Julie Andrews Spills the Tea on Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and The Princess Diaries

Julie Andrews knows what everyone thinks they remember from the opening of The Sound of Music—a single, unbroken shot as the camera glides over the mountaintops, drawing rapidly down on a lone woman in the tall grass who twirls in her skirt as she fills the air with her high, sweet voice: “The hills are alive with the sound of music…” The ear may be delighted, but it’s a trick of the eye. Few recall the jump cut just as the camera gets close, at the very moment she opens her mouth to sing. That edit was necessary, Andrews says,… Read Full Article