Saturday
Mar142015
With Songs They Have Sung (For a Thousand Years?)
Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 10:00AM Every couple of days while staring at my computer and trying to write about __ or __, I realize I want nothing more than to write about 19 more articles on The Sound of Music after our HMWYBS kickoff in March (join us for the next eppys!). Maybe that's because I realized I didn't own the film (?) when my article was due so I purchased it and now it's just sitting here politely asking with perfect Andrews enunciation to be rewatched daily. Should we just talk about The Sound of Music every week forsaking all else?
Dame Juli, between takes on location. Tired? Annoyed? Over it?
Reader Comments (23)
I don't know about forsaking all others but a bit more depth into Julie, Chris, Baroness Eleanor and those wacky, outfit matching kids would be most welcome.
I think the films we watch as children sometimes get taken for granted. When some time has passed and there has been a break from seeing them, we rediscover just how wonderful they were, and are. You'll be pleased to know that you are not the only one.
Film critic Mark Kermode. (BBC) has said that after watching "Mary Poppins" with his daughter, (many repeat viewings), he came to realize that "Mary Poppins" was as good as "Citizen Kane". Which I wouldn't dispute, since Mary Poppins is perfect in every way, and the film never fails me when I watch it.
I certainly think "Wizard of Oz" is a perfect film. It seems to me that you are simply realizing just how pleasurable and well put together "The Sound of Music" is. I wouldn't discuss "Sound of Music" to the exclusion of everything else, but let your affection for it run free a little. Please rest assured you are among those who will understand.
The Agony And The Ecstasy
Alphaville (for Peggy Sue: Alphaville, Une Étrange Aventure De Lemmy Caution)
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Cat Ballou
Chimes At Midnight (for Peggy Sue again: Campanadas A Medianoche)
Chronicle Of A Boy Alone (Peggy Sue, this must be your lucky day: Crónica De Un Niño Solo)
The Cincinnati Kid
The Collector
Darling
Doctor Zhivago
The Flight Of The Phoenix
For A Few Dollars More (Peggy Sue, this is getting tiresome: Per Qualche Dollaro In Più)
The Great Race
The Greatest Story Ever Told
A High Wind In Jamaica
The Hill
Inside Daisy Clover
The Ipcress File
Juliet Of The Spirits (Oh, Peggy Sue: Giulietta Degli Spiriti)
The Knack
Major Dundee
Mirage
Morituri
Othello
A Patch Of Blue
Pierrot Le Fou
Rapture
Repulsion
The Saragossa Manuscript (Okay, no resistance from my side anymore: Rekopis Znaleziony W Saragossie)
Ship Of Fools
The Shop On Main Street (See: Obchod Na Korze)
The Sons Of Katie Elder
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines
A Thousand Clowns
Thunderball
Viva Maria!
Von Ryan's Express
Who Killed Teddy Bear
And one of the best short films: Simon Of The Desert (Attaboy: Simón Del Desierto)
What a shame that this site and the Oscars refuse to deal with anything from 1965 that's not the Julie Andrews abomination.
Haha, I was waiting for Willy to chime in. Dude, there are so many other sites you can read if this one bugs you so much that you have to list 40+ films to prove a point.
I rewatched this a few days ago and found myself grinning and singing ( I knew all the words - surprised myself ) the whole way through.
But I didn't prove a point, our lord and master did.
Be that as it may, I probably should admit that I've mentioned at least five movies I'm not overly fond of, although they all are much better than the year's Best Picture Oscar winner. Not that being better than The Sound Of Horror would be that much of an achievement.
Squasher88, taking the words out of my keyboard.
