HELP! - How Can Love Survive? & No Way to Stop it! frm SoM

[aces25]

Posted: 4/26/05 at 4:22pm

What are these two songs about? What are the songs context of the show? Thanks

[QHDramaQueen]

Posted: 4/26/05 at 4:30pm

How Can Love Survive is I believe about how most love stories involve some form of poverty and How Can Love Survive if neither of them is in need of anything material...sung by Max regarding Elsa and the Captains relationship

No Way To Stop It is about how one person cannot stop a huge force and it is better to go with the flow and be silent then try to resist it since it wont do anything anyway..sung by Elsa to the Captain about the Nazi's coming to power

Hope that helps!

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 4/26/05 at 4:39pm

How Can Love Survive: The Captain. Elsa and Max are on the terrace having just returned from Vienna. (The scene in somewhat altered form is in the movie though the song is not.) Max playfully suggests that since both the Captain and Elsa are rich and they have no real problems, their love can't survive. (Max: "In all the famous love affairs the lovers have to struggle...")

No Way to Stop it: After Maria returns and is told by the children that the Captain has announced he will marry Elsa, Maria advises she will stay only until arrangements can be made for another governess. After she exits Elsa and Max enter discussing the best way to accommodate the Nazi since it now seems certain they will invade Austria. Elsa and Max are all for not putting themselves in any danger. Elsa urges compromise but the Captain refuses. In dialogue after the song the two realize they have differing political views and agree to end the engagement. (In the movie there is no political argument. Elsa withdraws realizing that she doesn't really have Georg's love.)

Screenwriter Ernest Lehman decided from the outset that he did not want Elsa and Max to sing in the movie version and eliminated their songs before the first draft.