was...very different.
Back then, no, they did not know about the mass slaughter/genocide and world domination and so forth.
But some people *did* already know that Hitler had problems, that they themselves didn't agree with him, etc.
And, if you didn't agree with him, you could pretty much expect to find yourself on his...list of whom to capture next.
Not sure if the original poster's point is that the Captain would (supposedly) have had to be looking into the future to be able to see/know/tell what was wrong with Hitler, or what.
Historically, some actual Germans and Austrians *did* already know that Hitler had serious problems, while others didn't.
And the ones who knew...knew, too, that if they let on that they knew anything, then their days were numbered.
This is a large part of why a lot of them left.
Yeah, he turned down an offer to serve in the Kriegsmarine specifically because he disliked Hitler.
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?
Wasn’t she given the clothes from the latest entrant to the Convent? The analysis is ridiculous.
@@TaitMemorialTrust A costume designer still had to put it together, there's always choices in costuming, especially in something like the Sound of Music
Agree. They miss the RELIGIOUS subtext of this. As you rightly said short nun hair. Modest wedding dress for a CHURCH wedding. Even today there are churches requiring sleeves, covered cleavage in their marriage ceremonies.
agree reading far too much into this. If anything it's more of a feminist statement that she will decide what she wants to do and won't be bossed around and will stand up for herself. And that you can still want to get married and lead a "traditional" life, just as an equal with the man. When they argue after the boat scene, he even calls her "captain".
And as for the nastys, well at the time in the 30's noone really realised exactly what they were up to, and a lot of Austrians agreed with them so its not unrealistic.
That's what I was thinking. Why does she have to be queer?
The name of the video should be: Things in The Sound of Music we made up so you would click on it.
This guy speaking is an idiot
This guy speaking is reading the script he was given to read because he wants to keep his job.
I agree, what a load of garbage
I took much of what was presented with a grain of salt.
SERIOUSlY!
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.
Exactly!!! I stopped watching after less than a minute, knowing right away where this crap was leading. What poor taste, trying to ruin a classic.
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Yes just because he's seeing things this way doesn't mean those things are hidden and that everybody else is thinking that.
I never thought any of that as I've watched the movie... it's a clean movie with some darkness hidden beneath, I myself didn't think it was necessary to bring innuendos into this video...
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Perfectly said.
I don't think this was meant to slander or ruin the classic film. I think it's just showing when you scratch the surface, there's more to see. Every single movie has an "analysis" and it makes the film even more meaningful. I love the Sound of Music! I didn't agree with some of the points, but this video was still interesting nevertheless.
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.
Plus, after she and the children put on the puppet show, Maria stated, with the Baroness in the room, that she wants to become a nun. Both knew Maria when developing feelings for the captain, and decides to leave, with the Baroness encouraging her to do so.
I think you could also argue that from the Baroness' point of view, Maria's feelings were irrelevant. She's a servant, a young woman, and for Maria to have a crush on her boss sort of went with the territory, so to speak. After the Baroness was married, she could hire a new governess if she wanted to. It was only after she saw that THE CAPTAIN had fallen for Maria that she realized the gig was up. By telling the captain she was leaving, she was implicitly delivering her ultimatum--it's her or me. But of course she did it in the most civilized way.
The Baroness was actually a Princess in real life.
@@danielfortier2629 she does look it in the film.
The baroness was elegant. Wish her a good marriage of her own.
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.
Thank you. It's ridiculous
So agreed!!!
The analysis is mostly ridiculous, but the film was widely panned in Austria and almost none of it was accurate. It’s just a pretty lie.
Exactly. Just what is so scandalous about her falling in love with him when he blew his whistle and her sitting on the pine cone. The narrator says that now as adults, we see ..... see what? It's ridiculous!
I was just going to say, they should title this video 'How To Waste Nearly 10 Minutes Reading Much Too Deeply Into a Good Movie'
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.
Ikr? Why is a hairstyle an indication of a person's sexuality? I hope this guy got some physical therapy, he had to have pulled something with all that elaborate stretching!
omg they have to be joking. she was a POSTULANT! at the ceremony, their hair is cut short to accepting their uniform. This symbolizes their submission and willingness to give up their earthly vanity.
Yeah come on
@@Womanwithblackdog True, But Julie always had short hair as an adult! So...where’s the fuss??
Yes! Thank you!
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.
Maria was still a tomboy nevertheless
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.
Good observation
The way she took the ending of the engagement was pure class.
My god this may be the most ludicrous interpretation since Reefer Madness.
