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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Replying to @AnaMardoll
I've read the memoir by Maria von Trapp and there was nothing like that. She was hired as a tutor for a sick child whose name was also Maria, and who isn't in the movie at all. Little by little, she started to come up with activities for the other kids too.
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Replying to @EmpressRandom @AnaMardoll
She was also a very difficult person, the kids didn't love her, her own daughter ran away at age 16 and the book is full of Catholic dogma stuff.
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Yeah the most interesting thing if you read between the lines is that the stuff with the Captain wasn't a coincidence, the Mother Superior told her to marry him because trying to get her out of the convent was kind of the idea of sending her away in the first place
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AnaMardoll
That part actually was in the book, she asked the nuns to pray and ask God if she is to marry the captain. They prayed about it and said yes.
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