By skyforbes 
Think r/movies would enjoy this. I've been doing a retrospective of the Academy Awards with my analysis alternating between analyzing historical films while also poking fun at the Hollywood establishment. In this month's review, we check out the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, The Sound of Music. While a classic, it may surprise you to learn that it was actually not immediately seen as such by some of the snootier critics of the day.
This ties into part 2 where we compare it to an inflection point between movies that were a part of upcoming artistic New Wave versus the big-budget epics that Hollywood kept putting all their chips on. Movies include one of Roman Polanski's first films, an undeserved Best Actor win and the first movie to feature on-screen nudity in one half and two classic comedic epics, a hilariously inaccurate WWII adventure and the great Russian romance Doctor Zhivago in the other. Hope you enjoy and feel free to forward to anyone else that you think might find it interesting.