Happy 50th "Sound of Music"

[Steve James]

My mom and I walked from the Bronx to Radio City Music Hall to see it. There was a transit strike.

Corny, maybe, but it brings back great memories for many of us.

[Bill]

My parents used to take me there for their Christmas shows back when I was a kid. I might have watched that movie as part of one of those shows back in the 60's.

Go Rockettes !

[Azer]

[Patrick]

Well, its good fun until the city council decides that your old faculty rooms are better off as a sound of music museum .

[Michael]

Corny? Lol! The gheyest movie ever made, but definitely worth reminiscing.

The only reason I ever saw it was that it's in every DVD shop in Guangzhou, and my students were leaving copies of it lying around over the years so I finally watched it.

I can't think of another film that juxtaposes such wildly divergent elements as the ghey of heard a goat herder with Evil Nazis and a car chase. Truly mind-blowing.

[Andy_S]

Joke.

Shifty, oily looking knacker walks surreptitiously into a video store; drifts around the adult section; looks around to make sure nobody is watching; then tiptoes up to the assistant.
Shifty: (Nervously) Hey! Pssst!
Assistant: (Surprised) Sir?
Shifty: (Sotto voce) Er...have you by any chance got any... er..."special" videos?
Assistant: (Craftily) Aha! Would you be referring to "one-handed viewing, sir"
Shifty: (Excited) Yes! Yes! That's it! What you got?
Assistant: (Thoughtfully) Hmmm. How about...nuns?
Shifty: (Dribbling a bit) I like it! Tell me more...
Assistant: Young babes in nature...and I mean VERY young babes in nature...
Shifty: (Going slightly cross-eyed) Oh, mother! This gets better and better!
Assistant: And...Nazi uniforms!
Shifty: (Dementedly) Oh, gawd! Here's fifty bucks! Hand it over!
Assistant: Thank you, sir! Here is your video. (Hands him the merchandize in a plain brown paper package)
Shifty, panting, runs home, locks door, slaps video into machine, unzips, flops out, presses play, looks on eagerly...
The movie begins...
"The hills are alive...."

Booooom-tish!

Billy Connolly does a great Shifty.

[Michael]

More uzi's and more spanking could have definitely improved it. Mix in a good portion of The Night Porter and I think we're almost there.

[Steve James]

It was a musical made only 15 years after the war and during the Cold War. The story is more like Anna and the King of Siam than a war movie. Nazis were almost irrelevant. It was about Maria and Herr von Trapp. The setting was also extraordinary. We saw it in the music hall because it was one of the places with a big screen. It was our IMAX. Then there was the music. Even Miles and Coltrane recorded some of those tunes.

Though, it is also true that, for this flick, maybe it was necessary to have seen it at the time, or as a kid.

[Interloper]

I remember liking the Mad Magazine satire better than the actual movie.

[Interloper]

Cool memory! What a trek, without the subway and buses.

Just remember, though, that the movie used none of Julie Andrews's own singing, though she had a serviceable voice. Marni Nixon was the behind-the-scenes soprano (in this and it pretty much all of the musical movies of the late 50s through 60s - "The King and I," etc.) whose voice was dubbed in.

My mom and I walked from the Bronx to Radio City Music Hall to see it. There was a transit strike.

[chud]

I watched it every year on TV with my mom, so I'll always be nostalgic about that movie.

[Dajenarit]

Never seen it. You're a buncha geezers.