The Sound of Music (film)

The Sound of Music

Original poster by Howard Terpning
Directed by Robert Wise
Produced by Robert Wise
Written by Ernest Lehman
Libretto
Howard Lindsay
Autobiography
Maria von Trapp
Starring Julie Andrews
Christopher Plummer
Eleanor Parker
Richard Haydn
Peggy Wood
Charmian Carr
Music by Richard Rodgers (music/lyrics)
Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
Irwin Kostal (musical score)
Cinematography Ted D. McCord
Editing by William H. Reynolds
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) March 2, 1965 (1965-03-02)
Running time 167 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $8.2 million[1]
Gross revenue eventually $158 million

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical book written by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Ernest Lehman wrote the screenplay.

The musical originated with the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. It contains many popular songs, including "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", "Sixteen Going on Seventeen", and "The Lonely Goatherd", as well as the title song.

The movie version was filmed on location in Salzburg, Austria and Bavaria in Southern Germany, and also at the 20th Century Fox Studios in California. It was photographed in 70 mm Todd-AO by Ted D. McCord. It won a total of five Academy Awards including Best Picture in 1965 and is one of the most popular musicals ever produced. The cast album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Adjusted for inflation, it made $1.046 billion domestically at 2010 prices, putting it third on the list of all-time inflation-adjusted box office hits, behind Gone with the Wind and Star Wars.[2] In 2001, The United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry as it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Contents

Plot

A sequence of aerial shots begins high in the misty Alps. Gradually we descend, flying over pastures, lakes and castles in the lush Salzkammergut foothills; we hear birds. In a pasture on the top of one hill we find Maria (Julie Andrews), exulting in the musical inspiration she finds there (“The Sound of Music”). We learn that Maria is a postulant in Nonnberg Abbey, where she is constantly getting into mischief and is the despair of the nuns (“Maria”). Maria's life suddenly changes when a widowed navy captain, Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) sends to the abbey for a governess for his seven children. The Reverend Mother (Peggy Wood), unsure of Maria's suitability for the abbey, asks her to take the position on a probationary basis; previous governesses, though, have not last long.

Maria finds that the captain keeps his household in strict shipshape order, blowing a whistle, issuing orders, and dressing his children in sailor-suit uniforms. While the children are initially hostile to her, they warm to her when she comforts them during a thunderstorm (“My Favorite Things”). Liesl (Charmian Carr), who is “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”, sneaks in Maria's window after a secret meeting with the messenger boy, Rolfe (Daniel Truhitte). At first she is adamant that she “doesn't need a governess,” but Maria offers to be her friend, and she acquiesces. Maria teaches the children both how to sing (“Do-Re-Mi”) and how to play, sewing playclothes for them from discarded drapery.

The Captain entertains a visit from a lady friend, Baroness Elsa Schraeder (Eleanor Parker), a wealthy socialite from Vienna, along with mutual friend Max Dettweiler (Richard Haydn), who is intent on finding an obscure musical act to launch at the upcoming Salzburg Music Festival. Upon their arrival at the villa, the Captain becomes aware that Maria has been taking the children, Liesl, Friedrich (Nicholas Hammond), Louisa (Heather Menzies), Kurt (Duane Chase), Brigitta (Angela Cartwright), Marta (Debbie Turner), and Gretl (Kym Karath) on picnics and bicycle rides, climbed trees with them, and taken them in a boat on the lake adjoining the captain's estate; Maria, standing up in the boat, loses her balance the boat capsizes, throwing her and all the children into the water (all wearing their clothes made from former curtains). He dismisses the children to the house and turns his wrath on Maria. She begs him to pay attention to the children, to love them, but he orders her to return to the convent.

When he discovers the children performing a reprise of “The Sound of Music” for the Baroness, he changes his mind. Maria has brought music back into his home, and he begs her to stay, after all.

Things get better at the household. Maria and the children perform a puppet show("Lonely Goatherd") that Max gave to the family. Max announces that he has entered the children in the Salzburg Festival; the Captain, however, forbids their participation. Maria and the children insist that the Captain sing a song, knowing that he used to play and sing with a guitar as well, and he agrees ("Edelweiss").

