favorite quotes
Here are some of my favorite lines of dialogue from the film, in no particular order, along with my commentary:
Georg: "Were you...this much trouble at the Abbey?"
Maria: "Oh, much more, sir!"
Maria is nothing if not honest! xD
Maria: (as Georg walks away from their argument) "I’m not finished yet--"
Georg: "Oh yes you ARE, Captain! ...(sheepishly) Fraulein."
look at my precious bby accidentally acknowledging Maria as an equal
Georg: "You brought music back into the house...I’d forgotten. Fraulein...I want you to stay. I--ask you to stay."
Just leave me here while I wallow in this giant puddle of cute!
Kurt: "Silly, only grown-up men are scared of women!”
Kurt is speaking the TRUTH!
Liesl: "I’d like to stay and taste my first champagne! Yes?"
Georg: (smiling) "No."
Georg's attitude: "You ain't gonna embarrass me, gurl, I'm still your Daddy"
Georg: "IF the Nazis take over Austria, I am sure, Herr Zeller, that YOU will be the entire trumpet section."
*official Austrian Navy Z SNAP*
Baroness Elsa: (as Maria packs her bag, afraid of Georg's love for her and hers for him) "Well, goodbye, Maria. I’m sure you’ll make a very fine nun."
can you taste the snark yet???
Reverend Mother: "The love of a man and woman is holy, too."
Rock on with your wise self, Reverend Mama!
Georg: (to Maria) "Nothing was the same after you went away, and it’ll be the same again after you leave."
*grabs entire Kleenex box*
Maria and Georg: "For here you are, standing there, loving me...whether or not you should. So somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good."
Send help, my feels have plastered me to the floor
Herr Zeller, after the Anschluss: "Nothing in Austria has changed. Singing and music will show this to the world. Austria is the same."
I'm really surprised Herr Zeller's pants don't catch on fire after this statement.
Marta: "Maybe the flag with the black spider on it makes people nervous."
Out of the mouth of babes...!
Max: "Don’t you trust me?"
Brigitta: "No!"
Max: "You’re a very intelligent young girl."
LOL, I love this exchange xD
Max: "...[The festival’s] for Austria!"
Georg: "For Austria? There is no Austria."
Max: "But the Anschluss happened peacefully, at least we can be grateful for that."
Georg: "Grateful?! (quietly) You know, Max, sometimes I don’t believe I know you."
Georg and Max pointing out exactly what's wrong with the Nazi takeover of Austria in four lines
Georg: "I was under the impression, Herr Zeller, that the contents of telegrams in Austria are private. (pause) At least the Austria I know."
Quietly rebellious Georg!
Maria: (to Herr Zeller) "This night air is not good for the children’s voices."
Maria deftly redirecting the conflict like a BOSS
Max: (quietly to the family before they go onstage) "I think [the escape plan will] work. I shall miss you all. I shall miss the money I could have made with you."
Max keeping his priorities straight (for once)
Rolf: (brandishing his gun) "Not another move, or I’ll--I’ll shoot!"
Georg: (moving toward Rolf) "You’re only a boy. You don’t really belong to them."
Rolf: "Stay where you are!"
Georg: (taking a few more calm steps) "Come away with us, before it’s too late."
Rolf: (backing away) "Not another step! I’ll kill you!"
Georg: "You give that to me, Rolf." (reaching out for the gun)
Rolf: (trembling) "Did you hear me? I’ll kill you!"
(Georg grabs Rolf's arm, easily gets the gun)
Georg: (pause) "You'll never be one of them."
Rolf: (blanches, speechless, then cries out in outrage) "LIEUTENANT! Lieutenant, they're here!"
ROLF WHY
Nun #1: "Reverend Mother? I have sinned."
Nun #2: "I, too, Rev. Mother."
Reverend Mother: "What is this sin, my children?"
(Nuns show her the parts they've removed from the Nazis' cars, making the cars impossible to start)
Nuns being AWESOME!