I am so disappointed in The Sound of Music

To try and restore some magic…
Someone I worked with years ago was so entranced by “the sound of music” she wrote to one of the Von Trapp girls, possibley the youngest. She wrote back and had a fascinating life and the corresponded for years. It was one of her fondest childhood memories.

See - Mogsmaw’s heart warming news confirms it’s all true

mum2three

I have never watched The Sound of Music, mainly because it seemed all sugary sweet and not to my taste. If what you say is true, I should have enjoyed a film depicting the real story.

I was a young teen when it first came out in the 60s - all the old ladies were raving about it so of course I thought it must be dreadful, sugary sweet, so wild horses wouldn’t have dragged me to see it.

Roll on to the very early 80s, living in the Abu Dhabi desert, nothing to watch on local TV, just the odd (usually pirated) video to watch, when someone gave us a copy of the S of M, saying Gdd1 (then 3) might like it.

So of course I sat and watched it with her, and when dh came home, I somewhat sheepishly said, ‘Actually, it’s rather good…’

....and Cinderella didn't live happily ever after.

M0nica

....and Cinderella didn't live happily ever after.

Monica, that is really a step too far!

I went to the cinema with the brownies to see The Sound of Music. It was wonderful seeing it on the big screen. It started an infatuation with nuns. My white underskirt was heavily used for years. That, The Nun's Story and the one with Jennifer Jones being a hard put upon nun who got something awful wrong with her. I would put my underskirt on my head and cough pathetically. Surprisingly no-one in my family paid any attention

Grandmabatty 😂😂😂

Personally, I still haven’t got over the shock of finding out, on a visit to the Mill Museum in Minneapolis, that Betty Crocker wasn’t a real person, just a marketing tool.😭

As to Sound of Music, wasn’t it Christopher Plummer who called it ‘The Sound of Mucus’?😄

I actually love the film, nothing wrong with a bit of schmaltz.

merlotgran

And Chitty Chitty Bang Bang couldn’t really fly. 😩😢😭😭

Please, no more -all this is breaking me.

This is all so sad. I am going back under the covers for another half hour to recover.

Well as this seems to be the place for sharing disappointment I’m going to reveal something that recently shocked me to the core. The lovely Christopher Reeves wasn’t really flying in the Superman movies.

I bloody love the sound of music. I am not listening to any of you

I believe South Pacific was filmed in Blackpool and 😱😱 Rhett Butler was gay!!! 😭

My parents knew them in Austria and they said they weren’t nice people.
Doesn’t stop me from tearing up every time I see the film

Personally, I still haven’t got over the shock of finding out, on a visit to the Mill Museum in Minneapolis, that Betty Crocker wasn’t a real person, just a marketing tool.😭

You'll be telling me that Mary Berry is just AI and not a real
person next, Bellasnana
😥

Indigo8

There were just fur coats in the wardrobe.

There is no such thing as a secret platform between platforms 9 and 10 at Kings Cross Station.

So many shattered illusions.

There were just fur coats in the wardrobe.

Well, I know you're fibbing there, Indigo because I have actually been through the fur coats in that very wardrobe myself and into Narnia.

If it wasn't then an awful lot of good people and children were telling whoppers too 😯

grandMattie

And Bergerac was certainly not a Jersey man…

Ah, but he is Cornish which is nearly the same thing 😁

I've gone through a whole box of tissues reading this thread 😭 I'm so glad there are still fairies at the bottom of the garden......
aren't there?

Personally, I still haven’t got over the shock of finding out, on a visit to the Mill Museum in Minneapolis, that Betty Crocker wasn’t a real person, just a marketing tool

Whereas we have the real Aunt Bessie who used to pop round to my mother’s every Sunday and cook her a delicious lunch!

This entire list of comments made me laugh out loud!

I've been waiting for years for the woodland animals to come do my housework. This thread has made me question if they will ever turn up.

Maria59 but do you whistle while you work? Are you singing in a soprano voice to charm the birdies?

Lol..railway track to Switzerland was behind their house...I've known this forever....Still love love the film must have seen it at least 20 times since it came out...sleep well🤣

It also took time for her to fall in love with George

Who says Maria threw china around?

By her own admission in her books about the Trapp Family Singers, she was a tomboy and the Mother Superior and Mistress of the Novices at Nonnberg Convent in Salzburg came to the correct conclusion that she did not have a vocation as a Benedictine nun.

And yes, most of the children went to schools, and even as a child I knew enough about the Gestapo to realise that no family could possibly have got out of Austria post Anschluss as portrayed in the film/musical.

But that need not ruin your enjoyment of the film.

This has really made my day. I've laughed at loud at some of the comments. Most films that are based on "real lives" are not strictly accurate. The good and the bad.