At a soiree thrown in Schraeder's honor to celebrate her impending engagement to the Captain, (and to which Max insists that Maria change and attend as his guest), Maria sees eleven-year-old Kurt trying unsuccessfully to dance the Laendler, an Austrian folk dance, and tries to teach him the steps. The Captain sees this awkwardness from the sidelines and cuts in. The Captain and Maria perform the dance flawlessly with grace and charm. One of the steps in the dance forces them to gaze deeply into one another's eyes, and it is at this moment that Maria breaks off and blushes, stammering something about not being able to remember any more

The children perform “So Long, Farewell” to say goodnight to the guests, and shortly after, the Baroness, jealous of Maria, convinces her to return to Nonnberg, where she keeps herself in seclusion until the Reverend Mother confronts her, urging her to "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" in search of God's will for her. At the Reverend Mother's command, Maria returns to the von Trapp family, finding that the Captain is now engaged to the Baroness. Von Trapp, however, breaks off the engagement, realizing that he is in love with Maria, not Elsa. He meets Maria in his gazebo and they declare their love for each other (“Something Good”). Sometime later, the two wed.

While they are away on their honeymoon in Paris, Max, against their father's previously-stated wishes, grooms the children to perform in the Salzburg Music Festival. At the same time, Austria is annexed into the Third Reich in the Anschluss. When the Captain returns, he is informed that he must report to Nazi headquarters to accept a position in the Navy. He is opposed to Nazi ideals, and stalls by insisting he must perform in the Salzburg Festival. The choreography of the final song, “So Long, Farewell” allows the family to leave slowly, a few at a time, and as the winners are announced, they flee. At first they hide in Nonnberg Abbey, but are discovered by Rolfe, (who had joined the Nazi party), and flee. The Nazis are unable to pursue them, as the nuns have stolen their spark plug wires and ignition coil. The final shot shows the von Trapps climbing over the Alps into Switzerland, as “Climb Ev'ry Mountain," reprised by a choir, swells to a grand conclusion.

Production

Julie Andrews as Maria seeks guidance from the Mother Abbess, played by Peggy Wood.

Darryl and Richard D. Zanuck originally asked Robert Wise to do the film, but he turned it down because it was "too saccharine". They then approached Stanley Donen, Vincent Donehue, Gene Kelly and George Roy Hill, but they all turned it down.[3] Zanuck next asked William Wyler to direct the film. Because he was suffering from a loss of hearing that affected his ability to appreciate music fully, Wyler felt he was the wrong man for the job, but he agreed to fly to New York and see the Broadway production. Feeling many of the songs did not evolve organically from the plot, he remained undecided and wrote to the producer of Die Trapp-Familie, a 1956 non-musical film about the von Trapps, to ask his advice. "This cannot fail," he responded, and Wyler accepted the assignment.[4]

Wyler had seen the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady and had been impressed by Julie Andrews, who was in the process of filming Mary Poppins. He met with her on the set and asked Walt Disney if he could see some of the dailies. Convinced she was perfect for the role of Maria, he signed her to a contract.[4]

Wyler returned to New York and met with Maria von Trapp, then he and screenwriter Ernest Lehman and their wives flew to Austria to begin scouting locations in the Tyrolean Alps. There they visited the convent where von Trapp had been a novice, and Wyler discussed the possibility of filming scenes there with the Mother Superior. He then met with the mayor of Salzburg. Wyler was concerned that the presence of a film crew shooting German troops parading before buildings draped with the Nazi flag would be a harsh reminder of the Anschluss for those who had experienced it. The mayor assured him the residents had managed to live through it the first time and would survive it again.[4]

Wyler returned to Hollywood and began pre-production work on the film, but his wife realized his heart clearly was not in it. Then he was approached by Jud Kinberg and John Kohn, neophyte film producers who had purchased the rights to the John Fowles novel The Collector prior to its publication. They had a commitment from Terence Stamp to star in the film and a first draft screenplay by Stanley Mann. Wyler was impressed with the script and, feeling an affinity with the project he did not with The Sound of Music, he asked the Zanucks to release him from his contract. They agreed, and Robert Wise, who became available due to delays in production of The Sand Pebbles, was hired to replace Wyler.[3][4]

Cast

Historical accuracy

Both the musical and the film present a history of the von Trapp family, albeit one that is not completely accurate. The following depicts the differences between historical accuracy and the dramatic license taken by the filmmakers:

1. Georg Ludwig von Trapp, was indeed anti-Nazi, and did in fact live with his family in a villa in a district of Salzburg called Aigen, however the palace depicted in the film is a great exaggeration of their actual living situation.

