Every once in a while, a movie comes along that not only captures the heart but also stands the test of time, and on our show, Natey and I, Katy, couldn't resist the pull of nostalgia brought by "The Sound of Music." We're whisking you away to the hills that are alive with the sound of Julie Andrews' angelic voice and the tunes that have charmed generations. Our episode weaves personal reflections with the rich history of this cinematic treasure, from its Broadway roots to the real-life drama of the Von Trapp family. We'll reveal how the film's exclusive tracks, "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good," amplify the story's heartwarming narrative. Prepare for a symphony of sentiments and insights as we celebrate Julie Andrews' performance, a timeless gift to the art of filmmaking.
Hum along as we wander through the Austrian backdrops and dissect the movie's blend of length, pacing, and the performances that captured our imaginations as children. Despite the cheese factor and the varying quality of the child actors, the film's family appeal is undeniable — a sentiment echoed by a little one's eagerness to replay the soundtrack. We'll laugh over puppet scene memories, puzzle over the yuletide connection of "My Favorite Things," and embrace the film's stage legacy that contributes to its delightful cheesiness. By the end of our chat, you'll know where our ratings stand on this classic and why, despite its quirks, "The Sound of Music" continues to be a treasured gem in the world of musical cinema. Join us for a heartwarming stroll down memory lane, where music and memories mingle to create pure podcast magic.
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that not only captures the heart but also stands the test of time, and on our show, Natey and I, Katy, couldn't resist the pull of nostalgia brought by "The Sound of Music." We're whisking you away to the hills that are alive with the sound of Julie Andrews' angelic voice and the tunes that have charmed generations. Our episode weaves personal reflections with the rich history of this cinematic treasure, from its Broadway roots to the real-life drama of the Von Trapp family. We'll reveal how the film's exclusive tracks, "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good," amplify the story's heartwarming narrative. Prepare for a symphony of sentiments and insights as we celebrate Julie Andrews' performance, a timeless gift to the art of filmmaking.
Hum along as we wander through the Austrian backdrops and dissect the movie's blend of length, pacing, and the performances that captured our imaginations as children. Despite the cheese factor and the varying quality of the child actors, the film's family appeal is undeniable — a sentiment echoed by a little one's eagerness to replay the soundtrack. We'll laugh over puppet scene memories, puzzle over the yuletide connection of "My Favorite Things," and embrace the film's stage legacy that contributes to its delightful cheesiness. By the end of our chat, you'll know where our ratings stand on this classic and why, despite its quirks, "The Sound of Music" continues to be a treasured gem in the world of musical cinema. Join us for a heartwarming stroll down memory lane, where music and memories mingle to create pure podcast magic.
One's a movie buff, one watches movies, just enough Together. Fun will be had by all. This is Nady and Katie at the Movies.
Speaker 2:Hello everyone and welcome to a brand new episode of Nady and Katie at the Movies. I am your host, nathan A KA Nady of course, I don't know why I sound like a robot just then and with me on today's episode is my good friend Katie. Hi Katie, how are you?
Speaker 3:Hello, hello, happy to say I do.
Speaker 2:Happy to say Wait, are you saying hello or goodbye? I'm so confused. I'm glad you started singing because I know last episode I said I was going to try to sing the entire episode while talking about this movie, but that ain't going to happen because I don't want to annoy too many people.
Speaker 3:I don't think anyone's worried about it. However, there are so many good songs in the movie we're reviewing today, which is the Sound of Music. Sound of Music is starring a bunch of people, but who really cares? It's just Julie Andrews. Don't even bother listening to anyone else. This movie is just Julie Andrews.
Speaker 2:So before we get in further about the Sound of Music, I got to go over the synapses. So the Sound of Music is about a young novice who was sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer. The Sound of Music stars, of course, julie Andrews, christopher Plummer, eleanor Parker, richard Hayden and a bunch of kids.
Speaker 3:Yes, and you know what? Really nobody else matters except for Julie Andrews. She's the star of the show.
Speaker 2:Well, and Christopher.
Speaker 3:Plummer, he's pretty well known.
Speaker 2:He's a pretty famous actor.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he is.
