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
Well, she sort of is - they renamed and rearranged everything for the musical but Maria maps onto Louisa in the movie
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AnaMardoll
But was Louisa sick? I seem to recall the children were all healthy in the movie. In the book, Maria was bedridden.
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Yeah fair enough, the children in the movie are basically fictional
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