#the hills are alive

[mrcmxwll]

devapollon

#soft black girls #black femininity #the hills are alive

[annaberunoyume]

Imagine Rainbow Factory!Wally one evening, hearing you play "The Hills are Alive" in your quarters. He's about to scold you, but then he stops near your door, closing his eyes and enjoying the song. You get out after the song, surprised to see him, smiling: "Good evening, sir." He seems caught and say, almost mumbling: "You...you should get some sleep, we'll have a big day tomorrow.", before walking away.

#rainbow factory #rainbow factory au #rf wally #the sound of music #the hills are alive #welcome home #wally darling #wally #soft spot for music #rf au #rf #wh #rf wally and reader

[davidaugust]

Hilltop charts 🎶

#the hills are alive #sound of music #skeet skeet #memes #meme #funny memes #dank memes

[contremineur]

from here

but see/listen also here

#devilish-goth #the great park #the hills are alive

[fashioninpaper]

PAPER DOLL FAMILY MONTH

Julie Andrews and the cast of Sound of Music!

#paper dolls #singers and musicians #sound of music #Julie Andrews #the hills are Alive #christopher plummer #Angela Cartwright #nicholas hammond

[peppermintsandbones5]

I want it to be spring so I can frolic in a field of flowers 🌸

#girlblogging #coquette #princesscore #pookie #spring #seasons #fairycore #cottagecore #flowers #I want adventure in the great wide somewhere #the hills are alive #that scene from twilight ig #field #warmth #yearning for spring rn #the beginning of gladiator #cinderella #frolicking

[southernfriedamy]

One reason Aziraphale loves the Earth is because he is so connected to physical human senses.

He loves to taste...

He loves to touch (especially Crowley)...

He loves to look at beautiful things (especially Crowley) ...

He loves to listen to music ...

and he has even been observed to enjoy nice smells...

Heaven has none of that.

Everything is white. There's nothing to look at.

Everything is pristine and sterile. There's nothing to touch or smell.

Angels don't consume food or drink, and the only sound available (other than the bickering of angels) is either Celestial Harmonies or The Sound of Music.

Our angel is going to be miserable.

#good omens #good omens season 2 #crowley x aziraphale #aziraphale #aziraphale how could you #sad angel #no tea for you #no sushi for you #the hills are alive #no ox ribs for you #only celestial harmonies forever and ever and ever

[victusinveritas]

#the hills are alive #horror #julie andrews

[letsnotandsaywewantedto]

#the hills are alive #c3e62 #cr3 spoilers #cr3 #critical role spoilers #critical role

[sp1derw1re]

i love musicals so much i want to sob and pull my hair and jump

#hamilton #pardon me are you arron burr #mamma mia #heathers the musical #The Sound of Music #THE HILLS ARE ALIVE #six the musical #FUCKING MATILDA #Recommend more i need to maintain this state

[mrcmxwll]

okbaddiek

#soft black girls #pink #poc cottagecore #the hills are alive

[psalm40speakstome]

3 Minutes After giving in to the OCD Compulsion:

3 Hours After giving in to the OCD Compulsion:

#musical memes #the sound of music #les mis #les miserables #mental health #emotional health #OCD #ocd #Valjean's Soliloquy #jean valjean #maria von trapp #the hills are alive

[commaafterdearests]

A ✨Deep Dive✨ on The Baroness, Maria, and the Sound of Music Score

I’m genuinely in one of those moods again, so here’s an _ExpandedRevised.docx version of my thread! Buckle up! This is genuinely going to be so long. 

Let’s begin at the confrontation scene: our characters, Maria and Elsa Schraeder. At this point, Elsa has broken the unshockingly shocking news that Georg is in love with Maria, and Maria is mortified. Before the scene starts, as Elsa enters Maria’s bedroom, we hear very faint strains of music only to transition from the party to the private-ness of Maria’s room. No music is actually heard in this scene -- no additional dramatics. The Goodbye Maria/How Can Love Survive Waltz - Medley (which begins with Edelweiss) begins only as Elsa exits the scene.

Now, for those who don’t know what How Can Love Survive is, it’s a song from the original Broadway Musical sung by Elsa and Max as they detail why she and Georg are yet to be engaged. 

As Elsa exits the scene and leaves Maria alone in the frame, in confusion and anguish, faint strains of Edelweiss plays. I’ll detail why that bit makes me cry later on, but let’s talk about how as the scene cuts to Elsa downstairs, looking smug as she walks into the ballroom -- smug and sure that Maria will be leaving them, the music transitions to How Can Love Survive. 