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its done through a racial and communistic lense
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.
There was also the issue that the eldest son, a physician turned down a major promotion, and that was going to look odd or disloyal. He u.timately had to attend medical school in the states in order to be licensed in the US.
I have seen sound of music more than a dozen times. This analysis of the movie is just STUPID.
Exactly!!
Agree!!!
Wokeism is creeping in at all corners. Disgusting. I agree wholeheartedly with your comment.
Agreed
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No matter how hard You try, You can't ruin this movie.
Well said.
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.
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!
I don't think was manipulating Maria, as she stated after the puppet show, with the Baroness in the same room, that she wants to be a nun. After the dance with the captain, Maria chose to take off back to the church and the Baroness encourages her.
I just love this movie
Not to mention, most of this movie happened in 1927; the only part that’s era-correct is their escape from Austria.
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.
Plus they do tend to cut your hair when you enter a convent.
@@Couldnteventhink Do they really? I never considered that.
@@Ireneharnack1138 Yes. I believe (though I'm not certain) they do it because, "a woman's hair is her glory". They are leaving the world behind as contemplative.
The movie begins with Maria in the convent as a novice. She obviously still has some rough edges, prompting Mother Superior to send her out of the convent until Maria is really ready to take her vows.
But the movie makes no mention of how long Maria had been on the convent, which could’ve been a very short time, like a few days, perhaps.
@@Couldnteventhink Also, if you are wearing a wimple and veil, as nuns always did in those days, long hair is very inconvenient. I believe in some places they shaved your head every couple of months.
You're looking at a 1960's portrayal of an even earlier time through a 2021 politically correct set of glasses.
Exactly!
Exactly. Not to mention the fact the movie was set in the 1930s!💁🏻♀️
Yes and no; there's always subtext, but this video isn't "politically correct" (as in, "showing consideration for others").
True that!
More like a "woke" set of glasses. This video is ridiculous.
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.
Some of these suppositions are a real stretch! Remember, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar....
There will always be someone looking under the rocks for some hidden messages, fueled by an overactive imagination.
Not to mention that the movie came out in 1965... people are just crazy these days
@Terry Goyan - And a whistle is just a whistle and a pine cone on a chair is just a child's joke. I wonder what the narrator thinks a whole pine is.
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.
In full agreement...
Saw it first when it came out in the 60’s when I was 8, seen it a hundred times since. Brilliant movie.
Me too Pam. I'm a 62 year old heterosexual man, and my family watched it every year when it aired at Easter time. No one can take away it's beauty by twisting it.
Me too…why do people want to trash such a wonderful movie..I guess negative people don’t enjoy beauty and love…their loss
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.
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.
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'.
Yes! Thank you for stating it so well!
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
The real Maria was mean, and the children hated her
@@spongypancakes_0 I never heard about that side of her
They're described her as more like manic depressive. Her mani was bouts of severe anger.
@@duffyboston545 how did she treat them, though? She was their stepmother so was she often unkind in her manic episodes?
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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.
Did not really need this
It's a love story . End of story.
And a story about real people
It was more than a love story. It was a story about making choices with some very serious consequences and a story about good overcoming evil.
Yeah.
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%.
i had to go back to the movie for this, but i think the reverend mother said "several", not "seven". her accent is kinda thick so i could totally be wrong, but i do believe she said several
@@elliecameron6140thanks for your reply, it's well appreciated. Actually, I got the information from a subtitled version, may be I was misled. Thanks for the clarification.
I think it’s due to the changes they made from the real story. In real life, Von Trapps first wife died in 1922 and he hired Maria in 1927, so their youngest child would have been 5. However, when they crunched the timeline so that their meeting, marriage, and escape from Austria would all happen in the same year in 1938, they must have forgot to make his first wife’s death also line up.
@@elliecameron6140 she definitely said seven children.
@@elliecameron6140 I've watched the movie zillions of times in now three languages so you're right, in French it's "il y a des années" ...which is like saying "SOME years ago."
Never entered my mid for a moment Maria was anything but straight.......what some can’t think up!
Maybe if the movie was made 50 years later, some LGBTQ issues might had been introduced and other hidden messages would’ve been added along with enough profanity “just to keep it realistic”, of course. But in 1965, the standards were much higher, especially on movies intended for family entertainment and the closest thing to profanity might had been an occasional “damn it”. There will always be someone looking under rocks for some hidden messages, fueled by an over active imagination.
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!!
Most of these points are crap!
Woke people will always find things to complain about, even when they are not there.
