Somehow watching the ending scene of this film, always makes me sad in the sense that they are leaving all the places, friends, things they cherish behind.
To Captain von Trapp, it was more dignified to abandon their homeland and live in poverty than to serve in the Third Reich (Nazi Germany). Imagine if Chinese Communist Party pull an "Anschluss" on the U.S. and recalls all top U.S. military officers to serve in the People's Liberation Army. While most would be willing to take the post (due to monetary payout... bribery is a hallmark of the CCP), you will always have the minority that will not sower their honor by serving the deviant governance and would rather live poor in honor than to live wealthy in shame.
i hear ya. they left behind "home" everything they have ever known. at least they are together. that is one tough family. i wish my family was like that. ONE DAY!
Throughout all of human history, people have had to leave their homeland because the situation there became unlivable. It is sad but they just have to remember where they come from and be proud of it, while at the same time integrating into the new place they live.
same here , am normally a blubbering wreck , those notes and music with them walking to freedom hairs on back of my neck crawl up my spine love love love
Same here, but it perfectly describes how they had no choice but to abandon their home to flee the Nazis and climb the Alps to unconquered Switzerland.
It really is wonderful filmmaking. The ending is only two shots about a minute long combined, simple in composition, void of dialogue ... but they serve to consummate everything that preceded them, showing us that the characters escaped to safety and will be all right (even Liesl, who is now a woman even though she was a girl in the scene before), and concludes on a passionately uplifting note despite the distressing content of the final act. All this from a brief glimpse of the characters walking along a grassy hill.
As a child I don’t understand what happen to this family but after 10 Years every time I watch this scene I cry It has so much meaning and emotions....
This ending scene is mostly symbolic --- it's about escaping your past and forging ahead into a new life in a new land --- in reality, they took a train from Austria to Italy and then by boat to America where they settled
@Noelle Dodson They left Austria and moved to Switzerland where they continued to sing as a means of survival. It seemed that they lost their fortune during WW II. They eventually moved to Stowe Vermont and opened up a Ski Resort and Chalet but Maria made a savage mistake although she didn't know it at the time. She gave up the "Rights" to The Book which meant that when it became an Oscar Winning Movie, she nor her family got paid. Same with Grace Metalious (Peyton Place). The legacy continues with hers and Georg's Great Grandchildren who were on Oprah
Bookend. The film starts with a camera zooming in on Marie von Trapp singing high up on a mountain. The movie ends with Marie von Trapp and family at the top of a mountain with the camera that pulls back. Gorgeous scenery in both instances. Great way to end a film.
I find it funny as a child I never really understood the seriousness of this movie and why the family was fleeing. I just thought it was a fun musical. As I get older, I appreciate it more and more.
I know what you mean! It took me several years afterwards to give the movie a second viewing. But the first time I felt bad for Liesel having lost Rolf due to his loyalties to the Nazi supporters. I just had to watch this beautiful movie for Julie Andrews herself. I discovered the Sound of Music when I was in my theatre baby steps as a teen. But for a decade now, I watch the Sound of Music nearly every year. Mainly between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
When my grandmother passed away we made a slideshow with music from this movie, and I always end up in tears at this song because the pictures show the post burial of grandmother, and my grandfather standing at her grave.
i didn't get to walk at rossfeld but did go up in the cable car to the untersberg along with a few days in salzburg. we went on the sound of music coach tour. it was just the most amazing time. something i will happily do again one day.
I remember vividly Oberammergau, Germany. Located in the Bavarian Alps, the mountains and hill top meadows look just like this ending scene. My father was in the Army, and the whole family moved on post the first week of January of 1970. Reluctantly, we had to move in June of 1974. As an 8 year old upon arrival, winter was magical. Snow flakes as big as cotton balls fell slowly and delicately adding up to a foot of fresh snow overnight. Spring was a glorious time of rebirth as flowers and grass lands flourished to abundance. As a 12 1/2 year old when we moved, I cried. I had fallen in love with Bavaria, and now I was devastated. Almost 50 years later, I still reminisce with great clarity all the places we visited and the fun we children had everyday of the year.
Yes, beautiful - until they run out of food and water, none of which I see they've brought, in their walk across the Swiss Alps. Neither did they bring any camping gear or tents or sleeping rolls. I'd wager that after a few days sleeping in the freezing cold, three of them died, and another was blinded by frostbite, with the father having to amputate his frostbitten toes and the singing mother needing a tracheotomy from dehydration.
Sono d'accordo con te...la Routledge come Madre Superiora e la Andrews come Maria ( che scavalcò nel Casting persino Anna Moffo Lan franchi, la quale mi disse di essersi candidata ma di non essere stata presa....) sono un concentrato insuperabile. Ma teniamo anche conto dell'allusione ai Partigiani, ai Fuggiaschi di ogni tipo tempo o cultura...costretti a valicare i passi montani per riuscire a raggiungere lo stato vicino per salvaguardare la propria incolumità....fra il rischio e quant'altro....
I would like to dedicate this video to my dearest sister PATTY who passed on the 19th of February this year !😢😢😢 It was her absolute favourite for every Christmas Day that she spent with us ❤ and she is so missed that it hurts me !!!
