History Theatre / TheSoundOfMusic

-->-- '''Maria'''

* AdaptationNameChange: The musical gives Maria Kutschera her own mother's maiden name, Rainer, presumably because it is simpler for an English-speaking audience. All of the children are given different first names; Rupert, Agathe, [[OneSteveLimit Maria]] Franziska, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna, and Martina become, respectively, Friedrich, Liesl (who swaps ages with her brother to become the oldest), Louisa, Kurt, Brigitta, Marta, and Gretl.

Unfortunately the Anschluss happens while the two are on their honeymoon and when they return Georg is "asked" to accept a command in the new German navy. Being strongly opposed to Hitler, the family resolves to leave Austria for Switzerland using the pretext of attending a local folk music festival for cover. But the Nazis are not so easily bamboozled and the von Trapps will not get away quite that easily...

** Georg's friend who keeps house for him until he can find a wife - which is understandable given that she is a Baroness and so (in the film version) is Georg's fiancee, so two Baronesses in one plot could become confusing.

* LesCollaborateurs: All the Austrians who are accepting Nazi rule are collaborators, represented by Uncle Max and the Baroness. But the Captain refuses to budge, straining their relationship with him. In RealLife, the majority of Austrians viewed themselves at that time as Germans and not as their own nation (with prominent people in the minority being Austrian nobility like the Von Trapps, who feared becoming part of a German government founded and still dominated by Austria's longtime {{rival}}, the Prussia).
* ColorblindCasting: The 2013 live version casts a black woman (Audra [=McDonald=]) in the role of the Mother Abbess. Well okay, it's not ''impossible'' that a black woman could be in an Austrian nunnery in the 1930s, but it seems ''very'' unlikely. [[AbilityOverAppearance However, it ''is'' very difficult to find a singer-actress with the pipes to handle the role.]] Incidentally, [=McDonald=] is the same woman who was color-blindly cast in the 1999 version of ''{{Film/Annie|1999}}''.

%%* DadTheVeteran: The Captain served in WWI and was decorated for his actions.

--> '''Von Trapp''': "Since you've obviously stuffed yourselves on ''thousands'' of delicious berries, you can't be hungry anymore...so I'll have to tell Frau Schmidt to ''skip'' your dinner."

''The Sound of Music'' is the final -- and most famous -- musical composed by Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein (the latter of whom died of stomach cancer just nine months after its Broadway premiere), based on the story of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Trapp_Family_Singers the Trapp Family Singers]]''. The musical was inspired by the earlier, now largely forgotten 1956 German movie adaptation of the book, ''Die Trapp-Familie'' (''The Trapp Family''),[[note]]Largely forgotten except in German-speaking Europe, where it is more highly regarded than ''The Sound of Music''.[[/note]] Features nuns, ThoseWackyNazis, and ''not'' the UsefulNotes/{{Austria}}n national anthem; and has inspired a great many pop culture references and pastiches.

* LesCollaborateurs: All the Austrians who are accepting Nazi rule are collaborators, represented by Uncle Max and the Baroness. But the Captain refuses to budge, straining their relationship with him. In RealLife, the majority of Austrians viewed themselves at that time as Germans and not as their own nation (with prominent people in the minority being Austrian nobility like the Von Trapps, who feared becoming part of a German government founded and still dominated by Austria's longtime {{rival|s}} from Prussia).

* LesCollaborateurs: All the Austrians who are accepting Nazi rule are collaborators, represented by Uncle Max and the Baroness. But the Captain refuses to budge, straining their relationship with him. In RealLife, the majority of Austrians viewed themselves at that time as Germans and not as their own nation (with prominent people in the minority being Austrian nobility like the Von Trapps, who were afraid to be dominated by the largely-Prussian German nobility, Prussia being Austria's {{rival}}).

* {{Letterbox}}: From 1995-2000, Creator/{{NBC}} showed the musical numbers in widescreen during their telecasts of this movie. Everything else appeared in PanAndScan, though.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The ''hills'' are '''''alive'''''...]]