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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 RUclips and I watch possum lady.
The words, "radical interpretation of the text" come to mind when viewing the video.
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.
the austrian empire never had a border on the ocean EVER. they did had naval ports on the Adriatic sea. A sea and an ocean are two different things.
@@Mrs.Karen_Walker In this case the difference is negligible as the Adriatic wasn’t landlocked.
I always wondered how Austria could have a navy when it didn't border the ocean.
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.
Yes, it was only after four semesters of German that I learned that "Edelweiss" wasn't a folk song.
Seriously? about three minutes in I had to stop watching ...
I agree. I watched this entire video but I disagree with about 75% of it.
The movie is supposed to happen in 1938. An old school Austrian would really feel uneasy about the Nazi's, but would maybe not know why.
Same here! What nonsense!
The best part of that movie was the musical score.
Also loved the scenery of the Austrian Alps.
You misspelled Julie Andrews’ voice.
The best part of the movie was the whole movie.
The wokeness of this upload is infuriating.
only people who cannot think for themselves will believe the BS in this vid
Amen!
Believing is seeing
So "Woke" is the new name for "P.C."? That has been an annoying trope since at least the 1980s. As I developed as a kid, politically from Reagans initial election, as a Conservative.
The egg is teaching the chicken.
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.
@Anne Lorigan - Welcome to the world of stereotypes.
lol.
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.
Julie Andrews' hair was longer in Mary Poppins, but the rest I agree with.
I have watched this film about 20 times and liked every bit of it. This criticism is just not correct .
Well said.
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!!!!
I am a liberal and I think it is ridiculous.
Glad to hear!
I grew up about ten years after this-we girls DIDNT know anything about real life dealings with men, usually till we were married. It was ALL about romance!
Yeah I'm a lesbian but??? This is kinda ridiculous honestly. I mean sure, many people can identify with Maria but it's not LGBT exclusive...
and the way he narrated it as "deciding if she's straight or not straight" makes it seem like a choice.
So, definitely ridiculous
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.
And he longed so badly to be a man and belong to something bigger than himself that he joined the Hitler youth--not unlike kids that join gangs these days.
He could have been forced to join.
Maria being butch because she had short hair is a stretch 😂
It’s absolute madness.
To say the least..........
I remember as a teen seeing Julie Andrews and her character as an object of adoration because of her feminine beauty and persona.
@Wonder Woman - That's not the only thing that got "stretched" in this upload.
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.
It is. Julie Andrews nearly always had short hair. This channel is just trying to push their wokeness on to it's subscribers.
I thought her hair was short because she was going to be a nun.
@@gracebarr7874 It is how Julie Andrews always had her hair, but you know these woke idiots always like to put their narrative on everything. Next they will be saying it is an homophobic film because it has no transgenders in it or it is racist because most of the characters are white. F**k them, I unsubscribed as soon as I saw this woke video.
Plus short hairstyles were the fashion in 1965 when the movie was made.
And she dressed in plain clothing in the beginning because she was a Nun - Nun's were required to dress in cheap, basic clothing, when out of the nun's uniform.
He is way off the mark about her short hair and drab clothing.
@@kyliepechler Actually she wasn't a nun as yet. She was a novitiate, in training to become a nun. And nuns, certainly in Europe, had either short hair, or no hair at all - it was completely shaved off in some cases. It made wearing their wimple easier....the older styled wimple that winged out on either side. It could get very hot underneath. But it was also about denying any form of vanity.
"The filmmakers contrived an Austrian character that's anti-Nazi without once mentioning any of the things that made the Nazis evil."
In a post-WWII world, does any movie, or anything else really, NEED to mention the things Nazis did to understand that they were evil? I think that is universally understood without requiring supporting data. I understand that the movie was set in a pre-WWII world, but we watch it from OUR perspective, a world that understands why Nazis are evil with elaboration.
not to mention that his statement about Austria only having existed as an independent country not too long is grossly inaccurate. Germany was younger than Austria as a unified state and had been an empire in its own right up till the end of WW1
Nazis wouldn't have to invade my country for me to know they're evil. If they came knocking on my door insisting I join their party, I'd refuse too. They'd been indoctrinating German youths for years before they invaded Poland. I'm pretty sure the captain would've known that.
@@susanma4899 Rolfe makes that obvious.
The worst part about this is that they don’t seem to realize that Von Trapp as well as most of the rest of the cast were REAL PEOPLE. Von Trapp, for example, was not just a captain but the highest scoring U-boat commander in the Austro-Hungarian navy, sinking 11 ships during the war.
