The Sound Of Music (Special Edition) (DVD)

...that most of you know the film, at least the name but just in case you don't know it I am going it to introduce it to you.

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LIST OF CREDITS
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TITLE ORIGINAL: The sound of music

PRODUCER: ...
...SCRIPT: Ernest Lehman based on the musical comedy of Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse

MUSIC: Richard Rodgers, adapted and directed by Irwin Kostal

PHOTOGRAPHY Ted McCord (Colour)

DURATION: 2 hours and 45 minutes

ASSEMBLY: William H. Reynolds

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Right now I have finished watching this film again on TV. How many times have I seen it in my life? Uff... considering that it's on TV every year in Christmas (and I am over thirty) and that I have been having it in video for years... impossible to count. And it is that it does not tire to me.

I imagine that most of you know the film, at least the name but just in case you don't know it I am going it to introduce it to you.

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LIST OF CREDITS
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TITLE ORIGINAL: The sound of music

PRODUCER: Argyle Enterprises for Twentieth Century Fox

PRODUCER: Robert Wise and Samuel Chaplin DIRECTOR: Robert Wise

INTERPRET: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Peggy Wood, Richard Haydn

SCRIPT: Ernest Lehman based on the musical comedy of Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse

MUSIC: Richard Rodgers, adapted and directed by Irwin Kostal

PHOTOGRAPHY Ted McCord (Colour)

DURATION: 2 hours and 45 minutes

ASSEMBLY: William H. Reynolds

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ARGUMENT
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History turns around the life of Maria, a beginner nun who aspires to become a nun and lives in an abbey. But she does not adapt to the religious life and she is sent to the house of the family Von Trapp where the head of household has been left widower and in charge of his seven children to whom he directs and orders with a strict and military regime. The beginner must face the rejection of the children and to the opposition of the father to carry out her work as she wants but little by little manages to gain the confidence and the affection of the children and with her enters the happiness and the music into the house. Without wanting it the ingenuous girl falls in love with her "boss" and for that reason she flees again from those new feelings hiding in the convent. A Future "step mother", an adolescent love, the third Reich and the Nazis, many precious songs and a landscape of Austria make that film tender, and entertainment... with a pretty end although predictable but not for that reason is less pretty.

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REAL HISTORY
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The history of the film is based on the real history of the family Von Trapp and in some things is very adorned but in others is very truly.

For example in the real life Maria went to the house to take care of single of one of the daughters of the captain. His wife had died of scarlet fever and the girl had been infected of this disease and although she had surpassed, it had left her very weak and she couldn't attend the school.

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THE MUSICA
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The film is full of songs that have been hits as much in its time as throughout years. Some of these are: "Climb every mountain", "The sound of music", "Maria", "Sixteen, going on seventeen", "My favourite things", "Edelweiss" or "Do Re Mi" whose letter most of us used to learn the musical notes. Do you remember??

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CURIOSITIES
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The true Maria (whose name as a single person was Maria Augusta Kutchera) appears in the film. She went to visit the running in 1964 to know the actors and they gave her a small paper in the film. It appears underneath an arc of Salzburgo, between shades, in the scene in which Maria (Julie Andrews) travels for the first time from the Abby to the house of the Von Trapp.

It is known by many one the failures of the film. When Maria goes to the market with the children appears a poster in a box of oranges that puts: "Product of Israel". One assumes that in 1930 when the film is developed this country doesn't exist.

It is said in a lot of webs that the film has been watch by 1,000 million people in the world.

Julie Andrews puts its voice in the songs of the film whereas Christopher Plummer was doubled.

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PRIZES
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It seems that not only to me the film is wonderful because it obtained 10 nominations to the Oscars in 1965 obtaining those of better film (Robert Wise), better director (Robert Wise), better assembly (William H. Reynolds), better sound track (Irwin Kostal) and better sound (James P. Corcoran and Fred Haynes). The other nominations, and those that not won, were better actress Julie Andrews, better secondary actress Peggy Wood, better scenery in colour, better colour photograph Ted McCord and better clothes in colour.

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MY PERSONAL OPINION
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I believe that with all which I have already told you about the film exceeds to say that I love this film. It does not have action, it does not have intrigues, it I can either be denominated as romantic... nevertheless is precious. It is a simple, tender and precious history. It does not have waste. And what to say about the music. I also like it very much. Maybe this comes in the genes jajjaja because my mother has the vinyl of the sound track of this film. I recommend it to everybody, old, young and child. To parents and children. This film is one of those that can be seen in family with important values: some good education, value from the friendship and the treason, the affection between brothers, the importance of the family.

You must watch it at least once: -)

A greeting to all from Pucela (Spain) and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

 

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