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These are a Few of My Favorite Things

The Sound of Music
1965 Best Picture

100 Words
1. Temperamental naval captains ripping up Nazi flags

2. Religious figures using their belief system to support good triumphing over evil

3. Powerful women graciously accepting when the man they’re into loves someone else (and leaving with even more grace)

4. Scream-singing in gazebos in the rain

5. Upcycling old drapes to make clothes for children

6. Second (and third and fourth, maybe) chances at love

7. Well-behaved children that can carry a tune

8. The staggering number of cultural references for which this film is responsible

9. People escaping from Nazis

10. Anything that makes the Nazis look foolish

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4 responses to “These are a Few of My Favorite Things”

  1. Galen Humphrey Avatar
    Galen Humphrey

    i stopped at #5 … thanks for the memory and draping my morning w/ laughter 🙂

    JOY to you

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  2. ozarkmedusa Avatar
    ozarkmedusa

    Okay Galen, yes that was the funniest moment on telly, but that was from a different movie….

    Ahhh, ‘The Sound of Music’ – it is WAY FUN that I’m reading this post only a month after visiting Salzburg Austria for the first time, where many of the outdoor scenes from this movie were filmed. This movie is just DELICIOUS!!! APPEALING to all in EVERY, SINGLE, WAY. That’s all; it’s the most PERFECT feel-good movie ever. I’ve seen it more often than any other – and I tend to NOT repeat watch movies. Handsome as ever male lead, both women – beautiful, and as you said, gracious; lovely child actors, funny co-stars, music that makes you want to sing and dance. A love triangle that ends with a happy royal-like wedding! Funny nuns on the run who out-smart mean nazis – I mean – how do you top that?

    “The Hills are alive! …”

    “Climb every mountain, ford every stream”

    “I am 16 going on 17”

    “So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye!”

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    1. Galen Humphrey Avatar
      Galen Humphrey

      How to top that?

      Alien. duhuh

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  3. ozarkmedusa Avatar
    ozarkmedusa

    For Galen, with love.

    http://paul thorn i don’t like half the folks i love

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