Posted on 06/15/2005 4:41:50 AM PDT by rhema
In a world where the new "Gilligan's Island" features sexual tension between Mary Ann and Ginger, where "The Longest Yard" remake makes "Platoon" look pleasant, where Nicole Kidman can star in the big screen "Bewitched" even though she can barely wiggle her nose, let us do the world a favor:
Let us brook no remake of "The Sound of Music."
After all, it's not like the 1965 version is boring audiences in its current incarnation. Just mention this movie and people start smiling. Or singing. Or both. Then they start remembering their favorite things ... er ... scenes: The boat trip where Maria and the kids fall overboard. The folk dance at the big party. The baroness remarking that, "Somewhere out there is a lady who I think will never be a nun." (I hope I'm not giving anything away.)
This month marked the movie's 40th anniversary, and it remains the No.3 box office winner of all time, bested only by No.1 "Gone with The Wind" (another movie wherein the star proves her pluck by making clothing out of curtains) and No.2 "Star Wars" (wherein the star proves her pluck by enduring the same double-cinnamon-bun hairdo as Gretl von Trapp.)
So what is it that makes "The Sound of Music" so enchanting, despite the fact it is basically a movie about the Nazis taking over Europe?
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
*giggle* I figured a smart crowd, such as this one, would figure it out.
Yeah, that's one of my favorite songs from the film!
Not Germany - Austria (the Austrians wouldn't be happy. It's like when you call a Scotsman an Englishman. They get upset.)
Today's remake will have the von Trapps recast as a muslim family, escaping the overthrow of their peaceful government by the US invasion in 2003. It will be rated PG-13 because some of the children will sacrifice themselves by strapping IEDs to their bodies and blowing up evil American occupiers. I don't think it will be a musical.
I have that bow. I love Parkers.
"...or the part at the Salzburg Music Festival where a young Linda Lovelace as Gretchen von Trapp swallowed an entire footlong kielbasa to the delight of the crowd."
...Now see, that is just plain sacriligeous.
She must have been nearly 80 when I met her. Thanks for the info! I appreciate it. Mxxx
"The hills are alive with"
There was a thread on TSOM about a week ago....
I went to that Cathedral a year or two ago. It is beautiful, and perfectly restored. There is a donation booth where they ask your country of origin and then give you a brochure in one of about eight languages, as appropriate. You go in, and it is completely empty and cold. No priests, and nobody praying. Just a building, albeit a magnificent one.
"Cry Havoc...and let slip the 'Sound of Music'!"
"The funny thing is -- Andrews came to dislike the goody-two shoes image that projected of her so much, she conspired with her husband to do a topless scene in one of his movies."
Well that movie didn't do so hot as I recall, now at the end of her career she is back to doing "goody" movies such as the two Princess Diary Movies which have made a good deal of money.
The movie did okay, but not as well as the show.
Andrews took a hard hit a couple of years ago when some moron surgeon mangled her vocal chords. Between her and her husband, they've not only had one of the longest running marriages in showbiz, but also the most interesting careers.
I liked it when Max had to take his private yacht down the
Mosel into the north sea to attack the english boats at
Dunkirk, all the while Liesel was capturing downed american
terror bomber pilots, and holding forth on "there'll always be a Germany".
When he returns, much haggard and worn, he treats her demeaningly and tells her "Church, home and kitchen".
then asks if anything happened while she was away, she says
no, hiding her Iron cross with swords and Diamonds.
"The hills are alive with Coca Cola."
"We'd like to teach the Reich to sing
in perfect harmony...."
That was an "oops". I definitely meant Austria. I've only seen that movie 53 times...well, maybe 51...(4 times in the month it came out).
I'm with you, Betty. This one is mandatory.
"Kinder, Kuche, Kirche" - children, kitchen, church.
("After all, it's for the CHILDREN . . . " < g > )
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