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Author:  Talya [ Fri Dec 27, 2013 3:48 pm ]
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...was really good.

Anyone worried that Disney was going to whitewash it and make it all pro-Walt needn't be. Disney only distributed the movie; this was a BBC production, Disney's only direct input in the script was a request not to show Walt inhaling cigarette smoke (which would have earned the movie an R rating. It's clear he is smoking, they just never show it on screen.)

I was skeptical of the casting, but Hanks does a great job of portraying the man, and the movie doesn't center on him. It centers on poor Mrs. Travers/Goff.
Author:  Rorinthas [ Fri Dec 27, 2013 8:48 pm ]
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I'd never heard about this story before the movie came around. I want to go see it.
Author:  Talya [ Fri Dec 27, 2013 10:10 pm ]
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I'm assuming you meant you haven't heard the story of how Walt Disney convinced P.L.Travers to sell the movie rights to Mary Poppins, and not the story of Mary Poppins. ;)
Author:  Rorinthas [ Fri Dec 27, 2013 10:22 pm ]
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I'm quite a fan of the movie itself but I am apparently unaware of its actual history
Author:  Darkroland [ Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:48 am ]
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Rorinthas wrote:
I'm quite a fan of the movie itself but I am apparently unaware of its actual history


Same here, didn't realize there was a backstory, now I'm avoiding reading it so I can be surprised in the film. Quit tempting me wikipedia!
Author:  Rorinthas [ Mon Dec 30, 2013 4:19 pm ]
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Yes, quite
Author:  Aethien [ Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:53 pm ]
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Heh, I forget where, but I read a couple of excerpts of the original story, and
Spoiler:
MAry Poppins is a hideous person! Sort of like the Raold Dahl. I really don't get the appeal of his stories, but they come out OK as movies.


Not sure if that's the backstory, but thought I'd spoiler it.
Author:  Talya [ Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:22 pm ]
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It's hinted at.

Spoiler:
One of P.L.Travers' complaints is that they were making Poppins out to be much too easy-going and frivolous. When you see the Real Life woman she based the character on, you start to understand. A big chunk of this movie is flashbacks of P.L. Travers' life, and it fits together to show how and why she wrote the book, and why she was so reluctant to sell off the rights.
Author:  DFK! [ Wed Jan 01, 2014 12:37 pm ]
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Do they show Disney as the huge racist and bigot he was?
Author:  Talya [ Wed Jan 01, 2014 2:36 pm ]
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DFK! wrote:
Do they show Disney as the huge racist and bigot he was?


No. Instead they tried to keep it historically accurate.

Seriously, wtf? Drink more of the koolaid, man.

Walt was a progressive visionary. Racially insensitive? No more so than the best of his era, but sure. Everyone was, not more than 30 years ago and further back. But he was the opposite of racist. He endured death threats for making a movie in 1946 that dared to have black people as the protagonists and present them in a positive way. As for his supposed anti-Semitism, I suggest reading Neal Gabler's Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (2006). Just know that this book was disavowed by Disney's daughter, she felt it was overly critical in the way it described Walt's treatment of his family; and yet it thoroughly discredits the vague accusations of Walt's supposed racism.
Author:  OrbErb [ Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:41 pm ]
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I missed the movie's theatrical debut, and I eagerly await its release on DVD. However, I have heard that the character of Mr. Banks is not actually portrayed in the movie. It would be difficult to find an actor to portray him -- David Tomlinson was simply wonderful in that role!

I really hope that the Walt Disney Studio reissues Mary Poppins with a special golden anniversary edition this year, complete with commentary from Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Glynis Johns, Karen Dotrice, and Arthur Malet. What a shame that David Tomlinson died in 2000 -- his remembrances would have been interesting, too. I guess I'll just have to be satisfied with the Mary Poppins anecdotes he included in his 1992 autobiography, Luckier Than Most. It's worth reading if you can track down a copy.
Author:  Talya [ Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:56 pm ]
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OrbErb wrote:
I missed the movie's theatrical debut, and I eagerly await its release on DVD. However, I have heard that the character of Mr. Banks is not actually portrayed in the movie. It would be difficult to find an actor to portray him -- David Tomlinson was simply wonderful in that role!


No part of the filming of the movie is ever seen, so Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke don't actually appear either. (Although there are clips from the film at the very end.)
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