We're watching Sound of Music for the first time in years and I love it so much but uh it's a little terrifying that no one ever uh- ok, let me set the scene:
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Fact 1: Rich widower has been through 12 nannies in a shockingly short time. Fact 2: Nanny #13 came back in a panicked rush in the middle of the night, locked herself away, and refuses to say a word to anyone for days (weeks?). How is NO ONE thinking Bluebeard / sexual assault?
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I remember as a kid thinking the "12 nannies" thing meant the kids were a terror (which we're supposed to think). But as an adult, my first thought from Maria's & the abbess' POV when the letter asking for a governess comes in is that this guy is probably harassing the help.
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He wrote a *goddamn nunnery* for help? which would seem to imply that: A) He can't locate a professional or even a local girl willing to take the job despite his vast sums of money. B) and/or He wants someone virginal and inexperienced living in his house.
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I'm sure there's an explanation for why all this was perfectly reasonable in the Real Life events, I'm just amused that the fictional version hits so differently as an adult than when I was a child.
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And I've said it before, but the biggest difference between Child Ana and Adult Ana is that as a child I thought Rolfe was a tragedy and as an adult I want Liesl to shoot him in the face with a sawed off shotgun. Or something equally action-y, I'm not picky.
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"It's strange: she seems happy to be back here [at the abbey], and yet she's unhappy too." Gee, maybe someone should ask whether she was grossly mistreated by the rich widower she fled here from.
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Maria tells the head abbess that she was frightened there and wanted to be safe--that she couldn't "face him again." "Maria, our abbey is not to be used as an escape. ...Are you in love with him?" Ma'am. MA'AM.
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Replying to @AnaMardoll
Kind of sounds like the real life abbess did this- Maria fled back to the nunnery and was told it was God's will she marry him, and she wrote she was very angry initially both at him and God but grew to love him.
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Right, although they exaggerated it Hollywood style for "What Do You Do with a Problem Like Maria?" it reads like irl the Abbess really did never think Maria and the convent life were a good "culture fit" and really did want to try to push her out if possible
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But also I've read that irl the Captain was gentle and fun-loving (and always encouraged the kids to sing) and Maria was strict and tended to lose her temper. So maybe this family wasn't the best fit either.
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