How Can Love Survive is a “champagne problem” sort of song. It talks about how money is usually in the way of romance and how utterly difficult it is to show your significant each other love when you’re rich -- but it’s alright, they’ll keep it alive anyways, as seen in this lyric.

Caught in our gold-plated chains are we, Lost in our wealthy domains are we, Trapped by our capital gains are we, But we’ll keep romance alive—

Personally, it details the shallowness of the relationship between Georg and Elsa, and also an insight on how different they are in terms of loving their significant other. The significant change of removing this in the film makes Elsa’s relationship with Georg feel much more natural -- as if drawn to each other through seeking companionship. But why use this now? It could’ve been placed anywhere within the film. Why choose this specific moment? 

It’s important to note that Elsa views Maria as a nobody -- an orphaned young woman who happens to be a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey, who also happens to be a governess in the Von Trapp home. But Maria also stands for everything that Elsa isn’t. Maria likes everything that Elsa does not -- all of which Elsa lists in How Can Love Survive. It’s a shallow song, again, sung jokingly. But in this particular scene, it answers Elsa’s question of “how can love survive?” 

Eliminate the competition, and perhaps then, Georg will learn to love her and only her. We see later on that this doesn’t happen, and if her bittersweet farewell is any indication, she’s just a woman in need of love but used so thoroughly for her money and influence.

But now the music changes again! (Bold text to keep us back on track because I got too sad about How Can Love Survive)

After Elsa’s finally in the ballroom and proposed a toast with Max because she’s gotten rid of Maria, the Edelweiss Waltz plays.

Now, I’ll be detailing why exactly I sob during these last few minutes before intermission! 

We know that the scene before The Grand and Glorious PartyTM  is the Edelweiss Scene. I don’t think I need to detail the fact that after Georg sings, he and Maria share a comfortable look -- she looks like she’s in heaven, and he gives her one of those unsure smiles... right before Elsa interrupts them with the idea of a party. And I always say that he looks at her at the very last “bless my homeland forever” unknowingly because she feels like everything home represents to him.

Edelweiss is like the oh. o h. moment when one of the characters finally realizes how much the other means to them. It, then, becomes an unspoken, subtler representation of their love -- or of love, in general, in the movie (Edelweiss sung to family = familial love, to Austria = love for country, etc.). 

To see Georg and Elsa dancing to Edelweiss -- a representation of love -- feels like a slap to our faces then. Because we know that Georg isn’t in love with Elsa -- at least romantically. We know that Elsa isn’t his homeland, but perhaps he’s pretending that she is, or making himself feel as if she’s the one that he wants or must want.

What about Maria and his mixed emotions, then?

This part feels most heartbreaking to me because this is where Georg -- who has chosen to stand firm in everything he believes -- chooses convention. 

Dancing to Edelweiss in a ballroom full of people, everyone watching them be the conventional couple -- as opposed the picture the Laendler paints, which is everything that this waltz is not.

He sets aside his feelings for Maria because how does he love her openly? 

And in this moment, Maria also chooses to leave, because it has to be the wisest choice. Why on earth would she stay when she’s “getting in the way?”

So, to answer the question: 

How can love survive? 

Before the Intermission begins, we’re all heartbroken because Georg chooses Elsa -- and we established that she got the answer to making her love survive. Making Maria leave. 

And Maria goes with this because how can her love survive anyways? To ask for the Captain’s love would be wrong. To leave God felt impossible, and she’d feel more confused with whatever she felt with every passing minute. So she chose to leave. 

Now I’m impossibly weepy over two songs, and will need to re-watch the entire movie. I’m afraid I rambled too much, but thank you for making it this far? Warm hugs!

#tldr; the sound of music (1965) score is absolute genius #the sound of music #the sound of music (1965) #julie andrews #eleanor parker #i'm afraid I rambled to much... #dude i got so analytical #literally geeking out #film analysis #actually it's score analysis #but also cinematography analysis #migrated thread from twitter #anyways enjoy my lil piece of insanity? #the hills are alive

[shinysparklesapphires]

fuck u sensory issues grrrrrrrrr

#sapphy's rambles #i hate silence sm #i hate loud noises too #only sound i like is music :333 #THE HILLS ARE ALIVE #WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC

[peaches4b2]

#the hills are alive #Salzburg

[hokeoutsider]

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#the hills are alive #hoke ebay #ebay auction #outsider artists #rawvision artists #artbrut artists #raw artists #folk artists #modern artists #underground artists