The movie "The Sound of Music" is adapted from a true story. Agatha, the author of "The Story of the Sound of Music", is the prototype of the eldest daughter in "The Sound of Music". When she wrote this book, Agatha was 87 years old. She recalled the nearly one hundred years of history of the von Trapp family in a peaceful mood. The style of the book is plain and simple, and it is narrated in a eloquent way. It is a bit chatty and trivial, but it is a realistic narrative without exaggeration. depict. The life experience of Colonel Trapp's family is not exactly the same as in the movie "The Sound of Music". The most impressive character in the book is Agatha's father, Colonel Trapp. This is a legendary soldier who once commanded an Austrian submarine to sink a French submarine and became a naval hero. He retired early, so he had a lot of time to live with his family and became the protagonist in family life. He is upright and resolute, loves life, is full of fun, and is low-key. Children's love for life and music is influenced by him. Unlike the Colonel in the movie, he has been a loving and kind father as long as the children can remember it, and there is no dramatic personality change like in the movie. Agatha and her siblings once criticized the movie "The Sound of Music", believing that the situations in the movie were far removed from their lives and unrealistic, especially the description of their father in the first half of the movie; their stepmother in real life also Not as perfect as Maria in the movie. But as "The Sound of Music" became more and more popular, and as people all over the world recognized and loved this movie, they finally gradually changed their views.

The prototype of the film’s heroine, Maria, was a novice nun at Salzburg’s Neunberg Abbey