The Sound of Music [Blu-ray]
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Movie Review: Greatest Father Ever!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
How is Captain Von Trapp not the best father EVER? He's a former Commander in the Austrian Navy (????--lots of lake-based War Games, I suppose) who has of late become a widower raising seven kids in his beloved homeland, now post-Anschluss and overrun with brown-shirted thugs, including an 18-year-old Hitler Youth poster boy named Rolf who's been hitting on his super-hormonal 16-going-on-17-year-old daughter (redundant, I know).
Obviously overwhelmed by circumstances and with no-one to confide in but Max, his cliche-spouting music producer friend with Liberace's flamboyance and Michael Jackson's judgment, he winds up making some questionable lifestyle decisions, like dumping his money-honey sexpot Baroness GF in favor of a completely bedroom-untested Salzburg nun with nothing but a guitar, an Ipana smile, and an eerie pre-hip-hop ability to rhyme on the fly. In English. The Nazis, whom he strongly opposes, are pressuring him with some not-so-veiled threats against his family to accept a high-level commission with the Reich he so despises. Escape from an occupied homeland surrounded by forbidding mountains with seven kids and a guitar-lugging wife in tow would seem an iffy long-shot at best, even if you just watched the hapless Jets beat the undefeated Colts a mere hour or so earlier. And yet in the face of all of this, he manages to keep his eye on the prize, pushing his kids to learn a half-dozen or so great R&H tunes, even to the point of making sure that they get those tricky Rodgers harmonies right.
You, sir, are a Great Father for the ages.
Summary of The Sound of Music [Blu-ray]
Some people may sneer at this 1965 musical, but the truth is the film has earned its status as a perennially watchable romantic-drama, largely on the strength of a fun story and chemistry between stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Veteran filmmaker Robert Wise (The Day the Earth Stood Still) mostly stays out of the way of the film's appealing elements, which include a based-on-fact tale of Austria's von Trapp family, who fled their Nazi-occupied country in 1938. Andrews is delightful and even fascinating as Maria, who sheds her tomboyish ways as a novice nun to accept the mantle of adulthood, becoming matron of the motherless von Trapp clan. Plummer is matinee-idol handsome and gives a smart performance to boot, and the cast of young people and kids who make up the singing von Trapp children make a strong impression. Based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical, the score includes such winners as "Maria" and the future John Coltrane hit "My Favorite Things." --Tom KeoghMusicals & Performing Arts DVD Video
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