Capt. von Trapp

Rest in peace to this absolute stud.

The movie world lost another legend yesterday - Christopher Orme Plummer. I definitely cried when I read this news. I have watched The Sound of Music innumerable amount of times. Christopher Plummer always struck me as so handsome and put together. His Academy Award acceptance speech is a memorable one, not just because he is who he is, but he was so far along in his career when he won, and that’s cool to show success isn’t limited to 20-something trust fund kids.

If he hated being Capt. Von Trapp forever, he never showed it. Of course, he’s been in plenty of other noteworthy films and roles, but he IS this character to me and that’s that!!!

I am pretty sure I can recall the first time I watched The Sound of Music, too. It’s just so happy and magical and romantic. That courtyard dance scene with him and Maria (JULIE FUCKING ANDREWS, BABY) is seriously one of the hottest scenes in movie history. While we’re here, “I am Sixteen Going on Seventeen” is a wildly problematic song and message, BUT, that’s for the musical’s writers to answer for - kthxbye.

I come from a large extended family, and while I wouldn’t necessarily call us “musicians” (some can strum a guitar), we are all musical, and loud, and great dancers. Many happy memories watching The Sound of Music with the fam. I watched it again within the last month or so, all while texting with the fam, too.

Vulture, of course, has a great obituary for Plummer by Matt Zoler Seitz.

What a stud, what a loss. Le sigh.