Apr
02
Greg over at Real Life is running a storyline in which he and his wife agree that each person has to watch a movie chosen by the other as a way of rectifying their ignorance about certain genres of film. Two days in and it’s already broken when “musical” clashes against “Kubrick.” However, even funnier is a section from an email sent to Greg from a reader about The Sound of Music:
DON’T get tricked into watching Sound of Music! I was promised Nazis - my mind thought “Like Indiana Jones Nazis? Sweet!” - but don’t be enticed! The movie is THREE HOURS LONG. THREE!! It would be a 60 minute movie if they weren’t breaking out into song ever 4 minutes to make 2 minute conversations take 10 minutes. And the Nazis? Last 20 minutes. They tease you with the possibility of Nazi vs Freedom fighter battling throughout the movie, but they wait until you’re about to go into a coma after two and a half hours of singing to finally bring in the action. There’s something in there about a nun turned nanny turned back into nun turned into band leader that takes up 90% of the movie. It’s interesting, but there’s way too much singing. Beware!!
It’s funny because I too was promised Nazis as the enticement for finally sitting down to watch this movie. However, it’s all bait and switch. The writer is correct - Nazis barely even show up in the movie. It’s terribly disappointing and almost made me wish the final scenes were the Von Trapps being loaded into a boxcar on their way to Buchenwald.
-K
