History YMMV / TheSoundOfMusic

** The film received ten UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations and won five, but Creator/ChristopherPlummer wasn't nominated for Best Actor.

* SweetnessAversion: Despite its success on UsefulNotes/{{Broadway}}, it became regarded as treacly and old-fashioned. The movie made some attempts to tone this down (e.g., changing the placements of some songs, casting actors who could try and add dimension to their roles) without completely eliminating it. Creator/ChristopherPlummer still famously described the film version as "The Sound of Mucus" because of this trope.

* FanPreferredCutContent: Christopher Plummer hated how his singing sounded, and asked for Bill Lee to dub him. Once a version of "Eidelweiss" with his original voice [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obEm1Mqm7C0 surfaced on YouTube]], many fans wish it had been used in the final film.

* {{Fanon}}: Fans sometimes assume that Captain von Trapp's first wife [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to Gretl.]] For example, there's the ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parody where Bitch Pudding-as-Maria nicknames Gretl "Mommy Killer." This is never actually implied, and in RealLife, she died of scarlet fever when Martina (Gretl) was a year old.

* {{Narm}}: The scene in the movie where the Captain tears up a Nazi flag becomes this if the viewer notices that the flag already has a rip, which Christopher Plummer searches for, then makes bigger (at least his hunting for the tear line can be given an in-universe explanation - he's making sure he rips straight through the middle of the swastika).

** The third-place winner at the festival. Is she really that much of a CloudCuckooLander? Or is she in on helping the Von Trapps escape, and is [[ObfuscatingStupidity deliberately wasting as much time as she can]] on stage in order to give them a few more precious seconds to get further away?

* AwardSnub: The film received ten UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations and won five, but Creator/ChristopherPlummer wasn't nominated for Best Actor.

** Maria is almost always described in pop culture as the Von Trapp children's nanny. She's actually their governess: a live-in homeschool teacher, not an all-purpose caregiver.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** The nuns, of course! They dismantled a car to save an Austrian family from the Nazis! Reverend Mother in particular for being a CoolOldLady that clearly cares a lot for her fellow nuns.
** That BrawnHilda who wins third place and gives the Von Trapps valuable time to make their getaway through her shameless and enthusiastic hamminess as she accepts the prize.

* OneSceneWonder: The BrawnHilda who wins third place at the concert, and won't get off the stage.

* AmericansHateTingle: "The Sound of Music" isn't particularly well known by Austrians, with the exception of Salzburg because, well, MoneyDearBoy. Sound of Music Tours are quite popular. One of the main reasons ([[ThoseWackyNazis apart from the obvious]]) is due to the fact that the plays and movies replace the Austrian folk songs that most Austrians were accustomed to. Similarly, the works were not much liked in Germany either for similar reasons. (That and the BadExportForYou situation).

* CriticalDissonance: When the film originally came out, critical response was quite mixed. The praise that it got from most major critics was pretty low-key at best, and a few noteworthy reviewers from the time outright thrashed the film. This is in quite obvious contrast to the film's smash-hit success and continued status as a pop culture icon. One of the reviewers (Pauline Kael of [=McCall's=] Magazine) lampshaded this, quite affectionately referring to the movie as "the sugar-coated lie people seem to want to eat."

** Is Georg left heart-broken and harsh after the death of his first wife, only to be awoken by the beautiful music of his children, or was it because he realized how good a good nanny Maria is for them after firing so many? Or does he warm up as he begins to fall in love with Maria?

* {{Padding}}: For the film version, "The Lonely Goatherd." The montage doesn't help the plot in any significant way or form, nor does it help with character development like the musical version, which it was played at the thunderstorm. In the movie version, the montage is just "there" and appears to serve no purpose whatsoever. A Blu-Ray bonus feature discussing all of the numbers tries to at least designate "Lonely Goatherd" as the one that convinces Uncle Max to sign up the Von Trapps for the festival. Although, it doesn't mark the first time he heard them sing, nor does he appear to have them sing it again during rehearsal or the festival.

* WTHCostumingDepartment: In the Creator/{{NBC}} version, Maria's dress on her first day as governess looks much nicer than in the 1964 movie or in previous Broadway productions, not to mention less consistent with the description given in Maria's autobiography, which means all dialogue about [[EvenBeggarsWontChooseIt its extreme homeliness]] no longer make sense.

* WTHCostumingDepartment: In the Creator/{{NBC}} version, Maria's dress on her first day as governess looks much nicer than in previous Broadway productions, not to mention less consistent with the description given in Maria's autobiography, which means all dialogue about [[EvenBeggarsWontChooseIt its extreme homeliness]] no longer make sense.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: Despite its success on UsefulNotes/{{Broadway}}, it became regarded as treacly and old-fashioned. The movie made some attempts to tone this down (e.g., changing the placements of some songs, casting actors who could try and add dimension to their roles) without completely eliminating it. Creator/ChristopherPlummer still famously described the film version as "The Sound of Mucus" because of this trope.

* CommonKnowledge: It's a common misconception ([[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1984/03/04/edelweiss/7eadc055-7a8a-4a75-8bf5-7a35f31bb530/ most infamously by Ronald Reagan]]) that Edelweiss is actually the Austrian national anthem making its reprise at the Nazi concert more badass. It is not; the actual anthem for most of history is known as "Land der Berge, Land am Strome"; not only that, but at the time the movie is set it would have been "Sei gesegnet ohne Ende". This hasn't exactly helped real Austrians' views on the film especially since it persists in some foreigners to this day. Still, people have used the myth in creative ways, such as being used as the opening theme for ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle''.

