December 2024
The Sound of Music The Film Review My name is Hayley and I want to tell you about The Sound of Music which is one of my favourite movies...
On the nearby mountainside, Maria is getting ready to leave the beautiful hills. She will be late returning to the Abbey where the other nuns who live there will be wondering where she is. Considering herself to be a free-spirit, she explains about her lateness, saying she was raised up on the Mountain and apologises for her singing in the gardens. At this point the Mother Abbess suggests that she should spend some time outside the Abbey. She is to act as governess to the seven children of the father, called Captain; his real name is Georg von Trapp. The children are marching in their uniforms. Maria helps the children to learn some music called the basics of music (do-re- mi). The eldest child sings, “Sixteen, going on seventeen”. The other children are very frightened by a storm, they sing a song called, “The Lonely Goatherd” and they stop thinking about the storm. The Captain drives Maria away, he angrily sends her back to the Abbey. Later he asks Maria to stay, he is thanking her for bringing the music back to the house. The children want to say good night with a song called “So Long Farewell”. Maria can’t face the Captain, she has to run back to the abbey but Mother Abbess realises that she is running away from her feelings. She tells her to face her feelings about the Captain and that they love each other, and tells her to search for and find the life she’s meant to live and you were born for.
Then the Mother Abbess sings “Climb ev’ry Mountain”. The Captain sings a love song called “Edelweiss” as a goodbye to his homeland and uses Austria’s national flower as a symbol to declare his loyalty to the country and to his family. It is the last chance to sing for the Trapp family. The von Trapp’s say they won’t appear on the stage. The nuns sing to “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”.
The end.
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