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Oct 21, 2013 · Saving Mr Banks is released on 29 November, but here is what the critics have been making of it: Kate Muir - The Times - 4 stars. Emma Thompson plays Mrs Travers, in a mesmerising and droll...
Jan 7, 2014 · Saving Mr. Banks, the Disney-produced docudrama about the making of Mary Poppins, hasn’t exactly burned up the box office (earning $50 million domestically in its first three weekends), but...
Dec 28, 2013 · Some critics have complained that “Saving Mr. Banks,” which Disney itself produced and distributed, is too hard on Travers and too easy on the company’s founder.
- Who Is "Mr. Banks" from The Movie's Title?
- Did Ralph The Limo Driver (portrayed by Paul Giamatti) Actually Exist?
- Was P.L. Travers's Father Really An Alcoholic Bank Employee?
- Was P.L. Travers Really as Difficult as The Movie implies?
- Did Actor Jason Schwartzman Really Perform The Songs in The Movie?
- Why Does Robert Sherman (B.J. Novak) Walk with A Limp in The Movie?
- Did Travers Really Dislike The Songs Used in The Film?
- What Other Disney Songs Were The Sherman Brothers Responsible for?
- Did The Real P.L. Travers Weep at The Mary Poppins Movie Premiere?
- I Heard That P.L. Travers Ruined The Lives of Two Boys. Is That True?
Mr. Banks is the patriarch of the London family that Mary Poppins helps in the book and movie. Author P.L. Travers based the Mr. Banks character in part on her own father, Travers Goff, portrayed by Colin Farrell in the film Saving Mr. Banks.
Producer Ian Collie revealed that Ralph (Paul Giamatti) is an amalgamation of several of P.L.'s drivers. Actor Paul Giamatti says that the character was included in the film because the screenwriter and the producers wanted someone who P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) could warm up to. -Glamour.com
Yes. P.L. Travers's father, Travers Robert Goff (portrayed by Colin Farrell in the movie), was a heavy drinker. As noted by biographer Valerie Lawson in her book Mary Poppins, She Wrote (available in the right column), Travers Goff was a bank manager before being demoted to a bank clerk, dying of influenza in his early forties and leaving his famil...
Yes. As author Valerie Lawson indicates in her book Mary Poppins, She Wrote, the real P.L. Travers fruitlessly tried to protect her creation from being corrupted by the influences of Walt Disney and pop culture. Lawson explains that the Mary Poppins character in Travers's books "was tart and sharp, rude, plain and vain." She demonstrates characteri...
Yes. Actor Jason Schwartzman, who portrays songwriter Richard Sherman in the Saving Mr. Banks movie, is really singing songs like "Feed the Birds" in the film and he is actually the one playing the piano too. "Jason and I did a lot of talking," the real Richard Sherman says. "He listened and watched me play. He's a musician himself, a drummer, but ...
In the movie, Pamela Travers (Emma Thompson) makes a snide remark after learning that Robert Sherman (B.J. Novak) had been shot in the leg. "It's hardly surprising," she says. According to the real Robert Sherman's obituary, his limp was the result of being shot in the knee while charging a hill during World War II, for which he was awarded a Purpl...
Yes. "She hated everything," says songwriter Richard Sherman. Like in the movie, the real P.L. Travers insisted that they not make up words, including having the chimney sweep Bert (portrayed by Dick Van Dyke in the 1964 Mary Poppins film) rhyming "responstable" with "constable." -Variety.com
In addition to all of the Mary Poppins songs, including "A Spoonful of Sugar," "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and the Oscar-winning "Chim Chim Cher-ee," songwriting brothers Robert and Richard Sherman also wrote "Trust in Me" from The Jungle Book; "The Age of Not Believing" from Bedknobs & Broomsticks; "Winnie the Pooh"; and the most well-kno...
Yes. Travers's disapproval and anger over the inclusion of partially animated scenes in the film caused her to weep by the end of the 1964 Hollywood movie premiere of Mary Poppins (Telegraph.co.uk). In a letter to her lawyer, Travers described her horror over what she had seen at the premiere, "As chalk is to cheese, so is the film to the book. Tea...
Though it was not shown in the film, author P.L. Travers did not weave similar magical tales when it came to her personal life. In 1940, she became aware of a destitute family that she knew in Ireland who were looking for someone to adopt their infant identical twins. The children had been born to an irresponsible father and an inept mother, and we...
Jun 21, 2020 · Saving Mr. Banks tells the story of Disney’s reinterpretation of the book, and how Travers reacts to it. The Disney screenplay writers make changes that Travers finds horrifying at first but end up being the key to healing the childhood trauma that she had carried with her all her life.
Jan 6, 2014 · Much of the movie takes place not in and around the Disney studios, where the scintillating songs by Richard and Robert Sherman (Jason Schwartzman and B. J. Novak) and the luscious designs by the...
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Dec 23, 2013 · The Oscar hopeful Saving Mr. Banks has already inspired much discussion about its accuracy—or inaccuracy, depending who you ask. The film, which opened wide this past weekend, chronicles Walt...
