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The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music, released in 1965 and based on the real story of the Austrian von Trapp family, became one of the highest-grossing films of all time at the point of its release, and its filming locations across Salzburg, Austria remain major tourist attractions built substantially around the film's continued popularity. Julie Andrews's performance as Maria, a postulant nun who becomes governess to a widowed naval officer's seven children, won her widespread acclaim, and the film's songs, including "Do-Re-Mi" and "Edelweiss," became some of the most widely recognized musical theater songs ever adapted for film. The film's backdrop, set against the rising threat of Nazi annexation of Austria in the years just before World War II, gave its otherwise lighthearted family musical narrative a serious historical weight, culminating in the von Trapp family's dramatic escape over the Alps to avoid Nazi conscription. Its enduring popularity, including annual televised broadcasts and sing-along theatrical screenings that continue decades after its original release, has made The Sound of Music one of the most continuously beloved and commercially successful movie musicals in film history.
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La La Land
La La Land, released in 2016 and directed by Damien Chazelle, revived the classic Hollywood movie musical format for a contemporary audience, telling an original, non-adapted love story between an aspiring actress and a jazz musician set against modern Los Angeles. The film's extended single-take opening number, filmed on a closed Los Angeles freeway on-ramp, required extensive rehearsal with a large ensemble cast of dancers and represented one of the most technically ambitious dance sequences filmed for a mainstream studio movie in decades. La La Land's 2017 Academy Awards ceremony became infamous for a major presentation error, in which the film was mistakenly announced as the Best Picture winner before producers realized the award actually belonged to Moonlight, a mix-up that unfolded live on stage and became one of the most widely discussed moments in Oscars broadcast history. The film's combination of an original, non-adapted musical narrative with genuine homage to classic Hollywood musical filmmaking techniques helped revive mainstream interest in the movie musical format, which had become a considerably less common major studio genre in the decades before its release.
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