* DesignatedVillain: The Baroness. In the musical, the only thing she did wrong was be rich, unliked by the children (and even then, only in comparison to Maria), and choosing not to cause any trouble with Germany to save their heads. She was made a little cattier in the movie, but really at worst she was just preventing Maria from moving in on her fiance. And then there's the live Creator/CarrieUnderwood show, where, thanks to a virtuoso performance by Creator/LauraBenanti, many viewers were rooting for her over Maria!

* DesignatedVillain: The Baroness. In the musical, the only thing she did wrong was be rich, unliked by the children (and even then, only in comparison to Maria), and choosing not to cause any trouble with Germany to save their heads. She was made a little cattier in the movie, but really at worst she was just preventing Maria from moving in on her fiance. And then there's the live Creaotr/CarrieUnderwood show, where, thanks to a virtuoso performance by Creator/LauraBenanti, many viewers were rooting for her over Maria!

* DesignatedVillain: The Baroness. In the musical, the only thing she did wrong was be rich, unliked by the children (and even then, only in comparison to Maria), and choosing not to cause any trouble with Germany to save their heads. She was made a little cattier in the movie, but really at worst she was just preventing Maria from moving in on her fiance. And then there's the live Carrie Underwood show, where, thanks to a virtuoso performance by Creator/LauraBenanti, many viewers were rooting for her over Maria!

* WTHCostumingDepartment: In the NBC version, Maria's dress on her first day as governess looks much nicer than in previous Broadway productions, not to mention less consistent with the description given in Maria's autobiography, which means all dialogue about [[EvenBeggarsWontChooseIt its extreme homeliness]] no longer make sense.

* AmericansHateTingle: "The Sound of Music" isn't particularly well known by Austrians, with the exception of Salzburg because, well, MoneyDearBoy. Sound of Music Tours are quite popular. One of the main reasons ([[ThoseWackyNazis apart from the obvious]]) is due to the fact that the plays and movies replace the Austrian folk songs that most Austrians were accustomed to. Similarly, the works were not much liked in Germany either for similar reasons. (That and the BadExportForYou situation.)
* CantUnhearIt: Every actress to play Maria ever since the movie have been firmly stuck in Creator/JulieAndrews' shadow.[[note]]Even Kara Tointon, who received nigh-universal praise for her work in the 2015 ITV live production, still isn't seen as ''quite'' as good as Julie.[[/note]] Especially noticeable given the role was originated by Mary Martin, herself a legend of Broadway, yet Andrews' work in the movie eclipsed Martin's nonetheless. To a lesser extent, even though he didn't do his own singing and had harsh words towards the film until his later years, Creator/ChristopherPlummer was so often linked to this movie, that it can be difficult to think of someone else as Georg.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: There's a sad irony that Charmian Carr, who sang "Sixteen Going On Going" as Liesl, would pass away in September 2016, or 2016 going on 2017.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Captain Von Trapp asks Maria if she was this much trouble in the abbey, to which Maria responds "oh much more sir". After the film premiered, the real Maria always joked that it toned her behaviour in the abbey down - claiming she was much worse.
** Liesl asking if she could taste her first champagne at the party, only for her father to say no and send her to bed. Charmian Carr who played Liesl later said that Creator/ChristopherPlummer taught her how to drink in real life.
** The Baroness says to Captain von Trapp that his cook's good Wiener Schnitzels are making her put on weight. In RealLife Creator/ChristopherPlummer put on several pounds during filming in Austria, so his costumes had to be made bigger.
** The finale has the Von Trapps hiking through the mountains to get to Switzerland, which is now known to be a severe case of ArtisticLicenceGeography - and in reality they just got on a train. In the Julie Andrews film ''Film/DarlingLili'', when her character runs for the border, she does indeed get on a train this time.
** Another ''Film/DarlingLili'' one. Julie Andrews claims that the helicopter getting the opening shot kept knocking her over with the force of its blades. In the finale of ''Darling Lili'', her love interest flies low past her in a field, ''not'' knocking her over.
** Maria's shocked reaction to the Von Trapp family having seven children - when you realise in real life that Maria had three more children with the captain in addition to the seven.
** In 2003, Creator/{{ABC}} aired the Fox movie as part of ''[[Series/WaltDisneyPresents The Wonderful World of Disney]]''. Sixteen years later, after the merger between Disney and Fox in 2019, it officially joined that "world". Even before that, the Adventures by Disney family package tour company's Austria itinerary included a ''Sound of Music'' tour of Salzburg.

* ValuesDissonance: "Sixteen Going On Seventeen" is ''full'' of this following the rise in feminism. Though considering that the song is sung by the rat bastard who sells the family out to the Nazis in the movie, that the Nazis aggressively promoted total obedience and traditional household roles for women, and that Liesl acts almost as aggressive towards Rolfe as the men in the song would towards her, it's easy to view it as DeliberateValuesDissonance and {{Foreshadowing}}. The reprise -- in which Maria blissfully sings about the "adventure" of finding a man to "belong to" through marriage -- seems especially hard to defend, even if the result of Maria's advice is to convince Liesl that if that's what marriage entails, she's not ready for it.

* CantUnhearIt: Every actress to play Maria ever since the movie have been firmly stuck in Creator/JulieAndrews' shadow. Especially noticeable given the role was originated by Mary Martin, herself a legend of Broadway, yet Andrews' work in the movie eclipsed Martin's nonetheless. To a lesser extent, even though he didn't do his own singing and had harsh words towards the film until his later years, Creator/ChristopherPlummer was so often linked to this movie, that it can be difficult to think of someone else as Georg.

* RetroactiveRecognition: When we first watch Brigitta (played by Angela Cartwright) getting hit on the behind by Captain Von Trapp with a book, our reactions today would be "That's no way to treat [[Series/LostInSpace Penny Robinson]]!"

* CantUnhearIt: Every actress to play Maria ever since the movie have been firmly stuck in Creator/JulieAndrews' shadow.