The Sound of Music

Yesterday, I was humming the tune of Sixteen Going on Seventeen, not even really aware that I was doing it. Adrianna piped up and asked me, “Do we have The Sound of Music movie?” I was completely amazed that she recognized the song from my humming and placed what movie it belonged to after only seeing a portion of it, one time, over our Christmas vacation.

We do own the movie, so we got it out and we have been watching pieces of it, as a family, for the past couple of evenings. The reason we are only watching small portions at a time is due to Adrianna’s short attention span and early bedtime, but we are all enjoying it very much.

I remember we would watch The Sound of Music whenever it came on tv when I was growing up. When we finally bought the DVD, I was pleasantly surprised by some extra scenes that are cut out of the tv version.

It is different watching the movie as an adult too; as a child, I think a lot of the subleties of feelings, looks, and comments between the Baroness and Maria or the Captain and Maria go right over your head. Some of the Austria/Germany conflict and comments as well, like the Captain’s display of the Austrian flag or singing Edelweiss as an outspoken love and farewell to the country he loves, even if it isn’t Austria’s real anthem.

The differences in watching The Sound of Music as a child and again as an adult weren’t as much of a surprise as Annie was though. No, that was more of a shock and almost as if it were an entirely different movie than what I remembered. Carol Burnett sure plays an amazing and naughty Mrs. Hannigan! Hmmm, I may have to add that one to our Netflix list. Adrianna seems to like musicals, especially when there are children, and it has been awhile since I have seen it.