I came here to listen to the soundtrack of my favorite movie, and then I found your comment🥲Please accept my deepest condolences. Although the loved ones we cherish are no longer with us, the memories we shared with them still remain. May those precious moments, like watching beautiful films together and listening to music, always comfort you. Happy New Year! I hope you find your way over every mountain, across every river, and follow the rainbow in your life🙏🗻🏞🌈
As depicted in The Sound of Music, the family won first place in the Salzburg Music Festival in 1936, although the songs they sung at the festival were changed for the film. The famous Felsenreitschule concert hall in Salzburg was used as the setting for this scene in the film. Due to the family's success at the festival Maria and Georg began to think of their music as a way of getting them and the family out of Austria. The film’s biggest deviation from the true story is the way the family's “escape” is portrayed in the film. The family did not secretly escape over the Alps to freedom in Switzerland carrying their suitcases and musical instruments. They actually left Austria by train and their friends and relatives were informed of their decision. Also the von Trapps traveled to Italy not to Switzerland. From Italy they continued on to America. This is where the film story ends.
Also the way the Captain was portrayed wasn't accurate at all. The real Von Trapp kids said he was warm and loving not the stiff tyrant shown in the play/movie.
It was still a little precarious at the Italian border. They could easily have been sent back. In going to Mussolini's Italy, they were still making a run for it.
I feel like I am the only kid at my school who really knows what this movie is and cares about it,except for my friend Ashley.She told me that she had herd of it,but that doesn't actually count.
@@Sidneylovie I understand. I ask all my friends at school, "Have u watched the sound of music?" they all say no lol. Well I can't blame them, as I haven't seen some movies they tell me about :)
I was 4, I went with my family; I always remembered it, and it was on the consciousness of the entire culture in the US that summer, and Music Departments of schools and universities relied on Do-Re-Mi for much of the next 12 years, to teach their choral students how to sing and to read music. People loved it and still do!
@Nicole It does. Many families (like mine) bought the Sound of Music soundtrack album and the full songbook that came out, and like "Mary Poppins," many people had every song memorized and people and families would sing them together often, whether they were doing dishes or riding in the car. My sibling used Maria's wedding march music for their wedding march, which was played for the walk down the isle, and that was 3 years later (1968). This movie, its story and the music made a huge impact on the American people for many years. It made a huge impact on me at such a very young age; I held it as precious, and remembered it deeply; it was so powerful for me, like an imprint. I remember that evening, I remember that summer night, all because of that movie. We would never forget!
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I FIRST SAW THIS MOVIE WHEN I WAS SIX YEARS OLD. THIS SCENE MADE ME CRY WHEN I FIRST SAW IT. I WISHED THE FAMILY COULD HAVE STAYED IN THE COUNTRY. NOW THAT I AM A LOT OLDER I REALIZE THAT IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SAFE.
& the Nazi's would have arrested or even killed Captain Von Trapp for not taking the orders to be in the German Navy, or even worse do something to his family that's why they had to leave Austria , & also I got to see this movie at 8 years old myself at school back in 1983
@@bigwillietheb Austria was forcibly annexed into Germany in 1938. This meant Austria ceased to exist as a country and was eliminated from maps and road signs, their flag and national anthem were made illegal, and everyone was subject to Nazi German rules. Sad to say people like Rolf and Herr Zeller existed in quite large numbers and loved to serve their Nazi masters.
Well, wasn't the weather just gorgeous for this scene. The scenery is even more breath-taking in that it's the clearest, breeziest of days, full of vibrant life.
When I was in 6th grade, I had a dream that there was a sequel to this movie, it was so realistic and it recounted the tale of them living a new life in America and new music. It was a shame I found out there was no such sequel in real life and it was just a dream. Still lives in my memory
IIRC the German movie Die Trappe Family was the inspiration for The Sound of Music. The German movie actually has a sequel, Die Trapp Family in America (sp?). I think it's available on youtube with English subtitles.ua-cam.com/video/D9g_Y30Kaf8/v-deo.html
I watched this film with my mother so often when I was kid. We both cried though a lot of it. "Climb Every Mountain" is an impossible song to listen to without feeling outside of your emotions at the grandeur of that panoramic pullback scene at the end, and that brilliant voice of Julie Andrews... Rodgers & Hammerstein were quite the team.
The big mountain in the background at 0:03 is the "Hoher Göll" with the mountain hut "Purtschellerhaus", later on you can see the "Reiter Alpe" in the distance at 0:27, and finally the "Untersberg" at 0:42 which can easly be recognized by the characteristic gap in the middle which is called "Mittagsscharte". All mountains are situated between Berchtesgaden, Germany and Salzburg, Austria. The "Hoher Göll" is also the mountain next to the famous "Eagle's Nest".
funnily enough, they are actually walking north towards salzburg rather than away from it. What we see in the first few seconds is the northern side of the Göll. Having it in your back means going north.
Totally possible, in fact most people left their belongings and houses behind when they fled. But what is a material value worth if you can save your entire families life ? Still the best choice. I'd have done the same.
I remembered walking out of the cinema as a child with my mom feeling to cry and it stayed with me for at least 2 days lol. Now i'm 59 and it still feels the same way even after seeing it so many times.
