Watching "Sound of Music" for the umpteenth time and i noticed

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PlatinumGold

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Christopher Plummer is a decent singer, but he isn't exceptional. and he really didn't fit with the quality of voices of the other actors.
 
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Originally posted by: Taggart
Didn't Julie Andrews get hit by the helicopter or something?
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Julie Andrews relates that although she tried digging in her heels and bracing herself, she was knocked off her feet every time by the helicopter downdraft in the opening shot. After more than a dozen takes, she attempted to hand-signal to Robert Wise to have the helicopter make a wider pass, but the response she got was a thumbs-up - he was finally satisfied with the shot.
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from trivia on imdb
 
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Originally posted by: KLin
Originally posted by: Taggart
Didn't Julie Andrews get hit by the helicopter or something?
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Julie Andrews relates that although she tried digging in her heels and bracing herself, she was knocked off her feet every time by the helicopter downdraft in the opening shot. After more than a dozen takes, she attempted to hand-signal to Robert Wise to have the helicopter make a wider pass, but the response she got was a thumbs-up - he was finally satisfied with the shot.
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from trivia on imdb
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Heh, just looking at that on IMDB :)
 
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Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Christopher Plummer is a decent singer, but he isn't exceptional. and he really didn't fit with the quality of voices of the other actors.
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More from IMDB:
Christopher Plummer intensely disliked working on the film. He's been known to refer to it as "The Sound of Mucus" and likened working with Julie Andrews to "being hit over the head with a big Valentine's Day card, every day." Nontheless, he and Andrews have remained close friends ever since.
 
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That movie would have been bearable if she murdered all the children in their sleep. I just can?t stand that sappy stuff.

 
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The hills are alive with the sound of music
With songs they have sung for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every song it hears

My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds
that rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
from a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over
stones on its way
To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray

I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I've heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I'll sing once more



 
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Originally posted by: SSP
That movie would have been bearable if she murdered all the children in their sleep. I just can?t stand that sappy stuff.
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I put that as my sig for the wonderfulness that is Xmas time. :music::beer:
 
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More trivia from imdb:

Although Christopher Plummer's own vocals were in fact recorded, it was subsequently decided that he should be dubbed.
 
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When I was in Austria (or Germany as some members refer to it :)) I visited the site where some filming took place, the big house, the pond and the gazebo.

Just a little trivia.
 
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Originally posted by: sandorski
Thankfully, I have yet to see this movie all the way through.
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I know what you mean.

I was dragged, literally to this movie when it came out in 61 or whatever. I always have hated musicals and I ended up spending most of the time with my dad, he hated them too, in the lobby of the theatre asking if it was almost over yet. He kept saying, "No, but I wish it was too!"

I have never watched an entire musical. I would rather watch a test pattern.
 
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