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In the scene right before "Edelweiss", the Captain is asked by the children and Maria to play something on the guitar. The Captain is holding a glass in his right hand and then proceeds to raise his left hand in a negative gesture. The shot changes, and the glass is now in his left hand- with his right hand raised to gesture. See more...

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The Sound of Music (1965) - 25 corrections

Directed by Robert Wise, starring Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Julie Andrews, Richard Haydn (add more)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical

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In the scene where the captain "calls off" the engagement to the baroness at night on the terrace/balcony, he meets Maria down by the lake. The captain says to Maria, "I thought I just might find you here." He asks her to sit. From the camera's point of view, she is sitting on the right-side of the bench, the captain sits on the left-side. As they talk, she stands up, and "immediately" in the next shot the captain is sitting on the right-side end of the bench. [No - he is still sitting on the left side, it is just that the camera was coming from a different direction in each shot.]

In the final scene of the The Sound of Music, Maria, Captain Von Trapp, and the children are walking on a mountain. If you look at the grass by where they are walking, the grass looks like heavy wind is blowing on it. This wind probably isn't natural because the mountain does not look that high. I believe it is cause by the helicopter they used to shoot the scene on a real mountain. ["Probably" does not qualify as a movie mistake, and heavy wind occurs at all elevations. If a wind machine or helicopter blades/helicopter shadow were visible in the shot THEN it would be a movie mistake.]

Corrected by BocaDavie

The Reverend Mother welcomes a new postulant, who is wearing a bright turquoise belted dress. Soon after, when Maria returns to the Von Trapp children through the garden, she is quite obviously wearing the same dress. Do the women at the abbey share their "worldly clothes"? [They can, yes. Often the clothes brought in with postulants are put into a community wardrobe for public use.]

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Kurt sang all of his part except in "So Long, Farewell" where he sings "Goodbye" in a high voice which was dubbed by the sister of the girl who played Liesl. [The line "goodbye" is sung by Maria. It is part of the movie - she is behind a pillar and she sings that word as part of the fun of the performance. You can even tell its her voice.]

In the scene where Maria and the children are frolicking in the field, they are wearing the drapes. Then in any shot after that, they are wearing totally different clothing. [That's because the scenes are not meant to be continuous. They are basically clips taking place over a weeks' time or more.]

In the Do-Re-Mi scene, when the children and Maria are running up and down the steps, Louisa doesn't know where she's going and keeps glancing at the other children to find out what to do. [It is entirely possible that the character of Louisa is forgetful, or not as coordinated, or adept as her siblings, or one of any other numerous explanations, and is not necessarily a reflection on the actress portraying Louisa.]

Maria and the Captain return from their honeymoon as soon as they hear word about Hitler's annexation of Austria in early March 1938. As they stand outside their home and the Captain rips down the Nazi flag that has been displayed there, it is obviously very late spring or summer - the weather is very warm and the leaves are fully out on the trees. This would not be the case in Austria in March. [The spring of the Anschluss was unseasonably warm and dry. Salzburg was as warm as a typical summer by mid-March, and there had been no rain or snow for weeks.]

The von Trapps are shown walking over the border to Switzerland after a short drive out of the centre of town...except Salzburg is about 200km east of Switzerland. If one walked across the border at Salzburg, you'd be entering Germany, which is where (I believe) the people they were trying to get away from lived. Take a look at a map. [Even though the von Trapps were 200km from the Swiss border, in the last 5 mins, they received a car from the sisters at the convent and the sisters disabled the cars of their pursuers.]

Liesl was 22 at the time of filming "I am sixteen going on seventeen." [Many actresses portray characters who are younger than they are. It's not really trivia worthy just because her age is mentioned in a song.]

Once the children and Maria have been in the boat turning incident, the children are dripping wet with water once they return to their father. He then tells the children to go inside and change, though when the children have returned their hair is nothing but damp from the water. It appears to have dried rapidly within the minute they went to get changed. [A couple minutes with a towel is all they would need to change their from dripping wet to merely damp.]

Corrected by Matty Blast

Maria is given material one night to make clothing for herself, because she claims the only dress she has is the one she is wearing. But the next day and in the rest of the movie, she wears dresses that are not the same color/style as the materials that she was given on her first night. [Actually, the material is used. For example, Maria is given a tan-ish, multicolor striped material which you see appearing as the upper half of the dress she wears not long after. It is deceptive and does not immediately look the same because the stripes are sewn diagonally (unlike originally shown), but it is, indeed, the fabric she was given.]

Why does Maria have a guitar if she can't even play it? During the 'Do-Re-Mi' sequence on the hills, you can see that her left hand doesn't move once to change the chord she's playing. [If you look at her other hand she is actually finger picking and so doesn't need to move her left hand.]

When Maria is praying at her bed, Leisel creeps in through the window behind her. She is supposed to have climbed up the house but you can see Leisel walking across to the window outside before climbing into the room. [Why can't there have been a balcony (or at least a ledge) outside of the window? ]

In the scene where Maria is singing her way up to the front door of the Von Trapp home, the house has several large windows in front by the door. However, once inside in the grand hall, there are no windows by the door in the front of the house. [There is a small closet type room that the front door opens into. I don't believe you can see it in the movie, but in "The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie" the picture of "So Long, Farewell" shows that room.]

In the scene just before they sing "My favourite things", Maria is praying with the window open, then closed again, then open again. [There are three windows in Maria's room, and in the shots mentioned, one is closed, but another is open. They are different windows.]

When Max is driving with the Baroness (and later the Captain as well), his Mercedes is right-hand drive. He might have been a cosmopolitan fellow who bought his Mercedes from England, but that seems unlikely since Germany was a bit closer. They seem to have tried to hide this by having the Countess drive the men around. [Max is never driving alone with the baroness in the movie, and the baroness never drives them around (there isn't even a Countess in the movie), and when Max, the baroness, and Georg are riding, Georg is driving them, and the only other person to drive the car in the movie is Max, when he drives the children home (right before Captain and Maria return from their honeymoon).]

When Leisel and Rolf are singing in the gazebo, you see the doors are open, then closed, then opened again. [There is a "front" door that is closed when they enter the gazebo, but there is also a back door that is open. There is no error.]

In some scenes Julie Andrews plays her guitar as if she's right-handed, and in others she plays as if she's left-handed. [But Maria only plays the guitar in the movie once.]

Towards the end of the "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" scene in the gazebo, Liesl and Rolf do a series of spins away from and towards one another. In one shot they are spinning clockwise, while in the immediately subsequent shot, they are spinning counter-clockwise. [I can see where they are turning clockwise, and then you can see where they change direction and start spinning clockwise. I don't know, it might just be me.]

After Maria has left to go back to the abbey the children ask Captain Von Trapp who their next governess will be - he says they won't have one but will have a new mother (the baroness). A little while later in the film when Maria has returned to be a governess, the captain asks her if she is back to stay, and she says "only until arrangements can be made for a new governess". Surely if the Captain is marrying the Baroness no arrangements would need to be made? [Maria doesn't know that, and the Captain simply doesn't correct her misconception.]

Corrected by Sereenie

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