Every single time I watch this scene since I was a child I get goosebumps. The same with the wedding scene. I never get tired of this movie, it’s a jewel! Thank you Rodgers and Hammerstein for this movie!
The greatest musical ever conceived ...ever sung ..and there are many that come close. Btw the ending reminds me of the story my grandparents told me of them having to leave Germany at the time of the war through the German alps and into the Swiss alps.
Because our society unfortunately has completely different ideals now. Today we are obsessed with identity, equality, technology, and material success. Back then people valued courage, sacrifice, and country...and believed in undying love.
It was almost required by our school to see this movie in '65. I don't know anyone in our small town who didn't see it at the local theater where it seemed to play for most of the year. I wasn't a huge fan of live-action musicals but was blown away by how entertaining, fun, and inspiring it was. Loved it. We all did.
I have been watching this film since I was 5 (1965) and I never tire of it. The Captain is beyond awesome! Love him, he has been my hearthrob since I was 5. I am now 59...Still love you Captain Von Trapp!
This is my all time favorite movie of all time ! Especially this beautiful ending ! I ran this movie at the theater in'65 for over a year and 6 months . I still watch it and listen to the soundtrack every now and then, it still gives me goosebumps after all these years !
Amazing ending to a cinematic masterpiece! This is my favorite part of the film. It inspired me to keep going when I was hiking several miles of steep trail in the Appalachians with a full pack and too-small boots. In 1976, I visited the gift shop and little cafe at the Von Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, VT, with my parents. Baroness Maria Von Trapp, dressed in the old Austrian Alpine style, showed up. She seemed a bit stern and was bustling about tidying up merchandise on the store shelves. I was a 14-yr-old kid, so I didn't dare say anything to her. I was, however, in awe to be standing a few feet from such a famous lady.
fun fact: that's not actually Gretl (Kym Karath) Christopher Plummer complained she was too heavy to carry on his back, and requested a lighter double to carry instead
I read that Kym gained some weight towards the end of filming. I noticed that when the Captain and Maria returned from their honeymoon, he greeted the children and picked up Marta, the second youngest, instead of Gretl. Kym Karath was adorable, but she was a very sturdy little girl. (Maybe she still had some of her baby fat.)
And then that was it, it ended where it first began. A panoramic shot overlooking the alps, with a nun in the open fields. Only this time the family are traveling the alps to escape, and escape they will.
This ending made me sad and happy that the von trapp family escaped from the places they loved and lived . But leaving Austria was the right choice . Save the ones you love . The sound of music guided them to freedom and life . Climb every mountain follow every stream follow every rainbow 🌈 still you find your dream .
In the book, when the von Trapps finally revisited Salzburg, their old friends who had stayed there told them that the von Trapps had made the right decision in leaving.
When You Combine Such Moving Music /Words (Audio) with Scenic Beauty ( Visuals) it Heightens The Senses & Stirs The Emotions...Thats Their Intent...Genius..
This movie was at the core of my family. We sung the songs and We watched the movie every year. We are a family of 10 (parents included) so the large family dynamic was there. My parents have since past, but this brings back so many of those good memories. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder how spectacular the views were, while filming this. It looks so majestic. I wonder if it was as striking to them, with the camera rolling, as it looks to us as the audience.
The final scene was filmed in Rossfeld, Germany which is at the borderline of Austria & Germany. It would be a very long walk westward to reach Switzerland from where they were at. If you stop the film at 0:27 and look at the very top left you will see Hitler's Eagles Nest which wasn't demolished after the war. The other building he lived in in Berchtesgaden was completely demolished.
When Maria looks down in shame during the first verse chorus so heart breaking, then a minute later it clicks into place, just beautiful ❤truly incredible scene
The Sound of Music is the last musical that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote. Soon after the Broadway show opened in 1959, Hammerstein died. At least he lived to see the Broadway show's success. It's sad that he didn't live to see the movie of 1965 and it's enormous success.
This scene makes me shiver .. the ending is a bit lost and sad .. because you see them leaving the place where they grew up .. and leaving without anything to another place and a new and unknown beginning .. :(
It's bittersweet. They have to leave, but they are also leaving behind the place that is no longer truly Austria - they're basically stuck as slaves in Naziland. At least now, they have a chance to stay who they are, even if they have to rework it into a new situation. And at least they have their freedom. Don't forget, 1945 is a long way away for them.
@@GroundhogDayisAWESOME He did hate the movie for a long time, but in later life he gradually softened his opinion and maintained his friendship with Julie Andrews.
The hills are alive again!!!! So happy for you. Debbie and I went there in 75 and planning a trip again in 25!! Jeff and are going to Switzerland Austria and Germany in Sept. Enjoy and be safe !!!
I have seen that openning scene hundreds of times and the movie itself half a dozen, but its been forever since I stayed to watch these last few moments. Like everything else in this movie, plotwise is formulaic finishing the plot arch, in a predictable fairly routine saccarine Hollywood way. But in Director Robert Wise' inspired hands, there is nothing routine about it! The Von Trapp family are now literally displaced refugees in wartime, but we feel hope, not fear, confidence not doubt, and a sense of God's grace and gifts among these Austrian peaks. Climb Every Mountain not a song for wimps waiting for God to ease their burden. Its is actually hymn to hard work, tenacity and steadfast determination in the face of obstacles. The 'dream' is not coming to you,. You have to go and find it. And that is what this last scene is about!