Oh Paul, then you're just as slow-witted as Squasher is. I'm not entirely sure what the two of you are hallucinating, but I didn't write anything about this site bugging me. In fact, my one sentence - which I thought of as a fairly simple one - was a comment on our lord and master's onesidedness and this I think is something someone should comment on, cause the cinema of the mid-60s (fortunately) has so much more to offer than just the horror films of Julie Andrews.
willy we have at least mentioned / referenced / written up these at some point
The Collector
Darling
Doctor Zhivago
Inside Daisy Clover
Thunderball
Who Killed Teddy Bear
and Repulsion is coming up on Hit Me with your best shot. we've been a site for many years so lots of movies have been written about ;)
"we've been a site for many years so lots of movies have been written about"
Yes, and I'm here for more than a decade now. So I give you "mentioned" and "referenced" (which actually isn't that much, don't you think?). But "written up" - at least in your Julie Andrews sense of the word - I don't remember in any of these six cases except for maybe Inside Daisy Clover. I vaguely remember that you were surprised about Ruth Gordon's Oscar nomination, so I concede that there must have been something. And this something actually may be a good starting point to now take a look at Repulsion and other movies from 1965 that don't star Christopher Plummer.
The words referred to: "I was waiting for Willy to chime in."
Why are the dullest people so often the ones rushing half-cocked to insult other people's intelligence (and taste)?
Julie Andrews: troll bait.
"insult other people's intelligence (and taste)"
Still hallucinating (or at least deliberately misreading)? My point wasn't intelligence (or taste), but onesidedness.
"the dullest people"
Am I hearing a bit of envy here, Paulie? Certainly you are not the one who gave this posting some badly needed context and perspective considering 1965.
"Julie Andrews: troll bait."
And also Oscar bait, unfortunately. At least for a few years. Not that I'd know whom you might mean with "troll". I only know that I would call your last paragraph "rushing half-cocked to insult".
Yes! I will never get enough of The Sound of Music. My first favourite movie. My first actress obsession. And probably the start point for my love of classic film.
I'ld be happy to see a Julie retrospective. She has some great films other than Sound of Music and Mary Poppins that can be discussed.
Wily, if you've been reading this site for ten years then you know it's a place for enthusiasm, not insults. Referring to the hard-working, generous Nathaniel as "our lord and master" is snide and unkind.
So anyway, Nathaniel, yes. We could talk about the German-Austrian reaction to TSoM (independent of Julie Andrews) and how it's evolved over the last 50 years.
Our Sound of Music tour guide kept on saying that she'd never seen the movie because they eat their schnitzel with rice not noodles!
Very recent interview with Dame Andrews here.
"Wily, if you've been reading this site for ten years then you know it's a place for enthusiasm, not insults."
Um... No, I don't. Maybe, you should look up a few selected comments from - among others - 3rtful, brooksboy, TB, Willy and a recent one from Paulie. And as far as I'm concerned, I'm not sure how generous the king of the castle really is. At least I'm convinced that he acted unfair on me when I complained - with very good reason, from my point of view - about Joel parroting Anne Marie for a whole year. Now you might think that I had it coming back then - a notion I don't agree with -, but if I had, then so had several others on many other occasions, but nothing ever happened. Only poor Willy got the boxes on the ear from the lord and master himself.
One way or the other, it's probably of little help to dig out the old jokes now. As for the "lord and master" address, it's meant in a honorific form.
@ Capita: The noodles you'd eat with Schnitzel in Southern Germany and Austria would be Spätzle, but I'm guessing that they gave up on finding a rhyme for that...
Willy -- you have very selective memory. I do not enjoy "boxing people's ears" and i do it privately if i can (if i have an email address) but yeah, one of the things I've always treasured about my site is how friendly it is. I'd prefer it to remain that way. No need for insults and name-calling with other commenters. And no you're not the only one who has heard that from me.Unfortunately a couple of people (not yourself) I've had to speak to repeatedly about it.
In my own tiny corner of the internet i'd like to not share the general internet's interest in daily outrage anger bitterness and hurt feelings. there's more than enough of that in daily life -- why bring it to movie discussions? I dont get why that's what so many sites comments sections default towards and I dont like it.
Nicola -- i'm glad you enjoyed TSoM tribute here. I know how special favorite films that led you to all of this can be. That's me with West Side Story
Paul - LOL. good points. I LOVE spätzle when we eat at Hallo Berlin here in NYC.
ABC is doing a piece with Julie on Wed night where they visit the locations in the film as well as the actual schloss that the Von Trapps lived in. Diane Sawyer is doing the interview so there won't be any deep questions, but it will be fun to see the real places.
yes definitely you should.