2. Originally, Maria had been hired only to be a governess to young Maria who had come down with scarlet fever and needed her lessons at home.

3. Maria and Georg had been married 10 years before the Anschluss and had two of their three children before that time.

4. Unlike in the film, Georg had considered a position in the Kriegsmarine but ultimately did decide to emigrate with his family to Italy to go on yet another singing tour.[5] The captain was 58 years old in 1938, had not been in a submarine since 1918, and was not being pursued by the Nazi government.

5. The Anschluss occurred in March, however the Salzburg Music Festival is held in June, therefore the family could not have piggybacked their festival performance into an escape before the borders closed.

6. The bell cord on the real Nonnberg Abbey is strictly a prop and rings nothing, however the Abbey liked it anyway and requested it be left by the film crew.

7. While the film shows the von Trapp family hiking over the Alps from Austria to Switzerland, from Salzburg this is impossible. Salzburg is only a few kilometres away from the Austrian–German border and is much too far from either the Swiss or Italian borders for a family to escape by walking. Had the von Trapps hiked over the mountains they would have in all likelihood ended up in Germany near the Kehlsteinhaus, Hitler's mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden.

8. Georg von Trapp was born in the Austrian city of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia). Since this town became - as an enclave - part of Italy after WWI, he was considered an Italian citizen and therefore, so were all his family, including Maria. Therefore, all they really had to do was walk to the local train station and board the next train to Italy, from which they traveled to London and ultimately the United States.[5]

9. The genders of the two oldest children were swapped around, thus Friedrich (the second oldest in The Sound of Music) was based on Rupert (the oldest of the real von Trapp children), whereas Liesl (the oldest) was based on Agathe von Trapp, the second oldest and the oldest daughter. In addition to this, the names and ages of the children were changed, partly because the second-oldest daughter (who would be portrayed as "Louisa") was also named Maria.

10. Although the film does not recount an entirely accurate story of the family, it was filmed at original locations in the city and county of Salzburg and Upper Austria, including Nonnberg Abbey, and St. Peter cemetery. Leopoldskron Palace, Frohnburg Palace, and Hellbrunn Palace were some of the locations used for the Trapp Villa in the film.

The opening scene and aerial shots were filmed in Anif (Anif Palace), Mondsee, and Salzkammergut (Fuschl am See, St. Gilgen and Saint Wolfgang).[6]

Hohenwerfen Castle served as the main backdrop for the song "Do-Re-Mi." At the Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg, Maria and the children sing "Do-Re-Mi", dancing around the Horse fountain and using the steps as a musical scale.

Songs

The Sound of Music LP cover (UK edition).

All songs have music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II unless otherwise noted. Instrumental underscore passages were adapted by Irwin Kostal.

  1. "Prelude and The Sound of Music"
  2. "Overture" (Main Titles, consisting of "The Sound of Music", "Do-Re-Mi", "My Favorite Things", "Something Good" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain") segué into the Preludium
  3. "Preludium: Dixit Dominus", "Morning Hymn" (Rex admirabilis and Alleluia, based on traditional songs)
  4. "Maria"
  5. "I Have Confidence" (lyrics and music by Rodgers) (@ 0:18:04)
  6. "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" (@ 0:37:22)
  7. "My Favorite Things" (@ 0:47:42)
  8. "Salzburg Montage" (instrumental underscore based on "My Favorite Things")
  9. "Do-Re-Mi" (@ 0:54:55)
  10. "The Sound of Music" (reprise)
  11. "The Lonely Goatherd" (@ 1:15:38)
  12. "Edelweiss" (@ 1:21:36)
  13. "The Grand Waltz" (instrumental underscore, based on "My Favorite Things")
  14. "Ländler" (instrumental based on "The Lonely Goatherd")
  15. "So Long, Farewell" (@ 1:29:43)
  16. "Processional Waltz" (instrumental underscore)
  17. "Goodbye Maria/How Can Love Survive Waltz" (instrumental underscore, incorporating "Edelweiss" and the deleted song "How Can Love Survive?")
  18. "Edelweiss Waltz" (instrumental, Act 1 Finale, based on "Edelweiss")
  19. "Entr'acte" (instrumental, consisting of "I Have Confidence", "So Long, Farewell", "Do-Re-Mi", "Something Good" and "The Sound of Music")
  1. "The Sound of Music" (Sad Reprise Incomplete)
  2. "Climb Ev'ry Mountain"
  3. "My Favorite Things" (reprise)
  4. "Something Good" (lyrics and music by Rodgers)
  5. "Processional" (instrumental) and "Maria"
  6. "Sixteen Going On Seventeen" (reprise)
  7. "Do-Re-Mi" (Salzburg Folk Festival reprise)
  8. "Edelweiss" (Salzburg Folk Festival reprise)
  9. "So Long, Farewell" (Salzburg Folk Festival reprise)
  10. "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" (reprise)
  11. "End Titles"