My first movie at the cinema, when first released in 1965, aged 6, with my mum. Bored witless I was, while mum sat enthralled. Now, when I see it, I bawl my eyes out remembering mum.
Somehow watching the ending scene of this film, always makes me sad in the sense that they are leaving all the places, friends, things they cherish behind.
But you have to remember that they leave for freedom, and eventually make their way to America.
They have new ones in spades.
To Captain von Trapp, it was more dignified to abandon their homeland and live in poverty than to serve in the Third Reich (Nazi Germany). Imagine if Chinese Communist Party pull an "Anschluss" on the U.S. and recalls all top U.S. military officers to serve in the People's Liberation Army. While most would be willing to take the post (due to monetary payout... bribery is a hallmark of the CCP), you will always have the minority that will not sower their honor by serving the deviant governance and would rather live poor in honor than to live wealthy in shame.
i hear ya. they left behind "home" everything they have ever known. at least they are together. that is one tough family. i wish my family was like that. ONE DAY!
Throughout all of human history, people have had to leave their homeland because the situation there became unlivable. It is sad but they just have to remember where they come from and be proud of it, while at the same time integrating into the new place they live.
This scene gives me goosebumps every time
Same here! Every single time. All over my body.
same here , am normally a blubbering wreck , those notes and music with them walking to freedom hairs on back of my neck crawl up my spine love love love
Me to😿🤗😇
Same here, but it perfectly describes how they had no choice but to abandon their home to flee the Nazis and climb the Alps to unconquered Switzerland.
Cool dude.
One of the most INSPIRING ending scenes to a movie musical in the entire history of motion pictures !!!! :-)
It really is wonderful filmmaking. The ending is only two shots about a minute long combined, simple in composition, void of dialogue ... but they serve to consummate everything that preceded them, showing us that the characters escaped to safety and will be all right (even Liesl, who is now a woman even though she was a girl in the scene before), and concludes on a passionately uplifting note despite the distressing content of the final act. All this from a brief glimpse of the characters walking along a grassy hill.
I agree.
As a child I don’t understand what happen to this family
but after 10 Years every time I watch this scene I cry
It has so much meaning and emotions....
same for me
@Noelle Dodson They fled Austria for Switzerland.
This ending scene is mostly symbolic --- it's about escaping your past and forging ahead into a new life in a new land --- in reality, they took a train from Austria to Italy and then by boat to America where they settled
@Noelle Dodson They left Austria and moved to Switzerland where they continued to sing as a means of survival. It seemed that they lost their fortune during WW II. They eventually moved to Stowe Vermont and opened up a Ski Resort and Chalet but Maria made a savage mistake although she didn't know it at the time. She gave up the "Rights" to The Book which meant that when it became an Oscar Winning Movie, she nor her family got paid. Same with Grace Metalious (Peyton Place). The legacy continues with hers and Georg's Great Grandchildren who were on Oprah
me too, I thought they just hiking to a place where Maria went at the beginning of the movie.
Bookend. The film starts with a camera zooming in on Marie von Trapp singing high up on a mountain. The movie ends with Marie von Trapp and family at the top of a mountain with the camera that pulls back. Gorgeous scenery in both instances. Great way to end a film.
Plus, the song here is the reprise to the song at the end of the first act (at least in the musical, not the film).
@@dclark142002And one of the greatest in a long line of act one finales that stood out to me
Until you realize geographically, that Germany is across those mountains.
@@allainangcao28Maria Von Trapp observed that the dramatic finale over the mountains had the family walking right into Hitler’s jaws.
Except they were headed in the wrong direction .
I find it funny as a child I never really understood the seriousness of this movie and why the family was fleeing. I just thought it was a fun musical. As I get older, I appreciate it more and more.
I know what you mean! It took me several years afterwards to give the movie a second viewing. But the first time I felt bad for Liesel having lost Rolf due to his loyalties to the Nazi supporters. I just had to watch this beautiful movie for Julie Andrews herself. I discovered the Sound of Music when I was in my theatre baby steps as a teen. But for a decade now, I watch the Sound of Music nearly every year. Mainly between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
As a child, I thought they were literally pursuing dreams across every mountain. As an adult I now know that I was a sweet summer child.
used to watch this film with my mother when i was a kid now at 39 i realize why she loved it so much i am crying at the end of this brilliant film
I also watched it when i was young with my mother. She passed away last december and now i can't watch it without crying..
When my grandmother passed away we made a slideshow with music from this movie, and I always end up in tears at this song because the pictures show the post burial of grandmother, and my grandfather standing at her grave.
LOL. If you swap the l in lake with the f in fire, it becomes Fake Liar!!!!
One of my favorite movies....and it was one of the first I ever saw on the big screen in the movie theater.....:)
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I walked the same path in the summer of 2019. A childhood dream came true for me and I was singing this song all the way.
Someday I'm going to do the same.
@@NOMADcourier85 Me too
how far is it from the cable car, how long to walk up to where they walked at the end scene. i am going to salzburg in a couple of weeks.