* ''Film/TheSoundOfMusc'', a movie in 1965, with Creator/JulieAndrews as Maria and Creator/ChristopherPlummer as the Captain.

''The Sound of Music'' is the final -- and most famous -- musical composed by Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein (the latter of whom died of stomach cancer just nine months after its Broadway premiere), based on the story of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Trapp_Family_Singers the Trapp Family Singers]]''. The musical was inspired by the earlier, now largely forgotten 1956 German movie adaptation of the book, ''Die Trapp-Familie'' (''The Trapp Family''),[[note]]Largely forgotten except in German-speaking Europe, where it is more highly regarded than ''The Sound of Music''.[[/note]] and was made into a movie in 1965, with Creator/JulieAndrews as Maria and Creator/ChristopherPlummer as the Captain. In 1991, the book was again independently adapted in [[Anime/TrappFamilyStory a 40 episode anime]] as part of the ''Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater'' series. A live broadcast of the original stage production starring Music/CarrieUnderwood and [[Series/TrueBlood Stephen Moyer]] aired on Creator/{{NBC}} in 2013, the first live television presentation of a musical since ''Theatre/CinderellaRodgersAndHammerstein'' in 1957. Creator/{{ITV}} followed suit in 2015 with its own live broadcast, starring Kara Tointon and West End stalwart Julian Ovenden.

Features nuns, ThoseWackyNazis, and ''not'' the UsefulNotes/{{Austria}}n national anthem; and has inspired a great many pop culture references and pastiches. The film is virtually unknown in Austria itself, which is odd considering the English-speaking world knows Austria as "that country from ''The Sound of Music''" (that or "the country where [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] is from" [[note]]which, funnily enough, is not strictly true, since the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg was still an independent country when Mozart was born there in 1756.[[/note]]). The exception being the city of Salzburg (which is, ironically, also Mozart's hometown), and mostly because of the tourists constantly talking about ''The Sound of Music''.

* SixtiesHair: In the 1965 film, Maria dons a bowl cut, which would be considered out of place in late 1930s Austria. Somewhat justified in that Maria would've had her hair cut short upon entering the convent as a postulant, but still....
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Captain Von Trapp's reaction to the children's lies about going to see Maria. He's clearly trying not to burst into laughter.

* AdaptationExpansion: The film takes advantage of the fact that it doesn't take place on a single stage in order to expand the story, with events such as Maria taking longer to gain the children's trust, an extended trip through Salzburg and up into the mountains, and the kids trying to go and see Maria when she returns to the abbey.

* AdaptationalVillainy:
** In the show, Rolfe finds the family and calls for his Lieutenant, but decides not to turn them in after seeing Liesl. In the movie, Rolfe almost lets them get away after the Captain takes his gun but ends up calling for the Nazis anyway.
** ZigZagged by the Baroness's character. She's cattier to Maria in the film adaptation, and even that is fairly downplayed, but once she realizes she's lost the Captain to her, she exits much more gracefully and amicably than in the original stage musical, where she hardly interacts with Maria at all, and she and the captain split messily after it becomes clear they can't agree on whether to oppose or passively tolerate the Nazis. The film also portrays the Baroness and the children as seeming to barely know each other, while the stage version gives us dialogue explaining that the children certainly like her fine but simply prefer Maria by far.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Some productions present Uncle Max as such.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Heading over the beautiful Alps the way they show in the movie would lead them straight into '''Germany''', not Switzerland. Worse, it takes them straight south from Salzberg to Hitler's Berghof residence, with his seasonal home of Obersalzburg and the Kelhsteinhaus located near Berchtesgaden in southeast Bavaria.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Though it isn't readily apparent in the film version, the stage musical emphasises Maria's and Georg's shared love of music, Austria, and the mountains, which adds even more of a foundation to their romance.

