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{{quote|''I go to the hills when my heart is lonely.''
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''And I'll sing once more.''}}
The famous musical by [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]], based on the story of
Features nuns, [[Those Wacky Nazis]], and ''not'' the Austrian national anthem. The film is virtually unknown in Austria itself, which is odd considering the English-speaking world knows Austria as "that country from ''The Sound of Music''".
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Has enough pop culture references and pastiches to fill a small article on [[The Other Wiki]], although there actually isn't one.
For those who have still managed to live under a rock (or in Austria) for the past
Unfortunately the Anschluss happens while the two are on their honeymoon and when they return Georg is "asked" to accept a command in the new German navy. Being strongly opposed to Hitler, the family resolves to leave Austria for Switzerland using the pretext of attending a local folk music festival for cover. But the Nazis are not so easily bamboozled and the von Trapps will not get away quite that easily...
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Some productions present Uncle Max as such.
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Rolfe is obsessed with being important and that is what corrupted him. You can see it from the beginning and one wonders whether he cared about Liesl or cared that she was a "von".
* [[Beauty, Brains, and Brawn]]:
** Liesl- Beauty.
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* [[Beta Couple]]: Liesl and Rolf are a tragic version.
* [[Blithe Spirit]]: Maria in the von Trapp household.
* [[Bothering by the Book]]: Dettweiler says, "Heil Hitler" in a manner quite lacking in enthusiasm.
* [[Bowdlerize]]: The French dub removed the renditions of "Maria" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" sung by the nuns as they thought it was sinful for nuns to be singing non-religious songs. As such only the reprisals of them were heard. And the subtitles don't show the lyrics to them.
** Only on TV broadcasts. The Home Video releases (at least the VHS ones) have these two songs dubbed.
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** The song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" demonstrates that while Liesl may be innocent Rolf is certainly more so.
*** Unless you subscribe to an [[Alternate Character Interpretation]].
***Given how domineering Rolfe tries to be, "innocent" isn't quite the word. "Inexperienced" works better. However he certainly does not know much about the world and he would have been better off if he had indeed settled for being "innocent as a dove".
* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]: When the baroness realizes how much the captain loves Maria, she suddenly realizes the captain isn't the man for her, either.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: How the nuns perceive Maria.
* [[Confessional]]: In the last lines of the film, two nuns turn to the Reverend Mother Superior and say, "Forgive me, Reverend Mother, for I have sinned." They then reveal that they stole the
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Arguably, the Reverend Mother Superior of the convent. She instinctively knows that Maria's calling is outside the convent and she realizes that Maria is in love with the captain. Not to mention when Maria, at first, told the Reverend Mother she left because she was "frightened". To which the Reverend Mother said, "Frightened, were they unkind to you?" The tone which she said indicated she is very protective of the nuns. One could almost call her a [[Badass Preacher]].
* [[The Cutie]]: Maria.
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'''Rolfe''': (beat, then yelling out) LIEUTENANT! LIEUTENANT, THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE HERE, LIEUTENANT! (blows whistle)}}
* [[First Kiss]]: Liesl gets hers in the gazebo. She then runs into the rain and squeals in delight. "[[Squee|Whee!]]"
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Where did all those nuns come from? Oh wait they would most of them have taken their vows when Salzberg was [[World War I|short on available men.]]
* [[Genre Blindness]]: Liesl's former boyfriend says to the Captain, "It's you we want, not them". Presumably he thinks the German Navy is going to trust a sub to an anti-Nazi without having his family close at hand. Also likely meant as a sign that Rolfe doesn't quite understand yet how evil the Nazis he's affiliated himself with really are.
* [[Gentleman Snarker]]: The Captain.
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'''Herr Zeller:''' You flatter me, Captain.
'''Captain von Trapp:''' Oh, how clumsy of me - I meant to accuse you.}}
* [[Good Cannot Comprehend Evil]]: Even Captain von Trapp can't. He tells Rolfe, "you'll never be one of them". Perhaps not. Perhaps he will indeed change his mind-or just be killed on a battlefield with a minimum degree of honor at least. But lots of people not much different from Rolfe were indeed "one of them".
* [[Graceful Loser]]: The Baroness, eventually. One can scarcely blame her for putting up a fight, she's been working on Georg for a long time now.
* [[Happy Ending]]: In all the versions.
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* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: The Baroness, eventually.
** Not exactly. She said the captain wasn’t for her anyway, and she needed someone with a very strong need for her, or at least for her money. That’s a bit of a [[Red Herring]] plot point, as it sounded like she was implying she was into Max...
***[[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Or that is the sort of thing she would say to save face for everyone. In any case, despite her worldliness and seeming cynicism she is not without a streak of kindness.
**Maria does not even think of competing for the captain. That is partly because she expects to be a nun but still.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Captain von Trapp.
* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: Captain von Trapp was a member of Europe's noble caste and served by tradition making him almost a literal as well as a figurative example of this.
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* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: The main antagonists.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Tomboy Maria and Girly Girl Elsa. Tomboy Louisa and Girly Girl Liesl. Tomboy Brigitta and Girly Girl Marta. And Gretel is somewhere in the middle.
* [[Vehicular Sabotage]]: Two nuns reveal to their Mother that they have removed the distributor and coil (respectively) from the Nazis'
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: In reality, Georg and Maria were married in 1927, and she had borne two other kids by the time they left. Not only that, but they simply got on a train to Italy.
** It's a fact of local legend that after the stage musical was written, anytime it was performed within a couple hours' drive of Stowe, Vermont, Maria von Trapp ''would'' attend opening night.
** The depiction of Georg von Trapp as a stern disciplinarian annoyed his wife, as he was the exact opposite in real life--it was Maria who was the strict one.
***Even if he was such a martinet he would certainly not have raised them like enlisted men as that would have been undignified. He might have given them a harsh upbringing but it would have been one proper to aristocrats-because [[Captain Obvious|that was what they were.]]
** In the movie, Georg quickly decides to reject the offer of a Captaincy in the Kriegsmarine and leave Austria as soon as possible. He actually anguished over the decision for a while. Technology had made such big strides since [[
** Of all the exaggerations of their lives, Maria commented in her memoirs that the only thing they didn't go far enough on was her behavior at the convent. She always laughingly commented when asked if she was that bad "I was worse!"
**Austrians did not particularly dislike Nazis more than Germans. Of course there were Austrians who disliked Nazis as indeed there were Germans. And toward the end of the war a lot of people who had served Hitler's government claimed to be Austrian, [[Sarcasm Mode|for some reason.]] Nevertheless, Austria was not Poland.
* [[The Von Trope Family]]: The [[Trope Namer]], by way of an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]].
* [[Wants a Prize For Basic Decency]]: Lampshaded by Dettweiler when he congratulates Zeller on letting the music festival go on instead of shutting it down [[For the Evulz]].
* [[World War II]]: Austria's incorporation into the Third Reich is generally accepted by historians as the start of the countdown to the war in Europe.
* [[Wrong Name Outburst]]: In a heated argument, Captain von Trapp angrily calls Maria "captain" before correcting himself.
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