The Sound of Music!

First of all-Happy New Year to you dear reader! It is one of my New Year's resolutions to start a blog so here it is.

Welxome to Miss Pencil's musings on life and so on...anyway on with the show.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Yesterday I declined an expedition to go and see the Life of Pi in 3D at the cinema. This was because I wanted to stay at home and watch the Sound of Music. Why? Such madness! I hear you cry. Well, I have seen it at least five times now but that was before I was an adult. I was interested to see what I would make of it now as a grown up. Would I fast forward through I Have Confidence (I used to think it a boring song!), would I fast forward through all the Maria and Captain V-T's romantic bits (boring!) or would I fast forward the Nazi's raid on the Abbey (very scary!)

No I didn't....

I thought it was brilliant, I loved every minute. The romantic bits are amazing! I Have Confidence is actually a really good song and the scary bit, I coped!
However I did notice a couple of subtle things that I've never noticed before.
1. When the Captain, Uncle Max and the Baronness are driving to the house they pass a monastery and you can hear the monks singing the same song as the Nun's sing at the beginning.
2. Franz the Butler is a baddie! When Rolf/Ralph/Ralf? first comes to deliver a telegram, Franz opens the door and asks 'Any developments?' and Rolf/Ralph/Ralf? replies 'soon yes soon' or something like that.
3. The BBC must have been showing it in HD or something because the picture quality was really clear and the colour was excellent. I couldn't remember all those shots of Austrian landscapes at the beginning before Julie Andrews' hill twirling.

So an afternoon well spent I think and if you haven't seen the Sound of Music, WHY NOT!
Show it to your children before it's too late and they have taken up Call of Duty or start listening to One Direction. This beats them any day.

Will write again soon, (Saturday I am hoping) but for now..
Signing off.
Miss P