* BlatantLies: When the children explain to their father where they've been after secretly trying to go see Maria. Made even funnier by the fact that he's clearly aware they're talking rubbish, and the excuses to patch up the holes in their story just get more and more absurd. For instance, strawberries that were so cold they turned blue...

* BlitheSpirit: Maria in the von Trapp household.
* {{Bookends}}:
** The film opens with panoramic views of the mountains, then zooms onto Maria [[note]]Somewhat ironically, this iconic scene which establishes Maria's deep love for the essentially Austrian countryside was actually shot on the German side of the border since the filmmakers considered the scenery there much more photogenic.[[/note]]. The movie ends with Maria and her new family hiking through the same mountains towards the safety of the border. The camera [[FlyawayShot pulls back]] to give us another panorama of those mountains.
** The stage show opens and closes to the sound of the Reverend Mother's voice.

* BrawnHilda: Such a woman wins third place at the concert, and won't get off the stage so she can keep soaking up applause.
* TheButlerDidIt: ''Somebody'' must have told the local Nazis the family were sneaking out of the house. In the film, Franz the butler (whom the von Trapps never told about their impending escape) collaborates with Rolf, and later is shown watching the family's escape attempt and subsequent apprehension.

* TheCastShowOff: Subverted. Julie Andrews spends a good hour showing off her singing and dancing chops before presenting three tomatoes to the children as if she's about to display yet another talent. Instead, she fakes juggling them and still drops one.

* {{Confessional}}: In the last lines of the film, Sisters Margaretta and Berthe tell the Reverend Mother that they have sinned. When the Reverend Mother asks the sisters what sin they have committed, they reveal that they have swiped the distributors and coils from the Nazis' cars, preventing them from pursuing the Von Trapps.

* TheCutie: Maria
* DadTheVeteran: The Captain served in WWI and was decorated for his actions.

* DecoyProtagonist: Maria. She is a major focus for the first two acts before quickly fading to the background in the last hour immediately after [[spoiler: the wedding.]] The final hour makes it clear that the real protagonist is the Captain. Notably this is the [[Film/MaryPoppins second major film]] in which this happened to Julie Andrews, despite being the most memorable character.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Minor example. The first two-thirds of the movie takes place over several weeks or even months, but everything after the wedding scene is all set on a single day (and that night).

* FlyawayShot: How the movie ends.

* HollywoodAtlas: Switzerland is ''not'' "just over the mountains" from Salzburg. To make it worse, Germany ''is''. A southeastern bit of Germany in Bavaria that was home to the Berghof, which was Hitler's seasonal home, or the closest thing an itinerant dictator had to one, serving as his main base of operations. The resort is called Obersalzberg, meaning "Mountain Above Salz(burg)", and the Anschluss had multiple SS units stationed there at all times, with the nearby Kehlsteinhaus ("Eagle's Nest") used as a meeting house for Nazi summit meetings. Ironically enough, that shot in the movie was ''actually filmed'' on the Obersalzberg.

* HollywoodOld: Christopher Plummer was 35 years old at the time the movie was made, whereas the real Captain Von Trapp was 47 when he married Maria. In addition, he was actually 57 in 1938, when the story is set.

* {{Intermission}}: The film has its intermission in a different place than the stage version. The play ended its first act on the Mother Abbess singing "Climb Every Mountain", while the movie relocates the break to follow Maria returning to the Abbey.

* JobMindsetInertia: In the movie, von Trapp summons his children via whistle as if he were still in the Navy and accidentally refers to Maria as "Captain".

* MovieBonusSong: "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good".

* NeverTrustATrailer:
** The original trailer for the movie used a lot of alternate takes for scenes, utilizing different line deliveries and/or camera angles than the final film.
** Some posters and DVD covers color Maria's picnic dress pink or blue, instead of brown.

* NoodleIncident: When she first meets them, the Von Trapp children sneak a frog into Maria's pocket, which shocks her. According to Frau Schmidt, they pulled the same prank against Fraulein Helga using a snake.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: The movie has almost everyone in British accents while other productions use American, British or none at all.

