The Sound of Music
The hills are alllliiiiiivvveee~~…wait, HOLY THE HILLS ARE ALIVE!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! Just kidding, but seriously, The Sound of Music is so amazing its like the hills are actually alive and it…is…awesome!
The movie The Sound of Music is an amazing, romantic and suspenseful work of art. The story begins with a camera pan of the alps that zooms in on Maria (Julie Andrews) whom is belting out the hills are alive with such power it just about knocks your socks off. Plot then ensues. Maria is a nun that just can’t seem to get anything right, she’s always gallivanting through the mountains and late for mass. She is eventually sent to become a nanny to the Von Trapp family and romance, family warm and fuzzies and drama begin.
Moving on to the characters, Maria (Julie Andrews) is a wonderfully fleshed out character. She is caring, loving, charming although she acts very much like in a teenager in the way that she doesn’t have enough discipline. Never at any point in the movie does the viewer stop and wonder about her motives because of the amazing performance by Julie Andrews. Georg Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) is the love interest to Maria and the father to the seven children that Maria is supposed to care for. The final main character is Baroness Elsa Schraeder (Eleanor Parker). She is the perfect foil to Maria because she is ultra sophisticated and highly mannered and upper-class. She is the conflicting love interest to Georg. The supporting characters of the nuns and the Von Trapp family do their job very well, they are dense enough to make the audience care about them but they don’t distract from the main points.
The plot is an old time romance that also has an underlying plot of the Nazi regime encroaching on Austria and thus the Von Trapp family. The plot has enough romance that it tugs at the heart strings and action to make the heart race.
Onto miscellaneous other items, like the soundtrack. (because one cannot review The Sound of Music without mentioning the soundtrack). The music is beautifully done and only adds to the breadth and depth of the story. Never once does the singing ever feel misplaced.
So my final recommendations for The Sound of Music? If you haven’t seen it, go out, get the movie and watch it. Because if you don’t random hills will come alive (haha).
-Gothie