Speaker 2:Have you watched the Sound of Music before? We watched it for this episode?
Speaker 3:The Sound of Music is a classic and I had seen it before, maybe once or twice, but I mean not often. It was not one we grew up watching. One because it's three hours long. Two, because it's a little bit corny and my parents just aren't really into super corny stuff. For example, we watched Bad Christmas at Christmas time Not to bring up a source subject for Nathan but Sound of Music is a classic that, regardless of whoever watching it, I knew most of the songs. I was finding myself singing along to words that I had no idea I knew, despite having probably only watched this a handful of times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I actually never watched it all the way through, shockingly, I'd never watched Sound of Music.
Speaker 3:That is crazy. You're the musical guy and the theater guy.
Speaker 2:I know, I know, but I never watched it all the way through, and I know people listening to this episode are probably be like give us your movie critic card back, because there's a lot of movies on this list that we're going to be watching that I have not seen. And so people are going to be wondering why do I call myself the movie person of this show? Well, it's because I do like movies. So the Sound of Music is a classic, like we both said. So let's get right into our likes and dislikes.
Speaker 2:My number one like and I'm sure, katie, you would agree with this is the songs. The songs are very well known, 100%. I mean, I think every single song that's in this movie is well known, and this was actually a Broadway musical before it was a movie. So they actually adapted the Broadway musical into this movie. And if you listen to the trailer, last episode, when we gave you a sneak peek, they actually inserted two new songs into the movie. Now, of course, I didn't do my research to find out what those two songs were. So I don't know, katie, did you do that? Did you find out what those two songs were?
Speaker 3:I have to be honest, nathan, I didn't even realize that it was a Broadway before this. That's interesting. I didn't know that. More importantly, before even that, let's highlight the fact that this story follows the Von Trapp family which is based on. That is a real family. There are huge differences in the facts of the relationship between Maria and the husband, wilson, network, georg, and how they escape and flee from Austria and all these little minor details that are very different. There was a real Von Trapp family with a Maria and they actually traveled around singing. I didn't really know that actually, I know it sounds silly, but I didn't realize that that was a true story, that this was loosely based on.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah, it was based on a true story and, yes, it was a Broadway musical before they adapted it into a movie. The two songs that were added I just searched it while you were talking, but I was paying attention to you. Those two songs were I have Confidence and Something Good, the sweet ballad that they sing to each other, I think close to the end of the movie. Something Good is one of those, and it was actually. They were both written by Richard Rogers of Rogers and Hammerstein fame. He wrote those by. Richard Rogers actually wrote those by himself because Oscar Hammerstein had passed away six months after the Broadway shows premier. That's funny.
Speaker 1:It's funny.
Speaker 3:you say that because those are two of the songs those are not favorites. Those are probably pretty low at the bottom list of favorites, richard.
Speaker 2:Rogers wrote it by himself because his friend died. Good for him. Don't be a joke, I could tell they're very sound.
Speaker 3:I too would say that my favorite part of the sound of music was the sound of the music.
Speaker 2:I like what you did.
Speaker 3:I mean, she's just an incredible singer. I mean obviously there's two pieces right, so the songs themselves huge credit to the people that made them. But then her execution of each song. She does it so effortlessly, effortlessly, and it for some reason doesn't feel too corny when she's saying it just feels right and feels so joyful. Like you can't, I feel you can't hear her voice especially. You know she was also in Mary Poppins. I just smile when I hear her song or singing voice. It just makes me want to smile and she's just got the big beaming smile the whole time. So I really, really did like the music.
Speaker 2:Well, how, I mean, how can you forget Christopher Plummer singing Adelweiss?
Speaker 3:I mean, come on, okay, okay, I will admit Adelweiss. And then also I watched man in the High Castle. The TV show Adelweiss was the theme song every time. And, yeah, like I found myself, I hum that song a lot, like I used to hum it to my son when he was first born, because we were like just watching the show and I didn't know is, was that song written for this or is it like as like in an Austrian song already? I don't know the history of some of these songs.
