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- Emma Thompson plays Mary Poppins creator PL Travers in Saving Mr Banks, which closed the London Film Festival on Sunday. It co-stars Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, in the story of Disney's long battle to buy the rights to the much-loved book, which was eventually turned into a musical starring Julie Andrews in 1964.
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Saving Mr. Banks is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. Centered on the development of the 1964 film Mary Poppins, the film stars Emma Thompson as author P. L. Travers and Tom Hanks as film producer Walt Disney, with supporting performances by Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman ...
With Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell. P. L. Travers, a London author who is financially broke, visits Los Angeles to meet Walt Disney, who is keen to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the cinema. However, his methods do not meet her approval.
- (171K)
- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- John Lee Hancock
- 2013-12-20
Dec 13, 2013 · Saving Mr. Banks. Rating: PG-13. Release Date: December 13, 2013. Genre: Biography, Drama, Historical. Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson bring to life the untold true story about the origins of one of the most treasured Disney classics of all time.
- John Lee Hancock
- Rachel Griffiths
- 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...
Aug 2, 2013 · Based on her anger at Disney even more than 30 years after the release of the movie, I get the feeling that Saving Mr. Banks romanticizes the Walt Disney-P.L. Travers relationship a lot.
- Stacy Conradt
- 3 min
Walt Disney : There's no greater joy than that seen through the eyes of a child, and there's a little bit of a child in all of us. P.L. Travers : Maybe in you, Mr. Disney, but certainly not in me. Walt Disney : Get on the horse, Pamela.
Saving Mr. Banks is a 2013 biographical drama film about the production of the popular 1964 Walt Disney Productions film Mary Poppins. The film stars Tom Hanks as filmmaker and mogul Walt Disney himself and Emma Thompson as author P.L. Travers.
