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Post by andhereweare on Jan 8, 2019 6:37:33 GMT
If you could mix SOM with another story, what would it be?
For example, I've imagined SOM running into Lady Catherine DeBourgh from Pride and Prejudice. Or Caroline Bingley as Elsa.
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Post by Supercali on Jan 8, 2019 17:28:03 GMT
I was actually thinking of this last night. I was rereading one of augiesannie 's stories "With Your Whole Heart". It's about what if Georg had to marry Elsa and Maria agreed to be his mistress, and I couldn't get the idea out of my head. So I've imagined if Maria had to be Georg's mistress, their relationship might end once she got pregnant, as this would definitely hurt the whole Von Trapps' reputation including the children and also could be unthinkably dangerous for the baby especially when Zeller was paying extra attention to this household. So she ran away again and tried to look for a father to her unborn child, but she realized that she couldn't marry someone while she's still in love with someone else. She met a couple Mr and Mrs Marchand from Chicago, she and Mrs Marchand became best friends. She told her the whole story and Mrs Marchand came out with an ingenious solution. She's going to pretend to be Maria's husband by using her previous fake identity, Count Victor Grazinski. So later when Georg met Maria again in the US, he surprisingly found out that she's not only with a child but also had been in a suspicious "marriage". He needed to work extra hard to figure out the truth and win her back. Yes, it's the Sound of Music x Victor Victoria story. |
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Post by paula on Jan 9, 2019 6:12:30 GMT
There is at least one fanfic that combines Mary Poppins and TSOM. Laurel wrote a mashup of Random Harvest and TSOM a few years ago.
Fairly recently, I kind of got back into The Thorn Birds, which of course I had to watch 20+ year ago when I was trying to see everything Christopher Plummer had ever been in, and to this day I say he is the ONLY actor who can make a bishop that becomes a cardinal (in the Catholic church) look sexy!
It's been a long time since I watched the entire miniseries of The Thorn Birds, but I did watch several clips of it on YouTube a couple of months ago. After that, I started thinking about maybe a story that has Georg and Maria travel to Australia (maybe as part of the honeymoon??), where they meet Ralph and Meggie, and maybe give them some suggestions on how to be together in spite of Ralph's commitment to the Catholic church. (Maybe change to the Greek Orthodox church or the Episcopal church, both of which allow priests to marry?) To be able to do such a story justice, I would have to go back and watch The Thorn Birds in its entirety, and just don't want to take that on now or anytime soon. But I think the story idea could work; as I recall, the timing of both stories is fairly close, meaning they occur around the same time in history. And as an amusing aside, maybe have Georg and Vittorio (both played by Christopher Plummer) discover that they are distantly related?
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Post by andhereweare on Jan 10, 2019 2:39:26 GMT
I've had the thought of how Maria would deal with a Lady Catherine DeBourgh-type character. Mr. Collins is extra until he gets knocked out cold by an irate Georg. Back then or modern, doesn't matter.
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Post by warmwoollenmittens on Jan 10, 2019 7:45:01 GMT
I’ve always thought the Nazi villains (Hans Landa in particular) in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds would be an ideal foe for Georg to tackle. Hans Landa’s level of evil is like Zeller on steroids! That’s why I included him in my most recent story, I’ve been meaning to explore that mash up for a while.
Agree I could also see the Pride & Prejudice mash up working really well
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