@@sirboomsalot4902 And he felt terrible about it. That's why he had no interest in re-entering the navy for WWII. As I understand it. I actually haven't read anything specific regarding Captain von Trapp's feeling towards his career. But I should do some research, based on your comment. Thanks!
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.
Oh man. Get a life!
I agree.
She even says 'I know that I'm naive' she spends the song basically repeating what Rolf says.
DioneN: I agree. The whole song is a flirty little give and take between her and Rolf. Rolf thinks he is so manly and knowledgeable but then gets flustered when Leisl flirts with him. He is after all only 17 and he probably had very little to no actual knowledge of girls and women at this stage in his life and in 1930s Austria.
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.)
It was for humility and to avoid overheating under the heavy habit. It would have been scandalous to depict a nun-in-training with long hair.
That was written by someone who graduated from college in the past 10 years. Good God that stank.
More likely, is still there.
Thank you I won't waste my time 😉
Thanks saved me from wasting my time!!
It's so ridiculous that it could be a spoof to make "woke" attitudes seem ridiculous. And in that regard, isn't it somewhat suspicious that the speaker has an American accent?
The Sound of Music is just a musical based on a real family. It is not meant to be a treatise on human sexuality, gender roles, political history or Freudian symbolism. It was not created to please people with college degrees in Gender Studies, LGBT Studies or 20th Century European History. Just relax for a couple hours and enjoy the music and the Austrian scenery.
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.
Yes. Plus, you can read her book that inspired the musical. She and the captain grew to love each other over years
@@pattyamato8758 Yes I read her book many years ago when I was in college...and now I'm a grandmother of adults...time flies.
Most of these are just figments of your creepy imagination.
I hate it when a reviewer does not look at the story in the context of the time period that they occurred.
Yeah, when examining a movie that was made in 1965 about events that occurred in 1938, you'd think they'd take the passage of time and the transformation of culture and society into consideration for at least a minute or two, wouldn't you? It's as if these people were literally born yesterday!
Really stretching it there. Lol This is ludicrous.
I loved this movie as a kid. And I loved the songs. I could listen to the soundtrack now and enjoy it.
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.
Oh really what a load of nonsense
I think you're watching this through 21st century eyes and seeing things that weren't intended.
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?💁🏻♀️
There were so many great actors in this movie that were very well cast. Julie Andrews, in particular, with her acting, singing, dancing and beautiful looks was perfect as Maria. But my favorite actor was Eleanor Parker who is so good at scheming and professes she wants the captain because they are both rich so they belong together. And then toward the end it becomes clear she really is in love with the captain and when she senses she is about to lose him starts pushing too hard to charm him. And then struggles to hide her sorrow with jokes about how they really are not right for each other and departs. God, how that performance could have been any better I have no idea. And so lovely I don't see why the captain did not choose her. Should have won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
I totally agree! Her acting was superb and real. As for why the captain did not choose her, I guess, most men would date someone like her but marry someone like Maria to care for their kids, the estate, and the sunset (looking after them near the end of life) lol
the inclusion of the sexual gender uncertainty is preposterous...also according to the book. facts the family ended up in Vermont, USA and gradually accustomed themselves to a new freer life...having escaped from the Nazi regime by creating a singing ensemble which
captured so many audiences for its quality and originality.....
Saw this film in 1966 as a 6year n I loved the film n its still my favourite today,
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.
To be honest, my favorite Von Trapp child is Briggita, and my favorite movie adult is Maria. What about you others?
I never thought the Baroness was evil, just a bit superficial.
Certainly, a very subjective interpretation. It was created clean and wholesome both in religious life and family life. Your sexual interpretation is yours and yours alone. Do not pollute the minds of the young.
I've seen Rolf as tragic. The Nazis were terrible, no doubt, but Rolf seemed like a decent guy before he was brainwashed.
I never thought the Baroness was a villain
How are you doing?
Same
Except she was going to ship the kids off to boarding school.
"…details that only adults* notice in this classic film.”
In this video “adults” = people who have a revisionist, progressive filter. Having seen this film countless times and been to Salzburg dozens of times, I recommend that instead of spending 10 minutes of your life on this video, be look elsewhere for actual facts about this film and this family.
Not every interpretation of a movie or play needs a politically-correct slant to remain relevant to 21st-century audiences.
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".
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.
One sees the world as he or she is, not as how the world is. There is much of beauty and goodness still left in the world. Do not soil it all.
