I always wondered how everybody knew the words to it. :dubious: 
… And they weren’t the lovable Nazis you see on TV, either.
*Dough
means cash for all of us!
'Ray
for musicals like this!
Me
a star, so big that by
Far
it simply couln’t miss!
So
insipid is the plot,
La-de-da,
although we know,
Te-dious
it is a lot,
It will bring us back much
dough, dough, dough, dough, dough!*
Or there’s Homer Simpsons’ version:
Dough, the stuff, that buys me beer
Ray, the guy who sells me beer,
Me, the one, who drinks the beer,
Far, the distance to my beer
So, I think I’ll have a beer,
La, la la la la la beer,
Tea? No thanks, I’m having beer,
which will bring us back to
(looks at bottom of empty mug)
D’oh!
I too saw this in its original release; my mother really wanted to see it, for the (opening) scenery if nothing else. She adored Julie Andrews.
We took the grand-kid to the re-release last summer at the local movie theater; she (at age eight) is too antsy to sit and watch all of it on TV but in the theater she was enthralled. (The same is true for The Wizard of Oz; best in a theater setting.)
The movie is enjoyable, a bit long, the kids are cute, the songs catchy, and the story, even if embellished, is interesting. I give it two-thumbs up.
A (long) time ago we were in Salzburg, and noticed the brochures for the Sound of Music bus tours. My brother-in-law was in the US Army, and said the buzz is only Americans take that tour; the locals could care less. Instead we went to Marienplatz and Hohensalzburg on our own and had a grand time just seeing how lovely and compact Salzburg is.
Not only that; all the attendants were from Trapp’s side of the family! :mad:
“That’s it, I’m sobering up.”
Do go, even if you have to go alone. You’ll have a great time, especially if you go in costume (I went as a pregnant nun).
*How come I’m alone
and there’s so much music?
High up on a hill
with no one in view?
Just how can there be
all this sound and music?
A musical question I pose
to you.
How can I run up this steep mountainside
without ever losing a beat?
You’d think that my lungs would give out up here
over ten thousand feet!
To do all these things with a wide-mouthed grin
really should not amaze.
I’ve had lots of rest,
'cause they filmed it on five different days!
I’m not singing now,
I am pre-recorded.
I’m just mouthing words
I have sung before.
And how does it feel
to be singing nothing?
It’s an aw-ful bore!*
Several years ago, ABC News had a special on the movie, in which Diane Sawyer and Julie Andrews traveled around the part of Austria where the movie was filmed. It was interesting. They showed how, rather than climbing over a mountain, the family just went out the back gate and caught a train. And Julie Andrews described how the “The Hills Are Alive” was filmed. Part of it is on YouTube here.
*How do you make a movie 'bout religion?
How do you handle nuns and not offend?
Just simply have them doing things they wouldn’t.
Don’t follow the norm or stay true to form,
pretend!
Just show a kooky nun who rides a scooter,
or show a sister try to fly a kite.
The movies can make folks feel
that all these events are real,
and being a nun is fun from morn 'til night!
Yes, people will eat up films about religion.
Just keep them corny, sacharrine and trite!
Ingrid Bergman, you’ll recall, as nun would play baseball,
and sweet Audrey Hepburn convent life foreswore.
Sister Debbie was so swinging on her motor bike while singing!
Old Roz Russell, Donna Reed, and many more!
All the nuns sang a lament
as they mixed up their cement,
playing Lilies of the Field with so much zeal!
Deborah Kerr was quite specific
on that spot in the Pacific!
Celeste Holm, Loretta Young had such appeal!
Yes, everyone loves a movie 'bout religion,
long as the nuns and priests are so unreal!*
A huge part of the movie’s success was an aggressive marketing campaign. By scheduling it in a limited number of big motion picture palaces and charging high prices for the tickets, it made people think they were shelling out for something really special!
I had three aunts who were nuns. I never heard any of them sing a note.
I once stayed with a friend who worked and lived at a children’s home run by nuns. I can’t *imagine *any of them ever singing! 
in the 13 years of Catholic school I had a much different experience with Nuns. None of them were cheerful and no one sang
Whereas my mom who left the convent loves singing.
She’s terrible at it, bless her, but she loves it.
Do you do the same thing with Science Fiction movies? Refuse to suspend disbelief, challenging everything the book asks you to believe? Or do you only do this to genres you hate?
Basically, yes. Enquiring minds want to know.
**MOTHER ABCESS: ** I’m afraid we have a **problem **here, Maria. You do not **belong **in a convent!
**MARIA: You mean, I belong in the outside world?
**
MOTHER ABCESS: No, not **there **either. That’s the problem!
VON TRIPE: Now nobody bother me. I have a whole day of hanging around to do.
Followed by
VON TRIPE: I’m **tired **of hanging around the country. I think I’ll go to **Vienna **and hang around the **city **for a while!