46 Years Later, The Sound of Music Is Still Evergreen.

Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.

The first time I watched The Sound of Music, I was four or five. I was just fresh from ‘Snow White and The Seven Dwarves’, and the sudden plunge into a non-cartoon movie was rather an experiment to me. My conclusion? I fell in love with it. It was like bungee-jumping. This was the first Hollywood movie I’d ever watched in my life, and as I took the leap, I fell, madly, truly, deeply in love with it. It was all adrenaline, pure exhilaration. After that, everyday we sang a song from the movie. We sang so often and so loudly,  I felt my sister and I were like the two newest additions to the von Trapp family!

The Sound of Music taught me to sing. Whenever I was scared, I’d sing ‘My Favourite Things’, whenever I felt like being older, I’d sing ’16 Going on 17′, whenever I felt like it was a beautiful morning, I’d sing ‘Edelweiss’… the list could go on forever. And whenever I heard ‘The Hills Are Alive’, I felt like the wind was rushing through my hair, like I was running up the hillside and twirling around like Maria did at the beginning of the movie. For those times where my sister and I felt incredibly invincible, like nothing could stop us, we’d attempt ‘Climb Ev’ry Mountain’!

We’d KILL the last “follow every RAIN-BOW!!!!!!’ high note!

The neighbours had a splitting headache after hearing us screech in hopes of imitating Peggy Wood. I still laugh hysterically when I watch the nuns confessing to the Reverend Mother that they’ve stolen some car parts from the German cars, with the stutter of their engines in the background. Oh, and I first learned to dance while watching that movie too! I used to try to dance the Laendler (the beautiful dance by Julie and Christopher!) with my sister, our favourite part was when we went ‘under the bridge’, if you get what I mean…

Julie Andrews just takes my heart away with her acting, every scene she’s in seems like it’s been doused in sunshine. In Christopher Plummer’s biography, “In Spite of Myself” which he wrote himself, he spoke of Julie and The Sound of Music:

“ There was no turning back now; it was far too late, for before anyone could even whisper the name “Maria,” a hopelessly infatuated world had already made her its hostage.”

I don’t know how they managed it. 46 years later, the Sound of Music still lives on in the hearts of people all around the world. I mean, after nearly half a century, you’d think people would be so sick of it. Christopher Plummer (Captain Von Trapp) did get sick of it. In fact, he called it ‘The Sound of Mucus”!

Every part of the film is so captivating, so breathtaking. *sigh*

I watched the film yesterday after a very long time, and all the memories came flooding back. Without a doubt, it’s my favourite movie of all time.

I fell in love with it all over again.  :)

 

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye.

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