"Edelweiss", thought by some to be a traditional Austrian song or even the Austrian national anthem, was written expressly for the musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Originally unknown in Austria, it has been promoted heavily there ever since, especially in Salzburg.

The songs "How Can Love Survive?", "An Ordinary Couple", and "No Way to Stop It" were not used in the film version. The omission of those songs had to be approved through Richard Rodgers.

There were four extra children singing with the main children to add more effect to their voices, including Darleen Carr, Charmian Carr's younger sister. However, these children were uncredited. Darleen Carr sang Kurt's high voice, during the reprise and "sad" versions of the title song, as well as the high "BYE" in the song "So Long, Farewell", and later for Gretl in its reprise towards the end of the film.

Reception

Maria with the von Trapp children.

The film premiered in the United States on March 2, 1965. It ultimately grossed over US$158 million at the U.S. and Canada box office, and displaced Gone with the Wind as all-time champion.[2][7] Adjusted for inflation, it made $1.046 billion at 2010 prices, putting it third on the list of all-time inflation-adjusted box office hits, behind Gone with the Wind and Star Wars.[2]

The soundtrack album on the RCA Victor label has sold over 11 million copies worldwide, and has never been out of print. The soundtrack album was included in the stockpile of records held in 20 underground radio stations of Great Britain's Wartime Broadcasting Service, designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack.[8][9]

Despite the enormous popularity of the movie, some critics were unimpressed. Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune had written the one negative review of the stage musical by calling it "not only too sweet for words but almost too sweet for music"; similarly, noted film critic Pauline Kael blasted the film by calling it "the sugar-coated lie people seem to want to eat," and "we have been turned into emotional and aesthetic imbeciles when we hear ourselves humming the sickly, goody-goody songs."[10] This review allegedly led to Kael's dismissal from McCall's magazine.[7][10]

Controversy surrounded the film's release in Germany. According to a 1994 documentary, From Fact to Phenomenon: The Real Story of the von Trapp Family Singers narrated by Claire Bloom included on the 30th Anniversary laserdisc box set of the film "...the film's Nazi overtones brought about the unauthorized cutting of the entire third act," which begins directly after Maria's wedding to the Baron and contains images of post-Anschluss Austria. Eventually, the third act was restored to the German release, but audience attendance did not improve, and the movie is ironically unknown in Germany and Austria.[11] This can be mainly attributed to the former German-made movie "Die Trapp-Familie" (1956) and its sequel "Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika" (1958), but also to the dark period of Austrian history, cursorily displayed in the latter movie.

Ten years later, Robert Wise would later make another historical film known as The Hindenburg which also used at least some of the film's plot keywords and settings.

The Sound of Music is credited as the film that saved 20th Century Fox, after high production costs and low revenue for Cleopatra nearly bankrupted the studio.[7]

A lady in Wales broke a movie going record when she saw "Sound of Music" over 959 times.

The worst film editing in history occurred in South Korea, when due to the film's length, the editors cut out all of the songs from "Sound of Music".

