The Sound Of Music Movie

One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound Of Music is based on a true story of the trapp family Singers. The Sound Of Music Movie is an American film that was directed by Robert Wise in 1965.  The stars were Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The movie is based on the Broadway musical The sound of Music full of songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. The musical book for this film was written by  a team of Howard Lindsay and  Russel Crouse. It has won five Academy Awards including Best Picture in 1965 and this is one of the most popular musicals movie ever produced.

The aerial shots sequentially begin high in the misty Alps. Gradually we descend, fly over pastures, lakes, and castles in the lush Salzkammergut foothills. Then we bear hear birds. In a pasture on the top of a hill we notice Julie Andrews, staring as Maria, exulting in the musical inspiration she finds there “The Sound Of Music”. Here we learn that she is a postulant in Nonnberg Abbey, where she is constantly having into mischief and is the nuns’ despair (Maria). The main Star of the sound of music movie is Maria (Julie Andrews). She misses her morning prayers because she likes going to the hills to sing the title song. Maria   decides to learn something about the real world before she can take her vows.

Christopher Plummer, staring as Captain Georg von Trapp was a veteran Austrian navy captain whose wife died and left seven children. In the sound of music movie we notice that captain extends his military background in raising them. His attitude toward both Maria and his children were considerably soft after Maria had reintroduced her song in the family.

Robert Wise was asked by Darryl and Richard D. Zanuck to produce the sound of music movie; but he turned it down when it was too saccharine. So, they approached Stanley Donen, Vincent Donehue, Gene Kelly, and George Roy Hill to direct the film; but they all twisted it down. Then Zanuck asked William Wyler to direct the movie who accepted his assignment. Wyler went to Hollywood and started pre-production work on the film, but his wife understood that he was not fully concentrated in it. Then he was approached by Jud Kinberg and john Kohn who had purchased the right to the John Fowles novel the collector prior to it publication Wyler became impressed with the script and left the assignment when he felt an affinity with the project; but Robert wise was available due to delay in direction of the film.