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Dec 20, 2013 · Saving Mr. Banks Review. ... the 1964 Disney musical film based on the novel by author P.L. Travers, as a young child at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, where it had been revived for a ...
- There's something about Mary (Poppins, never just Mary).
- Verdict
By Jim Vejvoda
Posted: Nov 13, 2013 2:29 am
Marking the first time that Walt Disney has been portrayed on film, Saving Mr. Banks is the true story of a two-week period in 1961 when author P.L. Travers was finally convinced by the filmmaker to let him acquire the screen rights to her beloved children's book Mary Poppins after he'd tirelessly pursed them for nearly two decades.
The reason why Travers (Emma Thompson) so closely protects her story is the film's "Rosebud." We learn via flashbacks how the story grew out of her childhood in Australia and her relationship with her alcoholic father Travers Goff (Colin Farrell). Her pain of seeing the man she loved the most slowly self-destruct seared her for life so Mary Poppins -- specifically, the novel's Banks family and their patriarch -- became her way of dealing with those demons and keeping her dad alive.
Travers entrusting her beloved characters to anyone else -- even the benevolent Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) -- was simply unthinkable. How Disney and his fellow filmmakers -- the songwriting team of Richard and Robert Sherman (Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Novak, respectively) and screenwriter Don DaGradi (Bradley Whitford) -- finally won the trust of the prickly, demanding author is the fun part of an often bittersweet tale.
Saving Mr. Banks is that tough to pull off combination of crowd-pleaser and tear-jerker that isn't nearly as mawkish or ham-fisted as it could have been in different hands. Many viewers will likely relate to Travers' daddy issues, her trials dealing with an alcoholic parent, and the safeguards she built within herself to never be hurt like that again. Thanks to Thompson's wonderful, Oscar-worthy performance, you find Travers -- or, as Disney calls her much to her chagrin, Pam -- sympathetic and compelling despite her rude, control freak ways.
Featuring a stellar cast led by Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, Saving Mr. Banks is a heartfelt ode to the pain of creation, whether it's that of making a movie or the construction of a persona to deal with one's long-held pain.
Dec 12, 2013 · A spoonful of sugar and all the cheap sentiment and facile whimsy it represents are precisely what author P.L. Travers abhors in "Saving Mr. Banks," a richly rendered, engrossing dramatization of ...
Dec 6, 2013 · In Saving Mr. Banks, a jejune and overstuffed holiday trifle from Walt Disney Pictures, John Lee Hancock presents a repetitious battle of wits and egos between P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) and the Disney “magic makers” hired to bring the persnickety author’s Mary Poppins to the silver screen. You see, Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) promised his ...
Dec 19, 2013 · Saving Mr. Banks Trailer. Watch the Saving Mr. Banks movie trailer for the film that tells the story of Walt Disney's struggle to please author P.L. Travers as his company works to adapt her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen. Tom Hanks portrays Walt Disney while actress Emma Thompson fills the role of P.L. Travers.
Dec 13, 2013 · And when Travers flies back for the Mary Poppins premiere, it’s Ralph—apparently unbidden—whom she finds waiting for her at the front of the hotel, ready to give her a lift. Eventually Travers begins to understand that Disney doesn’t just want to use her beloved creation as “another brick” in his empire.
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Mar 19, 2014 · There’s a tale to be told of just about every film he’s credited on with some charming and some scandalous. ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ is a little of both in how the cocky dreamer attempts to acquire the rights for adapting ‘Mary Poppins’ into a feature film. His biggest hurdle is the original author, P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson).