@@trevorbaldwin1how was it
i didn't get to walk at rossfeld but did go up in the cable car to the untersberg along with a few days in salzburg. we went on the sound of music coach tour. it was just the most amazing time. something i will happily do again one day.
They don't make movies like this anymore!!!!
That is SO true! I used to have this movie on vhs when I was a little kid and I would watch it constantly!! I hope I can get it on dvd somewhere!!
Samantha Buss I used to rent this from Blockbuster (RIP) on VHS and it would come in a two pack because it's so long :)
No way! Good thing I have it on DVD.
You can still get the movie because I bought it not that long ago and it is on dvd
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I remember vividly Oberammergau, Germany. Located in the Bavarian Alps, the mountains and hill top meadows look just like this ending scene. My father was in the Army, and the whole family moved on post the first week of January of 1970. Reluctantly, we had to move in June of 1974. As an 8 year old upon arrival, winter was magical. Snow flakes as big as cotton balls fell slowly and delicately adding up to a foot of fresh snow overnight. Spring was a glorious time of rebirth as flowers and grass lands flourished to abundance. As a 12 1/2 year old when we moved, I cried. I had fallen in love with Bavaria, and now I was devastated. Almost 50 years later, I still reminisce with great clarity all the places we visited and the fun we children had everyday of the year.
My dad was in the Air Force and stationed in Germany when I was a child… I too remember Oberammergau vividly, and it does!
50 years and still amazing :) :) :) :)
CantStayAwayYes,absolutely
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53 years for me
gets even better the older it is.
CantStayAway 55 years, still amazing 👍.
Not sure how anyone can not not cry at the ending of this timeless masterpiece
I guess I am heartless
Lol i always do tear up ☺️🥺💟
Probably
Especially considering the massive bullet they just dodged: Forced conscription, the war and eventual Soviet revenge.
Crying right now 😂
That's definitely one of the most beautiful scenes of the whole film industry!
It sure is.
The most beautiful ending to a movie I have ever seen
Yes, beautiful - until they run out of food and water, none of which I see they've brought, in their walk across the Swiss Alps. Neither did they bring any camping gear or tents or sleeping rolls. I'd wager that after a few days sleeping in the freezing cold, three of them died, and another was blinded by frostbite, with the father having to amputate his frostbitten toes and the singing mother needing a tracheotomy from dehydration.
its magic you want to be in that film and never come back to reality
Sono d'accordo con te...la Routledge come Madre Superiora e la Andrews come Maria ( che scavalcò nel Casting persino Anna Moffo Lan franchi, la quale mi disse di essersi candidata ma di non essere stata presa....) sono un concentrato insuperabile. Ma teniamo anche conto dell'allusione ai Partigiani, ai Fuggiaschi di ogni tipo tempo o cultura...costretti a valicare i passi montani per riuscire a raggiungere lo stato vicino per salvaguardare la propria incolumità....fra il rischio e quant'altro....
@@jondunmore4268 Bet your lots of fun at parties. 🙄
@@mysticalmargaret6105 -- Bet you can't spell.
I would like to dedicate this video to my dearest sister PATTY who passed on the 19th of February this year !😢😢😢
It was her absolute favourite for every Christmas Day that she spent with us ❤ and she is so missed that it hurts me !!!
I came here to listen to the soundtrack of my favorite movie, and then I found your comment🥲Please accept my deepest condolences. Although the loved ones we cherish are no longer with us, the memories we shared with them still remain. May those precious moments, like watching beautiful films together and listening to music, always comfort you. Happy New Year! I hope you find your way over every mountain, across every river, and follow the rainbow in your life🙏🗻🏞🌈
I'm so sorry for your loss! God bless you and your family! ❤
Here’s to a well-loved Patty as you approach her first heavenly birthday ❤❤
Best movie ending ever. Very wholesome. Something todays cinema knows absolutely nothing about. God Bless.
Tougher than ever to find good movies
Even as a young boy, this made me tear up.
Me too.
I still cry at this scene
Atleast they survived.
The best movie of all time.
The best MUSICAL or all time!
Sad video
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YES... I MUST AGREE FOR ME!!!!
I never cry for movies...this one did it for me.
As depicted in The Sound of Music, the family won first place in the Salzburg Music Festival in 1936, although the songs they sung at the festival were changed for the film. The famous Felsenreitschule concert hall in Salzburg was used as the setting for this scene in the film. Due to the family's success at the festival Maria and Georg began to think of their music as a way of getting them and the family out of Austria.
The film’s biggest deviation from the true story is the way the family's “escape” is portrayed in the film. The family did not secretly escape over the Alps to freedom in Switzerland carrying their suitcases and musical instruments. They actually left Austria by train and their friends and relatives were informed of their decision. Also the von Trapps traveled to Italy not to Switzerland. From Italy they continued on to America. This is where the film story ends.
Also the way the Captain was portrayed wasn't accurate at all. The real Von Trapp kids said he was warm and loving not the stiff tyrant shown in the play/movie.
Kyle Change thanks for the info. i like this story though
didn't know that this movie was based on true story
It was still a little precarious at the Italian border. They could easily have been sent back. In going to Mussolini's Italy, they were still making a run for it.