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?
I thought the Baroness actress was pretty
Though remembered today primarily as the Baroness, Eleanor Parker had a significant movie career in her own right, appearing in a variety of films including *Of Human Bondage,* *Interrupted Melody* (a bio-pic about. polio-stricken opera singer Marjorie Lawrence) w/ Glenn Ford, and *A Hole in the Head* w/ Frank Sinatra.
She was!
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.
I didn't notice them as a kid because they weren't there. I wonder if the creator hurt his back with all these reaches...
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....
this perspective is entirely subjective, and making it into a yt video does not change that
And don't even get me started on the cross-dressing Bugs Bunny.
Your perspective is twisted.
You seem to have forgotten that the movie is based on a real-life story.
Seriously trying to pin Maria as a homosexual is just sickening. She was portrayed as a young lady entering the convent and the short hair is the way all nuns had their hair. To say that queers can relate to her as being part of the LGBQT community is so far-fetched and extremely distateful. You have taken a decent family move and attempted to put it into the light of approval by the WOKE mob and make it something it is not. Leave it alone. The Sound of Music is pure, sweet and cheerful. Do not disgrace it by stupid comments that are totally untrue.
I noticed a lot of people signalling their disagreement. To me this is a leftist LGBTQ attempt to distort a kid friendly family musical, which is not a format to make political discussions on how evil the Nazis are. Imagine trying to take this happy musical and then telling happy kids about genocide, which by the way, a not systematically underway in 1938. Many Austrians were sickened by the Anschluss, and one of the original von Trapp kids said that watching the Nazis come in was like watching a funeral for their country.
Not only does Maria have short hair because of her time as a nun, but Julie Andrews always wore her hair short off screen and was definitely not lesbian. She was married twice and the last one lasted 41 years until his death.
I won't go on any further at the mudslinging and supposedly sexist/homosexual/pro Nazi overtones this movie supposedly had because most likely it was as most human beings see it and that is as a happy musical.
I'm afraid we're going to see a funeral for our country in a few weeks. 😭
Watch the good Captain's eyeline when he and Maria are dancing. If he is not ogling her legs, I will eat MY shoes😁
The nuns represent penguins which are from a cold place and therefore imply that Maria is frigid. LOL.
The comments on the Nazis and Captain von Trapp are quite historically inaccurate. Austria was an empire for centuries, predating a national German state. The captain was an Austrian patriot; his loyalty to his country was more important to him than his hatred of the Nazis (although that existed as well). The takeover of Austria by Germany (Anschluss in German) happened in March 1938. This was before the Night of Broken Glass (9 November 1938), which was the most violent persecution of Jews in Germany before WWII. My opinion is that the movie actually speeds up the process of Nazifying Austria for the von Trapp family, not softpedals it.
My fav movie of all time❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Great video
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!
I know you mean't the narrated voice over....because at first I was like but all the "comments" are pretty well in line and on the same page, this was a very poor review.
This is the worst analysis one can imagine of this most amazing film, one of the best films ever!! It is shallow, it is weak, it is poor and shows that the narrator has no skills at analyzing any literary material but it also shows how today’s society waters down everything with a meaning to a level of cheap, vulgar entertainment…
Even as I watch the movie as an adult I don't view it the way you do,, the movie has nothing to do with any homosexuality,, but it is natural and pure for all people to watch and sing...whatever you blah about the world will still love this innocent movie....perhaps you come from a place that thinks like that and sure your country is not a peaceful place...This movie brings anyone who watches it Peace. cause it is innocent but your mind is evil overly modern.
What are you saying? That homosexuality is somehow mutually exclusive with being "natural", "pure", and "innocent"?
Remember that I thought it was so funny 😂😂😂❤❤❤😂❤❤
Did you really have to gay up an innocent family movie.
That’s all these alphabet people ever do!😡
"Maria confesses to the governess"? (:53) No, she confesses to the MOTHER SUPERIOR.
Maria and the Captain do not remain "perfectly platonic" until their wedding, as claimed here. Even if you discount the dance where the sparks are flying, "Something Good" is staged very romantically, and they kiss
at the end of the scene.
And never mind the weird sexualized analysis here....
Reading way to much into this movie.
I was always smitten with baroness schrader even as a youngling. Such a beauty🖤🖤
I am shocked. I saw this in Hollywood as a child, and many more times in my 68 years. This is all bunk!
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 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
If you think that Captain Von Trapp would have joined the Nazi's, read "the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Von Trapp. This is just a dumb review.
Exactly!