Retitles

The film was adapted for other countries, including:

Rather than leaving the songs in English as was common practice at the time, soundtrack songs were carefully translated into six languages and re-recorded by local talent in order to more closely identify with Spanish, Italian, French, German, Chinese and Japanese audiences. This effort helped the film achieve its massive international success.

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

Wins[12]

Nominations

Golden Globe Awards

Wins

Nominations

Television and video releases

Video box cover

The first American television airing was on ABC on February 29, 1976 to record ratings. The film wasn't seen on TV again until NBC acquired the broadcast rights. Their first telecast of the film was on February 11, 1979.[13] NBC continued to air it annually for twenty years, often preempting regular programming. During most of its run on NBC, the film was heavily edited to fit a three-hour time slot (approximately 140 minutes without commercials).

Starting in 1995, the movie aired in an uncut form on NBC (on April 9, 1995, minus the entr'acte). Julie Andrews hosted the four-hour telecast which presented the musical numbers in a letterbox format. As the film's home video availability cut into its TV ratings, NBC let their contract lapse at the turn of the 21st century. In 2001 it had a one time airing on the Fox network, again in its heavily-edited 140-minute version. Currently, it airs at Christmas time on ABC since 2003 and around Easter on its sister cable network, ABC Family, where its most recent runs have been the full version in a four-hour time slot, complete with the entr'acte. ABC broadcast the movie in HD resolution on December 28, 2008. Canada's CTV also put the movie in a four hour time slot broadcast during the holidays.

In the UK, the first television airing was on BBC One, on Christmas Day, 1978 at 4.20pm.

The film has been released on VHS, Laserdisc, and DVD numerous times. The movie is often included in box sets with other Rodgers & Hammerstein film adaptations. A 40th anniversary DVD, with "making of" documentaries and special features, was released in 2005. The film is slated to make its debut issue in Blu-Ray during Christmas 2010, for its 45th anniversary.[14].

Legacy

It has been in included in numerous "Top 100" lists from the American Film Institute including:

Every year starting in 2005 the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California holds an annual Sound of Music sing-a-long, where the film is played with song lyrics underneath the screen. The actors who played the Von Trapp Children in the film along with the real Von Trapp children have made appearances at this event. Called "The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Prozac", this event has sold out every year since its inception.

This movie has also featured a parody in Mad magazine.

The song "The Sound of Music" was used in the movie Moulin Rouge!

References

  1. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=soundofmusic.htm
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "All Time Box Office Adjusted For Ticket Price Inflation". boxofficemojo.com. http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm. Retrieved April 2, 2008. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Classic American films: conversations with the screenwriters. William Baer. 2008: Greenwood.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Herman, Jan, A Talent for Trouble: The Life of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1995. ISBN 0-399-14012-3, pp. 419–422
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gearin, Joan (Winter 2005). "Movie vs. Reality:The Real Story of the von Trapp Family". Prologue (National Archives and Records Administration) 37 (4). http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html. Retrieved April 2, 2008. 
  6. ↑ "The Sound of Music-shooting locations". 2007. http://www2.salzburg.info/soundofmusic_462.htm. Retrieved December 30, 2007. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Purdum, Todd (June 1, 2005). "'The Sound of Music':40 years of unstoppable success". International Herald Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/31/features/music.php. Retrieved April 3, 2008. 
  8. ↑ Hellen, Nicholas (July 11, 1999). "Julie Andrews to sing to Brits during nuclear attack". Sunday Times. 
  9. ↑ Article noting that BBC had The Sound of Music materials ready for broadcast in case of nuclear attack
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Tucker, Ken (February 9, 1999). "A Gift for Effrontery". Salon.com. http://www.salon.com/bc/1999/02/09bc.html. Retrieved April 3, 2008. 
  11. ↑ Dassanowsky, Robert Von (2003). "An Unclaimed Country: The Austrian Image in American Film and the Sociopolitics of The Sound of Music". Bright Lights Film Journal 41. http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/41/soundofmusic.htm. Retrieved April 7, 2007. 
  12. ↑ "NY Times: The Sound of Music". NY Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/45745/The-Sound-of-Music/awards. Retrieved December 26, 2008. 
  13. ↑ "Chaos in Television". TIME. March 12, 1979. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948438,00.html. Retrieved April 2, 2008. 
  14. ↑ http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=4204

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