The Sound of Music: 45th Anniversary Edition (2010) BluRay
1080p MPEG-4 AVC @ 22887 Kbps | 02:54:41 | 44,31 Gb
Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1; English DD 4.0; Spanish DD 5.1; French DTS 5.1; Portuguese DD 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish
DVD
NTSC 16:9 (720 x 480) 02:54:27 | 8,04 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | French, Spanish - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Family, Drama | Won 5 Oscars + 10 wins | USA | 1965

Director: Robert Wise
Writers: Howard Lindsay (book), Russel Crouse (book)
Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker

One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys going to the hills to sing the title song. Deciding that Maria needs to learn something about the real world before she can take her vows, the Mother Superior (Peggy Wood) sends her off to be governess for the children of the widowed Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer).

Arriving at the Trapp home, Maria discovers that her new boss is cold and aloof, and his seven children virtual automatons-at least, whenever the Captain is around. Otherwise, the kids are holy terrors, as evidenced by the fact that Maria is the latest in a long line of governesses. But Maria soon ingratiates herself with the children, especially oldest daughter Liesl (Charmian Carr), who is in love with teenaged messenger boy Rolf. As Maria herself begins to fall in love with the Captain, she rushes back to the Abbey so as not to complicate his impending marriage to a glamorous baroness (Eleanor Parker). But the children insist that Maria return, the Baroness steps out of the picture, and Maria and the Captain confirm their love in the song "Something Good." Unhappily, they return home from their honeymoon shortly after the Nazis march into Austria. Already, swastikas have been hung on the Von Trapp ancestral home, and Liesl's boyfriend Rolf has been indoctrinated in the "glories" of the Third Reich. The biggest blow occurs when Von Trapp is called back to active duty in the service of the Fuhrer. The Captain wants nothing to do with Nazism, and he begins making plans to take himself and his family out of Austria.

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Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music should be required viewing for any filmmaker who’s considering bringing a stage musical to the screen. The studio hired a screenwriter who had respect for the original material without being slavishly devoted to it. It found a director who was able to keep a three hour movie moving all the time so that it never remotely seems that long and has opened up static stage scenes into wonderfully cinematic moments that remain in the memory decades after first viewing them. And wonderful actors were hired who fit the roles to perfection, even if some had to have trained voices do the singing for them. The result is possibly one of the most perfect screen musicals ever made: joyously humane without unnecessary sentiment, musically and dramatically resonant, and ecstatically beautiful to watch. Because of her independent spirit and her inability to maintain the strict discipline needed to succeed at life in a nunnery, novice Maria (Julie Andrews) is sent to act as a governess for a widowed sea captain (Christopher Plummer) with seven children who, resentful of their father’s indifference to them, have wrought havoc with all of their previous governesses. The children take to Maria’s larkish good humor and sense of fun while their father is away wooing Baroness Schraeder (Eleanor Parker), and she teaches them to sing beautifully together, something that peaks the interest of entrepreneur Max Detweiler (Richard Haydn) who wants to feature them at the Salzburg Folk Festival. When the Captain returns home, he’s amazed that Maria has brought music and joy back into his cold, rigid household and begins to fall in love with her, something that displeases the Baroness not a little. Having already done masterful jobs bringing The King & I and West Side Story to the screen, screenwriter Ernest Lehman’s script demonstrates a superb job of cutting what needed to be cut (the two songs shared by Max and the Baroness which were fun on stage but utterly unnecessary for the film), juxtaposing songs which worked better in other places in the movie (“My Favorite Things” as a song to calm the children’s nerves during a thunderstorm, “The Lonely Goatherd” as a puppet show for the children to entertain their father), adding new song spots where needed (Maria’s tour de force “I Have Confidence” to display her uncertainty but steely resolve and the romantically sensual “Something Good” which replaced the dullest song Rodgers and Hammerstein ever wrote, “An Ordinary Couple”) and generally keeping a tight reign on anything overly sappy or sentimental (really only two traces remain, both in musical numbers: when the children provide an extemporaneous choir-like harmony when their father begins singing “The Sound of Music” and when the party guests sing “goodbye” to the children at the end of their “So Long, Farewell” number). Robert Wise’s direction is a marvel of brisk pacing and fluidity. Among the highlights are the show’s unforgettable showstopper “Do-Re-Mi” staged in the film as a travelogue all around Salzburg that makes a terrific song into a memorable musical number never equaled. It’s a picture-perfect example of opening up a show for the movies: how a treasured moment on stage can be reconceived and presented on film to even more glorious effect. Of course, no one can ever forget that iconic moment when Julie Andrews whirls around and launches into the title song in a rapturous arrangement that combines her lyrical singing with the splendors of the Alps. Wise also films the movie’s two most romantic moments, the “Laendler” dance when the Captain and Maria first confront their burgeoning love face-to-face and the deeply shadowed and magisterial “Something Good” that seals the deal, in such softly glowing and intimate ways that we almost feel embarrassed for eavesdropping on such private moments. And even non-musical sequences such as the confrontation scene between Maria and Captain on his return from Vienna or the hyper-tense search through the church cemetery for the fleeing von Trapps is handled with surety and sublime authority. Enough cannot be said about Julie Andrews’ performance as Maria. She’s been around for so many years and enhanced so many films both musical and nonmusical that it’s easy to take that remarkable voice for granted, but clearly there has never been another artist in musical cinema who has been able to show such a range and power in her singing in both her chest and head voices without the least difference in quality, with a purity of tone and clarity in diction that separate her from all others. Added to that are undeniable acting gifts that give her Maria a depth of characterization that few heroines in musicals ever get to play. The Sound of Music would have been infinitely poorer without her participation in it. Christopher Plummer may have been dubbed by Bill Lee for the singing, but his dramatic performance takes what could have been a stale, stock character of the Captain and gives him some breadth and dimension. Eleanor Parker gets to be glamorously scheming as the Baroness, and Richard Haydn gives the film much of its wry humor as the calculating Max. The children all come across naturally performing the sure-fire musical material with effortless charm. Dan Truhitte as the telegraph messenger Rolf who gets swallowed up in the Nazi regime sings and dances endearingly with Charmian Carr’s Liesl but gets backhanded in the climactic moments by the screenwriter’s turning Rolf into a coward in the face of the von Trapps (in the stage version, it’s his decision to let Liesl and the family escape. This was my biggest disappointment in the show’s voyage from stage to screen). But this is a great film, a musical which hasn’t dated at all in over four decades since its original release, and one which is likely to remain a cherished classic for generations to come.

