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The happiest sound in all the world!
A tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
The Sound of Music
1965 Directed by Robert Wise
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Julie Andrews Christopher Plummer Eleanor Parker Richard Haydn Peggy Wood Anna Lee Portia Nelson Ben Wright Daniel Truhitte Norma Varden Marni Nixon Gilchrist Stuart Evadne Baker Doris Lloyd Charmian Carr Nicholas Hammond Heather Menzies Duane Chase Angela Cartwright Debbie Turner Kym Kareth Ada Beth Lee Doreen Tryden Bert Stevens Gertrude Astor Frank Baker Bill Lee Margery MacKay
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Reading the negative reviews for this movie on Letterboxd just further prove to me that this site's community is a cynical, sad, broken Hellscape.
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♫ pre-dict-able plot-lines and chea-sy ro-man-ces
o-ver-hyped clas-sics and mu-si-cal dan-ces
wild-ly an-noy-ing small chil-dren who sing
that will ne-ver be my fa-vo-rite thing ♫
... but, hey, it's hard to really, truly hate this.
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Almost entirely visually organized by the Alps, the lines of the mountains...though rigid still a part of nature. They're a representation of the harmony that Maria brings out of her new family. Her love of the world is frivolous but pure, still Godly, the structure and sacrifice of religion unusually but crucially contrasted with the Captain's discipline, a micro version of the larger conflict between love and fascism.
Also just a ripping good musical, and Julie Andrews is a stone fox.
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What a pain in the ass this film was. It's never fun to sit through three hours of utterly pedestrian music, over-the-top performances, and characters that are flatter than a goddamn pancake. Not to mention that silly climax involving Nazis that turned a light musical into a pseudo war film.
All of the above reminds me of a bad Bollywood movie. I certainly didn't expect to see an English version of a Yash Chopra movie (complete with shots of people dancing on hills with the mountains as a backdrop) when I began watching The Sound of Music. But that's exactly what I got.
Where should I even begin? The film looks gorgeous, thanks to the pristine blu-ray version, but it…
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This is my best friend's favorite movie and it just feels like I've been having a conversation with her during the 3 hours it lasted.
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Okay I don’t know how I sat through this whole movie when I was 5 all the time but I did. Maybe it’s because young Chrissy P and young Julie Andrews and the girl who played Liesl were all sooooooo hot that I was probably just overwhelmed.
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Uma obra prima do cinema, incrivelmente bem dirigido, cantado e desenvolvido. Uma história que valeu a pena acompanhar, do início ao fim se mostrando coerente com um contexto histórico rico que ainda deixou marcas na atualidade. Julie Andrews é uma dadiva, e cantando músicas icônicas e marcantes como estas, deixou sua marca na história do cinema. Um filme lindo e marcante.
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Pastimes during my early years:
1) feeding the vhs player crackers, because it was obvi hungry from working so hard
2) asking to watch the singing nun again -
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When you try to impress a girl by watching 50-year-old movies/10.
Edelweiss is a banger. Something Good, not a banger. The last 30 minutes are, uh, a wild change of pace. Not typically one for musicals that don’t have Zendaya in it, but this one was AOK with me.
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A film of certainties: faith and transcendence through the elating power of music. Not that it’s a religious experience, despite the abbey setting - although it does take moral cues from there - but more about having faith in family, country and above all, in yourself.
Sugared pills might belong elsewhere in the Julie Andrews canon, but this is a near universal message: believe in these things with a clear head and a true heart and they will see you through a life of duty, commitment and purpose with problems thus contained. Big themes; simply realised. No room for discussion. No relativism here. Sometimes we need things clearly spelt out in an unambiguous lexicon. But what a lexicon!
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