Posted on 02/05/2021 4:11:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
Whenever Christopher Plummer was asked about “The Sound of Music” – and he was asked about it so often it made him dyspeptic – he quoted the actor Doug McClure, who once cracked: “Watching ‘The Sound of Music’ is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.”
If the movie popped up on television, Plummer, who died Friday at 91, “reached for the remote,” he once told me. “I avoid television at all costs around the holidays,” he added, with a laugh. Plummer became a movie star at age 36 playing Captain Von Trapp in “The Sound of Music.” But, as he recounts in his deliciously gossipy memoir “In Spite of Myself,” making it was a nightmare, the beauty of the Alps notwithstanding.
A prominent Shakespearean stage actor at the time, Plummer had never sung before when he was offered the role. He took it, he confessed, because he secretly wanted to turn “Cyrano de Bergerac” into a Broadway musical, and thought “The Sound of Music” would be good practice. He was horrified to learn that 20th Century Fox wanted him to start recording tracks with Julie Andrews even before he had his first singing lesson. He wanted to quit the movie, but the threat of a $2 million lawsuit brought him to his senses.
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Maybe he has to see the forest for the trees.
Being immersed in making it I can see someone being irritated about it. I wonder how much some actors actually watch the final product.
Early virtue signaling, and one-sided. Plenty of “carefully taught” non-Caucasians don’t want their children to marry out either.
I actually agree about it being too sentimental. But when I watch it, somehow it seems to transcend its sentimentality.
The idea is nice, but in practicality doesn’t always work. For me it’s not the race, it’s the culture. If we all can have the same good and decent Christian culture, then fine!
As far as being taught? My parents did not teach me anything prejudiced. The demographic did. No one better blame my folks for me being bitter.
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