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The Extras (Blu-ray Disc): - Your Favorite Things: An Interactive Celebration Star by choosing which of the following types of content you’d like to see during the movie. You can use the four color keys on your remote, or press ENTER to choose between ON and OFF. Then just hit PLAY for the celebration to begin: • Making Music - A Journey in Images: This picture-in-picture includes many never-before-seen images, • The Sing-Along Experience: Sing along with the movie’s classic songs • Many a Thing to Know: Discover amazing facts about making the movie and the real Maria. • Where Was It Filmed?: Put your knowledge to the test with this interactive quiz. - Music Machine (58:03) (HD) Have a favorite song, but don’t want to go through the film to find it? Select the song to view the scene via play all or specific selection listed below: • The Sound of Music • Preludium: Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110), Morning Hymn (Rex Admirabilis) and Alleluia. • Maria • I Have Confidence • Sixteen Going on Seventeen • My Favorite Things • My Favorite Things Conclusion • Salzburg Montage • Do-Re-Mi • The Sound of Music Reprise • The Lonely Goatherd • Edelweiss • So Long, Farewell • The Sound of Music Reprise • Climb Ev’ry Mountain • My Favorite Things Reprise • Something Good • Processional • Maria Reprise • Sixteen Going on Seventeen Reprise • Do-Re-Mi Reprise • Edelweiss Reprise • So Long, Farewell Reprise • Climb Ev’ry Mountain Reprise - Sing-along (HD) Select the song you would like to sing-along with, the list of songs are listed above. - Audio Commentary By Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Dee Dee Wood & Johannes von Trapp. - Audio Commentary By Director Robert Wise.

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DVD Disc:
* Feature Film In Standard Definition with Newly Remastered Picture and Sound, and Optional Sing-Along Track
* Music Machine Sing-Along
* The Sound of Music Tour – A Living Story

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Other than The Wizard of Oz, no Hollywood musical is as familiar, reassuring, and beloved of all ages as The Sound of Music. The loosely fact-based story has its earliest origins in the memoirs of Baroness Maria von Trapp, and was turned into a stage musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein in their final collaboration (and their only joint effort to rival their first collaboration, Oklahoma!). In bringing the musical to the screen, director Robert Wise made spectacular use of magnificent mountain landscapes and shooting locations in Germany and Austria. He also found in Julie Andrews the quintessential Maria, radiantly joyful, earnest and energetic, clear of diction and powerful in song. Her performance anchors the film: Any flicker of condescension or insincerity on her part, and the whole thing would have collapsed into treacle and camp. But cynics will search her face in vain: Her sincerity is absolute, and she sells the role and the film.

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The Sound of Music" is the most popular stage show in the world, with 500 performances produced annually in the U.S. alone. And the 1965 film version? How could it have been anything less than spectacular? The music and lyrics were composed by the legendary Rodgers and Hammerstein, who collaborated on their first musical ("Oklahoma!") in 1943 and what would turn out to be their last in 1959, when they finished the music for the Broadway production of "The Sound of Music." It featured their most popular song--"My Favorite Things"--and one memorable tune after the other, like "Do-Re-Mi," "The Sound of Music," "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen," "Maria," "The Lonely Goatherd," and "Edelweiss," a faux-Austrian folk song so authentic-sounding that people would later swear that they learned it as children. The story also was strong: about a romance that develops between a widowed Austrian naval captain and the governess of his seven children, intercut with subplots about how they fled Nazi Germany and became the von Trapp Family Singers.

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