@@Dustshoe not to mention Italy and Germany made a forged a pact of steel
I'm 13 and I love this movie my friends don't like these kind of movies and I don't understand them. The Sound of Music is one of my favorite movies
I feel like I am the only kid at my school who really knows what this movie is and cares about it,except for my friend Ashley.She told me that she had herd of it,but that doesn't actually count.
Celestine GS I was 13 when I first saw the Sound of Music. I’ll be 26 on Saturday
Celestine GS I was 13 when I first saw the Sound of Music. I’ll be 26 on Saturday
@@Sidneylovie I understand. I ask all my friends at school, "Have u watched the sound of music?" they all say no lol. Well I can't blame them, as I haven't seen some movies they tell me about :)
It's like the only musical that I like.
The Sound of Music is a timeless classic! My grandmother took me to see it on my eighth birthday in 1965; the year that it was released.
I was 4, I went with my family; I always remembered it, and it was on the consciousness of the entire culture in the US that summer, and Music Departments of schools and universities relied on Do-Re-Mi for much of the next 12 years, to teach their choral students how to sing and to read music. People loved it and still do!
@Nicole
It does. Many families (like mine) bought the Sound of Music soundtrack album and the full songbook that came out, and like "Mary Poppins," many people had every song memorized and people and families would sing them together often, whether they were doing dishes or riding in the car. My sibling used Maria's wedding march music for their wedding march, which was played for the walk down the isle, and that was 3 years later (1968). This movie, its story and the music made a huge impact on the American people for many years. It made a huge impact on me at such a very young age; I held it as precious, and remembered it deeply; it was so powerful for me, like an imprint. I remember that evening, I remember that summer night, all because of that movie. We would never forget!
This movie still gives me goosebumps. I love this movie.
Christopher Plummer climbed every mountain into heaven. RIP. What an ending.
No man can climb into Heaven, regardless of effort or status…
Only crossing the bridge to God, THROUGH JESUS , will deem you fit / clothed, righteous for Heaven.
Jesus is The way!
Not our efforts.
I love how the movie starts with a green hill with beautiful song and monastery, and ends with monastery and green hill with beautiful song
I FIRST SAW THIS MOVIE WHEN I WAS SIX YEARS OLD. THIS SCENE MADE ME CRY WHEN I FIRST SAW IT. I WISHED THE FAMILY COULD HAVE STAYED IN THE COUNTRY. NOW THAT I AM A LOT OLDER I REALIZE THAT IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SAFE.
I GUESS IT IS DIFFICULT FOR A SIX YEAR OLD CHILD TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS
& the Nazi's would have arrested or even killed Captain Von Trapp for not taking the orders to be in the German Navy, or even worse do something to his family that's why they had to leave Austria , & also I got to see this movie at 8 years old myself at school back in 1983
WHY ARE YOU YELLING
@@mr.brooks8913 xD
@@bigwillietheb Austria was forcibly annexed into Germany in 1938. This meant Austria ceased to exist as a country and was eliminated from maps and road signs, their flag and national anthem were made illegal, and everyone was subject to Nazi German rules. Sad to say people like Rolf and Herr Zeller existed in quite large numbers and loved to serve their Nazi masters.
Well, wasn't the weather just gorgeous for this scene. The scenery is even more breath-taking in that it's the clearest, breeziest of days, full of vibrant life.
I remember for Do-Re-Mi, they had to keep re-filming between rain.
I would be intimidated to be on those mountains
When I was in 6th grade, I had a dream that there was a sequel to this movie, it was so realistic and it recounted the tale of them living a new life in America and new music. It was a shame I found out there was no such sequel in real life and it was just a dream. Still lives in my memory
IIRC the German movie Die Trappe Family was the inspiration for The Sound of Music. The German movie actually has a sequel, Die Trapp Family in America (sp?). I think it's available on youtube with English subtitles.ua-cam.com/video/D9g_Y30Kaf8/v-deo.html
I watched this film with my mother so often when I was kid. We both cried though a lot of it. "Climb Every Mountain" is an impossible song to listen to without feeling outside of your emotions at the grandeur of that panoramic pullback scene at the end, and that brilliant voice of Julie Andrews... Rodgers & Hammerstein were quite the team.
The big mountain in the background at 0:03 is the "Hoher Göll" with the mountain hut "Purtschellerhaus", later on you can see the "Reiter Alpe" in the distance at 0:27, and finally the "Untersberg" at 0:42 which can easly be recognized by the characteristic gap in the middle which is called "Mittagsscharte". All mountains are situated between Berchtesgaden, Germany and Salzburg, Austria. The "Hoher Göll" is also the mountain next to the famous "Eagle's Nest".
For those who don't know WWII, Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's Nest were Hitler's mountain retreats.
yeah exactly 🇦🇹😉
funnily enough, they are actually walking north towards salzburg rather than away from it. What we see in the first few seconds is the northern side of the Göll. Having it in your back means going north.
@@bostonseekerin other words, they fled right to Hitler's summer home. Damn.
One of, if not the Most Emotional movie ending of all time.. The Sound of Music is truly a masterpiece!
One of the best movies of all time
Beautiful ending to a wonderful film. Captain Von Trapp finally learned to put his children first with the help of Maria.
Walking to Switzerland by foot with no food or water. Yolo.
