Edelweiss - Christopher Plummer. A Sound of Music scene that still chokes me up

[maxrandb]

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Me too, my dear maxrandb.........me too. ♥

[StClone]

2. On a vacation with a women Friend years ago.

We walked down the sidewalk of McGregor Iowa. On a sunny sweet day in that charming little Mississippi River town we were to have a memorable moment. As we took to a slow wandering path, we came to a home on the north side of town with scattered flowers in the lawn on this mid-May morning. And, we came to realize there just off the sidewalk was a blooming of Edelweiss!

My friend nearly lost it as she gasped and bent down to take in the pretty white flowers. It nearly brought tears to her eyes to see such an incongruous sight. I never asked her why it was so emotional to find the flower, but I suspect in a long stay in Germany she fell in love with a guy there and this somehow figured into an evocation of him.

So much in that simple song...

[hlthe2b]

3. The magic of Oscar & Hammerstein combined with the incredibly evocative talent of Plummer

That scene so resonates, even though much about it (including the suggestion that the song, Edelweiss was the National song of Austria--though Edelweiss IS the National flower) was a "created" reality.

Beautiful scene brimming with eloquence.

[maxrandb]

4. Yes, apparently the real Von Trapp family didn't have to cross the mountains

but just walk out their backyard.

Still, prefer The Sound of Music version.

Christopher Plummer was so good in this movie.

Like a lot of movies, if I met General Patton, and he wasn't like the George C. Scott character, I would be disappointed.

[wnylib]

6. They didn't even just walk out their

back yard, apparently. From an interview with some of the adult von Trapp children that I read, the family was on vacation in Italy and decided not to return.

About the only things in the movie that are true to life are that Maria was a novice, acting as governess when von Trapp proposed, and the kids did sing publicly as a family group. All rest was made up by Hollywood. They said that their father was not the stern disciplinarian depicted in the film, either, but was a gentle, easygoing guy. If anything, they needed Maria to bring some order into their lives.

[tanyev]

5. That is a great moment. I'm partial to him ripping the Nazi flag.