Castle2Castle
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- May 20, 2013
E! Online with the newly released Saving Mr. Banks trailer about the partnership between Walt Disney and P.L. Travers to bring Mary Poppins to film.
Looks good to me!
Looks good to me!
Excited too...but a bit disappointed it's PG-13. Hopefully whatever makes it '13' is worth it.
I will definitely be seeing this, but I'm a little unconvinced about Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. Obviously he's super talented, but something feels lacking. Maybe my opinion will change after seeing the movie.
Excited too...but a bit disappointed it's PG-13. Hopefully whatever makes it '13' is worth it.
I do hope they stay true to the facts and make it realistic. The trailer looked like things were sugar coated a bit, I hope that's wrong.
P.L. Travers and Walt Disney had a VERY adversarial relationship. She was an incredibly difficult woman and drove Walt bonkers. She was abusive to the producers and directors of the movie, harassing them almost non-stop. So much so that Walt banned her from the premiere of "Mary Poppins". She managed to sneak in, and left the theater bawling over Walt's treatment of her character. She hated Dick Van Dyke in the role of Bert, loathed the Sherman brothers songs, thought Julie Andrews was too pretty and far too nice, and most of all, detested the animation sequences. After she saw the movie, she wanted Walt to cut them all out, and he told her, "Pamela, that ship has sailed." She was furious and vowed never to work with Walt again.
If you've ever read any of the Mary Poppins books, you know that the "real" Mary Poppins was harsh, rude, mean and conceited. Obviously a character who acted like that was not going to win over any viewers in a film, so Walt "Disneyfied" her. P.L. Travers said that she would "never, ever, ever get over" what Walt had done, and when her book was turned into a stage production, she stipulated that "no Americans be would be involved".
It is true that the character of Mr. Banks is most likely based on P.L. Travers' father, who was also a banker. He was a raging alcoholic, lost all his money and died at a young age. It is widely speculated that P.L. Travers' wrote these books...in which she is the character of Mary Poppins...to indeed, "save Mr. Banks", if only in fiction.
So, I'm really anxious to see the film and see how the whole relationship between Walt and P.L. Travers is played out. I also wonder if they will realistically portray Walt as the three pack a day chain smoker that he was. I don't think that should be overlooked.
One thing I am pretty sure of...P.L. Travers would hate this film.