Totally possible, in fact most people left their belongings and houses behind when they fled.
But what is a material value worth if you can save your entire families life ? Still the best choice. I'd have done the same.
It was summer, too. So not too freezing cold.
Dylan Neslo the real von trapps didnt walk , they caught a train , not far from their house
Dylan Neslo The von Trapps also didn't go to Switzerland, they went to Italy. Salzburg is nowhere near Switzerland.
Oh, HUSH! You'd rather that for an ending than a scene of crossing the ALPS?? Details, schmeetails!
I remembered walking out of the cinema as a child with my mom feeling to cry and it stayed with me for at least 2 days lol. Now i'm 59 and it still feels the same way even after seeing it so many times.
Every single time I watch this scene since I was a child I get goosebumps. The same with the wedding scene. I never get tired of this movie, it’s a jewel! Thank you Rodgers and Hammerstein for this movie!
They left their beautiful life with the each other & the clothes on their back..that's impressive
That scene give me chills everytime. That was our 6 grade graduation song in 1976.
It makes this old guy cry every time. I love the song and all the songs from the film. They don't write stuff like this anymore.
I’ve lived by this song for years. My life has been working on that dream ❤
You touched my heartstrings with your words as the music swelled. I relate to your words enormously. ❤
The greatest musical ever conceived ...ever sung ..and there are many that come close. Btw the ending reminds me of the story my grandparents told me of them having to leave Germany at the time of the war through the German alps and into the Swiss alps.
Les Miserables. The Phantom of the Opera. Chicago.
The Greatest Showman, Grease
im 17 years old and still this was my childhood movie. thanks for my great parents showing me this moviee
“The borders are closed, we’ll drive up into the hills and go over those mountains on foot”
~Christopher Plummer as Captain Von Trapp 1929-2021
Coming from other places on youtube to this is like coming into a clean shower after wading through filth.
Mir Grande 😂😂😂😂
One of the most triumphant finales in all of film history!
Why don't we have epic films like this anymore? Brilliant family films...I miss them
Because our society unfortunately has completely different ideals now. Today we are obsessed with identity, equality, technology, and material success. Back then people valued courage, sacrifice, and country...and believed in undying love.
It’s tougher than ever to find good movies
I remember watching this when I was 5 years old. To me they are still walking across that mountain to freedom.
It was almost required by our school to see this movie in '65. I don't know anyone in our small town who didn't see it at the local theater where it seemed to play for most of the year. I wasn't a huge fan of live-action musicals but was blown away by how entertaining, fun, and inspiring it was. Loved it. We all did.
As soon as the music started, I got chills up my arms
Love this movie so much
I have been watching this film since I was 5 (1965) and I never tire of it. The Captain is beyond awesome! Love him, he has been my hearthrob since I was 5. I am now 59...Still love you Captain Von Trapp!
Goosebumps all the time. Amazing ending to this timeless classic.
Tears roll everytime I watch this ending🥲
I feel tears but of joy, because they were free. Others weren’t so lucky
My eyes are watering, what a superb movie, Chris Plummer we miss you, may your soul RIP.
This is my all time favorite movie of all time !
Especially this beautiful ending !
I ran this movie at the theater in'65 for over a year and 6 months .
I still watch it and listen to the soundtrack every now and then, it still gives me goosebumps after all these years !
In Memory Of
Christopher Plummer as Captain von Trapp
(born: December 13, 1929 - died: February 5, 2021)
Amazing ending to a cinematic masterpiece! This is my favorite part of the film. It inspired me to keep going when I was hiking several miles of steep trail in the Appalachians with a full pack and too-small boots.
In 1976, I visited the gift shop and little cafe at the Von Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, VT, with my parents. Baroness Maria Von Trapp, dressed in the old Austrian Alpine style, showed up. She seemed a bit stern and was bustling about tidying up merchandise on the store shelves. I was a 14-yr-old kid, so I didn't dare say anything to her. I was, however, in awe to be standing a few feet from such a famous lady.
My favorite part of old family movies such as ones made by Disney etc. They always end with a beautiful choir singing at the end climaxing the movie.
One if the best musicals ever made. Based on a true story.
fun fact: that's not actually Gretl (Kym Karath) Christopher Plummer complained she was too heavy to carry on his back, and requested a lighter double to carry instead
Thought so, looks smaller than than Kym
at the end of filming she was close to 290 pounds
@@edmundmcgrath213 LOL!!! Ya that would've been a tough scene to film then
@@edmundmcgrath213 131 kilos?!? That's nonsense...
I read that Kym gained some weight towards the end of filming. I noticed that when the Captain and Maria returned from their honeymoon, he greeted the children and picked up Marta, the second youngest, instead of Gretl. Kym Karath was adorable, but she was a very sturdy little girl. (Maybe she still had some of her baby fat.)
And then that was it, it ended where it first began. A panoramic shot overlooking the alps, with a nun in the open fields. Only this time the family are traveling the alps to escape, and escape they will.
This ending made me sad and happy that the von trapp family escaped from the places they loved and lived . But leaving Austria was the right choice . Save the ones you love . The sound of music guided them to freedom and life . Climb every mountain follow every stream follow every rainbow 🌈 still you find your dream .
