Saving Mr. Banks is a movie based on the very popular film Mary Poppins set in 1960 but flashed back to even earlier times. It’s about the author of Mary Poppins Pamela Travers who wrote the book based on her childhood memories.
I do not have great childhood memories and ofcourse those who read my blog know I don’t know my father but for the author to reflect back on her memories with her parents and her close relationship with her dad, did make me tear up one time. I also will say that I was not a big fan of the film, don’t know why but as I watched in the private screening with others and looked around, everyone was crying and pretty moved. I just couldn’t grasp this film because I saw Mary Poppins once and I just wasn’t that enthused. It had great cinematography, happy music, the story line was solid, actors Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks were superb. It just didn’t spark anything in me. I also got the opportunity to tour the Disney lot click here and stood where they filmed some of the scenes, that was pretty cool but again it wasn’t for me. You may really enjoy this flick if you are a true Mary Poppins lover. This movie is in select theaters now.
About The Movie
Two-time Academy Award®–winner Emma Thompson and fellow double Oscar®-winner Tom Hanks topline Disney’s “Saving Mr. Banks,” inspired by the extraordinary, untold backstory of how Disney’s classic “Mary Poppins” made it to the screen.
When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ “Mary Poppins,” he made them a promise—one that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney’s plans for the adaptation.
For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn’t budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp.
It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.
Inspired by true events, “Saving Mr. Banks” is the extraordinary, untold story of how Disney’s classic “Mary Poppins” made it to the screen—and the testy relationship that the legendary Walt Disney had with author P.L. Travers that almost derailed it.
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