Just rewatched The Sound of Music 50th Anniversary edition and I’m an absolute mess.😭
That “Do-Re-Me” sequence with Julie Andrews spinning through Salzburg with those seven kids is pure sunshine bottled on film. The way she turns scales into pure joy… no one else could have done it.
And then the ending—watching the von Trapp family sing their hearts out at the festival, knowing they’re literally minutes away from hiking over the mountains to escape the Nazis—hits so much harder as an adult. The real-life Captain von Trapp, Maria, and the children, actually did have to flee Austria, after the Anschluss in 1938. The movie takes some liberties (they actually left by train, not over the Alps on foot 😂), but the courage it took is 100% real.
Julie Andrews + those kids + “Edelweiss” + climbing every mountain = one of the most perfect films ever made.Who else is sobbing over here? 🏔️🎶❤️
#TheSoundOfMusic #JulieAndrews #DoReMi”
The Fiftieth Anniversary of The Sound of Music Revisted
Gail Siemko 