Christopher plummer sound of music

Christopher Plummer, the 91-year-old Academy Award-winning actor who passed away on Friday, was perhaps best known for his role as the strict but loving Captain Georg von Trapp in the 1965 musical motion picture The Sound of Music.

However, he is also known for his biting comments about the film, once calling it "sentimental and gooey" and comparing playing his role to "flogging a dead horse." In his 2008 autobiography, In Spite of Myself, he said he avoided calling the film by name, referring to it simply as "the movie," "S&M" or "The Sound of Mucus."

And yet, in a 1982 interview with film critic Gene Shalit, Plummer insisted that he actually loved the film and that his occasionally flippant and joking comments during boring press interviews ended up being taken seriously and widely circulated by journalists as proof of his hatred.

"I didn't hate the movie at all," Plummer told Shalit.

"I did not, and that's absolutely true. I thought it was a wonderful movie. Just becau