2006-12-06 12:19:45 · 13 answers · asked by Augustblue 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Plot Summary for The Sound of Music (1965):
Maria had longed to be a nun since she was a young girl, yet when she became old enough discovered that it wasn't at all what she thought. Often in trouble and doing the wrong things, Maria is sent to the house of a retired naval captain, named Captain Von Trapp, to care for his children. Von Trapp was widowed several years before and was left to care for seven 'rowdy' children. The children have run off countless governesses. Maria soon learns that all these children need is a little love to change their attitudes. Maria teaches the children to sing, and through her, music is brought back into the hearts and home of the Von Trapp family. Unknowingly, Maria and Captain Von Trapp are falling helplessly in love, except there are two problems, the Captain is engaged, and Maria is a postulant!
2006-12-06 12:26:15 · answer #1 · answered by dramaqueen00469 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sset91kw and dramaqueen have the best answers I've read so far. Falloutboyfranklin's answer sux! You want to know how I know, besides having seen it a few times in my life? I was raised in Dallas, and back then, in the 1960's, they had a well known movie theater (one of many) near my highschool, that only showed the best movies, and "Sound of Music" played there for at least one and a half years straight, a record that no other movie has ever equalled before or since. For whatever reason you need to know about "Sound of Music", I can assure you that if you fail to see it yourself, you will have deprived yourself of one of the best musicals/movies ever out, as the Dallas theater proved. Go rent the movie or buy it on the internet or whatever, but don't fail to see it. You are truly depriving yourself of the beauty, geographical and musical, as well as the wonderful sense in the movie, of which today's genre are not capable of matching. I'd take you to see it myself if I could because it is so beautiful, and the bigger the screen and better the sound system the better, and back when I saw it, there was no such thing as "twin theaters" or "10 or 12 or 20 theaters" in any one building, and so the screen was ENORMOUS by today's standards, and the sound was more than "Surround-Sound" could ever match, but you may still be able to see and hear and follow the wonder of that musical, which took place in the Alps and during the time of Nazi Germany, if my memory serves me correctly. I wish you the best in trying to see the movie. God Bless you.
2006-12-06 20:44:07 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is this woman,Marie,who wants to be a nun but she was always singing and breaking rules so the head nun sends her to tke care of a family for a little while.While she is there she teaches the kids who are under very strict rule how to sing and have fun and she also falls in love with the father of the kids but he is about to get married to a baroness.He ends up not marrying the baroness and marries Marie.But this was during the time of Hitler and since the Von Traps live in Austria there is pressure to go with Hitler but the father doesnt believe Hitlers ideas so he is almost arrested but they make a run for it at a music festival where they dance off stage and run for the car and then walk over the mountains towards freedom.
2006-12-06 20:27:54 · answer #3 · answered by Yellowjackets_Rule 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Part I: In Salzburg, Austria, Maria, a woman studying to become a nun, is sent from her convent to be the governess to seven children of Captain Georg Ritter von Trapp, a widower and a decorated commander in the former Austro-Hungarian Navy. The children, initially hostile and mischievous, come to like her, and she finds herself falling in love with the captain. He was soon to be married to Baroness Elsa Schräder but marries Maria instead. Maria teaches the children to sing. The youngest child, Gretl, has been played onstage by young New Zealander of the Year, Polly Smith.
2006-12-06 20:29:16 · answer #4 · answered by troy l 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maria, a young woman in Austria who wishes to be a nun at the abby is sent to work as a nanny for a strict, retired army captain who has 7 children. Working with the children in the Vontrap mansion, she teaches them her love of life, singing, and fun. The children, whose strict father has never allowed much time for fun, quickly warm up to Maria and begin to thik of her as a mothely figure. Seeing his children having so much fun, the captain softens towards Maria and they begin to fall in love. Maria makes a difficult choice between the abby, which she's dreamed of all her life and the family she loves. She chooses her family and is wed to the Captain. Shortly after their honeymoon, a telegram arrives from the Nazi army ordering the captian into service. Using a cleverly devised plan, the Vontrap family escapes into the mountains.
2006-12-06 20:29:06 · answer #5 · answered by MissUSA 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A super brief synopsis of the story is that a nanny comes and teaches the kids she babysits how to sing. It's just a musical of teaches how to sing.
2006-12-06 20:23:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WW2-a Trainee Musical Nun turned Nanny in Austria eventually falls for the kids' Father,and they escape the Nazi regime...
2006-12-06 21:32:06 · answer #7 · answered by Devmeister 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sound Of Music is the TRUE STORY of the VOn Trapp Family (who were popular singers) and their story went exactly how Katie B describes it. They hid in exile for many years.
2006-12-06 21:45:57 · answer #8 · answered by Army Of Machines (Wi-Semper-Fi)! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its about a nun who is having trouble at the Abby, so she is sent to go care for 7 children. the 7 children are raised strictly but she brings creativity and music into there life. its a great story and a classic. every one must see it. lots of songs and is good for kids too. and also historically correct.
2006-12-06 20:27:09 · answer #9 · answered by Tess 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its a all time classic and you gotta see it....itz about a nun thats not a very good nun(aka to outgoing) and so she is sent out to be a governess for a wealthy motherless family of seven children,they are really closed out of the outside world and she teaches them alot about fun loving stufff that includes singing she eventually falls in love with the childrens
2006-12-07 00:03:39 · answer #10 · answered by onetreehunny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