Sound of Music

[watervole]

One 'advantage' of being ill is the chance to crash out in front of old movies.

I had forgotten just how good 'The Sound of Music' is.  There's a reason why it became a classic.

Loads of fab songs, great acting, three hankies, and beautiful scenary.

I think one of the many reasons it works is the Baroness.  It could have been so easy to make her  a villainess, but instead she comes over as quite likeable, and her relationship with Georg is one that they both get something out of.  Sadly for her, he just isn't in love with her.

Five stars.

Comments

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I agree sincerely - what a gorgeous film!

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Oh...you are ill? I hope nothing serious?

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

I may well have seen that one more than twenty times for the simple reason that it's always on TV sometime around christmas and we always used to watch. Which means I've actually managed to start disliking it due to overexposure. I may be able to appreciate it once again in about twenty years if I don't see it during that time.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I ever have seen it, really - I've caught odd snatches of it over the years, just as I have with "Gone with the Wind".

I remember realising that my then boss and I really did have nothing in common (which was curious when you take into account that we'd studied the same subject at the same university at the same time) when we discovered that his reference point for "begin at the beginning" was The Sound of Music, and mine was the court scene from Alice in Wonderland, and neither of us had the faintest idea what the other was talking about.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Despite the severe overexposure when one young niece became addicted and played it nonstop for several MONTHS (to the point where the tape wore out and everyone in the family could quote the entire script word for word) I do agree, it is - looked at with an unbiased eye - simply brilliant. As is Julie Andrews, actually...

[kerravonsen]

The Sound Of Music is one of the movies I've watched over and over and over and over.

[selenay]

I love that movie :-)