Speaker 2:Well, that would have been something good to have researched before we did this episode it would have been really nice to talk about. You know the. You know the history of these songs. I believe Adelweiss is a type of flower. I think so Is it right?
Speaker 3:It is really bad.
Speaker 3:We're talking about before we talk about it. No one said I had to be a movie professional in terms of the details. All I know is that I liked the movie and I'm just a critic of watching the movie. I will say I enjoyed the movie. I really liked the story, I thought it was great. But I actually as much as I love the songs I think songs is kind of like the main thing because I had some quite a few critiques, not that I disliked the movie, but I just had a lot of small critiques throughout, and so I think I have more to share for that.
Speaker 2:Well, before we get into that, I got to share my other like and that is the fact that this is just a wholesome movie. This is a movie that I can watch with my kids. If you follow us on our social media platforms, you saw that I did share a little moment that I was sharing with my children watching this movie, even though right after I shared that they both walked away and were not interested in the movie anymore. So that was one classic moment that will be frozen in time forever but does not represent what actually occurred the rest of the time. But it is a wholesome movie, even though some of the story line is kind of heavy because it deals with Nazis and Germany and all that stuff that happened during that time. But overall the story is great. It's safe to watch with your whole family. There's nothing really bad in it. So that's great.
Speaker 2:And before you get into your dislike, I only had one big dislike and that is the fact that this movie is very long. It's so long it has an intermission and it's just a long movie and there is like a moment that I think, probably after they get married, it feels like that could have been like the final part of the movie but it just keeps on going because of the Nazis and stuff and they have to resolve the whole thing with Ralph is that his name? Ralph, whatever? And it's just to me it's kind of it just goes a little too long. But that would be. My only critique is that the movie was a tad bit long, but you said you have some minor critique, so I'm interested to hear what you thought about the movie itself and not just the songs.
Speaker 3:Right, right, and yes, one of my critiques is definitely the length. I mean, of course, a lot of the movies coming out now are. You know, oppenheimer just won the Oscar for best most in picture and that was a three hour movie. But you know, we talk often about a necessary three hours versus not. I mean, there's so many songs, obviously that's what drags it on so long. You can only move the plot along so much when you have a six minute Do Re Mi song. So in some ways, even the songs dragged on, my son watched with me as well, so agree with you, family friendly and he wants to listen to the music in the car now. But yeah, the Do Re Mi song just keeps going. It's like seven minutes long. So it is long.
Speaker 3:On another note of timing, it is. It does feel like the plot is pretty slow, pretty slow, pretty slow. And then the last like 15 minutes of the movie, just like a bunch of stuff happens like intense, they're married and the Nazis come and they're going to escape to Australia, and it just feels like we're tracking along this, like here's the vibe of the movie. And then the last 15 minutes feels like I'm watching a completely different movie. And yeah, you do question like, did we need that? But it does include for those who haven't seen it, which would be kind of crazy, stop listening now and go in and watch. It goes into the true story that the Von Traps did escape Austria and escape away to avoid the Nazis coming and taking over. They actually escaped by train in real life, not over the hills in the sound of music, but I understand why I'm gonna include that as part of their story.
Speaker 3:Now, other small critiques were just things like I think, watching it again as an adult, it's just way corny. Or like my husband and I were both kind of like this is a pretty corny, like this is pretty cheesy. There's probably a little more of that nostalgia that's making me like it than necessarily. If I saw this for the first time, I was like, wow, I'm taking O and A. So that was kind of like the acting, the. I think again, children actors are not gonna be perfect, especially ones they can sing also. But I felt like the child actors were pretty bad, just being honest, like they were not, and maybe this was early on. There was not a lot of kids acting at the time, but with what we see now in movies, like especially that young boy that we just watched in Anatomy of a Fall. There's like a young kid, like acting is incredible and he's like eight years old. I guess those were just my minor things.
Speaker 2:Those are a few of your least favorite things.
Speaker 3:Least favorite things. Exactly what would you say is your favorite song?
Speaker 2:I mean, obviously favorite things is the classic. The only thing I don't understand about that song is why do they play it during Christmas time, like, why do they assume that that song is a Christmas song? I mean, have you ever noticed that that they play that song a lot during Christmas time?
