ABSTRACT
The success of The Sound of Music onstage inevitably led to the 1965 movie version, which starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer and is the most familiar version for many people. The screenplay must be considered as a new version of the story, the characters become fainter ghosts with each adaptation. The film takes this one stage further and the audience is faced with the irony in which the film is, on the one hand, more realistic than the stage musical, having been shot in many locations around Salzburg where some of the original story would have taken place. A surprisingly small amount of the original Broadway libretto remains in the screenplay. Many scenes are rewritten, particularly those between the Captain and the Baroness, and some of the most famous moments in the collective memory of The Sound of Music are the creations of the screenwriter and do not appear in the Broadway show.