* RecycledSoundtrack: The title song had its intro re-written for the movie version. Part of the melody of the original intro (the part accompanying the lyrics, "But deep in the dark green shadows/Are voices that urge me to stay/So I stop and I wait and I listen...") found use in "I Have Confidence" ("It could be so exciting/To be out in the world, to be free/My heart should be wildly rejoicing...").

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Done by the two nuns at the end of the movie who remove key components from the Nazis' cars to keep them from working; technically, sabotaging a vehicle is against both legal codes and their holy orders. They even admit to it by saying "Reverend Mother, I have sinned."

* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Christopher Plummer interestingly has a smaller presence in the marketing materials than the leading men of Fox's other Rodgers and Hammerstein movies, as none of the DVD covers show him on the front. When he does appear on theatrical posters and covers for other home video formats, he gets pushed to the side in favor of Maria and/or the kids.
* SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification: Type 4. The only changes worth mentioning are that some of the songs occur in different parts of the film and Rolfe being stripped of his redeeming scene where he decided not to rat the Von Trappes out and does the exact opposite.

* {{Tagline}}: Trailers and ads for the movie called it, "The happiest sound in all the world!"

* TitleDrop: In the first line of the movie.

* VillainyFreeVillain: The Baroness is shown to genuinely love Von Trapp and her jealousy is mostly justified. Nevertheless, the children in the film aren’t very enthusiastic of her after Maria leaves despite her efforts to be motherly towards them. Sure, she inspired Maria to leave, and planned to send the children to a boarding school,[[note]]none of which the children knew about, they just are much closer to Maria[[/note]] but the alternative was to live with a woman that her husband and his seven children loved more than her.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Max spends most of the stage musical and film acting as a leech and an opportunist to Captain Von Trapp and the Nazis, claiming that it's better to bend to the Reich's will than to fight an inevitable defeat. Come the film's climax, [[spoiler: he warns them via a BatmanGambit during a Music Festival that the Nazis are going to force Captain Von Trapp to work for them, and stalls during the awards to give them enough time to escape.]]

** The film opens with panoramic views of the mountains, then zooms onto Maria. The movie ends with Maria and her new family hiking through the same mountains towards the safety of the border. The camera [[FlyawayShot pulls back]] to give us another panorama of those mountains.

Features nuns, ThoseWackyNazis, and ''not'' the UsefulNotes/{{Austria}}n national anthem; and has inspired a great many pop culture references and pastiches. The film is virtually unknown in Austria itself, which is odd considering the English-speaking world knows Austria as "that country from ''The Sound of Music''" (that or "the country where [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] is from"). The exception being the city of Salzburg (which is, ironically, also Mozart's hometown), and mostly because of the tourists constantly talking about ''The Sound of Music''.

* OverprotectiveDad: The Captain in regards to Liesl; subverted when her boyfriend ends up as a Nazi.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: The French dub removed the renditions of "Maria" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" sung by the nuns as they thought it was sinful for nuns to be singing non-religious songs. As such, only the reprises of them were heard. The subtitles don't show the lyrics to them, either. This is a downplayed instance of the trope, as only TV broadcasts were affected. The Home Video releases have these two songs dubbed.

** ZigZagged by the Baroness's character. She's cattier to Maria in the film adaptation, and even that is fairly downplayed, but once she realizes she's lost the Captain to her, she exits much more gracefully and amicably than in the original stage musical, where she hardly interacts with Maria at all, and she and the captain split messily after it becomes clear they can't agree on whether or not to collaborate with or oppose the Nazis.

I even heard her singing in the abbey

* FlatCharacter: Marta von Trapp has the least personality of the Von Trapp kids in the film adaptation. She's the second youngest, but since Gretel gets to be the baby, Marta has none of that focus. Her most defining characteristic is saying that pink is her favorite color, and that's it.