Speaker 3:and I don't understand. I didn't realize that that doesn't make sense. I agree with you. Yeah, I feel like I really love a few of my favorite things as a favorite, because I'm a very optimistic person. I tend to be a little bit like her. I also my husband and I were just talking about tonight that scene with the puppets. His critique was he's like there's no way those kids could actually do those puppet Like. Those are extremely intense and extremely hard to maneuver.
Speaker 2:It's like those kids are the marionettes. Yeah, that's not that hard to do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, leave it to my husband to be nitpicking the marionettes.
Speaker 2:Those kids aren't that smart.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do like that song, the Yodeling song.
Speaker 2:You say that it was kind of cheesy, and I think could it have, now that you know that it was originally a Broadway musical. First, do you think that they kind of try to translate the musical into the movie and that's what brought up the cheesiness, because if you've seen a show on Broadway or if you've seen a theater show in general, usually the acting is a little more over the top and it could come off as a little bit cheesy. And so do you feel like maybe that is why they were trying to portray that kind of acting or See, this is where your professional opinion would Trump mine.
Speaker 3:I think you're probably very right that there is more of that presentation acting that a Broadway would have. So I think we'll give them credit there. And my last thing I have to say on this movie before I rate it is that not even the plot, of course, but the opening scene and just in general the landscape of this movie I mean my husband, I immediately went onto the computer and we're Googling lights to Austria. It is one of the places we got to travel around in Europe a lot after he graduated and we did not get to go to Austria. Ironically, we wanted to go after we watched Band of Brothers because there's a lot of scenes in Austria there but golly, like that opening scene, it's filmed from a helicopter. I looked that up. There was like helicopter footage you know this is way before drones and just flying through these beautiful Alps and man, and it just zooms in on this tiny little woman dancing around in the hills and I want to be her, I want to go to Austria and walk through the same hills.
Speaker 2:Yeah, visually this movie is stunning and it's one of those movies that you watch. You're like man. To see this on the big screen would probably be breathtaking, just because of the visuals. So that is the sound of music. I think we both enjoyed it. I don't know how high we're gonna rate it, so let's see. Katie, what would you give the classic musical sound of music? One out of six stars?
Speaker 3:Well, it's cute and it's heartwarming, but I didn't laugh, I didn't cry, I wasn't scared, not in any big emotions, so I wouldn't go ahead and give it I'm sorry if I offend anyone. A four.
Speaker 2:Wow, I am shocked by that, because I'm going to give this classic musical because I'm a musical guy, I love theater. Julie Andrews is amazing. Christopher Plummer does a great job. It still has that charm, even though, yes, it is cheesy. I'm going to give the Sound of Music a big old 5.5 out of 6. That is the sound of music, everybody. We're almost done with the month of March. We have one more movie coming up and to give you a little sneak peek of what that is, take a listen.
Speaker 4:To be or not to be is truly an outstanding motion picture, an exciting romantic comedy keyed to an ever-mounting tempo of suspense. To be or not to be brings you the screen's beloved star, carol Lombard, in the kind of role that won her the applause of million, and that mirthmaker of the movies, that Casanova of the radio, your favorite comedian, jack Benny, in something entirely new, something surprisingly different, and it's hilarious. All the way. To be or not to be is a swift-moving comedy, melodrama enriched by the magic that sparkles in every Ernst Blubitz production. Here's the picture everyone will want to see.
Speaker 2:We're ending March with the Jack Benny classic comedy. I did already watch this and I'm kind of confused at what it is, so I'm excited about talking about it. It is a movie called To Be or Not To Be. It does have something to do with Hamlet, hence the title. Katie, have you ever heard of this movie?
Speaker 3:There's nothing you're saying that I've heard of before. I'm very excited about this one, though I will have no preconceived notions.
Speaker 2:Well, there you have it, folks, and I actually have something I want to do to end this episode. Is that okay with you, Katie? I suppose that's a lovely accent you have. New Jersey, austria, austria, good eye mate, have another shrimp on the bobby. Thanks for listening to Nadie and Katie at the Movies.
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