Talk:The Sound of Music (film)

message: Just needed to clarify, the source that states the album returned to #1 in 2010 and 2013 is not correct and is no longer an active link. Allmusic has carried chart positions over with copy and paste every time an album re-entered. As for credibility, the #1 albums for 2010 and 2013 (on the respective wiki pages) are sourced from Billboard and none of them are this soundtrack. Please consider this.
Orion XXV (talk) 06:42, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, fair enough, the List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2010 and List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2013 do not mention it. I will delete that info. Softlavender (talk) 07:13, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sound Of Music chart positions. 

message: Right now it only lists UK chart performance. (I'm not skilled at those chart tables so I'm letting people here and elsewhere know.) Softlavender (talk) 13:07, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: UPDATE: This has been taken care of now. Softlavender (talk) 08:03, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[The Sound of Music (soundtrack)]] needs its Chart Performance table completed 

message: IMDB and plenty of other sources say "Rolfe", even though the "e" isn't pronounced in the film. I haven't checked the on-screen credits. Softlavender (talk) 02:28, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The AFI catalog append an "e". That's good enough for me unless someone explicitly confirms the actual film credits are different. Betty Logan (talk) 02:37, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The Rodgers and Hammerstein Library website  and our own article says the character's name in the stage musical is spelled "Rolf".--Thomprod (talk) 13:31, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The stage musical and the film are different entities. If his name had been changed to "Fritz" for the film adaptation that is how he would be referred to in this article. Likewise, this article should use the spelling as given in the actual film credits. If somebody has a copy of the film it would be helpful if they could check it for us. Betty Logan (talk) 13:37, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I viewed the movie from the Blue-Ray disc and can confirm the character's name is spelled "Rolfe" in the film's end credits. --Thomprod (talk) 17:25, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rolf or Rolfe? 

message: This massive puffy article does not seem to meet notability guidelines. If not, would someone please AfD it? Softlavender (talk) 20:19, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[The Sound of Music (Erich Kunzel recording)]] 

message: This excludes the 3 children that Captain and Maria had together.  I am using information from Wikipedia articles for Captain and those 7 children.  I didn't realize that all the children's names were changed for the show, which includes the stage play AND movie, right?
Rupert von Trapp, became Friedrich in the show (and switched with Liesl agewise)
Agathe von Trapp, became Liesl in the show (and switched with Friedrich agewise)
Maria Franziska von Trapp, became Louisa in the show (leaving Maria name for stepmother only, to avoid confusion)
Werner von Trapp, became Kurt in the show
Hedwig von Trapp, became Brigitta in the show
Johanna von Trapp, became Marta in the show
Martina von Trapp, became Gretl in the show Carlm0404 (talk) 15:33, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 7 children -- real names and those used in the show 

message: An editor has made several attempts to add Rotten Tomatoes data to this article. I removed the RT score because it contributes very little to the article, and in fact is potentially misleading about the film's reception. As the critical reception section notes reviews were mixed at the time, which is inconsistent with the RT score of 83%. The problem with review aggregators on older films is that they mix current reviews with contemporary reviews, and as a result are neither indicative of contemporary reception or current standing. 
WP:AGG##Limitations notes that review aggregator scores are more effective for films released in the 2000s, and that alternative sources should be sought for films released prior to this period. MOS:FILM#Critical response advises editors to exercise caution in the case of aggregator scores that combine current and contemporary reviews. While I accept aggregators have a place on newly released films in lieu of any other meaningful encyclopedic coverage I don't think they belong on articles about older films, especially classic films where alternative sources are available. Betty Logan (talk) 09:31, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rotten Tomatoes 

message: The article's section "Historical accuracy" does not compare the film with the real history, but mostly with Maria's "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", which more often than not is fantasy rather than an accurate representation of the Trapp family's biography up to 1939. By adding fiction to Maria's tale, the film becomes a completely inaccurate presentation of the real Trapps.
Georg von Trapp (Ludwig was never one of his given names) was not an anti-Nazi; while he likely didn't support national socialism, he didn't mind enough not to try to solicit business in Nazi Germany in 1937 and, perhaps, early 1938. It is not obvious that he "opposed" the Anschluss, although he likely preferred the Austrofascist regime to the Nazis. There is no evidence that the German Navy offered anything to Georg; it is, in fact, quite unlikely.
Maria had never been a novice; at best she had been a postulant, and even that has never been proved. Questioned by a German newspaper in 2008 about whether Georg and Maria had had a "happy marriage", Maria Franziska, Georg's daughter, replied: "Yes and no. I don't want to say more."
The Trapps didn't lose their money because the "Austrian national bank" folded, but because the private Lammer Bank went bankrupt, following a combination of mismanagement, fraud, and external circumstances. Georg had invested the family's fortune because, as he explained at Ms Lammer's trial, she had promised him a high rate of interest.
Georg's "embarrassment" about his family singing publicly didn't prevent him from leading the group in the beginning. (He literally played the first violin.) Only with Wasner's arrival did he fade into the background (management), which he may have resented.
Georg was not "entitled" to Italian citizenship but became Italian when Triest, the place which was "responsible" for him, was annexed by Italy. He then chose to stay Italian and not to become Austrian. (Which shows how much he cared about that country post-1918.) And the Trapps did not emigrate to the US in 1938, nor, technically, in 1939: both times they used visitors' visas. The exception was Rupert, who had become Austrian in 1933 and thus German in 1938, and who had an immigration visa in 1939.
Source: Frederick S. Litten: Notes on the Trapp Family in Austria - From Maria's grandparents to summer 1939. Norderstedt: BoD, 2023. ISBN: 978-3-7528-3507-6.
F.S. Litten 2003:EC:970A:C276:7403:DDD0:7067:89AD (talk) 12:32, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical accuracy, anew