In the book, when the von Trapps finally revisited Salzburg, their old friends who had stayed there told them that the von Trapps had made the right decision in leaving.
When You Combine Such Moving Music /Words (Audio) with Scenic Beauty ( Visuals) it Heightens The Senses & Stirs The Emotions...Thats Their Intent...Genius..
When Mother Superior sings this in the movie, my grampa would always cry. I miss him and my gramma so much!
Glorious music.
so long so farewell Christopher RIP
Dude no my heart 😭💔
This movie was at the core of my family. We sung the songs and We watched the movie every year. We are a family of 10 (parents included) so the large family dynamic was there. My parents have since past, but this brings back so many of those good memories. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder how spectacular the views were, while filming this. It looks so majestic. I wonder if it was as striking to them, with the camera rolling, as it looks to us as the audience.
音楽はもちろん、
家族、
愛するもの。
様々なことを教えられた素晴らしい作品。
この作品を教えてくれた親に感謝です。
God bless Rogers and Hammerstein. They don't compose music like this anymore.
I've first heard their music when Brandy was Cinderella
Oh just takes me back watching this at the cinema with all the family. Great times great film 😢
The tears just go when they make it..
As a child at 5 I cried just at the beauty but now it has a different meaning.
Such a moving scene. This whole movie is superb. I get goosebumps and tear every time.
The final scene was filmed in Rossfeld, Germany which is at the borderline of Austria & Germany. It would be a very long walk westward to reach Switzerland from where they were at. If you stop the film at 0:27 and look at the very top left you will see Hitler's Eagles Nest which wasn't demolished after the war. The other building he lived in in Berchtesgaden was completely demolished.
When Maria looks down in shame during the first verse chorus so heart breaking, then a minute later it clicks into place, just beautiful ❤truly incredible scene
I went to Austria Salzburg in 2009 I climb that mountain boy was it high and a little scary I cried when I went up there
Lol. It's not that high. Beautiful though.
as a young boy that must have been quite amazing!!
@@iristakenoko3939I’m a girl
Forever a classic!
One of the best endings in movie history for me
Absolutely
My favourite film just adore it. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤just beautiful and heartwarming 💕
This os the most beautiful song ever!! ❤❤
The song touches the innermost soul. Simply moving. My favourite movie of all the times. Thanks to the actors.
The end is beautiful & so inspiring! Love this movie! I love Julie Andrews the best
This is the most beautiful amazing heart warming way to begin a movie
this scene is deeply emotional
Austria...............it's amazing
Beautiful movie❤
The Sound of Music is the last musical that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote. Soon after the Broadway show opened in 1959, Hammerstein died. At least he lived to see the Broadway show's success. It's sad that he didn't live to see the movie of 1965 and it's enormous success.
My first exposure to their work was Brandy as Cinderella
Anyone who doesn't like this film doesn't have a soul. The Sound of Music is one of the best films ever especially musicals.
Everybody has a soul our they wouldn't be here
同感
This scene is so beautiful
Such an inspiration for me as a 15 year old who had lost his dad X
This scene makes me shiver .. the ending is a bit lost and sad .. because you see them leaving the place where they grew up .. and leaving without anything to another place and a new and unknown beginning .. :(
It's bittersweet. They have to leave, but they are also leaving behind the place that is no longer truly Austria - they're basically stuck as slaves in Naziland. At least now, they have a chance to stay who they are, even if they have to rework it into a new situation. And at least they have their freedom. Don't forget, 1945 is a long way away for them.
I agree with LA below, gives me goosebumps and shivers of joy and wonderment!
Rest in peace, Christopher!!!
Too bad his hated this movie later in life.... What a pathetic thing to think
True. And he disliked the children too.
@@GroundhogDayisAWESOME He did hate the movie for a long time, but in later life he gradually softened his opinion and maintained his friendship with Julie Andrews.
The hills are alive again!!!! So happy for you. Debbie and I went there in 75 and planning a trip again in 25!! Jeff and are going to Switzerland Austria and Germany in Sept. Enjoy and be safe !!!
I will always love this movie. There is no farewell watching it from time to time.
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There's no more perfect choir in history
Thank you
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I love the final note but it was cut short! Great rendition made shame about that wonderful high last note!
I have seen that openning scene hundreds of times and the movie itself half a dozen, but its been forever since I stayed to watch these last few moments. Like everything else in this movie, plotwise is formulaic finishing the plot arch, in a predictable fairly routine saccarine Hollywood way. But in Director Robert Wise' inspired hands, there is nothing routine about it! The Von Trapp family are now literally displaced refugees in wartime, but we feel hope, not fear, confidence not doubt, and a sense of God's grace and gifts among these Austrian peaks. Climb Every Mountain not a song for wimps waiting for God to ease their burden. Its is actually hymn to hard work, tenacity and steadfast determination in the face of obstacles. The 'dream' is not coming to you,. You have to go and find it. And that is what this last scene is about!
This song makes me cry its so heart warming !
still amazes me that this based off a true story
Goosebumps! and a few tears. Love it!
My first movie at the cinema, when first released in 1965, aged 6, with my mum. Bored witless I was, while mum sat enthralled. Now, when I see it, I bawl my eyes out remembering mum.