Things In The Sound Of Music You Never Noticed As A Kid

"The Sound of Music" is either a musical lover's go-to musical or it's secretly a macho dude's favorite movie. There is a lot to love about 1965’s "The Sound of Music." It breaks down music and sound and gives you the belief that anyone can sing if they know the basic notes. Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer also make a great on-screen couple who have great singing pipes. It’s just an all-around feel-good movie that leaves feeling full of hope and singing for days. But there are, however, some things that you may not have noticed about "The Sound of Music" when you were a kid. Beneath the songs and the beautiful Austrian countryside there are some troubling things about this beloved movie.

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Surprising innuendo | 0:00
More than a dance | 1:11
Soft on the Nazis | 2:05
Queer icon | 2:56
Rolfe is bad news | 3:57
Justice for the Baroness | 4:48
Backwards gender roles | 5:45
Uncle Max is doomed | 6:46
Historical inaccuracies | 7:41
The clothes tell the story | 8:39

[GrungeHQ]

What do you think about The Sound Of Music?

[dorothyyoung]

Your odd statement that Capt. VonTrapp would more likely have sympathized with the Germans doesn’t hold water. Georg VonTrapp was a real person whose political views are documented.

[benjalucian]

Think you're looking at things that aren't there. Maria dresses the way she does at the beginning because she's a nun. They wear modest clothing that covers them up. She wears her hair short because all nuns cut their hair. She feels like an outsider everywhere and her self doubt is because she's young and doesn't know what to do with herself, a phase ALL of us go through. The message of a girl not coming unto her own until she's married is not unheard of for a musical and story from the mid 20th century. Marriage was an expected rite of passage for young women. In wealthy families, girls were brought up to be innocent and naive. They weren't exactly going to go out and get jobs, you know?

[smarties]

The climb every mountain comment is ridiculous. It's a metaphor for struggles in life.. not an inuendo for jumping Captain Vontrapp

[floridapmi]

The name of the video should be: Things in The Sound of Music we made up so you would click on it.

[slytheringingerwitch]

Sorry did you mention her haircut as a symbol of Maria being bisexual? She was training to be a nun, they cut their hair on entering the abbey. I am flabbergasted that you didn't know this.

[michaelmckenna]

Although we loved to hate the baroness, she was really a good person who was born and bred as an aristocrat. She was in love with Baron Von Trapp so naturally, she tried her best not to lose her man. But when she saw the handwriting on the wall, she gracefully stepped aside for Maria.

[alistairt]

I think some people don't understand the culture and the traditions of Catholic religious community for women which are nins are a part of. Her having short hair and unflattering clothes isn't just her expressing her tomboyish personality, but that's a normal practice of modesty. My nanny became a nun and her hair was cut short and she never wore clothes that showed the form of her body. She lives a very modest, simple, and pious life.

[deliaramirez]

Your comments on a movie that showed a sense of decency is an example of how distorted today’s values have become. This movie is a time honored classic that doesn’t deserve such slander.

[myjeevie]

Within moments we have a clear demonstration of how it is possible to throw dirt on the loveliest things in life, in the most simplistic and vulgar of ways. This is just sick.

[PupInNC]

My god this may be the most ludicrous interpretation since Reefer Madness.

[DougSchofield]

I have seen sound of music more than a dozen times. This analysis of the movie is just STUPID.

[carolcheney]

The Captain was portrayed as anti nazi because the real Captain Georg Von Trapp as well as the rest of the family was anti nazi. The real Captain did refuse a position in the German Navy as shown in the movie but the real reason they left Austria is because the family refused a request to perform for Hitler. They knew they had to leave or risk being sent to a nazi labor camp for the refusal.

[pamelahermano]

The role of the Baroness could have easily become a very typical villain type role… but in the hands of Eleanor Parker the character was a highlight of the film that had complex depth.

[missg]

No matter how hard You try, You can't ruin this movie.

[alannothnagle]

Most of these "revelations" are completely off the wall - seriously, folks, sometimes a pine cone is just a friggin' pine cone! - but the video is correct about the Baroness. Although I used to think she was old, ugly, and evil when I was a child, I later realized that she is young, beautiful, and justified in trying to defend her desires and interests. Yes, she manipulates Maria so that she can keep Georg for herself, but she immediately abandons her hopes of love and marriage when she realizes she has lost the competition. While not a perfect person, she is nevertheless true to her caste and era and she remains classy. BTW, Austrians hate the movie, and while I love it as an enchanting fable about the power of music to transform the human soul, I understand why they don't. For example, none of the British-American-Canadian actors seem in any way Austrian, and the authors transposed the "Anschluss" (annexation) of Austria by Hitler from dreary March to sometime in the summer in order to make the plot work. That isn't classy! For those looking for an equally high-quality but more realistic version of this story, there's a very good German version in color that was made in the 1950s. It even has a sequel, about the Von Trapp family in America!

[jackkircher]

It was a touching moment when the baroness admits defeat by telling the captain that she believes that the young lady walking in the garden will "never became a nun.

[sigelward]

Did not really need this
It's a love story . End of story.

[terrygoyan]

Some of these suppositions are a real stretch! Remember, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar....

[tgchism]

You're looking at a 1960's portrayal of an even earlier time through a 2021 politically correct set of glasses.