# The Sound of Music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [February 19, 2024, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760 "2024-02-19T11:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Petek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/petek/32/1590_2.png) [@Petek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petek)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/1 "2024-02-19T11:19:48Z")
Hulu offers _The Sound of Music_ now. I watched it earlier this evening for the first time in about 50 years. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/2 "2024-02-19T12:13:24Z")
“The Hills are alive, Max.” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/3 "2024-02-19T12:21:55Z")
Gonna re-watch in 2074, or are you good? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/4 "2024-02-19T19:17:44Z")
An actual conversation: “This is a stupid movie.” “”What’s so stupid about it?” (Considers a thorough, cogent analysis, but instead says): “Rogers & Hammerstein Nazis.” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/5 "2024-02-19T19:34:42Z")
Every time I watch it I am reminded how good a comic actress Julie Andrews is. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/6 "2024-02-19T20:01:08Z")
I saw it for the first time at a cinema in Tbilisi, in the summer of 1975. It was a very old print that had been dubbed into Russian (the songs had subtitled translations) and repaired (spliced back together) many times. In the scene at the fountain, the kids were jumping up and down out of synch with the music. Not long after I’d returned to the US, I was at the house of a friend who happened to have a copy of _ **MAD Magazine** _ with the satire of the movie. I was laughing so hard as I read it that I literally fell out of the easy chair I was sitting in. > **[MAD Issue #108 - Read MAD Issue #108 comic online in high...](https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/MAD/Issue-108?id=72793#43)** > > Read MAD Issue #108 comic online free and high quality. Unique reading type: All pages - just need to scroll to read next page. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/7 "2024-02-19T21:55:05Z")
There’s a wonderful _This American Life_ podcast episode of a woman who’d watched the VHS of _The Sound of Music_ as a kid, but hadn’t realized it was a 2-VHS movie. So she never saw the entire second videotape with the Nazis, etc. She finally sat down to watch it for the podcast and saw what she’d been missing. It’s hilarious. > **[Audience of One (2020) - This American Life](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/717/audience-of-one-2020)** > > At a time when going to the movies is mostly out of the question, we bring the movies to you. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/8 "2024-02-19T22:08:56Z")
I’m just the opposite, all I ever saw was the ending. Whenever it was on network TV I’d turn on the news at 10 and have to sit through the last 15-20 minutes where they’re escaping the Nazis. That’s the only part I ever saw! (I eventually did sit down and watch the whole movie one year. My wife shamed me into it.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/9 "2024-02-19T22:21:51Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > “Rogers & Hammerstein Nazis.” I’ve never seen the movie. All I know is _“The Hills are Alive!”_. Nice, joyful tune sung by a smiling Julie Andrews. Later I found out about the Nazis and was genuinely perplexed. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/10 "2024-02-19T23:10:08Z")
While promoted as a “true story,” Maria von Trapp herself said “It’s a very nice story, but it’s not _my_ story.” I once sang some of the songs in the _ **MAD** _ satire at the Anglican church in Moscow while I was helping clean out some of the junk in the belfry. The Vicar was not amused when I belted out “How Do You Solve the Problem of Religion?” ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/11 "2024-02-19T23:18:28Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I’m just the opposite, all I ever saw was the ending. Whenever it was on network TV I’d turn on the news at 10 and have to sit through the last 15-20 minutes where they’re escaping the Nazis. … One of the ironies of the movie is that in the end the family is actually moving deeper into Germany, not escaping: > [@](#): > > The movie scene showing them climbing into Switzerland was actually filmed near Berchtesgaden, Germany…home to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, and certainly not a smart place to flee to. Lots of good trivia from Rick Steves: > **[‘The Sound of Music’ Debunked](https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/the-sound-of-music-debunked)** ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/12 "2024-02-20T15:18:24Z")
Several debunks there. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/13 "2024-02-20T23:39:25Z")
Yeah. Not what that person is known for, really–but well-done nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/14 "2024-02-21T00:21:34Z")
I liked the movie when I was a kid, but skeptic that I am, I assumed it was wildly exaggerated/simplified/made up as opposed to being more or less a true story. Then, while in high school, I found a book that purported to tell the real story - I think it was “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Von Trapp, but there are several books about the family, so I’m not completely sure. I thought, “hah, now I will learn what really happened.” I was surprised to find that a lot of the book echoed the movie, thematically if not in precise detail. Namely, a courageous escape from the Nazis by a musically talented family. Now, of course, I realize that the book may have also glossed over/exaggerated for effect as well. Still, it’s a great feel-good movie, and about the only movie musical I like. I forgive its silliness; musicals are by nature rather light. I haven’t seen it in 26 years (in room 512 of the Polana Hotel in Maputo, Mozambique, to be precise; I know the exact location because my son was conceived there, quite possibly on the same day I watched the movie). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760/15 "2024-02-21T01:29:37Z")
First DVD I ever bought my Mom. She had seen it over and over in the theater when it was new.