The Sound of Music

Last night Channel 7 telecasted “The Sound of Music” starring Julie Andrew as the happy and joyous Maria. I saw the movie when it was first released in1965. Though the show is 41 years old, it is still so refreshing. It remained one of my favourite show.

Who can forget the joyful and playful Maria. She is a tomboy yet she is pretty, sweet, and innocence. She has a lovely singing voice. She is kind, gentle and understanding. I like her hair, short, clean and manageable. Her dressing was simple and uncomplicated. The simple unsophisticated dress makes her so feminine. It is sad most girls today prefer T-shirt and Jeans.

I always love the opening scene. The film began with camera panning left to right through the clouds and across rocky, snow-covered mountains. Then the camera dipped into a green, wooded valley with steep cliffs that descend into a snow-fed lake. The mirror like water surface reflected the hills and slowly panning over the European landscape and village, then into the open green field.

With an open arm appreciation of the beauty and surrounding hills, she sang the title song.

The hills are alive with the sound of music
With songs they have sung for a thousand years.
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every song it hears.
My heart wants to beat like the wings
Of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees,
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze,
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls
Over stones on its way
To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray.
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely,
I know I will hear what I've heard before.
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I'll sing once more.

The sceneries were also breathtaking and beautiful. It brought back memories of our Europe Tour in 1995. We visited Salzburg and managed to see The Benedictine Convent on Nonnberg from afar.

The movie, the hills and the Sound of Music beckons once again for another visit to Europe.