My Ulitimate Feel Good Movie!

Every time I feel sad, or just not in the mood for anything. I always pop this movie in my DVD player, sit back and watch till all the gloominess goes out of my system. This is my ultimate feel good movie. I has comedy, drama, great locations and it’s a musical! Julie Andrews at her best here folks! No doubt about it.

Funny thing is I love this movie so much that I did some research on it. Here are some facts that I had learned through the years of research. This list can be found on moviemistakes.com since this is where I found most of the trivia, I believe the site deserves to be mentioned.

- The opening song where Julie Andrews sung “The Sound of Music” has to be shot several times because the helicopter that they use to film the scene keeps blowing Julie Andrews down every time the chopper goes around.

-When the Von Trapp family is hiding in the Abbey to avoid the Nazis, they are hiding behind some headstones. In reality, these headstones are flush against the wall and no one would be able to fit behind them.

- The Real Maria Von Trapp was actually on the movie, but her shot was a bit far. She appears in the scene where Maria (Julie Andrews) is singing “I have Confidence” the real Maria is standing in the tunnel to Julie’s left.

- When Julie Andrews is singing “I Have Confidence” she trips. The trip was completely accidental, and not choreographed, but the director felt it was in character, so he left it in.

- Christopher Plummer who plays the Baron, met the real Maria von Trapp when he was a child. He used to ski and had met her at the Von Trapp Lodge which the family owned and operated.

- In the end when the family is climbing over the hills to safety, it is not really Gretl on the shoulders of Captain Von Trapp. On the DVD, it’s revealed that while in Austria, Kym Karath gained a lot of weight. This was one of the last shots filmed and so she was a bit too heavy to be carried on Christopher Plummer’s back, so he requested a lighter double.

- The real Maria was the one who was very strict with the children, while Captain von Trapp was friendly and relaxed.

- When Liesl is dancing with Rolf in the gazebo, he holds her hand as she skips lightly from bench to bench. Look closely at her ankles: one of them is wrapped with a bandage because it went through the glass during the rehearsal of that scene.

- Nicholas Hammond who played Friedrich von Trapp. Starred in the short lived “The Amazing Spider-Man” TV series (19770 he played “Peter Parker”

I fell in love with this movie when I was a kid. My mom introduced it to me and I was hook. I’m starting to show this to my son. Hopefully he’ll like it as well.